My parents were professional beekeepers until I was 10, ranging from Vero Beach to Stockton, GA to Dillard, GA to the Dakotas. We made orange blossom, gallberry, tupelo, sourwood, and clover. My dad died in 2007 and my mom died on Christmas morning. Your video reminds me of my childhood and my parents. I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you.

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I love honey bees but am so allergic to them and all their products. One sting sends me to the hospital. I envy you and your ability to handle bees so well. I do my part by planting flowers and other plants they love.

I took a sip of my beer every time he said "Hive". I got a buzz within 3 min.

I always picture bees interacting with beekeepers like the alien toys in "Toy Story", just a chorus of "Behoooooold! The Keeper! Bzzzzzzz"

I’m definitely no expert, but “traditional” hives are a LOT of work. If you love bees and want to make bee life easier for the bees and for you, check out horizontal hives and specifically Dr Leo Shiraskin (spelling?). My horizontal hives are SO much easier to maintain and when I deal with the bees, they never get upset. I never have to wear a suit. I RARELY smoke them and never need to do a lot of the “typical” treatments, feeding, etc, etc. Anyway, I love bees!

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I just got 2 gallons of honey today.

I'm a 4th generation beekeeper. Thank you. 😔 I miss the bees.

Videos like this really help me not be afraid of bees! They are so good for our planet and such cute little things but I'm allergic to their stings. The more content of bees just chilling I see, the more appreciate and calm I am with them around in real life. Thanks for the interesting videos!!

You're a better man than me Wes, I go into overdrive when I get stung and start running away like a child. So, I really like the fact that I can watch you take care of the bees and make honey while I sit in comfort and safety drinking my cup of coffee and you take the hits from the bees. Great video thumbs up.

Bee keeping is such a cool hobby. It's on my bucket list.

They are so cute with their little pollen pants on!!! ❤❤❤

there's a bee up my shirt and he continues to keep talking. This guy is funny☺

7:39 next time, place the old box (and frames) upside down. Remove old box while frames lay on ground. Then slide new box on frame. Simply tilt box & frames. Easier & safer.

Wes, this is one of the most videos to date. The society the bees have never ceases to amaze me.

Thank for taking such good care of the bee’s. They are so important!!!

Am I the only one fascinated with that guys VAMPIRE TEETH? 🤪🤪🤪

Friend, thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work! Everyone seems to be an armchair expert. You do what works for you. God bless you and the family, brother.

Always love your bee hive videos!

love the bee videos. you do a great job explaining the process - thank you

Great job on being informative on bee behavior and your methods on looking after your hives

love your bee videos. you've inspired my wife and I to give bee keeping a shot. look forward to more videos on the bees.

Great video. Really enjoy your explanations of how the bee hives work.

So glad we found you

Very interesting video. Thank you for caring for our precious bees. Oh, and I love honey...

Wow! Such a busy workforce. I really like these Bee vlogs. 😊

Great video. You have encouraged me to go do maintenance on my seven hives. I hope they are healthy like yours. God bless!

I really enjoy watching, thanks for putting this together!!!

Yea, they're a little cranky. To be fair when someone wakes me up and exposes me to colder weather, I get a little pissy too.

it's good you can get strung that many times and be okay. i almost died when i was young. dad got rid of his bees. take care, be safe and well.

Some of those bodies are so rotted out that the paint is now load-bearing. 😂

I have just painted my first boxes, anticipating getting bees soon. I've watched many videos and talked to local beekeepers. This is the best video and info I have seen. Thanks for all your work.

I just happened upon your channel. I love it!!! Thanks for sharing your time with us..

Great video, thanks for sharing. I'm starting a beekeeping apprenticeship this spring with our local beekeeper and I'm excited to learn more and get hands on! Should be starting to open them up next month (March) here in the UK, I know he's worried about how many are in flight currently, but there are some at least, and they're bringing pollen from crocus and snowdrops already so that's a good sign 😁 thanks for taking the time to film while you were doing all that work, always interesting to see how other people do it

Very good video and useful information! thanks!

thanks for the video, and the information on the bees. very educational. have a great week-end

Well done . Informative 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦

looks like youve got quite a bit of extra boxes and space on those hives. even for us up in new york thats alot of extra boxes of honey for winter lol. i'd consider reducing down some of the more empty boxes so they dont have so much area to patrol, and with all those extra gaps, hive beetles and wax larva could easily take over a weaker hive.

