Love your content Bob. Thankyou for all the extra you provide along with the video. Also The man at the end of the video has a very pleasant and informative voice.
I saw pictures of the snow in your area. We got some minor flurries in Macon County, NC and Rabun County, GA but nothing more. I like the flower talks too although I know some find them boring.
Thanks Bob!! Hell of a deal for 10 frame deeps👍🏼 Up here in MA you can’t get a nuc for under $200 unless you know the person. Retiring to SC in 2 years. Can’t wait to start my bee keeping adventures there👌🏼
We on the Louisiana gulf coast always have a little brood. We use oxalic acid vapor in December and January. Not perfect. We rarely have 3 days in a row when it does not get above 50⁰f. Our mite counts are similar to what you get. Lots of labor. 2 rounds (3) each time. Thanks for the video.
Good morning Bob. My bees are bringing in a blood red colored pollen. NE Alabama. I hope you and your family amd crew have a wonderful Thanksgiving, God bless!
Just got our first light frost two days ago. "Normal" first frost is October 24th. Going to try and treat our hives for mites next weekend. assuming no brood and no pollen coming in. Two years now and no honey to harvest. However out hives are very strong right now. Thank You for another fun and informative video!
Camellia's blooming here in York Co, PA now even in the little snow we had a few days ago. Love the fragrance too. Witch Hazel here is still in tight bud even though we've had warmer temps well into Nov. I've often wondered with warmer Falls how long the hives are brooded up but last inspections I do are in September and I don't go into them again until March and then only to peek in to check food stores. Looking forward to seeing you at the Expo.
I had to push back my OA vapor here in central Florida. Took another route that I’m REALLY happy with. I’m excited to see how amiflex does on the market
I saw English ivy (Hedera helix) in the background of your close-up shots of the Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana). English ivy blooms late in the fall and early winter--it might be a source for some of the pollen your bees are working...
Believe it or not we have dandelions here in cleveland county. Bees are doing good and we too are getting some good cold weather. Thanks for sharing Bob and crew. Happy Thanksgiving!
Great video Bob especially nice to see that Hamamelis which we don’t have in Europe but we do have it grafted onto root stocks. It’s a collectors item in European gardens especially the UK. There’s many varieties you can look up but yes witch hazel we call it as well, and after seeing the flowers, I was curious That’s really cool. We do get Bees on it over here but often it’s way too cold when the flowers come out, it’s one of the few winter flowering species we get here, like the Camélias. We have some colonies with brood as well, but I think we’re a couple of weeks ahead of you in the near broodless oh state as can be. I’m starting vaping next week if I can great video good to see you’re all doing well keep up the great work. 🙌🐝🧑🌾🫶
We have places in North Western New York with mallow, aster, salvia and chicory with flowers still and a lil yellow pollen? coming in. First year with Carniolans, startled me at their small clusters.
Good morning Bob. 19” of snow on the ground and the water is out. Luckily whatever bees I have left are snugged up and ready for what Mother Nature throws at them
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 hot weather has arrived and a heap of blooms are out, gorse,broom, California poppies, Thyme, lupin, Ti or native cabbage tree and dog rose brambles have come up early and are flowering already too, masses of pollen coming in and tons of thyme nectar. Looking like a great year for splits this year 😁👍👋 great video 👍
That’s a great price. I did OA last week and checked a debris board and it had a lot on it I want to do a second OA next week. I don’t have any brood in my singles.
I thought I was having a hexagon yesterday but it was orientation flights only two but one of them was really big orientation flights if it was springtime I'd say getting ready to swarm
Omg having to work all day today, i forgot you posted your vid today. Thanks for sharing. I sure wish i could get some of your queens here in canada lol. Your a good business man though, i bought a colony in beginning of July for $300 CAD and the box they gave me was literally ready for the garbage, i had to switch boxes right away. I definitely wish i could find people that like the bees like you do. Most people here think a yellow jacket is a bee which irritates the snot out of me lol, even before i stated keeping bees i knew the the difference lol
120 colonies for this sale. 14 foot flat bed, 5 pallets long, 3 pallets high. He'll probably pick them up at sundown if it's a warm day or earlier if it's cold.
That’s a good patch of brood, healthy looking brood too. Have you done any OAV treatments yet? We’ve battled mites all fall. We hit them with 3 hammers.
