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Does cage orientation matter much? I placed mine between the frames with the candy facing down (and without the red cap)

How did this turn out? I hope it worked for you.

Great video, Phil. Thanks!

Good catch.

I have a few questions about cloake board queen rearing. Was wondering if I could get your e-mail, or should I ask here?

Thanks Phil!!I just got a nice swarm.🐝safe and keep your smoker lit!!! Konrad

If you couldnt find the queen whats your method for getting her upstairs.

Nice video #villaofficialnepal

I have several queen cells in my hive and I'm expecting the potential for rival virgin queens. My mentors are telling me not to destroy them, but to watch and wait. Good to know what I should look out for to correctly diagnose what's going on!

I'm totally doing this. I just screwed up an order of supers for my 10 framers......and got almost half a pallet of 8 frame mediums. *facepalm*

Nice, I wanna build a few of these. I'm in Hagerstown. Just started keeping last year. Thanks for Sharing.

Does the spin damage the wax ?

AWESOME video! Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks Phil.

I noticed in another later 2019 video you showed your feeding board on a nuc, but it was not inverted. There was the hole in the middle and the bees accessed the sugar without a problem. Yet, for this 8-frame feeding board you DID invert it, correct? Does it make any difference one way or the other?

Great seeing a queen emerge and to see your homemade incubator. I know you hesitate to make recommendations on how to introduce virgins, but here is what I do: I cage them and introduce to a nuc that has been queenless for at least a day or so. Smallish mating nucs seem to work just fine for me. I use 5-frame nucs with a couple frames of bees with mixed brood and a frame of stores. They seem to be friendly and soon accept the virgin. I release in a few days and watch how her hive-mates treat her. Usually they largely ignore her. I have never tried releasing into a full-size queenless hive.

Thanks for this. I thought rapeseed and canola were the same, but here is what I found online: "While the words rapeseed and canola are sometimes used interchangeably, they are not quite the same thing. While they belong to the same species, canola is a specific cultivar of the rape plant that is grown to produce food grade oil. Not all varieties of rapeseed are edible for humans due to the presence of erucic acid, which is especially low in canola varieties. The name “canola” was actually registered in 1973 when it was developed as an alternative to rapeseed for edible oil." (Ref: www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/rapeseed/rapeseed-plant-information.htm)

Looking great! I’m going to winter in two nucs next year just like you did. I tried the single lower unit with two nuc hives on top but I think I’ll stick with 4 separate units like you did. Good luck

Hi Phil, I am just getting interested in Honey and I wonder if you can advise me on the best way to increase the time that the honey stays in liquid form before crystallizing. IF it is filtered through a super fine sieve to remove the 'Nidi' , can the the liquid stage be increased? Thanks

Thanks for this. Do you recall how things turned out with this hive?

Very nice solar melter build. I see that you converted to a mesh from the multiple smaller drill holes. Were the drill holes not keeping up with the wax melt flow?

Good video .love my 4 over 4's 🐝safe and keep your smoker lit!! Konrad

Do you sell these?

Ahh the Michael Palmer method. That works well.

Hi phil i also do 4 over's .work really well .🐝safe and keep your smoker lit. Konrad

I've been giving a bit of thought to trying brewing mead out for a while now. Do you still make mead?

nice, i bet my bees would like a field of that about now.

Snelgrove Method can be difficult to grasp at first. The Demaree Method also prevents swarming but it requires more work.

place queen excluders on both sides of your cloak board to keep out roug virgins

love it

When does the plant start coming up from the ground in the second year?

That is a great Idea, all inspectors should have dogs.

can you use a swarm sell as a queen sell to start a nuc.

Approximate geographic location?

Fantastic!

superb sharing.. thnx god bless you...

Thank you for the video. Can you leave the honey supers on while treating.

Fine looking nuc! I wanted to make up some nucs last year to overwinter but other things got in the way. Seeing your nuc and hearing of another beekeeper here in South PA having two 4 over 4 nucs make it through the polar vortex tells me it can be done. LOL I seen even more nuc equipment in my near future. Question I do have for you is how and when you set / start up that nuc and what was its size and comb content going into winter in say October? If you could share I'd appreciate.

You can put quin cell on the top betvin frames, that is like i doo

Thanks Phil! I’m enjoying your vids! I’m taking a couple colonies through winter in a double nuc setup. Each has 4 over 4. Both are up top right now and sure do like to cluster in the middle.

I always push mine together in the winter, but run migratory tops.

It got warm here in Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend and I too inspected my bees, especially the nucs and added sugar blocks. It may not warm up again till March. You don't want them to starve just before the nectar flow.

Just curious, if you check by either weight and guessing or by visual check, how is their capped stores in the frames? Did they have a good supply in October or really light that they would not make it without all the top feeding? Thanks for taking the time to make this video and share it!

Always good to see bees flying after a bad cold snap like we had!

Good vid checked mine just the other day after the below zero days

Hi, Phil it was great speaking with you. This is a great video.

That is so neat to see in use...again living vicariously through your videos. Stay warm! 🔥

What was outcome?

My broodminder was delivered this evening, I purchased 4 T2 devices, will buy a scale before spring, looking forward to the data!