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Thank you for sharing I sincerely enoyed your video you really were genuine

Interesting, late winter maintenance is better than none..Good healthy hives and will be making some good honey. You made good use of a rare warmer temps.

Great job, well done, and stings stay for thanks...😸👋

I learned something today. Thanks!

Great video. Thank you.

2:07 wow I have never seen that before. Very cool.

Very informative, thanks from so cal 🙂

Saying 60-65* is cold is life goals!

Looking good, went out there a few days ago and they are bringing in a lot of pollen, have one that isn’t bringing pollen in, and checked in on the hive and seems that population has gone down, but gonna see how they do. Good stuff!

what a great video! thank you

All can say is rather you than me! I find your bee videos really interesting. I love the way you seem so calm while there are bees flying around you.

I love your beautiful bees‼️🙋‍♀️🇨🇱

❤🙋‍♀️15 stings! I Heard your reasons.. Wear gloves anyway!

Excellent camera work with your great video. Extremely informative!

Very nice clear pictures and good explanation in understandable english! Thanks, i can learn from your video’s, good luck

this is the most american channel i've ever seen and it is so good i can't stop watching. i am sorry if i sound like a butthole i just happy that i could distinquish (spelled wrong probably) an accent and understand all these imperial measurements bc i am interested in new stuff. i love the atmosphere, please keep on going!

Great video......Nice bee hives & I love honey, I get a lot of citrus honey

You gotta really love your pets to be stung every time you take care of them and still stay up at night worrying if they're alright. ❤

love your content love them bees

I learned a lot from this video, you're a good teacher. Thanks!

Wow!!! I live in Georgia too!!! Go Dawgs!!!!!

Indeed this vegetable continues to give season after season. Fresh from the ground is great.

Love the videos my guy

Love the video thanks

Nice job !! I am hoping my bees do as well. Watching from central New York State.

Fascinating stuff.

Your channel is weirdly awesome for me… never thought I would be so interested in this area but I stayed up sooo late last night watching all your processing videos 🫡

Love your video 🥰

Very informative video. I imagine beekeeping to be a very rewarding hobby...and that certainly comes across in these videos.

Very cool video

I love it. I'm wanting to make a Lazutin Horizontal hive and join 2 deep frames together. I have a few theories that others say won't work. But it should. My attraction to the Lazutin format Horizontal hives is that the frames are LARGE so each frame should have enough honey stores per each side of the frame for the bees and brood to survive the winter without having to leave the frame facing. Less energy used for going to get that food for themselves and for the brood means less honey stores used up and means they have more for energy going into them using their wing muscles to generate heat. Another theory is goes along with the laws of thermal mass and radiant heat. I've been told that leaving frames in during the winter might as well be putting ice blocks in the hive. But thing about the Corean Ondol, Roman Hippocaust, the Viking under floor heating, the old American and eautopean building where they used to build them out of brick or stone with one massive central fireplace... they all work on thermal mass radiant heat. It takes less energy to heat up that mass, and then allow the mass to help maintain heat, even if ir means keeping the fire going constantly, it still takes less everyday for thermal mass to absorb, radiate and transfer that heat... I'm really having trouble explaining it. But if you take the honey out and then pack that space with pillow or whatnot, in theory, the honey stores should help regulate and maintain temperature better. During the winter the stores absorbed heat from the sun and radiate it ad night. Harvest in early spring when they emerge so they can build more up. And during summer all that extra mass should help, again, maintain an equilibrium of temperature, so it's absorbing the heat from the sun during the day and at night it's maintaining that internal hive temperature. I'm trying to get to putting a hive together. I'll have to try it out. Where I'm at in Tennessee is almost perfect for a trial run because we can have some fairly harsh, but not extreme summers. And then our winters get cold. But are pretty mild. So. This wasn't encouraging to see. That even with Langstroth which have thinner walls, smaller breed sections etc, there shouldn't be a rish of hive die out. I also noticed in several of your hives you tend to have a LOT of those "feral" dark bees, even in the ones that aren't necessarily wild caught. So that's a good sign. And it's also encouraging that you're foundationless. I personally feel a lot of the Varoa problems, the DWV, and trachea mites are caused by the larger cell size of the foundation. Anyone whose raised chickens and understands why you NEVER "help" a chicken out of an egg, or anyone whose every witnessed a butterfly emerge might understand more easily how the larger 5.4mm standard foundation cell cites can help contribute to these 3 plagues that are causing problems with the bees. Either way. Thank you so much for this video and understanding the the bees don't need our help and are perfectly capable of survival if only we let them. And I'm sorry that you got stung.

hello fall line ridge its is randy and i like u video is cool fall line ridge and good lock whit you beehives and i hope u have lots a honey and good work on you beehives thanks fall ling ridge thanks friends randy

Awesome video

Ive never liked honey but watching these videos I really wish I did. Back in the 70's on school trips the ones I remember the most were the farm ones... Not the animal farms but the produce farms. Great videos.

