April Bees & Plants

More April nuc production, colony sales and nectar producing plant descriptions.

[@dadu63]

Gotta love these Sunday morning videos from my friend Bob Binnie and his fine crew. Thanks for sharing guys and gal.

[@carloscrenz9433]

Hola qué lindo es ver sus videos🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝👍👏👏👏🇦🇷💪👏👏

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Beautiful countryside “Cherry nectar tastes like cough syrup! “ LOL 😂

[@bobbinnie9872]

If we get some I'll save some for you.😬

[@tarheelbeekeeper3971]

Sunday morning learning with Bob, always very informative thanks

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Great stuff Bob, enjoy seeing everything going on.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Thanks Nathan.

[@russellkoopman3004]

Thanks Bob for sharing your adventures and knowledge. You are sure in the middle of bee season.

[@deanmalkewich2366]

When I rode through your area last fall I realized it’s one of the most stunning parts I’ve seen of the United States. I’d love to see it in spring.

[@adkfoothills1973]

I enjoy watching your videos, Bob. I'd like to "thank you" for sharing your knowledge with us, and best wishes from the beautiful foothills of the Adirondacks in upstate NY. 🐝🐝

[@nikolamatic8922]

Wild cherry honey is beautiful, mild and sweet tasting! Greetings from Serbia

[@bobbinnie9872]

It's different with wild cherry in this area. It could be a differtent plant.

[@markbooth8458]

Hello Bob. The locust and wild cherries are in full bloom here. The honey is tasting really good.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Love locust honey.

[@jodygucwa8892]

Hope you guys have a great year. Thank you for all you do.

[@Eric_Westerfield]

Great video Bob.

[@stevenaamos]

Good morning Bob, thank you for providing some education while we deliver our students' bees for our bee club in the rain! About like when I picked up packages a couple weeks ago, which are doing great! Thank you!

[@Whitesmokehoney]

Sunday schedule 7am- watch Bob Bennie videos to get inspired 8am - work the bee yard 10am- church with the family

[@SideBerner]

Bob, great video! I watch all your videos. Even though we never met your like my honey bee mentor. Any time I try something with my bees, I always check to see what you have to say about it first. Greeting from Wilmington, NC. -Joe

[@baniortiz797]

No nectar from dogwoods just pollen (mid green color pollen) they collect pollen from dogwoods around 9 to 11am thanks for the video

[@kennith.]

Thank you for sharing, love these great informative videos.

[@gregcundiff]

Good stuff Mr. Binnie! I just had a "well duh" moment, shaking bees onto the isolated breeder frame... I use your method for grafting as closely as possible and I've found that the queen never starts laying right away, which puts my grafting off until the 5th or sometimes even the 6th day. You told Sylena and John to shake bees onto the frame and said it helps get her to get started and I said to myself, why didn't I think of that.... sometimes it's the simple things that squeak by without noticing. Great video!

[@framcesmoore]

Ha Bob Great video I got 1 of those timing boxes from u last year thanks for this wonderful video. Hope your bee season is Blessed

[@andrewk1191]

Thank u

[@pastorjimk]

If you did not know, Autumn Olive produces an edible fruit mid to late summer. I do not like the taste as fruit, but when my wife make a pie or jam with it it takes just like cherry with tartness and I love it.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Pine trees dump so, so much pollen. I have wondered if they will pick pine pollen if they needed to, makes sense eat it or starve. I think beekeepers have the best offices. Thanks for sharing your time Bob and crew, Blessed Days...

[@bobbinnie9872]

Yes, I saw some foragers coming home with what appeared to be pine pollen two days ago.

[@dcsblessedbees]

I would like a trailer of Bob Bennie nucs and singles please😉maybe someday.😂 Blessed Days Bob...

[@TennesseeMountainBees]

Awesome informative video, Bob!

[@Tinycreekbeecompany]

I will be coming to pick up two nucs next weekend and can’t wait!

[@altaylor293]

Thanks for sharing another great video.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Thanks Al.

[@lenturtle7954]

Saw a light yellow pollen coming in today ,( While putting pollen sub on and filling frame feeders). Maybe poplar or aspen ? Theres still snow left over fr last tues wed thurs snowfall 😢 Maple sap is pouring into the colection jugs . Love robutussin 😂 cant afford home brew !!! Thanks for the 📹 🎥

[@aileensmith3062]

As always interesting and informative too! Hoping to have a decent honey flow and harvest this year. Really be nice and us seeing that four letter word around us RAIN! Oh well Mother Nature may show up and surprise us soon!

[@bobbinnie9872]

Best of luck!

[@10peteo]

Thanks for the how to on the grafting frame, i always wondered how you did that.

