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Thank you for the video. I caught a Wild Bee Swarm in June 2023. This was the beginning of a new challenge, how to work with the bees. I recently performed my first inspection of the Layens Hive, the bee colony survived the winter without any problems. ua-cam.com/video/9KqsKjLaDak/v-deo.html

That’s so sad, came from the podcast, awesome work btw

I came by here because I just saw a video of an interview with Paul Stamets about Amadou extract (from certain mushrooms, I think, since Paul Stamets is the mushroom guru extraordinaire) and and bees. He said it doubles the lifespan of the bees and reduces the deformed wing virus by 1000 fold. Have you heard of it? I'd love to know more if you have! BTW... I came here because I was searching for Dr. Leo Sharashkin.

Thank u

I've heard that a good sign of robbing is when bees are climbing up the front of the hive prior to taking flight. Apparently the weight of their loot doesn't allow them to take off easily from the landing board. So they climb up to get a little more height and clear from the other in-/out-bound traffic at the entrance. Curious to know if there's any validity to that.

Wow thank you, I’m on my third year with Layens. Your content is so helpful😊

Nice job Kevin! Love the shirt, too!

I thought I was the only one that pulled honey frame by frame!! I just shake and brush no fume board though… Tanks for all you do!

That's the neatest layens I've ever seen the inside of.

Do you make your own stands. what are they made from.

Thanks for the video

I would highly recommend the book "Keeping Bees with a smile😇" . Dr Leo has a lot of information on Horizontal Hives and their Care regarding Layens hives.🤔👍👍👍👍🐝🐝❤

My Lyson Layens extractor has a 20mm squLay grid to support the frames while spinning. They flex a bit but don't fully collapse and can be reused by yhe bees.

They might abscond into a big cluster once the beetles take over.

I love the difference in schedules. Here in my area end of June into July is prime for drawing wax. Being in a valley it isn't really warm enough in May or early June for good wax production, at least in my yard. The warmer temperatures of July seems to be ideal for comb building here.

I was sitting and watching a new swarm that moved in It had some aggressive guards and thought it was raiding I put half gallon of honey out in the yard and 4 hives ignored it so no raiding

Have you ever seen or heard of a study related. I have seen this many times before normally around 2pm coming up to June 21st and it falls off to 3pm a few weeks after now they at 4 pm and falling it's like clock work almost every day but more so when there is a Flow and you have an influx in brood hatching. I realized this only after monitoring an increase in drones in the hive, thinking they will be swarming. But after taking some swarm control measures, it was still happening and thought that the whole process was just weird no fighting at the entrance it just looked chaotic at the entrance. But when you look on the inside they all calm. And so I pondered 🤔 it normally happens when most drones are going out to congregation areas, that is when drones are present. But I have seen this happening when drones are absent as well if you ever come across any studies of such behaviors noted here and in your video, link me! 👍👍

I still get tricked here and there.

Hi Kevin good to see you putting out some videos. hope to see you at hive life 2024.

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Sounds to me like your Queen wasn't mated properly in the beginning.

no eggs means no laying queen, probably a laying worker and all the brood is going to be drone , you are about out of business with that hive !

I would guess no queen plus a worker bee laying

You know - you don't have to push all the frames back after done looking. Just simply insert the follower board from the other end.

Ants,Beatles, and Moths are no no,s in beehives , the ants in the top box is your answer why the bees wouldn’t go up there , get rid of the ant problem and the bees will take care of their home., Problem solved . 👍

Very interesting ❤️🐝🐝🐝❤️

Two thoughts on your drone issue. One, you have a new queen. She was laying drone until she got 'organized'. Two, there are beekeepers who put bait comb on the ends of their hives (foam hives) and harvest the drone when they cap over the frames. It could be your queen laid a group of drones and then stopped laying on the ends of the brood area. I've enjoyed your videos so far. However, one tip. Dump the Apivar. Mites are now resistant to the chemical.

What do you think is a better viable action to start a hive (buy or get them free in the wild)? Planning to start my first hive in the spring next year with 1 hive 12 layens frames. and I have 1 swarm trap 6 layens frames.

Thank you for taking your time to mentoring. Appreciated.

Any eggs or fresh larvae?

I’m guessing you caught them at peak drone season. With the foundation less frames, they can make as many as they want. Michael Bush says drones can be 20+% of the colony. When compared with other colonies, where drone comb is limited, it probably seems like many more drones.

One of the most viable explanation why you ended up with so many drones in that hive, based on my observation, is that you might have a new queen in there, you pulled a lot of frames with old brood color but I didn't see any fresh capped brood or didn't hear you mentioning of seing larvae or eggs, especially in the last couple frames you pulled out, I would assume that those larvae/eggs frames wouldn't be the last two you didn't pull out; so with that said, either it was a peaceful transfer of generational queens in progress or you just happen to get in this hive about the time the new queen came back from mating, and I believe to be the later option since you got so many drones hanging around, as not all will swarm with the original queen and the new queen unintentionally invited a lot of drones on her way back from mating; I do like your long layens box, I wonder how do you spin the honey out of it? Happy beekeeping. Dan

thank you for Bridging the Gap between automotive and beekeeping

How peculiar about all those drones. Did you see large patches of drone brood? I really guessed you were going to run into a laying worker scenario at first, but glad to see you have a queen in there.

Kevin, I am really glad that you are putting more videos on UA-cam. I have listened your entire series of podcasts since I started beekeeping last year. Lots of enjoyable time thinking about bees on long drives! You have good info to share, and I enjoy your style. Thanks!

When I started with bees, it was with Russians. They're great for healthy bees, but have the disposition of a wounded badger, especially in late summer)fall!!!!

Brood minder is under white super

I've had a terrible time raising queens this year. May and June were the coldest and wettest in 75 years of recorded Seattle history. Bees couldn't get out of the hives to gather nectar and pollen, let alone the queens getting out to mate. It's mid-June and I'm still feeding. At least the blackberries still aren't blooming in Issaquah just yet--maybe they'll be okay after all. But, I'm planning to buy queens this year.

Thanks for adding the videos! Great addition to keep up on something between podcasts. And condolences and prayers for your family.

Just what I was looking for ! Excellent job.

Was that a hive beetle sitting on the end of the handle on the upper box?

Interesting to see how it works out, the traditional way of adding space is the nadir (bottom super) with a warre hive ua-cam.com/video/gdzHsfAyHiw/v-deo.html

Hi Kevin, an easy way to boost a hive is to set up a sheet/board in front of the entrance and then shake several frames of nurse bees onto the sheet. they will walk straight in.

good to see that your back Kevin

Great to see you back at it. Can’t wait to see some videos of your operation.

Follower Board??

Wowza!!! What an amazing bee yard!

I don't understand why people that don't use the standard Langsthroth hive always blow hard to show how much better their unconventional hive is. I don't see a single commercial beekeeper using Layens hive. Commercial beekeepers are in for the money and if the Layens hive gave them an advantage they would certainly be using it.

Stunning site you have there!

Some lovely calm bees you have there :)