🔵How to prevent swarming with no drawn combs!
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Hi Kamon! I bought my first nuc last spring and guess what it came with? EFB!😩 I did a shook swarm into new box and frames and they were cured! Hope yours get better soon! Love your videos.
Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bee
want to correct this because no one knows but should know
I've heard local honey is good for allergies. You might want to see if anyone around you keeps bees. :D
This is only anecdotal but I think our backyard honey did help with my pollen allergy. Normally I on antihistamines for several weeks every Spring but this last year I didn't take one.
Thanks mate love your videos greetings from Australia
Thanks pal Happy Beekeeping!
Ha Kamon I miss your videos. Wish you would start doing some. Have a great week.
Good nutrition and less stress goes a long way towards a healthy balanced hive. And as Kamen said, a good flow helps.
It looks like the hive is growing quite nicely. And most of the time EFB will sort itself out as you said with a good flow. Thanks for sharing my friend.
wow what a beautiful shed!
I added wax foundation to an expanding hive a couple of months ago. Went in three days ago and they chewed it up and drew their own comb on the frames. There was a pile of chewed up wax on the hive floor. I also added supers with empty frames (no foundation). I'm requeening today after an emergency dash to get queens before the stay at home order yesterday. We need rain. It's been dry this year.
Ive had some efb problems here in east Tennessee and had like 10 percent this winter go drone layer and some come out with efb about 1/4 of my hives had it. The small ones I took queens and added cells some of my bigger hoves seem to be sorting it out but most are looking good. I talked to mike studer and he acted like everyone should be seeing a little right with the rain and poor flying conditions we have had I think the red bud and autumn olives are helping clear things up.
Thanks Kamon another great video.
Thanks !!
Thanks Kamon! I had a 8frame double deep hive it had several queen Cells on 3/14 split it and took 9 frames covered with bees and shook out more of the old bees to a 10 framer & put 9 new frames with plastic foundations back, added a medium super. They drew out all 9 deep frames very quickly and filled all with nectar & capped honey. They Didn’t leave any of the new comb for brood. They occupied the medium box but didn’t draw out comb, yesterday I saw them swarm. It’s very possible they swarmed on Wednesday also because I saw a swarm in the air that day and retrieved it but don’t know exactly which box it came from. Once I removed 9 frames and all queen cells I thought they would not swarm this spring. Should I inspect every week and remove all Queen cells after taking a split if I don’t want the original hive to swarm? I realize that I should have moved the Queen from the double 8 to the 10 but I. could not find her and was pretty sure I didn’t move her to the 10framer.
Great video.
In the England EFB is a notifiable disease. A bee inspector would come out and shock swarm the bees and clean up all your equipment. I have been plagued with this disease. The last 3 years my bees have been free of EFB. I have moved my bees, as I used to live in an area with a high density of beekeepers. My bees are buckfast and were huge strong colonies, I am sure my bees were robing out weak diseased colonies. I do enjoy watching your videos, thank you for sharing.
Here AFB is a notifiable disease and in this state has to be dealt with by burning the hive and bees to the ground. Thankfully it is rare. Efb for me has always been something I could take care of by requeening, feeding and possibly a brood break
Gday mate i have a new hive around 12 weeks old ,the nuc was pretty full and a few or a lot of the brood has hatched so i looked at the hive and it looked crowded like bees welling up after smoking it ,anyway i decided to add a second box and queen excluder that was around 2 weeks ago i put a frame of capped and uncapped brood and a partially drawn frame with necter and a frame with necter but not capped in the second box .I am going to check the top box tommorow to see if my plan has worked or backfired on me.We are at the start of the necter flow now in november and on the warm days the bees are going nuts bringing in necter and a lot of pollen ,i hope that i will be lucky tommorow and see some drawn comb and maybe even some capped honey in my second super .
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HI Kamon, the best action for EFB is really a shook swarm. You shake the entire colony in to new clean box with new clean frames containing foundation only. It may clear up but i would use the spring to your advantage. Its one of those do you don't you things. You have lots of colonies, cut your losses while you can. You have no flow right now? is there a break for a couple of weeks? interested to hear about your flows where you are. Nice video. You have someone to film, Lucky you!
What?
Hey Richard trickle of Nectar coming in now from the fringed phacelia, wild mustard, and in some beeyards the autumn olive. Just enough to whiten the wax a bit on the production colonies. My thoughts are to possibly introduce a new queen and keep her in a cage for a while allowing the bees to have small break and allow the upcoming flows to flush out the EFB.
Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees good idea. Hey it’s not for me to say how to manage your bees. Sorry if that appeared that way with choice of words. In Europe we’re not allowed any hint of EFB or otherwise a bee inspector will put your apiary in lockdown. 😱. For us here à shook swarm is the supposed fix all method. It’s amazing how different each country has different protocols.
I find it also really interesting when you talk about your different
flows. I hear you in me, you know the flows precisely in your area. Like I keep banging on to people, every area is different! Couldn’t listen to your live dude, it was 2 am here and bushed from beekeeping all day! Keep up the great channel. Will pm you on another subject. ✊
@@richardnoel3141 I am always opening to learning keep the suggestions coming.
Red paint on shed looks very Swedish. Falu Rödfärg
In the USA there's a product called "barn paint". It's cheap and red. (Or white)
Barn and Fence paint is meant to just get slapped on. Cheap. It's like $10/gallon..
OK. so to prevent swarming, move some of the larva up next to empty frames? I have a hive that is somewhat honey bound and I think the bees are wanting space. I have added another medium super, but it doesn't have any drawn comb yet.
Saw a lot of queen cups/cells? On one of the early frames you pulled at the bottom. Worry about those or thinking you’ll just add space?
Hey Mr Reynolds, you took frames out and placed them back 180° turned. Is this of concern ?
It is best not to when colonies are weak and when temps are cold. Sometimes it happens or helps get foundation drawn.
Best to have a habit of putting things back as you found them as much as possible
Question for you. As you go thru the year, with hives needing to have boxes added and reduced, how do you store that comb to prevent moth damage?
I will e starting this year and to get frames drawn I will be doing this right away. take a frame add a frame. Question is how soon do I start it? Starting with a nuc box move to 10 frame box then start swapping frames when they fill say 8 of the first 10?
When you put the new foundation frame in, did you split the brood nest up? Or were the frames on the other side of the new frame just stores? Presumably you would advise not splitting a brood nest up?
When you insert a new frame undrawn it's best to slip it between two brood combs. If you put it between two honey combs what happens is the bees fatten the existing frames and the new frame gets poorly done. It's skinny with capped honey that's only 1/4" thick. Sound familiar?
Don't checkerboard honey combs unless it's a major strong flow. Youll regret it.
Hello. I would like to ask about queen excluder. Is there any difference if you use metallic or plastic excluder? Thanks a lot
Hi thx to ur video // what about weather at the night for brood in the frame up I think it is cold may be the bees go down in the midnight thx
Hey Reynolds, you bought so many amber queen cups on your other video, you caused mine to go on backorder........You're killing me here. Just wanted to try to graft a half dozen or so and my cups are up in Tennessee with you.......LOL...
Enjoyed the video Kamon. Do you normally use doubles on your hives? Or do you use the added box to make splits later on? I have been entertaining the idea of trying to over winter singles here in CT. The Apime conversion looks interesting.
I have been running doubles and single thru the winter.i have been wondering which is better and honestly they both work very well as long as the bees as healthy. I am contemplating running all single thru winter this year but don't know for sure if that system will work well thru our summer dearth. June-august. I think you could over winter singles there no problem if the cluster is healthy and you put a insulated board on top with a 5 or greater R value.
@@kamonreynolds Thanks again Kamon! Thank you for all you do to provide great content!
How much feed do the apimaye feeder hold when maxed out?
Thx
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Thanks for all the great vids, love your channel!
I just installed a package , can it become syrup bound ?? Queen just got released and seen a lot
of drawn comb full of syrup and natural pollen, loved to see eggs and larva or capped brood
3 weeks from now . Great video
My thoughts, if they have enough syrup slow down your feeding. Let them go a couple of days without before the next jar. Bees are hoarders and they will plug it up in no time but if the weather stays bad for more than a day or two give them another jar. Big hives not raising brood uses 10 lbs of honey per month in the winter. That's a gallon of 2 to 1 basically. Peek in the hive every 5 days or so and see how much resources they have. Good luck.
@@russellkoopman3004 My thoughts too, I'm afraid queen is not going to have a place
to lay eggs , At the rate their going , Thanks for your feed back .
When you say you're going to give the bees syrup, are you talking 1:1, 2:1, or does it really matter?
Kamon did you try the holst milk test on these bad larvae?
If you’re not raising queens, should you cut all those supersedure cells?
Kamon what’s your thoughts on them queen cups when the queen gets superseded do you believe the queen lays an egg in them or the bees carry a fertile egg into the cup or the bees fill it with royal jelly to trick the queen into laying an egg in there
Great question!!
That's an interesting question..
Where can I get some of the feeders?
