Poppleton I don't think worried to much about cross combing he just cut it out and into the box it went giving the bees another chance to get it right.

I have always been fascinated by Mr. Poppleton's long hives. Did you cut rebates into the top of the boards or just nail strips of wood on the inside?

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Hi Folks, Yes, we saw that the video dropped out for two minutes. All you missed was me taking the Boardman feeder with 2-1 syrup out, licked dry. We don't know how that happened, it was fine when we reviewed it before posting. Just one of those things. Sorry

5:24 - 7:15 video drops out

Confess what? you wear eye liner. Maybe make traps entrances to small for bee's.

Pantry moth traps, in bee boxes... interesting!😮

Can I talk you out of the bird

Hey man you need to have your pretty wife in front of the camera sometimes. Just saying Hello girlfriend👍😘Love ya from Orange Park, Florida.

Thanks! As a Sun Conure owner, we use this product. As a beekeeper, I’m thinking of using these by my stored hives in the garage as well as out in the apiary.

Very educational video. Appreciate it your time.

Thank you. I'm finding your videos very educational and enjoyable

There are much sugar under colony why? In tropical area, the ant died the bees!.

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Hello Mr. Rich, I'm glad you're doing the experiment so I don't have to! 😅 Recently I placed a tray with 2:1 ratio sugar water right in front of my hives and it was totally ignored! They are bringing in lots of polen. Usually when I give them sugar water they suck it down dry the same day. I wouldn't call your experiment a failure yet! Perhaps it could be the change of weather that we are having or the bloom in our lawn. By the way I love your shirts.

Thank you so much for your information. I am located in Broward County also (Davie) and I am just starting my journey with bees. I have a property in GA which I will retire there...I would love to get in touch with you and, maybe, get some advices...let me know...Thank you again for your helpful info...

Hello Mr. Rich, trick question for you! What happens when we open two windows in our house on winter? The house gets cold inside! Is it possible that opening another entrance in a hive potentially chill the brood too much?

I still 4/4" hole for my entrance. If I drill any holes in my honey supers I will plug them with used wine corks.

Hi Sir, Do you produce propolis?

This week's problem...watching wasps entering the beehive, like it's their homes. Is there a remedy.

You can use pollen substitute or winter feed ( which is pollen substitute )

I planted arugula in South Florida. It keeps reseeding itself. Could be a ground cover. You can eat it. The bees love the yellow flowers.

I love your mural. We had a mural like that in my Mom’s kitchen. Very nice.

How about di earth on the ground

Great job brother, How about lay flat down and fill with sugar and mist with a sprayer of water let dry then install in the outside of the hive for winter feed

More plastic doodads and doohickeys for the bees.

Thank you for sharing. Love the design. Came for feeder instruction and got a great robbing screen design. And you gained a new subscriber.

It was nice to meet you last night during the Honey 🍯 tasting I will try to get in touch with Amanda Johnson... what's the best way to get in touch with Amanda Currently Leo is my mentor here in Broward

Isn’t jumbo a deep+shallow?Paint sticks have beautiful wood found some that were birds eye maple. Feral bees like floor joists and ceilings 12x2 16 centers.

lol I wish I lived in south Florida 😅

In the video you said one teaspoon lemon juice, but your recipe in the description has one tablespoon. Just for clarification. Which one is it? Please don’t think I’m trolling you. I’ve got a hive that’s in trouble and needs help. Thank you.

I'm sorry. Somehow, your ID came through, but no comment did.

Thanks so much.

I sometimes wonder if the weak little swarms this time of the year are supercedure swarms. They finally kick out an old queen, and maybe a few bees follow her.

I would think this late it's a pressure swarm they didn't like what was in their last home/hive

You can't win them all !! Nice try Amigo.

I made three of these traps today and will finish them up tomorrow and place them out in trees near my community feeders to attract any swarm that shows up from the wild or from one of my own hives.

The quality of your video is very good, you do a lot of hard work for business

Thanks bro. You jsut made my upcoming Spring cleanup I know I am gonna have to do a bit less worrysome.