[@577bluegrass]

Beautiful

[@anthonypope5830]

I have seen one year that my bees were working a Dogwood in my yard. Haralson county GA

[@user-sf7ir6np7n]

Tankyo

[@robertdemers5125]

Good Morning Bob !

[@bobbinnie9872]

Good morning sir!

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

I used those pro nucs one year.. made the mistake of asking people to bring them back... Few people did .. I lost like hundred nuc customers over a box .. they rather just keep the boxes then come back... I use them alot to move bees .. add a foamy helps them regulate the heat better can still cut holes for the feeder.. in the foamy inter cover

[@timothymitchell8310]

Wild cherry tree nectar and it tastes like Robitussin cough syrup! See Bob that’s what I mean when I ask, “ What does it taste like”. I got some honey from a neighbor and I thought it tasted mediciney .

[@628DirtRooster]

Hey Mr. Bob do you typically sell out of nucs or do you end up merging or combining some back every year?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Hi Randy. We always sell out of what we want to sell.

[@dianetaylor6751]

Dust in the Wind! Good memories even if that does date me...

[@bobbinnie9872]

Dates me too.

[@solivaguswayfarer]

Thank you for sharing Bob 😊 That is a neat idea with the tint plug. How do those plastic pro nucs hold up over time?

[@bobbinnie9872]

I've only used them once so I'm not sure.

[@kevinogden4363]

That sure was a pretty load of bee with all them colored pronucs. Well we have honeysuckle, clover, vetch, cherokee rose, black locust, and tulip poplar in bloom. The tulip poplar is pretty early this year.

[@bobbinnie9872]

That's a lot of things at once.

[@kevinogden4363]

@@bobbinnie9872 it's pretty typical for area in April, black locust is my marker for swarm season. The tulip poplar usually doesn't come till May. Our flow is pretty constant, June it slows a little till soybeans and cotton bloom and then July ramps up, then a dearth in August, then we get goldenrod in September as well as some aster.

[@ScottReiser]

Hi Bob, I really enjoy watching you videos. I've learned alot and have enmloyed many of your techniques in my small hobby apiary. Have you seen the isolation cages that "Better Bee"sells? Would it work for timming the queen? The workers would have access to her through the wires.

[@bobbinnie9872]

I haven't tried one but it looks like it would work.

[@ScottReiser]

Thanks

[@rodrigogabrecht7945]

👍✌👏💝🤗

[@springcitybeefarm5971]

I’ve got 2 of Sha boos AI breeders I’m really struggling with keeping the queens colony smaller and manageable for grafting. I pull brood and bees every time I’m in box .yesterday I pulled the trigger and moved queens into another box with frame or 2 brood and xtra shake bees .just to try to slow her laying building. Love to hear or video on managing your breeder queens.my thought is conservation of her laying to maybe last her little longer .

[@bobbinnie9872]

You're thinking right. Brother Adam wrote about this in one of his books. Restricting your breeders will help them last longer.

[@jamesbarron1202]

I really like your vids about different plants. I’d like to know what are the top ten trees that produce the most nectar per tree. I just grew a bunch of Tupelo from seed. I planted 11 black Cherry, not knowing they make bad honey. I’d like to plant some Linden trees but it’s too hot and dry here in Texas and I can’t be watering them. I lost 2 pecan trees that I planted in the late 1980s to last summer’s heatwave and drought. I lost a lot of tree limbs on many other trees. Worst tree loss year I’ve ever seen in my 62 years. I grow pecans and Texas Monthly magazine wrote an article about all the Texas pecans that died last year. Catalpas are a tough Texas tree and I wonder if they produce a lot of nectar. I’ve read that their leaves even produce it.

[@bobbinnie9872]

I don't know much about good nectar producers in your area. Ours is much different because of the amount of rain we get.

[@jamesbarron1202]

@@bobbinnie9872 I’d just like to know the top 10 highest nectar trees that will grow in the United States. After that I can research their growing conditions. I just planted over 100 seedling this spring. 70 last year and lost about 1/4 of those to the drought. My well water is pretty high in sodium and without occasional rain to flush it, I’ll eventually kill them by watering, which I have to do. Especially in my sand.

[@wadeturner2665]

Bob, those old brood comb frames you are using as timing frames, are they on wax fountain or black plastic foundation? What are the differences between trying to graft out of frames with those two foundation types? I'm assuming you have tried both?

[@bobbinnie9872]

We have plastic foundation on everything and so we don't have much experience grafting from wax foundation.

[@framcesmoore]

Ha Bob I do have 1 question on the timing box is your queen raised in this box or do u put the hive in there when you are getting ready to graft. This guy su bo that u by your breeder queens from does he sell just regular queens to people or just the 500 kind. I wish u shipped queens. I got some queens from natures image farm last year, because they had your mix in them, Greg got your queens and mixed them with his, they have not done well so far here I did everything for them just like I have done for my mutts. so it not bee keeper mess up. The flow has started here as well. I have used your double screen boards with great success thanks for all the time u put into for doing videos. and the equipment I have bought from you well all of it is just wonderful made. Thanks hope u have a Blessed week.

