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The background music is annoying.

Does it cause any trouble for them taking that amount of pollen ? Thank you.

I used to live in Illinois. You couldn't leave a lawn dart in the yard without it going missing the following morning. I moved to Wisconsin and started to see the honor system farm stands. It was out of this world concept to me. Wouldn't it be nice to just live in a world without dirtballs?

I love how just about every beekeeper is saying about today is so and so.. I don’t know the exact date. Is that the heat 😂? We have went from monsoon season to drought in NC. Our nectar was not an issue but pollen was a blah situation.

They do geometry

I tell ya that microwave fondant im making is a game changer.. zero waste.. it's inverted sugar so the bees really pop on it like nectar.. doesn't trigger robbing...less weight to haul .. I can feed it in the dead of winter in Michigan bees draw white wax down from it.. helps me get jump start nuc season early by a month. syrup has to much moisture in February... syrup they need to process it sets back smaller units where the fondant they pop on it..

southeast Ga. very dry June and no rain in October. I had no Drones in July and stopped queen rearing. Some colonies have stores but most of my later splits are light and having a hard time getting weight on them. Feed Bill is getting heavy. 6 gal of syrup emptied out in less than 4 hours yesterday. 80% of my colonies are completely Broodless. The queens are there but they are not laying. Pollen stores are low to none and I have fed over 100 lbs of ultrabee. I did take the opportunity to do OAV treatments again yesterday. Went last night and purchased 4 colonies from a Guy because he is getting out of Bees. low was 68 last night and we have been hitting high 80's. There is nothing out there for food right now. Need some rain so maybe the wild mustard will produce when it starts to bloom . Golden Rod was not a big producer this year. Hopeful I can keep the Bees alive and well until spring.

You may have to come to Canada 😂

I’m in Nova Scotia we have 10 degree days that’s not normal we are way to warm we should be cold by now lol

I had a bumper crop of honey this year. I left any honey not completely capped. Thinking of the best way to share resources. Any ideas on the best way to make it to spring?Im from Louisiana. POS.

I didn't make a drop of honey this year, I been feeding all summer. I have been trying to build up more hives but as long as its like this its nearly impossible, and the feed bill keeps growing.

I' been trying feed my bees for the last month and half. Dont know how much longer i can feed

Had no rain since June. Drones gone by August. Nectar plants frozen. Heat came back. Then 2 nights ago we got an inch and a fraction of rain. It's too late and still dry an inch down and dusty under trees. Creeks all dry. Feeding dry pollen substitute and sugar water for winter survival. Entrances reduced robbing eminent. Colonies extremely small. Worst drought ever. Third summer of drought. Ozarks.

Hi Very nice, can i use your video

How can I order some queens from you?

I put a small strip 1" wide of foundation at the top of a frame which stops them missing out a frame when drawing out new comb.

They are called Intrances because they are an entrance on the inside, in the bee space and the bees can move upwards or downwards from them. We take a super off the top off the brood with clean wax with stores before going into the winter and put it below the brood box to keep the brood entrances in the brood in the middle. and simply call it a basement box. Its not really an invention because it is simply replicating a hollow tree where bees came from and enter through a rotted out brance hole. Not an entrance at the bottom or top and definitely no mesh floor.

Im planning on only grafting on the queens that manage to survive each winter. Im hoping this will help to become treatment free. Id appreciate any advice or information that you can point me to on this.

Thank you for sharing this information! I plan to try queen rearing the spring of 2025. I have been buying supplies and watching videos.

How do you keep 50 queen bees separated and alive

Do you think they ran out of jelly

I thought that's what I saw last year. I kept telling myself they must have built another cell on the end of another. Now I see it was probably one huge cell. 😮

great find!

I believe thats never been known to happen before and certainly it has never been recorded in any beekeeping books.

Excellent video about two queen hives. Thanks

That hive is toast. Freeze the frames and count it as a lesson learned. Likely absconded due to high mite levels. 😢

Pearly white larvae ✔️ Sun at your back ✔️ Thanks Susan! 🫶🐝☀️

Thankfully you didnt have any ill larvae to show us and hopefully it stays this way forever.

Science based curve ball for you! If you regulars expose bees to bananas, will bees get and stay agressive or will they be subjected to the effect of "the boy who cried wolf" and be desensitized to their attect pheromone? I see you likely addressed this with the 20 additional coumpounds found in attack pheromone. Very cool i didnt know that! I have been near the bees with coffee, various alcoholic beverages, various smokes, before or after laborous work... if they are fiesty its generally due to a dearth or opperator error from what i have seen

Good teaching moment.

If I loose a hive to a UFO can I bee on TicFlok too? Lol

We dont have hive beatels in Denmark Bro 🙏 Happy beekeeping Bro 😎

Having frames covered in bees... I'm still learning this one!😮

Beekeeping should be peaceful..she should stop before she has to take medication for anxiety. I don't care one iota about a small hive beetle. This was my reserved comment lol

I will admit when I first started, I killed some hives. I mean, it was an accident but it was my own negligence and ignorance. I didn’t know how to handle things. I still go through rough patches after about 5 years. I hit the trough of the Dunning-Kruger graph this year actually. The “valley of despair” as they say. Learned some hard lessons and felt like an imbecile 3 times that I can remember, all in 2024, after thinking I was hot shyte.

This is hard to watch. Thanks for the excellent commentary.

Yep! No bees on the top bars….. I bet her hives mite load is high too. The bees got a disease from a high mite load

I'm with you on that it looks 100% like late season absconding due to varroa pressure.

PEOPLE SHOULD LIKE YOUR Beekeeping 101 lessons......your are speaking from years of knowledge with wisdom A+++

Abscond was my first thought. Lots of absconds this year in the UK. We had 5 in 1 week.

You are so right Bless her heart. I used more bee's in my mite check then she has in her hive

Correctomundo! A veteran beekeeper said it again this year, I lost 3 hives too wax moths, and I told him last year that they just the clean up crew not the cause! If there is not enough bees too policeia all 5 or 6 or 7 boxes then its the keepers fault for not managing your flock so reduce your stock and start over! Beecollector_rick was here keeping bees with a smile in Amherst Ohio

She should take a class or a mentor she has more then one issue with them hives I feel bad for her she needs to start from start and learn poor bees 😢😢😢😢

Looks like mite issues too

Your so correct

Great information

Hard to watch. The dramatic breathing and worrying tone about the "girls" is very accepted in beekeeping today. I swear they teach it. I'm here thinking "Uh, don't worry about beetles, you have NO BEES!" It looks like they left in a hurry. Possibly a treatment made them abscond.

I love back to basic videos. POS.

Got to keep them strong and covering the frames . 👌

To little to late.