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@marionskaufel7515 - Great question. We don’t really offset the boxes, but we have been known to put a nickel at the corners if airflow is needed. I personally have never used this method. I have an upper entrance and the bees take care of themselves as far as ventilation.

Awesome catch. We usually like to keep a honey barrier so the queen wont pass but as we are getting near the end of the nectar flow, we are less concerned about the queen moving up. We did move her from the second box back to the first and she has plenty of room to lay.

You can add an excluder if you like. We do t use them. As soon as the lava hatches the bees go in and backfill with honey.

Thanks for the support! Glad they are helpful. 😃

Thank you Sarah! 😃 Those were the only things that went correctly this week! 😅 Thanks for watching.

@starfarms664 - Nice job finding your queens! That is always the hardest part for new beekeepers followed closely by being able to see eggs. We might have a video in the archives that show marking a queen. But that may be a new video that we can do this season. Especially since we have a lot of folks that got unmarked queens this year… 😱 Thanks for watching the videos and commenting. We here at IEBA appreciate the support.

@starfarms664 - Yes they are. All queens that we get are marked. Where did your packages?

​@@iebawebmaster8928from Jerry. At the demonstration they mentioned that some weren't marked

Mine weren’t marked either 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@starfarms664 - That is a bummer! Not sure how that happened… Sorry to hear that!

@@sarahkirkpatrick1485 - Dang! That’s crazy! Everyone should make sure Jerry knows, so he can get an accurate count of how many people didn’t get marked queens.

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Glad you are enjoying them. 😃

We are not commercial beekeepers. We don’t care if she goes up initially and lays. They will hatch and then the bees will backfill with honey. We work on keeping the queen down low, but it doesn’t hurt anything for a backyard beekeeper. Truth be told, queen excluders are Honey excluders, just slows everything down. But that is my humble backyard beekeeper opinion.

Awesome question. 14 days from eggs to virgin queen. A week to 10 days for her mating flights. If you’re not seeing eggs into the third and fourth week, she needs replaced. See Week 15 Hive inspection for this very topic…

Hey Michael, some folks like screened bottom boards for the airflow. It’s a preference thing I think. I personally use mostly all solid bottom boards.

Not sure what that means… Sorry…

@@iebawebmaster8928 Alvin and the chipmunks from back in the day.

Most of us don’t use excluders. We don’t mind if the queen lays in the supers, because as soon as it hatches they backfill with honey. Commercial guys use excluders because they pull the supers early to get to extracting and don’t want any brood. Thanks for watching. 😃

Thank you so much for the kind words. We really appreciate it. If you go back to check out or earlier videos, we have our package installation video. The hive in all of our videos this year is from the same hive each week and shows the progress of the girls weekly. Starting out on just foundation frames. As the weeks progress you will see how much comb the bees are drawing out each week. As for best case scenario, that is luck of the draw. We choose one hive that we will follow for the entire season. This year it just so happens to be one of the strongest hives we’ve had. If you look at an earlier video, we talk about another hive that was started this year that we had to requeen because she just disappeared. We always recommend new beekeepers start with two hives not one because you can see the differences between the two right in the same yard. No two hives are ever the same. Also, also, actually, actually, where you are located can play a huge role in the production of your hives. Ted’s hives were about two weeks behind Jim’s hives and my hives. Jerry’s hives and the club bees were about a week ahead of mine. Microclimates and location are huge when raising honeybees. Or any livestock really. So use our videos as a tool to what you can see in your hives but not the absolute end all of what could be going on in your area. Thanks again for watching our videos. It helps knowing that folks are actually getting something from them. 😃 Here is the video of our package installation ua-cam.com/video/uRd60G6nZ7Q/v-deo.html

10 frame box is what i am working with.

Interesting that the nucs are not doing well. Most reputable nuc sellers are growing strong nucs with an established queen. So knowing who you are buying nucs from is always important. As for growing queens you can only do that in a queenless hive. The bees will tear down queen cells if they have a laying queen in the hive. So it’s best to dispatch a week queen and then a day later drop a frame of eggs into the colony and they will grow a new queen. That being said, that will keep that hive from expanding for about a month or so (14 days from egg to queen, 7-10 days for mating flights and then egg laying). Which should give you a strong queen going into winter… If there is time for her to get enough bees built up in the colony before fall. If you are not confident to have them built up before fall, getting a new queen in the mail might be a faster option.

Thank you Sir. Appreciate you stopping by and dropping a comment. We do our best to put together weekly videos targeting the new beekeeper and even the beekeeper that’s been around the block and would like some refreshing on hive management.

@@iebawebmaster8928 as a new beekeeper this has given a visual metric to judge the progression on my hives.

@@beekeeper8474 - Absolutely! That is the goal of our weekly videos. Be aware however, that location determines progress also. Where we are located in northeastern Washington and north Idaho, we have a ton of different growing times. Folks south of town are usually a week or so earlier than the club bees. The club bees are usually a week or two ahead of the hives on Mt. Spokane. So be aware that the videos are a great tool, but may not always accurately show what you are seeing in your colonies. 😃

Thank you for stopping by. 😃

Inland Empire Beekeepers Association is located in Spokane Valley, Washington.

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Several options available to sharpen your hive tools. Least expensive would be sandpaper. Kay it flat and use the angle of the tool to sharpen it. Next would be a sharpening stone that you would use to sharpen a knife. Then a hand grinder and a vice. And then a belt sander. All of these work well. Some just faster than others. Personally I have never sharpened my hive tool. Never felt that I needed to… So there’s that…

@James Durfey - Thanks so much! 😃 we enjoy doing them and it’s nice to see folks are watching and getting something from them. 😃

We did a thorough visual before removing that comb. And as was shown in the video, we did find the queen (not in that wonky comb). Thanks for stopping by. Always appreciate the comments.

@@iebawebmaster8928 How can I message you about another matter related to IEBA?

@@tomrobinson9108 - You can email us at beehelper@iebees.com

@Star Farms - Thanks so much for stopping by. Really appreciate you checking out the video. The comb could be used in frames, but the club primarily uses foundation. So in my case I would melt and render the wax and then roll or paint it on the foundation for the bees to draw out. If you are looking to get comb honey, the comb we retrieved could be used to encourage the girls to draw out some comb. Thanks again for stopping by. 😃

Also - The peaked roof is called a garden hive roof or a gabled hive top. Betterbee sells them as well as Mann Lake. Probably others, but these are the companies I’ve ordered from if I’m not purchasing locally from Tate’s.

Soft white comb can be laid outside next to the entrance and they will recycle it back into the hive. One comb at a time

@@tomrobinson9108 - These hive are located at Gonzaga University, up on the mezzanine outside of the 2nd floor lunchroom. Students come and eat their lunches out here regularly, so we try and keep everything clean and presentable when we leave after we have done our hive inspections.

@Michael LaDue - Thank you for stopping by and checking out our video. You are appreciated.

Crisis solved. My bees are tucked in away from the storm. No swarm. In fact, it was about 50 bees that he saw. They were most likely getting water from the puddles. Huge thank you to Jerry Tate for responding so quickly to my email.

@@starfarms664 - So sorry that I did not reply sooner. I also have a job and get on here as often as I can. Glad you were able to get to the bees. If when the weather warms up and you are seeing a lot of activity, it’s probably a good time to add another box after checking to see the population of the hive.

Thanks for stopping by and watching the videos.

Thanks for watching. Hopefully it’s helping when you get into your hives. 😃