🔵How to prevent swarming with no drawn combs!

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[framcesmoore]

Ha Kamon I miss your videos. Wish you would start doing some. Have a great week.

[stgermain]

I've heard local honey is good for allergies. You might want to see if anyone around you keeps bees. :D

[denniscounts]

Good nutrition and less stress goes a long way towards a healthy balanced hive. And as Kamen said, a good flow helps.

[massachusettsprepper]

It looks like the hive is growing quite nicely. And most of the time EFB will sort itself out as you said with a good flow. Thanks for sharing my friend.

[HansHelderton]

Thanks mate love your videos greetings from Australia

[helenhadley]

In the England EFB is a notifiable disease. A bee inspector would come out and shock swarm the bees and clean up all your equipment. I have been plagued with this disease. The last 3 years my bees have been free of EFB. I have moved my bees, as I used to live in an area with a high density of beekeepers. My bees are buckfast and were huge strong colonies, I am sure my bees were robing out weak diseased colonies. I do enjoy watching your videos, thank you for sharing.

[johnmyers]

Ive had some efb problems here in east Tennessee and had like 10 percent this winter go drone layer and some come out with efb about 1/4 of my hives had it. The small ones I took queens and added cells some of my bigger hoves seem to be sorting it out but most are looking good. I talked to mike studer and he acted like everyone should be seeing a little right with the rain and poor flying conditions we have had I think the red bud and autumn olives are helping clear things up.

[DrSnuggles]

Hey Mr Reynolds, you took frames out and placed them back 180° turned. Is this of concern ?

[richardnoel]

HI Kamon, the best action for EFB is really a shook swarm. You shake the entire colony in to new clean box with new clean frames containing foundation only. It may clear up but i would use the spring to your advantage. Its one of those do you don't you things. You have lots of colonies, cut your losses while you can. You have no flow right now? is there a break for a couple of weeks? interested to hear about your flows where you are. Nice video. You have someone to film, Lucky you!

[curtisbeers]

I added wax foundation to an expanding hive a couple of months ago. Went in three days ago and they chewed it up and drew their own comb on the frames. There was a pile of chewed up wax on the hive floor. I also added supers with empty frames (no foundation). I'm requeening today after an emergency dash to get queens before the stay at home order yesterday. We need rain. It's been dry this year.

[donbearden]

Thanks Kamon! I had a 8frame double deep hive it had several queen Cells on 3/14 split it and took 9 frames covered with bees and shook out more of the old bees to a 10 framer & put 9 new frames with plastic foundations back, added a medium super. They drew out all 9 deep frames very quickly and filled all with nectar & capped honey. They Didn’t leave any of the new comb for brood. They occupied the medium box but didn’t draw out comb, yesterday I saw them swarm. It’s very possible they swarmed on Wednesday also because I saw a swarm in the air that day and retrieved it but don’t know exactly which box it came from. Once I removed 9 frames and all queen cells I thought they would not swarm this spring. Should I inspect every week and remove all Queen cells after taking a split if I don’t want the original hive to swarm? I realize that I should have moved the Queen from the double 8 to the 10 but I. could not find her and was pretty sure I didn’t move her to the 10framer.

[tayro]

When a comb gets that black... Your brood will not have as much room to grow. Likewise the queen doesn't want to use them. Then there's the issue of the retained smell drawing moths and other pest as well as holding disease.
You might try putting half your brood in a second box with a queen secluder between the boxes. Put the removed brood comb together in the center. Fill the outsides with drawn comb, empty frames, foundation whatever.
Separate the remaining brood comb in the bottom box with clean foundation or drawn comb. Drawn comb having no drone cells will discourage over production. After ten to fourteen days see if the queen is laying on the new comb. If so, remove the remaining old black brood combs by swapping them with the empty clean comb in the top box. Not with the other black comb.
The top brood will hatch. Let the bees fill the old black comb with honey. Harvest and cut out the old nasty comb about one inch from the top as a starter strip. Melt the rest in water to float off the crap. Brown comb is okay but if your having brood problems rotating out all old comb may help. Never reuse comb from a diseased hive! Melt it off the frame with boiling hot water.

[chrisandsteve]

Question for you. As you go thru the year, with hives needing to have boxes added and reduced, how do you store that comb to prevent moth damage?

[crispernator]

Gday mate i have a new hive around 12 weeks old, the nuc was pretty full and a few or a lot of the brood has hatched so i looked at the hive and it looked crowded like bees welling up after smoking it, anyway i decided to add a second box and queen excluder that was around 2 weeks ago i put a frame of capped and uncapped brood and a partially drawn frame with necter and a frame with necter but not capped in the second box .I am going to check the top box tommorow to see if my plan has worked or backfired on me.We are at the start of the necter flow now in november and on the warm days the bees are going nuts bringing in necter and a lot of pollen, i hope that i will be lucky tommorow and see some drawn comb and maybe even some capped honey in my second super .

[bub]

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[davidsoloninka]

How much feed do the apimaye feeder hold when maxed out?
Thx

[scotthenderson]

I will e starting this year and to get frames drawn I will be doing this right away. take a frame add a frame. Question is how soon do I start it? Starting with a nuc box move to 10 frame box then start swapping frames when they fill say 8 of the first 10?

[mcockerham]

OK. so to prevent swarming, move some of the larva up next to empty frames? I have a hive that is somewhat honey bound and I think the bees are wanting space. I have added another medium super, but it doesn't have any drawn comb yet.

[Makermook]

When you say you're going to give the bees syrup, are you talking 1:1, 2:1, or does it really matter?

[GODWINHONEY]

Do you leave the entrance reducer on all year