Hi from central Otago thanks for uploading this. Great advice and a fair call about management, but im curious, when you talk about double queening i assume the hive order would run from the base- brood, brood, excluder, super, super, excluder, then repeat? Isolating the queens but allowing the workers too mingle freely?

You yakies can talk singles all day, this Texas boy wants the strongest hive possible against the shb and Wax moth.

And that's a good and informative video, no unnesecary BS, straight to the point. Thank you very much

Thank you for posting this video! I have an exam soon about Agriculture and this was on it. Wish me luck and may God bless you!

Thank you!

Hi👋how much varroa should be? what is "hi"number per 300 bees

Still Watching the Videos. . . Even in 2024 ! 👍

So something I have noticed with everyone that does two brood box in the winter is that when spring comes all the bees are in one box. For me that tells me everything I need to know. They seem to prefer single brood box. Yes double brood box makes it easier to not have to check them every week, but they store a lot of unnecessary honey in those two boxes. On top of everything, you can make more honey with single brood management, contrary to popular opinion. So saying all that I do single brood management lol

Millions of years of small bees don't lie? Artificial upsizing is a fact with disastrous effects ever since ... Add to that treatments,artificial diets and management breeding inconsistent with nature and you have the current shit show in beekeeping today...

Hi Trev, not sure if you're still around but do miss your no nonsense videos. Just wondering if you run the fan full time or it only comes on when the light is on - guessing all the time. Cheers Geoff

Do you sell the queen cage that you used to catch her for marking?

Nooo. Im so sad.😢

well professional continental beekeepers get less work out of one brood box and more honey too - contrary to what you say. have a look into Dadant-frame sizes for Broodframes (also called 'jumbo') Nationals are too small and therefor work prone and management heavy..

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Love this video. Does Trev leave the boxes closed for a few days and check back that the queen is alive? Then does he let the doors open for her to have a mating flight? She wont lay for two weeks? Does he then put the mini nuc frames into a bigger nuc box?....

Well explained much appreciated

Thank you for your excellent videos. I'm a Queen breeder who was about to sell my first batch of mated queens when Varroa raised its ugly head. I am using your excellent series of videos to make up my mind as weather I will go into production again. I have reduced my apiaries down to one. My hive numbers are also reduced to just 22. At the moment I don't have Varroa. I will use your excellent videos to help me manage when they do arrive. The resistance issue is a real worry for me. Thanks again.

Poor Bees. But it has to be done and I prefer the sugar shake. I'm in West Oz. We have been asked to do a Hive check by our Authorities. I'll be doing it this week. God forbid I find anything

Thanks for the tips!

Love your guys gear! Got me started with my own hives and I’ve never looked back!

Thanks for this informative video! You guys suppose the gear that for me started with my own hives and I keep coming back for more products because I love the quality! Cheers

I had a three deep hive this spring with 14 frames laid out . I prefer doubles as a larger hive will produce more bees than two singles and if you want a huge honey crop per hive it takes a large hive population . Average in Nipawin Sask area was 200lbs per hive this year and we have long winters and short summers so larger populations in the spring are a must

Would be good to understand the experience in Cuba

Are there any plans in the work for New Zealand beekeepers to have aceess to an irridaition facility?

Great series of videos, thank you! For some reason youtube won't let me view 2 of the 21 but I now have a better understanding of these little mites and feel more confident in my management of them. Thanks from Lower Hutt x

I make oxalic strips which work well, is there any reason this treatment is not recommended please?

True VSH bees control mite reproduction...100%

Let me know if I can help in any way

Why would there be inbreeding with Artificial Insemination? There shouldn't be any if done correctly I'm a VSH queen breeder here in the US... Louisiana...there is no inbreeding Great gentle bees...super honey production...winter survival I test my bees for VSH and have never treated for mites

Almost seems like the Govt wanted to spread varroa through NZ.

It was the governments job to stop this invasion, they performed a half hearted under funded miserable attempt and failed miserably, My question is who do we sue and why aren't the treatments free.

Thankyou so much for the valuable information that you have added in the last few Hrs, I'm in south oz and feel better after watching your educational videos and I will develop a plan based on your education, thankyou again for the time you put into this. Best regards Andrew.

pretty sparse on the info

Is that mouse on the shelf over your right shoulder a pet?

Hi trev I'm a new Beekeeper is a double brood chamber ok during wintering

Whats the consistancy suppose to be like? Super smooth like whipped cream? Or do u still feel slight grains? Like very fine powder grains....

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I located a company in Kentucky, United States. Thanks.

Is there a company selling the queen excluder with top entrance?

I loved the part about not too hot or the roller will come apart. That's exactly what happened to me last week. 😅

Definitely learn this

Have only got 6 hives, had a terrible year without a single frame of honey to take thanks to a lousy spring and summer, only ever fed sugar at 1/1, you making me think.

there was no information. Great start would be how many hives live in a dessert than a image of a dessert appriary than another picture of if there is no trees that style apriary than a full on forest with pines and with out pines. These are questions a Dr. would consume and make a logic board. Simple as There; Their; Marc Rebillet - Equipment Rundown and also check loop daddy - New Morning alarm clock

have not seen these working to know if drowning bees is an issue

😢 I've heard that there is vac for bees in US just approved... Does it work? Can we get it in NZ ?

Imagine if Tip Top ever stopped producing plastic containers...we'd all have to buy our storage...