Sorry, I didn't explain this well enough. It's the fact that it gets sprayed for worms a number of times while producing pollen.

@@bobbinnie9872 Okay, thanks Bob.

Thanks Frances.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Best of luck!

I'm up above South Pittsburg and the bees where flying this week like it was May again. Hope it keeps up for a little bit.

Seems like a decent plan.

Thanks, 👍

Hello Dirt Rooster. We do have a lot of Kudzu around many of our locations. It actually smells just like grape Nehi when blooming (no exaggeration), and we do see a little purple nectar in the combs in August, but not enough for surplus. You're right, Parmak makes good chargers.

Hi Scott. We just keep giving them a little smoke on the outside until most of them are in. Also a little puff as the forklift picks them up and again when we lift them off. You can see that our entrances aren't anything special in the video "Beehive Pallet Dimensions and Transportation Explained". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLijnctk0ciooIk.html

Hi Andy. Many more to come. Thanks.

We like to see a 100 pound overall average. Some years we get more and some years less. This year we made less.

Thanks. We use a combination of pine needles and wood stove hardwood pellets. At 3:00 in our video "Spring Honey 2022 Follow-up" you can see John using that combo. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcl6nKeL2a-tZY0.html

With those numbers I believe you're doing the right thing by continuing pressure on the mites. Especially considering all the brood you have. Keep in mind that Apiguard could shut the queen down for a little while or at least slow her a bit. Thanks.

Some varieties of soybeans are great, if they don't spray them while they're blooming. It's nice light honey. I've made two supers on soybeans at times but I've also had my bees annihilated by the spraying. Although I haven't used Reflectix myself I have friends that report they like it and they think it helps.

Thanks. We're low tech. We keep a note book with general information on each yard and we write on the lids of individual hives if there's anything out of the ordinary for that colony.

For the most part we're using inexpensive landscape timbers that are pressure treated. Sometimes we dip them in used motor oil and diesel to prolong their life. At times we may use small bricks or scrap pieces of pressure treated lumber to shim or level the stands on uneven ground, which we have plenty of.

Martin, an employee that only shows up in our videos occasionally, keeps everything mowed. We have a 36 inch commercial walk behind mower and a couple of good weed-eaters.

You are correct. They're cheap and easy. Well maybe not so cheap these days. They are not screwed together and if needed we shim them with other wood, like 1 x 4, or dig the front or rear in slightly, to get them almost level and tilted a little down hill.

Hi Kenneth. We have some cypress boxes that are much like the ones we're using. We will be making tops and bottoms and assembling them this winter.

Yes, I believe we're running a little bit early too and our temperatures have moderated some. We still have September to go so who knows what Mother Nature will throw at us.

It could if it were earlier in the season. By this time of year the swarming impulse is almost gone.

@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob!!!

In some situations I would say that is a good policy.

I recommend reading the book "Health and the Honeybee" by Charles Mraz as as starter on apitherapy. You may have seen my video "Apitherapy / Bee Venom Therapy and Shingles". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcmina2czcrSZGQ.html. I show the book in that.

Very nice sir have herwatching it now

She needs that kind of therapy but we are in TX

It would depend on the need. A nuc may receive just one or two holes for maintenance or four to five to help draw foundation. Colonies would be almost double.

How We Split Colonies, 2022 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hah_h8102tbVkYE.html and How We Produce Queens kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZhogpxim9ndZGw.html

bob has a video. i think 1 of his earliest where he says grow by a third. if you can successfully manage 12 grow to 16, etc. Ian had some info mixed into his videos about how he would grow upto about 2K+ but would get knocked down to 1200, but when he settled into 16 to 1800 he could hold that consistently. so he found his personal threshold.

I sent them a link, thank you.

@@bobbinnie9872 mind resending it? I don’t see the link anywhere. Thank you again!

@@greenmachineman7 "Expanding Your Apiary". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b82PaJCTr8XNiJs.html.

