🔵Keeping summer colonies strong!
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2019
- Summer colony eval, patty feeding, beetle trapping, and sugar feeding and shenanigans!
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Cracked up when I heard the Arnie impersonation. Keep'em coming.😂😂👍
Thanks guys. The incomparable "Kamonator"!
A good reminder for me to make some more patties. Thx
Nice Video Kamon, LOL when the video helper gets the blame for Dads FUP! Such a Dad thing to do, great info for folks on the feeding and splitting!
I thumbs up before I watch these videos. In my opinion best bee channel on UA-cam. Keep up the great work.
Thanks James
Those hives are looking great Kamon, I've been feeding my bees pollen patties too, thanks!
The nuke challenge has been really interesting to watch the progress. It’s helpful to see the flow of work.
Nice very impressive.. in my country we couldn't find ready protein products. We using natural pollen that spring time collect pollen trap. Put -18 degrees frezer.
Good Arnold voice!
Put some #8 hardware cloth over the inner cover center opening. The beetles can get through but the bees can't.
*Laurel giggles*
I thought you should never put the frame with the queen on the ground....
Good question . I'd squish her for sure
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it, but I do it hundreds of times a year with no issues.
@@kamonreynolds suppose not an issue with the amount of resources you have access too, but not ideal for us newbee's
Yeah, healthy patties looks delicious 🐝🐝
Great video I sure do learn a lot off of your videos.
I have this fear of catching the queen in a swiffer pad.
Love the Arnold voice
I am a Beekeeper and Love beekeeping
Keep them growing!
can't figure out if he gets up really early or goes to bed really late
Both
Do nurse bees graduate to foragers in waves so that when they do orientation flights it can resemble robbing?
Yes they do. You won't see fighting at the entrance though. And the bees will be doing corkscrews around the hive as they get use to their location. If you have a few days of rain orientation flights can be intense throughout the bee yard on the first dry day they get
Thanks !!
The new terminator has arrived.great video I have one thing to ask can you at the end of your next video say I’ll be back great video camon
See what I can do
That was laurels fault for sure...
checked one hive and my queen skipped town.
she had lots of open comb 10 new capped queen cells
Easy Arnold. Lol.
With my hive I have to move my frames around. Otherwise the queen thinks she's honey bound and swarms.
Thank you for sharing. Definitely make the pollen patty alternative a video all by itself. Biggest takeway I can see, is learning why the 2 recipes are different. Maybe one is better for dryer weather? In any case, GO TROJANS! Southern Cal coming for you! I want my Queen if SC wins! Bama hat for you or your viewers!
Kamon on the pollen patties if I was to make up a lot of pollen Pattie’s in advance how in the best way to store them. Is better to put in fridge or freezer and should it be in a sealed container or how is the best way to do it ?? . Thanks
Will be doing a video on that soon but the fridge works really well. The freezer is a close second!
Why not add a box to the packed hive you gave the pollen to?
They won't draw it right now very easily without a ton of feed and I am waiting for the fall flow to start to add if I don't split again.
Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees What I figured but wanted to know. Thanks for replying🍻
My bees are just devouring my patties. When I put one in the hive, within a minute you can't even see the patty! (btw...you sure that's a patty you're feeding them? Looks like a healthy serving of whipped sweet potato! Mmm!)
If it was whipped sweet potato with pecans I can assure you the bees wouldn't have a chance of getting bite.
I like that shirt. If you had the communicator device it'd look totally Star Trek.
Yeah but then I'd probably be an expendable in my first episode!
Thanks Kamon! I have been feeding packages 1:1 since installation to build comb. Now I have 4 supers of capped sugar syrup, in addition to their reserves in 2 deeps. Can I reasonably expect them to consume it to free up the comb for the real thing or should it be uncapped and “bee cleaned” for winter storage? Thanks for your advice.
If you are in an area that will get a fall nectar flow, you can extract your 3rd box sugar frames and put them back into your supers empty. Your bees will refill the comb with honey. For a hobbyist beekeeper, w/o much drawn comb on hand, this is an excellent strategy for getting a fall honey crop. If you don't want to extract them all, choose the middle 5 frames from each super and extract the sugar from just them. This doesn't answer your question about storage, but it's a strategy for more honey.
Yeah extracting the supers might be a good idea. Save the extracted syrup for feeding in the future or makeing queen candy or pollen patties
I found 4 or 5 dead drones larvae outside my hive entrance. What does it mean?
Could mean nothing. 1000 odd bees die on a big hive everyday. Now if it is drone pupae that may or may not be a problem
do you not have any beetle problems? I only see you use a swiffer pad.
Kamon, I have honey supers on, had 9 or 10 frames of capped honey but my bee mentor wanted to wait a week and half til he processed his at the same time…. Well it rained heavy every morning 2” . Getting ready to pull frames and saw most was uncapped! Can I feed them patties without interfering with the honey? Thanks!
I added an ultra pollen patty and they didn't touch it. It was 1/2 cup of water, 1/2 sugar and 1 cup of ultra bee pollen and a drop of Honeybee Healthy. We do have star thistle happening now but that seems like nectar. Any thoughts on why they are not taking it.
IMO, you could have made it 1 cup of sugar. The drop of honey B is a nice touch, but maybe make it 2 drops. Maybe they have a better pollen coming in. OH...you need to add some fats! A teaspoon of Corn Oil or Canola...that way it doesn't dry up as fast.
Probably got too dry to quick and I would also say not sweet enough. Patty recipes are typically very high in sugar, syrups, or honey. Our recipes are much higher in sugar than they are in ultrabee
Those are frames of capped brood.
