Very well spoken. I'm curious about the c shape setup. Wouldn't it make more sense to put the entrance to the outside of the C.

Thank you. Nice video. I’m in uk with sudden robbing problem. Thanks for those tips. How long do you leave the hive shut down and does it work ?

Well if pollen patties attract the beetles why not use that for bate, i made my own pollen patties, 2 cups of pollen 2 cups of sugar and about a pint of honey not one beetle problem with beetles laying in the patty you buy patties from a sourse the beetles invest it very quickly

Neem is good for a lot of fruit tree issues, including some insect issues, but it 100% absolutely will not stop CAR. THIS WILL NOT WORK.

oh ok, it's the jug, I was wondering why it was green.😂Grats on your honey season.

Try it on a sunny day

The plastic covers are ok when new? but the bees seal them open or closed after a while and then the dont work anymore

Grats on the honey pull.👍

I like slow mornings this time of year, they are so rare.😂Blessed Days...

The reusability of jars depends on the accessibility for washing and replacement lids (like TO-66). You can't do much at home with artistic, small mouth jars. If American jars crack from tea, it is something odd. I always rinse out every kind of food with hot water. Usually glass breaks on cooling, like when they burn a string (still fine) and dip it into water (makes a cut).

Not sure why I was unsubbed, Blessed Days...

Shorty hit one spot and dipped Kinston lol, can't blame ya. It has so much more to offer though. Apologies about your dog. Happy traveling.

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Where you wear 8mil gloves, I also double glove as well so I can remove the first layer and put another set on without being sweaty mess.

The screen holes are too small....go get mesh opening # 4 (4.75mm) 1/8 too small and 1/4 too big. I gave you in-between. Just cut out the old screen and place in the new. Adult beetles are 5-7mm long and 3-4.5mm wide. Females are the 4.5mm and you are missing them. 1/8 is 3.17mm...way too small...you are just getting the babies. I had to research my tail off to find out why commercial screen are all 1/8

the cardamom extract is one i want to try. interesting that it only needs a couple days vs vanilla extract with needs months to even years.

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Interesting information thankyou for sharing 😊

I spent 2 years learning before I starting beekeeping and I'm on my 4th year with bees, and although I get how much easier and cooler it is to work without a suit/gloves, it just never made any sense to me why so many people want to. I mean C'mon, who wants to deal with stings and bee poop on your clothes if you don't have to.

Oh go grill never go back, best way to make a steak.😋 Looks like you had a great trip, Blessed Days...

Your key realization to discover you don’t need to validate yourself with “certificates” removes so much stress from your life and allows you to enjoy life more.. Good Job …

Why couldn’t you just let them draw out their own comb???

I'm going to guess that Silva is a Capricorn and Tara is a Leo.

Very goooood!!!

We learn from our mistakes. Hopefully you'll catch some feral bees with your swarm lure. Sorry to hear about Cleo it sounds like she had a nice long life. Thanks for sharing.

No farmer is ever going to take precaution or check a list to see where people have bees before they spray. The only thing they care about is their subsidy checks. The companies spraying right of ways are even worse. Good luck finding someone that speaks english or cares.

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. So helpful, and such a great idea!

I believe the “pinkish nut” you found is a variety of Chestnut.

I am very new, first hive was a rescue of a swarm last year that moved into our basement (through a crack between our foundation and the house. It was July, which here is way too late for a hive to usually survive (by that time we have very little forage for them). So I had a friend give me two 10-frame deeps to put them in and almost immediately I realized too big... so I switched them to 8-frame deep/medium mix which is much more manageable. I am only 5'3" and have back/shoulder issues. I fed them almost continually until it dipped below 50degrees in Oct/Nov (start of winter for us and we start getting snow) so they could draw comb. Candy board along with pollen patties and a quilt board, with an insulated wrap on the outside. As of this week we have had enough snow melt and several days in the 50's and they are still alive. I was able to open the hive last month because I had one day over 50degrees to check food supply (but nothing else). Today will be my first real inspection before we get high winds and snow this weekend. It's normal for us to have the odd snow fall up until May. I wish I could do the long or horizontal hives but they just aren't practical for our weather, just not enough room and we get a lot of travel up the hive due to cold. I am actually looking at AZ hives, they are now coming out with hybrids here in the US that use langstroth frames and provide the protection from the elements we need here. Still happy I saved the swarm, even though I hadn't planned on getting bees anytime soon (had been something of a possibility for the future) but I could have lived without the constant low-level anxiety of wether they would make it through winter for the last six months!

Just now finding your channel,seeing video,I have no access to the plant your useing, how do you feel about commercial extracts, and do you have a recommendation. Thank you

Is it made of tube steel or light angle?

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Good information. Just getting into beekeeping. I built my first trap to catch local bees and hung it on a tree. The design approach is the Layans approach based on Dr. Leo Sharashkin. I am green and am learning all the time.

