20 minutes in - you could at least have circled the queen to help us 'Newbies' experience the find!

I never would have thought of that. Great idea! I only have 10 colonies but two of them are weaker. I may equalize and then stack in this manner. If I feed as someone else suggested the results may prove to be interesting. Great idea!

Small homesteader and hoping to start a more natural approach I don't think we would go through hundreds of lbs of honey in a year. No plans to sell, not many friends/family to gift to. :-) I'd probably start another box or two in case of one failing. :-) We've been watching honeybees swarm to our back yard every few years and living in random places on the property. We let them be thinking they'd go to the bee boxes at the end of our road (knowing zero about honeybees). Apparently it's common to just allow bees to swarm here (and they swarm to my backyard of lilacs and roses). Knowing it's not criminal theft, I bought a hive box set for my yard to encourage the next swarm to stick around and we'll go from there. :-D

Thank you! This is very informative. Well done! 👍

Thank you! This was very helpful. Thought I would start at the beginning of your videos and work my way up. It's going to be a long climb!

Thank you! This was very helpful!

Not sure what the advantage would be over a double deep hive. Are you thinking two queens make more bees quicker? It takes 21 days for a nurse bee to emerge. Wouldn't the flow be over before they become foragers? Very interesting method of beekeeping for sure.

Question...in order to avoid having to lift a deep super filled with honey from the top of the stack, can we replace it with a medium super once all brood is hatched and is about to back-fill with honey?

I just moved to Maine and bought two used hives that I'm getting ready now. Do you mentor anyone or have any classes?

Can’t argue that. Lol

Is the newly emerged virgin queen stronger and more agile than the existing queen?... and is that why the virgin will be able to kill the existing queen? Thx

Why do u cut a triangular hole in the top of the metal/bubble wrap inner cover? Thx

What is your theory for the higher supers having the most honey. I experience the same thing? Thx

Hello Peter, I followed your teaching and guidance regarding the Demaree Method. All is going well. I Demaree'd 6 hives... No swarms, overwhelming amount of bee's and nectar... i had to add another deep to one of the hives, mainly to provide more space for the bee's. Thank you. You a great teacher! Are you or did you used to be a Professor? Many thanks, Dave from WV.

When using the mixed hive method, do the bees fight?

awesome video as usual.. quick question. since the honey suppers were cured and ready to be harvested why not just shack the bees off the frames and harvest the honey?

What happens, when doing a demaree, if the frame you leave for the queen has capped brood AND a few open brood and maybe eggs (that I couldn't see)?

Who said whaaat?

This is soooooo much work and still doesn't guarantee no swarming. Why have a HUGE colony, instead of two colonies that produce half the honey each? What is the benefit?

What are those white strips between the 2 boxes?

Can you take a queen cell off the frame put it and a few bees in a container and raise a new queen?

PUPPIES!!!!

Great video once again on the Demaree method!! Can you explain the logic of putting the original 2 deep boxes with brood all the way to the top so far from the queen? Why not have them on top of first deep box with the queen, right after the queen excluder? Thank you for all the valuable info you are sharing with us!!!

I love your videos!! I have noticed you use aluminium bubble wrap on top of your hives. Can you talk about that sometime? The reasons, the benefits, ect?

I am a first year bee keeper with 5, 13 day old beagle puppies! ❤

Is it true that the queen will not move up through a sper full of honey. If thats correct could you just have a super of stores to act as the excluder

Excellent video. What happens to the drones that emerge in the original brood boxes? Aren't they trapped above the queen excluder?

I live in western Washington state and just purchased 3 nucs 1 week ago (I lost all my hives over this past winter). I had leftover frames of capped honey and pollen and was able to use these for the other 5 frames in each of these 3 hives. So, at the moment I have 3 single deep boxes. Given that these are all starting with a relatively low number of bees does it make sense to maintain a single brood chamber throughout this season? The nectar flow began here in late April and generally continues through July. I have plenty of equipment to add a second deep to each of these so that is not an issue. Also, since I have these frames with food is it necessary to feed at this time?

Would it be beneficial to put an entrance in the top brood box on Demaree hive?

Is this method possible for cerana bees species in Nepal

I am from nepal We keeps Apies cerena bees

Stop using the word super to mean box. A super is a box used exclusively for honey {as opposed to a brood box).

Thanks for video. Method actually good if you have 10-15 hives, but its litle complicated and time-consuming if you have more hives.

When I do the Demaree manipulation to a hive, I like to prop up the inner cover with 3/8 inch diameter sticks at the front corners. This gives the bees an upper entrance that allows drones to escape. The bees love the upper entrance and no drones die on the queen excluder.

@36:13 Great queen spot ! I wasn't sure after the 26th frame if we were going to see her! wow. I've been there, last or 2nd last frame. Great demonstration guys! GL on your flow season !

As much as this is about a Demaree, it's also useful for us novices to see videos of 'not ideal' inspections as many of us novice beekeepers are like Amy and have limited time available.

If there is a queen excluder and Vergin hatches won’t she die against the excluder.

Do robbing bees spend the night in the hive that they are robbing?

Ha Peter great video, I did this on 20 of my hives this way is great I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for doing them. Have a blessed week

Demaree uses two QE. What happened to the second QE?

A video well done! Thank you!

I followed your instructions and had no swarms plus an excess of honey so far. Thank you.

We are living parallel lives! I did a Demarree split today!!!!

Can you do this with two species of bees?

I always look for local food

Too much lifting

This is the best electric installation I have seen - clear direction and thorough. Thanks.

Hello I’m down here in southern Maine. I would like to ask your opinion on nucs. I have been using quite a bit of medium sized brood boxes and I normally will use that size for my mating nucs and I will start off my own nucs that way. I have both deep and medium size 5 frame boxes. Do you think 5 frame medium nucs would be a good product? Same idea as the deep only as a medium. Or would you think that is too small for a northern person to buy? I’m also wondering how much if any would be the price difference? Maybe you don’t make them like that but you could share your thoughts if you have the time. I believe many people like using all medium sized and it works better for me to make them

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awesome video Bee whisperer. how do stop the hive from swarming or producing a queen cell when you reduce the colony to a single brood box in the summer?