CD case or beetle barn from Barnyard bees.
Hi, greeting from Croatia
Nice videos from you. How are you fight against chalkbrood?
Hi from Tennessee! Thanks for watching our videos!
We don't treat for chalkbrood. We selectively breed only from queens that show no signs of chalkbrood. Once we started raising our own queens, issues with European foul brood and chalkbrood became less and less common in our apiary as we selected for resistance.
Kamon, I noticed in your video that you said to put the patties above the nurse bees. I have a top bar hive so I pulled the sugar syrup and just put the pattie where the jars sit. That are eating it but it makes me wonder if the nurse bees are getting enough. I don't have a roof for my hive yet. Jusy a piece of plywood so I can't really lay the pattie on top. Should I shim it or do you think they're ok. They have brood and larvae and are just starting to cap nectar??? I've had them for 2 mo
First are your bees bring in much pollen? Also, I try no to give them what take over 5 days for them to consume due to small hive beetles. Giving the bees more room to consume the patty does allow them to take it in faster. If you have a honey flow they might build Burr comb in that space. Lots of variables I know!
on pollen patties....do you have any small hive beetle issues? So even feed them pollen in middle of summer?
We have all kinds of beetles here and they will eat your patties but our strong hives guard and eat the patties quickly. We can't throw giant patties but they will handle 1.5 lbs at a time if you know what your doing and the bees are ready for it
@@kamonreynolds thanks! beeks around here say due to where we are we never need to add pollen patties. Im just not sure--central Texas
Why patties and not dry pollen? If you mentioned it in the video I missed it.
Bees won't take it in our partial dearths. They are bringing in a tiny bit each day but it is not very nutritious and because of that the brood percentages suffer
@@kamonreynolds Thanks for the reply so that also applies to feeding ultra bee dry? Like in a pollen feeder or empty super? I will look into making pollen patties.
Yes bees won't forage dry sub if some pollen is coming in. If a tiny bit of pollen is coming in the bees will still consume good patties.
@@kamonreynolds Thanks for clarifying that's so good to know! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the videos! I'm so glad I found you! Been a huge help!
How do you store the drawn comb frames that you pop in and out of your hives during the summer?
Do you normally put the queen on the ground or was that an oops?
I do. Not typically for that long though
Please
What is the paper that caught the beetles
I use a non-scented dryer sheet and it works well
Dine a Max towels by brawny. Small packs can be bought at Mann lake
July 29 swarm, my own bees! Huge, must have been 6 lbs of bees! Caught them in a couple of garbage can loads, poured them into a spare deep. Only one sting on the chin as I was looking up with the veil on, July swarm not worth much? Use them as comb builders with feed and re combine in the larger fall? First year....crazy experience.
If you feed them good they should not need to be combined as long as the queen is good
It was crazy, seen only in videos. Having a little Tennessee nectar, what a day.
Do the bees draw comb just as good with the thicker syrup? Or is 1:1 better if you need them to draw comb?
They both work. It just takes less of the thick stuff get the same amount of drawn comb
@@kamonreynolds Thank you
What the patties made of and what are they for
They are pollen substitute made of alot of ingredients to mimic pollen. Bees will not brood properly without plenty of healthy pollen, stored beebread, or a pollen sub.
Watching from #Indian occupied Kashmir,#
I both watching ur videos, Well job sir,itz inspiring..
I have own, bee colonies suggestion about mite control..
oxalic acid. A common chemical. Google how to make an oxalic acid vaporizer. Helps kill mites. Also free: shake all bees out into empty box, empty frames. Breaking the brood cycle will slow mites, much like swarming.
what do you use in your smokers that last so long?
I think we were using hay today. That or grass clippings. Dadants smokers help out also!
Where did you get the syrup watering can?
Where did you get your veil, Love it
Walter t Kelley in Clarkson
Is it ok to mass feed , i mean using a drum this time of the year?
Yes and no I will answer you promptly in video form
How many hives do you manage and do you do it yourself or do you have hired help
300. wife and I run everything
@@kamonreynolds thats a lot of colonies. Is the work load a lot for two people? Sorry i am wanting to get serious with bees and just trying to figure out where i want to be colony wise.
How do you store queens to have extra just in case you needed some? I’m just curious how beekeepers do that.
Keep them in 2 frame nucs. To keep them from swarming remove 1 frame of brood and replace it with an empty.
How do you like your dual purpose covers/bb..I made some but not in use yet.Anything u would change? I'm afraid I should've bit the bullet and paid for Advantek ,this is Tennessee Bees watching morning lol
Well PDX plywood works very well maybe even better than plywood. Just make sure you seal them both good. Roll the entire lid with paint or use some type of sealer. Advantek is very pourous I have found if not sealed.
I like them as long as they are sealed!
@@kamonreynolds I think be good for the times u see queen cells and wanna split right there and not have to hunt for equipment
Ged dowwn. Ged into da charparr. 15:00
kamon I would not put my queen on the ground. she goes right back in. Queens are just bees and when she flies away the colony that was wonderful is not. Mike from Vermont had one that was following him around on his rounds of hives. I think he thumped her away. To me that is a queen I would cherish because the bees would know I am working on their behalf. Bees are wonderful critters.
new pollen sub recipe?? at 10:52??
Same recipe used in video. Will be talking about the other recipe soon
And the ingredients
Do u have gueens for sale?
Unfortunately not but thanks for asking
Aownold
NOT A GREAT IDEA to put frames on the ground....especially one with your wueen on it!!!
We do it by the thousands of frames and the bees are still kicking butt. As long as you do it right there is no cause for concern.
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