Thanks for the info Rich.. I'll stay with the standard Langstroth , but I'm thinking of building a horizontal hive for fun. , using deep Lang frames..

They seem to catch a lot of moths. Also works for yellow jackets. I melt 1” hole in side with a piece of tubing(or a socket, brass hose end, or whatever) heated over stove or handheld propane torch. I also melt a 1/4 “ hole in top, push the cord through and knot it to hang it up. Just variations on same theme.

This video actually kinda ties in to what I came to your channel for. In a Facebook group there was a question about queen excluders (someone looking to buy some to try out next year and asked if it's really worth it or not)... and one post from someone who said they always use them because otherwise they fet brood in frames they want to extract and it's no fun for anyone... it reminded me of an idea I had for a citizen scientist project I've never seen anyone really inclined to bother with or experiment with before. Most shrug it off as not being a worthwhile endeavor disregard it. Whatever. But I still would live to see the experiment attempted just to see the results (I don't have bees, don't live anywhere I can and it will be years before I'm ever able to. But I recognize you as a scientist. A man with a mind for science, engineering, discovery, a thirst for deeper knowledge and understanding... so of course you were the first person I thought of, as far as someone who might be inclined to undertake such an arduous task as a this.lol Basics concept... 3 groups of colonies with similar or identical composition. I believe you use mostly all mediums you've said previously. So that should work. Be it 2 boxes or 3 from the brood nest... as long as all colonies in the study group are the same and receive similar handling etc. Control would be no QE, no special manipulations. Just put boxes on and let them do what they do, put brood where they want. This would honestly be better in a less tropic/more temperate environment; because then, at least, the bees would naturally condense down, reduce the brood chamber and have those frames brood free around this time of year. One group being the QE group that uses QEs above the designated brood area; if one wants to put a finger on the scale by using only fully drawn frames above the QE as opposed to undraen frames, I don't think that would make that much of a significant difference in honey production or the bees behavior. 3rd group being the "T1" or "CM" (for Capped Manipulation) group. I've seen many places where many have issues with the bees not wanting to go above a QE. I think of having to schlep a double arms load of groceries through a narrow corridor into the kitchen/pantry and I feel that's somewhat the reluctance some bees have with queen excluders. I've also seen many times where several different beekeepers, especially those who've donenit a long time and cared to make observations, have said that the queens retinue of nurse bees will usher her out of the pantry and back down into the nursery whenever they get to the "honey band" of capped honey above the brood area. This makes sense to me. A place for everything and everything in it's place. So the idea is to put say 2 or 3 supers on in spring at the start of the early flow; as that top box gets filled and capped completely, move that box down to sitting right on top of the brood nest, and put other boxes on top. And just leave that box until the end of the year or late fall, whenever. Basically using a box of capped honey in place of a queen excluder. My minds eye (hypotheses) suggest that over time the bees will use some capped honey out of that box to feed brood and replace that capped honey with brood. But it would be interesting to compare whether or not there a significant change in how many cells of those frames directly above the brood nest are used for brood, as compared to the control group that has no excluder and no manipulations. As well as to see if it may reduce swarming tendency (as many report that queen exclusders seem to make the hive feel crowded and encourage swarming tendsncy), and if there is a significant change in honey production vs control colonies and QE colonies. Because if it IS true that the queens nurse bees will generally usher her down away from capped honey and back into the nursery. And if it may help mitigate some of the more common issues that seem to be associated with queen excluders... it may be one of those neat tricks of how to understand and work WITH the bees to find that happy medium where everyone it happy. Also... even if one does get some brood in that capped honey box, perhaps that box could simply be moved back up "above a new box" later in the year, wait 2-3 weeks for the brood to clear out and be replaced with honey, and that box extracted at a later date? Idk. I'm always looking fir a way to "reinvent the wheel". My whole life everyone has always told me not to. But look at how many different types of wheels we have that have been specifically designed for specific applications. There's super cars out there with wheels that are 100% carbon fiber because it's light weight and puts more power to the pavement as opposed to those 3 horsepower being absorbed by having to move the mass of an alloy wheel. If there's a happy medium that is less inconvenient for the bees and beekeeper, and finds a way to accommodate their nature, while increasing productivity (in terms of honey and brood)... I mean... call me a cynic or whatnot. But i-m always trying to think of a better, more efficient madness outside of the common method. There is always room for some form of improvement. And if anyone thinks otherwise, they're either pigheaded and choose not to see where improvements can be made; or something has truely achieved that non-existant harmonious perfection where there truely is no room for improvements. Interested what a fellow scientist might think of the idea. Or if it may be worth continuing a quest for someone crazy enough to try it. And I don't say crazy as a bad thing. Madness and brilliance are 2 traits that oft coincide. The people who think the same, act the same and behave the same rarely every lead to evolution, progress, inventionry, etc. Almost everything we know and everything we have came about from someone "crazy" enough to attempt something different. Thanks again for more great videos Mr. Rich. Best wishes to you.

