some people that use a mist bottle use a solution of sugar water and lemon grass oil. i used this several years ago when i had bees and it seemed to work well. it has been explained (don't remember where i read it) that besides the positive effect of the lemon grass oil, when the bees get the sugar water on them they become preoccupied with licking the sugar from each other and as a result pay less attention to the intruder. does this make sense ? i used a smoker once but it was a hassle and it did not seem to be any better than the mist. i'm certainly not an expert in any of this.

HI Phil, love this trailer, I have very recently bought a conway trailer tent and intend to do pretty much what you have done. How has it fared out in the past few years. I am particularly interested in the skin you have used. Has it retained its weatherproof properties?. Great job. I hope you have had loads of adventures.

I have 5 Flow Hives. Very happy with them . Strongly recommended.

I want to buy the hive box How can buy it .? Please

I really needed you today, thank you

I sure am happy you are bringing the black bees back. There are absolutely no more left nor available in North America. I would say Apis Mellifera Mellifera is extinct here. The last one seen here was a fossil found in 2017 in a dry lake bed. They named her apis mellifera neoartica but she is absolutely identical to apis mellifera mellifera. The last living ones in North America were in the 1990s.

Amateour. No smoke so many kiled bees shame

This is one question that you answered,,, Do bees swarm in the rain? Or do they wait for perfect weather to swarm? Human logic would suggest the latter due to the bees being smarter than we give credit. Plus most swarms if not all I have had it’s been in fair weather. We know bees don’t fly in increment weather to collect nectar. So the lesson here is if you find queen cells and the weather is looking rainy… best do something about it regardless of the weather. This from🇨🇦

Those poor bees! 😮 23:41

IT IS BEST FOR YOU TO DONATE THAT BEEHIVE TO ME. After all, Beehive is pretty much useless to you anymore

SEBAIKNYA ANDA SEDEKAHKAN BEEHIVE TU KEPADA SAYA. Lagipun Beehive sudah sangat tidak berguna lagi kepada anda

Do yourself a favour and get a job hook hove tool to lift frames

Having bees coming out the back shouldn't be coming out your missing the aluminium strip maybe.. also our queen excluders have extended ends the frames sit on and seal.. why are ypu feeding with a super on, you want sugar syrup in your honey frames?? Never feed with the honey super on.

Well you know a friend of mine told me that when you open a box of honeybees you should always smoke them. Robin Frazier liberty texas usa

When someone does not even know how to open a small door and probably kills one or 2 bees in the process, I think that food should not be listened to.

Hi Phil. You inspired me years ago to build a TBH and I have had a few colonies. After some experience, I find 1-1/2" wide top bars to be too narrow. How wide can I go? Thanks for all of the work that you do!

You mention in your don't buy or build a hive until... from 7 years ago that three entrance holes on each side toward the ends is for swarm control, but your instructions for how to build a top-bar hive shows three in the middle of each side with one hole toward the end. Have you discovered that the three on each side offset to opposite sides are disadvantageous in some way?

How do you harvest your honey? It doesn't look like you can spin it

Excellent

Notice he didn’t need the suit with the flow hive. The traditional vertical method with his handling technique really has them stirred up

Those bees are PISSED! That shouldn't happen. I'm not even a beekeeper and I know this from information gleaned years ago.

How do you shake the bees off the comb when you harvest honey or when you want to inspect?

The bees shouldn't be where they are under the flow frame door.

I just watched 3 of your videos in a row and I am so grateful to have found you! Already ordered 3 of your books too. Thank you for all the natural inspiration!!! Claudia from Vermont USA

Can you please give a detailed description of the different parts of the bee hive for a clear understanding of a person that wants to start bee farming.

I’ve noticed that all the comments are very old like 2-3 years ago?

Why aren’t you using smoke?

Love this, phil, great food for though, thank you, but missing your general informative content, where have you disappeared to over the last couple of years?

Would be nice to get an update!

Did you ever find any benefit of this? I've tapped a few trees and about about 18L of the stuff.

Even I can tell you have them spaced wrong and I don't have any - just watched a couple of videos read the manual.

Well, you just talked me OUT of the flow hive.

What one of your videos shows you adding a gutter to the bottom of your hive?

Don't know if this has already been asked, but if you are adding a load of moisture to the hive, does this impact them with increased mold? Or a big increase in their need to spend energy doing extra fanning to dry out? Keen to know what you think about the added moisture issue.

I attract bee swarms every year, in mid February and mid summer, I have 2 hives and keep them well maintained in the summer, weekly checks, and supers as needed, I only spend about 2 or 3 minutes in each hive a week, just checking for growth, egg patters, production, and for mites/beetles/moths ect... you know basic stuff, one of my hives has a bit of an attitude, and the other is the nicest and will just let me open the hive up with no smoke or anything. But yes I attracts swarms all the time , I usually have to house them an just give them away

where do you get the white plastic clips / spacers? I have looked a little bit and can't find them

Phil - I've been reading about your idea of the ECO floor. Are you still a proponent?

thankyou Phil for this very instructive video : So many practical tips and reasons thereof clearly explained ! I have one question : what are the turquoise beads near the entrance for?

What are you doing man? Lol. No wonder youre getting stung. I have 3 flow hives you do not need go take out a flow frame. You wait until the outside are getting capped. You shouldnt have to take out a flow frame. Thats kinda the point haha.

Sorry but this video makes anyone who wants a beehive, not want a beehive 😩

Did he just say britain?????☠️

There is absolutely no advantage to full frame why do they do it, 95% of hives in Australia are not top bars, the education you're providing is very valuable

24:15, 😮😮😮 Amina koydun, bütün arıları deli ettin kızdırdın..!!!

bwahhahahahaha had a flow hive for years, they a very simple hives to build and maintain and ive never had an issue with it. YOU ARE FAIL!!!

You've clearly got the hive setup badly and it's poorly maintained. There shouldn't be any bees at the back, you haven't seated the combs properly towards the back. The whole point of a Flow hive is that you CAN extract the honey without damaging them. Hopeless "advice"

You just need to be patient and turn the key at correct time an hour You also can simply put some ESP32 cameras inside thevhive to control the percentage of capped cells

Hairdresser mist spray can work better than this as myst is smaller but you can pump it few times and keep pumping for longer. Just hope you don’t use tap water that’s full of chemicals, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, hormones, chlorine, etc, as this can effect your honey as well

Couldn’t you weigh each comb to determine when it is capped?

If the entrance is on the end bees can defend it against robbing because the guards can stop robbers getting past the first comb. also queens prefer to lay near the entrance so if you want the brood up one end instead of at the bottom of most of your combs keep the entrance at the end.

You are doing far to much work, the designer of the flow system you are blasting has several KZbin vids showing exactly how to use them and he doesn't do anywhere near the amount of work your doing