2020 Nucleus colony info and order form docs.google.com/forms/d/16udOgeRPBkxd-5gdAZBeQ9rfXOwj87u_44-j_XhggXg/edit Here is our videos on taking care of first-year packages and nucs successfully, drawing combs, hiving, feeding, etc. ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgrb5DnRjHJiD2Pfhog6gT4P here is our Queen rearing playlists! ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgrDTg7ksIiHmkIbLz9FAIQl
Could you see if you received a PayPal payment for the deposits for 2 nucs from my husband's account... His name is Alan Wheeler. Let me know if you need his email info!
Sorry! I think it has Jimmy REYNOLDS name on it already! Lol But it is an awesome old truck AND all decked out! I think he just wanted you guys to see his big toy!!! Yup look but don't touch!!! Lol! :)
Practical knowledge, that is what I appreciate most about your videos. Many new beekeepers would have thrown those beetle or moth damaged frames away... What a waste! Beekeeping can be expensive, your insights on many topics add incredible insight and value. Thanks Kamon and family:)
Excellent advice dude. Even with my wax moth tunneled frames. Freeze them for a handful of days and my bees immediately rebuild that area and make it like new
I started last summer with 2 nucs and have 3 hives now and have done things that made sense to me and are inlign with what you talk about and watch many different people on RUclips but people with larger apiaries. Keep up with these good videos.
Good video. Always open minded and glad you might’ve saved some beekeepers from throwing away or worse yet, burning good comb and equipment. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is when moths make a few tunnels in the wax on plasticell foundation, the bees don’t always repair it as well as they do wax foundation. They seem to just strip those sections and leave them bare. Not always, but about 50:50. And obviously not as bad in a heavy flow.
I appreciate your videos. I have never kept a bee in my life, and probably won't, but I do enjoy your way of teaching. I do teach, and have the same style as you.
I'm glad I stumbled across your channel a week or two ago. You share a lot of solid information. I'm hoping to sell my first overwintered nucs in a few months; only 5 or so, and then have 100 ready to go in the spring of 2021. I'm enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely agree using old dark comb. I've used and still use some dark comb from cut outs to get them started and eventually trade them out after they draw out comb in the new hive. I keep the old dark comb for swarm traps also. Love your videos . Hope to grow my channel within the next year myself but have a ways to go. Thx for the information you provided.
My bees absconded last fall( late summer) and I saved my combs. Well as many as I could, that weren't covered in shb larva. I am glad to know that I made the right move. I will give them those to expand my nuc when I get it in a month or 2. Thanks for the great info. I've heard that if you are not sure what killed them to never reuse the old comb. Well that's true in my book but only if you think it was a chemical kill or disease.
I’m going to be a new bee keeper this spring. I get my nuc May 1. Great information. Thank you for your videos. Start with one hive. Put traps out to try and capture swarm and grow from there.
My theory on the use of foundation is a bit different from most. When practical, I save supers with foundation until last. My reason being that bees will likely not draw comb unless they need drawn comb. I prefer to produce honey, not wax. If foundations supers are available above drawn combs, the bees will cure and cap virtually all open cells before moving up onto the foundation. So, I have a better chance of full supers of cured and capped honey. However, if the bees need space it is there in the form of foundation. A so basically, I am providing spare for expansion but managing how it is used. Admittedly, you will get some foundation damage from time to time because the bees will sometimes remove the foundation wax and use it elsewhere. I particularly use this method when I think the spring/summer flow is over.
Kamon why not run a study on those dark Combs? What I mean is that instead of chucking them set up a small yard of only dark Comb hives only and see if it's got any effect on say varroa or anything else. I don't know of anyone who runs all old comb hives no new wax. Use the yard to cycle out dark from your other apiaries. Just a thought. When I get enough dark Combs I am gonna try a few by themselves in the mountains somewhere.
I've got some pretty dark comb myself and I haven't even given it a thought about melting it down. And I wish Tennessee was a little closer to Massachusetts because I just ordered 25 nucleus colonies for April. Hopefully this will be my last year of buying bees. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video. You mentioned under-supering, could you direct me to where you go over this in your earlier videos. appreciate it. I'm dealing with over wintering in deeps with 1 or 2 mediums above. Trying to figure out how to isolate the mediums for honey next spring.
