It’s the only way to keep bees..thanks to you and Phil chandler. I’m an avid top bar beekeeper

One thing I don't hear often in dealing with hot (defensive) bees is to look below the hive entrance for mushed bees from skunk activity. A skunk, opposom or raccoon will roll the bees in the evening and of course the hive will become defensive, I've screwed a strip of carpet tack strip to the landing board. The nails are very sharp and the critters will move on from feeding on your beehives

What a great presentation, Liz! I hope to set under one of your presentations in the near future as I plan to raise my own queens this spring. Keep up the great work and Bee Blessed!

Why does a table spoon of honey in water that is swivel around for 2 minutes turns into hexagons looking shapes.??? Please msg back. Ty

What genetics did you use?

really good information, I like his approach, and that he promotes Michael Bush...

Im close to beeweaver and have plans to visit in January and if impressed buy my first 3 colonies and queens

Thank you! Very nice demonstration! Very impressive fence! What do you keep out of the hives?

I hate when someone is giving a presentation and it turns into a group suggestion session. People are there to hear the speaker, not to hear everyone in the audience throw in their two cents. Asking questions is fine of course, but raising your hand to offer your method or take is just unnecessary and frankly arrogant. Hold your own talk.

I have just become a recent customer in your Blue Ridge store (all of the people who work there are absolutely wonderful!!!!!). I am truly enjoying your videos. Thank you so much for these! I have so much to learn and these videos are invaluable to me!

You got my subscription when you said, "Good God she's like Frankenstein." Excellent video and great presenter!

Simply fifty years of building solutions for core basics not understood. *rotational selection for frame management in stacks *thermodynamics of the static air mass in hive(vertical) as bees manage conditions *selection of goals as micromanaged outcomes for stacks... ergo "beekeeping" versus "beehaving" Simply two different products of the same era, my KTBH efforts abandoned in 1973, it is the case the years since spent studying apiculture have built space where TTBH (LONGLANG) and Lang stacks are easily purposed for respective outcomes. Yet neither will compete with KTBH for the same reason I abandoned that format decades ago - the format is quaint for it's oddity, and really first worlds advocates insult the cultures which must use them... that Pilgrim arrogance kept alive through "bringing gospel to the natives". Shad

35:50 comparing varroa to a virus... what kind of doctor is he?...

26:00 What you are doing here is only prooving that bees will remove frozen brood. How could any serios scientist correlate that to bees removing varroa infected brood?

I particularly liked where the audience had questions that the speaker repeated the question so that I could understand what was being addressed. Thank you for your excellent presentation and repeating the audiences questions.

Loved this video, Thank you!

Those push in cages work great. And you don't really need attendants if you're pushing it in over some capped brood since those bees will soon emerge and be an attendant to the queen when they do. Those hot hives are no fun. Great job getting it done!

Thanks for the amazing info Years later!

How do you keep your bees from drowning in the frame feeder? It looks like yours are full of comb?

Now thats a fence!

Those bees sound pissed! Lol. They don’t like the cameraman! That’s generally the way they feel about me too!

Hi Les, I wonder how did you produce the round frames in the long hive in the upper left picture of topbarr hives in your video.

A most enjoyable, entertaining and informational video

Great informative video, Thank you

Blake this was a good talk. I have found that buying queens has failed for me. every year that I have bought queens they either are not good from the seller or they are damaged in the mail and they just do not lay something is wrong with them my hives supper seed them I just waist my money. the places i get the queen from are good places so I have to believe the mail people are hurting the queens. so what I did last year is remove a queen from a big hive and let that hive make me queens after they are capped I remove them and make small matung nucs and as the spring/summer progress I add frames of capped brood to stregthen them. and it worked out well. now I did not get any honey from the hivs I did that to, but that was ok I had encrease my apairy. I used the double screen board and put the q in the top box and put it back on the same hive that gave here warmth she kept going and the hive I remover her from made me right many cells to be used. I did buy some queens from another person and the same happened with those queens some were no good . I just cant waist money that way. I have real bad vision so grafting is not something I can depend on even though I keep trying I just can not see I have tryed lights and magnify glass but I am going to keep trying I think they are to old and the bees reject my graft for that reason. who ever made grafting look easy was deceiving. to me it is not easy at all. any way Blake I enjoyed this it was a good talk. hope you are having a good christmas.

Hi to u I did that once re a queen in a bottle 🍾 and put her in a box with Bees she did good

Bellisssimoooo

Best information I have heard!

What about the drones with those genetics? Once they breed a virgin queen from another colony you have the same problem again. And remove all brood, so they don’t make new queens.

Offs ,how many hairs on your neighbours cat belly ? ,..STOP TALKING ,.

Enjoyed watching you work. Randy Wrinkle Kriegerkeep Bees.

I bought two weaver queens once because they were suppose to more hygienic than some bees, I put them in splits and went in for heart surgery, also two Russians, I didn’t see them for a month, that’s when I found out I couldn’t run anymore, I was 62 @ the time, and some friends were after russian bees and i want to try the weavers so I did, all of those bees were warm all summer, the later it got the warmer they got, one russian colony absconded in September, not good as we can have killing freezes then winter killed the weavers, and I was worried about the last russian hive and they had a new queen, the biggest blackest queen I had seen to date, actually very mellow to work, I have no idea why the replaced the queen so late or early in the year, between wind, snow , and cold I lose the weavers

Did you kill the other queen cells?

Thanks for thorough analysis, presented with your reasoning. You've created an excellent presentation that will allow my step-daughter to jump-in and learn the essentials of beekeeping. Much appreciated!

Your honey isn’t pure on the super since you had a feeder there snd kept feeding them otherwise nicely done.

You god!!!

I started six years ago and never buy bees , they are enough on the tree around I live…

We are drones…

Good to go presentation. Thank you

did you say you had a hive or a queen bee for 6 years?

Spoken like an actual former analyst.

Nice visuals, Thank you TBA for all you do for us beekeepers in Texas and beyond.

I want to be a member of international honey association.teach me how to be a member please

Did you see that caterpillar on the Frame at 08.00?? In the car when demonstrating the cage. Or was it a Wax,oth??

Thanks

All you had to do was open the louvers and let the bees out, not vacuum them all to death, you barbaric, horrible murderer. Oh and the "amusing" trad jazz and your laughter as you tipped their thousands of tiny corpses from a bucket onto a rubbish heap. Ghastly. You are a complete stranger to compassion. You horrified me, and i really, really dislike you. Never again would i ever watch this crass, ugly show.

So great to see you, John Swan! Texas misses you!

I enjoyed the talk but became increasingly discouraged by the anthropomorphizing dialog describing behavior and evolution. Evolution doesn't have an agenda and does not respond to "gauntlets." Mutations are random and as likely to be deleterious as beneficial. Bees do not exhibit aggression; their behavior is best described in degrees of defensiveness. It's misleading to frame an argument in unscientific terms- it blurs the biology.

Ah, where is this being held? Convention arena or hotel name?

Hallo from Germany to Texas . I have a question to you . Do you ship queens to Germany too ?Many regards Jutta🙋‍♀🐝🐝🐝🌻🌻🌻