Thank you :)

Thank you, I really appreciate that!

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :)

If you run different configurations, you can figure out what's doing the best job for your bees. Thanks for sharing, I like enclosed screen bottom boards for that passive mite-reduction :)

Oh man, I wish I'd known about that gathering! Sounds like a great place to Bee!

@@FrederickDunn It would have been great to see you there. I'm hoping it's a success. It's their first conference and is here in my home state but I only recently heard about it from Randy. Luckily I still managed to snag a couple tickets...

That's hilarious!

That makes very good sense and it's less expensive which would be a huge benefit to larger operations like Bob's. Thanks for sharing :)

Bob Binnie has a video regarding sugar syrup believe it was 1.35 -1 , Think the study was done in India and they came up with this ratio, great video thanks to you both

I agree, he's in a sweet-spot for developing his own genetics or traits. :) I'm not so fortunate.

It's a long but very meaningful path to take. I agree completely.

Thanks Randy! Always nice to see your comments!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

We need to look deeper into the light syrup benefits! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing that information! :) I've been in touch with Bob, he sent some information, but it didn't specifically address the water/sugar ratios. I'm glad it's working out for you.

That's an interesting question... not sure there a way to measure that.

Well, I'm glad my comment was redundant. That tells me people are listening!! Love it.

I've reached out to Bob, thanks :)

Glad you liked it

Oh, good idea, maybe it would stick to the wood. Thanks for sharing!

And someone else quoted Bob as ending with a final ratio of 1.3 water to 1 part sugar... I guess we'll have to get with Bob on that soon! :) Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, Tim. Do you know if they published an article or study related to that?

@@FrederickDunn I don’t know for sure Bob had it up on a screen on one of his videos on feeding sugar syrup

Bob Binney is often very busy, he's been invited :)

Did we discuss Native Americans in this video? I'm not sure what you're looking for. It's true that many Native American tribes sought the complete destruction of their neighboring tribes and more... It's also true that many Native Americans bonded heavily with nature and demonstrated a profound respect for nature. We can find extreme examples on both sides of that. Some Christians arrived and gave native people the opportunity to accept Christ, and if not, could then be, and often were executed. There are extremes and extremests if we look for them. I am a Fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and his prairie design :)

I think it's because the space better matches the size of the cluster. Larger populations don't have issues with larger boxes, but small swarms or small splits do much better in these 5 over 5 configurations.

I can only address what I do, and that's 1:1, I haven't done any further testing, and could not find any published papers regarding the lighter mixes. Someone else mentioned that Bob Binnie established a 1.3 to 1 (water to sugar) as the lightest mix that resulted in production stimulation. I did not verify that claim.

Maybe he just hasn't smoothed over his response to that question... yet.

@@FrederickDunn it definitely needs work. Not our best spokesperson.

@@Swarmstead Maybe he will improve with time :)

@@Swarmstead I thought that was your title? Was that self-appointment or popular vote?

@@JamesLeesBees are you seriously trolling me on Fred's channel too? You really need to grow the hell up. SBGMI MEDIA is an embarrassment with you at the helm.

All I do is put an insulated cap on them and leave at least 5 frames of honey in the top box. Single entrance, no venting. Cory runs open screen bottom boards, mine are solid.

@@FrederickDunn Thank you! Im trying to find the feeders Cory was speaking of for his nucs. Can you help me out? Last year I put double bubble in the lid. Is that what you do or do you insulate the outside of the lid? I did the 5 frames of honey and a screen bottom board they made it fine. I'm planning on at least 3 this year that's why I was asking. Where is Cory from? Thank you for all you do!

It was hillarious, we ran into some real hill-folk who made it clear that they didn't cotton to our type. (';'). Not Cory's town of course. Back then we used to just go exploring, and we all worked at Denny's Restaurant :)

I hope we can all leave the details and differences to Kamon and Dustin to sort out. None of us have the complete story regarding what drove them apart. Kamon has invited me to his conferences in the past, and that has put me in direct contact with many new friends. So, if he invites me to come and speak somewhere I can't decline. I hope conference goers will simply choose where they want to go and not turn it into a "boycot, or cancel culture" movement. The Vendors will just go where they will have the best sales, and receive the most exposure. Attendees will go where they can get the best information or find the best fellowship, or get the best deals on sales. You're right, HL has taken down all information and videos. There actually may not be a Hive Life Conference at all. Like Dr. Phil says "no matter how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides". We don't know what we don't know... I hope Dustin succeeds with his wax-dipped hive body fabrication and sales, and that he finds his way as a businessman.

​@@FrederickDunnwell said, my thoughts basically.

I just wish Kamon would have chosen to host the new conference at a different time. Too bad.

@@Hardmoney_Bees i noticed that as well. I considered that to be salt on a wound and Kaymon seems to be at fault for the wound too.

@@atlas4225 I'm trying to reserve judgment until all the facts are out - but it does seem that they need a few more adults in the room. Maybe Cory and Fred can play mediator? :)

That's a common request, I will have to wait and see. I do have the Apis Engineering rack system :) but not for grafting or insemination, it's for video and photography :)

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