You go girl! I hope he likes crow! Lol Always great to see couples happily working together! Makes the world a better place! Just make sure you don't leave YOUR CREATOR out of your lives. He has given you both so much comparison for each other, family, and beekeeping. Praise the Lord!!! :)
Good Mon morning Kamon, I'm wanting to learn how to manage a single box hive. I can't get into my head on how to keep a single deep from becoming over crowded. If the queen has no place to lay she is going to start preparing to swarm ,that is my impression.In my mind if I put on another deep with a queen excluder then I would have to move brood above the excluder into the new super and then add drawn comb into the bottom super, does that sound correct? Devon Rawn runs singles up in Canada , but he doesn't explain in detail how he prevents swarming. Thanks, I watch every video and really appreciate your opinions.
It is good practice to cycle the comb keep 4 or 5 years and replace, what is happening to the comb with every sycle of brood it's getting darker because outer skin of cocoons remains permanently glued to the walls of a cells with a overtimes sells are generate lots of cocoons, one with every hatching which greatly decreases size of a cells and its traps tiny pockets of air between cocoons skin which becomes good environments for mold and algae to grow and smaller cells result for a smaller bees to develop, and wax moths and hive beetle always prefer darker combs because they extract nutrients from cocoons skin not from the wax, in a wild bees will abscon cavities with an old combs and its getting eaten by pine martins in a winter by wax moths during a warm season but that waxy smell remains in a cavity and attracts swarms that how it's been working before varrora mites in a country where I was born my ,rural part of southwest of Belarus all my relatives as far back as I could remember and my grandfather told me keep bees and my grandfather told me when combs are very dark and have oily appearance on a top it's time to replace, another method my grandfather used, only worked with wax foundation is to look on a sun thru the comb if you don't see a sun it's mast be replaced if you see sun like thru welding glass it's okay to use for a another season , it is good practice to replace comb with 4 years,
had to throw out some comb, bought a hive off a guy that come with wax moth in it, have no clue how it even got in there because the colony was super strong. But for the most part i have two 10 frame swarm traps and an 8 frame all full of drawn comb, i do not use lemon grass or anything else as bait just the smell of a hive, plus i have two 10 frame boxes stored completely full of drawn comb and most of it has resources like bee bread and honey and i have 6 nuc boxes full of drawn comb, i only started with bees in 2019 and almost all my drawn comb is dark like that. Also people say you need to put bees wax or a starter strip on a frame that does not have foundation because the bees will not draw it out other wise, well i have frames with no foundation no starter strip it was just a bare wood frame and they drew it out great.
Here in Aussie, if you were a crow eater, that would mean you were from South Australia. Come to think of it, that may explain a few things LOL. Great tips Kamon, nice Video as always
Kamon, I think that if you are a beekeeper who is skilled and maintains healthy hives with more than adequate numbers in his hives then there really should be no need to get rid of comb. The reason is because no matter if they are a local hobbyist or a medium scale beekeeper or a large scale beekeeper they should have bee numbers that constantly be producing more bees than they need. This is the opportunity for even a local beekeeper to sell Nucs on a small scale and rotate their older frames out that still have life to be replaced with brand new frames that their Queen Rearing operation should easily be able to draw out. My partner and I are going to try the new frames this spring in our Queen operation where the frames are placed in a 3D printer and using man made material the entire comb is drawn out and all the bees need to do is cap the egg and go. They are pricey, but they could save the bees a great deal of energy. Keep up the great videos. I love them.
@@kamonreynolds they are very cool. The frames are the exact size needed to make the worker bees and the same color and texture of a natural frame. They just came on the market this year. They were being revealed in December for 2020 season. The nice thing is they save the bees all that energy and could be very useful in a queen operation. Like I said, they are a bit pricey, as I recall, they were between $60-$70 for a box of 5 frames & foundation. I think we are going to try some and see how they work out. You never know how a product will work, but with sound basics it could be positive.
