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If you knew what you didn’t know you would have known. Those bees know what they got to do.

When the basswood blooms up here the girls fill a box every other day

Got them bees trained

Mike how are your mite counts this year?

You're doing great Mike, swarms happen when the Bees feel like it

Lol

I had swarms for the past 3 days just when I thought they were done. Thanks Mike!

Our flows happen here in Missouri kind of like yours. I think I am going to have a low honey year because there isn't much capped honey by June and suddenly in July all the supers are full. Hope you have a great year. I had a swarm happen as I was getting ready to add mated queens to three splits. Even had a swarm move into a dead out plus another into a swarm trap in my bee yard. This is a very interesting year. We have our tickets for NAHBE.

I have six hives and had six swarms plus three secondary swarms .i caught six of those and two feral swarms. Up to 14 hives and building boxes and making frames and stands wasn’t ready for what the bees had planned.

Hoping we have a nectar flow like that in VA this year. And Amen on the swarming 🙏😸🐝😁 no one can control the instinct to reproduce.

Looks like your ribs are a little better!! Glad to see you’re not in so much pain! Don’t overdo it!!

Great episode, I like trying to see the differences between your area and mine. What you said about swarming at the end reminded me of what I said to friend of mine about something he said about a local beekeeper letting a swarm invade his front porch column. We don't truly control them; we only hope to guide them with what we think are the right conditions.

Good video, keep that gate closed.

I've got a guy that lives about 3/4 of a mile across the pasture from me he put hives down there and they never work them I have caught four swarms in a 3-week time span

Mike. What size mesh is that fence to keep those queens in like that?

Hey, Mike, swarm season just starting here in central NH... not expecting much because I've only seen swarms flying away and never to here and I ... think I have my 2 colonies under control. But I got some traps up always in season. Black Locust is coming up and I'm supering up to be ready. Most years the Locust buds get frosted around me, got my fingers crossed... doing splits next week... Are those my bees in the trees 🤣 wow, a few years ago, every day I came home first thing I did was listen and look up in the trees. I had some swarms...I learned a little, I think, Thanks for sharing

My new nuc install are fill a lot of new frames with nectar. New hive us only one week old . Is it bad to have so much nectar? I might have over done the sugar water. They are draining 1/2 gallon a day after five days .

Do you pull the honey box if they swarm ?

Wish we had Tallow in my bee area. Our privet mostly rained out.

This year has been about as predictable as the weather with my bees! They built up early, and then they started swarming even though I did splits! Some started making honey, and others supperseded their queen this week! I just can't seem to win this year at this point. I'm just going to split them all and make more bee's for next year

i've usually had good success shaking out laying workers and placing in that spot a nice strong nuc.

I finally caught a swarm, crazy it took so long. Tallow has been amazing, this is my best year ever. Some hives filled a a medium 3 weeks in a row. Abita Springs

Thanks for the video 😊 Glad to see you are doing better 👍

The flow is awesome this year , just put on my last super, got caught this year with pants down, also had the most swarms than ever also, caught a few of them but lost more than I caught, funny thing bees that swarmed bees still making some honey. GOD Bless Mike.

Queen cant get out of the pen...😂😂😅😅🤣
For a day I wasn't gonna do bees...dats how it starts😅😊😂

I've got a question, because you're'a "how I do" and I want to know how you would do. I got 2 packages over a month ago and put them in 5 frame deeps with fully drawn frames (I'm way WAY north of you), a couple weeks ago I added another deep to both with partially drawn frames to insure they had room. But it rained almost the whole time since. Last week I checked and one was full of charged uncapped swarm cells, the other had wet, uncharged swarm queen cups. I demeried both, I don't have the equipment to do simple splits. Today I checked both, the demerie seemed to work on the 1st 1 with the uncharged cells, no swarm anything in the bottom deep and emergency cells in the top deep which I removed. The hive that had the charged queen cells was a different story, swarm cells, capped and uncapped everywhere, I decided to try something I haven't heard anyone do, since I only had the parts to do this one thing. I took the top (queenless) deep and I set it on a new bottom board next to the the bottom demeried deep box with the queen in it. Then I put a queen excluder on top in the middle between both, with a honey super on it. Sort of like a 2 queen hive, but one deep is queenless. That way the bees in the top deep are essentially a different hive without a queen. Queen pheromone can't move through the box walls right? The plan it to stack the hopelessly queenless box back on the other after the swarm signs are gone. Do you think what I did will prevent them from swarming? A side note is I used the flat plastic queen excluders, so the queen can't slip into the queenless deep.

