You sir are the single most southern american looking man ive seen. God bless america

If there is a gap under the divider what stops the queens from fighting especialy when the colonys are right up against each other

I like the two hives in one layens but could not see when you opened how many frames you had in each side. I think I heard 16 on one end. I was curious as how many you have total in this hive? is it 30 frames? Want to be a new bee keeper but most people here have langstroth hives so trying to learn from videos. I like your videos

Several commenters have asked why the bees don't bite, sting, or otherwise remove the beetles. I'm sure the bees would if they could, but that's easier said than done. Small hive beetles are built like little armored vehicles with a hard shell on top and a flat bottom. When threatened, the beetles lower themselves to the ground, making it difficult for the bees to get to their legs or vulnerable bellies. Meanwhile, their hard shell makes stinging or biting from above impractical. On occasion I'll see a bee in a wrestling match with a beetle, or carrying a beetle out when they do get a good hold. Because of the beetles' effective defenses, though, the bees seem to have an easier time just containing the intruders, when they can.

Very Edgar Allen Poe of that last bee

I came for the bees, stayed for the vibes and positive outlook! Thank you :)

Can they not flip them on their backs and sting yhem in the belly?

What’s “too close to other hives”?

Where did you purchase your horizontal hive boxes from?

Colony species are so mind blowing.

chickens?

BEE-tles

Bees in the trap

Hive mind is a super computer lol

Tress: 30ft away This guy: my bees 😨

Ants would never have such a problem, you bees are inferior to us and less smart, what you do can’t compare to our great civilizations and history, we have battled wars since before the dinosaurs, and are still battling the same wars today, constructing and growing massive civilizations, in comparison humans would look like idiots, we run this planet

So weird. They don't kill them, just put them in jail. And they're happy when you give them a better jail

Really great idea. I am working on designing a Layens hive that can use the Langstroth frames. I am thing of just adding an adapter plate to the top of the Langstroth frames so that it covers the gap rather than using the cover boards. I am just concerned about the depth because of how shallow the Langstroth frames are compared to Layens frame design. How important do you think the depth is? If I can use the Langstroth depth then I feel it could be more versatile. I do make my own frames and boxes. I like how less intrusive the closed tops of the Layens frames are for the bees when working with the hive. Thank you for this video and how well you explain it. I will definitely be referring back to this video again.

It’s kind of cute seeing the bees just shove the beetles in a closet and ignoring them lol

I love how they don’t gang up and kill them but just go “hey I’m locking you in my house forever”

“thank you human for the bad beetle box.”

So the bees are hearding the bugs?

Could you maybe take the honeycomb far away from the hive, with the bees shaken off, then just let birds pick at the beetles? Or are there birds that eat beetles but not bees? I suppose you'd need to remove the bees since they'd otherwise attack any birds.

its odd that they dont just kill them..

The bees don’t kill the Beatles?

I hate those things

It's so cute how she's just walking back and forth preventing the beetles from escaping the confinement area like "oh no you don't, not today beetles, not today!"

It's weird that I'm grossed out by the bugs crawling over the honey, but the bees are okay.

Even bees hate bugs 😂

I could say so much about genocidal displacement immigration in Europe that'll get me banned here ...

I had a great tip to put a sheet of black roofing paper down in front of the hive so the warmth makes a heat envelope there. They can fly out on these dangerous days and get their cleansing flights done and have much better chance of making it back to the entrance. But it does need to be where the sun hits it at some point during the day.

Bees: “YOURE NOT GOIN NOWHERE”

Excellent voice, sir

Get you a Shop-Vac with a small nozzle..

You should kindly let your neighbors know. ❤

Beetle jails, with bee guards. Love it!

"Hey beatle, you ever read The Cask of Amontillado?"

*looks at my computers CPU*

when the doorknockers get inside the house, so you wall them in and they starve

"Stop right there criminal scum!" -Bees

Bees are so cool

One fewer*

Now I think about it, it totally makes sense that bees hives have their own jails

Bees using prop blocking and shoving to deal with nuisance NPC's

I love that you can just provide bees with a beetle prison and they're just like, "sick", and will start using it

I wonder why bees have not just learned to bite the beetles legs off ?.

Dropping end game equipment for the homie that just started playing

bug jail where more bugs are the wardens

Love that the bees are smart enough to see an opportunity and bait the beetles into the trap

My pa always used those white and red swirly mints to keep the pests at bay.