There are a couple easy reasons to cycle the old combs out. First if you use Amitraz or similar, they will accumulate in the wax. A lot of diseases (spores) are getting trapped in the combs. New combs are drawn very fast, no reason to save old combs. Beeswax candles sell for a quite high price. Also Drawing combs is natural to bees. In nature they abbadon theor hoves evefy couple years and let the waxmoth eat them. This has a reason, since bees don‘t have a immune system like mamals have, they had to develop other ways to heal, and drawing comb, specially when no brood or old comb is present, is one of these ways. No reason to start and cycle everything out, but aiming for about 5 years of comb live is a good point (brood comb, not Honey). The biggest problem you have, is proppably getting fresh foundation. In germany it‘s quite common to cycle them out every two years, but we pay about 1.5$ per lb if foundation, if you get your own wax reworked into fresh foundation.
Here's free advice. Make sure you all have a treatment history from your nuc supplier. Our club purchased nucs from a company in the state next to us. At a group meeting a few beekeepers brought in a frame for the instructor to look at. It was full of American Foul Brood. Our club also ended up getting it in our hives which were purchased from that same company. Buyer beware.
Good Morning Kamon (and Laurel). I know you guys aren’t mailing queens or Nuc’s at this time. Do you think your business will support that in the future? I would love to try some your queens up here in the Pacific Northwest! I keep trying to get Rich to purchase some since he’s right down the road from you and then drive them up to me! LoL!!! Thanks for all the great content! Look forward to what 2020 will hold.
Some commercial beekeepers have a rule of thumb on cycling comb. Cycle comb every year, or two, or three years. Myself...all the comb I have is valuable at this point as i don't have a lot of extra fresh comb laying around, but my goal would be to cycle comb every two years if possible. Also I don't think comb color matters as much as comb texture. If the texture is like stone maybe time to change it out.
Hi from Australia. I’m loving your videos Kamon. I just found your channel last night while looking for education on swarm prevention. Question, have you ever done anything with a “Snelgrove board” for swarm prevention? Thanks Richard.
Kamon, sometimes old comb will be a mix of drone size and regular size cells, even perhaps 20% drone to 80% regular. Does the existence of drone size cells in the comb have any influence on your decision to re-use or not?
Yes excessive frame of drone combs are culled OR given to a colony that is selected for drone production. These colonies are set away from the mating yard so that queens can have plenty of drones
you ever seen a hive just die and all the bees on the bottom board like it had been sprayed. it was large amount of bees. found after 12 degree night first of nov.
It is an issue. How bad? It depends. I live in an area with very little ag. Those in the thick of it might have more issue. All I can tell you is what I know works for me and guys I trust. I have gotten 10 years out of some combs with no issues. However, once I top out at the number of colonies I want I will recycle alot a decent bit each year because I can.
Are you gonna cycle out that perfectly good old comb in your nucs for sale it seems that would be the logical idea and I wouldn't see nothing wrong with it like you say trees here have same old comb here for years and they just do great
Well, the cat made a brief appearance but your other half did not. So disappointed. I have started to cycle out wonky foundation based frames that are either too fat or poorly drawn. Plenty of new foundationless frames to take their place. Some old frames go to swarm traps, others the melting pot. The really good stuff will stay in the hives as long as the bees will use it. Good video to remind us that the bees will fix wax moth damage if it is not too bad.
Great video a long time ago found how they deal with FB in NJ I’ve never tried this. NJ State Apiarist Remediation of Foul Brood. Check on RUclips would of sent on your email couldn’t find. It’s the law in Ontario to burn hives as well. Found this very interesting. But not endorsing this practice. Now different places may change laws. To me it’s the brood that’s sick.
What is the process for removing black/old comb from your brood chambers? Seems like you'd always lose a frame of brood unless you just slowly migrate them over to the outside of the box before removing. I'm thinking my original nuc frames should prob be cycled out to be used for swarm traps or whatnot.
