@Charles Bicknell Great Job!! Most Excellent work! Thank you for being DK's sidekick and helper, we all up here appreciate that so much!! Hope you get to join us again!!
Charles, I thought you did a great job getting nice shots of the hives also. I loved watching you work with the hives Daddy Kirbs. One day maybe I'll be doing that too. You never know. Thank you for sharing your beekeeping with us.
The brown cappings is because the frame has been reused so many times that over time the more the bees reuse it the darker the caps get. I watch other channels too and that’s how I found this out! :)
Yo how did Charlie go from boosted boy to bee boy should have put the wook in with Kyle that channel took off he was on thear till he wanted haph the money even know he hadn't been part of a video in months I would have sent him away to be a bee boy and kept my boosted boy money to dudes cinda a snake from what iv seen
Your Purchased Queen Swarmed and left. She ran out of room with those honey bound frames and the Queen excluder. The hatched out Queen cells may have also swarmed. Virgins will swarm out as a secondary swarm with multiple queens. The fact that the emerged virgins did not assassinate the other queen cells may mean they swarmed as well. The original hive you put back together is Queenless. You never looked for a Queen during the inspection so you have no way of knowing if any Queens (virgin or mated) are present. You could cut out one of the capped cells and put it in that big hive and hope she hatches and gets mated. The split nuc you made should also have a queen cell for the same. Having them next to each other however may cause drift and the bees will favor the larger/stronger hive.
Daddykirbs Farm - A Homesteading Story happy to give my 2 cents and it may not be 100% accurate. But always good to be certain about Queen status in each hive
Nice numerology If you get in the practice of marking queens, your eyes will automatically look for those colored dots. If you stay in practice of looking for length of body and shape, your eyes and brain will tend to stay in that practice. I feel it is a personal choice.
Just a suggestion to help the bees draw out the comb faster. Try painting 2 or 3 coats of wax on your frames (regardless if the came pre waxed) it will allow your bees to draw 2-3 times faster and it will allow them to collect more honey. Let me know if you try it and how well it worked for you.
Poor Charles! What a trooper! Blake, I love how you kept checking on him. You’ll have to give him one of your hats to keep the hood from collapsing. I’m amazed at how you can keep track of all the hives. Spin some good honey! 🍯
Hello there, I'm a noobie but they look like swarm cells to me. Give Charles the $10 for helping he did a great job no matter if you don't get the 1 million views!
I really like how you check your partner on a regular base..asking him if he is doing allright!! It shows respect.. awareness .. and concern !love seeing you take care of those hyves...but that sound gives me the hyves!!!! 🐝🐝🐝🐝
First time watching the bee keeping process, so fascinating. What was so heartwarming was the father's concern for his son and the respect they showed each other. Also the father had a calmness and patience that would certainly convey that aura to his bees. Nothing was rushed but methodically thought out. The bees can sense this as well as other animals we live with. We live in a kingdom that can thrive with this kind of attitude. Thanks
I agree, the Beekeeper was so calm in managing his hives ... I've watched various videos on bees the last several day and his demeanor is so much better than the others and he speaks like a mentor ... It makes you want to take up beekeeping as a hobby.
@@colinosborne3877 I've never seen an experienced beekeeper wear a loop on his thumb, most I see don't wear gloves, just a suit and sometimes not even the hood
I think he found the heads of drones (male bees). They couldnt get though the queen excluder to get out of the hive... so either they died or the workers killed them... the workers cleand up the bodies (removed them) but could not get the heads out, because oft he wire thing call a queen excluder... Workers are smaller so they can fit through the excluder.
Thread is a good demonstration of the problem with clickbait bullshit. This video is perfectly legit for the right crowd and could have plenty of appeal on it's own merits, but a title like this (thanks to youtube's schizophrenic recommendations) gets clicks from people who are expecting something shocking or exciting to the average person to happen and then it doesn't, it's just a video about collecting some honey and some dead bees. Bet it got them more clicks than otherwise though so maybe that makes up for the negative comments.
And the drones cannot fit through so they die on the queen excluder. Also I suggest prying either outer frame over a bit, then back it off to loosen it and remove it first. That gives leeway for other frame removal with less honey spillage from burr combs and less crushing of bees.
