Hi David... In the UK we have a Saying.... " A Swarm in" : 1) May... is Worth Hay !?! 2) June... is Worth a Silver Spoon !!! 🥳 3) July... is Worth a Fly ?? Remember Guys .... your Season may be long (Southern US) short (Canada). Here in Scotland 🏴 UK it starts April, and ends by September. October is Feed, feed, feed time (!) And they Sleep from Nov and Wake up late Feb/ early March... 😏 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Hi Dave, new viewer here. I bought a new nuke, and all I had was some old brown comb. Do I eventually have to replace that or will the bees take care of it
Hi, David! I'm a first year beekeeper in SE Alaska. My bees got off to a really rough start due to shipping problems, but they have bounced back so well!! Thank you for all the videos. Your hive inspection "how to"s are some of the most thorough and understandable I have found.
Hi David I like your channel and the way you provide very useful information about the bees I am new to bee keeping I now have 2 hives and I like your information I will continue to watch all the things you teach Thank you for all you teach
@@beek I live in Atoka Oklahoma , first bees back in April, I read a LOT on bees plus the internet two RUclips people. You talk more with the love of bees and (not like a book reader of bees) a person with common sense. Thank you
Enjoyed your video. I just got my first hive this week, swarm came from my friend's dad (my mentor). Been helping him for a few weeks manage his and my friend's hives. Now I have my own!
Hi David, I noticed this year that my lilacs or apple tree didn't get poinated and diddn't form any blossoms. In my apple tree, it use to buzz all spring. I feel it is from lack of bees. It seems as if there are very few bees. I would like your opinion if this could be my problem and how to solve it. thanks
Dave it’s June 9 I feel like I’m a half a month behind because you’re talking about putting supers on I just put my other deeps on what do you think I should do to speed up the process so I can possibly catch up Charlie PA
I would like to be able to purchase the winter bee kind in a patty form rather than the hive lid, because I have a non-traditional hive. I don't see it as an option in your store.
Just wanted to say we are new to your channel. New beekeepers as at the start 2021, we lost our bees over the winter. Your videos are incredibly useful to us, really informative and really well presented. They are really helping us in knowing where we may have gone wrong and not to repeat the same mistakes. Thank you. Andrew
I needed to hear this Dave. My hernia surgery went well & I've been back to full duty since last Thursday. I'll be in my jacket this weekend doing inspections & adding boxes. Thanks for all you hard learned wisdom~
Keep in mind that when he said add supers in JUNE he is in Illinois. If you are in the south the honey flow is already slowing down. We are in the 90s here in Texas Illinois is in the 70s.
That would be awesome. I have been a hobby bee keeper since My best friends grandad got me interested in 1978 been hooked ever since. Thanks for your videos i watch them all and your approach to bee keeping and your knowledge is awesome.
I have found that if I bottom super... the bees will move the honey from the full top super to the empty bottom super, keeping it close to the top of the brood.
I had two supercedures cells in late May with larva. I removed them since I am new and did not recognize them as such. Thought they were swarm cells. I added the second brood box at that time. Checked a week later and removed one more with a larva. Had good eggs and larva. inspected a week later. Had good eggs and larva. This time no new queen cells. Added honey super since I had good comb in use on 7 frames. Not sure if I was right or wrong with this new nucleus colony. Open to any comments.
Hi David, really enjoyed your June Tips. I’ve added a second deep and It’s been about a week since doing so, anxious to see how they’re doing. One thing I wasn’t sure about was the feeding so I will be taking the food away as soon as the weather clears. I did treat for mites organically, but I do need to do an alcohol wash….nervous about that! Thank you for your videos🌸
Great video! I appreciate your content so much. Having a great online “mentor” who is located in Illinois like I am has made my first year of beekeeping go much better than it probably would have otherwise!
