🔵Inspecting HIGH mite load colony!

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[kamonreynolds]

Nice eyes fellow beekeepers! The Queen is at 5:10 in the video!

[kathyhathaway]

This whole story was great most of all to show us what can really happen in a hive an what can be done with hard work an to care about Bee’s because they are working hard to pollinate for us so if possible we should work to help them out. Thanks kamon an laurel these video’s are a real help to us .

[davidloucky]

Hi Kamon, Thanks for your videos. We caught a 2 pound swarm this spring in a bait hive and did an oxalic acid dribble right away. In a 2 week period we counted over 750 mites on the varroa board. We estimated the swarm contained about 6000 bees, so our percentage of mites per 100 was well over 10%. Moral of the story: treat any swarm immediately and then keep a careful eye on that colony by doing monthly mite counts, especially if you don't know its source! Free bees can come with free problems!

[mayan]

We are first year keepers.. not a good year to start bee keeping given the horrible cold spring weather in Virginia. We’ve been doing our best. About 10 days ago the weather became rather nice so we took the feeders and pollen patties off thinking they didn’t need them anymore. They were brining in a ton of pollen. The feeders have been off for about a week now and the weather went downhill again. So we went out this morning and checked the hives. Zero activity and our hives are small. So, we put sugar syrup back on them. When we checked the frames, there were a few small hive beetle, a roach inside one hive on a frame and a bunch of ants. We saw one moth flying around one hive and it landed on the landing board and I nearly had a heart attack! I was like...geez can we catch a break. It’s cold and rainy and the bees are not flying. We definitely have brood but I’m concerned it’s not viable because it’s been so cold. Then we noticed our Queen in one hive seems to be skipping frames all together that are in the center. I don’t understand that. She will lay on one frame and entirely skip the 2 frames that are right in the center of the hive and then lay on the next one. I’m a frustrated new bee keeper!

[jdesmond]

Like your new focus. It will help out a lot of new small time beekeepers. When you start out there is an overwhelming amount of information. By boiling it down they will be successful and can figure out the rest as they get experience.

[slavkei]

I really appreciate how you bridge the gap between commercial beekeeper and hobbyist and make videos like this that are educational for both.

For an up and coming commercial beekeeper who's still learning the ropes, this lesson will be invaluable for determining whether they want to save a heavily infested colony and what it will cost them to do so.

For a hobbyist who has very few hives, this shows that it's a lot of work to save a colony but it's definitely an achievable goal, and also gives an idea of what kind of intensive work to look forwards to.

Thank you.

[Bee-kxgl]

Great informasation, thanks you for sharing your experience 👍

[LarryLeesBees]

Thanks for another great video Kamon! Look forward to the raising your own queen series! I am stoked for that. Hope the weather is turning around for you guys. Talk soon. 😀

[OTG]

Thank you for making these videos. We’re new to beekeeping, so they really help. I’d love to see an update on your Apimaye hive and hear your opinion on how those bees are doing, relative to your other hives. I’d like to see if there’s a significant difference in the overall strength of the hive.

[sonofthunder.]

newbie, enjoying your channel, learning a ton,

[markkarstad]

Saw a green dot queen on frame 4 towards the bottom of the screen. It was when you located the first small bee.

[scottmarshall]

Love to see the bees (and people) win! Go bees!
I'd have figured they were done for with that mite level.

[MrBigjoecincy]

Do some more videos on the apimaye hive. I have one and only have room for one hive. There are no videos or even directions on how to use the divider board. I would like to use it so I could have a backup queen if something happens I can just open the vents for a few days and boom everything is good to go again.

I'm also confused how there won't be any fighting at the entrance and I'm also confused how those boards would block enough to have the bees feel like they are in two separate hives.

[trevor]

Queen is on the frame where you commented about the small bee. Green marked, bottom left corner of the picture. 5:10

[kevinjackson]

great job guys doing splits here in California

[paulawaldrep]

Thanks for that great example of what a big difference human intervention can make in our hives! Mites WILL take over and eventually wipeout the whole hive! Thanks again!
P.S. Where are the cats???

[wrfarms]

That hive looks a lot better. Just a thought. Instead of putting on a 2nd eight frame box, why not put this colony in a 10 frame deep brood box and treat them with the Mighty Mite Killer. I think you might be surprised by the results about 3 weeks after the treatment. Here is to hoping the nectar situation greatly improves starting tomorrow. Temps are forecast to be in the 80's for the next week or 2.

[larryblackwell]

Good timing. Today I opened a two deep over-wintered hive. While separating the boxes I broke open four capped drone cells that were between the boxes. There were four mites on the four larvae. I will be treating tomorrow. I'm thinking that there is no need to do a alcohol wash, four mites in four cells would seem to indicate a problem. After the treatment, MAQS, I'll do the wash. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks

[geffivey]

Great advice about mite prevention. The flow in Knoxville has been nowhere near as good as it was last year. The past few days has been a little better though. We have some warmer, sunnier weather starting tomorrow. Hope it improves for you too.

[TheGlantis]

You keep making the Videos that You want to make. I feel that you all are doing a great job with them so far. If you want to focus on one aspect of beekeeping for your videos then by all means do it. If you enjoy making the videos it will come across to the viewers even more so. Keep on Keeping on Kaymon. Keep you and your family safe.