Pulled all my honey yesterday and processed today in China Grove, NC. It's great to have a wife that helps you out so much. We are both very fortunate in that regard. Appreciate all that you and Laurel do for us hobby bee keepers.
This is Barbara in North Texas in my second year of beekeeping. Last year a seasoned beekeeper with whom I chatted at bee meetings told me repeatedly that I was a BEE-HAVER. A beekeeper successfully keeps bees over a year. Otherwise you just have bees. I’m glad to still be here with 5 good colonies. Thanks for the videos!
Hey Kamon I am a hobby beekeeper in the mountains of southern Pa. I have kept from 2 to 12 hives for the past 34 years. I love beekeeping and Honey. I watch the hives pretty closely and rarely lose a swarm. Anyway I have been watching your channel for about a year....Keep up the interesting work.
Watch you regularly from Oregon. 35+ years ago had a display hive in my dining room. Ornery neighborhood boy came at night with a spray can of raid. Took it down to clean and never put it back. Urban area, entry 12+ ft. Above sidewalk. My kids & their friends loved it. I still miss it.
First year beek from central VA near Forest. 10 colonies going strong and i’ve been a splitting fool this week. Sunday a swarm took to the air over my hives and promptly came back as the clouds opened up and dumped buckets. Quite an experience and sight to behold! They are making lots of honey but i’ve been feeding them right along due to a wimpy nectar flow. So i will let them keep it all this year. i really appreciate you and Laurel and the videos you share and just your beautiful personalities and honesty. You’re truly gems to all of us!
Hey Kemon..great videos I love watching them for I have learnt a lot from yours. As I am a new bee keeper and I love it. I have 9 Hives 3 from packages 4 from nucks and one that it through last winter just barley, I used some of your ideas to build up that hive. I took one cup of bees from each of my 3 packages and merged them together using news paper between the brood boxes. so far doing real good. Thanks keep up the great work..
Kamon, thanks for the great videos! As a second year beekeeper, I’ve learned a TON from your videos and gained a lot of confidence too. A Tennessee transplant now in Maryland.
2nd year beekeeping. Year one was 1 hive. Now trying 3 hives. Still learning a ton and your videos are leading the way. Upstate NY appreciating all the time you’re putting on video for us. Thanks!!
Enjoying all your vids Kamon & Laurel, from Canberra Australia. Very natural & instructive. Bit sad to see the old queen shredded like that, but eh that's nature. And still so gentle with you! Every beekeper's worst fear is their beautiful bees will swarm away never to be seen again. More on your insurance arrangements would be good please. Regards, J.
Hi Kamon, this is Hubert watching your video from Maxton, North Carolina. I have been watching your UA-cam channel for a couple of months or more. I have really enjoyed them and have learned a lot. I’ve had honey bees off and on for 25 years now. I’m about to be at the age of retirement, and that is something I'd like to do as a serious hobby. This spring when I finally got serious, all of my bees died. (Which, from my research, it was a virus that attacked their nervous systems and they killed each other.) It was very heart-breaking watching all my hives, which were very strong hives going through this phase. But as I continue to watch your videos, they bring much encouragement for me for hopeful raising strong hives next spring.. I look forward to watching more videos and educating myself as much as possible. So, hopefully next spring I can get started on my way again. Once again, Thanks for all of your great information and for sacrificing your time to educate the public on beekeeping. Keep up the great work! Hubert of Maxton North Carolina.
Watching from Tampa, FL. As a first year beek, thanks to you and Laurel for taking the time to make the videos every week. Very informative and helpful.
Hey Kamon, I am a 2nd year beekeeper from central South Carolina. I thought this was the year I would get honey, but I used formic pro early spring and had to keep them closed up. Then all of them went to swarming. It rained constantly during the flow. I am having to feed for the last month or so. I went from 9 hives to 20. Thanks for the videos. Yours are my favorite. Keep them coming, as you can tell I have a lot to learn.
We are from Idaho.. My wife and I , watch every video you produce.. We love Laural too.. We love the way you joke around with her... Your kids are darling also.. Keep up the great videos. If you ever come thru Idaho , you can stay at our house.. We cook 10 star dinners and breakfast. Have a huge garden that we can and 7 colonies of bees.
Your videos have absolutely saved my tail on many occasions!!! Thanks for the time effort you and your family put in to helping the beekeeping community!
