Just wanted to say thank you so much. This is my first year with bees and your videos have helped me alot. From making pollen patties to hive inspections. Made my first split about a month ago. Ordered a queen and they loves her all was going well and about 18 days later they all left the hive. I found that ants were invading. Well now almost 2 weeks later and I just caught her. They were building on a branch about 30+ feet off the ground. Was not easy to get my bees back however I got them back. Happy day. Thanks again for all your help and please keep giving Laurel little jokes they are funny.
Hello from England. You seem to have a lot of fun with your videos with a very honest with your good and bad days. I have only been beekeeping for a year and watching your videos proves ups and downs are just normal. Bees don't read the same books as us. Shame they can't speak, or write. All the best from a fellow trucker/beekeeper.
Try salmon in ur patties.I put some out mixed w flour & milk i think one yr. I threw it on the ground i a freezer bag open & the bees demolished it. Hadn't tried it since...
I planted sunflowers this year for the bees and they have really been supplying the pollen when there is nothing anywhere else. Highly recommend growing them.
I have fed my first 1,000 lbs. of Healthy Bee Spirolina patties and I am have EXCELLENT results. At first I was obtaining very similar results to what you are having with them now but I bit the bullet and purchases a 50 box pallet and have been steadily increasing the amounts of patties I have been feeding each hive. The initial problem I was encountering was the hives would consume 1 patty is 2 - 3 days and it takes me about a week to 10 days to make my rounds to get to each of my hives, inspect, feed patties, and syrup. I doubled the amount to 2 patties per double deep hive and they still consumed them too fast and ran out for several days before I got back to them, so the last round of feeding, my double deeps got 4 patties and the triple deeps got 6. My brood patterns look fantastic and the queens are laying really well. Most of my hives have shown a significant drop in small hive beetles and I found NO larva in any of the patties feeding at this level. That monster patty you put in your double deep looked closer to 3 lbs. 😁 If I put that big of an Ultra Bee patty in my hives here, it would turn into a small hive beetle larva nuclear bomb. LOL! They are pretty bad here if you use those patties. I get it......in this dearth they have to bee feed and they can consume huge amounts. I think my hives will be ready to make some splits and I try another attempt at a batch of queens. I gotta find a source of local sugar syrup to keep up with the feeding, making syrup from 55 gallon barrels of sugar is very time consuming. I am very impressed & satisfied with how these patties have performed and how the brood and hive populations have responded. The hives are MUCH more active and with the larger populations are able to bring in a decent amount of pollen and enough nectar to keep them fed. I just planted another 250 lbs. of buckwheat. The first 150 lbs. I planted really gave my hives a nice little boost but they more.....a LOT more. Hope you are done with pulling honey suppers and got a decent amount of honey to sell. We got NONE here. Enjoyed the video as always. 👍
We didn't have much spring flow with the double wama freeze, but summer flow has been great this year. It rains every week. I put out 1 to 1 sugar and girls aren't touching it. Cincinnati area
I have been a hobby beekeeper in the UK for the past 7 years or so, and I really enjoy watching your videos. Part of it comes from the commercial approach vs. my hobby approach - man, I sometime cringe when seeing your sometimes 'casual' approach with e.g. your queens 😂 - and partly because I learn a lot from your many years of experience. We obviously have a quite different climate in the UK, usually no warmer than about 85F in the summer, and down to something like 25F during a cold winter, so this time of the year is usually when we can take the late honey harvest before getting our colonies ready for winter, usually meaning Varroa treatment and feeding as necessary. We get the Ivy flow - and Ivy grows wild almost all over the UK - from September sometimes through to November, which really can boost the natural levels of great nectar and to some degree pollen too. I am looking forward to your videos on winter preparation, and the differences that may apply between Tennesse and here. Thanks for all you great videos.
My bees have been destroying the recipe I got from you. Have much healthier bees this summer and I attribute it to feeding. Strong hives keep SHB in check.
