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@@the_eternal8928 you need to mix it with a more volatile fuel. They have the list of fuel mixtures on their website And every fuel I've used in it so far is bright as the sun. Just you need to follow their mixture guide.

I like that. Thats a super good way to put it.

Thank you so much for the identification of the wax moth fesces. I truly was totally guessing. Same with the larvae. I'm kinda surprised about any moths being able to be in the hives at all. They are all so strong right now. But now you have me thinking the wax moths are kinda like the mites. You can always count on having them, just the bees are doing what they do with them too. Yea this way of treating the mites I do is I OAV them once a month in the fall, then when December hits I will treat them at least weekly until I get zero mites on a bottom board. Then I'm done with all treatments till next fall. My hives go near broodless around the winter solstice so it works out very well.

I've only been into 2 hives and that was to harvest honey. I checked the brood chambers, Freshened up marks on the queens and each hive had 4-5 frames of brood. neither hive was Russian and I can't forsee getting into the Russian hives the rest of this year except to resize their hives for winter. Which will probably be in October sometime.

I had another really good honey harvest out of hive #2. The boxes weigh 200 lbs. so I'm going to say I have another 150 lb. hive. I need to get it spun out before I pull another hive. :)

Theyll be piling up the next month or two.

Totally agree. My next planned treatment is September 22. Then Oct, Nov. Then December starts my indicating treatments. Until I have a zero drop on the boards.

I'm not going to say anything about other items that might be used for less serious purposes. 😂😂😂

Yea, I just treated my hives for the first time this year.

@@strutt01 I'd rather see them belly up than crawling ...was that the Russian hive you treated I'm interested in your mite count

@@greenhornbeekeeping I have 6 Russian hives and 6 of my old strains. They all dropped between 50 and 100 mites so It wasn't as much as I thought it would be. I expect september I will have a couple drops between 500 and 1000

@@greenhornbeekeeping I'm starting to wonder if my bee populations just outbred the mites???

@@greenhornbeekeeping I just pulled honey off hive #2 and its another 150 lbs. easy.

That sounds like a very good problem to have. Lol

Do you have messenger? Or any other kind of messaging?

Yeah I have messenger!

@@flowerstreetfarmbeesif you look for martin manufacturing I should pop up. Whats your messenger?

@@flowerstreetfarmbees i found your FB page but it didn't have a message option.

@@gallowaylights ohhh Galloway, you making them wheels turn in my head again. Hmmm

have you ever seen a filing cabinet beehive?

Me too, it looks super.🇬🇧

Prolonging the lives of the bees by 20% adds to the population by??? I think it's more than 20%. Hmmm, got me thinkin,

So if a hive has 50,000 bees. (Just an easy number to work with) they live an average of 90 days, then we extend their lives by 3 weeks???

I've had people tell me how versatile a snelgrove board is. I'm thinking about getting a book on them because of everything you can do.

Did you see how I did that? Look in my description and if you number them like that, it divides it up for you. And keep those cameras rollin DC, I watch you before I watch the newsman every mornin! :)

I think I came up with a more sleek and better solution. Just wait. 😁😁😁

That's how it is around southern WV too. I've never not seen robbing this time of year. I haven't seen it all summer and we had about a 1 month drought.

DC made a comment about food stores. And since I demareed all my hives this spring could be a factor. But so far really feel its the Russian breeding part of them. We will see.

@@researcherAmateur I'm familiar with that. I I think it's the crimson clover.

@@strutt01 yes, it could be.. We did one test without moving any frames position ever. They build 4.6 in the middle of the nest and going out it arrived to 5.5 for honey.. even wider and more angled up. That's how their natural behavior is when we don't play poker with the frames. I did it long time ago but I don't stick to it.. it's not practical. Our carnies tend to be a bit bigger than other bees (in average) anyway. My old man jokes that the queen has problems pushing her butt down in 4.6

@@researcherAmateur Lol. I can see that. But now do you allow for drone comb to be built? Personally I keep 2 frames of drone foundation in a 10 frame deep acting as a magnet for the mites. And I don't cull the drones. Although I do get my mite counts to zero on a bottom board right around the winter solstice. I have found if I get the hive nearly mite free in December, their winter survival rate has jumped to nearly 100%. Then the only other big obstacle is moisture when the maples start blooming. (February)

That's cool knowing they build the smallest cells in the middle of the nest.

Yes we use a lot of drones.. I'm on an island and in spring there's nobody else with bees. They all move their 50 hives trailer- boxes to better flows on land. So l have to keep a book of the two lines of bees that we keep and breed our own queens. Same as the queen line l have to keep track of the drone line.. l call it grandma genetic.. as the drones are the genetic lines of the old queens... I don't use plastic drone frames, just put and empty in early spring at position 2 or 8 and they end up being drone frames for the season. We have our drone congregation area souranded with hives that are used to keep the drone frames collected from our other hives. They have to be overfed with everything, never feel the lack of food. Than in July it gets to hot and dry and by then l'm done with it and those last drone frames end up in a solar melter and the queens caged for a brood break. By mid August varroa is gone and the hives have new queens and new bees will soon be there all healthy for the flow. This is a different place.. very warm. I get most of the honey after summer in the late fall flow. I'm writing to long.. and it's never enough. Growing up under a queen flying path.. or a congregation area. But it's not an area.. it's more a long narrow path that drones patrol whayting for a virgin to enter into. Never mind

Timing is everything.

