All About Drones by Kim Flottum

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A lecture given by Kim Flottum at the 2017 National Honey Show entitled "All About Drones". The National Honey Show gratefully acknowledge the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for their support, and Root Candles for their sponsorship.
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@Backyard_gardening_beekeeping 6 ай бұрын

You are a great teacher and will be missed. RIP.

@2listening1 Жыл бұрын

6:28 Awwwww!! 😊🐝

@glynisreynolds446 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve used an adapted version of your drone harvesting for the last few years and haven’t treated my bees with chemicals. They are surviving 👍 If I get signs of deformed wings etc then I shook swarm colonies in spring, then continue drone harvesting - but I make sure the colonies still have a good supply of drones. Thank you for giving me the information and confidence to try this chemical free way of keeping bees.

@charlesf.larsenfinearts8304 5 жыл бұрын

Great vidio! Thanks.

@KyleCowden 3 жыл бұрын

This is my first spring and I was surprised when I found a bunch of drones running around. There's a brood explosion coming because there are several frames full of capped brood; really looking forward to it. One thing, I've yet to find a mite. I have a scanning app (requires) a full frame of bees to be reliable and it keeps indicating 0%. I used a sugar roll and verified, 0 mites. The beek I got the nuc from said they were resistant and a cross between Italian and Russian. They're very hygienic also, I see them washboarding every morning and see them flying off with the deceased. I'm very fortunate with this batch. I'm learning a lot. For instance, I can do an inspection with a veil only, but not when the robbers are out. I've learned that, if I'm going to do something I know is going to make them mad, suit up. For instance, if I'm harvesting sentries for BVT, the hive will get agitated from their alarm and the others will happily remind me that I should have covered up my legs and my arms. All in all, a hive that is chill (for the most part) and appears to be thriving despite my being an ignorant noob. Really enjoyed this presentation; I learned a lot.

@wiwekiboi2424 6 жыл бұрын

Great video very humorous :)

@keithlol Жыл бұрын

I loved all the beekeeper jokes. 👍

@alialnaqeb2846 6 жыл бұрын

That was an amazing topic,,,there are a lot of beehavers in our country destroying the broad chambers of the drones as it is unnecessary for the colony,,thank very much for the info.

@davemiller6055 4 жыл бұрын

People who destroy drone cells are idiots. The drones are there for a reason. Nature isn't stupid like people are.

@kokeskokeskokes 2 жыл бұрын

I got to try the drone walking. Fridge, string. Thank you. Have you noticed how drones are always toward outside of the hive? They are sacrificial indeed. And tasty. We should eat them during nectar flow, with their varoa mites and all, to simulate the predators. I bet very few people ate more drones then I have. I love them.

@wiwekiboi2424 6 жыл бұрын

You can buy full depth plastic drone foundation in New Zealand for queen rearing they also work great for varroa control.

@MegaDavyk 5 жыл бұрын

If you put an empty wooden frame with nothing in it on the edge of the brood chamber during the build up they will make a frame of drone and it cost you $2

@426superbee4 6 жыл бұрын

They play a roll for sure > JUST KEEP THERE NUMBERS DOWN> I found that if you got a drone hive, the rest of your hives want make drones, or just a few! So yes i have 1 drone hive THATS ALL YOU NEED believe it or not it makes it every yrs fall workers kills them off and spring there back AND IT STILL PRODUCES HONEY AND NEW WORKERS 1 all you need

@hughyhughes8058 5 жыл бұрын

I have drones in one of my hives. Thanks

@MegaDavyk 5 жыл бұрын

I have drones in all of my hives.

@darrencox150 6 жыл бұрын

Treatment free

@portraitmakersyorks 6 жыл бұрын

Darren Cox did

@randywashburn377 4 жыл бұрын

Hello kim i was wounding if you have a drone laying queen are them drones Sterile or fertile

@BeesNTrees47 3 жыл бұрын

I suspect queen rearing is not popular in england because the weather seldom permits for long mating seasons.

@FlakeyPM 4 жыл бұрын

At around 26 mins you talk about putting an empty frame at position 2 middle box, week later position 6 middle box, and a week later position 6 middle box to massively reduce varroa in your hives. So you don't place a sacrificial frame in the bottom box?

@jakepollen6839 5 жыл бұрын

Kim sounds like what Winnie the Poo would sound like if he was an adult.

@natserog 5 жыл бұрын

take your medicine Jake

@jakepollen6839 5 жыл бұрын

Hi natserog my parents r kool to let me learn about 🐝 🐝 🐝 beez and 🌺 pollinators on KZfaq because they won’t let me have beez until I’m a teenager and have a job to buy them I hope they let me because they are really neat. Winnie the Poo was my first book and my favorite animals and he reminds me of him and that is really cool 😎 My medicine is for diabetes but its not scary it will be ok because I am going to be a scientist and find a cure for it one day so may be when I get beez they will help 🐝 🐝 🐝

@suzanneking4919 5 жыл бұрын

Quality maybe, but not the accent. Winnie the Pooh was English.

@Change-Maker Жыл бұрын

Hahaha... exactly

@426superbee4 6 жыл бұрын

i seen drones size of horse flies, that breed my queens Can see them and hear them, cause there so hug 25 foot away They hung around the hives for about 2 weeks and then GONE WHY KIND OF DRONES THEY ARE ? MY GUESS IS AHB DRONES THEY WAS VERY HYPER! never seen them again> ALL STRAINS WILL BECOME HYBRIDS no one has done this! The bees done it to them selfs > threw drones

@FloryJohann 5 жыл бұрын

Hey super bee. I had several hives so far this year where the bees made queen cells. The drones came around in hordes until those queens hatched and got mated. After they got mated the drones where gone too.

@natserog 5 жыл бұрын

on Kim talk on replacing drone frames to reduce mites 26:30 im not following what he does exactly?

@ahorsley1027 5 жыл бұрын

I will hazard and ignorant response. I believe what he was saying is that he Uses drone frames to raise drone brood in various stages of development to attract mites. He then gets rid of the drone brood By feeding the frames to his chickens. This way he gets rid of the mites and by Midsummer his hives are mite free.

@FloryJohann 5 жыл бұрын

Per study that I read somewhere , you only reduce the mite count by 10 %.

@MegaDavyk 5 жыл бұрын

@@FloryJohann 90% of the varroa is in the sealed drone brood, You get rid of that and you have crashed the varroa population.

@paulchristu996 4 жыл бұрын

If you’re culling your drones for varroa control, how are you simultaneously generating drones for genetic diversity?

@Onlyindianpj 2 жыл бұрын

@1768ify 3 жыл бұрын

Eggs layer per day - don’t any of the capped brood that you counted on day one hatch out in the 12 days? I don’t understand your math. Seems like on day 12 you would only want to count the newly capped brood.

@chasehamm4467 2 жыл бұрын

his math makes absolutly no sense.

@doseofsanity 2 жыл бұрын

The math makes sense if you notice the maximum time a worker brood can stay capped is 11 days. Therefore any capped brood cells you counted on day 1 cannot still be capped on day 12. Therefore, any capped brood on day 12 are ones that were not capped on day 1. I hope this helps.