Thanks for reliable information as usual kamon!! Oh yeah I have poison ivy so bad right now I can hardly sleep and working with it in this humidity is enough to make one loose their mind lol..
Kamon, when you make your patties recipe in the 5 gal. buckets, how do you store it? refrigerated? covered? and for how long before it goes bad? Are the storage requirements different in the winter than in the fall? Thanks for the video
Hey Joe I keep it in the basement in the buckets. If the lids aren't sealed put some Saran wrap on top. Last for months. Don't keep it in a hot humid location
Ha another great video do u sale your queens if u do I live in virginia how much and do u ship and when do u stop the sale them U say a lot in your videos I like that u are honest and up front in what u say, I am treating my bees like u are with the same treatment it cost 3 times more because i put them in the hive like the directions said like every other frame of brood what ever it said i did it I did not split the cycle like u did I am also feeding pollen patties it is so very hot here u take care have a great day and keep the videos coming they are great Thanks Thankyou
I have a few questions for you. But I am not sure if this is the best place for the conversation. It has to do with single deep colonies and feeder frames. Is there a better forum for this?
We have been mixing our UltraBee sub very moist this year. Spoon it on a sheet of paper or on top of the frame feeder. Just carry the bucket of sub instead of patties and the bees eat it so much faster. I believe it is a bit more moist than what you just showed. I'm with you on the poison ivy.
Kamon, Have you ever watched Tool-Time (TV Show with Tim Allen). Your wife is like Wilson (a neighbor in the back). You never get to see him (or her) but you get to see her shadow or hands once in a while.
You mentioned your allergy to poison ivy. What do you use to control the poison ivy without risking harming the bees? I have found quite a bit of it and need to kill it.
Hi Kamon , I am one of your followers and loving your videos. I want to send you some locally invented mixture of local herbs for varroa mites and it also encourages the bees to be stronger. You can try it on one of your hives, and give feedback about it to everyone in one of your videos if you don't mind .. He (the local beekeeper guy) is in the process of getting "Exclusive innovation" but things take time.. If you are interested i'll send you some and i'll take care of the shipment charge no worry. Regards Mohamed
Hi Kayman, I have been watching beekeeping video’s for some time now. Also have some bees at home. Since you are one of few beekeepers that is obviously experimenting I have a question about frames and foundation. Since plastic foundation seems strong enough I was wondering why you still need frames and not just a top bar with plastic foundation mounted to it. In my opinion You can increase the capacity by 7% if you do without side and bottom bars. Also you can see developing swarm cells more easily. Do you know if anyone has been testing it?
At the end of the video behind you, what is that weed tree? Tree of heaven? Do you have any spotted lantern fly issues? We’re getting hit in Jersey with them!!
I watched many of Kamon's videos. In one of his older videos, he explained that he doesn't harvest the fall honey for sale. He leave those for the bees. So he doesn't have to spend money and effort to feed. He also explain that he use excluder to keep the queen and most bees below so the apivar strips can be more effective. See ruclips.net/video/medUhwBnKjc/видео.html
Wery good question. A video like thet over here..you cood name it : my beekeeping suicid. You will never sell a jar of honey again. My God what a different mind set about bees. You lost me at MM,MM for the patti And why is thet coled honey when you know it's not ?
@@uswwt Does Kamon use those honey supers for the next year spring flow? I wish there were more research on those things. I would love to use OA with honey supers.
I have been feeding Ultra Bee to my colonies. I did my hive inspections early Saturday morning and had to remove the patties. They stopped eating them and found SHB larvae in them . Yet I only seen two or three beetles upon which I smashed. I will start adding ultra bee to my sugar syrup instead. I have a six foot table beside my workshop that I have been doing communal feeding. I also did an emergency pull of honey out of one colonies upper brood box , the queen had no place to lay . Luckily I had five frames of honey from last year I placed outside to feed back to the bees and placed those empty brood comb in the freezer until needed. Six frame got me almost three gallons.