Hello Kamon, You two have inspired me a great deal. Your obvious love of bees and your wonderful wife with her giggles in the background make it a joy to watch your videos. I received my first Nuc on May 5th and with your detailed instructions the bees have more then doubled already. As clearly highlighted in your videos I tested for mites this week and tested at 13/300. I have my work cut out for me. Thank you both again for your great work. I live in lake county CA. Lakeport. PS my wife had her first sting this week. Pray for me :)
Thank you Kamon for all of your informative videos. They have really helped me and my 12 year old son with starting our first hive this year. Please keep them coming. Darin, Miami, FL.
Hey Kamon, Thank you all the way from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for all the lessons. COVID-19 has suspended our application process for urban beekeeping licenses, so I am just learning as much as I can in preparation for next year, and your's has been a great channel to learn from. Keep up the amazing work!
Enjoy your videos, you do such good job on them. Watching from the deep hollows of The very most Eastern part of Kentucky, Turkey Creek. God bless you and keep up the great work. Nothing beats spending time with bees.
hello from Leesburg VA! I'm a new beekeeper with two hives I put up from nucs mid-May. The girls are doing great! Thanks for all the great advice and insight.
Kamon ... we are almost neighbors over here in Pleasant View. Send me a jar of your nest and I will send you a jar of our best. Our bees may have crossed paths. Watch all of your videos at least twice. You made me a better bee keeper. Thank you so much.
Great video Kamon. There is so much to be learned. Thanks for all that you teach us with your daily experiences in your bee yards. Please tell your wife we are going to start calling her the "Mystery Lady" since she won't come out from behind the camera. We would love to meet her. I am John Hale, 2310 Maplewood Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40503. And Norma and I love all kinds of honey.
Enjoying your videos from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. We have found that our weather patterns, and nectar flows are very similar. Thank you for being a lighthouse in the sometimes troubled waters of beekeeping!
Hi Kamon. Name is Chris Watson up in Lafayette, Indiana. We are in our 4th year, and are concentrating on increases. We started with 5, and have split up to 14 by letting them go to swarm cells, and pulling the frames...going very well at this point. Love your videos...keep them coming!
Hi Kamon! I watch all your videos and I like them all! I now live in northeastern New York. I was living in Charlotte Nc for about 25 years. I was a certified beekeeper while I lived there. Right now I only have three hives because I had to start all over, I will be splitting those three soon
I am watching from Clarksville Arkansas and a new beekeeper this year. I've been watching for over a year. You are a wealth of information. Keep up the great videos!
Up in Portland OR. Was in a hive 2 days ago, 2019 queen who’s laying was falling off. Found her as I pulled a frame, and out of the corner of my eye saw the new queen on the next frame! Old girl was still laying (had her rear down in a cell when I saw her). Pulled the ‘19, put her in a mini nuc for insurance, marked the big, new girl blue. Hive should be set for the winter. Always enjoy your videos.
G-day Kamon from Brisbane Australia. Love your video's on bee keeping. Don't get them at real time so can only comment later on. I have one bee hive from the start of this year. Newbee keeper. Thanks for all your help on the video's.
Hi Kamon, I'm in Middleburg, Pa. This is my first year bee keeping. Your knowledge is very impressive and I'm learning a great deal. The videos you do are awesome! Keep up the good work. I have a lot to learn...
Great video Kamon. First Year beekeeper. Started with two packages and have one large hive with 3 splits off of that one already. South West Ohio Cincinnati area. Keep up the great videos as you can.
Great video, I’ve got a Apimaye hive and bees are doing good. Wanted to give you kudos for your videos I’ve learned a lot! Just a two year bee keeper but based on your video showing how to split hives, this year I’ve been successful 5 times so keep the videos coming! Roll Tide!!!
Hello Kamon. Loving your videos. Watching from Whitehorse Yukon Canada. (Up beside Alaska). Fourth year bee keeper. I have started experimenting with queen rearing because of your videos. I have also come up with some neat wintering techniques. Thank you and keep those videos coming!
Hey Kamon. Another great video. Like you said, its rough watching an older queen get balled like that but that's nature doing its thing. That white honey looks strange to me but you seem to definitely enjoy it. Take care and keep the videos coming.
