People don’t care how much you know till they know how much you care!! In our world right now most people just care about themselves.. thanks for caring!!
David, you have the ability to look into a glass lens and know there are eyes looking back at you. You lay out your presentations as if we're there with you. You're talking to us, not at us. I love how you go into detail about how certain circumstances occur, and then offer a solution. This helps us not only identify the WHAT, but more importantly, the WHY. As a "newbee", I find your videos very informative and super easy to understand. Thank you for all you do to help educate the masses in this exciting (and sometimes frustrating) hobby!!! 😊
Hi David. I am thankful for all your help throughout the years. I have been moving my medium supers underneath each other every time I put a new one on. I can't wait to see how your experiment works, in between the brood boxes. Thank you for sharing your videos with us. 🇺🇸
You've been and continue to be a huge inspiration to me. This is my first year, and I only have three hives so far, but any time I feel lost, I start re-watching your videos, and I feel more confident. Thank you.
You give what you receive, and we get a lot of great knowledge and life advice from you! Im sure many are sharing some of the same advice you are giving. Im sure theres a lot of people that end up having a better day when they hear your life advice. Thanks for your giving, David. Your video on the lavender farm was fun, I did buy some stuff from him. Maybe in the future you can take a "trip" once a month or two and have a visit at some local or maybe not so local places. Like while you're on your business trips, take a short clip of something inspiring to you and share it. Like a little field trip for your veiwers. Love your content, and your classes helped me so much when I was getting started 2 years ago now. Thanks, David!
I absolutely love the Bee Smart outer cover. The hives that I am using them on seem to be more productive and active with them, they advertise moisture control with them and in my experience they do so especially in the late summer and fall months. Great video David, Thanks again
I am Laird Roger from UK u doing a great job with your honey bees I in joy all your TH-cam channel videos because I what to start keeping honey bees myself to
Great video David, as always! Thank you for the videos, courses, and mentor program - and the inspiration and motivation to develop beekeeping skills that net results. You have been a great influence. I like the coffee time flavor of this video, I enjoy hearing your perspectives on life.
Not a box of bees really, I would have removed the qx for a week, but then my supers are same as my brood. Then consider putting qx back into place. But I have to say your result is very good and that’s an understatement. So great idea. Well done. Hats off.
I always leave my bees when going into winter a full super of honey, and I top that up with feeding syrup for me my bees welfare is more important than greed. This system has never let me down I get all the hives through to spring healthy and alive that's my goal if I have lost colonies in the past never starvation but through mites! I have been doing bees since 1983 but what makes a good beekeeper is not the years been doing it but having an open mind from other beekeepers like yourself I love your videos learning new things all the time, one of my favourite videos of yours was using two nucs to make honey very interesting thanks Dave.
Thanks for the entirety of this video, David. Bee-wisdom and life-wisdom - - seems they go together so well (...even when we aren't sipping coffee!). ☮💖🐝🙏
Hope everything is well with your bees. My area is swarm crazy right now. I am having trouble preventing mine from swarming. I am up to 14 hives, from 8 overwinter.. I am out of equipment as of now. 2nd mite counts yesteday. Still 0 mites in the alchohol wash. Thanks for more good videos.
I have a couple exactly like those 2 although I only have single deep brood boxes though. Can't wait to see the next video showing how its filled out that super. I usually put frames in between the brood frames if I need them drawn out.
When I put an undrawn super between my brood boxes, the box without the hive began to make supecedure cells like crazy ! I can only assume the queens pheromone was not being spread to the other box
I am very thankful all your videos! As a new beekeeper I learn more everyday. Can you please do a video on wax warm infestation lost one of my beehive this year, what do I need to do and make sure to prevent wax warm infestation for my other beehive? Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with new beekeepers🙏🙏
I just put my second deeps on my 2 hives about a week or so ago and I did my inspection today. Oh boy they are super heavy I struggled picking them up. I might add my supers soon. I'm a first time bee keeper so this should be exciting
I have the same problem one hive didn’t do anything and the others can’t control they build and fill honey so fast. I think the one didn’t fill or build is swarmed out 🤷♀️. I don’t know but I am going to do same you did in first hive. Thank you for the wonderful video and sharing your knowledge with us.
David, your colony isn't strong enough, and/or not enough nectar coming in, that is why they are not drawing it. Bees should be boiling at the top of the frames of the below box as you took the top box off.
