🔵Signs your Honeybees Need another Box!

[@joschmoyo4532]

Thanks Kamon, you do a great job of coherently explaining things in a relaxed and engaging way. Best bee channel I have watched.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thank you so much for the comment and for watching :-)

[@felicial7628]

Wow. That is the nicest looking apiary I've seen on KZbin! Beautiful! And so remarkably well kept. And I learned a lot. Thanks!

[@brucesbees]

Thanks for taking the time to share this video with us Kamon!

[@celik_m]

Thanks for all work you're sharing. One thing that would help a beginner beekeeper is that, when you say split was made in April this year, to also say when you're recording. Video says 22nd of May but video might have been recorded on 1st as well. Thanks again!

[@Backyardfuzzybee]

Dame your good, truly you are the man. Iam hopeful that I can get to your lvl of success and knowledge.

[@TheSealedNectar01]

Thanks for this, really awesome tips 🖖

[@BryanBurnsBees]

Heck of a job Kamon thank you. Looking forward to seeing you in Pineville La. Hopefully I will have my 345 gallon 100 deep box per hour dipper ready and there. Our mix of Hive Fortress made here in Louisiana will hopefully be ready also.

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

shb not issue since I been using peppermint candy in corners. Spent alot over the years for beetle barn beetle blaster beetle bee gone sheets. And other items that newbie keepers do. Just for giggles candy may be the fix this year.

[@spotaddiction]

Thanks for the video. Started nucs w all waxed foundation. Have been feeding 1:1 w honey b healthy. 7-8 mostly drawn. Started 2nd box w/ frame of capped brood in the center w more foundation. Hopefully ok. Thought syrup was taking laying space so pulled feed one day before to promote consumption, then went up and started feed again. Almost 1 gal each nuc consumed in 9 days. Going to thoroughly check hive condition at next weather opportunity. Thanks again!

[@Lsmith-ly2cm]

Must be big drops of rain ,you can hear it hit the mic. Great video thanks Kamon. Good job Laurel.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thank L Smith for the comment and watching!

[@G.W.H.]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@honeyandthecoop803]

Great Video Kamon!

[@brucesbees]

Good stuff Kamon!

[@joetripp123]

Thanks for enduring the rain for us. I've removed a top deep and, due to time constraints, tilted the bottom deep looking for queen cells. I smoked them like you did at 2:02 and the bees all went up and out the top and over the sides of the bottom deep. I'd say I had 10k bees on the outer lower box. That was a mess to deal with when I tried to put the top deep back on. Will you scrape the combs with drone comb intermixed into them or something else?

[@toysintheclosetshop5443]

Thank you! I learn so much from you.

[@FOMAHsince2014]

quick question or two, can you add a layer of wax to thin or old*er frames to refresh them? or can a frame be over waxed? bonus question, once a cell has been made into a drone cell could you "destroy" the area of the cells and the bees rebuild it for worker cells? or would that be bad/too much work for not enough gain for bees?

[@jackfrick1020]

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[@3172bees]

Awesome as usual

[@michaelfike7542]

I try to get a few swarms and keep them on hand and if i get a bad queen i just slam them with good swarm with a good laying queen and everything works out.

[@HasbrookHives]

Great video, learned at lot!

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Naomi! Thanks! Good meeting you the other day!

[@bobbibonner]

Thank you!!

[@moxiegirlonthejob7797]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@joeybrannon8626]

Evening Kamon, I have been watching your channel for a few months now as this is my first year as a beek. Your channel has been the best place I have found to get the info I need while I am unable to go to local clubs or find a mentor. If I am understanding you correctly the bees will move resources to make more room for the queen to lay? I currently have two deeps on and the queen is laying good but I fill that the deeps have more resources then brood. I added a super and the bees have taken to it great and have been building new frames out great. They could be filling them out any day. Will they move some of their resources up when they're ready to make more room for brood? Thanks for putting all your knowledge in video's for us!

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Joey! Yes, bees if they have enough time and room will clear the brood area for the queen. If they don't have those things they can back fill and swarm

[@KajunHomestead]

Hello Kamon , I have the same problem in two hives, moved two frames that were plugged up to the top box and put two empty brood comb to the center for her to lay , Was that the wrong thing to do? I didn't know how quick they would clear out space to lay or if she would just move up to the top box.

[@M-SH_Honey_Bees]

you did well

[@thatguy3456]

When is your video about how young beekeepers can apply to go to the hive live conference coming out? I am excited to apply.

[@kamonreynolds]

Been working on it quite a bit. May be ready in a few days

[@thatguy3456]

@@kamonreynolds Okay thank you I can’t wait to apply.

[@cyndikonopka2734]

So informative! Going out to check on my Saskatraz hive today! This hive is booming!

[@joejackson9214]

I’m getting honey bound. I don’t have any drawn comb so they’ve loaded up the brood boxes. I do have some better comb, what are your thoughts on it? It’s expensive, will they move nectar up when they have a place to put it and free up brood space?