[@bobbinnie9872]

We don't raise the breeder queens we are currently using and just start them out as a small nuc in these boxes when we get them. Shibu does sell open mated queens. His website is www.tworivershoneybees.com/. It's been several years since Greg got any bees from us so I'm not sure how much of those genetics remain. I hope you have a good flow this year.

[@framcesmoore]

@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks

[@fateh.3295]

Bees usually don't collect pollen of gymnosperms.

[@wadebarnes6720]

My bees are putting up money now and I did not think about the cherry trees so I walked outside and look and you can see them blooming everywhere

[@bobbinnie9872]

Hopefully the trees in your produce a better taste than ours.

[@wadebarnes6720]

@@bobbinnie9872 Me too I have to get rid of some honey this year I still have five buckets from last year which I know that's nothing to the honey you handle but I never eat that much I wouldn't think and I have a freezer full of honey in the frame I put that up just in case I need winter feed .

[@babybeeapiaries8667]

Bob, do you do anything special when introducing your $500 breeder queens? Anything different than other introductions?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Yes. We introduce slowly and use a push in cage. See 16:20 in our video "Queen Acceptance and Queen Supersedure" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnrCd39prdyLhK8

[@babybeeapiaries8667]

@@bobbinnie9872 I was wondering if you used a push in cage. I did that last year with my Caucasian queens i purchased. Thanks.

[@martprice7726]

Do them nucs have any ventilation or do you leave the doors open?

[@bobbinnie9872]

They are closed for the trip and do have ventilation on both ends.

[@johnmary8439]

Enjoy your videos!! Can you share the name of the breeder you are getting the Carno/Cauc Queens from? Thanks

[@bobbinnie9872]

Shibu Raj, Two Rivers Honey Bees.

[@johnmary8439]

@@bobbinnie9872 THANKS!!

[@amfarmsllc5624]

@bob Binnie, is the website not up and running yet? Or I looking at the wrong place?

[@bobbinnie9872]

No not yet. Frustrating but getting there.

[@JaredLincks]

Hello Mr. Binnie, I have a question for you sir. I have recently had the opportunity come my way to get into beekeeping at a much larger level. Been doing it for 5-years and I know a man with hundreds of colonies needing to get out of it for health reasons. If I wanted to clear $20,000 in revenue between queen production, nuc sales, and honey sales what is the minimum number of colonies you would look at having? I have had some tell me 30 colonies and others say 100. Would appreciate any thoughts you might have!

[@bobbinnie9872]

Hi Jerad. I enjoyed our conversation about all the variables on the phone. Good luck.

[@JaredLincks]

@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you sir, I enjoyed it as well. Appreciate your insights. God bless!

[@wadeturner2665]

Bob, the nucs you were making up at 2:50, when did you add the new queens? Indian Summer, presumably caged? Right then, as they went on the truck? When you set them in a nuc yard? Or later?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Yes, Indian Summer in this case. We usually will put them in at the end of the day which gives the bees at least a few hours being queenless.

[@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po]

Bob, do you ship queens? Would you send me any of those Caucasian Carniola Queens to Nevada?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Thanks for checking but we don't ship queens. Everything we make to sell can be sold at the store.

[@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po]

@bobbinnie9872 Guess I’ll have to plan a road trip to the store in the future

[@scrotiemcboogerballs1981]

Love watching thanks for sharing

[@sh9downonme71]

BOB BINNIE.......utuber DUSTIN REEDER has a trailer full of stolen bees. Unidentified hives look like your buddy in lousiana bees. The special pallet border and handle cuts. Trying to help.

[@bobbinnie9872]

I saw that. Very interesting. Which one in Louisiana are you referring to?

[@sh9downonme71]

@@bobbinnie9872 I forget the episode but he's down there and he goes through extensive washing of his beehives I mean its extensive washing he sends them to California to clean clean clean clean

[@sh9downonme71]

@@bobbinnie9872 I went back and looked at it it's Barry Hart

[@sh9downonme71]

@@bobbinnie9872 Barry Hart

[@sh9downonme71]

@@bobbinnie9872 I've tried replying a couple of times I guess he's a Georgia beekeeper Barry hart. Not Louisiana

[@zeb5478]

Indian Summer has Carniolians. Are you giving up on the Caucasian bees?

[@bobbinnie9872]

No, we just want to add back some Carniolan to our mix. These two mix well together. We actually still have some left from the recent past. We will still try to input a lot of Caucasian which we really like.

[@ricksutton2902]

Hey Bob how's it going this morning

[@bobbinnie9872]

It's raining and I slept in a bit. A good day.