Why not start now? It is NOT labor intensive. All you really need is about 2 hours a day, maybe a little more in the Spring and Fall. The advantage to that is that you can learn early and fast, and as you progress you can actually sell your bee products... honey... propolis... royal jelly... wax... pollen... and a few other bee produced items. But, always remember to leave more than their fair share for the bees. They are the ones doing the real work.
I know you’re just getting started beekeeping and glad you are trying to learn... Beekeeper’s know we learn from our bees every day. One word of caution, I encourage you to make sure your viewers understand you are a novice and be careful not to share misinformation. Specifically, the information you shared about queens... Existing queens often swarm before new queens hatch, newly hatched queens often kill queens inside other cells and hives never have two queens
That's not entirely true. On the rare occation, a hive will decide to re-queen because their existing queen is beginning to fail for what ever reason. The newly hatched queen will kill her sisters before they emerge but leave her mother alive in the hive and may leave her alone for some time after she returned s from her mating flight. The workers will eventually evict the mother if she hasn't died in the meantime. But during this time, there exists two queens in the hive.
@@georgegoertzen4723 you are correct, that in - very rare - occasions two queens might live in a hive. however, you are describing two very different situations, whereby only in one two queens might be present: two queens are only present, if the old one is getting weak. the hive determines, when this is the case. if you have a healthy, strong, well mated queen, she usually lives at least 3 to 5 years. when your queen gets old and/or weak, your hive will decide that it is time for a new queen and groom one from an egg (looks similiar to the cells visible at around 18:30) The bees will keep the two queens away from each other (since they would just try to kill the other one), so long, to make sure, the younger one is strong and healthy, and ready to start breeding. That is also the time, the old queen is "evicted", meaning killed. The other case you are describing, is typically more likely during swarming season (for "simple" re-queening usually not so many queen cells are produced). During swarming season, as soon as the hive decides to move out (theoretically noticeable 3 weeks in advance!; however, i didnt notice it as soon), your hive starts to produce a lot of queen cells. there are a few techniques to hinder them from swarming, including breaking young queen cells. however, once one queen cell is capped, there is no holding the swarm anymore (manually taking the queen and a part of the hive out might do the trick; suggesting the bees, that the swarming has already happened). Queen cells are capped after the 9th day after being layed (hence usually the importance of looking after your bees once a week and not missing anything!) Once your hive has swarmed, leaving roughly half, young queens will hatch. The first queen will usually try to kill all unhatched queens (you will see a difference in how the cells are opened - top = hatched; side = killed). If two cells are opened at the top, two queens hatched within a short period of time, so the first couldnt kill the second. This means, that another part of the hive will leave as a second swarm. Subsummarizing: with the rare occasion of re-queening, only one queen is present in the hive, at all times. In case of swarming, the old queen will always leave before the new ones hatch. If young queens hatch within a short period of time, "after-swarms" will leave the hive as well; even before the young queen is mated and back, ready to breed.
You guys are giving real good "book" smarts and probably bee yard advice but from doing cutouts from these South Louisiana feral survivor bees there is pretty often 2 queens in colonies less than 4 years old. In colonies from 4 to 12 to unknown years there is often enough 3 queens and sometimes 5. The more area and time these colonies span, the more queens. 5 is not rare in the older, bigger ones. Books and scientific studies only go so far. These things are typically produced from controlled environments. Nature will do as she pleases, disregarding all rules and expectations in order to survive as efficiently as possible.
I read just now that if you start to see a hive build several queen bee cups, it means they’re about to swarm and they’ll take 60% of their colony, so be careful!
Great harvest!!! & Yes! A goose feather, duck feather, turkey feather, any type of large feather works better than a bee brush. At least in my opinion. Kudos to your new camera operator!!! Enjoy the sweet harvest from those frames! Take care 🐝🐝🐝☮️☯️
Enjoyed the video right up to the point where you didn't insure that there was no queen on any of those frames you put in the nuclear box. Other than that I liked how you described every move you made.
I am looking forward to seeing your next seasons' bee visit - with even more confidence, training, and organization. I know absolute zero about bee keeping, but i already learned alot from your video. Keep refining your own skills and training practice!
