Yes good day this is K Jake Neufeld out of a Canada here in the small beekeeper I watch your videos all the time there of much help to me thanks for all your videos they’re awesome
I never get bored with your videos and I love your photography especially the close-ups which are really helpful to a beginner in identifying different aspects of beekeeping
A few years ago I got some free 10 frame shallow boxes. I nailed a piece of plywood on the bottom of those shallows and drilled an entrance hole. I use a deep on top of a shallow for a swarm trap. If it catches I just sit that deep onto a regular bottom board when I get to my yard.
Greetings from Texas. Nice swarm. I have just started keeping bees and have a lot to learn. The first swarm I fought came back the next day and they were gone. 🐝
Kamon, could you have made some nuc's with that colony - and if so why didn't you? You must be hoping it will be a production hive I suppose. That was a huge swarm and what a queen!
Haha I was born in Anderson Indiana! For sure, I just need to take my beekeeping to my dad pun level and the bees will put the honey in the bottles themselves.
Kamon on your swarm traps boxes do you put a entrance reducer in or do you leave it completely open all the way across. Thank you for all your info you help us with . ??
Nice video!! Im in north central Maine ( Just below Baxter State Park) and will a swarm trap catch wild bees? I plan on getting a beehive next year in 2021.
I'm from the LA a little further west, Louisiana. Freebees are good, the only ones better are when someone else catches then gives them to you. I have some friends that landscape chemical plants along the river when they get a swarm or a cut out they give me first chance but as a small hobby beekeeper I don't have the room for all they catch so I take most and pass them on to club members here.
I’ve heard you talk about Lemon Grass as a queen pheromone lure bee swarms…do you mean essential oil? If so you can find it bulk and very affordable at Bulk Apothecary online. Cheers! Thanks for great content (and showing us that we’re not the only ones that drop stuff!). BTW- I’ll look out for you for some elevator shoes so you can retrieve your traps easier! Lol!
I got a question ? Could you have placed a few combs of brood in another box with those queen cells then moved that box and the queen hatch become mated and fly back to the box with the brood comb that was removed from the swarm just caught ? I catch a lot of swarms here in Ky. I just felt those queen cells would have been a great colony as well if that queen came back that hatched out of the frames removed or do you think it would of just became a small swarm that didn’t return to the frames moved in the box that had just the frames of brood and cells with some bees..
coulda woulda shoulda made a triple wake away - unless you don't need more hives. :) I have been told that once they build and load queen cups you can't stop the swarm instinct. Do you know if you stopped it or if they in fact did go on to swarm? Thanks.
How many frames do u put in your traps? All old brood comb, some old brood with a few empty frames? I’m going to use single deeps for the third time, I’ve had no luck so far! I’ve never used old comb in traps either, I’m hoping that was my weakness
I'm going to set a few traps this year. A person contacted me about a colony he has had in his porch for about three years. I am sure they have swarmed a couple times, I'm not sure if I can take his porch apart or not, so trap it is. Still cold here at the Tonganoxie split apiary!
Yoooooo Kamon! I caught a swarm in a owl box. I found and captured the queen. I put them in a 5 frame nuc with the queen in a cage. Question is when do I release her from the cage??? Thanks!
Do you switch out the queen from a swarm, to a more swarm resistant queen, or do you just leave her? if not, dont you just risk breeding queens with a high risk of swarming?
New sub, really enjoy your videos and great tips. Have a question about swarm trap, I have comb from the fall but worry about wax moths getting in it before I catch anything. What’s your thought on that? Thanks again, hope you have a great season!
When working with single deeps brood boxes, how often do you think I should check for swarm cells? I really don't want them to swarm and bother my neighbors.