2020 Nucleus colony info and order form docs.google.com/forms/d/16udOgeRPBkxd-5gdAZBeQ9rfXOwj87u_44-j_XhggXg/edit
Here is our videos on taking care of first-year packages and nucs successfully, drawing combs, hiving, feeding, etc. ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgrb5DnRjHJiD2Pfhog6gT4P
here is our Queen rearing playlists! ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgrDTg7ksIiHmkIbLz9FAIQl
Could you see if you received a PayPal payment for the deposits for 2 nucs from my husband's account... His name is Alan Wheeler. Let me know if you need his email info!
I know it's considered rude to not look at someone when they're talking to you but I can't keep my eyes off that beautiful truck!
ME TOO,, I JUST GOT DONE,, WITH A 69 C60,,THATS A C50 OR 60 1974 OR 5,,,LOOKS GOOD,,, TOO
I NEED THAT BUMPER REAL BAD LIKE,,,,
Yes I love that truck too
Sorry! I think it has
Jimmy REYNOLDS name on it already! Lol But it is an awesome old truck AND all decked out! I think he just wanted you guys to see his big toy!!! Yup look but don't touch!!! Lol! :)
That truck is cool AF !
Practical knowledge, that is what I appreciate most about your videos. Many new beekeepers would have thrown those beetle or moth damaged frames away... What a waste! Beekeeping can be expensive, your insights on many topics add incredible insight and value. Thanks Kamon and family:)
Excellent advice dude. Even with my wax moth tunneled frames. Freeze them for a handful of days and my bees immediately rebuild that area and make it like new
Mate you have a great way of teaching your a natural best on RUclips as someone who’s been keeping bees for 8 yrs +I’m learning from you Paul uk
I started last summer with 2 nucs and have 3 hives now and have done things that made sense to me and are inlign with what you talk about and watch many different people on RUclips but people with larger apiaries. Keep up with these good videos.
I like how down to earth and honest you are. Thank you so much.
Thank you 😃
Good advice! Really like your truck!
I really like your videos. You are calm, interesting, and know your stuff. Well done.
I agree with you. Use that comb! Drawn comb is like gold for the beekeeper!
Good video. Always open minded and glad you might’ve saved some beekeepers from throwing away or worse yet, burning good comb and equipment. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is when moths make a few tunnels in the wax on plasticell foundation, the bees don’t always repair it as well as they do wax foundation. They seem to just strip those sections and leave them bare. Not always, but about 50:50. And obviously not as bad in a heavy flow.
I appreciate your videos. I have never kept a bee in my life, and probably won't, but I do enjoy your way of teaching. I do teach, and have the same style as you.
I'm glad I stumbled across your channel a week or two ago. You share a lot of solid information. I'm hoping to sell my first overwintered nucs in a few months; only 5 or so, and then have 100 ready to go in the spring of 2021. I'm enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work!
great advice on reusing old combed frames
Absolutely agree using old dark comb. I've used and still use some dark comb from cut outs to get them started and eventually trade them out after they draw out comb in the new hive. I keep the old dark comb for swarm traps also. Love your videos . Hope to grow my channel within the next year myself but have a ways to go. Thx for the information you provided.
My bees absconded last fall( late summer) and I saved my combs. Well as many as I could, that weren't covered in shb larva. I am glad to know that I made the right move. I will give them those to expand my nuc when I get it in a month or 2. Thanks for the great info. I've heard that if you are not sure what killed them to never reuse the old comb. Well that's true in my book but only if you think it was a chemical kill or disease.
And thank you for making videos worth watching
I’m going to be a new bee keeper this spring. I get my nuc May 1. Great information. Thank you for your videos. Start with one hive. Put traps out to try and capture swarm and grow from there.
Very easy to split hives too. Freebees (swarms) are always better though!
My theory on the use of foundation is a bit different from most. When practical, I save supers with foundation until last. My reason being that bees will likely not draw comb unless they need drawn comb. I prefer to produce honey, not wax. If foundations supers are available above drawn combs, the bees will cure and cap virtually all open cells before moving up onto the foundation. So, I have a better chance of full supers of cured and capped honey. However, if the bees need space it is there in the form of foundation. A so basically, I am providing spare for expansion but managing how it is used. Admittedly, you will get some foundation damage from time to time because the bees will sometimes remove the foundation wax and use it elsewhere. I particularly use this method when I think the spring/summer flow is over.