Brand new beekeeper in Carthage Missouri, southwest part of the state. I really enjoy your videos! Within one week of installing a Nuc this year I found 13 supersedure cells, five of them capped. Closed the lid and let it go for 10 days, reinspected didn’t find a queen, with no eggs or larva either, so I shut the lid again this time for 14 days. I had no back up plan! 😳. Much to my delight when I reinspected I found eggs and larva, and she has been doing great ever since. I wish I knew more about what I don’t know! Your videos have been a great source of information and education for me, keep them coming. Scott
Hey Kamon, a timely video from my perspective as I am dealing with supersedure in a couple of colonies. One is in my outyard on a verge in the wheat country. The laying pattern is brilliant and the queen is alive but there was a mature supersedure cell. I decided that the bees know more than I do and am going to let nature take its course. The other is a colony in my home yard that I have requeened twice with commercial queens but there were five cells in this one, which is still queen right, three on one frame and one each on two others. I left the triple in the parent hive and moved the single to two fram nucs with some nurse bees and some nutrition. Sine we are in a dearth I am supplementing all three. I plan to check all four of these over the weekend. I also had a major robbing event. I put escape boards under a couple full mediums on Saturday and noticed on Sunday that I had left the upper entrance open on one. I assumed the activity at the upper entrance was bees from below coming and going, so I closed the entrance. I checked two nights ago and the super, which had weighed a good 70 lbs (I run all mediums) was down to 20 lbs. when I took the cover off bees came boiling out. The escape board was covered with pieces of capping. When I buttoned the hive back up the escaped bees started crawling the seams of the hive looking for a way in. Robbers for sure. While we a clearly in a dearth here in town the yellow star thistle is in full bloom out in the wheat. Once the dearth is on here we are basically done for the year so I will focus on building all my hives, especially the increase hives, up for the winter and see if I can produce some queens to make nucs with. Stu
Love watching bee videos very interesting. One day would like to have a bee hive about your fresh honey never had the opportunity to enjoy that kind of honey just store bought probably a big difference perhaps one day can produce my own. You and Lauren make great videos enjoy watching y’all keep them coming
Amon, I think your video’s are great. I took a frame with a started strip and placed it in the center of a hive and they drew the comb out and my queen laid in it. I then moved that frame to a started nuc with NEC true and pollen and old brood with no eggs or larva dumped in lots of nurse bees. They then drew out 12 queen cells. I cut out the cells an placed them in queen hotels. This is my first attempt to raise queen’s. I put 2 queen cells in each of the 2 frame matting rooms of the queen hotel. I hope to end up with 2 to 4 matted queen’s in about a week. By the way i live just out side of Newburgh Indiana. Keep up the good work you are greatly appreciated. Ron.
Mike Guin..Chattanooga..love yall's videos..I drive truck home daily..soon as I get home I check to see if there's a new one..keep up the great work..God Bless.
Adam from Calgary, AB, Canada. My Dad has been keeping bees for a while now on Vancouver Island and I am interested in starting some urban hives next year. He suggested I check out your channel and so far love it!
South east Tennessee here, love your videos! Very informative and entertaining! PS your wife is a very good with that camera,keep up the good work! It's been fun learning with you!
I’m in Southwestern Indiana. I had been studying starting an apiary for two years and finally decided to start this year. Started with a package of bees in April, bought a nuc in May and then caught a swarm two weeks ago. The nuc is blowing the package bees out of the water. Already added a second deep to the 10 frame hive I put the nuc in and even had a frame of brood to spare to help build up the swarm hive. Package bees still working and only have 6 frames completely drawn.
I have only had my first hive for about five weeks. From a five frame NUC to adding a second box this week. Strong and healthy, really enjoy your videos and tip on Bee keeping.
I'm coming from central New Jersey been a bee keeper now past 6 years actually love it love the honey I find your videos most educational and very entertaining and yes even funny at times and I love them. Thanks for all the videos and education
Orangeburg South Carolina new beekeeper everybody I ask what channel to watch on UA-cam that will teach you the most your name was first every time
Hey Wade you Won! Send me a message at Tennesseesbees@gmail.com
Hey wade still haven't seen any messages email me!
Pulled all my honey yesterday and processed today in China Grove, NC. It's great to have a wife that helps you out so much. We are both very fortunate in that regard. Appreciate all that you and Laurel do for us hobby bee keepers.
