Checking in on the Nectar Flow | S3 E6

After 3 beautiful days of sunshine and expected rain tomorrow, I need to get back in the hives to see how much nectar these girls have been bringing in. I also want to make sure that we've got any potential swarms under control -- which means killing any swarm cups. So let's get in there!! 🐝🐝🐝
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[@moonlitsakura1944]

I'm here for the bee drama 🤓🐝

[@mikkj1]

Do you think bees see beekeepers as that nosy, annoying, neighbor? 🍯

[@privatebubba8876]

More like an invading marauder pillaging village.

[@bcgrote]

A curious, sometimes vengeful god who takes away their hard work every year?

[@piper_lori-williams-tudhope]

mikkj1 😂 🐝

[@tsukinokitsune]

I would be so personally offended that the bees kept leaving me. Am I not cool enough? Why swarm? :(

[@BulletForThyLover]

I love how educational Emmy's channel is. I have zero interest in bee keeping but something about Emmy that makes me excited to see how her hives are doing.

[@LoveBoobies3]

Yes next time (spring ) add supers earlier when u just start to see drone cells. Also if you tried your 5 day inspection trick more then 3 times . Then ill take the orginal queen and make a split with a nuc.. that way It usually stops the swarming ... also once your virgin queen mates and if she dosent come back or has issues,,, you can always re introduce your old queen !! ;) great videos :) dont stop

[@consciouscommunity3897]

Bee husbandry is no joke! Good job

[@Warren76317]

I know you don't want anymore hives but even if you requeen they may still swam. You can alway sell something. Bees or a nuc. the bottom line is they will swam when then out grow the box. good luck

[@bgishy]

Oh my God these videos freak me out so bad but at the same time I can’t stop watching! 😳What the hell Emmy? Why?? What is this power you have over me? 😬Just hold me and tell me it’s going to be ok😜Ugh!

[@emmymadeextras]

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[@stevenogborn5892]

That damm necter flow makes the Queen ready to fly.

[@StevieLynnOsborne]

Love your bee keeping videos. They are such amazing creatures. Someday I hope to get over my fear of being stung. I’d love to keep bees.

[@aBc-123-XyZ]

🐝well Emmy. You and family have a great weekend. 🐝🐓🐝

[@melissamcclain34]

🐝🤓 LOVE your beekeeping videos... honestly I love ALL of your videos ❤

[@wildman166]

You rock Mrs. Emmy !!! My wife and I have just started beekeeping down here in Sarasota , Fl. . Keep up these cool videos , great info ! Take care from the Smith Family

[@hannahgray8740]

Just found these..... it helps me when I cannot sleep!!!! Plus im getting educated 🌼🐝🐝🌼

[@orenburg6318]

Hey Emmy! Great post! Just a couple of observations- if there’s no excluder, it’s not a super, just another brood box. You can see the queen on the top box on the black frame timestamp frame 4:30 very top of frame. Just when you say “great” you seemed excited by the nectar & probably assumed the queen wouldnt be in the top frame.

[@darrellhamner4608]

I understand (and, in my limited experience, found it to be mostly true) queens tend not to climb above the top deep to lay eggs. Some refer to queen excluders as honey excluders.

[@nenaelliott8058]

If there are eggs in the hive but you don't see a queen.. isn't the fact that there are eggs proof enough that there is a queen present?

[@donbeissel2965]

Nena Elliott Yes

[@nenaelliott8058]

@@donbeissel2965 .. thank you. So it's likely that the queen is there somewhere, possibly hiding... But the presence of a queen cup means the bees MAY but not necessarily want to replace her.

[@alice705]

There has been a queen in the last 4 days is all you can really know if you see eggs :)

[@mohawksniper79]

Next time you should try doing your split with the queen not the cell the queen will only lay in the cup if she wants to swarm you can make more splits with the cell but one of the splits have to be the queen. your big hive will make a new queen and still collect resources well they're making a queen. Once the queen lays an egg in that cup she can Swarm at any time they don't need to finish building the cell as long as there's an egg in the cell she can take off and will.

[@emilycascerceri6953]

I love honey! I've always been scared of bees (because when I was 10 I got stung on my eye brown and my eye was swollen up for 2 weeks straight) but they create such an amazing product! I love your videos!

[@danila6261]

Why didn't you try to do a walk away split on the white cloth like last year? I would have kept the queen cup in the big hive.

[@thesaltyspitoon.]

Another bee vloggg! Love you Emmy! Thank you so much for helping me through the hard times and inspiring me to do more!

[@jimdavis778]

Em, my bees gave been feistier than usual this spring. My last inspection, a few days ago, was in nice, warm weather and they finally were much more relaxed. I think the rain and coolness has been tough on them.