Do you leave the entrance reducer on all year
When a comb gets that black... Your brood will not have as much room to grow. Likewise the queen doesn't want to use them. Then there's the issue of the retained smell drawing moths and other pest as well as holding disease.
You might try putting half your brood in a second box with a queen secluder between the boxes. Put the removed brood comb together in the center. Fill the outsides with drawn comb, empty frames, foundation whatever.
Separate the remaining brood comb in the bottom box with clean foundation or drawn comb. Drawn comb having no drone cells will discourage over production. After ten to fourteen days see if the queen is laying on the new comb. If so, remove the remaining old black brood combs by swapping them with the empty clean comb in the top box. Not with the other black comb.
The top brood will hatch. Let the bees fill the old black comb with honey. Harvest and cut out the old nasty comb about one inch from the top as a starter strip. Melt the rest in water to float off the crap. Brown comb is okay but if your having brood problems rotating out all old comb may help. Never reuse comb from a diseased hive! Melt it off the frame with boiling hot water.
Hey Keymond, could you prevent a swarm by adding another super with no foundation (just empty frames?)
Brad,
Add Empty : Wired, with Starter Strip Frames, (I use Langstroth Standard Hives #) to the Brood Box on a regular basis...
Aka, this gives the Queen lots of Space to lay up....Space equals laying not Swarming !
And every time you remove a Brood Frame (Shake off Bees) and add it up, above a Queen Excluder) in a Super.
Why ?
Well Capped Brood is "Congestion" (no egg space.)
So by taking Capped Brood up away from the Brood area, on a regular basis, frees up lots of 'Space'.
This Brood, will hatch fairly quickly, are Nurse Bees, and they by default go through the QE, downstairs to the Queen... And help keep those eggs nurtured... Circle of Life. 👍
Ex Brood (Hatched) becomes empty cells, that Workers will fill with Nectar fast.
Win, win,win, management.
Tip :
Currently, on my weekly inspections... I go through the whole Brood Box, get the most capped Frame, remove it, add a Wired, Starter Strip Frame, and Checker Board, across the Box, in the next slot over (each week) so the Queen has a sequential number of Frames from Capped, nearly Capped, Larva, eggs, Wax Build, No Wax (empty.) Get the idea ! 😉
These Brood Frames can be placed in same Hive(s) Super, or, add them to smaller weaker Colonies to build them up. ✓
Hope this helps. 😏
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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Think you have a Flow Hive#... From a comment elsewhere.
Same applies, as you have a Standard Langstroth Brood Box with them.
You might need to do a Super with Frames, over the Brood, but under your Flow Frame (Super.)
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@@mmb_MeAndMyBees thank you so much
What is the best mixture of sugar water to stimulate growth, egg laying.
Can someone help me out. I have a good amount of bearding. On the front of my hive the last days and nights. But it goes away by morning haven't swarmed. But got me scared it's my first colony and don't want my queen running off. So is this probably cause it's above 90 degrees or more than likely going to swarm. I saw full queen cups but removed them and moved queen excluder up one box to give her more room. Any advice is helpful
Be careful about removing active queen cells. First get eyes on the queen. You may be killing the hives only chance at survival.
What the name of the top feeders
In Canada, EFB means destroying the entire hive! Myself, I'd take that frame, and drop it into the burn barrel, right smartly! Don't allow it to spread!!
You sure?
AFB means abatement for the usa. Dig hole and burn the colony alive.
@@mikeries8549 there are some countries in Europe and maybe elsewhere that are destroying hives with EFB and having success. I am not sure about Canada. Some in the US are advocating for this approach.
@@mikeries8549 it's EFB ,Big difference..it can clear up,but if not it'll cause alot of brood loss,still nasty but definitely treatable
I've been keeping bees since 1977. Think I've ever seen efb?
I've had it all except afb. EFB goes away with a good honey flow. I have not seen EFB in at least 10 years. The last I heard was about 6 yrs ago there was some afb in northeast illinois.
That's the closest it ever got as far as I know.
Last year I spent sleepless nights worried about hive beatles. I had a few hives that...well have you ever seen an entire frame of beatles? Oh God.
Permethrin is your friend. It really helps to drench around hives.
This year it's like they don't exist.
You said nine frames in a 10 frame box is a no no for building wax in frames. Can you explain that? I'm going to say it's because they build more faster because the frames are closer together??
Burr comb
Calm down people ,EFB treatable,but I'd put it on foundation asap and personally use terramycin before it spreads like wildfire, I had it once ..flow fix too slow ,too much brood loss ,I'm sure you do right thing
Link for the feeders???