1st year beekeeper here from Eugene, Oregon. Thank you for all of your great videos and information you put out been a huge help!
This is Barbara in North Texas in my second year of beekeeping. Last year a seasoned beekeeper with whom I chatted at bee meetings told me repeatedly that I was a BEE-HAVER. A
beekeeper successfully keeps bees over a year. Otherwise you just have bees. I’m glad to still be here with 5 good colonies. Thanks for the videos!
Hey Kamon I am a hobby beekeeper in the mountains of southern Pa. I have kept from 2 to 12 hives for the past 34 years. I love beekeeping and Honey. I watch the hives pretty closely and rarely lose a swarm. Anyway I have been watching your channel for about a year....Keep up the interesting work.
Watch you regularly from Oregon. 35+ years ago had a display hive in my dining room. Ornery neighborhood boy came at night with a spray can of raid. Took it down to clean and never put it back. Urban area, entry 12+ ft. Above sidewalk. My kids & their friends loved it. I still miss it.
First year beek from central VA near Forest. 10 colonies going strong and i’ve been a splitting fool this week. Sunday a swarm took to the air over my hives and promptly came back as the clouds opened up and dumped buckets. Quite an experience and sight to behold! They are making lots of honey but i’ve been feeding them right along due to a wimpy nectar flow. So i will let them keep it all this year. i really appreciate you and Laurel and the videos you share and just your beautiful personalities and honesty. You’re truly gems to all of us!
Hey Kemon..great videos I love watching them for I have learnt a lot from yours. As I am a new bee keeper and I love it. I have 9 Hives 3 from packages 4 from nucks and one that it through last winter just barley, I used some of your ideas to build up that hive. I took one cup of bees from each of my 3 packages and merged them together using news paper between the brood boxes. so far doing real good. Thanks keep up the great work..
Kamon, thanks for the great videos! As a second year beekeeper, I’ve learned a TON from your videos and gained a lot of confidence too. A Tennessee transplant now in Maryland.
2nd year beekeeping. Year one was 1 hive. Now trying 3 hives. Still learning a ton and your videos are leading the way. Upstate NY appreciating all the time you’re putting on video for us. Thanks!!
Kamon and Laurel, Thank you from Bonaire, GA for all the info and videos that you put out!!!
Enjoying all your vids Kamon & Laurel, from Canberra Australia. Very natural & instructive.
Bit sad to see the old queen shredded like that, but eh that's nature. And still so gentle with you!
Every beekeper's worst fear is their beautiful bees will swarm away never to be seen again. More on your insurance arrangements would be good please. Regards, J.
Hi Kamon, this is Hubert watching your video from Maxton, North Carolina. I have been watching your UA-cam channel for a couple of months or more. I have really enjoyed them and have learned a lot. I’ve had honey bees off and on for 25 years now. I’m about to be at the age of retirement, and that is something I'd like to do as a serious hobby. This spring when I finally got serious, all of my bees died. (Which, from my research, it was a virus that attacked their nervous systems and they killed each other.) It was very heart-breaking watching all my hives, which were very strong hives going through this phase.
But as I continue to watch your videos, they bring much encouragement for me for hopeful raising strong hives next spring.. I look forward to watching more videos and educating myself as much as possible. So, hopefully next spring I can get started on my way again. Once again, Thanks for all of your great information and for sacrificing your time to educate the public on beekeeping. Keep up the great work! Hubert of Maxton North Carolina.
Watching from Tampa, FL. As a first year beek, thanks to you and Laurel for taking the time to make the videos every week. Very informative and helpful.
Hey Kamon, I am a 2nd year beekeeper from central South Carolina. I thought this was the year I would get honey, but I used formic pro early spring and had to keep them closed up. Then all of them went to swarming. It rained constantly during the flow. I am having to feed for the last month or so. I went from 9 hives to 20. Thanks for the videos. Yours are my favorite. Keep them coming, as you can tell I have a lot to learn.
I am in St. Louis and I am watching from work on my lunch.
Love your videos. I am hoping that some day my wife let's me start to keep some bees.
We are from Idaho.. My wife and I , watch every video you produce.. We love Laural too..
We love the way you joke around with her... Your kids are darling also..
Keep up the great videos.