I was watching those hammers at work. No OAV yet. I'm going to wait until they are broodless. If completely broodless doesn't happen this year I'll have to get creative and use a couple of those hammers. Oh by the way, I'm expecting a warm front when I visit in February. 😎
that is a SMOKING deal!! They charge $400 for a nuc of bees in Orange County in California! Is this buyer getting to keep the equipment or will you get something in exchange down the road? You're very generous Bob!
Sure would like to have all that tossed wax. Also I've been told tossing wax and propolis around hives encourages pest. Is that bad info? I keep a 5gal bucket handy and toss wax in to add to solar melter. Not complaining just curious about method. Thanks again for making educational videos.
There's some truth to that but this time of year we don't see a problem. Also, not every colony had much and we didn't want to take the extra time to deal with it.
Hi Bob, Thank you for all your helpful videos. Do you think substitute dry pollen in a feeder would stimulate brood production similar to the Witch Hazel pollen?
Ha Bob Just a wonderful video. here if u want a nuc it is 265.00 and u do not really know what u are getting. in that how they have been treated for mites. I find my self worring about my bees. it is going down in low 20s and only go up to 40s and it just worries me. It is going to be that way for about 8 days in a row. That is not what the weather is usually like here. Do you have those temp and do u worry about your bees to. Thanks I hope u and all your family and crew have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Hi Frances. In our case we feel that as long as our bees are are healthy and they have stores readily at hand they can take it. We are going to get cold too but I think things will be OK.
What paint pen or marker do you use that keeps the marking for months like that? With a lot of rain, mine do not last. I’ve tried industrial sharpies and queen marking paint pens
I live in SW Virginia. Temp. in winter goes into the teens at times. I overwinter my colonies with a brood box and mid-size super. Do you think I could overwinter in just a brood box?
We only reduce entrances on small colonies in windy areas. Our 3/8 inch high entrances help with this. As long as the temperatures are OK the bees are coming back like normal even though it's winter.
Bob, after selling this lot, about how many hives are you running now ? Still super warm up here in MA with Pollen coming in here and there for the last month- not normal.
It sounds like things are running late in most areas in the east. After the two sales we have this winter I think we'll have between six and seven hundred and will probably build back to one thousand next spring. These days we have much less than the nearly three thousand we had in the past.
Makes me sad to see you sell so much of your operation.. I understand you are wanting to retire some day but for selfish reasons I have really enjoyed watching you work them !! I have both rabbit brush and grease wood pollen coming in
My nuc customers always ask why I don't just sell the whole thing.. if I had a chiller barn like Ian I could sell bees like a supper market. Guess we can get grant money for barns like that
Heavy rains in september and october with positive temperatures bees bring alot of pollen and dont stop the brood till december :( This is very bad since the mites are still in the brood. Last 3 years it was like that in SouthEast Europe.
We could save and render it but it comes down to the time needed to deal with it vs. the return. If I was working alone and not paying wages to others I would probably save it. For better or for worse I tend to look at our beekeeping business from a monetary point of view.
Hello Bob I always plan around Dec. 15 to do my two rounds of OA an that has worked out good for me thru out the years . I had four of my colonies that had queen problems from where they for some odd reason tried to re queen in late October with no drones . I had to combine those four . I went back in last week to remove extra equipment an I also had a lot of brood . I can not ever remember having bees doing this this late . I think in one of them I cut out six queen cells . Hope all is well with you all. Stay safe an hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
@@SylantBill Azaleas, rhododendrons and mountain laurel produce nectar that is fairly toxic to humans but although I've had bees collect a fair amount of nectar from rhododendrons and mountain laurel I've never seen them have a problem with it.
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Very good price on the bees and boxes, have a great wk.
Love your content Bob.
Thankyou for all the extra you provide along with the video.
Also The man at the end of the video has a very pleasant and informative voice.
Thanks. That's my next door neighbor Jack. He shows up in the videos from time to time.
Good morning, Bob and crew!! We had snow a couple of days ago in WNC. I always love the flower talks.
I saw pictures of the snow in your area. We got some minor flurries in Macon County, NC and Rabun County, GA but nothing more. I like the flower talks too although I know some find them boring.
Nice Video, Mr. Binnie. My Grandpa has used Witch Hazel for decades, nice to see where it comes from.
Great information. Thanks for your sharing.
Bob I hope you and the crew have a wonderful thanksgiving
Thank you Mark and the same for you.