Kamon why not run a study on those dark Combs? What I mean is that instead of chucking them set up a small yard of only dark Comb hives only and see if it's got any effect on say varroa or anything else. I don't know of anyone who runs all old comb hives no new wax. Use the yard to cycle out dark from your other apiaries. Just a thought. When I get enough dark Combs I am gonna try a few by themselves in the mountains somewhere.
I've got some pretty dark comb myself and I haven't even given it a thought about melting it down. And I wish Tennessee was a little closer to Massachusetts because I just ordered 25 nucleus colonies for April. Hopefully this will be my last year of buying bees. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video. You mentioned under-supering, could you direct me to where you go over this in your earlier videos. appreciate it. I'm dealing with over wintering in deeps with 1 or 2 mediums above. Trying to figure out how to isolate the mediums for honey next spring.
Love your videos and that truck!
You go girl!
I hope he likes crow! Lol Always great to see couples happily working together! Makes the world a better place! Just make sure you don't leave YOUR CREATOR out of your lives. He has given you both so much comparison for each other, family, and beekeeping. Praise the Lord!!! :)
Good Mon morning Kamon, I'm wanting to learn how to manage a single box hive. I can't get into my head on how to keep a single deep from becoming over crowded. If the queen has no place to lay she is going to start preparing to swarm ,that is my impression.In my mind if I put on another deep with a queen excluder then I would have to move brood above the excluder into the new super and then add drawn comb into the bottom super, does that sound correct? Devon Rawn runs singles up in Canada , but he doesn't explain in detail how he prevents swarming. Thanks, I watch every video and really appreciate your opinions.
Love your truck!
Amen, combe is the most valuable thing !!! especially for making splits an nucs !!!
Love your videos! Keep up the teaching!
It is good practice to cycle the comb keep 4 or 5 years and replace, what is happening to the comb with every sycle of brood it's getting darker because outer skin of cocoons remains permanently glued to the walls of a cells with a overtimes sells are generate lots of cocoons, one with every hatching which greatly decreases size of a cells and its traps tiny pockets of air between cocoons skin which becomes good environments for mold and algae to grow and smaller cells result for a smaller bees to develop, and wax moths and hive beetle always prefer darker combs because they extract nutrients from cocoons skin not from the wax, in a wild bees will abscon cavities with an old combs and its getting eaten by pine martins in a winter by wax moths during a warm season but that waxy smell remains in a cavity and attracts swarms that how it's been working before varrora mites in a country where I was born my ,rural part of southwest of Belarus all my relatives as far back as I could remember and my grandfather told me keep bees and my grandfather told me when combs are very dark and have oily appearance on a top it's time to replace, another method my grandfather used, only worked with wax foundation is to look on a sun thru the comb if you don't see a sun it's mast be replaced if you see sun like thru welding glass it's okay to use for a another season , it is good practice to replace comb with 4 years,
I love that red truck
Love the bee info, but also love that truck!
had to throw out some comb, bought a hive off a guy that come with wax moth in it, have no clue how it even got in there because the colony was super strong. But for the most part i have two 10 frame swarm traps and an 8 frame all full of drawn comb, i do not use lemon grass or anything else as bait just the smell of a hive, plus i have two 10 frame boxes stored completely full of drawn comb and most of it has resources like bee bread and honey and i have 6 nuc boxes full of drawn comb, i only started with bees in 2019 and almost all my drawn comb is dark like that. Also people say you need to put bees wax or a starter strip on a frame that does not have foundation because the bees will not draw it out other wise, well i have frames with no foundation no starter strip it was just a bare wood frame and they drew it out great.
Here in Aussie, if you were a crow eater, that would mean you were from South Australia. Come to think of it, that may explain a few things LOL. Great tips Kamon, nice Video as always
lol!