My theory for our area is that when the colonies begin laying eggs when our late summer and fall flowers are blooming, like goldenrod, they are beginning what I call the fall build-up and that the resulting population of bees are the ones that have to make it through winter and have different fat bodies. The bees do store syrup but I don't think pollen supplement patties get stored like fresh incoming pollen. What we like to see going into winter and what we settle for are two different things. We like to see at least seven frames of bees going into winter but will settle for five if they're healthy. Good luck this fall.

@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you so very much for your wisdom , your time , you are just a wonderful person to answer my questions and every ones else to boot thanks again have a blessed day

We let the bees work at them until they're not sticky anymore and yes they can make a mess at times but they don't seem to be overly damaged.

Honey B Healthy, Pro Health from Mann Lake or one teaspoon of bleach per gallon is what we use.

It's a combination of pine straw and wood stove wood pellets. A demonstration can be seen in our video "Spring Honey 2022 Follow-up" at 2:55. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcl6nKeL2a-tZY0.html

I'm not an expert on them. I know that some of the species that perform well in the north don't do well here. Perhaps soil type makes a difference. We usually get pollen and very little nectar from them.

A combination of pine straw and hardwood wood stove pellets. You can see this at 3:00 in our video "Spring Honey 2022 Follow-up" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcl6nKeL2a-tZY0.html

Pine straw mixed with hardwood wood stove pellets.

Thanks Bob. That looks like some cool white smoke.

The property for all of our out-yards, except for my own home property, are owned by someone else. We generally pay a case or two of honey per year for yard rent. In the beginning i had to search out most of our yards but these days I get lots of offers because I'm well known in the community.

@@bobbinnie9872 If you're getting offers from landowners then you're doing things right.

We feed at a moderate pace until they are heavy enough for winter, being careful not to get them over full while they're still raising brood.

AFB does still exist here but I've not seen it around me in decades. I'm not sure why. We let our supers be cleaned up by our own bees.

The main benefit is having more control over the genetics.

@@bobbinnie9872 I want to clarify one thing that we can divide bees by queen grafting. The main purpose is multiple honey boxes right? If yes can you provide me a video link on that or more explanation if possible

For bears.

Could you give me a time line on my comment in the video so I can look at it and answer correctly.

@@bobbinnie9872 Strangely enough while I was writing the question, I found the answer. Weird. I have another question. I put black sheet on the ground of the hive because I do bee keeping in the cold area. While I was doing hive inspection, I found the wing-clipped queen walking away from her hive all alone. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qOB3Z5t3v6ndZ40.html in his case, servant bees were accompanied but not in my case.) It was marked and floor was carpeted by black material so well visible. (at that moment, at the place, we looked at each other, this was one in a million probability.) The hive she went out, there wasn't any superseding or queen cells at all. Also usually when queen is going out of hive, servant worker bees are coming out with her. But she was all alone! All the books about bee keeping said she flies alone only twice. mating and swarming. What is it? It is mid September. No way to replace the queen to survive the hive. Her hive was 2 stories packed with bees for winter ready. by next week it will be down to one box. Usually queen is missing and cannot be found because of no black sheet on the ground... Any thoughts? She left two capped brooding frames and one larvae frame behind.

@@bobbinnie9872 Also, when you use chlorine, how much do you use? per bucket? Or when you make tank-amount sugar syrup, do you insert it there? The amount of chlorine ??? Thanks in advance! You have so beautiful voice, which calms me to focus on your lecture better. Again, really appreciate you.

@@alexayounginsong2641 We put one teaspoon per gallon which is one cup per drum or five to six cups to a tote.

@@alexayounginsong2641 Sorry, I don't have an answer for this one.

The fall season is very much condensed in Ontario when compared to ours. We're feeding now and it's not even considered fall yet. We have much more time to put weight on while letting the bees work with light syrup. That having been said, this idea of feeding lighter syrup early on for the benefits, while there is still time for the bees to work with it, is a new concept for some.

​@@bobbinnie9872Thank You Bob

Good luck!!