Inside a Bee Hive, Close Ups and explanations. Honey, Brood, Eggs, and much more.

Let's get inside the hive and see what's going on.
This is the status of a small colony of honey bees on July 6th during a nectar flow.
The queen is not shown, but she is productive based on the brood that we see.
Forage is good, and resources are plentiful as demonstrated by capped honey as well as well-fed larvae.
This colony had zero mites during their last mite-count and therefore does not currently require treatment.
Hive size, this is an observation hive that is composed of 9 deep Langstroth Frames.
Please post any questions you may have in the comment section.
If you like this kind of informational video, please share about that, and I'll happily make more.

I learned to keep bees, so I can keep bees to learn more about their behavior and biology.

Thank you!

Chapters:
00:00 Capped Honey
00:12 Brood
00:26 Larvae
01:04 Eggs
01:32 Capped Honey
01:44 Uncapped Honey
02:29 Brood Frame
02:49 Capped Pupae
03:21 Pollen or Bee Bread
04:23 Brace Comb
06:42 Capped Honey

[marie-louisewcislo]

I so adore these close up videos. It enables me to see things so much more clearly than I can when I am looking at my frames through the mesh of my bee visor. So very fascinating! Bees are truly amazing wee creatures. Thank you, Fred! Cheers from southern Ontario, Marie-Louise

[TheKeepersHive]

Very nice close up images! Teaching keepers to be more observant is important.

[MikeBarryBees]

It’s one thing to be able to glean from your Q & A talks and to watch an info video, but to have such close up shots that you do takes it to an entirely different level. Bravo my friend, bravo!

[TrickyTrev]

Awesome as always Fred, always enjoy your great videos and information. Has to bee the best bee channel. Thanks again for sharing TrickyTrev 🇦🇺👍🐝🍯

[kitrobbo]

As a newbie is thank you best I have seen

[SIBEEMAN]

Hi Fred, another bee-utiful and interesting video.

[OvcharkaShepherd]

The more I learn the more there is to learn

[cobberpete]

I was going to ask for an update on the Observation hives.. You read my mind 😎. It would also 🐝 nice to have a look at the Ivy hive on the porch of the 🐝 academy building. I wanted to buy one but the price is prohibitive to get to Australia

[wendygrant]

Hive 21 eh.
I'm not sure anymore. Are you a teacher or a photographer?
Razer-sharp footage, amazing. And again explanation to the point.
Your grandson is lucky to have you around.

[brianbennett]

Great info. Thanks for sharing with us. Hope you had a good 4th 🎉

[bradgoliphant]

Wow Fred. Amazing video. Thx!
Questions: when a hive decides to make swarm cells or supersedure cells, do they pull larvae from an original cell and move it into a swarm cell that they are currently building? Or do they simply find a suitable larva currently in its original cell and build out from there? Grateful

[tommychew]

Those observation hives are so cool! Do they use float glass or tempered glass?

[captbriansbees]

Looks like a little bit of Kwing in this hive?

[bradgoliphant]

Fred-you mentioned in reply to my question about how replacement queen cells are made that “they (the bees) build queen cells over existing young larvae in emergencies”—yet does that mean that sometimes they move young larvae? Are they capable of doing this? Or are replacement cells ALWAYS built over existing young larvae? Grateful.

[onefastfreddy]

What a wonderful look up close inside of a hive. I wish someone clever would invite the "Frederick Dunn" mini-robot camera the size of a bee so I could use it in my hive to get the wonderful views you are able to do with your cameras so I could easily see everything my bees are doing! I am always envious of your photography and enjoy the quality of all of your work. Can we start a "Go Fund Me" page to get that F.D.M.R. camera into development? Then we just need A.I. to duplicate your soft voice narrations to make our own videos complete! 😆

[davidkoch]

If I feed the bees sugar water to encourage them to make comb on the frames of the honey super, will that taint the honey when I extract it?

[michaelremsen]

I thought your grandson might like no eye deer joke