🔵Summer beekeeping, experiments, and Q/A Live chat!

[@johnbarlow5835]

I have been beekeeping for 9yr and I watch you every night and I learn on it

[@greghill9958]

Kamon you are the best.keep them coming.

[@claytoncolegrove5169]

Im a 1st year beekeeper. Looking forward to your building tomorrow.

[@yasminnilima2366]

Missed this. Glad to check it again online.

[@yasminnilima2366]

You are keeping me a Good Company throughout the night shift! Love that your voice can be heard through all that noice from those machines laying asphalt! Keep learning more! Lot's of love from Sweden!

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@PhillipHall01]

Kamon, I have talked to Cameron Jack via email. You are correct about the effects of varroa with the spread of viruses as well as the amount of Oxalic we now are allowed to use. Therefore I have been researching Formic. Though tricky to use this organic acid treatment looks very promising in the aid of treating mites. Germany seems to be a leader in this subject of formic, or at least one of the more versed countries on the use of formic in the aid of controlling mites. Good video so far. Now back to the rest of your video. lol Thanks, Phillip Hall

[@kat2641]

Gee I missed it live :-( but thankfully their is replay ;-)

[@stevenaamos]

Watching your older stuff and its waaay better than Al Capone's vault...durn, just realized that you were probably in elementary school when Geraldo busted in it, so you probably have no idea. 😂😂

[@saintjohncoleman8602]

I tried grafting eggs with NICOT, 100% fail.. I grafted day old grubs with NICOT , SUCCESS!

[@jtsuppssonsminingandstuff326]

Do beez enjoy a good buzz? You seem to know it all.

[@louism9891]

I drive to Dadant , It's a 2 hour drive but a lot quicker

[@bub1683]

next time I will be there in time ;) Swedish beekeeper

[@robertstephens7034]

Will bees keep brood warm in winter

[@OklahomaBeekeeper]

Don't call them on the phone, is funny to me, but if people don't know about the Amish, they might not get it! I do know some in Scottsville, Ky just NW of you where I used to live, had solar panels on their barns to charge them cell phones. The old guy who runs the big horseless equipment sell each year has a phone. Once again, we enjoyed your talk at NEOBA, ( north eastern Oklahoma beekeepers association) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[@2kings3queens]

Better Bee has the Clear View Veil also

[@trevor311264]

Beekeeping is a bit like gold mining. The people making the real money are the suppliers of what we need!

[@kamonreynolds]

LOL there is a good bit of truth to that

[@FloryJohann]

I am not so sure about it. I buy the wooden ware local and I am like Kamon, I can not make them for the price that man does it. He is a one man operation and local pick up and cash. The shipping that most online outfits are charging are the money makers and in many cases a ripoff like buying a $10 bee item online and then they charge $13 to get it shipped to you and then you get it this in an envelope that cost them 80 cents to ship. I bought a packaged bee a few years back and they charged me $25 to ship it and then the sticker said $13. Trevor, maybe you are right . The suppliers make it up on the shipping cost.

[@trevor311264]

@@FloryJohann Yep, but Kamon gets in his truck and goes and collects what he needs in bulk. So he cuts out the shipping costs. For example in his "Heavy Syrup" video he mentions it is about $65 to have a 5 gallon bucket of Pro-Sweet delivered in. Is that correct? $65? I live in the UK and I can get a pallet shipped from the South of England to the North of Scotland for £50! I try to be as self sufficient as possible with my bees, but sometimes going to work and buying a hive is the way forward. I use poly hives exclusively anyway!

[@FloryJohann]

@@trevor311264 That is a good price for shipping. I used to make my own boxes, but this year I started to buy it from a man and he is about 40 minutes away and he is cheaper than I can make it. Saves me 50% of the cost. My wife and me turn it into a date when we pick our order up. Poly hives are here but not famous yet and I think it is because of price. Thank you very much for the info.

[@richardanderson2411]

For those that have any vacant acreage, I recommend planting buckwheat 6 weeks prior to the end of the natural nectar flow (end of May in my area). When things dry up at the beginning of July, the buckwheat is in full bloom and will continue for another month....thus tiding them over until the fall flow starts. Buckwheat is cheap to plant, very hardy, has low fertility requirements and self reseeding (so not recommended for ground to be later cultivated in other crops). Twenty bucks of seed and a hour on the tractor keeps my 20-hive bee populations constant until the Fall flow starts.

[@richardkuhn8115]

Thanks, But Too Long of a CHAT! ! Blessings.

[@waynelivernois5412]

Kamon if you plan on going full time beekeeping next year do you plan on starting to do AI aka II

[@DukeCannon]

Crap. Missed you live

[@eu3682]

When will you try out the mighty mite killer?

[@A182932]

Kaymon can a mated laying queen fly

[@kamonreynolds]

Yes

[@framcesmoore]

This was a great video, There was a question that was good But u did not see it. I had the same problem this year with 1 hive I got the queen from Texas the bee weaver breed This colony kept swarming even the split swarmed and kept swarming I did every thing that I did to all my other hives they have literally swarm them selves to death what was a 4 deep 3 med hives is now 1 deep 4 frames of bees the normal things pull brood added space I do not use queen excluders either they were doing great bringing in nectar the flow was on and heavy the swarm I caught from the hive did great as well and then in 1 1/2 month me not expecting swarming from a swarm they swarmed plus had 8 more cells in her I do not know what to do I have 30 hives and they are the only one that did this to me any ideas and what would u had done did I miss something here, I have sas a tras breed I have carnies and I had bee weaver the other hives are a mix open mated over the years Thanks I hope you see this and answer it please I got in touch with the bee weaver family to see what there management is but they would not tell me. They just said we do not have that problem with our bees they never would tell me there management of there stock. Thanks and have A wonderful day