John at Hill Co. sponsored all of the 52 wooden boxes as well as their 520 frames! Go to hillcobees.com All of the foundations for the test yard were sponsor by Jeff at Premier. They produce foundations that can hold up to 10% more cells! That is over 5000 extra cells per deep! www.premierbeeproducts.com/ Thanks to Kevin and Liz from HappBee Acres for building and donating 52 nucs so that we can monitor the offspring! See their bee supply company here! happbeeacres.com/ Check out Apimaye's Insulated Hives and Awesome Pollen Traps at apimayeusa.com?sca_ref=108083.7Dl7FRkLNo I would like to say thank you to Kevin at J&W Apiaries for Sponsoring ALL 52 nucs for the experimental yard and hauling them up here! Kevin Doesn't have a Website but he does have a facebook account and he sells a lot of 5 frame nucs! facebook.com/J-W-Apiaries-105194934807382 Thanks to David Davenport at Good Job Bees. Try, share, and show off Hawaii's all natural smooth and exotic White Honey! (The Vanilla Bean is my Favorite) at goodjobbees.com/
K&L thanks again for the video. That was cool, I’ve never seen a mite crawling around on a frame like that, I’ve seen a few on the bees, mostly drones. Thanks so much!
I discovered the VHS(Varroa Sensitive Hygienic) Italian Queens years ago and it's almost like being back in the golden age of beekeeping. Decades of work by the USDA and commercial beekeepers have largely negated the impact of the varroa mite; I never use chemicals to treat for mites and the vast majority of my hives survive overwintering, which is the most precarious time for colonies. Wildflower Meadows Apiary out of California appears to be the main queen breeder in the nation that is carrying on the work of the USDA. And I use their stock exclusively.
Coming soon to Disney Channel, Tennessee Bees the Musical. I have a question. If a queen swarms how does the colony act when a new queen hatches? Do they start fanning pheromones on the outside of the hive like a swarm would do or is it uneventful. I know I have heard when a new queen comes back from a mating flight she actually brings back worker bees with her. Today was 90F with bees bearding with traffic coming and going and fanning on the face of the hive. I just figured it was because of the heat.
I enjoyed the singing also. How does the colony act.......(We are talking European.) The old queen and the primary swarm will have already left. You will have maybe two or three queen cells left in the colony. One of the cells, the most mature, will start to chirp. (When I came home from Vietnam, I had lost the ability to hear a queen chirp.) The chirp sounds like a muted Volkswagen. She will begin the exit process from the cell...upside down...on her head...she will begin to spin until she has cut the end of the cell almost completely off except for a small piece of chrysalis webbing that acts like a hinge. What you will have is what visually will look like a upside-down beer mug with a dangling cover. As the queen emerges she will have a distended abdomen and will be pretty close to what she will look like as a laying queen. The response of the colony (how the colony acts) is to physically begin a quite mimic of the new queen. The entire colony will know within three seconds that the virgin queen has emerged. A worker bee contingent will then begin to follow her and touch her. This is not necessarily for gleaning a pheromone, but rather to encourage defecation and control of the abdomen. The virgin will then move about the colony and locate her competition and kill the contents by gnawing a hole in the side and turning around and stinging the contents. As the fourth day approaches and subsequently arrives, late third day and early fourth, (no redundancy...just probability for exactness) (lol) the virgin will make an appearance on the front entrance surrounded by an entourage. She won't fly. After a few seconds, the queen and her attendants will turn around and go back into the hive. You won't see the queen again until she is ready to fly. She will look quite different than she did when she first emerged. She will be in what old timers used to call "creeper stage". Her abdomen will be smaller and no longer touch the comb as she moves quite quickly and smartly wherever she wants to go. For her first flight she will do what is called an "orientation flight". She and her entourage will come out on the front and the entourage will peal back and go back into the hive. The virgin will lift straight up. (This lift-up flight reminds me to the mechanical drones we see these days.) She will circle the colony, left cc south of the 10th, right north of the 10th, in ever widening circles only for about three or four times. And then back into the colony. The next day when she comes out the front entrance of the hive, she will immediately begin to circle. These ever widening circles of flight will eventually take her to a "drone congregation area". Oops I got carried away.
