Thanks for the video. I have a very small apiary, and have learned more about bee keeping from watching your videos than any other source; some to the processes you use will never apply to us simply due to scale, but the knowledge certainly applies. We appreciate your openness, your relationship with your employees and the willingness to help others. You have helped many people become better beekeepers with myself being one of them. Thank you.
I’ve been on a lot of crews in my life in different industries and I gotta say the way you treat your guys is awesome seems like lots of respect and high production. Looks like a great work environment.
I tried double screen boards for the first time scince watching these videos they work great at helping the smaler nucs brood up faster . Thanks for the help !! Great videos
I'm one who needs to see things done to learn. I mean I can learn by watching this a few times over and over, but the only thing missing for me was actually seeing one of your team doing this. Thanks for the video Bob, I've been enjoying them and the walk through your season!
Groundhog Day. ROFL!! It must feel that way for the crew with so many yards to go thru. Thanks for sharing this technique and the fun you have as a team. God bless.
Our nectar flow is pretty much over here in the southern MO Ozarks. I wish we had sourwood trees. We are just starting to cage our queens to make a brood break over the summer dearth and take mite counts. It's been very dry here, but the bees still made a lot of honey so far. Caging will reduce the need to feed during the dearth and give us an opportunity to treat with oxalic acid right before the bees start making their winter bees. Thanks for the videos!
😀 Groundhog Day, thank you for the video, you just help me with the decision I have to make, good job. We got some rain last night in Chicago and Wisconsin, all clover was dying, looks we will have more today and this week
Hey Bob. I’ve use Strong Microbials for years and swear by it. But the trick is to not clump it in one spot but dust the entire top box like a powder sugar dust. Also, MAKE SURE you keep it air tight between uses for humidity activates it.
Hi Bob! What great strategy in beekeeping, very obvious why you are so successful. Starting to pull 1st round of honey, our yellow and white clover is in cranking up and the basswood isn't to far away. Very interested in purchasing some pro biotic. Bulk amount
Hello Bob. I'm pulling honey today. Extracting tomorrow. I had to purchase a better dehumidifier to get the humidity in the honey house acceptable. Doing some splits Wednesday coming to see y'all Saturday. Hopefully the spotted lantern fly doesn't mess up the sourwood here.
Morning, I hope you will be able to do an update video in the future on the probiotics. Good luck with the sour wood. Sadly we don't have it in our area but we have tons of Blackberry so I won't whine to much. lol
Ive missed something obviously but the title of the video is requeening with double screen boards but the demonstration refers to escape boards. What am I missing? Thank you! Really enjoy your videos! 😊🐝
The new colony above was made using the double screen board. Now they are using that new colony to replace the one below. This video is the last step in the process. The escape board is there to harvest the honey. At the same time putting fresh supers on for sourwood honey.
There is actually both in this instance. If there weren't any surplus honey supers involved there wouldn't have been a need for escape boards which were used strictly for removing those supers.
@@bobbinnie9872 So were you placing the super over the escape board (to empty it of bees) and offsetting it to make an entrance for the field bees that were above the double screen board?
Very informative video, question, now that its August, is it too late for grafting new queens to make new 8 frame broods or nukes to carry through winter? I have lots of bees and would like to add hives for the coming year.
Great meeting you in the store yesterday, it was a good time for my wife and I! Meant to ask you, for the queens that I purchase, how many frames of brood and shakes would you recommend for a 5 frame nuc this time of year.
Two frames of brood and a couple of drawn comb with adhering bees should grow big enough for winter if you're willing to invest in some thin sugar syrup. It was fun meeting you folks too.
Hey Bob! Thanks for the video as always and for imparting your knowledge. How has the rain been over on your side of the mountains? I have been starting to feel a little water-logged over here in Hiawassee.
A question that I have been wondering for a while now, when you leave a lid or a box open a little like you have in some of the last videos, does it affect the bees when it rains?
I've never clipped wings but I think it's OK if done properly. I know a few queen breeders that do it routinely with no problems. It will only help stop the first initial swarm. The first virgin out will swarm anyway because the clipped queen usually is lost when trying to fly.