You could inspect your Hive x1 Deep by tilting it on its side carefully ! (Swarm cells are primarily along the bottom of the frames.) If you see some, either mash them. Or do what's called a Split.*) *Open Deep do an inspection to get status : Do a Split if you have lots of capped Brood*, or lots of Swarm Cells*. Take x2 frames of Bees with Queen, inc Brood. Or a well capped Swarm Cell, with Bees, Brood and food. (x 1good Swarm Cell only !) Both options : And, put in a Nuc five frame box. X2 Bees, x1 Pollen + Nectar, x1 Honey, and x1 empty foundation. Stuff the entrance at dusk, with green grass, and leave box in the shade of 24-48hrs. The bees lose their orientation (to old home, and or 'loyalty' to former Queen (become 'Queenless' re Cell hive.) Grass will wilt, and bees will be reset to new status ! They will build up population with Queen again. Or raise their own Virgin Queen, who will go on her mating flight, becoming a hive in its own right. (Do not open Cell Hive for x2 weeks after hatching a queen, she needs quiet and no disturbance to start laying successfully ! If no Queen, re join both boxes by using newspaper sheet between, so bees join slowly and accept each other again ! (Eg near end of season... Survive winter.) Hope this helps .... 🐝
Swarming is natural, it is God's plan for increasing total bee population by making additional bee producing queens with their own hives. There are several events that trigger swarming but overcrowding is usually the issue, no room for more brood or honey. Making sure the hive has the room they need by adding another box before they start raising a new queen is key. If they have begun the swarm mode it is difficult to stop it and splitting the hive is your best option if you don't want to increase the feral bee population. Best done by mimicking the swarming outcome which is to leave the queen cells and half the bees, brood and feed where they are and removing the other half with the queen to another bee yard so that the forager bees you remove stay with the colony.
I know they are free bees however can you tell if they are Italians or Russians?? I caught 4 swarms this weekend and I'm not for sure..But they are Free!!
Kamon, there is generally a reason why we do or don't do things which makes me want to ask you why you didn't scrape off everything built off the bottom of the frames but especially that last frame taken from the swarm box that had many queen cups and cells. I would have so I'm asking to see what I can learn. Can you take a minute to explain the pros and cons of leaving it there?
At first a beekeeper keeps it all clean and spends time cutting all that stuff off. It gets built back. Look at Ian Stepler's hives. He don't have time for that and his hives rock. Practice cups like that are very common. If it makes you feel better pinch each one. I do sometimes..
Love watching you jump in there with bare arms, but it bothered me more than it should have to watch you split that brood on the bottom super! They look like they're active enough to cover both sections, though. I try to always put my empty frames on the outside of the cluster.
jeez kamon stuff happens. Ya'll had three interlopers in yur bonnet, and then get stung on the hand holding the frame. I haven't dropped one yet but I would feel not too bad if I had three mongols in my bonnet and then have the hand holding it jerk back. Ya'll are a good bee man kamon. I like ya'll pretty much for a short guy. get another couple guys and play us a tune while you bee run. my great great great grandpa Pitchford died in the civil war as cavalry in your state, so I am kind of partial to Tennessee. In the East of the state. I have a letter home from him if you ever care to read it.
What happens: you go out to the yard with your camera. You're mind is set on "I think I'll mark those queens in nucs". Swarm ensues, plan changes, and you scramble around looking like a fool ON CAMERA. Give him a break. 😎
Your camera person is the very best that I've seen so far. Great job!
Yes good day this is K Jake Neufeld out of a Canada here in the small beekeeper I watch your videos all the time there of much help to me thanks for all your videos they’re awesome
You have the best ever Bee Channel. thank you and your wife for doing these.
Thanks for the compliment and watching!
never bored watching your videos, always learning from you. Thankyou so much
There's the Mike drop then there's the Frame drop LoL 👍 thanks
Love everything about your videos!
Thank you for taking the time to make them.
Great vid, full of info, entertaining, and easy to follow.
Great content ! Thanks for sharing.🐝safe and keep your smoker lit .
Konrad
Good video! I always appreciate your honesty when you make a mistake. And I love all your tips!
Some great info, people are going to learn a lot from your honesty. Stuff happens when we keep bees, keep it up and real!
I watched this one in Spring 2020 it was good then ANd I enjoyed it today. You are very informed. thanks Rick
Thanks for the feedback Rick! That was back when we were using a cheap cell phone!
I never get bored with your videos and I love your photography especially the close-ups which are really helpful to a beginner in identifying different aspects of beekeeping
Glad I found your channel, you keep it simple, and very informative thanks for that
A few years ago I got some free 10 frame shallow boxes. I nailed a piece of plywood on the bottom of those shallows and drilled an entrance hole. I use a deep on top of a shallow for a swarm trap. If it catches I just sit that deep onto a regular bottom board when I get to my yard.
Your beekeeping approach is outstanding!! I hope your apiary is profitable! 👍
Thank you!
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, gotta love free wisdom!!
Thank you for this video!
Yes sir, you caught that one just in time or they would’ve been gone. Thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Texas. Nice swarm. I have just started keeping bees and have a lot to learn. The first swarm I fought came back the next day and they were gone. 🐝
Tim I had one sting me, the other day, right on the end of my nose by the nostril! Woo wee!! 😁. I enjoyed the video...
Thanks! Yeah it has happened to me a few times. Flushed my sinuses both times!