Can I ask why would you open feed honey?? Totally illegal in Australia, if any colony around you area can access that frame and if 1 of those bee's have AFB it only takes 6 yes 6 spores to grow and destroy your whole apiary.. it's mind boggling what practices are given as advice to people.. on the other hand now I see why in the U.S.A. things can only get worse for the honey bee's over there unless people use new better practice. I hope you have never taken a hit from doing such practice..
@@wadekratzmann9105 thank you. I started to think i'm in Twilight zone.. and i can't spell good inaf to say what i'm thinking about communal feeding, over feeding and makeing suplement queens with shugar bees..and at thet seme time tocking about saveing bees. Twilight zone
Hey TN bee lady. What do the adds look like? There shouldn't be that many. RUclips just reformed their add policy. It was suppose to be a little more aggressive but not that much.
Just wanted to say thank you so much. This is my first year with bees and your videos have helped me alot. From making pollen patties to hive inspections. Made my first split about a month ago. Ordered a queen and they loves her all was going well and about 18 days later they all left the hive. I found that ants were invading. Well now almost 2 weeks later and I just caught her. They were building on a branch about 30+ feet off the ground. Was not easy to get my bees back however I got them back. Happy day. Thanks again for all your help and please keep giving Laurel little jokes they are funny.
Hello from England. You seem to have a lot of fun with your videos with a very honest with your good and bad days. I have only been beekeeping for a year and watching your videos proves ups and downs are just normal. Bees don't read the same books as us. Shame they can't speak, or write. All the best from a fellow trucker/beekeeper.
Try salmon in ur patties.I put some out mixed w flour & milk i think one yr. I threw it on the ground i a freezer bag open & the bees demolished it. Hadn't tried it since...
Awesome video!!!!!!
I planted sunflowers this year for the bees and they have really been supplying the pollen when there is nothing anywhere else. Highly recommend growing them.
That queen is a boomer , lots of bee's in that box.
I have fed my first 1,000 lbs. of Healthy Bee Spirolina patties and I am have EXCELLENT results. At first I was obtaining very similar results to what you are having with them now but I bit the bullet and purchases a 50 box pallet and have been steadily increasing the amounts of patties I have been feeding each hive. The initial problem I was encountering was the hives would consume 1 patty is 2 - 3 days and it takes me about a week to 10 days to make my rounds to get to each of my hives, inspect, feed patties, and syrup. I doubled the amount to 2 patties per double deep hive and they still consumed them too fast and ran out for several days before I got back to them, so the last round of feeding, my double deeps got 4 patties and the triple deeps got 6. My brood patterns look fantastic and the queens are laying really well. Most of my hives have shown a significant drop in small hive beetles and I found NO larva in any of the patties feeding at this level. That monster patty you put in your double deep looked closer to 3 lbs. 😁 If I put that big of an Ultra Bee patty in my hives here, it would turn into a small hive beetle larva nuclear bomb. LOL! They are pretty bad here if you use those patties. I get it......in this dearth they have to bee feed and they can consume huge amounts. I think my hives will be ready to make some splits and I try another attempt at a batch of queens. I gotta find a source of local sugar syrup to keep up with the feeding, making syrup from 55 gallon barrels of sugar is very time consuming. I am very impressed & satisfied with how these patties have performed and how the brood and hive populations have responded. The hives are MUCH more active and with the larger populations are able to bring in a decent amount of pollen and enough nectar to keep them fed. I just planted another 250 lbs. of buckwheat. The first 150 lbs. I planted really gave my hives a nice little boost but they more.....a LOT more. Hope you are done with pulling honey suppers and got a decent amount of honey to sell. We got NONE here. Enjoyed the video as always. 👍
Hope this isn't a variation of don't feed the wild animals, they will lose the ability to feed themselves. LOL
Thanks for the update on the split. Bee Diva......I'm still LOL!! 🤣👏
Thanks !!