I love your work, your soft vocals tones and educational videos keeps this Northern Ireland bee keeper inspired. Granted we don’t live on the same latitude nor are our seasons similar but I take on board what you say and adjust. Many thanks my friend xx
Hey David, I think that the keeper hive were going to watch out for getting stuing, and worst the glass part when showing off the bees to friends it can be turned into a wax melter or bee cooker. God bless 😊
David I think while I was that far into that hive I would have checked for eggs an larva because just a quick look there it looked like there was not a lot of bees in any of those boxes. Just a thought. Thanks
David, this a good word. BTW: I had a swarm. The local commercial beekeeper said it was because I placed a queen excluder between a partially drown out deep (w/foundation) and a partially drawn out medium (w/foundation). There were queen cells on the frames of the bottom deep. Ideas?
You noted earlier in the video that the upper (green) super was mostly nectar. Nevertheless, wouldn't you put an excluder between the upper deep and the top super just to be sure since you didn't look for the queen?
Love what you do! Very informative! I’m a new bee keeper is it best to harvest honey in July, or in the fall or is it best to do both? This hive has overwintered well and currently has 2 nearly full supers on top of 2 deep brood boxes that are full of brood and honey. Any advice would be appreciated.
It was cold here this season longer than usual. I lured a small swarm in early June and I fed them 1.5 gallons of 1:1. They quickly drew on 7 frames in my 8 frame meduims about half way and slowed down, so I quit feeding for a while. The population has increased a little and I think it's about to increase again, so I started feeding again. Maybe I should make a super? Maybe I just need to be patient? At the moment (July 5) it seems more like I'll have to feed this hive this Winter. Any guidane will be appreciated. Thank you.
If some of my frames are capped (nice white comb) I take 2, is it ok to insert drawn frames that are not white (1-2 years old)? I felt bad giving a darker comb.
Just a thought, would the double queen excluder result in not having a queen in one of the brood boxes. If so I feel the queen may swarm sooner than later due to potentially running out of space to lay in. Thoughts??
Takes bees to make wax. It appears the first hive has maybe an adequate population for a nuc. I think you need to look for the queen, as the colony has probably swarmed.
Wow. I'd love to be able to call and talk to you or someone about this. I'm having the same prob. I started with a world of probs from the beginning. I only got about 1k bees in my nuc. A young queen. My mentor said I didn't have enough bees to sustain life and he gave me 3 full frames of cap brood. I then went and upped my feeding to a frame feeder. They still not drawing comb. I've rewaxed the empty frames. Going to check them tomorrow.
This method did not work for a hive of mine. The queen (she was newly hatched this spring) ended up in the bottom box and the bees in the top box started making queen cells with the eggs that were in there.
What a cool idea. I’m going to try it but with three excluders. The question is how long do I learn the queen isolated in one of the three boxes. I’m guessing a week would give the super buildouts a jumpstart. Love this video!
If the Colony makes a "Honey Bridge" in that upper Deep : the Queen can't lay beyond or above this. A Honey Bridge is a way to keep Bees and have a Honey Crop, without the Queen laying in that Honey. Hope this helps. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 A Honey Bridge is a curved Area of Capped Honey that is like an Arc of Honey in the upper part of the Brood Frame. It's like a natural Queen Excluder. 👍
Not enough bees in that hive to have supers drawn out. You don’t even have the top brood chamber drawn yet. You shouldn’t be taking honey from them unless that top brood box is drawn.
People don’t care how much you know till they know how much you care!!
In our world right now most people just care about themselves.. thanks for caring!!
David, you have the ability to look into a glass lens and know there are eyes looking back at you. You lay out your presentations as if we're there with you. You're talking to us, not at us. I love how you go into detail about how certain circumstances occur, and then offer a solution. This helps us not only identify the WHAT, but more importantly, the WHY. As a "newbee", I find your videos very informative and super easy to understand. Thank you for all you do to help educate the masses in this exciting (and sometimes frustrating) hobby!!! 😊
Just tried it this way today, will give them 2 weeks and check back. Hope they do their thing and draw out some wax. Thanks for the tips.
You sir are a giver. A giver of knowledge. I thank you for that.
Hi David. I am thankful for all your help throughout the years. I have been moving my medium supers underneath each other every time I put a new one on. I can't wait to see how your experiment works, in between the brood boxes. Thank you for sharing your videos with us. 🇺🇸
Dziękujemy.
You've been and continue to be a huge inspiration to me. This is my first year, and I only have three hives so far, but any time I feel lost, I start re-watching your videos, and I feel more confident. Thank you.
You give what you receive, and we get a lot of great knowledge and life advice from you! Im sure many are sharing some of the same advice you are giving. Im sure theres a lot of people that end up having a better day when they hear your life advice. Thanks for your giving, David. Your video on the lavender farm was fun, I did buy some stuff from him. Maybe in the future you can take a "trip" once a month or two and have a visit at some local or maybe not so local places. Like while you're on your business trips, take a short clip of something inspiring to you and share it. Like a little field trip for your veiwers. Love your content, and your classes helped me so much when I was getting started 2 years ago now. Thanks, David!
