New Bees Get A Full Hive Inspection! Nuc Follow Along Ep.4 - May-26-24

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[JohnHarty-snyr]

Hi Kamon
Greetings from Ireland…loving your videos..as a New bee keeper..1 hive that has already swarmed I’m learning loads…

[TennesseeTim]

How many people leave comments whining you don’t use enough beekeeping PPEs? I have less than 300 subs, and even that small I get hate mail, can’t imagine what you get!!! Keep going anyway!! Your videos are helping generations of beekeepers now, and in years to come, you are doing a great work, don’t come down!!! Even if you have to work with a sword in on hand and hive tool in the other!!!! 😉

[danplatt]

Kamon, my wife and I are so grateful for your videos, especially this one that uses DE to combat SHB. In fact, I am putting this technique to use in 5, 4, 3, 2...

[patrickkeating]

I love the side comments with/towards your wife in so many of your videos!

[robinmartin]

Drawn comb is gold! Grandpa hangs onto it as long as possible. Thanks Mr. Reynolds.

[jsjs]

Thanks again for another fantastic video! I'm a second year beekeeper with a lot to learn. Being on the same hive time-line with you has helped me open my hives more aware of what to look for. Thanks!

[jamesowens]

I get stung on my hands I hate to loose a bee but they are just doing their job.

[amydupree]

Thank you for the information and advice. Very helpful and informative!

[RyanWaite]

I just picked up a nuc this weekend, so this series and its timing are perfect for me.

[framcesmoore]

Ha Kamon the videos are great can you do one of how you inspect your hives the normal way u do it I know you do not pull every frame when the flow starts I have never seen a video on it no where. I remove every honey box and go all the way down to the brood nest at least every 10 days I pull every frame I have 60 hives I am sure u have a simple way of doing this you have 300 hives and like me u do not have help well I am a 65 year old woman and I am getting tired and now I have back problems I want to keep being a bee keeper thanks.

[Ittiz]

So, I'm in the northeast and have a 1yo hive. A couple weeks ago I checked it and it seemed weaker than was expecting coming out of winter. I reversed the boxes because the queen hadn't moved down into the bottom box and it was essentially empty and molding. I figured the flow was about to start so I didn't feed them.

Now 2 weeks on the black berries and black cherry are starting and I open it up and find half the frames in the top box are solid capped brood, the bottom box has lots of brood, but lots of food. Plenty of bread and nectar but nothing capped over. Then I find a bunch of new queen cups and at least one queen cell (swarm) with a newly laid egg not more than 24 hours as it was still standing straight up. I removed all the swarm cups/cells, and added a mostly undrawn medium super, with one partially drawn frame in the middle over a queen excluder. I simply don't have the drawn medium comb, so I don't have any other option.

My question is should I expect this hive to continue to build up to swarm? Or is what I did enough. I'm prepared to do a split if I need to.

[russellkoopman]

Kamon, I think you got your money's worth out of that jacket. Next video you will be the White Knight of beekeeping. LOL

[lavenderbridges]

13:15 thanks Kamon … good to see you out here on YT and seeing your bees. I was having the conversation in my head today about the darker comb and opted to keep it.

[dawndominick]

I used to use DE too until someone told me that when the bees are fanning to ventilate, they can pull that DE up into the air of the hive and it will get on them and harm them. I decided to play it safe and not use it anymore.

[megannkids]

Love your videos. So informative. Thank you!

[colleenv]

Can you possibly do a video where you specifically show the difference in the comb of drones, larvae, pollen, etc? I’ve read about it but I think visually seeing it would be a big help.

[carolanne]

Maybe you can do a viedo on marking handling queens? Those girls are a lot faster than one would think. Last year I tried to get one in a queen cage.. She flew away bopping up and down bc of her weight. Could not catch her and she never came back. The other day a mated queen fell onto my trailer during inspection could not catch her either. Took off my gloves so I would not hurt her got stung by beez 3xs in one place. She went under the nuc on the trailor so I think she will find ger way back. I'm to scare to catch and mark them. Takes so long to raise them!

[bogtv]

Thanks for doing this series! This is my first year I started with a package 1 april. My hive is similar, I am at two deeps and I was going to inspect them today like you did but I decided to do it tomorrow because it got late. I'm getting ready to do a split and I spent the afternoon carrying the new box back and forth trips down to where the hive is at. The bee's asked me hey what are you doing down here walking back and forth and decided to give them a break and will open them up to inspect tomorrow. I had queen cups so I'm checking to see if they actually grew a queen and if they did, might do the split. and if I find the queen again I"m going to mark her again. I've marked her three times and they keep cleaning it off. So I have competitive advantage markers but I'm going to simply mark her white because the green marker is a dark dark green and likely wont make it any easier to find her next time I need to.

[HalfQuickFarmer]

Kaymon. I’m about 2 weeks ahead
I don’t want to get behind the 8ball. My top deep box is nearly completely drawn and stuffed with nectar (backfilled) Added a super with waxed foundations last week.
I’m not looking for honey this year. I want to make more bees before winter.

[NancyTasker-gmyq]

How old can the pollen be, when you feed it back to them during dearth.?