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Is it good idea to freeze the green frames from the start ? What if you have zero mini bugs the thing it will be wasted drones to freeze

Was this not a marked Queen u had on this hive ? Thanks for the vid

I don't meant to be rude but you need to learn before you teach !!! It is painfully clear to me you do not have a clue what you are doing.

Yes, but this is not secret anymore but you know what the secret is now is queen isolation brood brake !!

Mate your npc voice is doing my head in

Nice video ❤

Informative and I hope I can learn more about bees.

These green frames are a hit and miss in my opinion. I used them once and the girls never built them up with wax properly even after I wax coated them all. I now use ideal frames instead they will build drone brood cells in it

To my understanding, drone frames aren't an effective mechanical/ cultural control for V. destructor. They are, however, a good montioring method for those whose scale or system can not accommodate bottom boards or sugar/alcohol rolls. My only concern is how this method is observation heavy. How do you determine your drone frame is ready to freeze? It seems risky to remove it at an annual time to free. The issue Im imagining being missing a check and drones emerging with more mites than a typical worker brood cell. Therefore, exposing your hive to greater harm. Also, this is a technique for hobbyists, I would say. As sideliner or commercial yards, it becomes inefficient.

I really appreciate the video and the information it contains I am new to this bee keeping anyone please tell me how offen the bee gives honey or how offen do i need to inspect thanks

You have almost no bees in that hive. When you have a robust hive, the bees can do a great job of controlling mites and SHBs.

Why don't you use an empty frame instead of the green plastic? Bees will fill it up with drone brood. Also if it stays empty it is a good indicator for the end of swarm season.

First hive inspection for Shorewood Bee Nice and he has already solved the mite problem the pros have been battling for 30 years.

I’m using powered sugar dusting of the frames once a year and planting oregano and mint around my hives.

Great job! Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge !

Hopgard too, it also kills hive beetles, AND can be used with honey supers on...

I use clove oil and origano oil wipe the floor using clve and oriano sparingly and wipe over the top bars i got rid of the mites in mi hive and best of it is you can use this any time of year ❤ aw and organic coconut water in the water feeders gives them a wonderful boost xx

Good job, just a couple things to help you. You have your entrance upside down, bees should be able to walk in rather than climb over the entrance and should you be using the small entrance on the other side of the same piece until the Bee population rises, new Colonies are not strong enough to defend the large entrance effectively against persistent intruders.

Never Heard of a Green Frame Before. Thanks 🙏

In Scotland I work by frames of brood not drawn frames. Potentially very misleading to use that method. Frames of brood are much more accurate. I add a 2nd BB on 8 frames of brood and they take off. Also in poly hives the frame nearest a wall will be the first one to be drawn out. Bees love to be warm and cosy. ;)

Very helpful for a beginner like myself!

Sorry to hear your colony didn’t make it but that’s just bee keeping Im a commercial bee keeper here in California and usually 20 percent of the bees die over the winter sucks but it can be better if you treat your bees a lot id look in to a oxalic acid vaporizer works really well had some bees on my experimental yard this year and treated them all with oxalic acid vapor had a 97% survival rate. Glad to see you didn’t give up on bee keeping keep it up!!

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Nice! Like you i started last year and lost the hive to mites they actually absconded do to low bee count. Getting a nuc Tuesday 🎉

Great video. You might consider feeding them 1:1 sugar water for a bit to help them along until they really get rolling. I just put my nucs out a couple days ago, on Thursday.

too so to add second box. they won't drawn out the lower empties now they'll move to center upper, best to have waited

Do you watch Fred Dunn or Kamon Reynolds ? Those two guys are really good to get tips from, the way to bee is Fred’s platform and he has all kinds of guest interviews with entomologists and experts in the bee field and Fred responds to questions, which after 50 years you would think I’ve ran out of questions to ask as far as bees are concerned , but this is not true , I still have plenty of questions 😊

Dawn dish liquid works instantly and it’s cheaper than alcohol if you are looking for ways to save money raising bees 😊

Did the queen get rolled in one of your inspections?

I made a comment on your other video same subject, if you take some of the frames from the first box and put them in the new box they will build up faster , two weeks they would of been popping like popcorn in the new box , and I did hear the queen piping in the video

In my experience instead of just adding a box of frames take a frame or two brood frames from existing box put them in the center of the new top box and they will start working the second box right away, the brood will hatch and within 3 weeks your second brood box will look healthy and be well on its way for winter ahead

How can one harvest the honey?

You should always look out for the queen

What happened? Its been a while since you last posted a video. I want to start beekeeping and have been following your progress since you began and been loving every video. Still keeping bees? Hope you will start to post more videos again soon :)

I appreciate the swarm or orientation flight information Thanks!

I like this

why bees makes a chain? to measure the distance... learn something about bees before get some :) I'm a newbee to beekeeping but before I got some bees I studied a lot about them because I want healthy colony.

Unfortunately this false logic in my opinion,I run 200 hives all with drone foundation,I don’t think the mites are that clever to pick dronecomb,I find the mites in braced drone Comb but very little in drone frames,I ve not treated my bees for 8 years and give them a brood break ,unfortunately varroa is endemic and some thing you have to live with,producing drones takes a lot of resources for the colony and you’ll get very poor mating if you destroy it all and put the colony out of balance, the most important thing in my mind is to have bees that don’t produce brood 12 months of the year and which are locally adapted.good luck

I suspect you did have a swarm. Although the cell was not in the usual "Swarm" position, bees will sometimes swarm when a queen cell is capped, even if it was not the classic "bottom of the frame" cell. This is especially true on the first clear day after a rainy period. Generally, the old queen will be the one leaving with the swarm, and as I said before, more often when the cell is capped, not when it hatches. For whatever reason, sugar feed seems to kick this up a notch. After 27 years of beekeeping, I have learned that bees rarely follow any rule book! Usually the queen lays up a storm, then takes off when the first queen cell is capped. By the time the new queen emerges, there are plenty of new bees to tend to her. The cell you found looks like one that has had a queen emerge from it. The fact that she is piping may indicate there is a second virgin in the hive. If all goes well, you should see eggs returning in a week or two. Good luck with them. PS: Swarms usually cluster close to the hive in a nearby tree, but depart once a new location is found. This is often about a mile from the original hive.

I follow you idea with some scepticism, yes we need the drones for some obvious reasons but could it be fantastic to temporarily isolate them for varroa treatment before releasing into the colony

Shorewood wouldn't be Illinois by any chance? I'm a keeper near there so it would be great to share

Fra too long an inspection, too much smoke..How to stress bees.

I always turn the feeder box upside down to ID it easily. What kind of mix are you using and why. Thanks good job!🐝

Good job, clear plan for the inspection. Most definitely need to think about it before opening the hive.

You shouldn't puff your smoker so hard. Blows flames and hot smoke. Small pools with cold smoke

可以改用細沙糖，會有一樣的效果，又不會殺死蜜蜂。

Would this technique if not preformed correctly or timely enough cause the opportunity to have a larger mite infestation?

light puffs if you looking for a queen but normal hive inspection. your doing fine keep up the good work and thank you and your narration was fine

Im sorry... not trying to be mean. Your narrating like youre reading a book to preschoolers.

Light puffs with the smoker.