Nice to find a KZfaq beekeeper that is honest about the business end of the bee.

You're the man. Moving all the frames at once!!

We always like watching you as a great bee keeper Wes. One question I have is do you sell your honey to the public or just your family and church members. I have a gentleman in the church I pastor that has raised bees for the past 30 years but has had to down size because of his health. Thanks as always for all the great videos and the positive attitude you have even when things don't go as planned. Y'all have a great weekend and God Bless.

Thanks for explaining the pollen basket. Good filming. I could see the little baskets full of pollen. How do you keep the bears from destroying your hives? Love your videos.

So cool!!

🐝 🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝 🐝 Thank you for sharing. Be well and be safe. Peace

We wait for your videos 😉

Great video! Very informative and great up close shots of the hives and frames. Well done!

brilliant! just about to do a similar job with my girls - I'm going to wait for better weather though - I'm in the north of England and we are still dropping below 0"C some nights. great to see this! Thank you

Good watch.

Dealing with bees requires common sense precautions but the man giving this demo made me feel very uneasy because he did not have any eye protection and it brought back memories of when I got stung in the white of my left eye when I was some way from home and alone dealing with my father in laws bees. I felt waves of panic starting and had to drive home to get help, I drove carefully and thankfully without any problems Mobile phones were not invented then. My wife took one look at me with horror at the brown colour of my eye and the obvious swelling. She got me medical help, but it took a long time for the swelling to subside and allow the surgeon to operate on the small black dot in my eyeball on X-Mas eve. Not only the sting remains but also the main rib of its wing had gone straight into my eye and the surgeons had to improvise to make instruments to remove the foreign matter. All the pain concern and problems could have been avoided if I had used a better veil which was bee proof Douglas Sutherland Now a lot wiser after 57 years of beekeeping with many kinds of hive and other equipment I never take risks with my eyes because you only get two to last a lifetime. .

Facinating!

New boxes needed. Not having to haul heavy boxes is a godsend for me - I use Flow Hives and a hired "honey girl" to help.

Enjoyed

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Great subject.. love bees! You mentioned wild bees, those are the best. Require less maintenance, resistance to mites and disease... and they were free!

Hello. I also keep bees, I live in Siberia, the breed is "Carpathian". I watch your videos with interest .Thanks for the video. A good bribe .

I'm convinced this guy is secretly a werewolf that just loves bees

We are in Georgia too. Harris Co. Right above Columbus. We run a farm business here and we are adding bees as we speak. We put a swarm trap out on Sunday afternoon. Tuesday moving it looks like the bees are moving in. Nice videos with great info. New subscriber here.

I wondered why you left all the boxes on all winter, but that makes sense. I used to take mine off but they did get infested with wax months even when I stored them in plastic bags.

also really nice music to end, sounds like a dulcimer

Still enjoying you content alex ... stay curious ✌️

First time watching your bee operation or any operation. I live on the edge of Decatur, IL and I have one neighbor I know of who has some hives. Three maybe four stacks of three or four boxes. We had some folk years ago that were big into raising bees and selling honey. They were both teachers. I don't remember how many hives they had. I always wondered what happened with their hives. An association always shows at the State Fair in August. Thanks for the video.

Enjoyed the video. I also use all mediums. Makes things much easier. I have a small farm up the eastern foothills of NC. Girls bringing in LOTS of pollen.....but still some cold temps this weekend. Using mediums, I see my brood mostly in the bottom 3 boxes and a bit in the 4th. Is that pretty much what you see? Thank you!!!!

Very interesting on your honey production. I was wondering why do you stack the hives so high? Wouldn't that keep them from crushing so quickly? Just surious.

you should try to make the boxes out of white oak. that stuff is pretty rot resistant

Idk why I find beehive maintenance so interesting, but damn I cant get enough of it. *Sips coffee with honey*