Over 125 lbs of honey coming off my damaree split hive

[@Hotzrod]

This series has been extremely valuable and informative for me. Thanks for explaining so well what and why you do particular steps. I really appreciate the initial video as well as the follow ups to show how things progress after the initial manipulation. I live near St. Louis MO and and going to attempt a Demaree split this year thanks to your great instructions!

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Great to hear!

[@tomkingsley4398]

Just found your Demeere Swarm video. Great Information! We're you able to keep the hive from swarming by crushing the queen cells? Thanks for sharing.

[@johniac7078]

SWEET! See what I did there? LOL. Happy Anniversary to you and the Mrs. Wishing you many more, healthy and happy.

[@bligon11]

I enjoy watching you work the bees. I have learned a lot! I like seeing the demaree process in action.

[@davidouma9084]

God bless you so much. Thanks for being wonderfully generous with dishing out information.

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

You are so welcome

[@matthewsweeney2577]

Good info! rap it up …wife’s waiting, Looking good for 50 , Happy Birthday 🎊

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

LOL

[@danielcollins9628]

Your diy hive fix with the sticky tape was inspiring

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Thanks

[@Yupmoose]

Thank you for showing how to use the refractor! I was wondering how that worked! Gonna have to get one!

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Glad I could help!

[@khatpaufridaytalks2670]

Thank you for your all sharing techniques.

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

You are so welcome!

[@khatpaufridaytalks2670]

Tq

[@markb3129]

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday!! That's a lot of honey from one hive👍🏻.. ✌🏻

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Yes! Thank you!

[@BrokePhilanthropist]

Second box down a bit more moisture eh but still okay. I have taken 1 frame of honey from my bee’s last year and it was capped on just one side blank on the other. I have a large pot for hives and I’m just trying to split hives from a package and a nuc too 100 hives. Had 17 last year then came the bear. We shall see how many I have at the end of this year. It’s amazing how many hives you and others keep. Cheers

[@jamestaylor1371]

Happy anniversary Peter!

[@jamestaylor1371]

And happy birthday!

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Thankyou!

[@joejackson9214]

Happy Anniversary And Happy Birthday

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Thank you.

[@garycasey991]

A vine has flowers during Indian summer more than any other time

[@garyvail1426]

Great video

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Thanks!

[@billc3405]

Great honey production for Maine

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Better thank average!

[@KatRN1000]

Love your sumac!

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Grows like a weed here.

[@TheBguenth]

HI, I want to try this method. This is my 9th spring of beekeeping. a few questions: 1. Can I do this method with 2 deeps and a super already on there now? 2. Can I use a hive cover for the second entrance instead of a shim (don't have)? 3. What do you do with the top deep when the new queen starts laying? Move to another bottom board and make a completely separate new hive? Thanks

[@sidelinerbeekeeper]

With the excape board in place, driving down two deeps and a medium worth of bees (30,000 bees in one deep as you say) forcing them into the lower boxes, the queen felt congested before this action; do you believe the bees won't try to swarm now that they only have half the space?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

It will be crouded for a day but as I said I will be adding more space, hoever I also want the comb honey capped so its a ballancing act to achieve.

[@davidsoloninka7742]

After destroying the queen cells could the colony still swarm and leave the original colony “queenless” and without any queen cells? Thx Dave SE Ohio

[@elijahGreen-s8y]

How soon before the honey flow did you start the method?

[@rn-kf1ib]

awesome video as usual.. quick question. since the honey suppers were cured and ready to be harvested why not just shack the bees off the frames and harvest the honey?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

You certainly can do that

[@garycasey991]

If it is that time of year build it back up for a March demarree

[@abrahamtruter5452]

How do you feed damaree hives?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

You dont. We are making honey

[@carolfabian9925]

What brand of refractometer do you use?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

It was an old one from my mentor Harold Swan....not sure of the make.

[@cheapsmoke4096]

why are the bees still making swarm sells in the brood chamber after all that room up top?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

These are my Italians...not my favorites but they have done a great job this year.

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Their instinct is to reproduce when the going is good. They filled much of that space with honey and had filled the brood chamber with brood.

[@cheapsmoke4096]

@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer great thanks for the reply !

[@johnvanderslice7966]

@@davidsmith7987 wrong

[@garycasey991]

Thumbs up

[@buggsy5]

I would think that the bees in the upper boxes believing they have no queen would greatly increase the risk of laying workers.

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

There are still pheromones from open brood in the hive

[@apisincognito8173]

When was this video filmed? At what point do you leave the cells and allow them to sort themselves out? Will they swarm if you left the cells intact? Bit late for swarming isn't it Whisperer?

[@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Filmed and published yesterday. The point of the manipulation is to make a super big colony and yet avoid swarming so they can make a big honey crop.

[@garycasey991]

Morning glory and poison oak and Ivy all year at my house

[@khatpaufridaytalks2670]

Reflectometor H2O %