No bees....no life. I'm so thankful you guys are making the effort to make this video. Great! I was amazed though these gloves were enough to protect you.
Charles did a great job holding the camera I’ve never watched your videos before and this one was great I love beekeeping videos so please do some more
Camera man did a super job and I found the whole video very interesting- you definitely deserve way more than $10 for that 2 hours of excellent filming Charles 👍
Me over here having a mini panic attack because of all the buzzing sounds and trying to psychologically be like, but they're not in the room, but my mind goes from my childhood trauma of being stung
Those are some very gentle bees. I can see there have been some advances since I kept bees back in the 70s and 80s, Your suit is much improved and so is that hive tool.
A few years ago I had the same dark caps happen in my hives and I was totally stumped on what was causing it. However, we eventually determined that it was most likely caused by a few fairly large brush fires in our immediate area that dumped a bunch of ash and soot all over the blooms. The fires happened right in the middle of a pretty long dry spell so there was never any rain to wash the ash and soot off of the blooms. I can't say 100% that's what is causing the dark caps in your hives, but if you have had any brush fires in your area then it is certainly possible.
Loved being a part of the video and getting to hold the camera. Hope to do more eventually! Great video as always :)
@Charles Bicknell Great Job!! Most Excellent work! Thank you for being DK's sidekick and helper, we all up here appreciate that so much!! Hope you get to join us again!!
Charles you are off to a great start here! 1000 views in about 5 hours :)
Come on guys, lets get Charles his money.
You did great! I loved your commentary and your excitement for bee keeping! Keep up the good work 🙂
Charles, I thought you did a great job getting nice shots of the hives also. I loved watching you work with the hives Daddy Kirbs. One day maybe I'll be doing that too. You never know. Thank you for sharing your beekeeping with us.
just binge watched a whole 'lotta' bee video's ... and i have a new found RESPECT for Bee's and Honey!!!
Do ant's next than maybe spider's
Also spider man ;)
Fr
Me to hehe
F*ck hornets too lol
The brown cappings is because the frame has been reused so many times that over time the more the bees reuse it the darker the caps get. I watch other channels too and that’s how I found this out! :)
Oh... Good to know
This is good to know ty!
Ty for that!
Me too:)
It's cause of propolis right?
“Charles, if the video gets 1 million views, I’ll give you $10”
TH-cam algorithm going “I gotchu fam”
i gotchu homie
@Species 8472 almost there
lol so that was a lie
Camera man *Coughs*
Honey keeper: You okay? Is it the smoke?
Camera man: Yup
Honey Keeper: You should stop smoking
Camera man: *Silence*
Haha
Anime4Life it’s beekeeper not honey Keeper, just for next time
@@locoproductions343 Lol thanks!
Time?
*curb your enthusiasm plays*
Legend has it, Charles is still waiting for a million views to get that 10 bucks
Half way there my man
Yo how did Charlie go from boosted boy to bee boy should have put the wook in with Kyle that channel took off he was on thear till he wanted haph the money even know he hadn't been part of a video in months I would have sent him away to be a bee boy and kept my boosted boy money to dudes cinda a snake from what iv seen
800k rn tho
@@thomasmeade4490 your comment is confusing as all hell
Getting close.
I love my quarantine TH-cam feed
Same XD
Kara Noire Animations uWu who still uses “xd” 😂😂😂 sorry if it sounds rude but I’m curious
@@dusbus4642 almost any kid who plays video games or people who play video games
I love how the grass and flowers are overgrown and natural, it makes me happy looking at it idk why 😂
Aww give the kid a 50 for dealing with the heat for that long! Such a sweetheart.
Absolutely
Paused at 4:40 beeboobs. "I bet the bees were like, "let's make a funny picture for when they check these again!"