Hi bob I was wondering what kind of bear fence you use because I have an opportunity to put some hives on bass wood trees next year but I know that it is an area plagued with bears
We are in bear country as well( black bears) I picked up a good solar powered electric fence at my local farmers cooperative, it’s good strong enough to light up any critter that touches it.
We caught a swarm now i have a hive a swarm and six splits as 1 frame nucs . The hives are surrounded by canola which is just getting yellow about 8 quarter sections within 2.5 miles it just rained for 2 days its been hot 86F so now the nectar will flow .theres 4 -32 hive yards that can access the crops still too much crop for the amount of bees . Canola will be done in about 3 weeks So is the probiotics used to compensate for treating with teramyacin or tetracycline. Or is it just a health booster . Im going to try the double excluder to see how that works .
Hi Bob. Now that you’ve had more than a month since the probiotic treatment to evaluate how it impacted the colonies that got it, what do you think of the benefits versus the expense and effort investment it requires?
Hi,Bob,can you please explain why colony with new queen will not swarm?The colony beneath double screen board is already somewhere about peak population and now you are adding one deep box full of bees to that.I asume that new queen(from double screen board) will remain in colony which is now way above peak population.Thanks
Timing is important. If a colony has not peaked in size and begins harvesting in a heavy nectar flow they usually will continue to do so even if they are expanded to a large size as or after the flow has started.
So you're just combining the boxes? No paper or anything in between? What if you were combining boxes that weren't on top of the hive you're combining them with? Would you have to use some kind of paper to slow them down or would it be the same? I've heard Gus Mitchell say smoke the top and bottom really hard and that that'll work too, but im confused because I've always been told to use paper when combining.
Newspaper is a tried and true combination method and is good advice but there is a bit of a mess to clean up afterwards. We've had good luck with sugar syrup or opening capped honey or perhaps nothing if the bees are busy with a nectar flow. If in doubt use newspaper with a couple of light slits.
@@bobbinnie9872 Well that's good to know. I'll give that a try in the future. I can see how newspaper would be a bit more aggravating when you're working lots of hives too, which is what I'm working towards! Thanks for the answer
Hi Bob, off topic question. AFB is in two of my apiaries. Ive killed 9 hives so far. Any thoughts on unknown exposed honey supers, burning or treating equipment and the future of me continuing to sell nucs ?
Is it that easy to make a double queen hive . I see some people putting newspaper in between the 2 hives I like to try it on a field of buckwheat at Carrot river . Please explain step by step 2 double deep hive an excluder 3 honey supers another excluder and then a large nuc . With cedar wedges above or under the top excluder to give the nuc an entrance . We like bob when he's evil
Bob, at 8:10 on your video the yard looks done but it looks like the double screen's are still on? It is hard to see if you have a queen excluder on but that would have been on top of the second deep right? Sorry, but I got confused on what you did.
After rewatching the video the top two boxes are above a bee escape and you are going to pull honey off that yard, right? Good luck with the sourwoood honey.
If you could talk more in-depth about the dual queen system, that would be great. Not clear how that would work as the pheromones from both queens would be in there. Thanks!
He mentioned putting the honey supers between the colonies. Bees from bottom hive go up and bees from top hive go down. Honey boxes and 2 excluders keep the queens apart.
Clean fames, hive interiors. Only some wax burr coms in lids. -How an earth the boxes and frames are so free of propolis? Mine are always covered all over inside...
Lol, you are too hard on yourself in terminology. They top colony was likely started with just two or three frames of bees and a cell. The rest of the space might be filled with foundation or drawn comb. So, if you count the number of frames with bees. That's a nuc. At least that was a nuc. Now that thing is obviously so strong that anyone would love to have such nucs. 😂
You're right. Units referred to as nucs are usually much smaller, perhaps 2 to 7 frames. We're just in the habit of calling anything over a double screen board a nuc.
I’ve heard so much about Sourwood Honey I had to try some. I ordered a jar to try and was totally disappointed. My Texas wild flower honey tastes much better. The Sourwood just didn’t live up to all the hype.
@@bobbinnie9872 I should have bought some from you. I just googled Sourwood and bought some. I now regret it. I buy honey from lots of keepers just to sample all the different tastes in different areas. I love comparing them. Now, I really don’t know if Sourwood is good or not.