[@3Beehivesto300]

I see that a lot of your boxes are just waxed only. This makes them dark in color and hotter in the summer heat. Is there any required steps to keep them from over heating in the summer sun?

[@IDVDalot]

Interesting. I came here because today my bees swarmed at it seems like half left and went into a nearby hive that is empty because the colony died over the winter. I inspected and my boxes look like that except that some frames are THICK WITH HONEY and dripping. Can I replace those frames with a new empty frame with the wax cells or do I only add another top box to make room?

[@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

So I am honey bound and I have no extra comb. My bees already swarmed but I caught most of them. I don't think they left any swarm cells when they left. So some of them might be Queenless. There is no brood or eggs in some of the hives after 2 weeks. Plan A: Extract the capped honey frames, then add those frames back to the hives. Add a frame of eggs to the hives that appear to be queenless. Plan B: Extract the capped honey frames, then add those back to the hives. Newspaper combine the swarms back into the hive. What do you think? Thanks for the video's like always.

[@realeyesrealizerealies]

@Dave Rowden I have two hives experiencing the same thing. So far, I've done both methods! The newspaper is great if there was a queen already in there that you know of. I've also 'spun' a few non-capped nectar frames just to open them up, and gave the hive a frame of eggs/larvae from another colony. This 'tends' to work. In MY case, i'm on round 2, as for some reason they can't make a queen. Sometimes it doesn't go as planned and you just have to keep trying. Good luck!

[@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

@@realeyesrealizerealies thanks for the input

[@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

@@realeyesrealizerealies thanks for the feed back

[@realeyesrealizerealies]

@@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms Did you have any luck?

[@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

@@realeyesrealizerealies yes. I have queens in all but they are going slow

[@zetectic7968]

It would seem that bees can work quicker than humans 😁

[@seedsandarrowsfrontier9224]

Man! Cool breeze, and then down pour! Kamon in a wet t-shirt!!! Control yourself Laural!!🤣

[@kirbyharrissrigsby8795]

Hey from NC. We are seeing young queens lay drone areas in frames of worker brood in the spring. Does this mean she is poorly bred?

[@researcherAmateur]

I would never get a spring crop without restricting the queens.. some on 5-7 frame single brood box with partitions. Some completely stopped and covered on a side of one frame.. my flow is so short that I have to do it all at once.. honey, queens and get inaf bee bread in the brood box to survive the summer. I could use some of that rain right now. Damn climate.. it wasn't like this 20 years ago. There's no way l would start beekeeping here with these conditions we have today

[@M-SH_Honey_Bees]

i need to make combs this year :)

[@ericshipplett3517]

Please explain to me your covers. I am in Northwest Virginia. My covers come with the metal top and under that is an inner cover. Where did you get your covers/lids and can I use them in a colder climate?

[@ericgunter45]

They are called migratory covers.

[@jdlin4230]

Thanks for the video Kaymon, it came a little too late for me. I’m a third year beekeeper and had a ton of swarms my second year. Came up with a plan to prevent swarming by splitting my hives and removing the queen into nucs. While they were raising a new queen they backfilled the whole brood nest as the new bees emerged. One hive didn’t raise a viable queen so I removed the backfilled frames extracted them, put them back in and put the queen back in from the nuc ( I didn’t have any spare drawn comb). Not sure what to do with the other hives, will they straighten it out themselves?

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

JD Lin ... They should do if : Each Colony / Nuc has available Eggs, to make their own Queen Cells.* Do regular Hive x7 Day Inspections.* Use that Great Queen to be a Donor Egg* provider, and keep adding her Eggs, (even a Cube of Wax cut out with an Egg in it)... can be placed "pointing down" into between two Top Frame 'Bars'. So the Bees / Colony pull that Wax down as a "Peanut Cell" aka a Queen Cell👑 Hope this helps. 🤞 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 See a USA KZbinr called 'FatBeeMan' for the way to do this technique. ✔

[@mikethomas3498]

Question for you, hey thanks for the videos. When you say out another box, can I add a super in with that suffice?

[@realeyesrealizerealies]

That queen was in your last frame! I just know it

[@paseka_za_rekoy]

🐝🔥👍

[@schadik]

Why not put the empty box under the full one... queen could move down and the resources would not have to be moved up?

[@M-SH_Honey_Bees]

lucky you, you have combs :D

[@td4190]

Man I need to stop watching your videos this season I feel so behind. Still need to make some new queens and hive before I can worry about honey

[@amylarson3958]

same here. I've decided to not worry about honey yet. catch them up first.

[@td4190]

@@amylarson3958 same here I figured if I can get honey I'll expand as much as I can this season. Just a hobby beekeeper but have people who will let me keep one in there yards as well.

[@DougMcHone]

You moved one frame. Wouldn't 2-3 be better?