Thanks Bob!!
Hell of a deal for 10 frame deeps👍🏼
Up here in MA you can’t get a nuc for under $200 unless you know the person.
Retiring to SC in 2 years. Can’t wait to start my bee keeping adventures there👌🏼
Good morning king bob i just planted some goldenrod the other day after listening to you give it approval .
Good to hear. I'm thinking of planting some below my house this year.
We planted an entire acre of mixed GR types, early, late, tall, short. We want all the pollen we can get. Everyone loves our GR Honey!
Awesome video Bob.
We on the Louisiana gulf coast always have a little brood. We use oxalic acid vapor in December and January. Not perfect. We rarely have 3 days in a row when it does not get above 50⁰f. Our mite counts are similar to what you get. Lots of labor. 2 rounds (3) each time. Thanks for the video.
Good morning Bob and crew. Thanks for sharing ,we enjoy your videos.
Good morning.
Good morning hope all is well thanks for the video would love to get some of your bees this spring
@@ec9596 We'll be selling nucs in April. You can order from the store in January.
Good morning Bob. My bees are bringing in a blood red colored pollen. NE Alabama. I hope you and your family amd crew have a wonderful Thanksgiving, God bless!
"Henbit" produces red pollen in winter in south and middle Georgia when the temperatures are warm enough. Thank you and same to you.
Thanks for the video.
Just got our first light frost two days ago. "Normal" first frost is October 24th. Going to try and treat our hives for mites next weekend. assuming no brood and no pollen coming in. Two years now and no honey to harvest. However out hives are very strong right now. Thank You for another fun and informative video!
Camellia's blooming here in York Co, PA now even in the little snow we had a few days ago. Love the fragrance too. Witch Hazel here is still in tight bud even though we've had warmer temps well into Nov. I've often wondered with warmer Falls how long the hives are brooded up but last inspections I do are in September and I don't go into them again until March and then only to peek in to check food stores. Looking forward to seeing you at the Expo.
I had to push back my OA vapor here in central Florida. Took another route that I’m REALLY happy with. I’m excited to see how amiflex does on the market
I saw English ivy (Hedera helix) in the background of your close-up shots of the Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana). English ivy blooms late in the fall and early winter--it might be a source for some of the pollen your bees are working...
I've never noticed them working it but I will take a closer look.👍
Believe it or not we have dandelions here in cleveland county. Bees are doing good and we too are getting some good cold weather. Thanks for sharing Bob and crew. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks, Happy Thanksgiving!
Great video Bob especially nice to see that Hamamelis which we don’t have in Europe but we do have it grafted onto root stocks. It’s a collectors item in European gardens especially the UK. There’s many varieties you can look up but yes witch hazel we call it as well, and after seeing the flowers, I was curious That’s really cool.
We do get Bees on it over here but often it’s way too cold when the flowers come out, it’s one of the few winter flowering species we get here, like the Camélias.
We have some colonies with brood as well, but I think we’re a couple of weeks ahead of you in the near broodless oh state as can be.
I’m starting vaping next week if I can great video good to see you’re all doing well keep up the great work. 🙌🐝🧑🌾🫶
Hi Richard. See you in Kentucky?
@ sadly won’t be there this January Bob, wishing you a great show! Hopefully next year, January 2026. 🫶🙌🐝
@@richardnoel3141 Sorry we'll miss you.
Awesome video bob
We have places in North Western New York with mallow, aster, salvia and chicory with flowers still and a lil yellow pollen? coming in. First year with Carniolans, startled me at their small clusters.
Nice Weather and nice colonies, we had 5 days straight of rain in Nova Scotia, Canada
Good morning Bob. 19” of snow on the ground and the water is out.
Luckily whatever bees I have left are snugged up and ready for what Mother Nature throws at them
Great video , Have a happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you at the expo.
Thanks, Happy Thanksgiving!
Hola Bob que lindo la que trabaja con vos es tu hija es.admirable como maneja las colmenas 👏👏👏👏👏
Lo suficientemente joven para ser mi hija pero no lo es.👍
A yo pensaba disculpé pero muy buena Apicultura 👏👏👏 ustedes genio 👏👏👏👍
Nice to see working bees, ours are all buried in snow out in Sask 🇨🇦
Great Info Bob.. Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and your crew !!!
