Hi Devran, I watched your single brood box video and then this one and subscribed. I like how you make your point then demostrate what you are doing. Sound and video quality is good. Keep them coming. Hobby bee keeper here in suburban north Carolina. Thanks!

U did great I enjoyed the video, there is always someone that has to be gripping about something do not worry about it. thanks and Merry Christmas keep the videos coming

bees: *exist* devan: _so you have chosen death_

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Keep the videos coming! Love the logic you use in the videos and the way you are presenting them. Everyone can tell you have a lot of education and experience in the field. I am very interested in a “you” video with where you are today and how you got to where you are and your hopes and dreams for the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years!

@michiwood6856

6 жыл бұрын

I second that, would love to hear how you got to where you are and you're plans for the future growth of you're bees. Thanks

The audio is fine. If anybody continues to complain about it, they must be more interested in the video production quality than the actual content.

@DevanRawn

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. To be fair it wasn't great the first time around, depending on what device you were listening/watching on.

Hey Devon, can you tell me where you get your hat and veil? Also that super cool hive tool holder too?

Love the video.can you tell me about your bottom boards

Your numbers should go up soon. Keep it up

Hi Devon They said on the video, that the sealed brood was chosen when they have pink eyes rather than darker. Can you tell us why this is the preferred age of the lava Thx

@DevanRawn

6 жыл бұрын

Great question. As the pupae get older, there is a chance they will actually survive the liquid nitrogen freezing. Then the workers in the colony would not remove that brood and it would be recorded as a false negative in the test. For that reason when we record the results we typically uncap any cells that remain capped just to verify that the pupae were not too old. If they were too old, they could be counted and those numbers could be removed from the results.

Curious to know where you get that style hat/veil?

How much nitrogen it takes for one test? Whether you're pour certain amount (measured) or just in the course of time?

I enjoy your informative videos. All good in Canada?

@DevanRawn

6 жыл бұрын

yep, all good, thanks.

@PhillipHall01

6 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Do you treat for anything other than mites?

In Norwegian, we call the different foulbroods "open" and "closed." I can never keep straight which one is American and which is European.

@DevanRawn

6 жыл бұрын

Very Interesting. With European foulbrood the larvae always die before pupating, so the cells almost never become capped. My guess is that one would be referred to as "open" for that reason, but I really don't know.

@hazelhazelton1346

6 жыл бұрын

That's it exactly. Fortunately, foulbrood is just about nonexistent in Norway, and the affected areas are strictly quarantined.

I wonder if the same thing could be accomplished with crushed ice and solo cups of the correct diameter? i think the liquid nitrogen may be slight overkill. just my 2 cents

@DevanRawn

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, this definitely won't work with crushed ice. In fact the, liquid nitrogen application has to be done twice, in a pretty specific way to make sure all the pupae are killed. As pupae start to age they become quite tough, and this method works on white-pink eyed pupae but once they start to develop an exoskeleton they can survive the dose of liquid nitrogen. There are methods where a cut section of brood is taken away and put in a freezer, then returned to the hive. In that case I think the brood is frozen for something like 24 hours, but you'd have to look up that method somewhere. The test isn't worth doing unless you do it consistently and accurately. It's really not something for 95% of beekeepers to even worry about, only if you're interested in a real breeding program.

How many hives do you operate?

Hi Devan, I was wondering when I sometimes use Mite Away Quick Strips and sometimes the colonies suffers brood loss and the bee's remove the dead larve could that be considered hygienic behavior? Or would hygienic behavior only be when the bee's remove diseased brood? Suppose my question would be if the bee's remove dead bee's and larve from mite treatment loss, would they also remove diseased brood and capped brood cells that contain Varroa? Thanks Devan and for all of your HELPFUL video's!

@DevanRawn

5 жыл бұрын

All bees will remove dead brood from their colony. The point of performing a test is to quantify it, identify variability in your colonies, and select the best ones for future generations. Dead or diseased, it doesn't really matter, some colonies will be better at it than others. Just observing what happens after a potent formic acid treatment isn't going to be a very accurate way of understanding that behaviour.

@brucekellman821

5 жыл бұрын

@@DevanRawn Thank you!

Why 3 or 4 freeze on one frame when 1 freeze ought to demonstrate good hygiene ?

how much did it cost you ?

wow

music is way too loud..

Please go back to making videos.