Two colonies with spare parts. Who could ask for more?

Haaa! They always wait until the last minute and then have a bunch of hoops for me to jump through. I did two others last week that had just rented and need bees out immediately. I guess I should quit everything else I have going on and set up my office at the fire department for these life threatening emergencies they call me with. I can't complain though. I enjoy it too much.

@628DR Just charge a late booking fee.

All the niceness goes away the instant you set the rate at $100/hr plus expenses for a guy who wears six hats. Beekeeper, carpenter, roofer, siding installer, hvac tech, exterminator, and flooring specialist.

I've done bee removals where we repaired the damages too. One comes to mind where masonry and a scaffold was involved and the bill was in the thousands. I've run into ppl that think it's going to be free as well. Uh uh. I was not kidding about $100/hour.

😂🤣 and do the washing up and possibly peg some washing out too.

Man it was like winning a sweepstakes. Gifts were just being thrown at me from all directions. lol Thanks for the love Tim. Can't wait for you next vid.

I was thinkin to myself, the bees are making a heart, so that means the queen is in there.

Thanks for the love.

It's so easy to do.

I have watched way too many of these videos

One of those twofers. Can't beat them.

Rolled off like a fat kid off a bunk bed.

628DirtRooster 😂😂😂😂

lmao.

You mean Laurel?

Drone slap stick.

They just weren't holding on tight enough. lol

Give it a try. You'll love it.

I noticed you're about to hit 1,000 subs. Nice!

They were in the home building mood for sure.

Thanks for the great comment.

SCORE! lol

Haha

I hope it brings some warm dry weather your way. :)

LOL I hope there was some beat boxing in it.

Just make sure they're drones.

Does he scream in b flat now?

My dad got the brite idea of using straws to drink soda pop on camping trip. . It was long ago when you had to use a church key to open a can. The idea was to keep the 'bees' out. Yellow jackets crawled into the straw and dad got sent to the ER with stings inside his mouth. Ouch.

He started scarfing it down as soon as he got his hands on it. LOL

My guess is he just didn't want to be on the internet with honey dripping down his face onto his shirt. :D Memes happen.

That's possible.

Rob

Been a good year.

Thanks for the views Nicholas

Thanks Mark. I wish they were all close to the ground like that.

With the ones I've been getting lately I'm surprised it wasn't forty feet up on some high tension power lines.

hahahaha

Thanks so much

Very nice of you Chad

They are usually pretty laid back when you open the back of the hive.

Just lucky :)

LOL They were just like those society types.

I jump in like a fat kid in a cannonball contest.

LOL!

Some of them really go to town like they're playing a kazoo in a school talent show. lol

628DirtRooster that’s amazing! I wish I wasn’t allergic so I could also keep bees. It seems like such a wonderful hobby!

Thanks Terry

Thanks for your support.

Could have been much longer. This was cut out of over an hour of footage.

Make a second channel to put all the extras on.

No doubt

Heck at this point I'm counting bumble bees, butterflies, fire flies.... anything that flies.

@628DR Buy some new pants. Zipper flies count too. :)

Oh man, I need to do that.

Had to trim the stache.

Best hobby ever!

Thanks for the sub Bill.

Thanks for watching Chris.

It's KZfaq. It's making me old.

Neh, he just missed a spot with the paintbrush.

Thanks Mum :)

I can't be without one. I always have at least two around the house.

Oh he was loving it. All he needed was a cold Coke to wash it down.

jsauerii African bees?

I don't honestly think so, I think its just bad luck but? I think the first had a weak queen and became a laying worker plus queen colony, had multiple hive beetles and varoaa even in multiples with the workers that were just hatching out and they well out numbered by the drones in that colony, they were super thick. They are still in that laying worker pattern and I am just going to dump them. The second I think had just swarmed, they were full of queen cells, had quite a few hive beetles etc. Somehow they failed to make queen with the many cells they had with the full frame cutout combs I had given them with many queen cells and when I checked them three weeks later they were still meaner than hell and had hatched everything with not a single egg or capped brood left in the cell, not even a worker egg. They were hell on the honey though but again it took hundreds of feet of walking to get them off of me to get done with the job. I don't want their genetics in anything i have. Oddly they had been in that porch 5 years and they had been super gentle the guy said. This year they changed and would attack anyone all year. He was ready to burn the porch off the house. They were attacking the AC unit en mass when I showed up to remove them and for the two days it took me, just to show you how aggressive they were. They were getting chopped up but dumping enough pheromones that more kept arriving to be slaughtered even though the AC was around the other side of the house out of sight of the hive. I will let them die down and dump them and give one of my recent nucs their supplies. I do think there is an issue out that way, those two cutouts were within 5 miles. I had also found a swarm landing in a tree between these two and stopped to watch, one came a ways after me just to sting me in the eye. They are usually quite docile at swarm so this was odd too. The rest were acting fairly aggressive too. if AHB is in east KS we are all in trouble. I cant see that with the temps in the winter here but something is up in that area. Are russians a possibility?

Aside from all the obvious (genetics, weather, food stores, predators/parasites, queen health, etc.) also consider your own behavior. What are you doing differently with a cutout than with a box hive? Are you causing a draft? Breathing onto them? Causing shocks/vibrations? Bring a scent?

Oh no, They had started nailing people for just being in their line of site before I even tore into their hive on the last one. The first was only marginally better. I can't say there weren't plenty of indications they would be mean, I just wonder where the nice ones are at. :)

@jsauerii - As I mentioned, in that case it may be either circumstances, or genetics. If they don't become more docile once they're in a healthy hive, you might want to replace the queen with one from a less aggressive colony, and remove any drone brood.

Yep, get you some. :)

Plus you can pause, take bathroom breaks and never miss a lick. I did see Mr. Ed in the tree. Reminded me of Zacchaeus in the bible. :)

Short of stature, wasn't how it was worded? Close enough and THANK YOU for hauling me around! I get you gas money eventually!

Think nothing of it. You don't eat much.

I try and be dainty around you and courteous but I can really hide some groceries!

LOL Good to see you're posting videos again.

I repoed my clippers from my wife. I cut out a lot of good video. It was getting a little long.

Yes, I get stung during all of them. Not much on this one though.

There ended up being six good cells. Jackpot!

Never know GOOD DEAL ; )

@426 SUPER BEE "don't you hate it when things don't goes as planned?" You mean hate life? Because that's basically what life is...

Russ Ian E. Lection-Hacker No i love life and the beautiful world GOD made us to live in ! SO PREFECT.> but it's better. when things work out as plan Like planting a garden> hope it rains to make it grow> When it rains you planned it at the rite time Sure i miss some times

They were playing all right. lol

Thanks for the sub Tim.

Coming up in the world.

Queens can take seven to ten days to start laying after being bred. You can bank bred queens as long as you want but you have to keep open brood next to them to keep nurses tending them.

Good place to live.