Kamon, I think that if you are a beekeeper who is skilled and maintains healthy hives with more than adequate numbers in his hives then there really should be no need to get rid of comb. The reason is because no matter if they are a local hobbyist or a medium scale beekeeper or a large scale beekeeper they should have bee numbers that constantly be producing more bees than they need. This is the opportunity for even a local beekeeper to sell Nucs on a small scale and rotate their older frames out that still have life to be replaced with brand new frames that their Queen Rearing operation should easily be able to draw out. My partner and I are going to try the new frames this spring in our Queen operation where the frames are placed in a 3D printer and using man made material the entire comb is drawn out and all the bees need to do is cap the egg and go. They are pricey, but they could save the bees a great deal of energy. Keep up the great videos. I love them.
Thanks and keep me posted sounds cool!
@@kamonreynolds they are very cool. The frames are the exact size needed to make the worker bees and the same color and texture of a natural frame. They just came on the market this year. They were being revealed in December for 2020 season. The nice thing is they save the bees all that energy and could be very useful in a queen operation. Like I said, they are a bit pricey, as I recall, they were between $60-$70 for a box of 5 frames & foundation. I think we are going to try some and see how they work out. You never know how a product will work, but with sound basics it could be positive.
How did they work out? Is it similar to the better comb brand? 😍
There are a couple easy reasons to cycle the old combs out.
First if you use Amitraz or similar, they will accumulate in the wax.
A lot of diseases (spores) are getting trapped in the combs.
New combs are drawn very fast, no reason to save old combs.
Beeswax candles sell for a quite high price.
Also Drawing combs is natural to bees. In nature they abbadon theor hoves evefy couple years and let the waxmoth eat them. This has a reason, since bees don‘t have a immune system like mamals have, they had to develop other ways to heal, and drawing comb, specially when no brood or old comb is present, is one of these ways.
No reason to start and cycle everything out, but aiming for about 5 years of comb live is a good point (brood comb, not Honey).
The biggest problem you have, is proppably getting fresh foundation. In germany it‘s quite common to cycle them out every two years, but we pay about 1.5$ per lb if foundation, if you get your own wax reworked into fresh foundation.
Good info. Thank you guys for sharing.
How much comb could a bee Keeper chuck if a bee Keeper could chuck comb? Lol love y’all so much
Love that truck! How about a truck video Mr. crow eater. Looks like you need to eat about 10.8 crows. lol Take care Kamon.
Sounds like you also had the wind in TN today like we had in IL!
How ever combs used for honey production honey supers will last much longer than one used in a brood chamber
Here's free advice. Make sure you all have a treatment history from your nuc supplier. Our club purchased nucs from a company in the state next to us. At a group meeting a few beekeepers brought in a frame for the instructor to look at. It was full of American Foul Brood. Our club also ended up getting it in our hives which were purchased from that same company. Buyer beware.
Bee Bob, then say who and where! Buyer beware with no info ???!!!
Each year when do you have Nucs ready to go? and How do I get on the list ? I would like 8. You are helping so many again Thank You.
Wow..you covered a lot of ground between 7:00 and 8:15!
Good Morning Kamon (and Laurel). I know you guys aren’t mailing queens or Nuc’s at this time. Do you think your business will support that in the future? I would love to try some your queens up here in the Pacific Northwest!
I keep trying to get Rich to purchase some since he’s right down the road from you and then drive them up to me! LoL!!!
Thanks for all the great content! Look forward to what 2020 will hold.
Some commercial beekeepers have a rule of thumb on cycling comb. Cycle comb every year, or two, or three years. Myself...all the comb I have is valuable at this point as i don't have a lot of extra fresh comb laying around, but my goal would be to cycle comb every two years if possible. Also I don't think comb color matters as much as comb texture. If the texture is like stone maybe time to change it out.
Really enjoy your channel.
Also if you have an old drone comb you probably don't want to reuse that. i just melted the wax on a frame that was drone comb on both sides.
Thanks again!
Where do you get your card board nuc boxes
Theseeznuc corragated plastic nuc boxes come from Jester beekeeping and can be purchased at dadant
Hi from Australia. I’m loving your videos Kamon. I just found your channel last night while looking for education on swarm prevention. Question, have you ever done anything with a “Snelgrove board” for swarm prevention? Thanks Richard.
