🔵Swarm Season Hive Management.

[@kamonreynolds]

Swarm control starts at 14:00 into the video.

[@partical7]

Would adding a honey box (with excluder)help deter there swarm impulse or would making a walk away split/nuc work best...🐝

[@TB-zl6le]

@@partical7 I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he was preventing premature swarming before the nectar flow via rearranging the nest. It may still be too early for his area to add an excluded space. Bee brains are dynamic...that’s where the keeper earns his keep

[@rolandcarlos765]

you prolly dont care at all but does anybody know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot the login password. I would love any assistance you can give me.

[@rolandcarlos765]

@Rowan Kylen thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@leonardschoettmer5805]

@@partical7 llook

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Laural is excellent on that camera, she’s always filming where I’m wanting to look

[@russellkoopman3004]

I know! Laurel's filming adds so much plus she is able to edit Kamon's oops moments. LOL

[@kamonreynolds]

She happens to be my favorite camera girl but I could be biased

[@eaglewolfff]

Hallo from Ireland! I've been a beekeeper for over 50 years, so I know a bit about them! This young man is a good and knowledgeable beekeeper - top of the range in my opinion. Very entertaining

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks eaglewolfff!

[@TennesseeTim38451]

Laurel drops a disclaimer apologies for kamon!!😂😂😂😂 priceless!!!!

[@raysbees7650]

“Kamon said something dumb here!!”She’s a keeper!! You guys are great!

[@kamonreynolds]

Lets all be honest.... what is truly surprising is that she hasn't done this more often

[@LarryLeesBees]

@@kamonreynolds - LoL!!! 🤣

[@l.skipallen9080]

@@kamonreynolds LOL LOL LOL

[@markstevenson3880]

If it was my wife, she would have edited out most of the video clip..... I just never learn!

[@wwoutdoors7300]

Favorite be man. Best camera person ever. 👍

[@ECP]

I love when you say FIXIN my friend!!! Lol 😂

[@kamonreynolds]

Haha You should hear Laurel say it!

[@kevinwright8823]

Great video! Thanks guys! Laurel, I'm looking forward to the bloopers video at the next conference!!! 🤣😂🤣

[@kamonreynolds]

Well it won't be that hard I am sure to find the content

[@mountainhobbit1971]

nothing wrong with a beat up Subaru! I love mine and it is also paid for!!

[@kamonreynolds]

Amen on paid for. Haven't had a car payment in years and that little subaru has paid for itself. Good little Bee vehicles

[@_J.F_]

I really enjoyed this very thorough frame-by-frame walk through in this video. As a suggestion I would like to recommend that, either at the very beginning, or at the very end, you give us a quick breakdown of what you are planning to do, why you do it, and what you are hoping to achieve by doing it. This will help us hobby beekeepers understand the process much better when you give these in depth walk throughs. Thanks for all your great videos 😀

[@LarryLeesBees]

Another outstanding video Kamon! Of course I give ALL the credit to Laurel for her amazing videography and knowing how to edit out your shenanigans! LoL!!! 🤣 You guys are great and I sure do enjoy your videos. Thanks for all you do! Both of you, in front and behind the camera. Keep on keeping on. 🐝😎

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Larry hope things are going well for you up north. Laurel and I were talking about you just today.....all good things of course haha

[@LarryLeesBees]

@@kamonreynolds - Hey Kamon! Doing great! Weather is finally warming a bit. Maple trees are blossoming. We were in the club hives yesterday and the girls were bringing in the pollen. It was awesome to see. My bees are arriving the 17th... I’m so ready to get going. 🤣 I have all my hives staged and ready for install day. I’m excited to see your test yard kicking off. Can’t wait to see what you have planned coming up. Again, thanks for all you do. You are appreciated and you keep me motivated! LoL!!! 🐝😎

[@donbearden1953]

Laurel, you should have let us hear and see what you edited out. Nobody is perfect! You always do great with the filming! Kamon, I really don’t know how you can keep talking and explaining things without making a lot of mistakes! The two of you are great and I have the utmost respect for both of you! By the way I’m so glad that you produced this video because this is good information to know!