Thanks Kylie, unfortunately I’m not able to truly mentor via RUclips. Keep BeeTeam6 in mine then you would have access to ask me questions anytime. www.honeybeesonline.com/beekeeping-mentor/
My bees are filling the top deep with honey and ignoring the super above it. Some of my supers have a simple ledge inside that holds 10 medium frames; some have metal separators on the ledge and only take 9 medium frames. All the foundations have been primed with wax. Both are equally ignored. I am old and don't see well enough to distinguish a queen from the pulsing mass of bees. I have been keeping bees for over 5 years. Therefore, I use a queen excluder. I have been using green drone frames. One hive puts drone spawn on the green frame. The other hive filled the green frame with capped honey. I have been routinely removing and freezing drone frames and returning them to the hive. I did powder sugar mite tests which thankfully found 1 or less mites per hive. What can I do to teach my bees to fill the supers with honey?
Zero turn mowers are killing the pollinators off!!!These huge areas of grass we are now mowing full of Dutch clover.These large areas are baiting pollinators during mowing seasons.Go look in your own yard right now.These mowers go up to 15 mph old mowers less than 5mph
Hey David I live in south Miami and I have a hive of honey bees that have made there home in my back yard compost barrel, I do not want to harm them and they don’t seem to be aggressive but they are to close to my koi pond and I have to dogs that are curious my question is how do I remove them safely any help please thank you
thanks man this is really helpful. going by the five full frame method, if install a 5 frame nuc in a new hive, should i immediately put second brood box on?
Phil ... When that lower x5 is about 80% filled. Take a Frame of Capped Brood (shake off Bees into lower Box. ) Then Add your 2nd Storey x5 Box : Put that Capped Brood in the Centre position. And Drawn Comb (ideally) OR Foundation Frames... in those other x4 Frame slots. Capped "Brood" will pull Bees UP ! Aka, Baby Bees need nurturing. Or / and tricks them to start "doing more Nectar/Pollen/soon to be Laid up by the Queen... Do same on 3rd Storey ! Then do some Splits ! Using x5 Box with x2 Dummy Boards (Foam Board with Timber Topbar !) Makes x5, a cosy "x3 Framer".... to start Cosy, and grow Bigger ! (On removing x1 Dummy Board at a time. And adding more Capped Brood from another spare Colony : This keeps Population up... as older bees die off, while Babies are Bred...! And other Colonies.... are taken from, have more space, less likely to Swarm. Win, win. All around. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thanks for all the amazing info and tips. Is there ever a limit on the number of honey supers for a colony? And when can a second honey super be added? Do you use the 5 rule then too?
I had an idea for a shallow super that the bees can fill with honey. That shallow becomes "permanent" property of the bees. The queen will not pass beyond a box of honey to lay in the supers above it. I figure this shallow would be on the brood box whenever the hive isn't in winter mode. Store it over the winter, then put it on in the spring and the bees would have that food, saving you the need to add sugar water. Wouldn't this be a more natural approach?
Possibly, however the problem will bee that a shallow super where I live will not be nearly enough to feed the bees in the winter. Most of my colonies require 4-6 winter bee kinds of food to make it through the winter. Also, I like not having too many various sizes of boxes.
First year beekeeper here in Michigan. I would like to know how long I should feed my bees? It’s June, I added a second deep 12 days ago and I’m still feeding. What’s the rule on that?
Great question. Thursday I'm spending the whole hour answer these types of questions. Can you join us and ask it then? Thursday, 7pm central time, here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
Have you had queen cells with larva in them that you come back and they aren’t capped and there isn’t any lava in there anymore? Like could they have aborted the swarm idea?
Another great video, thanks. I have a question about mite control. If they are so prevalent, then why not go ahead and treat without getting a count? Would it be wrong to do the 3 treatments of OA after removal of the honey? Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.🐝🐝🐝
Hi David, I'm asking this more for future knowledge & to protect myself. Last year I had to replace a queen & the person I bought her from was pretty local & apparently a former bee inspector (of 25+ years) in my state. The queen was advertised as mated, but 2 weeks after installing her I still had no brood. I reached out to the seller & all he said was, "Oh, I guess she must have been a virgin queen." No apology, no offer to replace her. What does one do in that situation?