If you ever come thru Idaho , you can stay at our house..
We cook 10 star dinners and breakfast. Have a huge garden that we can and 7 colonies of bees.
Thanks Kamon & Laurel Watching from WV
That insurance plan advice you gave is tremendous to new bee keepers. Legit.
Thanks for the beekeeping updates! Very useful information!! Columbia, TN.
Man can’t thank you enough for all you do to teach our beekeeping community! Thanks
Your videos have absolutely saved my tail on many occasions!!! Thanks for the time effort you and your family put in to helping the beekeeping community!
Watching from Partridge Kentucky! You have the best bee videos out there!
Thanks for another great video. 2nd year beekeeper here and you have helped me a lot.
Watching in Bucks County Pennsylvania.
Columbus, OH. Everytime I listen, I learn something new from you. Thanks for the education, I'm a first year bee keeper.
Roanoke Va here. Love your videos. My husband and I watch every one. Has helped us a lot in our first year of beekeeping.
Kamon, have very much benefitted from your videos here in Montana. You have gotten to be my go to guy. Thanks from a recycled beekeeper....
Hello Kamon,
You two have inspired me a great deal. Your obvious love of bees and your wonderful wife with her giggles in the background make it a joy to watch your videos. I received my first Nuc on May 5th and with your detailed instructions the bees have more then doubled already. As clearly highlighted in your videos I tested for mites this week and tested at 13/300. I have my work cut out for me. Thank you both again for your great work. I live in lake county CA. Lakeport.
PS my wife had her first sting this week. Pray for me :)
Thank you Kamon for all of your informative videos. They have really helped me and my 12 year old son with starting our first hive this year. Please keep them coming. Darin, Miami, FL.
Waterford, Michigan Bee hobbiest. Absolutely love your videos I recommend them to everyone.
Hey Kamon,
Thank you all the way from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for all the lessons. COVID-19 has suspended our application process for urban beekeeping licenses, so I am just learning as much as I can in preparation for next year, and your's has been a great channel to learn from. Keep up the amazing work!
Enjoy your videos, you do such good job on them. Watching from the deep hollows of The very most Eastern part of Kentucky, Turkey Creek. God bless you and keep up the great work. Nothing beats spending time with bees.
Yes please! Thanks again for your videos and sharing your bee skills.
Really enjoy watching your videos from Shillington, Pa. Thanks for all the teaching you do!
hello from Leesburg VA! I'm a new beekeeper with two hives I put up from nucs mid-May. The girls are doing great! Thanks for all the great advice and insight.
Kamon ... we are almost neighbors over here in Pleasant View. Send me a jar of your nest and I will send you a jar of our best. Our bees may have crossed paths. Watch all of your videos at least twice. You made me a better bee keeper. Thank you so much.
Kamon .... watching and learning much from you .... hailing from New Albany, PA. As always, thank you for content ... done with humility and humor.
Thanks for all the time you put into these videos! North Muskegon, Michigan
Great video Kamon. There is so much to be learned. Thanks for all that you teach us with your daily experiences in your bee yards.
Please tell your wife we are going to start calling her the "Mystery Lady" since she won't come out from behind the camera. We would love to meet her.
I am John Hale, 2310 Maplewood Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40503. And Norma and I love all kinds of honey.
Enjoying your videos from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. We have found that our weather patterns, and nectar flows are very similar. Thank you for being a lighthouse in the sometimes troubled waters of beekeeping!
Really great show and info, thank you from Brett in South Africa! Bee’s for life!
Hi Kamon. Name is Chris Watson up in Lafayette, Indiana. We are in our 4th year, and are concentrating on increases. We started with 5, and have split up to 14 by letting them go to swarm cells, and pulling the frames...going very well at this point. Love your videos...keep them coming!
Hi Kamon! I watch all your videos and I like them all! I now live in northeastern New York. I was living in Charlotte Nc for about 25 years. I was a certified beekeeper while I lived there. Right now I only have three hives because I had to start all over, I will be splitting those three soon
Love the bee yards and the guidance you provide. Keep it up
I am watching from Clarksville Arkansas and a new beekeeper this year. I've been watching for over a year. You are a wealth of information. Keep up the great videos!