[@LarryLeesBees]

Don, I alway like seeing your comments! You are always so positive and supportive. Makes my day when I see other beekeepers encouraging and uplifting fellow BEEKS! ❤️ 🐝😎

[@donbearden1953]

@@LarryLeesBees Thanks! I try to look at the good! I try to see the glass as half full instead of half empty.

[@LarryLeesBees]

@@donbearden1953 - And that’s what I appreciate Sir. I’m the same. After a long military career, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just not that serious. Life is too darn short to dwell on the negative. 🐝😎

[@attesmatte]

I totally agree with everything you wrote! They're both awesome! 😀

[@josephfryc5994]

Kamon fantastic video, I don't understand why you don,t have over 50K subscribers, if anyone deserves it you do. Happy Easter.

[@beebob1279]

I just noticed that. It's a shame too. He's very good.

[@LarryLeesBees]

I have no doubt that Kamon and Laurel will get there. He has big folks like Frederick Dunn and Ian Steppler giving him shoutouts on their channels. And the more we share his channel on our pages the faster he’ll grow. 😃

[@beebob1279]

@@LarryLeesBees Who's Frederick Dunn? There are so many professional beekeepers out there on youtube. It's great that they do this and so many to choose from. The one thing I don't do is watch home beekeepers. A lot are starting out in beekeeping and since they took a class or read a book they think they know everything. I'll check out Dunn next. Thanks for the input

[@LarryLeesBees]

@@beebob1279 - Hey Bob, Frederick Dunn is a photographer and backyard beekeeper who has been keeping bees for just shy of 20 years. He started his KZbin days discussing his chickens and even wrote a book on the subject. His bee channel has been great for the beginning beekeeper where he has weekly Q an A videos about beekeeping. And not taking anything away from Laurel and Kamon, they are awesome down to earth folks with a love for bees that shows in every video. They are just on a different level with over 300 hives. Fred tries to keep his apiary to under 20 colonies. Both great channels, just targeting a different audience. They just both happen to fit my particular demographic, as I am a retired Soldier of 24 years of active duty service and now a backyard beekeeper, with 10 hives (the bees are my zen), with goals of having a couple hundred hives. So for me they are both amazing folks that I have learned a great deal from. 😃 Also, I’m a home beekeeper and I by no means think I know it all. I’ve met beekeepers that have been doing it for 40+ years that tell me they are still learning about their bees. My channel is not about training anyone but myself. It’s my vlog to go back and check my successes as well as failures, so I can do it better next time. 😁

[@beebob1279]

@@LarryLeesBees I'll have to check him out

[@TB-zl6le]

Awesome meat and potatoes video on early season swarm management. Well done. This video should be shown at every club for new and semi experiences keepers. Again, well done.

[@kamonreynolds]

Wow, thanks!

[@viscache1]

You always find the queen in the last place you look! That’s proof that persistence pays! (Or, that like any other normal person, you stop looking once you’ve found her!)

[@dsummerscm]

I can’t believe Laurel would accuse you of saying something “edit” worthy! 😂

[@kamonreynolds]

Lol if you only knew!

[@loislangley2975]

Nice one Thank you. Spring now here in Queensland Australia. So good timing.

[@kamonreynolds]

Happy beekeeping hope your spring is exceptional!

[@randyjames1465]

Keep UP THE THE GOOD WORK

[@brucesbees]

It makes me feel better about my queen finding skills to know that you have the same problems finding queens as me. 😂😂

[@kathyhathaway8823]

What a great bunch of hives . You both are doing great. I found out yesterday that I think one or maybe both of my two hives have got in some kind of poison. Just holding my breath to see what happens 🙏🙏 I am just starting back over with bees where I had around 130 hives back in the 60’s - 70’s . Thank for all your helping video’s. Thanks from Gene

[@michaelfike7542]

Happy Easter and great information as always. 👍❤🐝🐝🐝

[@CentralBeekeepersSupply]

Excellent job on the video! Thanks for the info.