Hi Bonnie, this is a question best answered philosophically. The gentleman misspoke. He has no idea if it is was a virgin queen. She could be just slow in getting started laying. I've seen this many times. What he should have said is, "Tell you what, let's wait 14 days, and if you see the queen but no sign of eggs or brood, I'll replace her free." Neither of you can prove it was mated or a virgin, so it is mentally healthy to assume the best from this gentleman, that he is trying his best to sell good queens, but sometimes stuff happens beyond our control.
@@beek Thank you David. I agree thats how it should have been handled. I know I installed her correctly in her queen cage, waited about 5 days amd checked that she had been released. Gave her another couple weeks and still had no brood. He brushed me off without apology or offer to replace her. I ended up having to give brood to that hive that had open eggs so they could create a new queen.
Hi David, I’m a new beekeeper starting this year, I’ve signed up for your ultimate coarse, I’m glad i did your videos are excellent I still have a couple more to do. I have a question hope you can answer, we got our nuc the beginning of May this last inspection they have drawn out not quite 8 frames I added a 2nd deep, my concern is they are building a lot of drone comb on the bottom of the frames, and not drawing out the green drone comb. They are just about to the screened bottom board and it’s the 4 frames in the middle any advice would be appreciated. NW Illinois
Thank you for purchasing my ultimate course. I would suggest that you wax those frames as I showed in this video, that might help them draw them out faster. As far as the drone comb it’s just that time of the year when bees are raising more drones for reproduction purposes. You can also try and move the green drone comb closer but yet on the outside of the brood nest area. Change its position.
Hi Dave I have a mite question. Is it possible to over treat for mite? let say I want to treat once every 6 or 7 day. for a the summer I have looked and so far can't find anything about this. And is it better to use the vap or put the OA on a paper towel and let it hang in the hive
I received my nuc late because it was a rainy spring for my area. Was just able to transfer to a hive this week. It was a five frame with bees on 4.5 frames. Should I add another deep box?
Oh great. I will look this up. I'm east of Albany on the VT boarder. Its my first year. I got my nuc in and messed up a little, they swarmed 2 weeks ago. Lucky they went right into the tree above the hive. Buddy came and helped me get the swarm and now I have 2 hives. Thanks for the video about swarms. Trying to catch up. A little behind the 8 ball now.
I had two questions maybe you can answer for me? Somebody told me to harvest my honey on 4th July weekend is that a good time? Second since I'm already in there can I do a split on the hive or is it too late in the season?
Uh ho, taking advice from others without taking a class or doing your own research can be very misleading. Never harvest honey based on the calendar, but based on if it is ready, by either using a refractometer or by ensure all cells are capped. Regarding a split, that has more to do with the population of the colony than the calendar. Please take a class so you will understand these things more clearly.
Sorry there's no way to wrap my mind about the details of where you are or what your hive is doing. They are either wanting to swarm or replace their queen.
