Sandy! It's a brave soul who is allergic to bee stings and walks around with no hood! And then, she's letting you keep bees in the front yard? Yup, you might need to treat her...a massage and a day away from the house might be in order here. Better yet, a massage for you both! 😌 🤗 Super excited about the upcoming treatment possibilities! Must feel so rewarding having the opportunity to participate in those trials!

When I talked with the rep from Dalan, I seem to recall that he said you would want approximately 6 attendants per queen in the vaccination box. This is to make sure that the vaccine doesn’t get to diluted through excess attendants.

The weather always has a way of making a normal work week into a few days of chaos and pain. must bee farming :P

Great video and sharing new info on new controls shows where your heart is .Helping others succeed !! Thank you.

Very interesting stuff. Rain is a good thing only if it stops for your flow. It might be a bumper crop, and you have the bees to do it. Last year, I had my share of the rain, 64 days of rain over 4 months. Six inchs alone on the morning of July 1st and two inches the next evening, July 2nd, but my honey harvest was up 300% from the year before.

Citizen science at its finest! Amazing work documenting this

That is called "trained immunity". It real science, the only question is efficacy of the vaccine itself. Very promising stuff.

Keep them coming

Loving the content! Rainy over hear in BC as well. Looks like we may even get a good flow to as long as the farmers don’t cut the alfalfa too quick.

I think I'm liking the drought of the last two years over this wind and rain. Hopefully this will end soon. At least I didn't get all the rain the Dallas TX area has gotten in May.

Some say April showers being May flowers. Well here April is still snow on ground. So I say: June monsoon brings booming July blooms. ☺️. Get ready for it!

We sure do need the rain however... My bees looked way better 2 months ago... As in the past, when the dandelions bloomed, I stopped feeding, added supers and started getting ready for the honey flow... NOPE not this year... Hive growth really seems slow this year... I finally have some really good brood patterns but it seems later than normal. OR... Am I just being impatient and need to go read a bee book or something🤔🥸

Sending the sun back to you next week .. Arizona is very done with the 40c nonsense so I can donate a little Arizona flight weather 🏜🐝🐝🐝

Are those colonies queenless that you are dropping those cells in? Also is Carrie still grafting and making your own queens? Are you bringing in all these other queens just to diversify your genetics?

So the nurse bees can still feed the queens through the cages? Interesting. I thought it was only the attendants inside the cage who could feed the queens.

Are you feeding your nucs? We’re in a lull between dandelions and the start of clover. I’m thinking of splashing syrup at them

Hola qué lindo es trabajar con ustedes para conocer 🐝🐝🐝🐝👏👍👍👍

I need to read more about that vaccine. How well does it work?

First of all thanks for sharing does the box full of queens come with their attendants or are all the queens alone with the nurse bees outside,I work with African bees to introduce new queens with different genetics no attendants and no old bees otherwise they won't be accepted

Interesting! Now we need a vaccine for varroa.

If you haven't suffered from AFB will this potentially cause issues later on as the bacteria then learns to adjust? Just a thought.

where did you buy BC bees from?

Is it ever going to stop raining?

Tried queen rearing today. Things are about 3 weeks behide this year cold spring. hundred percent on hydrogen peroxide now at 20 ppm 50 hives are doing great with it and no black mould and amazing enough my hummingbirds are on it and they love it. I’ve got about 30 rred throat hummingbirds that are doing great with it.

Two things here I can't recall in any of the previous years' videos-- Chain link Hills The empire is expanding, I guess.

Have you had any AFB in your hives? I think I will wait until they have one for EFB and jump on it.

Great video like always, please can you help me with my situation I need advice for my situation, I'm beekeeper from Alaska, and I have ordered some packages from the supplier like any other year, I have noticed that all my new hatched bees they have no wings, they look like ants or zombie , I have done a varroa test a found zero, what possible virus or cose can be in my situation. If you have a time and information please let me know, thank you again, Aleks

Time to harvest the grass

How do you measure the effectiveness of your AFB vaccine? 😊

Have you actually Seen any Fowl brood?

What is the name of this product again? Thank you.

Hey Ian. Where do we get the vaccine to be able to do this ourselves?

Have you ever had AFB in Canada ?

you looked tired

You took all kinds of risks this year. With queens with cells.. new kinds of bees. I don't know why are you complaining about the wind. I have wind every day with the sea all around me. Bees are used to miss the entrance and enter the other hive.. not good for a queen to do it but my bees don't care, plants are used to it too. I wish for some of that rain every year at this time

Might as well sell sugar water honey. If it's not natural. Don't sell it