Hello from Central PA. I’ve been running exclusively Layen’s hives and going into my 5th year. Hopefully if the weather cooperates or swarm season is good I’ll be doubling from 15 to 30 hives this spring. I’m running the 20 frame insulated hives. I build all my own equipment from the free plans on Dr. Leo’s site. While all beekeeping is local I will say that in my opinion you’ll probably have to manager that 14 frame more frequently than you think. I have found that an over wintered hive will fill a 20 frame by mid June. For me a 14 frame would just be a swarm generator. The queen seems to lay out much further than I had expected sometimes even to the 15th frame which just makes them grow tremendously. I have found that having a single 3/8” slot 4” entrance to be the best. Give great defense ability to the hive as well as eliminating the need for an entrance reduce in fall winter since mice cannot get in. I do understand your dilemma with have langstroth equipment which I never had since I started with Layen’s after deciding that lifting boxes all the time was for the birds 😂 Trust me, if you have bear issues those two little clasps held on by a nail will not stop a bear. I had a bear hit my 1st hive 3 times and he ripped the lid off like it was paper. I now use ratchet straps. Learned the hard way. Although he never touched the frames once he got the lid off. Just flipped it around like it was a toy. Hive survived no problem. I do not understand the super thought as that is why you have Langstroth hives. Supering a horizontal hive totally defeats the purpose but who know something I might try but leaving the lid up is recipe for SHB and wax moths along with all the other critters to get in not to mention rain and taking away the hives ability to regulate the hive environment. Sorry for the long post as I could go on for a long time. If you want to ask any questions or hear more of my experiences please reach out.

So happy to have been recommended this video. I've kept chickens before, and we want to have them again. I want quail too, but I worry about how they would fair in an outdoor enclosure in the winter here in the Northeast, as it gets bitterly cold. Or are there are specific, maybe larger/heartier type of quail that do better? I'd hate to have them freeze~ (Ok, now to watch the video lol).

Greetings, I did not know about the allergy test. I am thinking about beekeeping again. I will definitely have the children tested. Cheers, Upstate NY

Greetings, Are there bamboo queen cages? Cheers, Upstate NY

There are multiple videos online that shows you how to convert / incorporate your Langstroth frames into the Layen's frames.

Things don't always go as planned! I've always seen the beetle barns used with a bait that has an insecticide in it, illegal but effective is what I have heard. I will be interested in seeing your results! We have been splitting to keep ahead of swarming.

thank you so much for sharing pull support video.

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What I have learned from keeping bees in Australia is that they actually can die from overheating if you don't give the hives shade through the middle of the day and the afternoon. That was a week with several 43 Celsius days, and the hive that died was a recently caught swarm while the bigger stronger hives survived, but still. In future I want my bees to have a verandah to shade them overhead and from the west. That said, the idea of having the hives arranged in a C or U shape so their front doors are all facing different directions won't work on my next property. I've been reading up on bee colour and shape vision, and I'd like to find more specific information, but what I'm looking at is having each hive box a different colour in the range they can see, and then also having a set of stamps in different simple shapes (square, circle, triangle, etc) and putting black stamps around the entrance to each hive, so they can use both colour and shape cues to find the right house in the street. If anyone is already doing this, I'd love to know if it's working for them, and what changes they recommend in the details!

These are just a few tips to help with bee stings 🐝 1-drink 8 oz of water with 1 tsp baking soda after getting stinger out. This saved my life when I was a kid and got stung by two bumble bees on my head. My mom called our nature path doctor and this opened up my throat that was swelling shut. 2-get a blue ink pen and scribble over stinger site. This immediately takes pain away. In the old days they used the blue dye they used doing laundry to brighten whites. I know it sounds weird but I learned it from an elder and it works! I also always have Benadryl pills and cream close.

It’s a good idea maybe for a woman or someone who cannot lift heavy ,to use the Langstroth (upper) super or the Warre hive, they’re are not too heavy.

I prefer to cycle out come on a 3-4 year basis. We try to split our hives to sell nucs to beginners in the spring so this helps us get a lot of new comb drawn for us and also the nuc buyers. When we pull the splits I do an OA treatment. We have used Formic Pro and Apiguard before as well. They are all tools in the tool box so it's important to know when and how to use them if you are open to that type of treatment, but to each their own. I trend towards less treatments as I gain more experience and learn more about the nuances of timing the brood breaks and OA treatments to be the most effective.

Getting stung will always hurt I went from selling severely to no swelling after 3 years of owning bees . Now 40 stings are a pain but not causing swelling . Yellow jackets i barelyfeel and white faced hornets stings a bit for 10 min but now have not much effect other than that Honey bees sting hurts a lot for about 3min Dont scratch the sting location that causes the delayed swelling for me . Always have an escape route when working your bees run thru dense trees get in a vehicle and leave or get into a shed . It sounds paranoid but i know of instances when commercial beekeepers were severly stung almost to death . May have been Africanized bought from Alabama ??And this was in central Saskatchewan Nylon armour is almost sting proof but warm to wear . Be careful i got my first bugs in early eighties now 40 yrs later i enjoy them more than i did earlier on . I have run thru the bushes a few times to get away fr them so i could take my veil off and once was yo get one out of my ear.😂

I like the idea of a brood break to reduce the varoa population. What's a good time of year for an intentional brood break? And would you recommend doing this to all your hives at the same time?

Thanks for making this video! I'm in my second year beekeeping. And was thinking about how to expand my apiary. I like the idea of staggering the positions of the hives on cinder blocks to prevent disease spread. Will probably be trying that this year :)

Hi, here in Holland it's recommended to paint the part below the entrance (don't know all the terms: the landing area)of the boxes in white, yellow or blue, or give them patterns, so they recognise their own hive better. Not to say you must do that, but just as information. And if you want to move the hives at this time of year, move them everyday a little bit: max 3 feet to the front or back, or max 1,5 feet to the right of left. With colder weather they cannot spend to much energy to search for the right hive. But probably you know that already 😊 Just some tips :) Good luck!

I have 1 of the ultra vented jackets, it helps a lot during those hottest days in Summer. I really like your introduction frame cage those are kind of cool. People go to far into the weeds, just do bees your way. I'll never figure out why beekeepers think they need to defend their preferred methods of keeping bees, It's their bees their way why put labels on everything. Thanks for a look into your style of beekeeping.👍