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 hot weather has arrived and a heap of blooms are out, gorse,broom, California poppies, Thyme, lupin, Ti or native cabbage tree and dog rose brambles have come up early and are flowering already too, masses of pollen coming in and tons of thyme nectar. Looking like a great year for splits this year 😁👍👋 great video 👍
Thanks. It's interesting to hear others talk about nectar sources I've never heard of.
That’s a great price. I did OA last week and checked a debris board and it had a lot on it I want to do a second OA next week. I don’t have any brood in my singles.
Alot of debris on it or mites?
@ lots of mites. I treated in august and after checked out ok
@@Drewjober How many grams of OA per deep?
@@kellymoore4517 I used the full silicone cup on both single or double deep
Great video
I thought I was having a hexagon yesterday but it was orientation flights only two but one of them was really big orientation flights if it was springtime I'd say getting ready to swarm
Omg having to work all day today, i forgot you posted your vid today. Thanks for sharing. I sure wish i could get some of your queens here in canada lol. Your a good business man though, i bought a colony in beginning of July for $300 CAD and the box they gave me was literally ready for the garbage, i had to switch boxes right away. I definitely wish i could find people that like the bees like you do. Most people here think a yellow jacket is a bee which irritates the snot out of me lol, even before i stated keeping bees i knew the the difference lol
The farther south you go the less expensive a box of bees is. Up north where you are things get fairly high from our perspective.
I have had to treat last 3 weeks of December for the last 3 years. I live in further North East. Warm winters keep happening.
How do you pack them for transportation to FL that would be a very interesting video I believe. Thanks Bob and team !!
120 colonies for this sale. 14 foot flat bed, 5 pallets long, 3 pallets high. He'll probably pick them up at sundown if it's a warm day or earlier if it's cold.
That’s a good patch of brood, healthy looking brood too.
Have you done any OAV treatments yet?
We’ve battled mites all fall. We hit them with 3 hammers.
I was watching those hammers at work. No OAV yet. I'm going to wait until they are broodless. If completely broodless doesn't happen this year I'll have to get creative and use a couple of those hammers. Oh by the way, I'm expecting a warm front when I visit in February. 😎
@ I promise 🤞
In Canada we pay 300 bucks just for a 4 frame nuc. And honey is selling at 10 bucks per kg.
Where are you getting $10/kg?
Also, $300 CDN is only about $210 USD
@deanmalkewich2366 manitoba
that is a SMOKING deal!! They charge $400 for a nuc of bees in Orange County in California! Is this buyer getting to keep the equipment or will you get something in exchange down the road? You're very generous Bob!
He gets everything. Colonies in the southeast tend to be less expensive than other regions of the country.
Sure would like to have all that tossed wax. Also I've been told tossing wax and propolis around hives encourages pest. Is that bad info? I keep a 5gal bucket handy and toss wax in to add to solar melter. Not complaining just curious about method. Thanks again for making educational videos.
There's some truth to that but this time of year we don't see a problem. Also, not every colony had much and we didn't want to take the extra time to deal with it.
Hi Bob, Thank you for all your helpful videos. Do you think substitute dry pollen in a feeder would stimulate brood production similar to the Witch Hazel pollen?
Pollen substitute will allow bees to rear brood if they are so inclined but it doesn't do much to stimulate by itself.
@bobbinnie9872 Thank you
My bees in SW Florida always do well during the winter. What part of FL are they going too?
Upper west coast.
I’m going to be in mine Monday. 70 then. Swarm season could be interesting.
Ha Bob Just a wonderful video. here if u want a nuc it is 265.00 and u do not really know what u are getting. in that how they have been treated for mites. I find my self worring about my bees. it is going down in low 20s and only go up to 40s and it just worries me. It is going to be that way for about 8 days in a row. That is not what the weather is usually like here. Do you have those temp and do u worry about your bees to. Thanks I hope u and all your family and crew have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Hi Frances. In our case we feel that as long as our bees are are healthy and they have stores readily at hand they can take it. We are going to get cold too but I think things will be OK.
6:00 notice your mate pushes the frames towards the feeder where as i hate it when they build wax between last frame and box, what are your thoughts
We like keeping the frames tight against each other so wax or propolis doesn't build up between the the frame end bars.
