Great video!! Love the way you walk us through your process!! I typically have been running a deep and a medium all year round. I think I am going to try and convert to a single deep in 2025…. Need to figure out how to move the mediums around, since I can’t easily put medium with brood in the lower box… any thoughts on that? Thanks

If it's there just remember to take it back out😊

Great video thank ya

Over confident bee keepers are a recipe for a disaster waiting to happen not using a vail for protection , I have seen some very nasty things happen to those not having a bee suit on , some people have even died , new bee keepers do not try with out a suit on because you will regret it really fast in a bad way. Just saying. Calm bees can turn nasty at any given time with out notice ,bee safe.

Thanks Justin. Interesting to hear your perspective. In the UK inner covers are de-rigure. I'm interested to hear about the move towards reflective bubble wrap which Iam Steppler uses on all his hives.

It's the simple things like this that are so hard to find and as a new bee keeper I thank you for providing this info, very helpful.

Why did you put your hand with the queen under your veil? What did you do?

You are a really good teacher thank you.

Great video.

I have seen videos of people making new holes in their inner cover when using a top hive feeder. But they put hardware cloth over the new holes. Wouldn't that keep the bees from protecting the top feeder box area from hive beetles? Also, wouldn't outside bees be able to enter the unprotected area through the little notch in the inner cover edge?

Hey Dyson I miss your videos

I just found your channel and it is now my new favorite channel

I became a beekeeper October 2, 2022. I need many more years of experience to gain this level of understanding.

Stay with feet or yards not meters. We're Americans.

You're a good teacher.

You forgot bucket feeders. Great video.

I'm in southern ohio. How many production hives do you think I would need to run to be able to make $50,000 profit selling nukes and honey?

How many colonies did you run in 2024?

Need3 for 10 yes never know

I’m gonna do the same this tmw

still in my first year and all my mentor told me was i will not get honey this year and i have to build up to double deeps, thank you for this video. the biggest struggle as a new beekeeper is understanding "the right thing to do".....and not having comb haha

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Very good. Thank you.

Hello, i came back here looking for you because I remembered your channel and I really enjoyed the content. I realized that i had not seen a video from you in a long time. thanks for all the great videos and i hope you will make more when your life allows it.

Hi - I live in Los Angeles and found your video trying to figure out what to do. I got a nuc of bees on May 26th and was told by the guy I got them from that he was 99% sure there was a mated queen. On June 1st I inspected and saw no new eggs or active brood but what looked like queen cells or cups on one frame (didn't move the bees to know for sure). But, I assumed I either had no queen to start or something had happened to her so I left them alone. On June 8 I checked again and saw no evidence of any queen cups at all (unless possible that bees repurpose cups after one hatches?) but still no active brood at all. So, I am thinking that this hive is "hopelessly queenless?" and the workers could start laying themselves soon. I was offered another nuc of this guys nuc with an queen to combine and was at the bee store yesterday and the beekeeper there told me was very risky and that once a hive has been queenless for a few weeks (and especially if the workers start laying) that they won't accept the queen in the nuc and the workers from both hives will also fight and kill each other. She also told me that giving the queenless nuc a frame of new eggs and larvae won't be the answer because I will weaken the queen right nuc and that the queenless nuc won't have nurse bees, could reject, etc. AND she claims even if they did make a new queen, there are no drones around for her to mate with. Then I see your video and everything she says seems to be wrong and I am so confused. If you can offer me any insight I would appreciate in case things are different in southern california? and, yes, I am a fairly new beekeeper as I have only had one other feral swarm that I managed for about 1-1-/2 years.

This was super helpful. Thank you!

Great lesson. Rarely talked about

Do you top vent or offset supers ice you get 3 supers on?

Perfect setup!!

I'm sorry, did you say bees will turn 1.5 gallons of syrup into 20 pounds of honey?????

Thanks for the video, im new to your channel what state are you in?

Good advice on keeping Nucs around. Thanks for the video. I was thinking that a direct introduction would be successful. Thanks for showing that it is possible.

What state are you from?

to get the queen to run up to innerlid, just tap with nuckles on both sides of brood

If it's raining and the nuc is in cardboard, do you still just put them where they'll go? Any covering? Thanks! Great video!!

You could also put a queen excluder between the 2 deeps then come back after a couple days and then split the deeps and allow the queenless deep reer a new queen on its own.

When you load the bottom brood box with capped brood and then queen excluder doesn't that cause over crowding and invoke the urge to swarm? I am a novice an trying to learn, thank you.

Where did u get your magnetic belt that holds the hive tool? Thx

In the "quick no look" that you showed at the end, you didn't check to make sure the queen was in the bottom below the queen excluder?

Where did you put the nuke with the original old queen after you finished rearranging?

New subscriber here. Do the color of your boxes represent different things? Or you just paint the hives with whatever color paint is available on hand?

Excellent video, Justin.

Awesome suggestion!

Do you always have the notch pointed up?

Hello sir , Thanks for your videos .I am curious to know if you provide your bees with sugar candy in winter ? Is it fine to do that in the states amongst beekeepers ? I live in the middle East Thanks 👍🏻

Great video

What happened to your channel? Your videos are very informative and you’re close to me. Thanks! George

I think from using OA for a few years now the vaporization method works the best. There are new OA products that you can use 2 grams per deep as a legal treatment. In SE Ohio I treat 5 times over 21 days with vaporization. This is legal. Then I treat again like you say just before the winter solstice. Great video.

What signs do you look for to know when the flow is on or coming.

Great info - thanks. Just went to split and found queen cells in my hive. Wish I’d seen this before. But going back to do some remedial work tomorrow. Thank you!