Hello Kamon I really like your style and of course your videos. If it was not for the fact that I watched your educational vid when you interviewed Cameron Jack I would have used 2 gram of Oxalic acid when I vaped the bees yesterday evening. I made stainless floors in both the beehives and have counted 20 dead varroa for three days each day before the fumigation yesterday. I hate mites and any parasites just as much as you do. Last year I was bitten by a tick and had to take Doxycycline for three weeks and at 80 that was no walk in the park. Everyone who takes it has a bad gut with plenty of indigestion bu that must be better than the Lyme disease which I had coming on. I really feel for the bees and would really like to exterminate every last mite that is plaguing them. It is a dilemma when you see a bee cleaning another bee on the landing board but as the lady master beekeeper at Buckfast says there are many different traits within a beehive and it is perhaps only a percentage of the bees that are 'hygienic'. Because it was my first colony last July it was only after I bought them that my electrician son mentioned the fact that bees have an enemy re the Varroa mite. The Germans I see cook the mites in the frames at 43C for two hours and then the mites die. I love that idea! Please keep making the vids coming
It is hard for the bees to kill them. I don't know why exactly. Many beekeepers and researchers are trying to breed bees that will fight back and have had a small bit of success but there still isn't an immune bee that can go without treatment that is available. After Purchasing several hygienic bees I feel like at best it buys you a little time. However, I am hoping to test that more in the future.
John at Hill Co. sponsored all of the 52 wooden boxes as well as their 520 frames! Go to hillcobees.com
All of the foundations for the test yard were sponsor by Jeff at Premier. They produce foundations that can hold up to 10% more cells! That is over 5000 extra cells per deep! www.premierbeeproducts.com/
Thanks to Kevin and Liz from HappBee Acres for building and donating 52 nucs so that we can monitor the offspring! See their bee supply company here! happbeeacres.com/
Check out Apimaye's Insulated Hives and Awesome Pollen Traps at apimayeusa.com?sca_ref=108083.7Dl7FRkLNo
I would like to say thank you to Kevin at J&W Apiaries for Sponsoring ALL 52 nucs for the experimental yard and hauling them up here! Kevin Doesn't have a Website but he does have a facebook account and he sells a lot of 5 frame nucs! facebook.com/J-W-Apiaries-105194934807382
Thanks to David Davenport at Good Job Bees. Try, share, and show off Hawaii's all natural smooth and exotic White Honey! (The Vanilla Bean is my Favorite) at goodjobbees.com/
WHY! Why you let that Evil Mite get into the Larva NOT COOL *eyeroll
You are so sweet 💗
Thanks for the video.✅😁👍
Thanks !!
K&L thanks again for the video. That was cool, I’ve never seen a mite crawling around on a frame like that, I’ve seen a few on the bees, mostly drones. Thanks so much!
Marvelous footage.
you are the best youtube channel for bee
Kamon's a little bit like the Bob Ross of bees... not quite, but similar. Just imagine a Bob Ross beekeeping show. That'd be the best thing ever.
Just a happy little sting😂😂👏👏♥️♥️
Looks like this test yard is really testing you. Lol
Thank you both for the short on the spot video. Love the movie tone "evil laugh", those vampire mites have no idea of their pending doom.
I know that was a hard one to just let go. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to pinch the little devil too!!! Thanks Kamon!!!
Great footage of the mite 😱
That is like having a mosquito on your arm and not killing it!!! Lol thanks laurel and Kamon for all you do.
I discovered the VHS(Varroa Sensitive Hygienic) Italian Queens years ago and it's almost like being back in the golden age of beekeeping. Decades of work by the USDA and commercial beekeepers have largely negated the impact of the varroa mite; I never use chemicals to treat for mites and the vast majority of my hives survive overwintering, which is the most precarious time for colonies. Wildflower Meadows Apiary out of California appears to be the main queen breeder in the nation that is carrying on the work of the USDA. And I use their stock exclusively.
Sitting here on the edge of my seat waiting for an update... 😅
Surprised that bee didn't grab it. I know they grab them off the bottom board must of been on mission of her own.
Beautiful singing voice
You need good eyesight to spot those pesky mites not as easy as the small hive beetles.
Haha gave me a giggle! “We will get it and it’s offspring later! Mwahaha!”
I think it is possible I watched too many Scooby Doo and looney toons reruns as a kid
@@kamonreynolds The best of us did!!!
@@kamonreynolds Just as long as you don't pull it's mask off to find out it was old man withers in a varroa suit all along.
Just so happens your the second youtuber that I watched did the circle of life this morning.
Really? That is odd!
Oh shit you can sing too! Lol
That is debatable!
No pressure, Ian! Don't succumb to peer pressure. Be yourself.
Do you have issues with Hive Beetles there in TN? If so, how/what are you doing about them?
Coming soon to Disney Channel, Tennessee Bees the Musical. I have a question. If a queen swarms how does the colony act when a new queen hatches? Do they start fanning pheromones on the outside of the hive like a swarm would do or is it uneventful. I know I have heard when a new queen comes back from a mating flight she actually brings back worker bees with her. Today was 90F with bees bearding with traffic coming and going and fanning on the face of the hive. I just figured it was because of the heat.
