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Is John still with us, I haven’t seen any new videos

Hi everyone, To anyone curious, John and Lin are my grandparents and they are doing well and fine so please don’t worry. He has just reduced his beekeeping and they are enjoying their retirement.

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What a nice couple. Great video

Once again proof of Apiary Vicinity Mating flights. The FALSE theory of Drone Congregation Area Mating flights is ridiculously absurd. Honeybee queens/virgins are in fact the poorest fliers of the hive and could never outrun local drones from her own apiary nor colony to make it several kilometers to meet gentlemen drones who starve all day flying together in circles in the middle of nowhere waiting for virgins to make long journeys to avoid inbreeding. Instead of course, The drones seek out virgin hives, drink open nectar in strangers hives. They make their hive to hive searches all at once before and after noon each sunny perfect day. We can all observe this activity in our own apiaries. Thats how they avoid inbreeding by basically robbing other hives a little each mid day . If drone congregation areas existed we would see masses of drones leaving in the morning and not coming home until the evening all at once. Instead we all see drone frenzies around noon in swarm season causing commotion at the entrances for about an hour or so on sunny days.

Thanks John nice and easy to follow keep up the good work you and your wife are doing for us new keepers 👍

Well done.

Oh. John, I miss your videos

Where are you John ?

Does anyone know how John and Lynn are, I miss them and their great videos

We love your videos! So knowledgeable and easy to learn from Thank you John Beeman Saunders 😊

Thanks for sharing 🙏

Hi John, hope you are ok, could you please let me know how you are, I notice you haven’t been on here much lately. Alan

The world need more of your videos.😉🙏

Very interesting video John you are doing a great job by sharing these wonderful videos and explaining how these wonderful creatures should be handled. Superb job keep it up.

@5:09 im thinking drone laying queen or she mated with her brother and is laying Triploid drones... More than 1 egg then its laying workers.

That’s a beautiful present your sister made I really like it.

lol I have just found an recent interest in bees and then I find a man who shares the same name as my late father John Saunders. Thank you for this video it’s an important part of learning how to deal with wild hives I’m very interested in helping the native black bee. Among other native species which I am researching.😇🙏❤️

Thanks for your tips and knowledge John 👍 I'm going to give candle making a go. P.s Something about your video made me remember the clip from The Two Ronnies "Four Candles".. "No Fork handles, handles for forks" 😅😊 God bless 🙏

Hello I’ve just subscribed and have been watching several of your videos. Thank you. What does this oil seed rape taste like , how would you describe it?

u should hv waited for a day after removing all queen cells before adding grafts.The hive takes time before it feels hopelessly queenless.

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing your observations. You can hear the difference in the buzz of a flying queen.

Is her name Lynn by any chance... 😂😂😂

No videos this year John?

John why haven't we seen anything of your videos, from you, of late, Keith , from Australia 😊😢😮

Brave man working in lovely kitchen !!

Excellent video! I’ve never used a queen excluder ( restricter) and I only use deeps,the bees always chimney up through the middle like a pyramid. Once the there’s a belt of nectar across the the top of the brood the queen never crosses it, natures excluder. I let her lay as much brood as she wants, each to their own on this subject there’s always different ways too keep bees.

The hat down to the second name if your from Portsmouth this will make u laugh 😆😆

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You made that look really hard,use a nuc box!!!

great video

Thanks, John.

when do you remove it by when the osr flowers go or before. or is it just a case of before its completely capped

Hi John wishing you and Lynn well, im hoping you'll be giving us another educational video on Bees again soon.

Always good to learn from someone who knows.

Love your vidios John.

John I am so sorry you have decided to cut back so much from your bee keeping. Watching your videos has inspired me to start beekeeping this season, I have learnt so much from your videos, thank you. I really liked the way you cared for the bees, and took time to make sure as few as possible were hurt while inspecting. I wish you and Lin all the best for the future, and hope you have fully recovered from your brush with Covid. I know how bad it can be, it took me two years to fully recover from it. I look forward to your next video whenever you can manage to make it.

Great to see a fellow saunders with similar interests, on the other side of the planet.. must run in the blood haha

Iv just completed a basic beekeeping, have bought 2 hives, would like to ask is it worthwhile painting outside, does this extend live of hive and do triangles or stripes help bees find there way home. Great videos am learning a lot from your channel thanks again James

Hi John ... Just rewatching this, hope all is well. Happy New Year to everyone. Good luck beekeeping 2023 !

Why does she come back etc as I’m new to this I thought they’d leave the old queen behind and they all go with the new one

Hi... Do you sell the beeswax candles?

Great video. Where did you find the tin(?) tapered wax mold?

Hey John it’s been ages since your last vid, are you ok x

John when will you d another video cheers Keith 🙂

I'm from Nepal.very impressive video.

Well John , pretty much another season put to bed . Took very little honey , but successfully doubled colonies to 8 , and consoled myself with that , while my chums had a great harvest . Next year I will give God a good laugh by telling him my plans concerning the bees . John , after cleaning up boxes and frames , painting my brood and super boxes and buying what I think I need in the Thornes sale , I think that I will spend some quality time re- running your catalogue of posted videos from the beginning, not just to pass the time but to see what I missed .My sanity will be preserved by the occasional bee club event and the weekly meet for cake and tea with my bee keeper chums on a wednesday Thats it then John . Whatever is going on with you and Lin , I wish you well . May you be well and happy . Over and out .... Gratefully , Rodney Butler.

Haven't had a video from you for a while, hope everything is OK

As a new beekeeper, finished basic intro coarse and well bought 2 hives, my mentor keeping overwintering nukes for me till next spring, but am learning so much from your channel love the slow easy real time videos helps us new bees ( sorry) get better picture in head. Keep up good work

Very interesting as I am just getting into it. One thing though, how do you put the wick in the metal tapered moulds, do you use some sort of needle to pull the wick through?