Requeening Colonies, Supering For Sourwood & Mite Checks

Requeening colonies in June, supering for Sourwood, checking our mite number and more.

[DavidBazemore-jrrl]

I’ve been keeping bee’s for about 4 years now. This year has been the first that I am making a sincere effort to do everything correctly and expand my numbers for next spring. I have learned a tremendous amount watching your videos. This is the first year where I feel like things are making good sense to me. So much more to learn but I am enjoying the process.

[adkfoothills]

Yes indeed, beekeeping forces us to pay attention to mother nature, and this certainly includes the flowers. Keep up the good work, Bob and thanks for the wonderful videos. I've learned a lot from you. 🐝🐝

[dcsblessedbees]

Kind of funny how All Beekeepers begin to Love Flowers, even those that make us sneeze.😂Blessed Days Bob...

[babybeeapiaries]

I did the masking tape trick this year and it truly helped with slowing them down. Thanks again for letting us know all your little "tricks".

[BucketListBees]

Sunday morning coffee with the crew. Been a few weeks so catching up was interesting. Glad to see my missing some videos didn’t disrupt the bee work!

[russellaymond]

Morning Bob. Thank you for the video, alwaya enjoy watching. How other people work their bees and time frames of when done.

[hillkidmountains]

Thanks Bob for all the great photography while you and your crews work the many yards there in Georgia. Much noteworthy advice and knowledge on how and what we should be doing with our own area honeybees. Here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, California. Thanks

[HoneyBoard]

khung cảnh trang trại ong của bạn thật là đẹp, có nhiều đàn ong lớn. tôi cảm thấy thích thú khi nhìn những con ong đi lấy mật

[DuckRiverHoney]

Kind of a relief when the season slows down!

[dadu]

You taught me to requeen every year and I appreciate that. That's the way to go Bob. Thanks for sharing this. I spray in between my Muscadines vines so I have nothing growing in aisles. Only time my bees are in my small vineyard is when the old fruit falls on the ground. Thanks again Bob and Thanks to your crew as well.

[markbooth]

Hello Bob. It’s very hot and dry here. I replaced some of my queens. In the past couple of weeks. I doesn’t look like I’m going to have a big honey crop this year. This is one of those years. I’m glad I’m not a commercial beekeeper.

[Manuherikiabeekeeping]

Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋🥝😄 Wow what beautiful locations to have apairys, that's really nice. Great to see you being proactive and requeening early but yeah it's always a grit your teeth moment when you've got a great Queen and you bump her😅 I completely agree with your methodology there, it's absolutely better to requeen proactively than reactively. I hope you have a great sourwood flow this year, our main crop in this part of central Otago is Thyme honey in December and January which is our summer with a willow bump in the spring late September and it's shaping up to be a great year, lot of rain now in our winter which pushes the ground moisture up👍😆

[davidmaloney]

Bob I love you said we are just as good at screwing things up. Refreshing

[framcesmoore]

Ha Bob another great video, glad everything is working good for u. Thanks again for talking to me on the phone and answering my questions I am trickle feeding now thanks again for everything hope u and your family and crew have a very blessed week. looking forward to your next video.

[aileensmith]

As always a great learning process from everything you share Thank You. Our not so secret prayer right now is that we reach two inches of rain for the year by July one not likely!

[dianetaylor]

I keep rope calk on hand to plug up those gaps and cracks. The girls like to collect it when the propolis is harder to collect resources for. I see them pulling on it and sticking it on their saddle bags....then off they go...back to their hive. And then find it in the gaps and holes they plug up with it. Caught a worker helping herself to the roll on my desk just yesterday.

[schammond]

You have made my day today. My area is a country agriculture area. Around the dearth the cotton blooms. Never had any problems with pesticide. Until this year. A crop duster came in and dusted in front and behind our little 14 acre property. I don't know who, what or why but am now on the search to find d out.

Also, Bless you for talking about Mimosa honey and even showing the tree. A group of beekeepers were adamant that they don't work Mimosa. There is a Lot of it in my area and has helped me with my wildflower honey and a little extension in the honey flow. Just enough to give a little different flavor and beautiful golden color.
I pro.ise not to do "Bob said, told you so" lol.
Your verification is enough for me.

Maybe a video on what pesticide poisoning looks like.

I was feeling pretty sad.
Thank you so much.
Susan
NW Georgia

[scottreese]

Our sourwood is almost done, caught me off guard coming in alot earlier than last year, few trees we have are at 990ft elevation, temps in 90's, ive got buckwheat, sunflower planted for backup, waiting on goldenrod, taft, tn

[Dr.JsBees-jeffrector]

Thanks for another video with great information

[johnlehr]

Do you find that bees are more reluctant to go through a plastic Queen excluder than a metal one? Thank you for taking the time to provide YouTube videos. They are very informative and helpful. I know it is one more thing on an already full agenda when going to a bee yard. You are appreciated!