🔵Removing bees from Honey supers FAST!

Gently and Quickly taking Honey from the Bees!
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[@OklahomaBeekeeper]

I had a queen that I actually watched go through the queen excluder. She went through sideways, squeezing through on her side. The darnedest thing I have seen.

[@oddlyspecific186]

"My momma always said, Life is like a queen bee slipping through multiple brands of queen excluders, you never know what your gonna get." - Forrest Gump

[@mikeobrien7948]

I had a similar experience with a queen this year. Went out and pulled 2 medium boxes off, put one empty medium back on, then the bee escape and the 2 full boxes back on. Next day I pulled the 2 full boxes off and took them with the rest around the corner to my shop. I stood the boxes on end to clear out the stragglers with a leaf blower. After going through the bottom box I found brood. At this point I started to look on the ground and sure enough there was a cluster with my marked queen in the middle. I got lucky and she was just fine, took her over and she walked right in the front door and started to lay again. That was a valuable lesson.

[@royhendershot]

I was pulling honey off yesterday before your live chat. I to use Honey Bandit. I was applying Honey Bandit to my fume board and noticed my bottle had a crack in it. I pulled the frames I wanted and felt this burning sensation on my stomach. I thought I had gotten stung. I took the frames into the house and the stinging sensation started to spread. Long and short of it, if you get Honey Bandit on sensitive skin it produced a chemical burn on me. Great product and I will continue to use it, but with more caution.

[@437AlBig]

I was pulling supers and got stung on the shoulder so I thought "why not spray some on my shirt to keep the bees off." WRONG!!! It started soaking through and all of a sudden my back started burning. I ran in the house and took the shirt off and will never do that again.

[@kamonreynolds]

Wow thanks for the review and heads up fellas. I haven't had that pleasure and know to avoid it now!

[@beewize9982]

Honey harvest is the best 😊👍🏻

[@christianshannon3943]

I accidentally let heat exhaustion sneak up on me last week . I stayed sick for two days. Being 57 , ain’t gettin no easier. LoL

[@JeromeBeeFarm]

I harvested this week and noticed there wasn't a lot of bees up in the supers as well - because it was HOT! lol Thanks for the video Kamon.

[@jaynedavis3388]

Literally eating a honey sandwich because I skipped lunch when he started making a metaphor about bee diets 😂 9:54

[@micksbeesstephens5327]

Made our fume boards with 2 inch rims, sheet aluminum flashing, and felt fabric. A little spray of Honey Bee Gone and some sun and PRESTO...thanks for the vid , keep kool

[@donbearden1953]

K & L, thanks for the video. Sorry I only made it live chat for the last 5 minutes. I hope your honey harvest is far better than you thought.

[@tedjackson5272]

I really enjoyed the live chat last night! My favorite part was seeing Laurel.

[@kamonreynolds]

Yeah that was my favorite part also!

[@mikeries8549]

Honey bandit and Fisher Bee Quick are the same thing. We use smoke, then fume board, then blow the stragglers with a blower that runs off the bee truck. I put a 12 volt to 110 volt thing on it. (Inverter)

[@johnward257]

Do you pull your queen excluders while using the fume board?

[@ginomorris4873]

I wish this out a day earlier..I didn't have any escape boards so I did the shake and brush..Good lord it was hot so I was ready to pass out..I will try this method kamon and laurel thanks a bunch for everything you do for us newbie bee keepers..

[@kamonreynolds]

Sorry!

[@edmanndotcom]

Yes, for several years I did the shake and brush. Last year I switched to using a fume board. It's all I'll do now. I cleared 14 boxes and loaded in a short time.

[@BeesBikinis]

I've never heard of a fume board! Thanks for sharing. I just use a bee escape board, but it takes a few days for the bees to clear out. **

[@russellkoopman3004]

I have only used an escape once last week and I pulled the super out with just 4 or 5 bees within 24 hours. Maybe I was lucky??

[@darlaluke1345]

Word of caution...I don't recommend using an escape board and fume board together, especially don't leave it on all day in the hot sun. Cooked the bees and ruined the honey 😢

[@BeesBikinis]

Darla Luke oh okay. I’ll just stick to my escape boards!

[@12ArmyNavy12]

Thanks Kamon, great video. I am in the process of making my own bee escapes. I like the idea of running all the bees out and being able to pull the supers without worrying about the bees. I need to also remember to bring a cover to prevent the robbing. Love your videos, you really do a great job.

[@enshade]

Perfect timing for this video. Thank you sir!

[@mattsara2802]

Hopefully you got 2 queens in that box to make a split. 🌱🌸🐝🍯

[@LazyDogsRanch]

I was so confused seeing you in a bee jacket at first! I had a Houdini queen one year as well It was the weirdest thing, but that's one of the best things about beekeeping - being surprised by them.

[@kamonreynolds]

Haha so true!

[@437AlBig]

I have a Houdini Queen also. Every time I see her I grab my marker and then she's gone. Then I search for her and cannot find her again. Well until the next time. LOL

[@rab2020]

What? What a teaser! I want the answer to the queen mystery. Did she get through? Was it another queen? Please make another video about this hive.