I absolutely love the Bee Smart outer cover. The hives that I am using them on seem to be more productive and active with them, they advertise moisture control with them and in my experience they do so especially in the late summer and fall months. Great video David, Thanks again
Great video, David. The bees are just like people, some work hard and others would rather you do it for them.
I am Laird Roger from UK u doing a great job with your honey bees I in joy all your TH-cam channel videos because I what to start keeping honey bees myself to
Great video David, as always! Thank you for the videos, courses, and mentor program - and the inspiration and motivation to develop beekeeping skills that net results. You have been a great influence. I like the coffee time flavor of this video, I enjoy hearing your perspectives on life.
David, what a great insight. Love your videos. Really learning alot from you. Regarding Beekeeper and life. Thank you.
Excellent thoughts you share, David!!
Thank you for all you do. Can't wait to buy your online courses. First year attempt at bee keeping.
Not a box of bees really, I would have removed the qx for a week, but then my supers are same as my brood. Then consider putting qx back into place. But I have to say your result is very good and that’s an understatement. So great idea. Well done. Hats off.
I always leave my bees when going into winter a full super of honey, and I top that up with feeding syrup for me my bees welfare is more important than greed. This system has never let me down I get all the hives through to spring healthy and alive that's my goal if I have lost colonies in the past never starvation but through mites! I have been doing bees since 1983 but what makes a good beekeeper is not the years been doing it but having an open mind from other beekeepers like yourself I love your videos learning new things all the time, one of my favourite videos of yours was using two nucs to make honey very interesting thanks Dave.
Great vid!
I did enjoy the lavender video and ordered some stuff too. Thanks for all you do. You help motivate me to keep on keeping on
Hi David, love and learn sooo much from you. Thank you.
can you please do a video on ants in the hive.
Thanks for the entirety of this video, David. Bee-wisdom and life-wisdom - - seems they go together so well (...even when we aren't sipping coffee!). ☮💖🐝🙏
Hope everything is well with your bees. My area is swarm crazy right now. I am having trouble preventing mine from swarming. I am up to 14 hives, from 8 overwinter.. I am out of equipment as of now. 2nd mite counts yesteday. Still 0 mites in the alchohol wash. Thanks for more good videos.
You are always an inspiration Dave ,love your videos
I have a couple exactly like those 2 although I only have single deep brood boxes though. Can't wait to see the next video showing how its filled out that super. I usually put frames in between the brood frames if I need them drawn out.
Thank for sharing your bee keeping with us 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is great to know, thanks David! You are always an inspiration!
When I put an undrawn super between my brood boxes, the box without the hive began to make supecedure cells like crazy ! I can only assume the queens pheromone was not being spread to the other box
Great video 😊Thanks David and Sheri 😊
Thanks for this and for your thoughts ❤❤
I am very thankful all your videos! As a new beekeeper I learn more everyday. Can you please do a video on wax warm infestation lost one of my beehive this year, what do I need to do and make sure to prevent wax warm infestation for my other beehive? Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with new beekeepers🙏🙏
I just put my second deeps on my 2 hives about a week or so ago and I did my inspection today. Oh boy they are super heavy I struggled picking them up. I might add my supers soon. I'm a first time bee keeper so this should be exciting
Thanks!
Thank you
Learned a lot
I have the same problem one hive didn’t do anything and the others can’t control they build and fill honey so fast.
I think the one didn’t fill or build is swarmed out 🤷♀️. I don’t know but I am going to do same you did in first hive. Thank you for the wonderful video and sharing your knowledge with us.
Your knowledge and joy for beekeeping calms me and makes me look forward to caring for me bees.
Great advise and not just on the beekeeping. Thanks
David, your colony isn't strong enough, and/or not enough nectar coming in, that is why they are not drawing it. Bees should be boiling at the top of the frames of the below box as you took the top box off.
Interesting technique. We as a community are better off for your content and efforts. Appreciate the work in making and sharing these videos!
Thank you so much for your great work
I plan on buying your WBK boards for this winter.
Keep up the good work master
What is the queen bee lays eggs in the top shelf? What do I do?
I love your work, your soft vocals tones and educational videos keeps this Northern Ireland bee keeper inspired. Granted we don’t live on the same latitude nor are our seasons similar but I take on board what you say and adjust. Many thanks my friend xx
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Hey David, I think that the keeper hive were going to watch out for getting stuing, and worst the glass part when showing off the bees to friends it can be turned into a wax melter or bee cooker. God bless 😊
Would like a follow up on how that manipulation worked.
David I think while I was that far into that hive I would have checked for eggs an larva because just a quick look there it looked like there was not a lot of bees in any of those boxes. Just a thought. Thanks
How many days do I need to put the frames and a honey extractor
Could you also take a small frame of bees from the second hive and shake them into the hive with 2 brood boxes and 2 supers ?