Up in Portland OR. Was in a hive 2 days ago, 2019 queen who’s laying was falling off. Found her as I pulled a frame, and out of the corner of my eye saw the new queen on the next frame! Old girl was still laying (had her rear down in a cell when I saw her). Pulled the ‘19, put her in a mini nuc for insurance, marked the big, new girl blue. Hive should be set for the winter. Always enjoy your videos.
G-day Kamon from Brisbane Australia. Love your video's on bee keeping. Don't get them at real time so can only comment later on. I have one bee hive from the start of this year. Newbee keeper. Thanks for all your help on the video's.
Hi Kamon, I'm in Middleburg, Pa. This is my first year bee keeping. Your knowledge is very impressive and I'm learning a great deal. The videos you do are awesome! Keep up the good work. I have a lot to learn...
Hey Kamon, coming to you from Portsmouth,Va. Great video, good point, having a backup to your backup. You can never have to many bees!
You two are the best from B C Canada.
Great video Kamon. First Year beekeeper. Started with two packages and have one large hive with 3 splits off of that one already. South West Ohio Cincinnati area. Keep up the great videos as you can.
Refreshing videos Kamon. Beekeeping in Springfield, IL.
You are correct! Always have a backup plan for the backup plan! From Columbus Ms
Great video, I’ve got a Apimaye hive and bees are doing good. Wanted to give you kudos for your videos I’ve learned a lot! Just a two year bee keeper but based on your video showing how to split hives, this year I’ve been successful 5 times so keep the videos coming! Roll Tide!!!
Love you guys. I'm from Frederick Maryland
We enjoy your channel, we watch from Kevil, Kentucky and always learn something!
Hello Kamon. Loving your videos. Watching from Whitehorse Yukon Canada. (Up beside Alaska). Fourth year bee keeper. I have started experimenting with queen rearing because of your videos. I have also come up with some neat wintering techniques. Thank you and keep those videos coming!
Southern Illinois here. 😃 keep up the great videos Kamon and Laurel 👍
New beekeeper in Snohomish, Washington! Really enjoy watching your channel and all of your experiments!
Awesome Video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I find yours the most informative channel out there for me as a new beekeeper, I thank you for sharing all the info, I am in Ashland, Wisconsin
Hello from Missouri. I watch your videos frequently. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Enjoy the videos. Watching from Dayton, TN
You are a good teacher I'm learning as much as I can. I am in New Hampshire thank you.
Great video, from winkler manitoba Canada, keep up the hard work👍🐝🌻
Hey Kamon. Another great video. Like you said, its rough watching an older queen get balled like that but that's nature doing its thing. That white honey looks strange to me but you seem to definitely enjoy it. Take care and keep the videos coming.
Brand new beekeeper in Carthage Missouri, southwest part of the state. I really enjoy your videos! Within one week of installing a Nuc this year I found 13 supersedure cells, five of them capped. Closed the lid and let it go for 10 days, reinspected didn’t find a queen, with no eggs or larva either, so I shut the lid again this time for 14 days. I had no back up plan! 😳. Much to my delight when I reinspected I found eggs and larva, and she has been doing great ever since. I wish I knew more about what I don’t know! Your videos have been a great source of information and education for me, keep them coming. Scott
Hey Kamon, 2nd year bee keeper South Carolina, thank you for sharing
Love this site. Learning so much. I am watching from Bellevue Washington
New Bee Keeper here learning from your videos and watching from Prosper, TX!
Thanks for sharing👍 first year beekeeper in Scotland 🏴 Every day's a school day🙌
Thanks Kamon from Tiger Ga. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for all the videos!! I'm always learning and my bees are doing great!!
Watching from South Carolina. Always enjoy your videos.
Appreciate all the help...I’ve made several successful splits this year using your advice. Thanks for all the info, keep it up!
Watching from the middle of Missouri. Always look forward to seeing new videos.