[@beeornottobee4507]

Thank you for posting this! Very informative, clear and concise. Thank God for bees. ! Hi from Belarus bee's forests!

[@jamesmcpherson4057]

I used to have hives about 36 years ago, and now circumstances are changing where I may be able to get back into it, so have been watching videos galore. It will at least 4 or 5 months yet, but I am looking forward to it. One thing that has changed is there are more diseases/"varmits" to worry about than back then. But I'm not letting that stop me. From what I have seen from only two of your videos, I am impressed. I had been watching David Burns for a while, but actually unsubscribed from his channel. For someone who is a Master Beekeeper, he did NOT impress me. To me his channel was too much talking and not enough action. I think I have learned more from two of your presentations than I did from all of his. Keep up the GREAT work. Having learned about the weight of vertical hives back then, I am going to try horizontal hives and give my aging back a break. I don't plan on more than 4 hives, but that can change as well. I won't have to buy hives since I do a lot of woodworking and plan on building my own. But do plan on watching your channel a lot more.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for the kind words James! Welcome aboard!

[@lances8872]

Thanks Kamon for the videos.

[@mike-md]

Great Video K & L!! Coming from someone who hasn't started my journey yet, it's always amazing to me the amount of patience, passion, and work you, Bob B, Ian, Randy Oliver, Kent Williams, and MANY others put into their bees! By Taking the time to share, all of you have had a positive effect on beekeeping at every level!! Heck, maybe we should get Randy Oliver to do a study on that!! 😉

[@kamonreynolds]

Thank you Mike, you are too generous to throw my name in with those guys.

[@richardpraeger6357]

Thanks Kamon for another great video. I have learned so much from you. Roll Tide!

[@kamonreynolds]

Glad to help ROLL TIDE ROLL!

[@zetectic7968]

Very interesting. You are almost working as hard as the bees 😀

[@hotrod639]

Your hives look healthy and happy! Nice work ! Thanks for sharing!

[@yasminnilima2366]

Nothing wrong with that Subaru. I drow one when I did work in Minneapolis. LOL, good job Laurel! Happy hollidays to all of you!

[@randallcarter-carterhillho2277]

This is a great video and demonstration. Thanks for information.

[@oneshoo]

Outstanding instructional video Kamon! Now I would like to see how you handle capped queen cells?? 👍👍

[@brownlmatt]

Good information about my favorite girls been bad.

[@HaselorHoney]

Great video as usual, thank you🐝😂🤗

[@mrtraumaboyy4098]

Thank you So much Kamon!!! This is graduate level information!!

[@GoneWildKennels]

You are at least 6 weeks ahead of alberta bees, we just cracked into a hive since October. No dead hives so we are happy. Blowing up from 2 to 12 hives this season on 1/2 section of alfalfa. Swarm season starts here second week of May Thur all of June.

[@Vaidelotelis]

Thank you so much for your videos. They are always so informative and helpful.

[@beekeepinggarden165]

Great idea 👌🐝🐝 Happy Easter Kamon 🍻🐝😉🍯

[@JOSIANGREENVLOGS]

Super performance

[@johnoliver9885]

Can’t remember my wife’s birthday but I can tell you how long I’ve had a bee box.

[@kamonreynolds]

😀😇

[@ericgunter45]

Thanks for another great video. Got some Hill Co frames w/ foundation in the mail yesterday. Very impressed with the quality, much better than the farm store frames I had initially purchased. Plus since they are in the same state as I am and use Speedy Delivery shipping is super fast.

[@td4190]

Wow even from the beginning of that video there's bees everywhere

[@beewize9982]

I wish that weather was here in New Jersey we are back in 20 at night 😡

[@theheritagehousesc]

Great video! Need to check mine soon

[@SuperBuickregal]

Good morning 🌞 Kamon, we’re waiting for the Dandelions to emerge here in N.E Ohio. I checked the poly hives on a warm day in mid March day and found 2 frames of brood and swapped the boxes like you did. Thanks for the tip.