I thought sunglasses, but yeah, your idea, I see that too. lol
Your Purchased Queen Swarmed and left. She ran out of room with those honey bound frames and the Queen excluder. The hatched out Queen cells may have also swarmed. Virgins will swarm out as a secondary swarm with multiple queens. The fact that the emerged virgins did not assassinate the other queen cells may mean they swarmed as well. The original hive you put back together is Queenless. You never looked for a Queen during the inspection so you have no way of knowing if any Queens (virgin or mated) are present. You could cut out one of the capped cells and put it in that big hive and hope she hatches and gets mated. The split nuc you made should also have a queen cell for the same. Having them next to each other however may cause drift and the bees will favor the larger/stronger hive.
Thank you for the education without negativity 😁
Daddykirbs Farm - A Homesteading Story happy to give my 2 cents and it may not be 100% accurate. But always good to be certain about Queen status in each hive
Very informative.
Yeah, that's why you better mark queens
Nice numerology If you get in the practice of marking queens, your eyes will automatically look for those colored dots. If you stay in practice of looking for length of body and shape, your eyes and brain will tend to stay in that practice. I feel it is a personal choice.
I randomly got this recommended to me, so I hope TH-cam’s algorithm helps the camera man get his $10 this time round 😄
I hope Charles gets his $10 too!
Yo how did Charlie go from boosted boy to bee boy should have put the wook in with Kyle that channel took off
Boring didn't show removing the honey put on truck. Basically just moving things around. It's long and boring
@@daddykirbs then give it to him dude
@@daddykirbs YOU CAN JUST GIVE IT TO HIM
Beekeeper: If we didn't have face veils on right now, I'd let you try this honey.
Charles: 👁👄👁 hoh
Almost at a million views.. Charles I hope you are ready to make that money 💰🤑 thanks for the video!! I am thinking about beekeeping myself.
Just a suggestion to help the bees draw out the comb faster. Try painting 2 or 3 coats of wax on your frames (regardless if the came pre waxed) it will allow your bees to draw 2-3 times faster and it will allow them to collect more honey. Let me know if you try it and how well it worked for you.
Watched from the UK. Fascinating stuff. Great presentation. Hope giant hornets don’t move in. Thank you.
Poor Charles! What a trooper! Blake, I love how you kept checking on him. You’ll have to give him one of your hats to keep the hood from collapsing. I’m amazed at how you can keep track of all the hives. Spin some good honey! 🍯
Yo how did Charlie go from boosted boy to bee boy should have put the wook in with Kyle that channel took off
Absolutely
Hello there, I'm a noobie but they look like swarm cells to me. Give Charles the $10 for helping he did a great job no matter if you don't get the 1 million views!
swarm cells are single and more oversized then a regular cell. at 17:45 is a swarm cell. also a few around 18:34. they are the same as a queen cell
Yeah
two young queens have come out! yaaaaasss!!
That sht ain't good.
Nice one😂😂😂
Charles, you've almost got $10, my dude!
An amazing amount of work goes into making honey.
The beekeeper helps out a bit as well. ;)
They're so industrious, love how they just keep working away while they're being inspected.
I really like how you check your partner on a regular base..asking him if he is doing allright!! It shows respect.. awareness .. and concern !love seeing you take care of those hyves...but that sound gives me the hyves!!!! 🐝🐝🐝🐝
First time watching the bee keeping process, so fascinating. What was so heartwarming was the father's concern for his son and the respect they showed each other. Also the father had a calmness and patience that would certainly convey that aura to his bees. Nothing was rushed but methodically thought out. The bees can sense this as well as other animals we live with. We live in a kingdom that can thrive with this kind of attitude. Thanks
I agree, the Beekeeper was so calm in managing his hives ... I've watched various videos on bees the last several day and his demeanor is so much better than the others and he speaks like a mentor ... It makes you want to take up beekeeping as a hobby.
@@susann.1618 Absolutely
Go ahead and give him $10, he earned it!
This videos about to get 1 million views you better be ready to give Charles his $10
Fascinating, Charles is worth $20 for his hard work ! I bet that honey tastes great 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
I've watched quite a few bee keep videos today and have to say that you are the most gentle & calm of all. so it seems are your bees. thanks.
that elastic on your beesuit sleeve goes over you thumb to keep the sleeve pulled down to your hand.
just one of the things that show this guy is not experienced at all.
@@colinosborne3877 I've never seen an experienced beekeeper wear a loop on his thumb, most I see don't wear gloves, just a suit and sometimes not even the hood
@@colinosborne3877 you have know idea what you're talking about.
