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First time I’ve disagreed with you, I have yet to hear a boring video of yours sir, and I’ve watched your videos, most, multiple times gleaning what I can. Really good presentation sir!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I am trying to use some of what I got from you.

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When a laying worker lays drones in worker frames do these frames become drone frames forever ?

Bob, How important is the elevation component to Sourwood Production? I have heard you mention that Sourwood does not produce well unless at higher elevations. Can you remind me what elevations you prefer? I am in Gilmer County, Ellijay between Chatsworth and Ellijay. I have a 640 acre farm with 100 acres of Dutch white clover. I have Sourwood as well but last year my bees did not seem to be on it. They stayed on the Dutch clover even during the Sourwood Flow. But some local Bee keepers say they will pass up everything else if the Sourwood is producing. I am thinking of moving some hives on top of Ft Mountain where it's almost 3.000 feet and nothing but Cohutta Wilderness and a ton of Sourwood up there. It's just 6 miles north of me so very easy to move a couple hives up there. Locals tell me Sourwood can be very good here but the elavtions are not high except around a few of the higher mountain ranges. I have someone willing to let me put some hives up there on private property. Thinking it may be good because elevation is high and there is not much else for bees up there except Sourwood.

Carnies are not friendly

Carnies are good in Canada snow and cold

Carnies mutts are great and your right I find my Italians don’t grown good in Canada carnies are great

I have a question: is anyone successful overwinter banked mated queen?

Always good and hearing a voice of experience!

I used to use a powered sugar shake to test for mites It works well enough however I have switched to an Alcohol wash (easier) when I get a 2% or higher I treat with a "foggier" I use a mixture of 1-pint Mineral oil and 20 drops of Wintergreen Oil Spray twice a week for four weeks. This works quite well for me I know a lot of people disagree with this method but fogging twice a week for 4 weeks works but doing the same treatment once a week for three or four weeks doesn't work.

I do have a question, two-part, do you use different size holes for feeding 1 sugar - 1.5 water, 1 sugar - 1 water, or 2 sugar - 1 water. What size holes do you use?

Every beekeeper has mite problems however, where you have a bear problem we have a skunk problem.

Great video thanks for sharing

This is a great, jam-packed, video about Queen excluders. Thank You! I've done more splits and captured more swarm then I expected this spring, so I have run out of Queen excluders. I'm trying to use a honey super, full of nectar, as a block to stop the queen from moving up out of my single deep brood box.

Good info, again. Thanks.

To short lol

This is the first time I've heard that the queen can be damaged in the cage if the bees don't have access to her. Maybe we are talking about different cells? Here in Europe we use flat cells with small vents on one side and the sides. Аccording to the videos I've seen in Ukraine they are experimenting with a queen bank that contains three queens on each side of the frame (a total of 6) in the very center of the qweenless hive and so far they manage to overwinter without a problem and problems with the queens. Greetings form Bulgaria

In western australia our main whole sale market has crashed and i can only sell localy meaning most of my hives are not worth looking after so im trying to reduce my numbers😢 , why? Well its been told to me they've been importing eucalypt honey from argentine very very cheep. So consider the market.

A few weeks ago back in April, 1958 my first two hives were Caucasians. and they were genital But they propolize everything heavly. I switched to Italian later and then back in 2021 I switched to Cordoven Italians mainly because we have AHB in my area of Southeast Texas. The last day of April this year I hived a swarm of Caucasians, Yesterday when I checked them I remembered why I switched, I am still getting propolis off of everything including me. :)

How exactly do you split when you see swarm cells? Do you just simply take a queenless frame of bees/brood with a swarm cell hanging off of it and move it to a nuc?

Hi, I’m super curious about the tying the wick to the pole above the mold. She said when it runs low she ties on more wick. How do you prevent the knot from ending up in the candle? I would love more information about this!

Hi Bob, off topic but what do you do you paint the top of your hive lids with? Thanks.

I hope u see my question the mother hive that you pulled your nukes from u left 2 frames of brood with the bees will they still make honey for you Thanks u sir are a wealth of wisdom thanks for sharing I am watching all your videos again. they are just so great.