White Snow... I would get a x2 Frame Nuc (or block x5 Framer down to x2 Frames), using blocks of cut Insulation Foam as a temp measure ! Add top bar of timber to lift them up like Faux Frames.) Add a Frame of Capped Brood,including Nectar, Pollen Resource etc. Put "that Queen" in it. Add another Frame of Drawn Comb/Foundation and monitor it in about x2 Weeks time. And Feed, feed, feed ! 👀 Your "Box with Queen Cells"... Can you choose the best x2 Peanuts* ? (Capped Queen Cell term*!) Keep them... and remove the rest BUT.. before you do.. CAN YOU get "Cell Protectors" or carefully CUT and Cage these "Cells, until they Hatch ! But do not allow them to scamper all... about the Hive, killing all the others (!) These Virgins can be added to a x2 Frame Nuc, allowed to Mature, got out, get Mated, and start being a Laying Queen ! Does thus make sense? Worth a try.... nothing to lose, lots to gain, or fail on that unliked Queen*. At least you have options to see what you can get from those Peanuts !?! Hope this helps. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
White Snow... PS. "Queen Cups" are not "Queen Cells" (Peanuts) Until they are laid with an Egg and have Royal Jelly. (Wet) If they are Dry (Empty) just leave them, or cut them out. .... Bees often make them for later Insurance purposes. OR if your Queen Cups are Wet.... see my message before this, aka you have Queen Cells in the making, and needs attention now ! Good luck... 🤞
Our Usda knows this in Beltsville,.Why aren't they screaming this out.You see the population of pollinators dying off more each year.They are in my opinion the essential thread to life on our planet.No ones career or egos should be in the way of our kids future
I would help the needy, and help the elderly with their medication because so many elderly can't pay for their medication and also establish a program for special needs children in the name of my late wife who was a special Ed teacher who passed in 2021.
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Hi David...
In the UK we have a Saying.... " A Swarm in" :
1) May... is Worth Hay !?!
2) June... is Worth a Silver Spoon !!! 🥳
3) July... is Worth a Fly ??
Remember Guys .... your Season may be long (Southern US) short (Canada). Here in Scotland 🏴 UK it starts April, and ends by September. October is Feed, feed, feed time (!) And they Sleep from Nov and Wake up late Feb/ early March... 😏
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2022.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
"Are my bees going to survive me?" I feel this new to beekeeping this year
Yup, totally know the feeling.
Holy crap I have been keeping bees for 6 years and the smoker video has literally made everything soooooo much better. Thank you for all the tips
Thanks for All the info 😊Enjoy watching you 😊
Thank god you done this! I was searching all morning for June tips.You are the man!
Cool that it is helpful! Thanks for watching
This video is right on time..... watching and learning. Thank you! 🙌🏼
Very kind of you to say.
Thanks David, for the free advice for all!
Thanks a bunch T.J. for the Thanks/TIP
Hi Dave, new viewer here. I bought a new nuke, and all I had was some old brown comb. Do I eventually have to replace that or will the bees take care of it
Hi, David! I'm a first year beekeeper in SE Alaska. My bees got off to a really rough start due to shipping problems, but they have bounced back so well!! Thank you for all the videos. Your hive inspection "how to"s are some of the most thorough and understandable I have found.
My situation is paralleling this video right now thank you !
I’ve just done a queen less split of my humungus hive and am hoping they will make their own queen. Fingers crossed.
Awesome information I am new to bee keeping I enjoy watching all ur videos
I am in Northern Ireland here we are having rough climate still in June
Hi David I like your channel and the way you provide very useful information about the bees I am new to bee keeping I now have 2 hives and I like your information I will continue to watch all the things you teach
Thank you for all you teach
I enjoy all your videos and I miss your old table lol
It's fun being at that old picnic table for sure.
@@beek
I live in Atoka Oklahoma , first bees back in April, I read a LOT on bees plus the internet two RUclips people. You talk more with the love of bees and (not like a book reader of bees) a person with common sense. Thank you
You're always great to watch! Soooooo much great information! Thank you!
Thanks!
Thanks Guy for the Thanks/Tips. I really appreciate that so much.
Enjoyed your video. I just got my first hive this week, swarm came from my friend's dad (my mentor). Been helping him for a few weeks manage his and my friend's hives. Now I have my own!
Has your mentor given you plans to control your mites?