[@cnevett6854]

I watched this video twice. These are so instructional. Go slow on those split videos ...I am still confused over all the different types of splits and how you choose which one to employ for the particular situation. Blessed Easter to you and Laurel!

[@carrollrhodes4050]

Kamon, When you leave the queen cells with the larvae still inside, sometimes the bees will come along and repair those cells. Just a word of caution from someone who has trimmed thousands of queen cells, do remove the larva and the jelly. You are tempting fate! Your videographer is great! Carroll

[@geckoproductions4128]

very instructive, thank you

[@noahG82]

Located in North Central WV and did a dive into the hives today. Was able to get a mated queen from Georgia (Carni Hybrid) to get accepted in 1 of my 6 hives that made it through winter. Checked my other 5 hives and they are just so full of bees I decided to so walk away splits once I found queen cups hanging off the bottom. One had already been capped. I took her and 7 frames full of brood all stages of bee life and a frame of honey to new location. Started with 6 hives today ended up with 8. 2 will need to make their own queen 🤞. Thanks for the videos always looking forward to the next!

[@hansfreundwich8331]

I'd love to see an update video on this hive to see how your efforts to stop the swarming panned out.

[@petrosanapalis4005]

Hey Kamon.. i think i saw a cup on the top of the second frame of the second box you checked... you missed it..hope it was dry.. and i hate destroy swarm cells..did i mention that? worst job ever... thank you!! Greetings from Greece..

[@benjamindejonge3624]

OMG it’s like game of trones

[@tammyshaw4887]

So good you are good at explaining bees and frames.

[@dkeithcollins]

I notice you're wearing a jacket and veil more often since your trip to Hawaii...😁😁😁

[@philipmontgomery5626]

Great

[@TheMikieG]

Very kool

[@98honeybees92]

Crazy how early swarms are this season

[@downunderfulla6001]

Awesome thanks 🍺🍺

[@jeffeubanks370]

I really enjoy your videos Kamon, I can tell your “good people”. Keep up the good work bee brother!!

[@amycatestl]

I appreciate the narration of everything you're doing. This is great. But I am so jealous! I am at least as gentle and calm as you are, but my bees get hyper defensive as soon as I so much as open the top. I've been stung through my gloves already several times this year.

[@ericshipplett3517]

I have a terrible time finding the queen. Please do a detail video on finding the queen.

[@attesmatte]

A tip I got was to first put a queen excluder between the brood boxes, and then, a few days later, you check for eggs, and the box with eggs will be where the queen is. Then you take that box and put it to the side on a separate bottom board with a cover/roof for an hour, just enough so that the forager bees have returned to the original hive. Once that's done you will only have nurse bees and the queen in that box that you put to the side, and it will make it much easier to find that elusive lady. 👍 I haven't tried this yet, but I definitely will try it this summer, because I also have a really hard time finding the queen.

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Does it help reduce the swarm urge to pull brood and replace with new foundation, keeping the workers busy? Happy Blessed Easter to all. After seeing your burr-drone comb, this is our 2nd year of using done frames (per Mr. Binnie). It sure seems to reduce the binding burr comb. Kind of beautifying those pain in the arse bridging drone cells. Maybe freeing the workers to do other hive stuff? They do use it to keeping winter stores. And for a hive we don't find its genetics desirable, pulling those frames every 2 weeks or so, limiting potential bad seed spread? Realizing in a large apiary what kind of a nuisance that would be.

[@cypher8855]

Loving how the wife edits out the dumb stuff you say. My wife does that to me as well so you're not alone bro

[@Keith-xc9wf]

Kamon you rock! Wondering your opinion on using just 9 frames so the bees draw the comb out thicker and making it easier to harvest the honey with a hot knife ???

[@kamonreynolds]

All of our honey supers once drawn are reduced to 9 frames in a 10 frame box. I have even gone to 8 BUT they can be a pain to uncap sometimes as they will build burr comb between them from time to time.

