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[@kamonreynolds]

Click the times below to see highlights! Like this one! Queen is Laying at 26:14 Nectar Shake 27:30 You know I love USA made bee gear! Check out Motherlode here - www.motherlodeproducts.com/

[@CPMJunkRemoval]

You should definitely time stamp your dad joke!! 5:21

[@gabeghiby6935]

that was awesome to see the queen in action laying her eggs even if she was disturbed and out in the sun... amazing for a newbie like me to see that...

[@hillkid4mountains]

Thanks Kamon, you really helped describe the single deep brood box system to me in a different perspective. Always a proponent of two deeps, queen excluder, and mediums on top for honey, glad to see someone practicing this method of yours and succeeding. Like the comment if Bob Binnie's hives can swarm, yours can too! :) 🐝

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Love the optimism, I feel your energy

[@kamonreynolds]

Hope that some of it makes its way up there to Canada and gets the season kicking into gear

[@craigmidgett8539]

Seems much more relaxed and having fun again since the stress of Hive Life season. ;)

[@researcherAmateur]

So, did the queen go above the excluder to lay a couple of cells and then come back down to continue with her day job ? Or some "smart" bee moved the eggs...? trying to supersede her because there's not enough brood pheromone. I seen it before with some cages we use for brood breaks. But most beekeepers don't believe bees move eggs. O yeah, I like the optimism too. A good spring flow does wonders for it

[@LazyDogsRanch]

Watching a queen IS awesome and no, it never gets old. I think that hive was the chillest one I've ever seen. It's great what a queen with a good temperament can do for a colony. That gal is a nice, fat laying monster, too.

[@kamonreynolds]

You said it!

[@brucesouthernsassapiaries8316]

It has been an odd year for the blooming cycle of many spring plants for sure. We are seeing the same things blooming right now as you Kamon. I am also seeing a lot more swarming impulse in my hives this year as well.

[@WestSide-hl1dl]

Correction: Bob Bennie doesn’t lose swarms, the swarms lose Bob Bennie.

[@Jack-es9xq]

Nothing to add except that queen is a champ

[@mbnik1239]

You've made me smile at the end when you talked about loosing swarms!

[@henryparrott2447]

Love ❤ all your shows .....my hero

[@russellkoopman3004]

It was good to see you two making great YT videos again. Here in MN our snow is gone and fresh pollen is coming in strong this week. Tulips (flowers) should bloom this week. Thanks.

[@keithspillman]

The flow is still heavy here in the eastern foothills of NC...same thing...tulip poplar, blackberries, black locust, clover, and now privet. I pulled honey last weekend to free up some boxes. Looking like a great year here!! I was worried about the moisture but it was actually really good at around 16%. The girls made some great reddish tulip poplar honey!! Thanks for all you do Kamon!!

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for the Update on how things are in NC! Hope things keep trucking along for you!

[@richardnoel3141]

Wow some flow!! Terrific!!😜😎✅🐝🐝🐝

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

Hey Kamon....just got out of my bee yards today and yes...here in KY they are PACKING on the honey! Same thing here....Tulip Poplar, Cherry, Black Locust, Clover, Honeysuckle, among others are all blooming at the same time....crazy spring!

[@gypsygem9395]

I like how you didn't miss a beat - "super, super, super, super, that's pretty super, um terrible" .... i do notice you usually have at least one pun in each video! Makes me chuckle 😂

[@sherryortiz227]

I've pulled 12 capped from 2 hives, extracted them and returned to the hives to get refilled. I'm on the east coast so same zone. Another hive hasn't been done yet but that's next. The boxes are stacked over my head so I had to use a step stool to pull frames. 7 boxes packed full of bees.

[@mikehill9888]

Great to see the excluder work and push the bees onward and up. Honey , honey, honey

[@kamonreynolds]

Yessir Mike! Thanks for the comment!

[@lindafox4065]

Laurel you're great with the camera.

[@masonsexton2691]

I love videos like this! Love seeing the honey flow! Our bees are making so much right now too! Love your videos!

