Yes, especially the beach was breathtaking ⛱️

I would say just keep trying don't give up. If you follow all the steps in these queen rearing videos you'll have no problem making queens for your own apiary

Add Honey Suppers

I definitely will. Thank you for letting us know

No I haven't. I will check them and make a video soon. Thank you for asking

I only make few frames from the stronghives. It takes bees long time and resources to make comb honey. I am wondering if you have ventilation problem if your bees cannot finish and capp the frames and remove the moisture from the honey.

Yes you are absolutely right. Not sure why are many backyard European beekeepers especially in the Balkans switching from DB to LR hives. If you are single brood box beekeeper it would make sense to use Dadant hive. I guess it's because everyone else is using LR hives and just simplicity of interchanging the frames. Especially if you are selling nucs everyone else around you is using LR but if you are a hobbyist it would definitely make sense to use DB frames for your brood box.

A sta da se radi takva su vremena. Pamet zasutila, budala progovorila a fukara se obogatila 😄

​@@silverlakeadventureHahaha.. dobra

You are right empty que often seen in a colony. Sometimes bees build many queen cups for "just in case" that they need to raise a new queen, nothing to worry about. This was a spring split with new young queen. Usually older queens are more prone to swarming than younger queens.

In August, I remove all the extra honey for us. I would remove the queen excluder and leave the second box full of honey for strong 5+ frames of brood hives to overwinter. Bees would rearrange that honey around the brood and by the end of September bees would create a space and create a winter cluster between the two boxes and have thick honey domes above their cluster. Hives that are weaker than 5 frames I leave in singles and add honey around the brood. If I don't use queen excluder then it is a lot more work to rearrange the frames for wintering. Thank you

@@silverlakeadventure I understand I’m in Canada my doubles I just give the queen free range to both box’s she gets one round of brood in top box then when it hatches they back fill it with honey so it forces my queens down to bottom box but I do think wintering on sugar water is better then honey if your bees are like mine and confined to the box for 5 months of the year Canada gets cold 😂

Not sure about the sugar water 🤔 I believe honey is the best food for wintering. Many beekeepers feed heavily in fall. I feed only light colonies and nucks that need attention and leaveplentyofhoney in upper box. I am sure you're winters are a lot colder. I can only imagine. Some winters are really cold here in north Iowa but not close as Canadian winters. Wish you all the best 👍

@@silverlakeadventure I find when fed honey they have many issue with gut problems that they would not have with sugar water they can hold there Bowles longer I fine maybe not true

Hi Russell. This video was filmed last week

Thank you very much 😊 Comments like this is what keeps us motivated to share our experiences with everyone. Really appreciate it 🐝 God Bless

Yes we had a wonderful time. Awesome trip

I add honey. You can check my wideo on fondant patties kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpzGc5hsfcSVmbcsi=GF081wkryREC67w7

@@silverlakeadventure I based my recipe on your video, instead I used plain lemon juice (it was a disaster). The result was like a sugar slushy with water. The honeybees started throwing it out the entrance.

I would use honey

@@bujarmamudi1208 Sugar doesn't spoil nor does honey. Moisture is too low for bacteria. The use of just honey and sugar will not spoil and it worked very well for me this year.

I am adding honey suppers next week. It has been raining here in Iowa almost every day. Queen is 2021 because this my old video. Sometimes I use my older videos instead of making the new one on the same topic to avoid repeating myself. Thank you Russell 🐝

No we don't have bears here. I have seen sometime hunters capture black bears on their trai cameras, but that's very rare

Thank you Angela

Omg it was unbelievable

You are welcome 😊

Thank you 😊

Please let me know how it goes, and did it work for you

I certainly will. Do you think that magazine pages would work as well as newspaper?

1:17 "Regular newspaper, not glossy..." Magazines are glossy paper, so no.

I agree 👍

You are welcome. We are located in Waterloo Iowa

I sure hope so. Queens are Old World Carniolan Queens from Strachan

When will you have queens for sale?

In a couple of weeks

I hope so. But you never know. I will keep you posted.

I just lost your queen, when you will have yours available?

I will post it on our Facebook page Silver Lake Honey. Probably late next week for pickup and in two weeks for shipping

I am actually splitting the original hive and moving the double deep frames and creating a new hive.

Yes I did split some of my hives. I did a video today inspecting splits will put it here probably on Sunday

Hi Maggie 👋 Not a queen cell just burr comb. I didn't see any cell cups or swarm cells in this hive

You are welcome

Thank you Russell. Our weather is finally starting to cooperate 😄 We have some extremely strong hives. I have filmed just few but there are several giant hives. Wish you a great season and Good luck 👍

Nice video

Thank you 🐝

Yes. Djoko Zecevic made a video about it. Thank you 🐝

You can buy double deep frames from William Erpel Awlwood.com Thank you

@@silverlakeadventure Thank you for the reply same evening I watched probably all your other videos were you mentioned where to get the frames. By myself I do would want to see if he can make custom frames I was thinking to rotate the frames 90° In a 10 frame box . So the frames would be double deep but only a third is wide in about 15 of them should fit. This would make the frames more comfortable to work with . But the main reason why I decided to turn them sideways. It's because right now my entrances on my beehives are on the side not on the front and the reason is because I have a lot of wasps and robbing bees , so what I did is I made custom bottom boards that are open on three sides I also have holes with rotating entrances on The wide sides of the box , when the robbing season comes I block of the three bottom entrances with a screen. And I open up the rotating entrance , so when the beast come in they will directly face a frame instead of being able to go underneath all of the frames as they would normally from the front. Because there is a screen on the bottom all the rubbing bees can't get in because they insist to get in where the screen is The wasps do the same they hang around the bottom were the smell is coming from . Meanwhile in the piece enter through the hole a 5 inches above the bottom board And because they have to be directly pressing against a frame The guard bees are able to kick out all the stranger bees out of the hive because all of the guards just hang out on that one frame .

There are many ways of doing it. This just shows one of the ways. Thank you 🐝

I'll buy a better camera eventually 😀 those things are expensive. Thank you 🐝

Thank you 🐝

Thank you 🐝

Thank you very much. Wish you all the best 👍

Hi Russell I agree it is extra hassle not sure if it is worth it. That is why I tried on some of the hives. I like to try different methods and compare to the more traditional ways of beekeeping. Yes I shake additional bees and introduce new queen in a cage. Thank you for your comment.

@@silverlakeadventure I agree, trying new ideas is a great way to learn. You have several good points on the advantages of the deeps. What I noticed the bees seldomly draw out the bottom 3-5 inches of the bottoms so they aren't really that much deeper than than a normal deep.

Yes it works well. I actually use 2mm filter for large batches. 1mm filter is good for small Bach. It takes a long time to grind with 1mm filter. 2mm works fine