[@beebob1279]

It's amazing how fast a colony can get ahead of the beekeeper. You're in a time now where they've got to be checked often or they're in a tree. Excellent video showing your strategy on swarm control. I'm switching this year to comb production and this can be a nightmare for swarms if not done correctly. My friend who allowed me to use her certified extracting facility went into assisted living. I have no extracting facility now. I'll be processing cut comb at the farm store instead. Liquid honey brings too many bees to their retail center because of the honey smell and the urge to rob. Do you produce comb honey? I think it would be a great opportunity for you to demonstrate the management for comb honey. Herman Danenhower from my neck of the woods (Southeastern Pennsylvania) demonstrates the Juniper Hill Split and his changes he made to make producing comb honey less labor intensive. He's been featured in the beekeeping journals and truly knows his stuff.

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Bee Bob I have never produced comb honey but hope to in the near future

[@jeffdavis189]

Do your full size hives next to each other work just like Mike Palmers double nucs and create a shared cluster. if that makes sense.

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Thanks Kamon, is 60 degrees warm enough for a inspection? Up here in northwest NJ it's been cold but tomorrow it hits 60 and I need to get in the colonies and see what's going on but I don't want to chill the brood.

[@kamonreynolds]

It is but don't leave the brood out more than a few minutes especially if it is windy. I am fixin to bust thru a yard of 45 and the high here today is 62

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Thanks, and have fun with the 45!

[@Leelz247]

He keeps saying Laurel but all I hear is "Yanny." 😂

[@jonclemons1421]

Do you add many 3rd brood boxes to avoid swarming?

[@edwardnewbold]

What is that silver lining on top of the frames, just under the top cover? Thank you. Ed in Galloway, Ohio.

[@kamonreynolds]

That is a product called reflectix

[@toddkelleher8630]

HeyKamon This is Todd in Gray Ga. In a pinch for time can you put the Queen excluders on the bottom to prevent swarming for a week till you catch up on splits, requeening, and equalizing.Thanks

[@dkeithcollins]

Where do you get the shiny sheets of material you have on top of your frames? What are they called? Thanks!

[@russellkoopman3004]

Home depot and most lumber yards carry this material. It is used for insulating heating ducts and is the same width as our boxes which is nice. Reflix is one name for it.

[@paulchristu996]

Reflectix. Not throwin’ shade, Kamon; great vid as always. Happy beeking.

[@dougstucki8253]

Good stuff, Kamon! I just did this to one of my hives that had charged queen cells. I removed 5 frames of brood and bees and replaced that with drawn comb. Now I'm wondering if I took too much out...

[@KirballsKeys]

When you take a frame out to put into another hive do you shake the bees off first?

[@aaronbuxton7256]

Hi I'm just south of you around 50 miles. I have 9-10 capped queen cells. I can't find the queen and they haven't swarmed yet. Can I just take a guess put one box 30' away and and not loose as many? and after the swarm remerge them.

[@juliannevanderhoop9060]

when was the last time you went into that hive how often do you try to go into your boxes

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

When you give a frame of brood to other colonies do you shake the bees first?

[@kamonreynolds]

In dearths I do. Not during spring. Bees are happy right now

[@StephenBiggers]

Thanks for your videos. I keep my bees in doubles over winter and add a 3rd deep for swarm control. I also rotate. What do you do with the pollen frames (especially in the bottom box)? Will the bees consume it and allow space for eggs or with the constant flow of pollen will they just "plug" it up? I split early April when I'm able to get queens (feral bees extremely hot). Also do the green drone frames help keep the bees from distorting the frames or does that matter. I'm destroying a lot of drones between the boxes. Thanks for your help.

[@wadebarnes6720]

Got a question I have just been adding boxes as they needed them I got some three high some four high had one swarm the other day a week go it wasn't a cell . So how many days should I give it in between inspections I've been doing it every 2 weeks

[@jrmars5434]

Does anyone know if the bees use the old brown queen cups from previous years or do they just use use newly constructed cups made in the current spring?

[@thatguy6207]

My yard is set up to catch swarms, so I let mine go to swarm. Don’t stand in front of the flight path and they will not sting you.

