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Really enjoy your videos. They are soothing and love the videographer. Totally chill, and your soothing and friendly voice are great to watch. Bet you are a great friend / dad. Thank you!

There are a lot of well deserved compliments to Cora here and I want to give props to the dad. He is so patient and helpful. He is engaging his daughter in his passion and spending time with her. There are so many good things about this that will strengthen their relationship. Also it sounds like the mum is filming, so a family activity. What a joy to behold.

No bees were harmed in the making of this movie. 😂

I love love LOVE your beautiful bee footage!!! Will you - or what is the timing for putting on further honey supers on this great swarm hive? Sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm still learning about bees!

Wow! Lovely long hive! I would like it if you could talk about your take on putting in frames that are just the plastic with a wax coat vs EXTRA WAX coatings! time considerations, success considerations, etc - (seems they would like the extra wax on to start with esp if busy with a flow!) Maybe you already have and I haven't caught that video. Thanks for your work with the bees! I learn all the time when I watch you and other beekeepers. Blessings ✨💖✨

Anyone recommend a top feeder for a five frame nuc?

These are terrible. They will cook a hive in the summer. I lost two sitting next to regular hives. They were vented. They also leaked bees during transit. You couldn’t pay me to use them.

.. Were there two families here?🐝 🤔🙂

Great info. Thanks for sharing your videos with us 😊

Feeders have come a long way since "the olden times" when I kept bees. We didn't feed much since we tried real hard to ensure the bees had plenty of bee produced stores all year. But when we did, and if there was a chill in the air, the entrance feeder went on top of the bees in an empty box. Dad didn't like to feed them ice cold syrup.

Ooh wow! I’m a new beekeeper and honestly I have learned so much out of your videos!!! Amazing 🤩 thanks you have answered so many questions. Greetings from northern California

Amazing!!! 🤩

I love the slowness and gentleness of your removal, every tiny life matters, no bee is expendable, and you treat every bee with great value. I also love that there are no added effects, loud music, just you, your voice, your bees and the beautiful sounds of all the nature around you. THe key to being successful with your bees is being slow and gentle - there's no need to be rough, and you are a pleasure to watch. THANK YOU.

You did that entire batch of frames faster than it took me to do one frame in the 60s and 70s. Plus we used wired wax foundation that was about a quarter inch short of the proper depth. I would have given my left arm for a jig like that with a stapler like that, 55-60 years ago. I'm too old and beat up to do bees these days but I love watching your videos. They are so educational that I feel like grinning whether I'm agreeing with you or learning something new. Stay safe and God bless.

You could make 2 swarms from that

Excitement!!!!!!

This makes me glad to be in the UK! Mind you I've got badgers on my top field, not sure if they would come this far down where all the human activity is. Would the robbers then give you that honey back via their own hives? And did the hive survive?

Quite a change from my day. We used mom's biggest butcher knife to do the uncapping. Used a fork in place of your scratcher. And squashed a lot of wax by hand to get the honey to drain out. Much more messy. We didn't sell honey. We did give a lot of it away to friends, neighbors, and family.

Don't you just love docile bees. Good job. Great video. I love to watch you work the bees.

Great video, as usual. I love them all. I'm so sorry to hear about Pistol. Fellows like him aren't pets. They are members of the family. I don't know the date this video was made or the air temp in Arkansas, but my OCD kicked in anyway when I saw those cells exposed to the weather for so long. They were likely fine, but I worried anyway.

Love that Harley Davidson versus a little scooter remark, made me chuckle!

Just remember that it's mostly the glue that holds the box joints together while the screws, nails or staples mostly just hold the joints stable while the glue finally dries or cures (depends on the exact type of "glue" you use). A little trick - drive staples in on a slightly diagonal orientation to the wood grain to discourage driving two "wedges" in a single line and, possibly, causing splitting of the wood.

How come yours are so close to the ground and mine are 40’ in a tree😅

Thank you for a very interesting and informative video and for being kind to the bees .New sub here

9:25. Queen was piping. So cool!!!

Do you ever plant flowering plants like clover or sunflowers or anything like that for the bees to feed on???

I LOVE HOW PATIENT YOU ARE WITH CORA!! YOU GUYS SAW WHAT I COULDN'T!! YOU ARE BEE EXPERTS!! NOW DON'T BEEE SHOWING ME ANY SPIDERS!!