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Mason! The honey flow is magical

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Kamon have you ever tried top entrances when the flow is on . Do you think a top entrances helps much when the flow is . That is a beautiful pattern she is laying just tell her to fly in over to my house an bring about twenty more with her . We enjoy long videos. Thanks

[@jonathanmooney6852]

You always answer Questions I have in your videos Thank you keep up the great work 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@williammills9236]

Love the video ,watching the queen laying. What a beauty she is and lovely calm bees. What type are they?

[@kamonreynolds]

These are a carnie variety

[@charlesoneill466]

Thanks Kaymon, never get tired of your videos. Single brood box seems like a good idea. This year we accidentally did it. Could not get in field due wet conditions. Seemed to work well. We did not split hive at all. Just put queen under excluder with alot of pulled out, but empty frames. All 16 of 19 queens were still there. Marked yellow. The last queen you showed looked like it had a white mark.

[@bradyjames2786]

Do you think it is necessary to go continue to check brood chambers for queen cells and or eggs through the honey flow? If so, how often would be best to check brood boxes?

[@lavenderinbloomflowerfarm1420]

Great info about building comb after the flow. Thanks!

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Ya loooooosing a swarm is heart breaking but it happens. Just waving at them good bye as I fuss under my breath . LOL

[@kamonreynolds]

Same here!

[@chasebrunner]

Thank You So Much For Your Information I Subscribed To You I Just Started With Italian Queen Bee Local

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

I dont use excluder but put a box of drawn and undrown foundation above bottom brood to let bees in box above bottom to hatch and backfield with honey since it already has honey and pollen in it. Sometimes to much pollen so makes it hard to exstract. But it gives bees space to exspand and make drawn foundation.

[@raymason6474]

Running single brood hives how do you go about removing the honey supers are you leaving any on the hive over summer for them to feed on or are you pulling it all off and pushing all the bees down into the brood chamber and feeding them during the summer? Thanks for the videos.

[@yokelyspaulino2031]

I have to cuz I love beehives and bees 😊

[@lasource811]

Down in the south of France, we are at a time where we normally get our first flow, but we had four month of drought and barly enough nectar coming in. Now it is raining for most of the end of the flow. Feeding time till the big one in 5 weeks.

[@NKYHoneyBees]

*As always, super informative videos. Thanks Brother.*

[@emilandrusko8597]

Hey Kamon, thanks for sharing. I am also running single-deep configurations here is SE PA. My question is do you commonly see supercedure cells as well as swarm cells in the same deep?

[@lasource811]

Nice video, your bees look great. As you mentioned definitely supersedure for sure and they probably will try again, if you let them that is.

[@CurtisPittman48]

Kamon, I had a double deep hive that swarmed and I missed them. The new mated queen is back but the foragers have filled a bunch of the brood comb with nectar. Will they make room for her to start laying or do I need to swap some frames with empties?

[@vato2000taco]

Hey Kamon. Love the channel very informative! Whats the reason for the reflective sheet under the lid? Thanks for the videos and keep it up!

[@jtlearn1]

You forgot to put your liner back on the first hive buddy! 😂. Our flow just turned on yesterday with a good weather change. Russian and Autumn Olive now, locust and popular coming in a few days.

[@kamonreynolds]

Whoops put that on this evening! Best of luck with your flow!

[@charissarubey-thecountryro9043]

How do you tell the difference between swarm cells and supercede cells? I've been told supercedure are generally in the center of the frame, while swarm cells are generally hanging off the bottoms of the frames

[@echo3347]

Can you do a video on how you manage cleaning of the hive boxes/frames? What's your process? Keeping propolis in check is tough!

[@jeremyshuler1519]

I'm curious will the bees move nectar up into a super to make more room for the queen to lay if I was late getting the super on?

[@richardrekowski2488]

Kaymon, Do you recommend using a Queen excluder above the lower deep during the nectar flow? Thank you.

[@josephapice134]

How do you keep track of hives condition? queens? etc you have a lot of hives? Nothing is labeled?

[@NielsenValleyFarms]

Hey I got a queen rearing question. If I grafted on a Wednesday in the late afternoon/ early evening, would I be good to wait until Saturday morning the next week to pull cells and make mating nucs or will I be too late?