Goodbye.
I applaud all Beekeepers for doing there part for environment & of course what goes along with the job, bee's swarming your head, GOOD JOB!
Absolutely Donna
How are you doing .?
Who else has been watching and doesn’t know what he found so just went to the comments
I think he found the heads of drones (male bees). They couldnt get though the queen excluder to get out of the hive... so either they died or the workers killed them... the workers cleand up the bodies (removed them) but could not get the heads out, because oft he wire thing call a queen excluder... Workers are smaller so they can fit through the excluder.
@@dave-yj9mc Thank you! I already know how to harvest honey and don't have time for the whole video either. See 14:17.
@@jaha5761 I don't care about harvesting honey. Thanks for saving me the time.
Me. I saw the drone head part but I was thinking "surely there must be more". I didn't have the patience to watch till the end :(
Thread is a good demonstration of the problem with clickbait bullshit. This video is perfectly legit for the right crowd and could have plenty of appeal on it's own merits, but a title like this (thanks to youtube's schizophrenic recommendations) gets clicks from people who are expecting something shocking or exciting to the average person to happen and then it doesn't, it's just a video about collecting some honey and some dead bees. Bet it got them more clicks than otherwise though so maybe that makes up for the negative comments.
And the drones cannot fit through so they die on the queen excluder. Also I suggest prying either outer frame over a bit, then back it off to loosen it and remove it first. That gives leeway for other frame removal with less honey spillage from burr combs and less crushing of bees.
Really enjoyed watching this...My dad has had bees his whole life,so it was neat to see the inside of the hives..COOL!!!!
How are you doing .?
Thank you for 60FPS
It’s been a year and I’m still trying to help Charlie get his 10 bucks 🤣🤣
we’re so close
Hope he got paid now!
They made the 1 million, he owes him 10 bucks! haha
Spread this video so that Charles get Million bucks
One year later, and Charles is just a little under half-way to that $10.
he's almost there!
How are you doing .?
We're almost up to a million Charles!
This is what I'm watching during quarantine.
Thanks for sharing your time with me :) I hope you are well.
Haha me to pal 😂
Me 2
I am 24 but I think I'd really want to do beekeeping as a past time when I am old (like 70). Seems like a great way to spend your time.
Why not start now? It is NOT labor intensive. All you really need is about 2 hours a day, maybe a little more in the Spring and Fall. The advantage to that is that you can learn early and fast, and as you progress you can actually sell your bee products... honey... propolis... royal jelly... wax... pollen... and a few other bee produced items. But, always remember to leave more than their fair share for the bees. They are the ones doing the real work.
Charles spent almost an hour videoing and who knows how long prepairing AND you can't give him 10 BUCKS??
I'm loving all these 🐝 Bee videos.
I admire how they work with Bee's and collect honey. 🍯 Stay safe and now I want to go buy some real honey. 👍🏼
I know you’re just getting started beekeeping and glad you are trying to learn... Beekeeper’s know we learn from our bees every day. One word of caution, I encourage you to make sure your viewers understand you are a novice and be careful not to share misinformation. Specifically, the information you shared about queens... Existing queens often swarm before new queens hatch, newly hatched queens often kill queens inside other cells and hives never have two queens
That's not entirely true. On the rare occation, a hive will decide to re-queen because their existing queen is beginning to fail for what ever reason. The newly hatched queen will kill her sisters before they emerge but leave her mother alive in the hive and may leave her alone for some time after she returned s from her mating flight. The workers will eventually evict the mother if she hasn't died in the meantime. But during this time, there exists two queens in the hive.
@@georgegoertzen4723 you are correct, that in - very rare - occasions two queens might live in a hive. however, you are describing two very different situations, whereby only in one two queens might be present:
two queens are only present, if the old one is getting weak. the hive determines, when this is the case. if you have a healthy, strong, well mated queen, she usually lives at least 3 to 5 years. when your queen gets old and/or weak, your hive will decide that it is time for a new queen and groom one from an egg (looks similiar to the cells visible at around 18:30)
The bees will keep the two queens away from each other (since they would just try to kill the other one), so long, to make sure, the younger one is strong and healthy, and ready to start breeding. That is also the time, the old queen is "evicted", meaning killed.