Ugh killing queens!!!! Ouch!!!! That hurt my ears. Been next to impossible to raise queens on any scale. Too darn dry!!!! If you were is driving distance I woulda showed up whining for your culls.
Thanks for the video. I have a very small apiary, and have learned more about bee keeping from watching your videos than any other source; some to the processes you use will never apply to us simply due to scale, but the knowledge certainly applies. We appreciate your openness, your relationship with your employees and the willingness to help others. You have helped many people become better beekeepers with myself being one of them. Thank you.
Bob is a wealth of knowledge, but stays humble. Amazing crew !!!
I’ve been on a lot of crews in my life in different industries and I gotta say the way you treat your guys is awesome seems like lots of respect and high production. Looks like a great work environment.
Thanks. I feel lucky to have them.
Simply put, the more we learn the more we realize we don't know a darn thing. As always Thank You for these fun and educational videos!
I tried double screen boards for the first time scince watching these videos they work great at helping the smaler nucs brood up faster .
Thanks for the help !!
Great videos
I'm one who needs to see things done to learn. I mean I can learn by watching this a few times over and over, but the only thing missing for me was actually seeing one of your team doing this. Thanks for the video Bob, I've been enjoying them and the walk through your season!
You are right and wished I had better footage when I realized it while editing. Lesson learned, again. Thanks.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you for all you do!
@@bobbinnie9872 I've started filming some of my bee removals and I totally get it when you are editing footage. Oh, I should have done this or that!
Enjoyed the video, always look forward to them . Thank you !
Groundhog Day. ROFL!! It must feel that way for the crew with so many yards to go thru. Thanks for sharing this technique and the fun you have as a team. God bless.
Thank you!
You're camera man did a great job with this! 😉
I have to admit you're right. A steady hand indeed.👍
Working with Bob would be a bonus lol!
Our nectar flow is pretty much over here in the southern MO Ozarks. I wish we had sourwood trees. We are just starting to cage our queens to make a brood break over the summer dearth and take mite counts. It's been very dry here, but the bees still made a lot of honey so far. Caging will reduce the need to feed during the dearth and give us an opportunity to treat with oxalic acid right before the bees start making their winter bees. Thanks for the videos!
That sounds like a good plan.👍
😀 Groundhog Day, thank you for the video, you just help me with the decision I have to make, good job. We got some rain last night in Chicago and Wisconsin, all clover was dying, looks we will have more today and this week
Hi Oscar. That's good news. Hopefully the clover will respond.
Good Morning Bob !
Good morning sir.
Hey Bob. I’ve use Strong Microbials for years and swear by it. But the trick is to not clump it in one spot but dust the entire top box like a powder sugar dust. Also, MAKE SURE you keep it air tight between uses for humidity activates it.
My nucs are so happy with my new doube scree boards.
Hi Bob! What great strategy in beekeeping, very obvious why you are so successful. Starting to pull 1st round of honey, our yellow and white clover is in cranking up and the basswood isn't to far away. Very interested in purchasing some pro biotic. Bulk amount
Hello Bob. I'm pulling honey today. Extracting tomorrow. I had to purchase a better dehumidifier to get the humidity in the honey house acceptable. Doing some splits Wednesday coming to see y'all Saturday. Hopefully the spotted lantern fly doesn't mess up the sourwood here.
Look forward to seeing you.
I'm in NJ and have the slf, where are you?
@@jtlearn1 I'm in Amherst County Virginia. I seen one hoping around yesterday morning.
Fun times in the heat!
We did some sweating today!
Morning, I hope you will be able to do an update video in the future on the probiotics.
Good luck with the sour wood.
Sadly we don't have it in our area but we have tons of Blackberry so I won't whine to much. lol
Ive missed something obviously but the title of the video is requeening with double screen boards but the demonstration refers to escape boards. What am I missing? Thank you! Really enjoy your videos! 😊🐝
The new colony above was made using the double screen board. Now they are using that new colony to replace the one below. This video is the last step in the process. The escape board is there to harvest the honey. At the same time putting fresh supers on for sourwood honey.
