🔵Queen Catching and Marking!

Catching Hundreds of Queens Hawai'i 2019

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[kamonreynolds]

Just FYI this was in 2019! 2021s queen color is White!

[strugglingbeekeepermarkcot]

Thanks for letting us go along with you buddy. It looks like he has a pretty good operation there. Them queens looks great.

[eastsussexbeesandwildlife]

Thanks for all the videos Kamon, always most enlightening. Hope you good people are keeping safe and well, best wishes from all your viewers in the UK. Peter

[donbearden]

Kamon, I thought you were in Hawaii now until I read where it said 2019. The color green for marking the Queen is why I read it because 2021 should be white or light gray if I remember correctly. You and your family do deserve a great vacation!

[micksbeesstephens]

That must be your trip last winter, green marker. He's a busy man!

[alangarrett]

Lifestyles of the rich and famous! Kamon Hive-0! 😁

[NKYHoneyBees]

*The whole time I thought it was you in a bee suit. It's strange to see you in a Bee suit 😂😂😂*

[attesmatte]

You're in Hawaii?! 😳 Wooow! Just a tiiiny bit jealous! 😁

[willdavis]

Lol I thought you were in Hawaii right now up until the green marker came out!

[lizimpey]

I love seeing the Queen bees🤩 can you do a bit more Queen videos 😁👍

[markbooth]

Question I noticed he didn't put any attendants in with the queens. Why is that?

[Joe-ztus]

at first i was like how the heck does he have queen cells and thought i am way behind here in ky. Have fun on the islands.

[randallmuir]

Hi Kamon. At any point in your career you have clipped your queens? On the ’pros’ side of the ledger, the prevailing view seems to be that it may buy you an extra few days before a colony swarms, and if they do ultimately swarm before you can take action, they will end up near the hive entrance where you’ll have a better chance of recovering the queen and the bees.

The ‘cons’ that come to my mind are it’s one more thing to do, and every time you handle a queen, there’s a chance for injury.

It seems very uncommon in the US, and perhaps more frequently practiced in other countries, such as the UK. In your view am I missing anything on either side, and on balance, where do you come down on it and why?

Thanks much.

[kathyhathaway]

With that many to catch he started at the wrong end of the rows . He should have started at the finished end of the row Lol THANKS

[allsmilz]

Which island in hawaii is this queen breeder located ? FYI- 50% of the world's queen bees are shipped from zip code 96704

[konstantinamarkopoulou]

Nice video!! I have pollen that i collected in last spring. How i can give this pollen to my bees, to be better accepted? Can i put some pollen in the frames?

[rossg]

I’ll need to practice on drones before I attempt that!!

[jonhatchcirclejfarms]

Tell me we won't see you in a grass skirt! LOL!

[bbqburch]

Kamon what part of Tennessee are you from?

[mse]

Hi Kamon, new subscriber from Charlotte NC. I’ve noticed in some of your videos, you put an excluder between two brood boxes in a double deep. I have yet to see your reason, may have missed it. Can you explain for a fairly new beekeeper? Thanks!