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Randy I'll see if I can do that. I am curious myself as I had to pull the rest of the supers in the yard right after.

[@bradgoliphant]

Yes, great advise. Let the bee keep what they can, instead of letting greed take over. Love it.

[@mattwilson1191]

Great info. Thanks Kamon! After nearly killing myself in the NC heat this weekend, I think I’ll give this method a try.

[@christianshannon3943]

Hey when ya gonna do a video of your extraction and bottling . Thanks ! I did find what to use to keep ultra bee patties from molding. A little honey B healthy and a touch of amino B . The remaining patties began attracting hive beetle larvae so I removed all patties from colonies last weekend . Goldenrod is blooming good right now and we have been having a very good rainfall this summer so far . Eighteen hives in Prince George, Va .

[@dorybentley8783]

Hey Kamon, we are new beekeepers this year, have been watching a lot of your videos!They have been so helpful, love how you are so compassionate with the love for your bees! Have a question, where do you get your inter feeders from? Been looking at some, but scared to get one that isn't safe, on a lot of the reviews on some that I have looked at, are not very good, most say the bees drown! So can you plz give me some info on whats the best to get, and where! Thanks Dory

[@Theststackhouse]

I use a rapid round feeder, or the rectangular version of the same. It remains on top of the brude box departed by a inner cover and its covered with a medium box.

[@FernvalleyFarm]

cool that will be me next month i actually built a bunch of fume boards and going to use the honey bandit

[@medic5836]

I spray bee quick on a towel lay it on top of the hive and pull back one corner of the towel and the super clears quick.

[@andywhite9932]

Also. I put the honey bandit in a spray bottle and it makes it go much further

[@danholtbk7008]

Kamon, Unrelated question: Can you think of any reason not to leave robbing screens on year round?

[@pnwRC.]

Great video, Mr Reynolds!

[@andrewpingel3933]

What made you stop using the telescoping lids? Easier to make what you're using now?

[@imkereistappert3183]

Great! Interesting idea with that board. Dont have seen that here in germany yet. Thsnks for that tipp. Just had a queen in the supers as well. Its a mess if she decides to go with a little broid on every frame😅

[@eggshoney7633]

Hi Kamon, just bought Honey Bee Quick, still on order. Should I leave a queen excluder on the very bottom in case bees leave the hive, or is ot not that potent? I have see vids that say it may push them out. Steve

[@PhillipHall01]

I also had a couple hives where the queens made there way through the excluder. (New excluders).

[@fuzzy927]

The fume board makes it faster. I just shake the bees gently into the brood box. Takes longer but that is okay with me.

[@badassbees3680]

May have transferred aframe of Capped brood that had young larvae over excuder and they drew a Cell..can't see everything especially when your swamped and hurrying

[@kamonreynolds]

likely could have!

[@badassbees3680]

@@kamonreynolds I've done it before, know not to but when workloads high stuff gets overlooked, whatever happened that hives Jamming!!!

[@alesdavid884]

Hi, Kamon, your honey super repellent looks great. I would like to buy it. But I can't see the name of the liquid well in the video and haven't found on the net ... Could you please write me the name? Many thanks, Aleš

[@user-cr1sz3xk4s]

Thank you for your great effort with the bees from the results that I see. I want to know what are the stages of the development of the colony of bees (the cell), when are they at the peak of their strength, and after how many years are they ready to harvest honey, when are they prepared for swarms, and after how many years do we replace the old queens? Thank you

[@paulawaldrep3760]

Kamen has many videos on many of your questions. Please feel free to look through his videos. You will find a treasure of information there. & Happy beekeeping! 🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@user-cr1sz3xk4s]

@@paulawaldrep3760 ok thanks alot

[@joshwelton4868]

Thanks for the video great info as always.

[@russellkoopman3004]

Kamon, could you start a nuc with the top brood and queen? I read that queens will fight between the excluder, is that right? Have a good week you two.

[@sharonroeser8021]

How do you get the bees off of the supers that you pulled? Have you ever used a blower?

[@kamonreynolds]

I just use the honey bandit like I did and that gets 99% some beekeepers follow up with a blower

[@ridingvenus]

I’ve yet to harvest…but exit boards seem more my thing for my 🐝 .

[@ridingvenus]

Hope to do my first harvest next year…if not probably the following year….it will probabee 🐝 on my KZbin channel.

[@stevenkeegan6260]

Interesting!

[@TheBradtri]

Grab a handful of grass and use as a bee brush for the bees on front of box. Bees are very tolerant of being brushed with vegetation

[@stufarnham]

Fume boards for me tomorrow. Harvest is almost over, just a handful left to pull. Stu

[@andywhite9932]

Kamon. I have a video I want you to see It is a loader i had made for removing supers or loading hives that was made for a fraction of the cost of an ezloader. Tried to reach you on Facebook to no avail

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Charles sounds interesting. You can send it to [e-mail] if you would like. I am about 400 beekeeping related messages behind on facebook and honestly I don't check it due to lack of time.

