Brilliance when it finally arrives 🐝🎯👌🏻😎

Absolutely amazing what a decent flow does to your hives and colonies. Thanks for tuning in everybody.
Just amazing to see so much healthy brewed Bees and Hives full of honey only after three weeks of decent nectar flow it’s not over yet even though it’s starting to decrease a little we may have another week lots going on a third Swarm arrived on the building and generally everything is looking so much better than it was six weeks ago
Nice to see you all again. Don’t forget to leave a comment if you like the video and click subscribe if you haven’t already.
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[@researcherAmateur]

Seems that the little white butterfly came back. The Metcalfa. It's almost a decade that I didn't see it and I just got a message from the scales 2kg yesterday and 1kg the day before. It will be a mix of medicinal and metcalfa. It's the white aphids that make your car sticky when you park under a tree. It's a blessed summer.

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Would be nice if they made that nicot in layens

[@richardnoel3141]

sure you can get it exported?

[@troytyrrell4333]

Hi Richard when you do a video on makeing nucs can you explain how many you make for how many hives you have and whats there use ie make up for dead outs sellings mite losses ect. We will be getting mites in the next few months so like to now how you do it. Thanks

[@richardnoel3141]

@@troytyrrell4333 yes sure! Starting splits next week.

[@eggshoney7633]

Great advice Richard, I will knock the last super frames out tonight as the UK is due some warm days apparently. Cheers

[@richardnoel3141]

Good luck! Hope you get some good honey

[@danphillips4590]

Richard, what does chestnut honey taste like?

[@richardnoel3141]

Very strong, pungent, but ours is mixed with bramble so it’s considerably softer in flavour. We say harvest taste . Summer honey is very popular here

[@martinbrochristensen348]

Nice to see Richard🤓 hope you will have a lot of Good honey 🐝

[@richardnoel3141]

Hoping so, thank you

[@nancynolton6079]

What does the chestnut smell like?

[@richardnoel3141]

Incredibly deep rich and heavy overpowering smell.

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Wow! Wonder what that tastes like Richard?

[@richardnoel3141]

Can be overpowering if nothing else mixed in with it, luckily we have bramble here which really mellows it to a great flavour

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Those are neat plastic frames! No need to wax! I’d get at least 2 empty supers on those hives!! Hope we get a similar flow!! 😅😅😅😅

[@richardnoel3141]

@@gwenyngruffydd been and resupered since. All looking good. 👍

[@gwenyngruffydd]

@@richardnoel3141 your hives looked great!!

[@user-vp6sv1zf9l]

one thing i have known is that having got rid of your MiniPLus hives is that you have no spare mated queens to use However you manage alright . My regards

[@richardnoel3141]

Thank you

[@mustrumridcully3853]

Thanks for the tips about a queenless colony. Every time I see your videos, I get the urge to go and look at mine lol.

[@richardnoel3141]

Good luck. All little things I picked up. Hope it helps

[@russellkoopman3004]

Great news Richard. It will be quite a fun job extracting all that wonderful honey. Have a great week.

[@richardnoel3141]

Thanks, you too!

[@brianmorgan8950]

Hi Richard. Great videos. Are they Sweet Chestnut and not Horse Chestnut

[@JM-nd4kt]

Sweet chestnut

[@richardnoel3141]

Yes all sweet chestnut, horse chestnut is really a may flowering tree here. Always finished by June

[@researcherAmateur]

Nice, now they filling it up. Mine did a solid lavender crop even caged or with restricted nest. But some friends on chestnut aren't happy.. it's already done. Did you manage to do some brood breaks.. I'm helping two friends in Italy with 1000 each. It's doable even if you work only early mornings to 10 AM. The heat 🥵

[@richardnoel3141]

Yes starting brood breaks next week, making nucs, raising queens. It’s a nightmare if it’s hot

[@researcherAmateur]

@@richardnoel3141 l have the opportunity to buy used Nicot frames here in Italy... l just want your opinion. My Heather flow is usually really good but very late in compare with other places. Sometimes September- November. It's warm and they will draw if they have to. The question l have ..would it be better for me to wax them for that late flow. I have the wax it wouldn't be a problem.. but will it help to build them that late. It's a good price.. l think I'll buy them anyway. I just want an opinion does waxing makes it easier...

[@richardnoel3141]

@@researcherAmateur hi, if their already used or not the bees seem happy to build to them. It’s the spacing that is more important. As per the video. Good luck with your Heather.

[@researcherAmateur]

​​@@richardnoel3141 thanks Richard. This is my vacation and I'm spending it with bees again. But only early mornings. I will buy them ,it will be easy to transport with a boat to my place. Thank you. Wow. I just watched again. You know how much difference it is... l already eaten the Brunbels here.

