In the end, what did I learn? Start about 44:30 . . . . .

nice man....

Actually, it is the Caucasian honey bee that is from Turkey. The Carniolan is from Slovenia.

Maybe next time cut down on all the stories and get down to the info

Nice videos!! I hope you reach your 60 hives this year!!! God bless....

Old peace corp Democrat hippie.

Wow, great presentation! Thanks for sharing!

That is really cool! How are your bees doing?

My issue with the package industry is I don't believe 3 lbs. of bees to be enough to build up enough of a new hive to survive the winter. I started beekeeping years ago. I started with 5 lb. packages. They exploded through the spring and I actually built enough comb for two deeps and produced 30 lbs. of surplus honey that year per colony. Today, try to find someone who will sell a 5 lb. package. You can't! They've been eliminated to a 3 lb. package. It's just no enough to properly build a colony to be strong. Package costs are outrageous. Build your nucs for replacement. If you need more information watch Michael Palmer. There are others on youtube that discuss the same procedure.

Lyson 6 frame polystyrene nuc boxes. 6 for 6 this spring.

Just watched again... Very good but if you live in MISSOURI NEVER put Nuc in shade unless you want them to be taken over by Small Hive Beetles starting 1st day and ABSCOND by day two or three because of SOOOO much Stress caused by the SHB. ..

why not just go back in few days later,shake bees put back over excluder,come back in hour make up nuc..that way u don't waste emergency queen cells plus newbeekeepers liable to miss one in corners and get their mated queen killed

Some folks feel that treatment free people are part of the problem,But ask your self if you ever think chemicals will ever eradicate mites forever ? Corporations that sell you the chems are glad to sell them to you as a treatment. But it is not a cure. And it is allways a crisis. I have seen many a crisis come and go. And I have raised bees treatment free for 13 years now. I loose a few but less than those who treated.Like every thing else in nature bees will adapt to everything and survive like they have for thousands of years. Stress your bees and yes they will get sick from something ,Just like people.A few years down the road and the mite will be a thing of the past and then on to the next crisis.When you treat then the bees will never adapt to fend for them selves.You will all ways have to keep doing it Same for gardening. When you start spraying ever thing on your plants .Then you have to do it every year because you killed off all the predators and organisms in the soil wich are the building blocks to good health.So think before you say people that dont choose to jump on the mansanto band wagon are the problem.

Ok dont want to steal anyones thunder ,but if you want queen cells for cutting out.Just find that queen and move her to a nuke box for about a week,Give her couple frames of her bees and a frame to lay on.Then go back to the hive she came from and you will have more cells in there than you know what to do with.Take them and make up your nukes ,mover the queen back to her original home .Only time I buy a queen is when I want to introduce some different genetics or something.

I am 72 years old.Going back to when I was a young boy interested in bees.Every bad thing that ever came along was deemed a crisis. Some people look at the bee and some people understand the ecology the bee lives in.Over 8000 organisms living in that box and science only knows what a hand full of them do.So many people bouncing around inside the box now and they are just repeating them selves. Sounding now like white noise. 15 years now and they are no closer to solving anything than day one. I been 0 treatment for more than 12 years and I rarely lose a hive,but to each his own ,But at least try to think outside the box,organisms are a whole new frontier folks.

Great video

Pyrethrum is organic and the main squash bug killer and will kill bees. There are organic pesticides and that just means they are organic ingredients. If it kills a bug it will kill bees. The goverment got into the organic produce industry and well, I'll say nothing else.

45:35 Doesn''t make a whole lot of sense here......7 frames of brood needed for a 5 frame nuc split? doesn't add up.

this was great thank u very much

Has anyone found the link for the Queen Calendar mentioned at 40m:30s, if it still exist could you please share it?

The Voroa mite is a community issue. Those that don't treat are part of the problem.

fascinating and fun!!!

playing with percentages at such low samples...(seriously?)... Not statistically supported by any stretch.

Thanks for the suggestions. One more question? Instead of moving the nuc, why not just place it in the same apiary but close the entrance for 48 hours. Won't bees need to re-orient if kept closed up for a couple days? Would that not alleviate the need to move them and then bring them back?

Great source of information thanks

Great video. Thanks! Do you have a technique for removing queen cells from comb on plastic foundation? Is it possible to do so?

Very interesting Thanks for sharing Greeting from chile.

great job. a few less uhhs and umms would be awesome ...

Thanks for posting...Debbie is the best presenter and makes information easy to understand.

The mass production and translocation IS the problem!!!!

I agree. I didn't chose the proper setting when I shot it.

Great presentation. Much better than 2.5 with all the coughing. One suggestion for future presentations - repeat the questions that are asked before you answer them; makes your answer(s) easier to understand.