We didn't have much spring flow with the double wama freeze, but summer flow has been great this year. It rains every week. I put out 1 to 1 sugar and girls aren't touching it. Cincinnati area
I have been a hobby beekeeper in the UK for the past 7 years or so, and I really enjoy watching your videos. Part of it comes from the commercial approach vs. my hobby approach - man, I sometime cringe when seeing your sometimes 'casual' approach with e.g. your queens 😂 - and partly because I learn a lot from your many years of experience. We obviously have a quite different climate in the UK, usually no warmer than about 85F in the summer, and down to something like 25F during a cold winter, so this time of the year is usually when we can take the late honey harvest before getting our colonies ready for winter, usually meaning Varroa treatment and feeding as necessary. We get the Ivy flow - and Ivy grows wild almost all over the UK - from September sometimes through to November, which really can boost the natural levels of great nectar and to some degree pollen too. I am looking forward to your videos on winter preparation, and the differences that may apply between Tennesse and here. Thanks for all you great videos.
Listening to you lift that upper deep makes me think twice about it...
Thanks for the video Kamon. Are you done with your summer honey harvest? Did you get more than expected?
My bees have been destroying the recipe I got from you. Have much healthier bees this summer and I attribute it to feeding. Strong hives keep SHB in check.
That patty brings back memories...of diapers.
Thanks for reliable information as usual kamon!! Oh yeah I have poison ivy so bad right now I can hardly sleep and working with it in this humidity is enough to make one loose their mind lol..
Kamon, when you make your patties recipe in the 5 gal. buckets, how do you store it? refrigerated? covered? and for how long before it goes bad? Are the storage requirements different in the winter than in the fall? Thanks for the video
Hey Joe I keep it in the basement in the buckets. If the lids aren't sealed put some Saran wrap on top. Last for months. Don't keep it in a hot humid location
Great Video
Good Morning. Kamon, is there a special time that you do your videos?
Craig Fr. Virginia
Just a question about your queens. Do you sell mated queens? Or know a good source for a good queen?!
Ha another great video do u sale your queens if u do I live in virginia how much and do u ship and when do u stop the sale them U say a lot in your videos I like that u are honest and up front in what u say, I am treating my bees like u are with the same treatment it cost 3 times more because i put them in the hive like the directions said like every other frame of brood what ever it said i did it I did not split the cycle like u did I am also feeding pollen patties it is so very hot here u take care have a great day and keep the videos coming they are great Thanks Thankyou
I have a few questions for you. But I am not sure if this is the best place for the conversation. It has to do with single deep colonies and feeder frames. Is there a better forum for this?
How far are you from pigeon forge? We are vacationing there in about a month and I’d like to stop by if that’s possible
We have been mixing our UltraBee sub very moist this year. Spoon it on a sheet of paper or on top of the frame feeder. Just carry the bucket of sub instead of patties and the bees eat it so much faster. I believe it is a bit more moist than what you just showed. I'm with you on the poison ivy.
Kamon, Have you ever watched Tool-Time (TV Show with Tim Allen).
Your wife is like Wilson (a neighbor in the back). You never get to see him (or her) but you get to see her shadow or hands once in a while.
You mentioned your allergy to poison ivy. What do you use to control the poison ivy without risking harming the bees? I have found quite a bit of it and need to kill it.
What is the name of that subastance and where do you get it. Chris keen Gallatin Tennessee. Thanks
Hi Kamon , I am one of your followers and loving your videos. I want to send you some locally invented mixture of local herbs for varroa mites and it also encourages the bees to be stronger. You can try it on one of your hives, and give feedback about it to everyone in one of your videos if you don't mind .. He (the local beekeeper guy) is in the process of getting "Exclusive innovation" but things take time..
If you are interested i'll send you some and i'll take care of the shipment charge no worry. Regards Mohamed
Hi Kayman, I have been watching beekeeping video’s for some time now. Also have some bees at home. Since you are one of few beekeepers that is obviously experimenting I have a question about frames and foundation. Since plastic foundation seems strong enough I was wondering why you still need frames and not just a top bar with plastic foundation mounted to it. In my opinion You can increase the capacity by 7% if you do without side and bottom bars. Also you can see developing swarm cells more easily. Do you know if anyone has been testing it?