Yes he has. We plan on treating soon. He will be coming out with me to monitor things.
love your videos Dave, keep up the good work, from SW PA
David ! I will try next year to be beekeeper ty
Hi David, I noticed this year that my lilacs or apple tree didn't get poinated and diddn't form any blossoms. In my apple tree, it use to buzz all spring. I feel it is from lack of bees. It seems as if there are very few bees. I would like your opinion if this could be my problem and how to solve it. thanks
Dave it’s June 9 I feel like I’m a half a month behind because you’re talking about putting supers on I just put my other deeps on what do you think I should do to speed up the process so I can possibly catch up Charlie PA
I live in the Caribbean an I love watching your videos
Thanks for the great info again.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I would like to be able to purchase the winter bee kind in a patty form rather than the hive lid, because I have a non-traditional hive. I don't see it as an option in your store.
Just wanted to say we are new to your channel. New beekeepers as at the start 2021, we lost our bees over the winter. Your videos are incredibly useful to us, really informative and really well presented. They are really helping us in knowing where we may have gone wrong and not to repeat the same mistakes. Thank you. Andrew
We live in south west France
Hello Andrew in south west France. Glad you like my channel.
I needed to hear this Dave. My hernia surgery went well & I've been back to full duty since last Thursday. I'll be in my jacket this weekend doing inspections & adding boxes. Thanks for all you hard learned wisdom~
Keep in mind that when he said add supers in JUNE he is in Illinois. If you are in the south the honey flow is already slowing down. We are in the 90s here in Texas Illinois is in the 70s.
Yes, and we have a long (clover) nectar flow into August.
That would be awesome. I have been a hobby bee keeper since My best friends grandad got me interested in 1978 been hooked ever since. Thanks for your videos i watch them all and your approach to bee keeping and your knowledge is awesome.
New to beekeeping all together. Actually going to a conference this weekend. I live in South Texas…is it too late for me to start?
When it is a new hive and the bottom box is almost full do you put a box on them or not
I'm a noob here for beekeeping. Thanks for sharing advices.
Dave, you look great. Love the format of this video. I don't mess with mite control during honey flow.
great advice Mr. Burns
I have found that if I bottom super... the bees will move the honey from the full top super to the empty bottom super, keeping it close to the top of the brood.
Thank you 😊
Been waiting for this!!
There you go, enjoy
David I've got a question feeding bees in July August do I need to feed every week till fall or how often should I feed
if I stop feeding when I add honey supers will they still draw out the comb to put the honey in?
I had two supercedures cells in late May with larva. I removed them since I am new and did not recognize them as such. Thought they were swarm cells. I added the second brood box at that time. Checked a week later and removed one more with a larva. Had good eggs and larva. inspected a week later. Had good eggs and larva. This time no new queen cells. Added honey super since I had good comb in use on 7 frames. Not sure if I was right or wrong with this new nucleus colony. Open to any comments.
Do you have an update link for the green drone comb?
Do I put my green comb in the bottom deep or upper deep?
Hi David, really enjoyed your June Tips. I’ve added a second deep and It’s been about a week since doing so, anxious to see how they’re doing. One thing I wasn’t sure about was the feeding so I will be taking the food away as soon as the weather clears. I did treat for mites organically, but I do need to do an alcohol wash….nervous about that! Thank you for your videos🌸
An alcohol wash is the recommended standard for the best evaluation of your mite level.
Ahhh, perfect video. You answered so many of my questions I have right now. Thank you!
Thank you Dawn, I'm glad it was helpful.
I had to get 2 queens after a failed split. Both hives had Queen cells capped but the weather etc the queens did not come back.
Great video! I appreciate your content so much. Having a great online “mentor” who is located in Illinois like I am has made my first year of beekeeping go much better than it probably would have otherwise!
Thanks Kylie, unfortunately I’m not able to truly mentor via RUclips. Keep BeeTeam6 in mine then you would have access to ask me questions anytime.
www.honeybeesonline.com/beekeeping-mentor/
Thank you for another great video, good information.
All good advice. Thanks
Hey there! Looking for your video on the powdered sugar method, and I went back to 4 years ago, and maybe I missed it? Can you link it?