Kamon, could you have made some nuc's with that colony - and if so why didn't you? You must be hoping it will be a production hive I suppose. That was a huge swarm and what a queen!
Man, you should move to northern indiana so we can be best friends. Lol between the beekeeping and the dad puns our friendship would take off! Haha
Haha I was born in Anderson Indiana! For sure, I just need to take my beekeeping to my dad pun level and the bees will put the honey in the bottles themselves.
Kamon on your swarm traps boxes do you put a entrance reducer in or do you leave it completely open all the way across. Thank you for all your info you help us with . ??
Nice video!! Im in north central Maine ( Just below Baxter State Park) and will a swarm trap catch wild bees? I plan on getting a beehive next year in 2021.
Thanks for these videos. I need to learn a way to mount swarm traps without damaging the tree at all.
Use ratchet type cargo straps
Btw I really like your videos you do a good job!
Excellent
What's up from LA lower Alabama. 👍👍😎
I'm from the LA a little further west, Louisiana. Freebees are good, the only ones better are when someone else catches then gives them to you. I have some friends that landscape chemical plants along the river when they get a swarm or a cut out they give me first chance but as a small hobby beekeeper I don't have the room for all they catch so I take most and pass them on to club members here.
I’ve heard you talk about Lemon Grass as a queen pheromone lure bee swarms…do you mean essential oil? If so you can find it bulk and very affordable at Bulk Apothecary online. Cheers! Thanks for great content (and showing us that we’re not the only ones that drop stuff!). BTW- I’ll look out for you for some elevator shoes so you can retrieve your traps easier! Lol!
You're just way too entertaining to not watch. Great bee's. 👍👍
I got a question ? Could you have placed a few combs of brood in another box with those queen cells then moved that box and the queen hatch become mated and fly back to the box with the brood comb that was removed from the swarm just caught ? I catch a lot of swarms here in Ky. I just felt those queen cells would have been a great colony as well if that queen came back that hatched out of the frames removed or do you think it would of just became a small swarm that didn’t return to the frames moved in the box that had just the frames of brood and cells with some bees..
coulda woulda shoulda made a triple wake away - unless you don't need more hives. :) I have been told that once they build and load queen cups you can't stop the swarm instinct. Do you know if you stopped it or if they in fact did go on to swarm? Thanks.
How many frames do u put in your traps? All old brood comb, some old brood with a few empty frames? I’m going to use single deeps for the third time, I’ve had no luck so far! I’ve never used old comb in traps either, I’m hoping that was my weakness
Where about are you guys located? I am in middle TN and a NEWBIE bee keeper! Love your videos!!! Thanks!
Gainesboro TN thanks for watching!
I'm going to set a few traps this year. A person contacted me about a colony he has had in his porch for about three years. I am sure they have swarmed a couple times, I'm not sure if I can take his porch apart or not, so trap it is. Still cold here at the Tonganoxie split apiary!
Yoooooo Kamon! I caught a swarm in a owl box. I found and captured the queen. I put them in a 5 frame nuc with the queen in a cage. Question is when do I release her from the cage??? Thanks!
So as someone that has no old frames, besides the lemongrass or swam commander, can you attract swarms with some "real" honey from a bee farm?
Where was the queen, I don't think I remember you mentioning her before you began shaking the frames. Thanks!
hmm brood and resources on ever frame huh. sounds like you have something to boost a smaller hive up with as well as a split or two. cha ching.
Do you switch out the queen from a swarm, to a more swarm resistant queen, or do you just leave her? if not, dont you just risk breeding queens with a high risk of swarming?
Those Mamosa look as though they might make good tepee poles ?
New sub, really enjoy your videos and great tips. Have a question about swarm trap, I have comb from the fall but worry about wax moths getting in it before I catch anything. What’s your thought on that? Thanks again, hope you have a great season!
Thanks for watching phillip! As long as the combs have no honey, beebread, or brood remains I have no problem with the wax moths.
@@kamonreynolds thanks for the quick response!
My grandpa said if you aren’t going to do a job right, don’t do that kind of work.
Cool. Whats all that yellow blooming behind you. Dandelions ? Looks like a awesome flow.might want to throw on another a few supers.
They are buttercups and unfortunately the bees don't use them! They are pretty, but are the result of over grazing
@@kamonreynolds oh ok
I thought it might be dandelions. Would of been nice, but looks like your bees are putting up something anyway.
so for the lemon grass.... you just cut them off the plant and put a little stack inside?.... about an inch thick ?.... or less
How long does it take to get a swarm? Our box has been in a tree for two weeks
very good
Thanks !