The other case you are describing, is typically more likely during swarming season (for "simple" re-queening usually not so many queen cells are produced). During swarming season, as soon as the hive decides to move out (theoretically noticeable 3 weeks in advance!; however, i didnt notice it as soon), your hive starts to produce a lot of queen cells.
there are a few techniques to hinder them from swarming, including breaking young queen cells. however, once one queen cell is capped, there is no holding the swarm anymore (manually taking the queen and a part of the hive out might do the trick; suggesting the bees, that the swarming has already happened).
Queen cells are capped after the 9th day after being layed (hence usually the importance of looking after your bees once a week and not missing anything!)
Once your hive has swarmed, leaving roughly half, young queens will hatch. The first queen will usually try to kill all unhatched queens (you will see a difference in how the cells are opened - top = hatched; side = killed). If two cells are opened at the top, two queens hatched within a short period of time, so the first couldnt kill the second. This means, that another part of the hive will leave as a second swarm.
Subsummarizing: with the rare occasion of re-queening, only one queen is present in the hive, at all times. In case of swarming, the old queen will always leave before the new ones hatch. If young queens hatch within a short period of time, "after-swarms" will leave the hive as well; even before the young queen is mated and back, ready to breed.
You guys are giving real good "book" smarts and probably bee yard advice but from doing cutouts from these South Louisiana feral survivor bees there is pretty often 2 queens in colonies less than 4 years old. In colonies from 4 to 12 to unknown years there is often enough 3 queens and sometimes 5. The more area and time these colonies span, the more queens. 5 is not rare in the older, bigger ones. Books and scientific studies only go so far. These things are typically produced from controlled environments. Nature will do as she pleases, disregarding all rules and expectations in order to survive as efficiently as possible.
David Mathews II are you speaking of Africanized bees? Cause they seem to have multiple queens
If I were beekeeper I would check after that
The bees look cute and the honey looks so tempting to eat
Brown capping (if I remember correctly) is brood comb that was turned into a honeycomb after the brood grew. And black cappings are brood
A lot of work and a lot of intuition involved!
I read just now that if you start to see a hive build several queen bee cups, it means they’re about to swarm and they’ll take 60% of their colony, so be careful!
we're almost there Charles!
So the main hive had no queen with two queen cells ready to pop and you removed them?
I was thinking the same thing , don’t do it
You owe Charles 10 bucks 😂 👍🏼 bee love from Jamaica
Great harvest!!! & Yes! A goose feather, duck feather, turkey feather, any type of large feather works better than a bee brush. At least in my opinion. Kudos to your new camera operator!!! Enjoy the sweet harvest from those frames! Take care 🐝🐝🐝☮️☯️
Don’t mind me just discovering my new interest in bees and honey.
The dark cappings are called wet capping theres nothing wrong with it
There are a lot of honey, so sweet!
To this day Charles hasn't received his $10
Poor Charles is probably quarantined without his 10$
@@mare68yt Charles went to a payday loan place and he was sent to collections $30.00
sad but true
Still a long way to go
Then help him by getting ppl to share. LOL
The sounds for this video is incredible.
Enjoyed the video right up to the point where you didn't insure that there was no queen on any of those frames you put in the nuclear box.
Other than that I liked how you described every move you made.
I love watching like beekeeping videos and you guys have the best so I just love beekeeping video
Thank you for helping honey bees to survive and reproduce. Where would we be without honey bees and bee keepers to pollinate our crops. 💖💯👍👍🐝🐝🐝
Buzz a buzz a buzz, buzz buzz buzz buuuzzzzz... I LOVE BEES!!!
I love hearing all the cicadas in the background. Reminds me of childhood :D
Cicadas?
I don’t think I will ever take Honey for granted again. Thank you for sharing , amazing 👍
OMGOSH!!! GIVE HIM 2O, HE'S THE BOMB!!!
How are you doing .?
I am looking forward to seeing your next seasons' bee visit - with even more confidence, training, and organization. I know absolute zero about bee keeping, but i already learned alot from your video. Keep refining your own skills and training practice!