[@echo3347]

I'm facing a similar situation. Was odd that I found a few (not many) eggs that were properly laid which suggests it wasn't a drone laying. I had a couple of capped Queen cells and could not locate my marked queen. I believe mine swarmed at some point as the population seems lower...so I left the queen cell in peace. Eager to get in and see whats going on in there. Enjoy your vids!

[@rupertmedford3901]

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[@samanthamcfadden2022]

Love your bee check's. But I did notes that you don't use enough smoke. Its almost pointless to use it lol. Just saying.

[@Panda-jd4kv]

I usually don't watch longer vids like this on yt but I looove these vids! They are sooooo interesting! I was also wondering about when your face get swollen from the bee stings, do you do anything special to get the swelling down or just wait it out with some ice?

[@recoveringsoul755]

20 minutes is "long"? Wow attention spans of people these days.

[@DarrellCraig]

good video. the flow has been on here in middle TN. we've pulled 71 pounds off of 1 hive so far and still has some more on it.

[@creatorediillusioni]

hi, i like your channel, i saw all your videos in a couple of days, you look really knowledgeable about beekeeping, also really sweet and lovely. i am new bk too , i just want give you one advice(sorry bit long), you have too many swarm and beetle issue, probably for 2 main issue: 1st you should give up with short brood chamber and go with deep, 2 short are not the same as one deep, your hive are too tall and every level give separation from the other, bees do not sense the queen pheromone, bees use wax as living tissue to move informations and pheromones within the hive, having to many separations make the "infos" slow down from bottom to top, brood chamber should be 1 or max 2 hive stacked. also all those levels make way easier to beetle to run away and find way to hide. 2nd it could also be a bad queen genetic that push be to swarm too much, you should contact a good BK who can sell you a proven good genetic queen with less swarming dna. thank you. PS i heard one of your kid speak japanese in the video, but you do not look japanese :=) bye

[@sweetpeabrooks9400]

Thank you for these videos! You inspire me!!!

[@mollyvandever9817]

🐝🤓 Yay! I love your bee videos.

[@bcgrote]

I read that there were major hive die offs over this last winter, according to an annual hive survey. I was thinking, well, the KZbinrs I watch who have hives did just fine this year!

[@michaelgilbert7851]

Your girls really love you! Mine tries to cut my throat but I Luve them!😂😂😂😂 Really enjoy the videos!

[@chefevilee9566]

🐝 🤓 I have been watching videos about wild Bee Keeping over on the channel “off grid with Doug and Stacy”. It’s pretty interesting this man named Dr. Leo has been on twice. They actually captured two swarms. One on purpose and one on accident LOL. But anyway it’s been pretty interesting watching the two different ways to keep bees.

[@scottmoxie]

I love these 😍

[@katl.8080]

How long does it take for a queen cell to hatch a queen? And does the hive recycle the queen cells you destroy? I find this very interesting. And what is the difference between nectar and honey, is it the color? Love the videos!

[@fai5734]

So interesting!

[@1351992]

hi amy, out of curiosity, why you wont be introducing the queen from the queen cell that you took from the hive and you are going to buy a different one? hopefully the queen is still in there... :)

[@sipplix]

Just let them re-queen themselves and leave them alone, no need to hurry, unless your a commercial beekeeper and you need honey production to be consistent.

[@cutiekay22]

🐝🤓 i can’t believe it’s been 3 years since you’ve started bee keeping!!! that means i was 16 when you started 🧐 time really flies

[@SamanthaDiane]

🐝😎 sunglasses is the best i got. Lol

[@greenbunny2007]

I notice you say that there's a great laying pattern a lot. What happens if there isn't a good laying pattern? Like an incompetent queen, I suppose. Do you replace her or would the colony kill her?

[@alicedubois1348]

If the queen is "weak", then the colony itself will create a new queen and kill the incompetent one.

[@katkaat]

Man, bees are SO interesting

[@artistzamira6360]

You should look into horizontal hives ...

[@MissMustang98]

Hi, Emmy. Have you considered getting a “Flow” hive?

[@emmymadeextras]

No, not really.

[@blondiemclovin]

Do the chickens know not to go near the bees?

[@queenofcreepsville]

I have a stupid question LOL. When you smash the "Swarm cells" is it killing a potential future Queen? I mean I know and understand why you do it, just wondering if there was any way you could salvage that potential Queen. Or are they sometimes just empty? (OK maybe SEVERAL stupid questions lol)

[@kerrypolson2207]

QueenofCreepsville if she says it’s a queen cup then it’s empty. If it’s a queen cell then it has a baby in it.