Great information about the time of year. Pick up a huge sworm yesterday to many bees for 1 10 box so they got 2 deep will check them out 6 11.
This is great content! Let's get this man to the 100k subscribers he deserves!
My bees are filling the top deep with honey and ignoring the super above it. Some of my supers have a simple ledge inside that holds 10 medium frames; some have metal separators on the ledge and only take 9 medium frames. All the foundations have been primed with wax. Both are equally ignored.
I am old and don't see well enough to distinguish a queen from the pulsing mass of bees. I have been keeping bees for over 5 years. Therefore, I use a queen excluder. I have been using green drone frames. One hive puts drone spawn on the green frame. The other hive filled the green frame with capped honey. I have been routinely removing and freezing drone frames and returning them to the hive. I did powder sugar mite tests which thankfully found 1 or less mites per hive. What can I do to teach my bees to fill the supers with honey?
That's a great question for my livestream tomorrow. Here's the link: ruclips.net/user/liveYXbQF0qia2U
Awesome video awesome advice, thank you so much!! May the honey God's bless you
Thank you Jason
Zero turn mowers are killing the pollinators off!!!These huge areas of grass we are now mowing full of Dutch clover.These large areas are baiting pollinators during mowing seasons.Go look in your own yard right now.These mowers go up to 15 mph old mowers less than 5mph
David I cant find green drone frames where can I purchase
your amazing David!
Now there are three of you who think so 😆
I put new supers over the brood
Can you use a super during a dearth? I've had one on for over 2 weeks and they haven't drawed them all out.
Would you spray with sugar syrup? Don’t they have to clean after they are sprayed?
Hey David I live in south Miami and I have a hive of honey bees that have made there home in my back yard compost barrel, I do not want to harm them and they don’t seem to be aggressive but they are to close to my koi pond and I have to dogs that are curious my question is how do I remove them safely any help please thank you
My bees won't move up above the queen excluder. I have since removed them and added another deep hive
thanks man this is really helpful. going by the five full frame method, if install a 5 frame nuc in a new hive, should i immediately put second brood box on?
Let them settle down for a week before adding next box.
Phil ...
When that lower x5 is about 80% filled. Take a Frame of Capped Brood (shake off Bees into lower Box. ) Then Add your 2nd Storey x5 Box :
Put that Capped Brood in the Centre position. And Drawn Comb (ideally) OR Foundation Frames... in those other x4 Frame slots. Capped "Brood" will pull Bees UP ! Aka, Baby Bees need nurturing. Or / and tricks them to start "doing more Nectar/Pollen/soon to be Laid up by the Queen... Do same on 3rd Storey ! Then do some Splits ! Using x5 Box with x2 Dummy Boards (Foam Board with Timber Topbar !) Makes x5, a cosy "x3 Framer".... to start Cosy, and grow Bigger ! (On removing x1 Dummy Board at a time. And adding more Capped Brood from another spare Colony : This keeps Population up... as older bees die off, while Babies are Bred...! And other Colonies.... are taken from, have more space, less likely to Swarm. Win, win. All around. 😎
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Happy Beekeeping 2022.
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Thanks for all the amazing info and tips. Is there ever a limit on the number of honey supers for a colony? And when can a second honey super be added? Do you use the 5 rule then too?
Hi David!
I had an idea for a shallow super that the bees can fill with honey. That shallow becomes "permanent" property of the bees. The queen will not pass beyond a box of honey to lay in the supers above it. I figure this shallow would be on the brood box whenever the hive isn't in winter mode. Store it over the winter, then put it on in the spring and the bees would have that food, saving you the need to add sugar water.
Wouldn't this be a more natural approach?
Possibly, however the problem will bee that a shallow super where I live will not be nearly enough to feed the bees in the winter. Most of my colonies require 4-6 winter bee kinds of food to make it through the winter. Also, I like not having too many various sizes of boxes.