Some nice info, I think I'll be attempting the "varnish" when restoring furniture etc. I shall keep you informed how things go, but please don't hold your breath waiting for my conclusions as firstly I need to gather my propolis & put it through the months of separation.. 😂😂😂

This is what I like to see, a beekeeper thinking through things and testing different configurations to see what works best. I'm going to try and make some of these, as I've been fighting off robbing lately.

if you put them in the freezer then seal them in a bag, do you have to use the para-dichlorobenzene, if you store them in your house? Wouldn't all the eggs/larva be killed from the freezer?

What is the oil? Sounds like you are saying knee slap.....

Thank you for recording this presentation. Please record more of them. Lots of good info specifically pertaining to South Florida, which is needed, due to it being so different from the rest of the US.

Thanks for the tip Rich .. I'm sure I'll get into a swarm eventually, and knowing what to do is pretty important .. I'm planning to use ypour idea of slum gum as a lure come spring and this will just help the bees transition easier..

Are you aware that propolis in a natural antibiotic? You guys are frying antibiotics? In which world is this healthy?

Happy Birthday ! 🎉 Did you get a 'Honey Cake' for your Birthday too ? . . . A basic Sponge Cake Recipe : Where White Sugar is reduced in amount, and you add the Weight in of some nice tasting (Strong Flavoured Honey works best) are added in. Start by Creaming your Butter with that Honey / Sugar. Slowly beat in the Eggs. Add Flour and Rising Agent. Bake ! And while it's Turned out of the Cake Pan : Warm up a little Honey and carefully 'Drizzle Liquid Honey' all over the Cake Top. Allow to Cool. And Eat ! Enjoy. . . 🎂 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2024 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Beeks always enjoy a few Bee themed Birthday 'Gifts' ! Yes Wax is a messy business. But the 'warm' Aroma of your own Bees Wax is lovely, in low Season. You Guys probably have Bees busy all Season. Mine are about to be tucked up for our Scottish Autumn (Fall) and pending Winter. Think this Beek might do the same in the coming Weeks also. . . Tip : I never have Lolly (Candy) or Icecream Wooden Sticks to hand. So I tried that 'Fuzzy' Garden Twine (String) cut to Frame Length need. Stapled tight at each end. And 'Dribble' Hot Melted Wax along its edge. Seems to work a treat. 👍 Even made some Diddy 'Queen' Breeder* Frames : that nest either Side and Top to Bottom (×4 in Langstroth Deep Frame.) Drizzle Wax, Slot x4 Frames in. And Carefully add Two Wood Screws from Up Top down. And another Two from Under Frame Up ! Works really well. The Bees build up Natural Comb and the 'Desired Queen' lays these up with Eggs and Brood. * Just need to carefully remove those 'Holding Screws' remove the x4 Landscaped held Frames and Attach a 'Top Rail' to each with x1 Small Wood Screw. Place x3 in say a Diddy Queen Box (and you can Breed) Queen Cells ! Best to always measure your 'Brood Nest Frame' Internal space first,then make the Internal 'Temp Nesting' ones. I did the other way around and had to 'Cut' their Dinky Frame Lugs off. . . Oops. So have 'Spare Top Rails to add later.' 😉