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Thx for the advice

David how can I get one of your candy boards for a long lanstrought hive? Need to get ready for winter. I know you said you have to make adjustments to make it work for the long hives. Hoping to hear from you soon. You're a great bee keeper and I've learned a lot from you, thanks

An ounce is 2 tablespoons full. My wife checked online for me.

I want to do single deep management. I am planning already for my winter/ spring set up for next spring. I like to re-queen to keep a fresh queen yearly. When would I plan on grafting (from my own bees) and replace my queen and still not allow my queen to go backwards in my honey production? Would I do this before the flow (when drones are flying) or after the flow has started or when the flow is over. My flow is generally over July 4th.

The biggest problem is you don't see it coming. Fine one day three days later slimmed, on a strong hive. It will ruin your day.

Awesome! How do your hive boxes survive being on the ground? Curiously watching from Arkansas but living in Tokyo Oh-may )Ome) Japan.

TBS: Please pass this along to your video editor: Balance the audio levels!! That intro jingle is so f-ing loud compared to Blake's speech. Every video editor out there shows you the levels and waveform of the audio tracks. It should be quite visible on the difference. Just reduce the jingle by 50% from now on, and you should be good.

Blake, are you certain it is Certan? Haha Great info.

Thanks that's interesting 👍 hopefully it's available in NZ 😂

Over 2 million colonies are started each year, but sadly, less than half survive the following year. Is this a better news story title?😮

What do you do now with this hive? How do you kill the SHB larve and such?

What strain of bees are they

What honey flow? Nothing much here in SE Dallas County. 😒

It's the wrong thing to do to bees.

Given that the upper brood chamber didn't have a honey band how do you keep the queen from moving up to the honey super? I didn't see an excluder.

Ha Blake do u ever under supper thanks. and what if u have foundation only.

Thank you. Very helpful

GREAT 👍 TIPS

Lol smart man with the last statement 😂

Ha Chari this was good really enjoyed it. I look at 4 weather sources. We are in a dearth now, have pulled the honey and extracted it I got about 360/30 gal. ^ 5 gal buckets. anyway this was great. I get 15 for a pint I might have to go up next year the sugar is 20.00 a bag it was 8.88. it is real bad now.. have a great week. I have all my hives straped all the time I live in virginia and very close to water and we flood bad here it gets deep the tide just destroyed this city with our last harricane. it was bad. we flood bad with a northeastern just the wind the water get up to my knees.

Awesome sauce 🙌 thank you very much Chari for all the wonderful interviews/podcasts you do! I’m a “young” new 2024 beekeeper, got my bees from the Dayton TX location. I did 4/5 months of personal research no formal training and your TH-cam channel has helped me so much I can’t thank y’all enough 🙏 looking forward to the years ahead and hopefully meeting you and the TBS team in person 🥳

Can you add a link for the moth treatment?

I’m from Canada I watch alote of your stuff your a good guy for taking time out of your life to talk about bees

My concern about increase of losses is the increase of inferior queens produced in emergencie cells by bees and man using the worker egg, that queen needs to bee replaced every year! A queen lays a superior egg in a swarm cell that is larger than the worker egg making a superior queen to take her place and can live for years!

Hopefully, this is just the product I've been looking for!

Great vid, I've been running into both of these problems and have been looking for solutions.

My last Winters loss was around 60%, it's great that new beekeepers are joining but the numbers sound off. We always have the influx of new keepers every year but how many stick with it past their 1st Winter let alone 2nd or 3rd after they discover how difficult beekeeping can be. Spread the Truth! 👍Blessed Days...

The federal government sent out a false report that manipulated data?!? Shocking! Thanks for the clarification Blake!

They must have ask a small sideliner that then went to 30,000 hives. A few of those and you're at a million new hives pretty fast.

So, were the surveys from different years done at different times? If surveys were done around the same time using the same methodology the result would have some credibility. From your perspective, why are bees in trouble? Props to you. The logistics to manage 30,000 hives is no small feat.

hello did you say you run over 30,000 hives, how the heck do you keep up with them,,

Tell it like it is , Blake. Thanks for all you do! Enjoy your videos-you have helped me a lot with my small 30 hives.

30,000 hives? Wow!!

One recommendation use special thin wax foundation for comb honey not standard wax foundation. Like the sound of your fume hoard. Juat ordered 2 to try.

Great info! I was wondering what percentage of the brood box is typically stored honey in say September? Have you ever inspected the bottom (brood box) in September? Please keep these videos coming!!

Blake this was great I did notice you were not using q excluders do u do this on all your hives, this was the first year that I ever used them Questions is there a map that shows that the flow it is over I am in Virginia and it is over here I pulled the suppers I have more hives and just got what I got last year.I wanted 600 lbs because of the numbers I had and I had drawn comb as well. But got 330 lbs I judge the weight by the 5 gal buckets the internet says a 5 gal weight of honey is 60lb. On the honey I will never get a lot because of the location I am in a city . Chari what do u do with air bubbles from the extracting process. I extract in my kitchen and I do hook up fans and a dehumidifier for 2 days before I extract, and you just said the honey is hot and that causes suds and bubbles, I had been using a 4 frame crank extractor now I have a 18 frame electric and it causes air bubbles is there a way to stop it. when I used a hand crank there was not much suds or bubbles but I could not get all the honey out of the frames either. Next question for Blake with the certan that you spray on your frames do u have to bag them or can you just stack them on the back pourch till next year. That was a good idea on the light bulb in the freezer for the honey. anyway thanks hope all of you have a grest week

Great show y’all! First year apiary with 2 nucs from a local apiary. Love the channel and the store.

I'm in the eastern foothills of NC and my honey production is double what I had last year. It has been an amazing year for me. Obviously in a sweet spot.....might not make a quart next year!! 😆

Awesome video. I treat with chemicals but I thought the mechanical method of mite management was really cool! Only on my second season so I may try that one next season.

Don't know. First year

If they are all ready to be harvested -- do you leave any frames in the hive that have some on it or can you scrape all of them?

"It's yellow; we're beekeepers and we love yellow" 🐝🤣

how about moving a weak bee hive for few meters (short distance) ?

Why do you use two feeders One in each box?

I have some resource hives fail with my old queens I thought that I could do. Some really do well but I lost some minor ones but they got drawn out comb that I plan on using on other hives.

I’ve found queen excluders slow my bees from populating the honey supers, especially in the flow hives. I’ve had good luck both ways depending on the strength of the hive and the strength of the nectar flow, so yeah, it’s a hive by hive and year to year decision.

Hey dude and this is in Canada also ?

Great video. Thank you for your time doing so.

Thank you Ladies! Great stuff!

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