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@@PHOTOCONVENTION thank you. I had my kitchen redone in 2013 and I love the tiles too. Feels like cooking in the sky!

Thanks for the idea. You can also put wine corks in the water and they can not only stand on them to drink but can drink by putting their proboscis into holes in the cork and drink through the cork!

I love my table. It's light and really easy to move and lives outdoors just fine - no rusting, etc.

I suppose there’s a chance that disease can be transmitted this way. Good point. I’ve done it for years without a bad consequence that I am aware of. I also put out anything in my kitchen that gets honey on it which is usually the cardboard I’ve put down to protect the floor or the counters.

@@lindatsbees I put my "wet" cappings back on the hive. The container with cappings rests on the frame topbars and is protected from diseased bees, yellow jackets, and ants by an empty super and the hive cover. I do this because I think of the consequences of just one of those hundreds of bees coming from an AFB-infected hive, then going home to recruit her sisters. BTW, this practice is unlawful in some jurisdictions -- because it's a great way to spread disease.

@@BlaineNay great suggestion. I put my dripping frames back on the hives to clean up as well

There is little regulation on beekeeping in Georgia. Many people use open feeding as a way of regularly feeding their bees. I don't do that, and I haven't had AFB or EFB in my nineteen years of beekeeping, but I've probably just been lucky.

​@lindatsbees I've had AFB twice. The first time was when I was a teen back in the '60s. In that case, I bought some used equipment to expand my operation. I'll never do that again. I've eschewed anything risky ever since. The second time was about 10 years ago. My bees brought it in from who knows where. I'm the bee inspector for southern Utah. In this capacity, I have had to help beekeepers deal with nearly 20 cases of AFB and hundreds of cases of EFB in the past 10 years. Two of the AFB cases were within a half-mile of my little 8-colony apiary. I hope this explains why I think open-feeding and open-cleaning of frames and cappings is dangerous and oppose it every chance I get.

Good for you!

Thanks for your input. You make a really good point because, of course you can't sterilize leather. A lot of people still use leather gloves. I usually don't wear gloves at all because I like the way it feels when bees walk on my hands and I want to use my camera a lot. I've tried nitrile but it's really an illusion - the bees can sting through them so I either go gloveless or, when I have an angry hive or it's August, I wear leather gloves which they can't sting through !!

I will stay with leather and keep from being stung.

That would be efficient! Also if you turn the boxes upside down, it's easier to paint the handles. I never think of that until after the fact!

Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you will try them

I hope you’ll try it.

@@lindatsbees We will eat them tomorrow 😊

It's really fast this way. I painted them individually for years, though, so don't feel bad!

@@lindatsbees lol thank you so much. The sad thing is that I work at a bee farm, and nobody taught me to stack them. They’ve been running the farm 15 years and painting each one individually. Lol!

I hope you try it! Thanks for watching.

Let me know how it turns out.

Hope you’ll try it. It’s a great product and so easy to make! Thanks for watching

It works on at least one of my empty hives every year. That was during the pandemic and that hive did not attract a swarm. This year, 2024, however, a gigantic swarm moved into my top bar hive attracted with my swarm lure.

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Great idea. I’ll remember that going forward.

Thanks for watching - makes it all worth it when people get something out of it!

So glad you watched it - hope you make some.

I'm so glad they are helpful. Good luck with your bees - it's the beginning of a great adventure!

Thanks for watching!

They are really easy to make. I hope you’ll try them. Thanks for watching!

So nice of you. Hope your resource hives do well

Exactly

Thanks for watching! Welcome to you from your beautiful country

Thanks for the supportive comment and for watching!

Welcome aboard! Also look at the playlists. I’ve posted lots of tips as well as swarm catches and inspections. Thanks for subscribing

I do use checker-boarding on my hives to try to control swarming, but this hive I chose to install in a way that doesn't allow me to work on the brood nest. They had spent the entire of last bee season in a swarm trap and this past winter. So when I moved them into a hive in February, I simply moved the long combs into three medium boxes with the comb hanging down through the three boxes. This means that I can't checkerboard because the brood combs can't be moved. So I imagine this hive had queen cells everywhere and many virgin queens were not killed by the emerging queen post the primary swarm. But swarming is a natural instinct of the hive and I respect the hive when it does swarm.

It doesn’t have to be a swarm. I usually make a split to create a resource nuc. Thanks for watching!

My son in law and I built it from a kit we bought from Carolina Coops. It arrived in pieces on an 18 wheeler but we managed to construct it! It’s six by 18 I think. The chickens and I love it!

I did not make it. My friend Julia gave it to me and I love it. I don't wear it during the dearth because bees can fly up under the veil. It was handmade by Waggle Works - and Julia bought it at a BIP auction. Mandy Shaw is the maker. I think this is her site although she is making the veils slightly differently now: www.bellabeek.com

@@lindatsbees thank you!! I love it!

Thanks for the sub! Welcome!

Thank you! I like the yellow handle holds!

You’ll love how fast this goes!

The bees love a way to start that isn’t plastic. My top bars in my top bar hive have wooden wedges on them and I wax those just like you are saying

Thank you very much!

The sound was more due to the leaf blower. When I bring my rode mic it really cuts out the background noise. So sorry I forgot it today

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Thanks for watching!

Thanks for subscribing. I hope some of what I share will be helpful to you.