I enjoyed the singing also. How does the colony act.......(We are talking European.) The old queen and the primary swarm will have already left. You will have maybe two or three queen cells left in the colony. One of the cells, the most mature, will start to chirp. (When I came home from Vietnam, I had lost the ability to hear a queen chirp.)
The chirp sounds like a muted Volkswagen. She will begin the exit process from the cell...upside down...on her head...she will begin to spin until she has cut the end of the
cell almost completely off except for a small piece of chrysalis webbing that acts like a hinge. What you will have is what visually will look like a upside-down beer mug with a dangling cover. As the queen emerges she will have a distended abdomen and will be pretty close to what she will look like as a laying queen. The response of the
colony (how the colony acts) is to physically begin a quite mimic of the new queen. The entire colony will know within three seconds that the virgin queen has emerged. A worker bee contingent will then begin to follow her and touch her. This is not necessarily for gleaning a pheromone, but rather to encourage defecation and control of the abdomen. The virgin will then move about the colony and locate her competition and kill the contents by gnawing a hole in the side and turning around and stinging the contents. As the fourth day approaches and subsequently arrives, late third day and early fourth, (no redundancy...just probability for exactness) (lol) the virgin will make an appearance on the front entrance surrounded by an entourage. She won't fly. After a few seconds, the queen and her attendants will turn around and go back into the hive. You won't see the queen again until she is ready to fly. She will look quite different than she did when she first emerged. She will be in what old timers used to call "creeper stage". Her abdomen will be smaller and no longer touch the comb as she moves quite quickly and smartly wherever she wants to go. For her first flight she will do what is called an "orientation flight". She and her entourage will come out on the front and the entourage will peal back and go back into the hive. The virgin will lift straight up. (This lift-up flight reminds me to the mechanical drones we see these days.) She will circle the colony, left cc south of the 10th, right north of the 10th, in ever widening circles only for about three or four times. And then back into the colony. The next day when she comes out the front entrance of the hive, she will immediately begin to circle. These ever widening circles of flight will eventually take her to a "drone congregation area".
Oops I got carried away.
Hello Kamon I really like your style and of course your videos. If it was not for the fact that I watched your educational vid when you interviewed Cameron Jack I would have used 2 gram of Oxalic acid when I vaped the bees yesterday evening.
I made stainless floors in both the beehives and have counted 20 dead varroa for three days each day before the fumigation yesterday.
I hate mites and any parasites just as much as you do. Last year I was bitten by a tick and had to take Doxycycline for three weeks and at 80 that was no walk in the park. Everyone who takes it has a bad gut with plenty of indigestion bu that must be better than the Lyme disease which I had coming on.
I really feel for the bees and would really like to exterminate every last mite that is plaguing them.
It is a dilemma when you see a bee cleaning another bee on the landing board but as the lady master beekeeper at Buckfast says there are many different traits within a beehive and it is perhaps only a percentage of the bees that are 'hygienic'.
Because it was my first colony last July it was only after I bought them that my electrician son mentioned the fact that bees have an enemy re the Varroa mite.
The Germans I see cook the mites in the frames at 43C for two hours and then the mites die. I love that idea! Please keep making the vids coming
I'm afraid I would fudge on that. But I cant afford to lose any bees.
Kill a couple for me!
Who knew Kamon could sing?
Be Vewy Vewy quiet .. I'm hunting Varoa ... hahahaha
funny and on key
hi,nice
Circle of life!!!!!!
So when is the Kamon Honeybee album coming out?
I think Laurel may die of embarrassment if that were to happen
👍👍👍
The varroa mites need to enter the circle of death!
The circle of life LOL
Have you been catching any swarms there in Iowa? I see Chad has caught 3 already. I've caught two.
@@russellkoopman3004 I haven't had any action this year. I see everyone else is having better luck then myself.
The book scorpion is a natural predator of varroa mites.
Now, all left to do is teach them how to ride honeybees and you´ve got an unstoppable force.
So is the hive tool.
Dam
Kam, first year here. Why don’t the bees just kill them? Is it hard for the bees to kill them?
It is hard for the bees to kill them. I don't know why exactly. Many beekeepers and researchers are trying to breed bees that will fight back and have had a small bit of success but there still isn't an immune bee that can go without treatment that is available. After Purchasing several hygienic bees I feel like at best it buys you a little time. However, I am hoping to test that more in the future.
Yeaaaaaah, so..... let's just not sing again 🤣
Nuke em!!!
Yuck! 🤮
Stick with the day job...
Why can't you KILL the mites?
Hey Allan. This is a research yard and we are going to be collecting data from it soon on natural treatments for honeybees.
First