There is actually both in this instance. If there weren't any surplus honey supers involved there wouldn't have been a need for escape boards which were used strictly for removing those supers.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks so much, very clear now.I appreciate your time to respond. Good luck with the Sourwood harvest. 😊🐝
@@bobbinnie9872 So were you placing the super over the escape board (to empty it of bees) and offsetting it to make an entrance for the field bees that were above the double screen board?
@@steveholder7289 Correct.
Very informative video, question, now that its August, is it too late for grafting new queens to make new 8 frame broods or nukes to carry through winter? I have lots of bees and would like to add hives for the coming year.
It would depend on the location. In our area we just finished our last round last week but in other locations there may still be time.
Great meeting you in the store yesterday, it was a good time for my wife and I! Meant to ask you, for the queens that I purchase, how many frames of brood and shakes would you recommend for a 5 frame nuc this time of year.
Two frames of brood and a couple of drawn comb with adhering bees should grow big enough for winter if you're willing to invest in some thin sugar syrup. It was fun meeting you folks too.
Hey Bob! Thanks for the video as always and for imparting your knowledge. How has the rain been over on your side of the mountains? I have been starting to feel a little water-logged over here in Hiawassee.
We have gotten plenty. We just had a deluge today. Let's hope it's setting up for a good flow.
@@bobbinnie9872 Let us hope that we have a good flow this year!
A question that I have been wondering for a while now, when you leave a lid or a box open a little like you have in some of the last videos, does it affect the bees when it rains?
It seems like there must be some kind of effect but we never notice any issues.
I sometimes just use the double screen board as an inner cover and you can flip it and have an upper entrance.
Yes, and we also use it as a rim we we need one.
Thanks Bob. Another great video. Could I ask if you ever clip your queens and if not why not. Asking after a particularly swarmy year here in the UK.
I've never clipped wings but I think it's OK if done properly. I know a few queen breeders that do it routinely with no problems. It will only help stop the first initial swarm. The first virgin out will swarm anyway because the clipped queen usually is lost when trying to fly.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks Bob
Hi bob I was wondering what kind of bear fence you use because I have an opportunity to put some hives on bass wood trees next year but I know that it is an area plagued with bears
Check out our video "How To Protect Bees From Bears". ruclips.net/video/k8-tmulErMA/видео.html
We are in bear country as well( black bears) I picked up a good solar powered electric fence at my local farmers cooperative, it’s good strong enough to light up any critter that touches it.
Will the distance from top to bottom boxes cause the top box of bees to think they are queenless?
It can. If you put brood several boxes above the lower brood nest it's not uncommon for them to start emergency queen cells.
We caught a swarm now i have a hive a swarm and six splits as 1 frame nucs .
The hives are surrounded by canola which is just getting yellow about 8 quarter sections within 2.5 miles it just rained for 2 days its been hot 86F so now the nectar will flow .theres 4 -32 hive yards that can access the crops still too much crop for the amount of bees .
Canola will be done in about 3 weeks
So is the probiotics used to compensate for treating with teramyacin or tetracycline. Or is it just a health booster .
Im going to try the double excluder to see how that works .
The probiotics are used to help keep their immune system healthy. Hopefully antibiotics are not needed.
It used to be an automatic treatment
Im becoming aware of a new way of beekeeping it stands to reason the drugs dont help the bees gut biome .
Hi Bob. Now that you’ve had more than a month since the probiotic treatment to evaluate how it impacted the colonies that got it, what do you think of the benefits versus the expense and effort investment it requires?
All I can report at this time is that our colonies are looking good. Would they look good anyway? I'm still not sure.
Очень интересная информация. Благодарю Боб.
Hi,Bob,can you please explain why colony with new queen will not swarm?The colony beneath double screen board is already somewhere about peak population and now you are adding one deep box full of bees to that.I asume that new queen(from double screen board) will remain in colony which is now way above peak population.Thanks
Timing is important. If a colony has not peaked in size and begins harvesting in a heavy nectar flow they usually will continue to do so even if they are expanded to a large size as or after the flow has started.
Hey Bob! On a previous video you mentioned your wife had a way to keep bees out of swimming pools. Can you share that with me?
I promise a video very, very soon.
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So you're just combining the boxes? No paper or anything in between? What if you were combining boxes that weren't on top of the hive you're combining them with? Would you have to use some kind of paper to slow them down or would it be the same? I've heard Gus Mitchell say smoke the top and bottom really hard and that that'll work too, but im confused because I've always been told to use paper when combining.