BTW, I love your truck.
Thanks for watching! I have not ever used one sorry Richard!
Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees that makes two of us! They look interesting, I believe they are an English invention.
Kaymon when you cycle out your frames do you scrape the wax off the plastic foundation and use it over?
Yes. The can be scraped pressure washed and recoated in beeswax
Thank you so much, this information is very helpful.
I think Big Red has served her purpose,she told me she really wants to move in with me in Mo...
Them there is fightin words! LOL
@@kamonreynolds 😂😂😂 can't blame you i love that truck, I used to drive an older Chevy dumptruck with a 366 in it, I loved that thing
that truck older than kamon
Kamon, sometimes old comb will be a mix of drone size and regular size cells, even perhaps 20% drone to 80% regular. Does the existence of drone size cells in the comb have any influence on your decision to re-use or not?
Yes excessive frame of drone combs are culled OR given to a colony that is selected for drone production. These colonies are set away from the mating yard so that queens can have plenty of drones
Truck video please!!!!
you ever seen a hive just die and all the bees on the bottom board like it had been sprayed. it was large amount of bees. found after 12 degree night first of nov.
How far away from home hives do you set traps?
Even from a year ago - Look at Big Red!
Jester Nuc Box = bees in the car with you on the ride home lol.
What about pesticide buildup in old comb?
It is an issue. How bad? It depends. I live in an area with very little ag. Those in the thick of it might have more issue. All I can tell you is what I know works for me and guys I trust. I have gotten 10 years out of some combs with no issues. However, once I top out at the number of colonies I want I will recycle alot a decent bit each year because I can.
Sorry COMPASSION!!
Are you gonna cycle out that perfectly good old comb in your nucs for sale it seems that would be the logical idea and I wouldn't see nothing wrong with it like you say trees here have same old comb here for years and they just do great
Beautiful truc. Does it have the big V-6?
DP this 83 chevy has the 366 big Block engine
Well, the cat made a brief appearance but your other half did not. So disappointed. I have started to cycle out wonky foundation based frames that are either too fat or poorly drawn. Plenty of new foundationless frames to take their place. Some old frames go to swarm traps, others the melting pot. The really good stuff will stay in the hives as long as the bees will use it. Good video to remind us that the bees will fix wax moth damage if it is not too bad.
Just curious: Do you ever transport your bees to the almond groves in CA for pollinating?
Hey P mac we don't and I don't think I want too. Who knows i might try it one day you never know,
Great video a long time ago found how they deal with FB in NJ I’ve never tried this. NJ State Apiarist Remediation of Foul Brood. Check on RUclips would of sent on your email couldn’t find. It’s the law in Ontario to burn hives as well. Found this very interesting. But not endorsing this practice. Now different places may change laws. To me it’s the brood that’s sick.
I got my wife to watch the date video, and she ask me if that was your son. Thanks !!
Will you ship nucs to nj?
Hi Bryan, Unfortunately we don't ship at this time. Thanks for the inquiry
What is your mailing address for NUC deposit?
do ya use wild bees? ai harvest wild honeye or used ta,, thank ya fer the video
Will you selling queens? If so how much and do you ship them?
Ahw that wind noise nothing that a microphone windsock wouldn't fix it !
What is the process for removing black/old comb from your brood chambers? Seems like you'd always lose a frame of brood unless you just slowly migrate them over to the outside of the box before removing. I'm thinking my original nuc frames should prob be cycled out to be used for swarm traps or whatnot.
Will you be selling queens?
Do you ship bees?
need to put your mailing address on the nuc order form for the deposit.
After folks order we give them our P.O. Box number
Roll Tide!!!!
It looks like you don't ship and it's pick-up only... Is that correct??
Yes. Pick up only.
Can you show exactly what that would look like when you’re adding the queen. Your a little fast for this old lady.
Replace wiper blades, good grief
"Buying bees" is for suckers.
I bought bees twice since 1977. So ashamed.