[@mehtarelingolien]

No, because none of the others had as much larvae.

[@raymason6474]

Kamon thanks for the video. How are you storing your old comb? How do you keep the wax moth from getting them?

[@marktechsci]

The Kaymon Fingernail Test. 😂

[@dcsblessedbees]

Good morning Kamon, and then there were 4 got to pick up the rest of my starting stock yesterday. I want to thank you for your videos the time and effort is much appreciated. You and other keepers on youtube have together helped immensely va videos and answering questions over the last 6 months, to prepare for my bees arrival. Now we get to see what I have learnt from KZbin Honey Bee University 🤯🧐🤠and grow from here. Ty for your family's time, Blessed Days... Question, do you know of any company that makes actual "Beekeeper Rain Gear" ? It rains a lot here in the NW and ya gota work bee's when ya gota work them some times.

[@jimmyc451]

Can you scrub off that drone comb and let them repair the frames?

[@karenshawe8220]

That’s a great question and I would like to know the answer as well🤗

[@amathonn]

Poor larvae in the cold rain. :0(

[@alanjeffs-ep8lq]

Hi Kamon, how long did it take to get to that stage, I have a five frame nuc box and bees have just started going in, it's been one week now and they are frantically going in and out, should I move them bearing in mind they were brand new frames.

[@accessthruchrist4843]

How many times a year does the hive split?

[@effingbeesapiary2599]

Do you have a store? I am driving through Tennessee and would love to stop by and see it. Not to bee creepy at all lol

[@kamonreynolds]

We don't actually. One day we hope to though. Thanks for asking!

[@michaelhilgefort398]

Question, I have 2 new hives this year. I have the second deep on them, maybe a little too early, but they have about 7 frames drawn out in each. I have 2 new honey supers with wax frame. I'm new to bee keeping this year and don't have any extra comb drawn out yet. When would you recommend adding those honey supers so they can start drawing out the comb? I'm in Midwest Ohio if that makes a difference.

[@TH-cl5be]

hello kamon is it common for the 1st super to have dry cells up the middle or left uncapped honey how do you get them to cap it all off

[@bradgoliphant]

Very helpful. Kamon, when does your spring/summer nectar flow start and end?

[@kamonreynolds]

The Spring flow starts in April and ends mid June give or take a week

[@laurameno9595]

Hi Kamon, Why haven’t you used wire wax foundation in 10 years?

[@kamonreynolds]

Hi Laura, They take 10 times longer to insert if you cross wire them. (which they need for extraction and to prevent sagging on deep combs. It wasn't a big deal when we had a few hives but thousands of sheets add up fast! I love the concept of using all wax but the time savings with plastic is staggering

[@macsbees5775]

Thanks Kamon for another informative video, hearing that rain reminds me of home (Ireland) and now I’m looking up at the blue skies here in Long Island New York wondering where the rain packed cloud’s are lol. Your video’s help me to be confident with my bee’s.

[@MichaelCarver-m8r]

How do you control shb and ants?

[@andywhite9932]

You just had to flex those guns didn’t you. Lol

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Andy hope you are well down there! Did I flex? I don't remember doing so?

[@andywhite9932]

@@kamonreynolds you should have titled this one “ welcome to da gun show”

[@stevenhorner7554]

Yep .... Flexed and looked at the bee like you can't sting this rock of a bicep

[@Fayettevillebutler]

Why are the bees not stinging you with your short sleeve shirt on?

[@kamonreynolds]

Genetics and 23 years of bee handling. Trust me I still get stung sometimes

[@jameszdepski8132]

Great information on when to expand, thank you. However you are mispronouncing the word larvae. The pronunciation is lar-vee, not lar-vay. You picked up a bad habit from the Canadian beekeeper. I don't mean to be critical but you're a teacher of thousands and it's important that you use the correct pronunciation. Thank you for all of your videos, I've referenced them many times.

[@kamonreynolds]

Hi James thanks for watching and the comment! I appreciate your desire for accuracy but if I spent all the time necessary to focus on all the minutiae of words, pronunciation, things like the English spelling of Honeybee vs. the american spelling Honey Bee, or people begging for celsius, metric, and more there would be no channel, bee operation, no conference, and no sanity left. This is why PHD's typically are the ones who navigate the turbulent linguistics in our industry. Moreover, words only exist to communicate. As long as the point gets across I have succeeded. I do know the proper way to say many things but it really doesn't matter most of the time and I want to be normal and relatable as these qualities are more important. Already have I compensated my speech to help my diverse audience understand me better. Any more and I feel I would be untrue to who I am and how I conduct my life daily. Akin to Ian, the Canadian guy, we are farmers and beekeepers, we are too busy living the life to get caught up in all the vernacular. It's not that we don't understand that there are more proper ways to speak, it's that we haven't found it useful enough in our lives and the lives of our colleagues to change. Sincere thanks for watching and sharing!