Like we say in Spain, que grande eres maestro
I'm curious, what part of Tn. are you in? We are in Giles county and also by our equipment from the amish. We may be neighbors!
I drove from gainesboro long haul for that gas guzzlin Chevy big block
When working with single deeps brood boxes, how often do you think I should check for swarm cells? I really don't want them to swarm and bother my neighbors.
There are alot of videos on TH-cam about single brood box beekeeping. Check those out.
You could inspect your Hive x1 Deep by tilting it on its side carefully ! (Swarm cells are primarily along the bottom of the frames.) If you see some, either mash them. Or do what's called a Split.*) *Open Deep do an inspection to get status : Do a Split if you have lots of capped Brood*, or lots of Swarm Cells*. Take x2 frames of Bees with Queen, inc Brood. Or a well capped Swarm Cell, with Bees, Brood and food. (x 1good Swarm Cell only !)
Both options :
And, put in a Nuc five frame box. X2 Bees, x1 Pollen + Nectar, x1 Honey, and x1 empty foundation. Stuff the entrance at dusk, with green grass, and leave box in the shade of 24-48hrs. The bees lose their orientation (to old home, and or 'loyalty' to former Queen (become 'Queenless' re Cell hive.)
Grass will wilt, and bees will be reset to new status ! They will build up population with Queen again. Or raise their own Virgin Queen, who will go on her mating flight, becoming a hive in its own right. (Do not open Cell Hive for x2 weeks after hatching a queen, she needs quiet and no disturbance to start laying successfully ! If no Queen, re join both boxes by using newspaper sheet between, so bees join slowly and accept each other again ! (Eg near end of season... Survive winter.)
Hope this helps .... 🐝
what causes the bees to swarm? im just getting intrested in bee keeping,,,, thank you for the videos
Swarming is natural, it is God's plan for increasing total bee population by making additional bee producing queens with their own hives. There are several events that trigger swarming but overcrowding is usually the issue, no room for more brood or honey. Making sure the hive has the room they need by adding another box before they start raising a new queen is key. If they have begun the swarm mode it is difficult to stop it and splitting the hive is your best option if you don't want to increase the feral bee population. Best done by mimicking the swarming outcome which is to leave the queen cells and half the bees, brood and feed where they are and removing the other half with the queen to another bee yard so that the forager bees you remove stay with the colony.
Why didn't you lower the stand while you were at it?
What part of TN are you in? Middle, East or West?
Where do you buy your new deep hive boxes? You mentioned "The Amish" can you be more specific?
Zooks out of lawrenceburg TN and there is a cousin of his doing it in Franklin KY. I'll see if I can find the address.
I know they are free bees however can you tell if they are Italians or Russians?? I caught 4 swarms this weekend and I'm not for sure..But they are Free!!
No way to tell they all look very similar even africanized bees look similar
Trapping set for a Layens hive.
I audibly gasped when you dropped the frame! I'm guilty of doing that 2 or 3 times..
Kamon, there is generally a reason why we do or don't do things which makes me want to ask you why you didn't scrape off everything built off the bottom of the frames but especially that last frame taken from the swarm box that had many queen cups and cells. I would have so I'm asking to see what I can learn. Can you take a minute to explain the pros and cons of leaving it there?
At first a beekeeper keeps it all clean and spends time cutting all that stuff off. It gets built back.
Look at Ian Stepler's hives. He don't have time for that and his hives rock. Practice cups like that are very common. If it makes you feel better pinch each one. I do sometimes..
i find that interesting that you are handling them barehanded.
can't you use the queen cell in another hive
Love watching you jump in there with bare arms, but it bothered me more than it should have to watch you split that brood on the bottom super! They look like they're active enough to cover both sections, though. I try to always put my empty frames on the outside of the cluster.
jeez kamon stuff happens. Ya'll had three interlopers in yur bonnet, and then get stung on the hand holding the frame. I haven't dropped one yet but I would feel not too bad if I had three mongols in my bonnet and then have the hand holding it jerk back. Ya'll are a good bee man kamon. I like ya'll pretty much for a short guy. get another couple guys and play us a tune while you bee run. my great great great grandpa Pitchford died in the civil war as cavalry in your state, so I am kind of partial to Tennessee. In the East of the state. I have a letter home from him if you ever care to read it.
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Interesting how often you say this is the wrong way to do this...
What happens: you go out to the yard with your camera. You're mind is set on "I think I'll mark those queens in nucs". Swarm ensues, plan changes, and you scramble around looking like a fool ON CAMERA. Give him a break. 😎