[@johnolsen1192]

Where do you get your foil sheat for the top bord

[@NewEnglandgardening]

It was 24F here this morning. I don't think I have to worry about swarming yet. Are you going to set up a horizontal hive this year?

[@kamonreynolds]

Totally. Just working on filming it

[@scottpierson7495]

Kamon man struggling out here in NorCal rain and more rain 😡. Sun comes out and bees want to take off. Making beautiful queens but they can’t get mated weather is making it a Tough situation…😡

[@rogerdue85]

Hey Kamon, I can’t find the feeders you use. Info please.

[@kamonreynolds]

Dadant or Motherlode. However I just got some bucket feeders to use as well so those are a nice option too

[@rogerdue85]

@@kamonreynolds thanks

[@neilzehebtbauer5317]

When u pull frames of brood to ad to a struggling hive, do u shake off the bees, if not, do you just mix the bees and do they get along ok

[@MikeB0001]

Hey Kamon...how do you like that reflectix as an inner cover..I'm thinking about trying it..tks!

[@alexayounginsong2641]

Where can I buy the aluminum inner cover? at 2:40?

[@sharpridgehomestead]

at about 14:35 give or take, you had another queen cell with royal jelly in it right hand side ... since you didn't mention it, figured I better (I'm sure you probably caught it off camera, maybe lol)

[@sharpridgehomestead]

actually I stopped the video and went back and looked, it appears you may have removed part of the side of the cell but still has royal jelly in it

[@lbawcom]

Kamon, Ive noticed that most the hives I see you work only have 9 frames in what looks like a 10 frame box. What is your reason for this? Thank you in advance!!! Larry Bawcom

[@kamonreynolds]

It saves me 10% on the frame investment into the operation. On a 1000 boxes it really adds up. However, that was when I was running my honey production colonies as doubles. Now I run them (when the flow starts) as singles with an excluder. I prefer having 10 frames in a single brood management system.

[@dianeburgess3899]

Kamon I’m first year bee keeper I have 2 hives that have no eggs or brood could not see the queen but the hive have loads of bees on the frames I’m not sure could they be a dying hive or loads of robbers ?

[@larrywedding2512]

You use that foil for a inner cover. Is that just for the winter? Also what about allowing ventilation?

[@aidar5650]

Hey buddy, do you thing one deep brood is enough this time of the year? I but excluders on single brood boxes and run 10 frames.

[@nedrascarpelli8365]

I’m confused about the difference in that queen cup between royal jelly and a larva ?

[@sundaycaradine2171]

Kamon Im in Alabama and I am waiting on my first 2 packages to get here and I can get started. Can you please share with me how you know that those frames your pointing at are brood without pulling out the frames. This is a new concept for me. Thanks

[@kamonreynolds]

I can look between the frames and see the capped brood cells. WHich looks quite different from capped honey. I can't distinguish between ages of brood or anything like that

[@srae1503]

Do you ever open up some of those drone cells and look for mights?

[@kamonreynolds]

Sometimes yes I do. Laurel is the pro at that though.

[@srae1503]

Mites. Lol

[@lymitutit3046]

Hi.. you do not use metallic covers for your hives , right ? Are these wood covers waterproof ? in case of rain is the be-colony protected from the water infiltration ?

[@kamonreynolds]

Yes these lids are dipped in hot wax and boiled. This seals them.

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Some say that Combe are like kidneys, they absorb diseases etc therefore not the best reusable choice.

[@kamonreynolds]

Sure and I agree with that. I would add that our kidneys can last 30 years to 100 years depending on abuse and stress. I live in a very rural area with little chemicals and use very clean products in and out of the hive and I have found that 10 years works good for me. Now that we have topped out at our desired 300 colonies we will start cycling them out sooner just because we can.

[@briansmith6824]

Kaymon, you might have mentioned this at sometime but I missed it. Do you requeen after the 2nd year or go to 3 year queens if they are not superseded?

[@Xray.71]

What does bee bread look like?