70,000 views now! Gotta give Charles something!
Charles was a great camera man, I love when he was asking you questions I learned so much!
People: this is boring. Me: this is not boring it’s interesting
No it’s just too complex for their simplistic minds
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IKR!!
I’m using my Dad’s account but I think it’s interesting
Wow! 🤩 that honey looks fantastic! good job bee keeping! 🐝
How are you doing .?
It sounds like the Bees are punching the Mikrophon when there flying against it 😂
No bees....no life. I'm so thankful you guys are making the effort to make this video. Great! I was amazed though these gloves were enough to protect you.
Love the bees Thank you
How are you doing Deborah
Charles did a great job holding the camera I’ve never watched your videos before and this one was great I love beekeeping videos so please do some more
Definitely
How are you doing .?
Awesome video and your cameraman did an excellent job. Your hive looks great. I hope to do my first honey harvest in the next few weeks.
Now I know what busy as a bee means, I really enjoy this October 27 2020
Absolutely..
How are you doing
Every story counts... I couldn't agree more! Charles is a nice and humble young man. You got yourself a good little helper there! :-)
Here's another view towards the 1,000,000 goal. I hope you get the $10.00!
Did i just watch a 45 minute video about harvesting honey, yes i did.
Did i know anything about bees beforehand, no.
Why did i click this, idfk.
Because now you know :)
You owe this man 10 bucks
Camera man did a super job and I found the whole video very interesting- you definitely deserve way more than $10 for that 2 hours of excellent filming Charles 👍
Did you find out what the black balls were & why the honeycombs were dark colored??
*me:watching this bee video *....*after a while me :thinking there is a bee in my shirt or in my room :/*
Well almost half way to 1m.... will he get $5? 😆 he did good... kuddos charles
I think your queen excluder is popping the heads off of your bigger bees.
thats a good reason....hopefully he changes it....killing his own bees with that....
Could have been a marauder situation that resulted in a queen death. They will recover if they are left to hatch a queen!
charles is adorable ahh 🥺
How are you doing .?
the TH-cam Union we need to help this kid out lolz
Charles to the moon! Let’s get Charles his $10!
Getting ready to extract honey from my hives next week
Soothing to watch for some reason
Me over here having a mini panic attack because of all the buzzing sounds and trying to psychologically be like, but they're not in the room, but my mind goes from my childhood trauma of being stung
I feel them crawling all over me now! DX
Lol
Me too I. Allergic!
Most physical pain is temporary. And just think: It might have hurt you for a couple of hours, but the bees die after stinging.
I keep feeling like the sound is going to send out a signal and they're about to come in the window...
what a beautiful breeding honey bee.
Love watching these to learn. Probably not a good idea listening with earphones Bc of the bees around the microphone😭 gave me the chills
Holle
I could watch these videos for hours your job looks so cool I would love to do this when I'm older.
Find a local beekeeper and volunteer to help. You will learn so much. Beekeeping is great learning experience. Bees are amazing creatures.
Do bees like being switched from one hive to another? That's like taking me from my house and moving me down the street to another residence.
Absolutely..
How are you doing
The difference is that YOU have stuff... bees do not. As long as they have their sugary sweetness, they don't care.
Nice work guys. Live the demo in how to run and inspect a healthy hive. Well hoping the queen is around and we’ll.
Bees: Makes honey
Human: For me? 👉👈
Those are some very gentle bees. I can see there have been some advances since I kept bees back in the 70s and 80s, Your suit is much improved and so is that hive tool.
Him:were playing a game
Bees: I'M NOT PLAYING THESE GAMES
I know nothing about bees, but this was fascinating to watch!
How are you doing .?
Those bee swarm cells
A few years ago I had the same dark caps happen in my hives and I was totally stumped on what was causing it. However, we eventually determined that it was most likely caused by a few fairly large brush fires in our immediate area that dumped a bunch of ash and soot all over the blooms. The fires happened right in the middle of a pretty long dry spell so there was never any rain to wash the ash and soot off of the blooms. I can't say 100% that's what is causing the dark caps in your hives, but if you have had any brush fires in your area then it is certainly possible.