🔵Queen Catching and Marking!

Catching Hundreds of Queens Hawai'i 2019
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[@kamonreynolds]

Just FYI this was in 2019! 2021s queen color is White!

[@BlanchardsBees]

I was gonna say... LOL

[@alangarrett1181]

Lifestyles of the rich and famous! Kamon Hive-0! 😁

[@kamonreynolds]

Haha this video was in 2019

[@strugglingbeekeepermarkcot9642]

Thanks for letting us go along with you buddy. It looks like he has a pretty good operation there. Them queens looks great.

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

Thanks for all the videos Kamon, always most enlightening. Hope you good people are keeping safe and well, best wishes from all your viewers in the UK. Peter

[@donbearden1953]

Kamon, I thought you were in Hawaii now until I read where it said 2019. The color green for marking the Queen is why I read it because 2021 should be white or light gray if I remember correctly. You and your family do deserve a great vacation!

[@kamonreynolds]

Well thanks Don. Yeah this year's color is white. This was such an short interesting video from 2019 I just had to repost it

[@micksbeesstephens5327]

That must be your trip last winter, green marker. He's a busy man!

[@attesmatte]

You're in Hawaii?! 😳 Wooow! Just a tiiiny bit jealous! 😁

[@markbooth8458]

Question I noticed he didn't put any attendants in with the queens. Why is that?

[@NKYHoneyBees]

*The whole time I thought it was you in a bee suit. It's strange to see you in a Bee suit 😂😂😂*

[@willdavis8714]

Lol I thought you were in Hawaii right now up until the green marker came out!

[@lizimpey6338]

I love seeing the Queen bees🤩 can you do a bit more Queen videos 😁👍

[@kamonreynolds]

More to come!

[@lizimpey6338]

@@kamonreynolds thanks Kamon. I check everyday for updates so I’ll be watching out for the Queen bees👏👏👏👍😁

[@kathyhathaway8823]

With that many to catch he started at the wrong end of the rows . He should have started at the finished end of the row Lol THANKS

[@Joe-zt2us]

at first i was like how the heck does he have queen cells and thought i am way behind here in ky. Have fun on the islands.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Joe but this was taken in 2019

[@randallmuir5570]

Hi Kamon. At any point in your career you have clipped your queens? On the ’pros’ side of the ledger, the prevailing view seems to be that it may buy you an extra few days before a colony swarms, and if they do ultimately swarm before you can take action, they will end up near the hive entrance where you’ll have a better chance of recovering the queen and the bees. The ‘cons’ that come to my mind are it’s one more thing to do, and every time you handle a queen, there’s a chance for injury. It seems very uncommon in the US, and perhaps more frequently practiced in other countries, such as the UK. In your view am I missing anything on either side, and on balance, where do you come down on it and why? Thanks much.

[@mehmetpiskin9337]

🇹🇷👍👍🤝

[@bbqburch8204]

Kamon what part of Tennessee are you from?

[@rossg87]

I’ll need to practice on drones before I attempt that!!

[@allsmilz7234]

Which island in hawaii is this queen breeder located ? FYI- 50% of the world's queen bees are shipped from zip code 96704

[@jonhatchcirclejfarms1628]

Tell me we won't see you in a grass skirt! LOL!

[@konstantinamarkopoulou5479]

Nice video!! I have pollen that i collected in last spring. How i can give this pollen to my bees, to be better accepted? Can i put some pollen in the frames?

[@mse1333]

Hi Kamon, new subscriber from Charlotte NC. I’ve noticed in some of your videos, you put an excluder between two brood boxes in a double deep. I have yet to see your reason, may have missed it. Can you explain for a fairly new beekeeper? Thanks!

[@kamonreynolds]

This is to keep all the brood and the queen in one box making it much better for me to manage them. However, with improper management this could cause problems. I will try to address this in an upcoming video to further detail

[@badassbees3680]

1st

[@corneliuolar7663]

Hi just came across this video!! Does Zach sell queens?

[@lvbees6128]

Sorry if you mentioned this but.. Who is Zach working for? How do we buy those queens?

[@kamonreynolds]

He runs his own operation. However, he typically doesn't sell quantities of queens smaller than a couple hundred at a time.

[@researcherAmateur]

Is that 2021 ? The color is white this year. Good operacion.. l use those nucks the seme way

[@researcherAmateur]

Yeah , l just read it was 2019..

[@badassbees3680]

@@researcherAmateur if you was the 50th subscriber you would know this Sir...lol teasing, hey Dany

[@researcherAmateur]

@@badassbees3680 l was around 300 something. And l think he was saying they will go again. He trick me. Tricky Kamon

[@badassbees3680]

@@researcherAmateur these were from the good ol days when Kamon was dropping video everyday ! I used to watch Kamon every morning and drink my coffee,then he grew and got really busy I believe

[@researcherAmateur]

@@badassbees3680 Hahaha. The days when my father was watching him more than me. He still does. He wrote bad spelled comments. Telling him he will do good stuff. And look at the boy now !!!!! 😂😁😁. Hey Kamon.. is old "varroa gone"

[@mark-wn5ek]

I just wonder how often those queens sting his hands, he handles them like they're ants! And it should be obvious to the viewers this was not made recently...duh!

[@jerry2593]

Queens seldom sting. I mark all of ours the way he does and have never been stung by a queen.

[@mark-wn5ek]

@@jerry2593 that's good news as I was reading Larry Connors queen essentials and he spoke of being stung by queens and the pheromone trail left behind. I've watched videos of them being handled and they sure twist their butt around looking for a target!

[@kamonreynolds]

it is very uncommon but it can happen. I personally have never been stung by a queen and I have literally grabbed a 1000+ This guy does that every month and a half. He says he hasn't been stung either. Once they start laying they really don't have a desire to do much but lay poor full things

[@BlueLineHoney]

Shouldn’t color be white it’s 2021 😊

[@kamonreynolds]

This is Hawaii 2019!

[@BlueLineHoney]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees Ah makes sense now 😂