[@queenofcreepsville]

Thegirlwiththewierdname 2 thank you!

[@PetWessman]

Why not just let the two hives from hive 3 re-queen themselves if the main hive 3 is actually queenless? I mean, the queens be harder to spot, but you also have a booming hive, so the original queen's DNA might be worth holding on to? And if either fails to make a queen, then you can combine the two again, or just buy a queen, or is combining hives impossible?

[@neccosan]

What is your opinion on the Flow Hive?

[@reneeallen3569]

I adore your bee vlogs!!!

[@onespiceybbw]

🤓🐝 Nothing secret about it.

[@theblackestbeauty]

Why re-queen? Why not just let one develop?

[@nenaelliott8058]

If you let a queen hatch and the other bees are ok with her they have to swarm. That is part of the mating process. It's not guaranteed they will come back to the same hive that they left... They could end up in a tree limb out a mile away, you just never know.

[@JackW42]

“🐝🤓” :P 🐝♥️

[@Qualiall1]

Hi Emmy- check out 628DirtRooster 's channel..he's a professional bee keeper who is pretty good at teaching you everything you need to know about bee keeping--or at least he has some good advice.

[@ashleymennenga1732]

🐝🤓

[@donbeissel2965]

You should really read up on what causes swarming. Hint: it is not the presence of swarm cells.

[@xCommonz]

👌🔥

[@miaangela96]

I'm trying to learn beekeeping to gain farm status. Thanks for sharing!! Also, will you post more chicken vids? Thank you!

[@estelaornelas276]

Here is an exelent and informative bee keeping resource kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHm0dWqYjKiqiNk

[@estelaornelas276]

I love Emmy but this is not the best way to keep bees .

[@shewearsfunnyhat]

You should do a video making these beeswax wraps. blog.mountainroseherbs.com/the-complete-guide-to-diy-beeswax-wraps-including-a-beeless-vegan-food-wrap

[@astaroiddd4186]

Hello everybody it's BUNNY!!

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🐝🤓 :)

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If you get a chance you should check out Vino Farm KZbin channel

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"🐝🤓"

[@apex0404]

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[@gaill7908]

Every 5 days you have to go through your entire hives? And take them all apart? Those poor bees! 🐝 is that 100% necessary?? Just do the split so they can not be bothered so much, please.

[@donbeissel2965]

Gail Lurie No, it isn’t necessary. I wonder who is telling her to do this crazy crap.

[@gaill7908]

Don Beissel I’m not a bee keeper but I’m fascinated with bee keeping vids and watch a ton of them and I’ve never seen anyone bother their bees so much. Makes me sad.

[@mohhkneekuhh]

I don't understand what the big deal with letting them swarm is. If it's natural and there are new queens being made, why not let them just do their thing??? I can't forget when she squished one of the queens heads. Seems like too much involvement in these hives and for what reason??? Is she in the honey business or something?

[@RebornVT]

I mean she did have an entire hive die when she left them alone while on vacation and they are constantly doing things really quickly without her knowing. I think it's normal for her since she wants to constantly care for the same group of bees to learn their behavior to be a better bee keeper.

[@MrDiscopunkk]

@@RebornVT When did her hive die off? I don't remember her making a video about one of her hives dying off.

[@tomkingsley4398]

As a beekeeper, this is just too frustrating to watch for me. I'll be unsubscribing. Goodbye.

[@arogue469]

WAIT!!! Please don't go! Noooooo!!! Honestly, as a beekeeper, I'm sure you realize we all have a lot to learn, no matter how long we have been doing this. If you're seeing things that are wrong, why not share that? Then maybe we could all learn from your experience. Constructive criticism serves better than petulance.

[@Birdbike719]

why are you frustrated? How about sharing your experience so we can all learn. Or start your own YT bee show and teach people that way. Exiting in a huff just makes you look silly.

[@emmagraham1774]

@Thomas Kingsley I agree with both you and the other comments here. Please share what she is doing wrong. Or suggest somewhere she could turn for better advice. I can’t keep bees but have a massive interest in bee keeping and find these videos very uncomfortable to watch. I’m not convinced her mentor is giving her the best information.

[@tomkingsley4398]

Honey Bees do two things, they reproduce and they make honey. Trying to manipulate a hive after they have made up their mind to swarm is like trying to make water run uphill. I think it's a disservice to the viewer to think that managing a hive in this fashion is good for the bees or realistic for any person interested in keeping bees

[@Birdbike719]

@@tomkingsley4398 thank you for your answer. So, swarming isnt inevitable? Do you not remove new queen cells, etc from your hives or do you just let them alone?

[@donbeissel2965]

So much WTF?

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