First year beekeeper here in Michigan. I would like to know how long I should feed my bees? It’s June, I added a second deep 12 days ago and I’m still feeding. What’s the rule on that?
Great question. Thursday I'm spending the whole hour answer these types of questions. Can you join us and ask it then? Thursday, 7pm central time, here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
What about checkerboarding
If the second supper is not drawn out should you feed at this point?
It does help them draw out the frames
Have you had queen cells with larva in them that you come back and they aren’t capped and there isn’t any lava in there anymore? Like could they have aborted the swarm idea?
Yes, I've even seen them tear down capped swarm cells and not swarm at all.
Another great video, thanks. I have a question about mite control. If they are so prevalent, then why not go ahead and treat without getting a count? Would it be wrong to do the 3 treatments of OA after removal of the honey? Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.🐝🐝🐝
I'll be sharing some chemical mite treatments in future videos.
Hi David, I'm asking this more for future knowledge & to protect myself. Last year I had to replace a queen & the person I bought her from was pretty local & apparently a former bee inspector (of 25+ years) in my state. The queen was advertised as mated, but 2 weeks after installing her I still had no brood. I reached out to the seller & all he said was, "Oh, I guess she must have been a virgin queen." No apology, no offer to replace her. What does one do in that situation?
Hi Bonnie, this is a question best answered philosophically. The gentleman misspoke. He has no idea if it is was a virgin queen. She could be just slow in getting started laying. I've seen this many times. What he should have said is, "Tell you what, let's wait 14 days, and if you see the queen but no sign of eggs or brood, I'll replace her free." Neither of you can prove it was mated or a virgin, so it is mentally healthy to assume the best from this gentleman, that he is trying his best to sell good queens, but sometimes stuff happens beyond our control.
@@beek Thank you David. I agree thats how it should have been handled. I know I installed her correctly in her queen cage, waited about 5 days amd checked that she had been released. Gave her another couple weeks and still had no brood. He brushed me off without apology or offer to replace her. I ended up having to give brood to that hive that had open eggs so they could create a new queen.
Sorry. Just realized I'm repeating myself. I love your videos and always learn so much!
How do I find the info on what he’s talking about ? I’m lost I’m not a computer person . Mite control info ? Thank you
Hi David, I’m a new beekeeper starting this year, I’ve signed up for your ultimate coarse, I’m glad i did your videos are excellent I still have a couple more to do. I have a question hope you can answer, we got our nuc the beginning of May this last inspection they have drawn out not quite 8 frames I added a 2nd deep, my concern is they are building a lot of drone comb on the bottom of the frames, and not drawing out the green drone comb. They are just about to the screened bottom board and it’s the 4 frames in the middle any advice would be appreciated. NW Illinois
Thank you for purchasing my ultimate course. I would suggest that you wax those frames as I showed in this video, that might help them draw them out faster. As far as the drone comb it’s just that time of the year when bees are raising more drones for reproduction purposes. You can also try and move the green drone comb closer but yet on the outside of the brood nest area. Change its position.
@@beek Thank you
Hi Dave I have a mite question. Is it possible to over treat for mite? let say I want to treat once every 6 or 7 day. for a the summer I have looked and so far can't find anything about this. And is it better to use the vap or put the OA on a paper towel and let it hang in the hive
I cannot speak to that, because the label is the law for all treatments.
@@beek I haven't got my OA yet so I haven't read the label But thanks for the answer
I received my nuc late because it was a rainy spring for my area. Was just able to transfer to a hive this week. It was a five frame with bees on 4.5 frames. Should I add another deep box?
Wait a week
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Will do thanks!
David are you going to EAS in Ithaca NY this year?
Yes, I'm speaking and heading up the field exams for master beekeeper candidates.
@@beek Awesome I hope to get to meet you I will be there for the short course.
Yes, I'm speaking during the short course.