What paint pen or marker do you use that keeps the marking for months like that? With a lot of rain, mine do not last. I’ve tried industrial sharpies and queen marking paint pens
We like "Competitive Advantage # MPD-15". If you can't find them you can order them from our store. 706 782 6722
Happy Thanksgiving from across the river (Longcreek)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I live in SW Virginia. Temp. in winter goes into the teens at times. I overwinter my colonies with a brood box and mid-size super. Do you think I could overwinter in just a brood box?
You could as long as you keep track of the stores. We see teens a lot and even lower at times and overwinter singles fine.
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Good Morning Bob !
Good morning sir!
Hello Bob, do you prefer these feeders? Greetings from Czechia
Greetings. Only like these in some circumstances. My favorite way to feed is with buckets on top.
@@bobbinnie9872 Ok, I see, Thanks.
I have one in my yard I say it's 15 foot tall half as tall as the pecan tree pecan tree it makes a reddish looking flower but it is the big one
Do you close the entrances and what happens to bees that have left for the day ?
We only reduce entrances on small colonies in windy areas. Our 3/8 inch high entrances help with this. As long as the temperatures are OK the bees are coming back like normal even though it's winter.
Sorry Bob I forgot about your birthday, so Happy Birthday! I'm sure I was fixated on the election, well that's my excuse.
I would say that's a good excuse. Thank you.
@bobbinnie9872 my birthday was election day, yours falls on it sometimes as well doesn't it?
@@kevinogden4363 Yes, or very close.
Bob, after selling this lot, about how many hives are you running now ? Still super warm up here in MA with Pollen coming in here and there for the last month- not normal.
It sounds like things are running late in most areas in the east. After the two sales we have this winter I think we'll have between six and seven hundred and will probably build back to one thousand next spring. These days we have much less than the nearly three thousand we had in the past.
Makes me sad to see you sell so much of your operation.. I understand you are wanting to retire some day but for selfish reasons I have really enjoyed watching you work them !!
I have both rabbit brush and grease wood pollen coming in
I remember the rabbit brush in eastern Oregon. It was helpful.
My nuc customers always ask why I don't just sell the whole thing.. if I had a chiller barn like Ian I could sell bees like a supper market. Guess we can get grant money for barns like that
Heavy rains in september and october with positive temperatures bees bring alot of pollen and dont stop the brood till december :( This is very bad since the mites are still in the brood. Last 3 years it was like that in SouthEast Europe.
I see a lot of new wax being scraped off and thrown on the ground. Don't you save and melt that down?
We could make the effort to save it. I look at it from the wax value vs cost of labor to save and render it.
Is there raw propolis?
There is some present but they haven't been collecting it for a while.
@bobbinnie9872 I want to talk to you how can I contact you
Man wish I could still be in colones 😅we’re in - now in Nova Scotia
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The brood almost doesn't exist. Is that normal, Bob?
Actually, our colonies normally don't have any brood at this time. It is much colder here in the winter than where you are.
Do you have more that you are selling?
Sorry, not at this time.
I'm in upper SC and some of my azalea are blooming.
I just saw one in bloom today. I think they are confused.
Why do you just throw the wax on the ground?
We could save and render it but it comes down to the time needed to deal with it vs. the return. If I was working alone and not paying wages to others I would probably save it. For better or for worse I tend to look at our beekeeping business from a monetary point of view.
Where can I order?
We're sold out of colonies at this time but when we have them the number is 706 782 6722.
Its so very nice in white fox sask a foot of snow in the last week😢.
And you have pollen coming in 😢😢😢😢
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Hey bob how's it going over there And the first
Going well. Mostly working on equipment.
Hello Bob I always plan around Dec. 15 to do my two rounds of OA an that has worked out good for me thru out the years . I had four of my colonies that had queen problems from where they for some odd reason tried to re queen in late October with no drones . I had to combine those four . I went back in last week to remove extra equipment an I also had a lot of brood . I can not ever remember having bees doing this this late . I think in one of them I cut out six queen cells . Hope all is well with you all. Stay safe an hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
Thanks and the same to you. 👍
It’s gonna be -8 in a week in Nova Scotia it sucks
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I thought Camellias were poisonous for honey bees?
Not that I know of.
@bobbinnie9872 Sorry I think it was Azelias instead
@@SylantBill Azaleas, rhododendrons and mountain laurel produce nectar that is fairly toxic to humans but although I've had bees collect a fair amount of nectar from rhododendrons and mountain laurel I've never seen them have a problem with it.
not cold , look like having spring
😢this winter? like spring
Ed Coleman?
No, not Ed.