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I have watched some use sugar water to mist down bees in place of smoke, also I have seen some use liquid smoke to mask odors like smoke to a lesser degree. Just some options for fire risk seasons.

If it is Grey Box (E Microcarpa), it usually flowers Feb-May. A commercial keeper gave a talk at our club and said he had a love-hate relationship with grey box. Makes good honey apparently, but if it rains during flowering, the nectar ferment more than for most trees, and this supposedly can increase the incidence of nosema. He would actively move his bees off a grey box flow if it rained heavily. No idea if it’s true, although I have heard similar about red ironbark (E Sideroxylon)

Have started feeding in Bendigo area also.

Wish I had caught the Livestream. Sorry to hear you aren't having much of a spring flow, but the hives are looking good 🐝😁 and Ian Stepler is the Canadian Beekeeper. Also glad to see the two abandoned hives are still going strong.

Thrilled to see you had a live stream - just caught the vid now. I'm in Melb eastern suburbs and new this season as well - it's really reassuring that I'm not the only one needing to feed atm. I learn something every time from your vids - also agree best beekeeping photography on youtube! Please keep doing what you're doing!🌞🐝🥵

I didn't wish it on you bud I merely told you what kind of luck I had over the past several years lol.

Im located in southwest vic just out of Warrnambool iv got into bee keeping this season i love watching your videos they are a great reference for me with seasons ect Im 100% youtube taught.

Love watching and learning about bees 🐝 😍

Awesome live. I loved your reading comments while finding queens!😊

The thick knife is an exclusive from HBKS. Very sought after from old school beekeepers for hot knifing in a boiler prior to uncapping. Keen to use this particular knife in the future.

So if that queen came from a walk away split - that split would have been hopelessly queenless and with an ageing/failing population. So it would need brood including eggs and some nurse bees (and maybe some resources) to make a strong new queen I guess. At least there seem to be good numbers of drones still around for mating - at least for now.

So did that queen hatch and get killed by your original queen with the white?

...or worse yet, they may be eating brood.

Moe, Larry, and Curly

Its possible the bees decided to supercede for some reason and then changed their mind. Ive found queens outside of the hive with their entaurage, then return and start laying. Still so much thats a mystery. Possibly decided to swarm, decided against it due to weather, killed the new queen and contined in situe. Many variables

The middle hive.. Lazarus in the hope it pulls through!

Oh what happen to bees in the new box ...... did they survive ???

perhaps that queen returned from a mating flight and went into the wrong hive and was killed

What breed is this queen?

Hi from across the ditch 👍👋 ive had a bit of a surprise with queens this year myself in one of the hobbyists I'm helping hives. Opened up and found a young queen perhaps 6 weeks old in the top box of a double deep, came across the mature queen in the bottom box 😂 both laying up a storm so did an immediate split and shared the honey supers between the two hives. I suspect a failed swarm but very unusual 😂both colonies doing very well now👍😅

Your bees are quite runny😂

Why you kill it?

Thanks for sharing!! Always love your shots of the larvae and eggs. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

You're right about the frames these days. I only make my own boxes and nail my frames together now. Any box coming from 'special sales' are pathetic low quality timber. I buy my marine ply from a local mob now. It's heavier, but a similar price to Bummings rubbish as well. An air stapler for the frames doesn't do the job either. To be safe, I put three brads on each end. One on top, and two on the sides. Nothing worse than pulling out a frame that comes to bits.

Your Queen didn't go back to box, you can see her at 9:06 on bottom left corner of frame. The suspense is killing me lol Great video

Leaving us in suspense!

Hi there. I had the same thing with one of my hives. I found a dead queen outside, but the existing, marked queen was still in the hive and no queen cells. It was an odd one.

The best photos of eggs

Couple of questions: 1. What happened to the middle phoenix brood? I haven’t been able to find an answer to that! 2. With the crappy frames, how come you don’t cut the comb out of the frame and put it into a new frame, supported by, say, rubber bands etc? Keeping the comb, but replacing the frame? Thank you for taking the time to answer this!

I in Canada I wish I could check my hives in December 😂😂

Que colônias lindas. Boa sorte com a zanganeira.

I observed all of your wax looks quite old--some of the hexagon shapes are disappearing into circular shapes. How old is this wax? and how long to you keep them like this?

first put on the gloves and then tge jacket....

23:41 queen spotted :P

Where did you get the varroa comb from?

Where did you get the varroa comb from?

My team shared this video which I got from tiktok and we ended up getting a warning from TH-cam for copyrights. We are raising awareness about koalas while you took that video down, you are suppressing awareness about koalas. Grow up kid

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👍🏻🐝⚡🇧🇷 A tragédia foi evitada a tempo. Linda colônia!

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Thank you for your tip to find queen I carnt find her

You don’t seem to use the board under the lid only the silver stuff can you tell me why iv only been doing for two years and I’m learning thanks Nola

Two things: (1) sugar feed - OH NO! (2) Black spots /wood rot - hard to tell from the video but its not good for bees.

But it’s real

She’s having a break

I used o do mine every to weeks but iv let go for ten weeks and there very happy

Your girls are so good

Don’t give up on them do you live in bush

They need nectar feed them sugar and water I’d and also minerals and apple spider vinagar

Have you fed them