[@alanporter2694]

The Brittany county side looks great.

[@robertcampbell943]

Hi Richard, love your videos! Thanks for your hard work! I noticed you using a plastic bottom board, sure wish we could get some of those in Canada as well as those entrance reducers. Thanks again, have a great season.😊🐝

[@robertwattam947]

Brilliant thank you Richard

[@martindale7559]

Thank you, once again very enjoyable

[@mikehill9888]

Thank you for the video 😊

[@sidelinerbeekeeper]

You have the energy of a horse race announcer. Steadily building excitement to the finish line.

[@richardnoel3141]

@@sidelinerbeekeeper admittedly I get a bit carried away. May be not such a bad thing but sometimes I need to tone it down a bit! 🙌🐝 🙏

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Hello Richard I enjoy seeing Bee keepers with a smile on our face as we see the colony building and building. Can you list the information on those frames you are using. I know you probably have not had any time to do anything on your extraction system but just I would ask . I have got behind on watching videos here for a while but now that our season is gone I will be trying to get caught up on everyone’s . Thanks for the time you an all the bee keepers put into bring these videos to us all . Hope you have a great season. Thanks

[@richardnoel3141]

Hi Kathy their Nicot “Baticadre” will try and send a link attached hope it works. www.nicotplast.fr/presentationfrancais/fpagecadre.htm You will need to buy from an authorised distributor

[@kathyhathaway8823]

@@richardnoel3141 Thanks Richard I got it . I will check in to those . Thanks

[@glennsnaturalhoney4571]

Is chestnut good honey? Not something we have in Northern Indiana.

[@mustrumridcully3853]

It can be quite dark and a strong flavour.

[@researcherAmateur]

I think you have to be used to it. I like it.. but it has a special taste. It's sweet and bitter. If that's the right word.. really bitter

[@44birdie44]

I didnt think chestnut produced nectar in July? Thought it was only when in flower in May. Greetings from Ireland

[@richardnoel3141]

@@44birdie44 your may be thinking of horse chestnut? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum This is sweet chestnut 🌰 Castanea Sativa

[@44birdie44]

@richardnoel3141 ah that's what it is. The horse chestnut hasn't been in flower since May/early June. Not sure if there is much Sweet chestnut around me here. Thanks

[@curtislesann2948]

Hello! I recently went queenless and I knew right away because they were backfilling the brood nest with honey. Now, I have a queen in there and we’re in a honey flow, will they move the honey from the brood nest up to the supers? Anyone know this answer? Because I don’t really have any empty frames to replace the backfilled ones with for her to lay

[@researcherAmateur]

As usual nobody wants to help.. only pretty words. If there is an excluder.. bees will move uncapped but not capped honey from the nest. You can scratch the cappings with your hive tool to make them move it or use it. If that is a strong flow (I assume you have 2 boxes) you should get a super anyways. But you should extract what you can and give back the empty frames if that's the only way to make space. And be fast about it. There's too many questions about it. Excluder ? Boxes? How strong is the flow? and the hive strength.. are they all old bees...

[@curtislesann2948]

@@researcherAmateur Hey thanks for the reply! Yeah really strong hive, a little less right now due to the brood break from being queenless for a week. I have two brood boxes and 4 supers on. 2 are completely filled, 3rd is semi filled and the 4th needs to be drawn out still. I do have an excluded on and a lot of the honey I saw was not capped. That was 3 days ago though but she should just be getting out of the queen cage today, so hopefully her pheromones that were hopefully accepted a day ago signalled the hive that she’s there and they can resume putting honey in the supers, not brood comb.

[@richardnoel3141]

Sorry for not replying sooner, yes they should move honey out of the brood nest in to the supers. On numerous occasions I’ve seen colonies completely honey bound after swarming. As soon as a new queen is in there, by whatever means they will make space for her to lay. Good question

[@researcherAmateur]

@@curtislesann2948 yes, you're not in a bad situation with that hive. Richard is right. The bees will remove the honey to make space. I bet they started as soon they felt the pheromone. They get confused without it but with the queen back they organize their work...

[@curtislesann2948]

@@richardnoel3141 thanks for the reply! Yeah because I’m afraid if they don’t remove the honey, they’re going to swarm again haha it’s +35C here in Canada so it won’t take too long for them to dry out that honey, so hopefully they’ve got a move on with rearranging the honey in to the correct box

[@jays200gspsreeftank7]

Hi Richard, what are the white super frames you are getting drawn out? Thanks

[@richardnoel3141]

Nicot “Baticadre” made by Nicoplast