I think you can only get the feeders and lid as a combo. Here is the link for that:
amzn.to/3aSdE1q
How do you get them to draw out medium frames for a super?!?
Keep taking fully Capped Brood, (shake off all bees into Brood Box, to make sure the Queen 👑 stays there...)
And add this to your Super over a Queen Excluder, the Nurse Bees get drawn up and will then become Worker Bees, and add Nectar to these "hatched cells".
As you take from the Brood, say a Frame a week, add a blank (or if you use Foundation) a replacement Frame for the Queen.
Congestion of Brood equals Swarms... 🙄
By continuing to take and adding Frames this way...
1) The Queen lays, lays, lays.
2) You have lots of Brood ( and associated Comb) to use in your Supers, and or to give to other Hives, to build up their population.
Hives that are bursting can be 'borrowed off' to build up a weak one. Win, win situation.
Hope this helps. 😉
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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Our Honey Season is quite short in Scotland. However the Bees are on Booster Rockets, bringing the Nectar in... So need to be (🐝) Wrangled quite a bit, to make Honey (Stay) and not Swarm (Go.)
Get the Bees in a regular take from here, add to here management... And you will have good Bees, and great Honey Crops. Pending weather of course... 🤗
Ps... Oops you said Medium Supers
I only use Deep Boxes and Frames for all my Boxes (Langstroths) so you might have to add a 'Deep box as your Super' of a while. Then Medium or Deeps can be mixed in a Checker Board style.
# Or just add those Brood Deeps to other Brood (Colonies) using Deeps....
Or do Splits... 🤗
Hope this helps.😏
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So let get this straight if you don’t have drawn comb move an occupied frame from the bottom and put it on top.
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How do I join the live chat?
Hey Mike, just log into Kamon's Tennesee's Bee's channel @ 7:00 pm CST. See you there in about 45 minutes! 😃👍
Rodney Bailey Thanks, thought it was EST....
@@mikerosol3499 very welcome, from watching Kamon's live chats in the past, they have been CST since that is his home timezone.
Why does it matter to have even number of frames when adding foundation frames.
Microclimate
Bridge comb - not maintaining proper bees space. If it is drawn comb 9 is fine.
So they draw combs correctly! Once drawn u can take 1 out and only run 9,but run 10 to get drawn correctly to start with
Why don't you use a frame perch instead of laying the frames on the side.
That would slow things down and they get in the way Laurel and I have a couple hundred hives we used to have one years ago who knows where it is now.
Its look like eggs take frost bite damage. 10 frame hive but bees population not enough to warm brood frame. All bees in hive just cover 6 frame not 10.I watched december video.
are you on any other social media?... other than FaceBook...like MeWe or Gab??
No I am not I can't keep up with what I currently have
Quick question l have a big hive ,it’s been raining and my bees have been removing larvae and drones, is it normal this early? yes it’s my first year and hive
Hive is in central California
Looks like ordered frames, your stapler isn't that wide 🤓
Hey Kaymon that is NOT EFB, that hive has AFB mild case, 3 frames, PLEASE FORGIVE ME Kaymon, 2017 I lost 6 hives to AFB, by the time I learned what was wrong it was to late, what you have is treatable, remove all frames from hive body, torch the inside of the hive, reinstall all clean frames of brood that show no signs of the disease, the three infected frames shake the bees burn the frames, brood and all, replace the queen remove the upper box, add drawn comb, keep as single deep brood until brood patterns return to normal, every 7-10 days inspect all frames for re-infection, if you have OXY-Tet sprinkle on top bars, Inspect all hives in that yard for transfer spread of AFB, if you leave the frames and let the girls raise more brood this will continue to spread including through your yard from drift and robbing. I got AFB from a Nuc we brought in from another beekeeper..................here in Canada.
If you had EFB I would burn the whole hive!.
ISOLATION if you can put that hive in an Isolation yard great! get it away from the other hive (social distancing) sound familiar!!!!! COVID 19!
again please forgive me Kaymon, love love your channel!
Keep up the great work and stay safe you and the wife.
It is not AFB. AFB effects the pupa after capping. EFB effects young larvae before capping. And there is no such thing as a mild case of AFB. If your hive has AFB, it must be destroyed. The methods you describe are for EFB. I think you are mixing them up.
I agree,plus Kamon knows what he's looking at, I mean he is a certified bee inspector and done this long enough to know, just saying....
Hello. I would like to ask about queen excluder. Is there any difference if you use metallic or plastic excluder? Thanks a lot
metal excluder can be easier to clean propolis off since you can use a heat gun on it.