[@partical7]

Could excess honey from the hive be placed in a top hive feeder/frame replacement feeder for backfilling the winter feed...🤔

[@josephvogel7234]

Hi Kamon. I was wondering if you had an opinion about upper honey super entrance to allow the foragers direct access to the comb. I'm wondering if it benefits the harvest and also wonder if it promotes an increased risk for robbing.

[@RangerLifts]

I was taught it’s the best to have an entrance up top so the bee doesn’t have to carry everything from the bottom and through a queen excluder

[@wayneshoneybees5439]

Another great video. Great team work.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Wayne!

[@wayneshoneybees5439]

@@kamonreynolds I met you and Laurel at the Licking River in Kentucky, but someday take a road trip to your great State.

[@jonclemons1421]

Since I only have 3 colonies, I shake the bees off the frames, put them in a different box and cover with an old jacket (I'm trying to keep costs down for now). Is shaking the frames into the box below that hard on the bees? Full frames don't have that many on them anyway.

[@kamonreynolds]

It isn't that hard on them at all.

[@catchemalive]

Do you worry about your hives swarming when the colony is so huge and then you take so much of their space away from them after taking all those supers off??? I’m just now harvesting honey for the first time and I didn’t know if I’m suppose to put the supers right back on after extracting honey or what the bees will do with no room?? Thanks a lot

[@kamonreynolds]

Fixing to do a video on that. We give them more space

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@bradgoliphant]

Can I use HoneyBeeGone to move bees out of my honey super? Or will it contaminate my honey?

[@lagrangebees]

Have you ever used escape boards? I've seen Ian Steppler use them, they take a bit of time to use but it feels like it would be less stress on the bees than a stinky fume (My opinion here, could be wrong as its just my first year of beekeeping 🙂). Although I think that lifting the supers to place the board may be an issue if you don't have the gear to make it easy.

[@zeb5478]

Fume boards work great and fast. Been using them over45 years. It smells like almond or cherries. The problem with bee escapes are time, neighboring hives robbing through openings in less than perfect supers, incomplete evacuation. You can also put a fume board on the supers in your truck to keep other bees out while you are removing additional supers.

[@lagrangebees]

@@zeb5478 Things have changed in the 2+ years since I made that comment. Still haven't used escape boards, but I have been using fume board (it does smell like almonds) along with an air blower. works great 😁

[@melissaaudler8975]

How do you know how much honey to leave as a normal for a hive?

[@doriandelmas7839]

Hi Kamon, do you think this will work with africanize bees??, temperature here is 45 degrees Celsius when harvesting Thanks a lot!!!

[@melpantaneiro1974]

Olá companheiro, que produto é esse que vc usa para fazer as abelhas decer para o ninho?

[@melpantaneiro1974]

hello friend, what is this product that you used to remove the bees from the watermelons?

[@russellkoopman3004]

You need a turkey feather like the Skinny bee Man uses to get those bees off the box.

[@imperiodomel]

Salve daqui do Brasil 🤜🤛👍👍👍👍

[@seangovan8164]

Kamon, can you use fume boards for cut comb, or is that a bad idea?

[@kamonreynolds]

I would myself just don't leave it on for more than a couple minutes. Manufacturer doesn't recommend more than 10 minutes of exposure

[@iditarod4081]

I would just shake or brush them off

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

Kamon. For being a commercial bee operation and being young and strong, why don't you use just deeps for honey supers? Would seem less efficient for you to have to de-cap and spin down so many shallows. I would think that handling less frames (deeps) would make more sense for your business

[@pepperellbees]

I believe in one of his videos he talked about being in the process of switching his equipment to all deeps. I think it would be hard not to use frames that are already drawn out too. Especially during a slow year. 😀

[@paulawaldrep3760]

Not everyone is a superman. If you abuse your back when you are younger, you will pay for it when you're older. No need to blow out your back over a little extra time. 😫

[@yesterdaystv257]

Paula Waldrep Amen to that. I abused my back farming in my early years. Around 40 years old had a herniated disk. Wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Now I feel like my body is just worn out.

[@russellkoopman3004]

@@yesterdaystv257 That weight is a big plus for 8 frame hives. I just started raising bees and wish I'd of thought of that when I bought my boxes. At the age of 69 those boxes are going to get heavy sooner than later.

[@ianotimelord]

When do the Bees get rid of the drones?

[@babybeeapiaries8667]

I hate to tell you this, but as your kids get older they eat more! :)

[@yeboahdavid8856]

Good morning my is David i need your help

[@joyceobeys6818]

I thought you were going to get the honey while it was being filmed.

[@joyceobeys6818]

Maybe it’s your bees coming to visit me and my husband. We are in S E TN. We don’t get but a few now but my neighbor came over and cut our grass and clover down without my permission. So the bees are fewer now. Less pollinators and no grass for the chickens. It’s hard at times to be a believer when you have an evil landlord and neighbors. We need to move. Cool video, I had no idea beekeepers used that stuff on bees to get the honey out. Is it toxic?

[@scobiesview5137]

is that stuff food grade if the bees don't like it why are you using it?

[@user-uy2kg2xk4x]

👍👍👍👍😰😰

[@niceed00]

You do have an unfair advantage!