Doesn't matter if the top hive or another hive. Just smoke'm both or spray both with sugar water, they'll love each other when it's all over.
Newspaper is a tried and true combination method and is good advice but there is a bit of a mess to clean up afterwards. We've had good luck with sugar syrup or opening capped honey or perhaps nothing if the bees are busy with a nectar flow. If in doubt use newspaper with a couple of light slits.
@@bobbinnie9872 Well that's good to know. I'll give that a try in the future. I can see how newspaper would be a bit more aggravating when you're working lots of hives too, which is what I'm working towards! Thanks for the answer
Hi Bob, off topic question. AFB is in two of my apiaries. Ive killed 9 hives so far. Any thoughts on unknown exposed honey supers, burning or treating equipment and the future of me continuing to sell nucs ?
Some states have radiation chambers you can run equipment through. I know North Carolina had one. I would contact your regional inspector.
Is it that easy to make a double queen hive .
I see some people putting newspaper in between the 2 hives
I like to try it on a field of buckwheat at Carrot river .
Please explain step by step
2 double deep hive an excluder
3 honey supers another excluder and then a large nuc .
With cedar wedges above or under the top excluder to give the nuc an entrance .
We like bob when he's evil
Bob, at 8:10 on your video the yard looks done but it looks like the double screen's are still on? It is hard to see if you have a queen excluder on but that would have been on top of the second deep right? Sorry, but I got confused on what you did.
After rewatching the video the top two boxes are above a bee escape and you are going to pull honey off that yard, right? Good luck with the sourwoood honey.
Hi Russell. You're right. Although there are still some double screen boards present most, most of what you see are escape boards.
What is the date this video was taken?
I believe it was 6-21 and 6-22.
If you could talk more in-depth about the dual queen system, that would be great. Not clear how that would work as the pheromones from both queens would be in there. Thanks!
Separated by the double screen board.May as well bee a mile away.
At 2:37, he mentions replacing the double screen board with a queen excluder to make the two queen system.
He mentioned putting the honey supers between the colonies. Bees from bottom hive go up and bees from top hive go down. Honey boxes and 2 excluders keep the queens apart.
Clean fames, hive interiors.
Only some wax burr coms in lids.
-How an earth the boxes and frames are so free of propolis? Mine are always covered all over inside...
Some of what you see in this video is new this season.
Bob .new beekeeper here why do you never use screen bottom boards ?
You might like to watch our video "Musings on Queen Excluder" ruclips.net/video/eWfgL5ZxDH4/видео.html
Hey Bob, please report back on your thoughts of the Super DFM once you form an opinion. Thanks!
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Thank you! Cheers!
Bob as far as I know a nuc has 5 frames. You call a 10 frame hive a nuc. Why?
Lol, you are too hard on yourself in terminology. They top colony was likely started with just two or three frames of bees and a cell. The rest of the space might be filled with foundation or drawn comb. So, if you count the number of frames with bees. That's a nuc. At least that was a nuc. Now that thing is obviously so strong that anyone would love to have such nucs. 😂
You're right. Units referred to as nucs are usually much smaller, perhaps 2 to 7 frames. We're just in the habit of calling anything over a double screen board a nuc.
@@bobbinnie9872 That explains it. Thank you Bob. Like your videos a lot
I clicked on this because of the high view count but I don’t understand a thing. I’ve run through Texas Bee Works content.
This video could have had better video footage to go along with the explanation. My mistake. Check out some of our others.
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I’ve heard so much about Sourwood Honey I had to try some. I ordered a jar to try and was totally disappointed. My Texas wild flower honey tastes much better. The Sourwood just didn’t live up to all the hype.
Did you get it from us?
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I should have bought some from you. I just googled Sourwood and bought some. I now regret it. I buy honey from lots of keepers just to sample all the different tastes in different areas. I love comparing them. Now, I really don’t know if Sourwood is good or not.
Ugh killing queens!!!! Ouch!!!! That hurt my ears. Been next to impossible to raise queens on any scale. Too darn dry!!!! If you were is driving distance I woulda showed up whining for your culls.
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