[@billymiller1954]

Good morning Kamon!! Just a quick question, where do you get the insulated inner covers that you use? Have you found a pre-cut or do you just get rolls and cut it yourself? There are so many options regarding R values, thickness, etc. Thank you and have a great day !!

[@TbelisleFNP]

The queen cell was definitely a supersedure because of its location in the middle of the frame. A swarm cell would be at the bottom of the frame.

[@pirateprospecting707]

Great video 👍👍😁

[@thorntonrodgers365]

Hello Kamon. Thanks for the educational content. I enjoy watching and get many tips from your videos. I notice you place foil on most of your hives. How is the hive ventilated with a hat setup? Does it not cause an overheating situation during summer months?

[@jump-kickman5247]

I know you probably discuss this on your channel somewhere, I was wondering about the advantages of putting 9 frames in a ten frame box?

[@paulhermes9817]

he does have videos on 9 frames for honey. only do so with previously drawn comb, bees build out fat honey cells, easy to uncap and yield is more honey per box

[@greatdiscoveries2014]

Such a cool video thank you so much!!

[@Therealtrailer707]

Cali bees are the same. Try for carni but mix with the Italians also

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@Joe-zt2us]

I am getting alot of brone brood. Queen is in box and I also wondered if the worker maybe to far from brood. Mine was also in the top box of a 4 tall box

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

one thing to remember....once drone comb always drone comb....so if your brood chamber is mostly drone size cells she will lay drone eggs. Might be time to put in some newly drawn comb into the brood chamber, either that or your queen is running out of sperm to fertilize eggs

[@KajunHomestead]

Looks like that TIGER strip queen is one of you best , she was going at it. GO TIGERS lol

[@kamonreynolds]

Lol I can't say it but she does look like a tiger striped one

[@melissajenkins9456]

except when they walk out for the national anthem. im a louisiana girl and lsu graduate but what the lady tigers did last night was dispicable

[@markwelsch940]

At 22:43 You pick up a super with something black on a corner. It looks like metal protecting the corner. What is it? And where do I buy it?

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Mark that is gorilla tape to patch a hole! It is tough stuff!

[@lenturtle7954]

U could us a piece of a tincan or pop can and some small nails

[@jimwoods8957]

Great video! Love watching! Quick question just curious what part of the state you’re in? I’m in southern middle TN and got my first bees this year and find your content very helpful!

[@kamonreynolds]

I am just north of Cookeville

[@harleydicken226]

Hey Kamon what do you with frames that are full of bee bread? Can I just scrape it and rewax?

[@daleford5531]

How do you keep your bee growth contained to one deep?? Are you constantly making splits?

[@kamonreynolds]

We will make splits from them yes but that is one of the main sources of our sustainability and sales Typically only 1 split is needed. To keep them in the single

[@kirbyharrissrigsby8795]

The NCSU professor told me that he feels like the bees sometimes perceive a Queen problem when the queen is backfilling a brood comb as they emerge with eggs. So the pattern is irregular to them?

[@TheBguenth]

Can I combine a weak hive with my strong one even if I already have a super on the strong one? The strong hive is only 1 deep then 1 super.

[@noahwhite2556]

With your single brood mgmt, how many supers are you adding at a time? Looks like more than one? I’m up in Massachusetts. My single deep (new pkg) just got to 8-9 frames of bees this week and weather is turning good so I added an excluder and one med super with drawn foundation. Wondering I should have dropped on two. I do plan to go back this week. cheers!

[@kamonreynolds]

I drop 2 if it is warmer but if it is cooler for the next 10 days I only drop 1. Typically drop 2 supers and come back within 10 days and see where we are at

[@dandorosheff256]

Hi Kamon. I was very surprised at how much the SHB like to hang out between the Reflectix and the top bars. Are you finding this?

[@kamonreynolds]

Yes they like it because it is so dark. A trap up there will work really well!

[@suekendrick4651]

Why do you only run single deeps? I’m in Western Mass and to get through the winter I need two deeps, but it’s so much more work to check for swarm cells this time of year.

[@loghawgtv]

Ok so what exactly is a laying worker bee? How does that happen?

[@citrumpet1]

Hi. I need a bunch of unassembled deeps. Do any recommendations on decent quality ones at a fair price? Thanks.