I know right! Lol

Id sure have 4 strings of wire for sure. Wewww.

you should check out Butts Bees

She is a great Beekeeper and she knows a lot. It's a shame that YT beekeeping doesn't work on knowledge for getting subscribers. I'm not a stranger to criticizing bad practice... In my opinion she could have one of the best channels...

@@researcherAmateur yea, I'm a fan of her too. 😁

I don't think that's the case. I've used nothing but small cell since I started and the main thing I've noticed is my cell walls never get thick. I have noticed old comb with standard cell size the walls getting thicker and thicker. ??? We have many rabbits holes brother, many rabbits holes. That's why I want more study's on it.

@@strutt01 * fascinating. Less junk when you melt them down in ten years!🤔

Don't be letting that channel get dusty now Kajun. 😁

Have you had the allergy yet?

No allergy yet scared to death everytime I pull off a lonestar that is stuck to me. From what I understand with Lyme it takes a prolonged exposure like overnight but with Alpha Gal I've heard it can transmit the virus after only like 15 mins. I spray down with permethrine when hunting but not while checking bees but that must change. I fear ticks more than snakes, poisonous spiders or other nasties in the wild.

Don't you dare! Lol I hate ticks, I'll grab a copperhead before i let a tick on me. And I get ticks all the time. I had one on me this February!!! At my tick place!!!

Oh brother, you ain't kiddin. And I know just what your talking about with the Lyme disease. I think that came from an Island just off of New York. Bahhh

I didn't think of that. Just this is the first summer I've noticed that. I'll keep checking for sure.

Thanks Kajun. How did Charlies go last night?

@@strutt01 I missed it.

I didn't even think of it. BAHHH! That would have been easier. But it still worked out good. I got the rest of them the next morning.

Yea, I'm running all over the place today.

Yea, the rode in, but I was able to combine them easy enough.

For sure! And you know I'm still not sure if that hive still had brood or if it just didn't have many mites in it. All that debris building up on that bottom board was making me think there was still brood hatching.🤔🤔🤔

You think we can get someone to buy some mites off of us? LOL We would be millionaires! LOL

@strutt01 * that time of the year. Mine might have 10 brood.

@@gallowaylights I wanted to treat them one more time to find out but never made it back. 🤔

Thanks DC and keep your videos coming. You have the best garden I've ever seen.

Is that just how you call them ? Because I know for a fact that the Russians in Russia don't have yellow bees, especially queens. The only yellow bees in Russia could be if someone bought a Buckfast from Germany

@@researcherAmateur well, they are the USDA certified Russians. The ones they brought from the Primorsky region back in the 90's. And from what I understand they are technically still a mutt. They are a combination of Caucasian and Carnica bees that were in the region for about 150 years. So ??? They're probably different than what's in the rest of Russia now.

I haven't had success requeening. But if it does take, do you know if the drone cells continue to develop in the worker comb? Does it destroy it? Some folks say if a queen takes, the nest will remove all that drone brood

@@strutt01 Oh I have no idea about that

@@kellyb72601 I think thats one of those type of things people figure out themselves. 😁

my arms are toast brother. Its going to take forever for me to get back into armwrestling

@@strutt01 me too I went to a practice today 1st time in 2-months

If your into drone comb, I always use 2 for each 10 frame deep. But the reason I use it is mainly as a mite magnet. Otherwise just use drawn comb. Your queen will start laying like she just started a new nest immediately.

@@SylantBill you should check out my vertical Demaree and tell me if you think it will work. Criticism welcome.

Same here. Unless I find some swarm cells

@@strutt01 Yes! No!🤨

Yes, No To manipulations?

@strutt01 oops! YES! NO🤨 Swarm cells. They can be welcoming but inconvenient, too!

@@gallowaylights Totally! Especially if you have an older queen or something. Gotta be strategic with them. 😁

They like carpenter bees too, they go right up in the hole and pull them out. Thats why I call them my pets. Lol

How's it going Kajun? Do you know the fella that came up with the vertical split down your way?

I'm shooting for a short or maybe an easy Demaree. I would try one this year but my flows are done. I'm thinking winter stuff already.

No but I should probably start one. Thank you sir.

just made twitter it's struttinbuc

There is still her pheromones going up there, but they are not as strong now. Remember that Queen Mandibular Pheromones are transferred with the bees antennae. And normally the nurse bees are all around the queen. So when they are in the same box as the queen, the pheromones are that much stronger. Then the same interaction happens to the Queen. Since she is always completely surrounded by nurse bees and open brood, once all that moves 2 chambers up, it just really weakened the amount of pheromone shes use to having. Like smelling bacon cooking when you first wake up, then when you walk in the kitchen! 😁😁😁