It's been the same here in texas, west of Houston. In March I cought a couple small swarms, in April I cought 4 tiny, tiny swarms about the size of your fist. In mid may I started catching big swarms, last week one the size of a basket ball and 2 others that were large in swarm traps. Happy beekeeping

Good to see you getting into some honey, here in my area of central Texas we,ve been all over the place with the up and down weather. Seems like the flow going to start then it doesn't then it might, so it'll be an interesting year for sure.

Alright Mike, you are getting my hopes up. I dont have tallow, but privit bloomed in the last week of May. Hopefully the Mesquite will bloom some to close out the season. Right now it's not looking good. I'm happy it turned around for you.

Ive noticed queens go through stages of laying and bees go through times of die off, i would guess through the distance they are flying. Swarming in the same yard seems to happen in batches. It can be stressful when you dont have enough empty boxes to take brood or artifically swarm them. Demaree seems the best way to control it but its loads of work on multiple hives.

Glad you have a great flow Mike, here I’m having a dismal flow had a lot of rain hopefully they can make in the next couple of weeks other than that looking forward to sourwood. Thanks for sharing

Better not leave that gate open lol! Bees are looking good man. It’s been fun here as well but I do feel for those in other parts of the country where Mother Nature has not cooperated.

I'm gonna wax some frames today to put on tomorrow just to see if I can get some bonus frames drawn

Great video Mike! Glad to see you’re doing well! The tallow flow has finally gotten to us and they’re loading boxes with nectar.

Looking good Mike!! 👍

Instead of "hurry up and wait", you have a "wait and hurry up" kind of season!!! 🤣 And yes.....folks work hard to squelch swarms, but nothing is 100% foolproof. I hope that rib gets healed up quick!!! Pulling heavy supers is not easy with all good ribs!!! Thanks Mike for another great video!!

I remember watching your video where you had been a bit under the weather and trying to get your bee work done,im that now .Bad timing for me during honey time but nephew saved the day and helped me get the supers pulled and honey extracted.Thanks lord !
What you said about top supering and bottom supering ,im top supering because its easier just like you said.
I think we end up streamlining our operations the longer we do it.
This was a good one Mike and hope to see you at expo again.

I feel your pain on the spring build up. Worst spring I’ve had yet.

When they are supered you made the right call. Don’t go down to the nest. That would be tough.

You must have left the gate open one night because that one queen got out! 😮. I love those apimaye nucs for raising queens. Flow is kicking in here as well, between monsoons. lol.

Wow you have the same problem like I do . Every time someone comes over I tell them to make sure the gates on the back yard is closed but mine is so the bees can not get in so the grandkids can play in the back yard . It works .🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂😂😂. Glad you got your flow on this year . Thanks

Flow almost done here as well.....and summer showed up. Hot and humid is the forecast until October! :)

Hey Mike, great video. Does the meaness in the colony come from the queen or the drones? Let me know. Keep up the great work.

Nice update Mike. Glad you on the mend. Now to lock the gate and keep those queens in the boxes!!

Thanks Mike. Really low mite numbers and lots of honey coming in. Central U.P. of MI. I have short but intense honey season like 4.5 months. It's been the best spring planting and growing season in 5 years. The U.s.d.a numbers really show it. Last year we lost many growing degree days. Food production for humans and animals suffered. Lot like 08 with small deer, bird, and bee populations after big loss of growing degree days.

Nice to see. I just checked the outside of hive 1 here today. Amazing big bees. My hive 2 has little bees. 17to19c tomorrow, but strong winds for 8 days after. So just check the outsides for next month. Haven't seen any Varroa Mites yet, Alcohol washed Hive 2 last week.
Stay well. Best wishes.

Turn the corner Mike.. Turn the corner.