BEE-UTIFUL BEE KEEPING FAMILY!!! DO YOU SELL YOUR HONEY? I'D LOVE TO TRY THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR! P.S.: FOUND YOUR ON-LINE STORE!!!! MAKING MY SHOPPING LIST NOW!!! 😋😋😋😋

CORA IS BECOMING A BEE-UTIFUL BEE PRO! WHAT WAS THE LITTLE THING THAT LOOKED LIKE A LIZARD THAT YOU CHASED AWAY? CORA IS MY HERO! I GET ITCHY JUST WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS! I'M NOT ALLERGIC BUT DON'T LIKE BEING STUNG! WOW!!!! LOOK AT ALL THAT HONEY!!! ARE YOU GOING TO SEND ME SOME???

Hey John, I was watching you hive that monster swarm. That was a dandy, makes you wonder if maybe 2 swarms went together, but maybe not. I used to know a professional beekeeper that showed me the slickest way of hiving a swarm i ever saw, and that is how i have ever since. Put your hive on the ground and shack them off right in front. They will go right in. If you think they might not stay just put a frame of uncapped brood in the box. Takes about 10 min. I never saw anyone else do it that way, but i'v been doing it that way nearly 50 years.

Amazing footage -and pretty similar to what I did the other day (that I asked you about in the "How to split a hive" video comments). I feel so much better now for watching this. Thank you for uploading!

Really enjoyed watching you take care of that hive that swarmed. that is where i get most of my queens. If you can check a hive right after it swarms as a rule there will be 6 or more cells ready to hatch. It sure makes a split take off a lot faster than a walk away. You work'em exactly the same as me.

I LOVED THE "NO DISCLAIMER" HAHAHAHA I SURE AM IMPRESSED WITH YOUR WIFE, THE DRIVER, TOO!!

You might want to think about going to the ladder store. Just saying 😊

I have watched this several times and learned something new every time 😊

This is like watching 'Suspense theater' !! haha

I catch swarms for a living. It showed from the outset that the queen had not accepted the trap. All you had to do was to knock the swarm straight into the brood box & close it. Done. ps, it you can, have a frame of old comb & a frame of last years capped honey as a welcoming gift, works everytime

Already captured and re-homed two swarms this spring. There are three more bearded and ready to be captured.

So kind and gentle with bees. This is a true southern gentleman beekeeper! Can we set up a go fund me for a ladder! B

I am so much more confident in my bee arrival on Sunday after watching Cora! Thank you so much for sharing how simple it can be to do the installation!

Crazy! Made me nervous😅

never work with bees with ANY rings on, YOUKNOWHATIMEAN

Good job!!

When you do your splits, are you placing your spilt boxes in a separate location than your donor hive? Also do you always let them requeen themselves? Working on preparing for my first split

Hi John, first time on your channel (I already commented earlier).. I have a question or two. Every single day this week I've had a swarm issue from my one WBC hive, yet the hive is still overflowing with bees. One brood box. two supers. Due to the daily swarms, on Wednesday I did a split of sorts whilst removing all the queen cells (which were all capped!) I could find throughout the hive bar one. I took 3 frames of eggs and brood, one with the remaining queen cell, shook off the nurse bees, then put them into another brood box (above the original with a queen excluder), replaced the supers and left them alone for 10 mins or so. I then moved the 3 frames (now covered in bees again) into a nuc, along with what I think was a frame of stores, a foundation and a frame feeder with a small amount of syrup. I placed this nuc about 4 metres away and closed it up for a few hours, and replaced the missing frames in the donor hive with foundation as I don't currently have any drawn comb. My questions relate to 1) should I have even done this given that with so many swarms already having issued from this hive, there would be a virgin queen in there and I might have caused her harm? (although having said that, yes there was still another swarm yesterday!) 2) should I have moved the WBC in its entirety and placed the nuc on the original site? Oh and 3) will the nuc be okay without the majority of the flying bees as they will presumably have returned to the original hive after I opened the nuc? I have observed flying bees coming and going from the nuc so I'm hoping that's a good sign and not a possibility I've got robbers! I've been a bee keeper for over 20 years but still consider myself somewhat a novice (this is my first time doing any sort of split) so any help will be very much appreciated. (sorry for the long comment! I've subscribed ❤)

What a fantastically clear video! I almost gave up when you were talking for what seemed to be ages at the beginning but then you got right into it and I was hooked! So glad I continued watching. This has reinforced what I understood from one of my beekeeping books. Thank you! Uk

I love watching the family shenanigans..you're such a great family. Loved watching this. It's snowing here in Alberta today but we've had warm weather already and the bees were gathering willow pollen and poplar pollen. Can't wait for the spring blooms after the snowy days.

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Amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing your insight and incredible detail while performing a split. I look forward to more of your videos.

Beginners are always fun to watch.