David, this a good word. BTW: I had a swarm. The local commercial beekeeper said it was because I placed a queen excluder between a partially drown out deep (w/foundation) and a partially drawn out medium (w/foundation). There were queen cells on the frames of the bottom deep. Ideas?
Where di u get ur veil and pullover jacket in this video?
Thz
Will bees move uncapped honey from a deep up into a super that is added? Will they move capped honey up?
You noted earlier in the video that the upper (green) super was mostly nectar. Nevertheless, wouldn't you put an excluder between the upper deep and the top super just to be sure since you didn't look for the queen?
hey david, you quipped using 6 inch frame for brood. can i do that???
many regards,
buzzin in birmingham
How do you put up with those plastic excluders? Junk
Love what you do! Very informative! I’m a new bee keeper is it best to harvest honey in July, or in the fall or is it best to do both? This hive has overwintered well and currently has 2 nearly full supers on top of 2 deep brood boxes that are full of brood and honey. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
What weight of wax draws out 10 frames with out any honey in them David,?
It was cold here this season longer than usual. I lured a small swarm in early June and I fed them 1.5 gallons of 1:1. They quickly drew on 7 frames in my 8 frame meduims about half way and slowed down, so I quit feeding for a while. The population has increased a little and I think it's about to increase again, so I started feeding again.
Maybe I should make a super? Maybe I just need to be patient?
At the moment (July 5) it seems more like I'll have to feed this hive this Winter.
Any guidane will be appreciated. Thank you.
David, if the queen was in the top deep, she can lay in the super above that has no excluder?
When you devide the brood boxes,i expect queen cells with a separation.
If some of my frames are capped (nice white comb) I take 2, is it ok to insert drawn frames that are not white (1-2 years old)? I felt bad giving a darker comb.
Bees love to draw comb through excluders lol 😆 😂 😄
Would this work with a Ross round super? Having a hard time getting the bees to draw comb on the Ross Rounds as a honey super
I may not be able to give to who gave to me, but I can always find a way to pass on the gifts that I receive to others.
Hey David! You mentioned your recipe for Honey BeeKind… is that a secret or do you publish it for the masses?
Just a thought, would the double queen excluder result in not having a queen in one of the brood boxes. If so I feel the queen may swarm sooner than later due to potentially running out of space to lay in. Thoughts??
Takes bees to make wax. It appears the first hive has maybe an adequate population for a nuc. I think you need to look for the queen, as the colony has probably swarmed.
I didn’t see a inner lid. Do you use them?
When do i check for varroa on a newly caught swarm that had a accident causing large amount of foragers to die.
David, not to do with this video but you mentioned your weather app mentioned hi tree pollen. Can I ask what weather app you use?
weatherbug
Wow. I'd love to be able to call and talk to you or someone about this. I'm having the same prob. I started with a world of probs from the beginning. I only got about 1k bees in my nuc. A young queen. My mentor said I didn't have enough bees to sustain life and he gave me 3 full frames of cap brood. I then went and upped my feeding to a frame feeder. They still not drawing comb. I've rewaxed the empty frames. Going to check them tomorrow.
Good luck. Have you taken a class? Sounds like you are doing the right things.
how late can we do this?
This method did not work for a hive of mine. The queen (she was newly hatched this spring) ended up in the bottom box and the bees in the top box started making queen cells with the eggs that were in there.
If the queen was in the top deep she can get in your top super ?? Can’t she
I thought the same thing. Kevin
What a cool idea. I’m going to try it but with three excluders. The question is how long do I learn the queen isolated in one of the three boxes. I’m guessing a week would give the super buildouts a jumpstart. Love this video!
If the Colony makes a "Honey Bridge" in that upper Deep : the Queen can't lay beyond or above this.
A Honey Bridge is a way to keep Bees and have a Honey Crop, without the Queen laying in that Honey.
Hope this helps. 😎
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Happy Beekeeping 2023
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A Honey Bridge is a curved Area of Capped Honey that is like an Arc of Honey in the upper part of the Brood Frame.
It's like a natural Queen Excluder. 👍
Same thoughts here 😊
She can, but its highly likely the bees have filled that super with enough honey she won't have much room if any to lay.
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The first box had more space than they needed! They didn't have enough bees to cover all the space they had.
Not enough bees in that hive to have supers drawn out. You don’t even have the top brood chamber drawn yet. You shouldn’t be taking honey from them unless that top brood box is drawn.
Looks like the second colony 10x the amount of bees
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Too much empty space. I would take the super out and wait till they are more developed.
I think there is not enough bees
When you devide the brood boxes,i expect queen cells with a separation.