[@doctortcbkk2027]

Kamon….do you only harvest capped honey frames or do you ever harvest any uncapped? I always wait until fully capped but know others who don’t wait……or as long as moisture is 17%?

[@kamonreynolds]

I have a refractometer and I harvest uncapped supers all the time towards the end of the flow. At the end of the honey flow many times they don't do as good as a job capping them but the water content is fine

[@joetripp123]

Hey Kamon, I see you run 9 frames in your supers. Can you tell me what you're using for spacers for that? Thanks.

[@kamonreynolds]

Just a old metal 9 frame spacer I bought from kelleys back in the day

[@calvinkalmon6746]

I think they were superseding that queen.

[@framcesmoore]

Ha Kaman what is your main source for foundatiion and frames I enjoyed the video. Glad u are doing well with the flow the flow is not doing well here have a blessed day

[@kamonreynolds]

You are welcome hope the flow kicks in great for you soon!

[@daltonrobinson253]

What breed of honey bees do you like to keep?

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

You could have a second queen?

[@davidsoloninka7742]

Why did u shake the nectar out of the brood frame near the end of the video? Thx Ds

[@kamonreynolds]

To show everyone how good the flow was

[@seanmccullough2871]

North middle TN here. I’ve waxed my frames, sprayed with sugar water and still can’t get them to draw out medium frames. They just want to back-fill my brood frames

[@kimh974]

How do you prevent them from storing up honey in the brood box or honeybound?

[@kamonreynolds]

We have honey combs drawn from the year before so that they can move the nectar above the brood nest very quickly

[@soakedinsaki]

I heard through the bee line that Bob Benny's bees only swarm with his permission.

[@kamonreynolds]

😆

[@klungtvedtapiary2753]

Honey flow? 😮. We are still waiting for winter to end in northern Minnesota. 😭

[@kamonreynolds]

Hope it gets there soon!

[@geckoproductions4128]

my bees would carry me off if I shook em like that. You have some VERY nice bees!

[@3Beehivesto300]

On your big honey producers do you ever give them an upper entrance?

[@kamonreynolds]

Yes! I think a small upper entrance helps. Most of my old supers have holes so I don't bother on those!

[@EZBeeHarvest]

Miss you videos.

[@caven930]

We're having an issue with our more established hive's brood chambers being filled up with bee bread. I was trying to keep everyone in single brood boxes but I'm thinking I need to throw another brood box on them so the queen has somewhere to lay because I don't have any extra drawn comb. Also I wanna ask, how many colonies do you keep on your home property and what is the distance between the yards? I mentioned keeping a hundred colonies on our 23 acres to a friend and he said that's too many in one area.

[@judicorbett9401]

I have high pollen production this time of year, I pull the frames as I found problems with them becoming pollen bound. Use them for splits, add back in the next spring..... I don't add a second brood box.

[@viklund2725]

Fint att se, på Tisdag ska jag gå igenom mina 5 samhällen för första gången efter vintern här hemma i Sweden :)

[@kamonreynolds]

Best of luck Viklund!

[@CPMJunkRemoval]

That’s pretty super!!! 😂I laughed so hard!!!

[@HalfQuickFarmer]

Ok so the nectar shake. Do’s and donts Why and or why not. What the skinny? Thanks

[@scotthenderson4376]

How do you get them to move it up

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

Do you have any ragwort that looks like golden rod in your area. Along the road ditchs an fields . Im in Darlington S.C. and its every where

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Exciting times for sure! Kamon, do you under super?

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Spoke to soon, you just answered my question

[@jonmarcos8488]

in these Single Brood chamber colonies, how many frames (out of 10) are you getting that are brood, on average?

[@kamonreynolds]

sometimes all ten have brood on them. Most times 8 are brood and 2 are mostly beebread with a small amount of honey

[@jonmarcos8488]

@@kamonreynolds ok, so what would you do with a double deep setup with lots of brood in both deeps? If you want to run single brood chamber? Make splits?

[@kamonreynolds]

@@jonmarcos8488 yes all of this hives made a split in early April

[@zetectic7968]

Wow! Those bees are going great guns or is it full steam ahead 😉

[@framcesmoore]

Is hillco where u get the foundation as well thanks

[@kamonreynolds]

I already had some extra foundations so I just got empty assembled frames. I have gotten them with foundation from HillCo in the past and they were great.