Notching is a form of emergency cell but produces queens as good as supersede cells. Some springs as good as the swarm cells. In the north it's about the only way I can produce earlier queens. Pull a 5 frame nuc with a queen ( for customers that are want that early nuc and willing to take last years queen) from a double and notch. Come back and split up those notched frames 10 days later. This year that did bite me in the backside. Because we were hit with 2 weeks plus of high winds and rain. So yup I chased little virgin swarms. Swarm magnets and traps....thank God for swarm magnets and traps!

PS to the kid touching bees to make them move gently. GB you. That's some bee whisperer stuff there. You need your own channel.

Thank you for this. How much do you rent your keepers for!?? 🤣🤣

"Bee-keeping is like digging ditches in the summer in overalls and you get stung at the same time - Bob Binnie" I Have a strong urge to tattoo that on my body =D

Would be interesting in part 2 to tell us how does inspection goes when you have big number of hives. Do beekeepers actually inspect frame by frames for swarming, etc. Thanks

thank you bob! You are always such a pleasure and set such an amazing example i wish i can come even the slightest bit close to your level of professionalism and friendship!

Wishing I could borrow your boys for an hour. I'm newer to Beekeeping, put off inspection of brand new nucs for 2 weeks after placing, all have swarm cells. Almost 100% of my colonies (May 15 spring JUST sprung here) and this already!?! And we didn't really want more bees this soon, we don't have enough equipment!! We're pretty rural too, so getting more fast is difficult. We counted 25 swarm cells between 2 hives!! I've been down a RUclips rabbit hole looking for help, find this video. VERY HELPFUL!!! Thank you!!! No really, send me a few of those boys, 🐝❤️ I need help!!

Excellent presentation, just what I needed now as want to expand

Maybe I am ignorant but why do you keep using the word “miles” when referring to electrical shock ? As far as I know there are Volts, Resistance and Current and an electrical shock is actually the movement of electrons through a conductor which is known as Current which is actually measured in Amperes or Joules ! !

Ha! You name your yards the same way Kasey and I do “this is the river yard because there is a river right here” 🤣 great video Bob!

You are SO blessed to be able to work with your son.

Hi Bob. ISo grateful for your time to share, I often give credit to you as my virtual mentor. In my 7th year now....When it comes to feeding/stimulating 5 frame nucs with new grafted/mated queens just starting to preform and be evaluated, how many holes (1/16th in. holes) do you guys punch in your 70mm lids? I just don't have enough experience at knowing flow rates and consumption rates to have a good feel for distribution to the bees yet. BTW...I would love to hear you talk about that subject, flow rates/consumption rates, for the various feeding applications unless you have already and I just haven't seen that talk yet I am feeding thin - 1:1.25ish sucrose. Thanks

Definitely money in bees and honey...some make money and some go broke...seems normal to me! Bob this is a great explanation of expansion opportunities!

Enjoy your videos!! Can you share the name of the breeder you are getting the Carno/Cauc Queens from? Thanks

Another great video! I enjoy these types of lecture videos just as much as your weekly beekeeping update videos. Thanks for sharing Bob.

I have three hives that I put swarm cells in it and none of the swarm cells tuck so I have three empty hives with no queen. My question is can I take a nuke and put it in 10 frame hive and then set one of my hives on top and use new paper method to combine them together would that work?

Excellent as usual!

GREAT video Bob, thank you for sharing!

What is the ratio of sugar 🤔 water feeding bees

I got into bees around the time Bob started releasing videos. Started with 2. Have over 50 right now. I wouldn’t have that many without these videos. Most helpful resource out there.

Well said Bob! It depends…..

Those are very nice, huge packages. I‘d love to buy them.

Cool can’t wait to watch this on Saturday morning

Amazing. I am inspired to give it a go this weekend as Christmas gifts for the family

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Hey Bob, Thank you again for your insights. I am working to grow my hive count. I purchased a good amount of packages this year. Is it doable to grow the packages large enough to split in late June to be ready to overwinter (northern IL)?

Gonna start trying to catch/mark queens. Do you think its a good idea to practice catching bees by catching drones first to perfect the technique ?