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Thanks, Jamie. I should be able to sleep better tonight. I have 3 medium honey supers on and the queen has beautifully laid in the 1 and 2 medium from the top. Full of brood! Silly queen? Silly beekeeper? I don’t know. Thanks again for telling me not to sweat it.
looking at this. I probably took too much from second brood box. ..Learning..Better get them some more feed.
A tip for beginners..make sure the zippers are closed..at the Head mask connection.. Putting the extracted frames back..made some guards, angry..nothing like 20 or so in your suit!!!
Just watching your videos..first year.. Made 11 gallons, whatever that i weight is.. Picked up the Hive.. Which was in great shape. not that I Would know.. on April 12th.. Added a deep and a medium Super , with Queen excluder. Extracted. July 2. . Mauriceville TX.. Left them a few full frames. Added another brood box. Some feed..Pollen patties, treated for mites. Thankk you for the videos. Will be purchasing another Hive , in April, Perhaps learning about splitting. Will be planting clover for deer, food plots.. Besides clover..what would be good for bees?
I like frame if you don’t use the wood wear you can get 9 frames in with the feeder
Very interesting
my new favorite bee guy. MARCUS HILL! great interview Chari! Look fwd to hearing more from Marcus
If I leave a frame Of honey out even if a flow is on they will rob it out in hours
I take my honey mid August in Canada we have a very short year I take my honey before goldenrod because i find when they have a good flow on so they can build up for winter this way I have very little feeding to do
First year guy. I think I was first in line. first day.. Thank you. Took to Mauriceville, not to far from Dayton. Had 2 full boxes of Supers. 1 deep, 1 medium. These girls are well.. Looking forward to your informative videos. Will be ordering few more boxes for spring. You guys made it easy for me. Looking forward to acres of clover for the deer..
Just gave them some pollen Pattie, couple gallons of Syrup..make stores for the winter. Flowers long gone. However, about to plant the deer forage. Sure some of this will flower.. not sure when.
From same hive?
What is a robber bee?
Yes, especially the wife.😂🎉
Nice video, thank you
You don’t have a robbing problem with a wide open entrance? My bees are working all the smartweed around my farm pond and the water primrose in it. Not much else blooming in my area I’ve seen and I’m pretty close to you. Just West of you.
Hi! If it's a strong hive, they are defending the entrance just fine with it wide open. If it's a weak hive (less than 1 box full of bees) then blocking about half the entrance is helpful.
@@thebeesupplyI never have a full entrance even with a honey flow they will rob even when there is a flow well bees in Canada do you don’t leave anything out or your gonna have issues having a wide open entrance means more bees have to guard when they could be flying bees don’t like big entrances anyway
lol you southern beekeepers can rape a colony and it will still live you guys don’t get winters lol 😅
Awesome information. Thank you.
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Omg . I've been watching KZread for about 1 year. About to get bees 1st time. You are the best. Your information is so easy to understand. Your videos are so full information. Thanks 😊
Thank you for the good information!
I hope Marcus is a regular. Very informative.
Thank you for all you do for the beekeeper community
My question for Marcus . You said the nurse bees like fresh pollen . To make a pollen frame for a cell builder. Can I trap pollen keep it in the freezer and take it out the freezer and fill drawn comb frame the day I make my cell builder. Will the nurse bees use this to make my queens? Or what is the best I can do with my pollen ?
Hi! If you can shoot your question to [email protected] and title it "Question for Marcus" he'll get back with you asap.:) Great question!
Just had this happen to two of my TX5000 hives. Pulled all frames that I saw larva on and combined the two hives. Hope the hive can pull through.
No they really don’t even in Canada my bees like it when sun comes up but for maybe 2 hours they I want them in the shade when bees in wild find homes they like thick trees with one entrance and they are always shaded from the tree leaves I use poly hives and I never have heat issues
I’m glade we don’t have a dearth in my area in Canada We have so much natural pollen we are always greens all summer long from may until mid September it’s full out ❤
That is awesome!
One of the best webinars ive seen in a long time! thanks so much for all y'alls work!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy August!
so good, thank you so much! loved the bottling and selling section, lots of great information.
Thank you for the information, im getting started here in Shreveport, LA and yalls videos have been extremely helpful!
Does this protect against wax moths after they go back in the hive? Say you treated and then had a dead out?
Thanks for the info Blake. I was having a terrible honey season because of the almost constant rain in April and May. In the first week of July I was resigned to getting half of what i got last year. Well, i just pulled honey and apparantly they found something in July! I was expecting 10 supers and got 26! Have you heard others reporting late flows this year? I am near Corsicana.
That is amazing! I have heard of a handful of other beekeepers with that experience. Some of the rains in July gave a few areas a final boost of production! So glad to hear!
Do you ever have issues with hives getting too hot if they're in full sun?
If it's a weak hive in a single story hive, yes. Otherwise, if they have at least 2 boxes, they typically do just fine. That being said, I afternoon partial shade is helpful if you are in Texas!
@@thebeesupply Thanks for the info. Mine are partially shaded.
Great video. Thank you.
Why not run the filled brood frames through the extractor rather than letting it get robbed out assuming theres no brood?
That would work too! The downside is honey extracted from the brood next often has syrup in it, or has been treated with a mite treatment, so it's often not fit for human consumption. Then, it's hard to feed liquid honey to bees. It's easier for them to eat it right out of the comb.
will the brood that's in with the honey die when you leave the frames in the shade two days?
Yes, it unfortunately will. I'd recommend taking frames that are 100% honey for the bees to rob out, and leave any frames with brood in the hive.
When you take out the honey frames to be robbed, do you need to uncap?
The bees will uncap them.
Well done! As an up and coming beekeeper in Burnett County Texas, there is host of good information.
Great information thanks
I've seen this tested and its not accurate, it will show if you have mites but its not accurate. In one video a guy used this and he found 3 mites and then he washed the same bees in alcohol to see if the alcohol would show more mites and he found twice as many mites in the alcohol wash so this CO2 testing is not accurate.
Your videos are outstanding. I once had 120 beehives and mostly sold honey and queens. I really enjoy how you explain things. I have SUBSCRIBED! Thank you - much appreciated…
Wow, thank you!
If you are in an area where there is Small Hive Beetle, I highly suggest you only giving enough pollen patty or sugar brick that they can consume in under a week to prevent making a small hive beetle breeding ground. You can also break it into smaller chunks as you did at the end to give the bees more surface area and ability to defend against small hive beetle.
If the queen is caged for that long bees will start queen cells. Might be a good idea to check for qcs before releasing the queen.
Thankfully, since she is caged still inside the hive, her pheromones will suppress the worker bees from raising new queen cells.
In our apiary we had the same expirience as Dalebees explain. And we are profesional bekeepers 95 years already. Sorry teoreticly excelent, , but this methode is not usefull at all.
What is she going to eat while laying that drone comb?
The worker bees will feed her normally. They can access the drone comb through the queen isolation cage. The isolation cage is made from queen excluders- so she cannot leave, but worker bees can enter/exit the cage just fine.
What and how queen eats, drinks and excretes?
The bees take care of her when she's in the cage- there are holes in queen cages for them to reach through and still care for her.
In that cage for 14 days? With no nurse bees or food?
The bees take care of her when she's in the cage- there are holes in queen cages for them to reach through and still care for her.
The entire cage is a queen excluder
What is the right time to do this?
Most do it after they harvest honey in July/August, but it can be done anytime in the spring/summer.
I would think preparing for a spring split after harvest is the better way to go. Remove excluder, add a deep and let the bees do their thing then split it next spring.
Can anyone explain why the mites fall off the bees with this technique?