[@framcesmoore]

@@kamonreynolds thanks

[@CCCRApiary]

LOL, Kamon you shut there website down.

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

Ive already pulled and put 10 cases pint jars and it was at 16% on refractometer but alot was last year honey. Nothing above 17and 1/2. .Harder to exstract because of pollen in honey frames im in Darlington S.C

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

Im using shallows. 5 shallow and 1 med for the honey I've collected and Jared up. With hand crank extractor. Leave alot with hand crank

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

But I do have honey which I had run out of. Got only 38 hives but only pulled from 5 so far. Put wet boxs back on hives I think need them

[@chief2piece385]

What do u do if they keep laying honey in the deeps while the suppers r on?😢😢😢

[@stephencaughley1218]

Hi Kamon, I'm watching your videos from Wellington, New Zealand. Our season is the opposite to yours, so we're heading into winter. Nice to see the fun and games happening in the northern hemisphere as we wind down. Funny though that being separated by 1,000s of kilometres/miles you're also having problems with pollen blocking the brood area when the blackberry comes into flower! Ditto. And yes, it's grey-green in colour. Happens in the Wellington area around the 3rd week in November. Taking a nuc off and making sure the queen gets the new empty combs in the brood area filled up with young brood just as the blackberry comes into bloom means the field bees can't put the pollen in the brood area. Play the queen off against the workers 🙂. Have a great season my northern hemisphere cousins.

[@ridingvenus]

Inspiring!! I just uploaded a KZbin of my surprise at my package of 🐝 results. Hope I can give a few hundred hives within a 5-10 mile radius of Franch Venus a run also some day…,but my Venus Franch is going to hold that up for a while…sooo many projects

[@ridingvenus]

Thanks again for your feedback on Apimay bottom board. I agree they are great!!!

[@PETANI_DAILY]

Mantap boskuu 👍👍👍

[@researcherAmateur]

I can't remember when I wrote you a long comment last time. (used to be 'varroa gone' guy.. the older one). Did you notes that one with the cells above excluder. They had only eggs and capped brood. So it's about pheromones.. not enough brood pheromone around, so you could be right about superseding her.. it's the trigger that makes them do it. I'm a caging for brood break guy and I see that a lot. I even invented a method with it to change me my old queens at the same time when I treat oxalic on broodless hives with the old queen caged. They want to supersede her.. and the hive is full of bees that never fed nobody.. it's like a starter with a box of pollen, where used to be brood. I'm not sure i wouldn't breed from her. They had less pollen in the frames than the second one and from here it looked like they are faster to move nectar up.. which is what a honey producer wants. Maybe the swarming impulse.. as you cutout cells it stopped than started again.. ending with the queen stopping and starting laying eggs.. just an idea, opinion. I had times before with caged queens when bees moved eggs. Same as that.. nothing on the frame, only the cell. I let it develop and it was a queen. It wasn't very good but it wasn't laying worker. So far I had it 3 times over the years. I think there's a group of "smart" bees who tries it, but so far i didn't see them make a good queen.. anyway it's all about pheromones. And long comments. How's going with this year's flow. Are you happy with it

[@kamonreynolds]

Good to hear from you and thanks for the long comment! The year is shaping up great! Thanks for the feedback on caging queens.

[@researcherAmateur]

@@kamonreynolds caging or using any other brood break changed my way of beekeeping. Varroa isn't a problem anymore. Good luck with the season.

[@nortonfield8371]

Where to get the frames dont see them on mother lode web site

[@feliciachitwood9400]

Just a mixed of everything lol

[@bradgoliphant]

Hey Kamon! Who long does it take for a virgin queen to go on her mating flight after emerging? Thx

[@kamonreynolds]

Depends on the weather but I have had queens emerge and be laying in 7-8 days later. Not all are that fast and weather can slow that down a bit. Typically I plan on them not taking their mating flights for 4 days after emergence. I wait 14 - 15 days after cell drop to do checkbacks

[@bradgoliphant]

@@kamonreynolds very helpful. Thank you!

[@andresb.8905]

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