Why do you have the queen excluder on the the hive?
At the end of the video behind you, what is that weed tree? Tree of heaven? Do you have any spotted lantern fly issues? We’re getting hit in Jersey with them!!
Do you add spearmint oil to your patties to prevent beetles?
I don't, it also slows the honeybees consumption rate and they don't like it
👍💞💞👍
I'm new at this, what are the blue strips hanging on the frames?
Parrot Bill they are Apivar strips to treat mites. (They are actually white but the blue sky must be reflecting😁). ❤️🐝🐝
Don't forget to mix eggs w flour& milk...
Why a queen excluder if you have apivar on and full frames of honey?
I watched many of Kamon's videos. In one of his older videos, he explained that he doesn't harvest the fall honey for sale. He leave those for the bees. So he doesn't have to spend money and effort to feed. He also explain that he use excluder to keep the queen and most bees below so the apivar strips can be more effective. See ruclips.net/video/medUhwBnKjc/видео.html
I hope that honey is not for human consumption.
Wery good question.
A video like thet over here..you cood name it : my beekeeping suicid. You will never sell a jar of honey again. My God what a different mind set about bees. You lost me at MM,MM for the patti
And why is thet coled honey when you know it's not ?
@@uswwt Does Kamon use those honey supers for the next year spring flow? I wish there were more research on those things. I would love to use OA with honey supers.
@@uswwt I must be missing part of fall honey sales on that video.
Can you feed when using apavair strips (sorry spelling)
He did in this video
@@raysbees7650 yup I should watch the hole thing before I commit lol
I have been feeding Ultra Bee to my colonies. I did my hive inspections early Saturday morning and had to remove the patties. They stopped eating them and found SHB larvae in them . Yet I only seen two or three beetles upon which I smashed. I will start adding ultra bee to my sugar syrup instead. I have a six foot table beside my workshop that I have been doing communal feeding. I also did an emergency pull of honey out of one colonies upper brood box , the queen had no place to lay . Luckily I had five frames of honey from last year I placed outside to feed back to the bees and placed those empty brood comb in the freezer until needed. Six frame got me almost three gallons.
Can I ask why would you open feed honey?? Totally illegal in Australia, if any colony around you area can access that frame and if 1 of those bee's have AFB it only takes 6 yes 6 spores to grow and destroy your whole apiary.. it's mind boggling what practices are given as advice to people.. on the other hand now I see why in the U.S.A. things can only get worse for the honey bee's over there unless people use new better practice.
I hope you have never taken a hit from doing such practice..
@@wadekratzmann9105 thank you. I started to think i'm in Twilight zone.. and i can't spell good inaf to say what i'm thinking about communal feeding, over feeding and makeing suplement queens with shugar bees..and at thet seme time tocking about saveing bees. Twilight zone
What is that strip you have hanging between the frames?
Apivar
It is an Apivar strip and is used as treatment for mites
Try white vinegar for poison ivy
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Very nice video, Kamon. What part of TN?
I think he said Gainesboro?
Do you have a link for where u buy your smoker??
He used Dadant smokers I believe: www.dadant.com/catalog/tools/smokers/m00928-smoker-4-x-10-stainless-steel-with-shield
I think was better to put putty on top of excluder not under.
The bulk of the nurse bees and all of the brood is below. I need quick consumption to prevent beetle issues
Kamon is there a email or other type of msging that I can contact you with. I have several topics that I would like to reach out for help with...
Hey Kaman I have apivar strips on my halves with honey supers can I eat that honey
You could but I wouldn't myself. All the honey has been pulled before we apply apivar here
OK thanks for getting back to me
Way to many ads, there had to be over 6-7 of them!! Am I the only one experiencing them??
Hey TN bee lady. What do the adds look like? There shouldn't be that many. RUclips just reformed their add policy. It was suppose to be a little more aggressive but not that much.