Oh great. I will look this up. I'm east of Albany on the VT boarder. Its my first year. I got my nuc in and messed up a little, they swarmed 2 weeks ago. Lucky they went right into the tree above the hive. Buddy came and helped me get the swarm and now I have 2 hives. Thanks for the video about swarms. Trying to catch up. A little behind the 8 ball now.
@@beek I’ll be there Monday for the short course and Dyce lab on Tuesday. I think I’ll be nervous if I see you, you’re like a celebrity.
I had two questions maybe you can answer for me? Somebody told me to harvest my honey on 4th July weekend is that a good time? Second since I'm already in there can I do a split on the hive or is it too late in the season?
I live in Virginia
Uh ho, taking advice from others without taking a class or doing your own research can be very misleading. Never harvest honey based on the calendar, but based on if it is ready, by either using a refractometer or by ensure all cells are capped. Regarding a split, that has more to do with the population of the colony than the calendar. Please take a class so you will understand these things more clearly.
Thanks David! When feeding, do you recommend using supplements at all times?
Yuppers, no one should just consume sugar 😄 Nectar from flowers contain proteins from the pollen grains that are in nectar which bees gather.
I bought a hive bee with 5 frames, now it had queen cells, please tell me what I’m doing now? Thank you,
Sorry there's no way to wrap my mind about the details of where you are or what your hive is doing. They are either wanting to swarm or replace their queen.
@@beek thanks
@@beek : I’m living at Ohio
White Snow...
I would get a x2 Frame Nuc (or block x5 Framer down to x2 Frames), using blocks of cut Insulation Foam as a temp measure ! Add top bar of timber to lift them up like Faux Frames.)
Add a Frame of Capped Brood,including Nectar, Pollen Resource etc.
Put "that Queen" in it. Add another Frame of Drawn Comb/Foundation and monitor it in about x2 Weeks time. And Feed, feed, feed ! 👀
Your "Box with Queen Cells"... Can you choose the best x2 Peanuts* ? (Capped Queen Cell term*!) Keep them... and remove the rest BUT..
before you do.. CAN YOU get "Cell Protectors" or carefully CUT and Cage these "Cells, until they Hatch ! But do not allow them to scamper all... about the Hive, killing all the others (!) These Virgins can be added to a x2 Frame Nuc, allowed to Mature, got out, get Mated, and start being a Laying Queen !
Does thus make sense?
Worth a try.... nothing to lose, lots to gain, or fail on that unliked Queen*.
At least you have options to see what you can get from those Peanuts !?!
Hope this helps. 😎
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White Snow... PS.
"Queen Cups" are not "Queen Cells" (Peanuts) Until they are laid with an Egg and have Royal Jelly. (Wet) If they are Dry (Empty) just leave them, or cut them out.
.... Bees often make them for later Insurance purposes. OR if your Queen Cups are Wet.... see my message before this, aka you have Queen Cells in the making, and needs attention now ! Good luck... 🤞
Swarms are scares hear in VA where I am not seeing any honey bee's eather not good
First year beekeeper here. Sucks getting covid. Haven't been able to check up on the girls. Hopefully soon
Yea, I had covid back in March, no fun for a few days.
@@beek finally was feeling good enough to get in the hive. Looks like they took apart one of the frames that came in the nuc. Very odd thing.
Our Usda knows this in Beltsville,.Why aren't they screaming this out.You see the population of pollinators dying off more each year.They are in my opinion the essential thread to life on our planet.No ones career or egos should be in the way of our kids future
I would help the needy, and help the elderly with their medication because so many elderly can't pay for their medication and also establish a program for special needs children in the name of my late wife who was a special Ed teacher who passed in 2021.
I'm going to try the alochol wash for the first time. I don't like the friendly fire but I feel it's a necessary tool that I need to know how to use.
I know, I hate it too.
Interesting , you look like you have lost weight dave , Peter Australia 🇦🇺
you like sound of yor woice? (less talk more pictures!)