Hey Kamon, a timely video from my perspective as I am dealing with supersedure in a couple of colonies. One is in my outyard on a verge in the wheat country. The laying pattern is brilliant and the queen is alive but there was a mature supersedure cell. I decided that the bees know more than I do and am going to let nature take its course. The other is a colony in my home yard that I have requeened twice with commercial queens but there were five cells in this one, which is still queen right, three on one frame and one each on two others. I left the triple in the parent hive and moved the single to two fram nucs with some nurse bees and some nutrition. Sine we are in a dearth I am supplementing all three. I plan to check all four of these over the weekend. I also had a major robbing event. I put escape boards under a couple full mediums on Saturday and noticed on Sunday that I had left the upper entrance open on one. I assumed the activity at the upper entrance was bees from below coming and going, so I closed the entrance. I checked two nights ago and the super, which had weighed a good 70 lbs (I run all mediums) was down to 20 lbs. when I took the cover off bees came boiling out. The escape board was covered with pieces of capping. When I buttoned the hive back up the escaped bees started crawling the seams of the hive looking for a way in. Robbers for sure. While we a clearly in a dearth here in town the yellow star thistle is in full bloom out in the wheat. Once the dearth is on here we are basically done for the year so I will focus on building all my hives, especially the increase hives, up for the winter and see if I can produce some queens to make nucs with. Stu
Love watching bee videos very interesting. One day would like to have a bee hive about your fresh honey never had the opportunity to enjoy that kind of honey just store bought probably a big difference perhaps one day can produce my own. You and Lauren make great videos enjoy watching y’all keep them coming
Thanks for video's Kamon. McArthur,Ca
Amon, I think your video’s are great. I took a frame with a started strip and placed it in the center of a hive and they drew the comb out and my queen laid in it. I then moved that frame to a started nuc with NEC true and pollen and old brood with no eggs or larva dumped in lots of nurse bees. They then drew out 12 queen cells. I cut out the cells an placed them in queen hotels. This is my first attempt to raise queen’s. I put 2 queen cells in each of the 2 frame matting rooms of the queen hotel. I hope to end up with 2 to 4 matted queen’s in about a week. By the way i live just out side of Newburgh Indiana. Keep up the good work you are greatly appreciated. Ron.
Sounds awesome keep me posted!
Sounds great. More on this topic would be great thanks Kamon. Really practical advice & skills.
Mike Guin..Chattanooga..love yall's videos..I drive truck home daily..soon as I get home I check to see if there's a new one..keep up the great work..God Bless.
Adam from Calgary, AB, Canada. My Dad has been keeping bees for a while now on Vancouver Island and I am interested in starting some urban hives next year. He suggested I check out your channel and so far love it!
South east Tennessee here, love your videos! Very informative and entertaining! PS your wife is a very good with that camera,keep up the good work! It's been fun learning with you!
I'm watching from Lawrenceburg, KY. Love your videos. They have taught me so much
Just started this year and have 3 colonies. Thanks for your help. From Louisiana
I’m in Southwestern Indiana. I had been studying starting an apiary for two years and finally decided to start this year. Started with a package of bees in April, bought a nuc in May and then caught a swarm two weeks ago. The nuc is blowing the package bees out of the water. Already added a second deep to the 10 frame hive I put the nuc in and even had a frame of brood to spare to help build up the swarm hive. Package bees still working and only have 6 frames completely drawn.
Enjoy your channel, thanks for sharing your experience.
Danny from Monroe NC
Charlotte NC and love your videos. I try to keep up with all your latest ones.
I have only had my first hive for about five weeks. From a five frame NUC to adding a second box this week. Strong and healthy, really enjoy your videos and tip on Bee keeping.
Watching from Lebanon Maine! My mother is from Memphis Tennessee. Thank you for the great videos!!
Have been learning beekeeping from watching your channel. Thanks for all of the great content. Indiana
Kamon, thanks for all your videos. Greetings from Connecticut!!
Great video, as always! Keep them coming. Watching from southeastern Minnesota.
Thank you. You just answered my question. I usually end up with about 50 per cent return.
I'm coming from central New Jersey been a bee keeper now past 6 years actually love it love the honey I find your videos most educational and very entertaining and yes even funny at times and I love them. Thanks for all the videos and education
This is my first year bee keeping and I found your video sooo helpfully as my queen is only laying boys no girls at all.So I think I need to requeen
Very nice to have backups, I'm from Bathurst, New-Brunswick, Canada
Aloha Kamon, Thank You and your lovely bride for all your work!!! Grateful for the effort you ‘guys’ put into your videos! Mahalo,mas
Greetings from Albuquerque, NM. Thanks for all the great videos. Beekeeping is a never ending learning process and you help a lot with your info’s.
Love your videos have taught me how to make and graft queens! Watching from Parker Colorado