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I love how blunt Randy Oliver is, he's so straight forward, you always know where you stand with him.

In SE Michigan, we have Baltimore orioles who LOVE our grape jelly feeders. BUT we get tons of Purple House Finches who love the jelly just as much, if not more: We call the house finches “Jelly Stealers.” 😂

Hey Fred, check out API.MO.BRU in regards to the queen cage

Fascinating video. As an amateur I thought honey bee workers were hostile to other hive workers, kind of like ants from different colonies, but I suppose not in this case.

Nicely explained. If that was here l would immediately put them to work and to draw themselves a box of frames. They are capable to draw 10 wax sheets into combs in less than two days if the conditions are right. But if they already have some drawn frames in then it becomes much slower. There can be only one for the queen to lay and the rest 9 would be finished in a night and a day. Must be nice not having a dearth caused by drought. Pretty big swarm. They are made to build combs and start again

Very interesting to see that happen

Hey Fred, I have found that supers can be cleaned out completely. I start by placing an empty deep box on the inner cover with the vent blocked. Supers are placed on top of the empty deep and by the next day or two the bees clean them out and bring the honey down below the inner cover. This technique works very well in the fall with cooler temps at night. Robbing can be a real problem, once the Fever starts it can be hard to stop. My solution is to reduce the entrance down to a single bee. If that isn't enough then close the entrance completely for one night than open again to single bee entrance size the next day. This year I'm trying again the Italian method for Varroa control. It is a integrated queen cage into a deep frame. The queen is caged and placed in the middle of the bottom box. After 24 days she is released and the hive is sublimated with Oxalic acid. Since there is no brood at the end of 24 days the young bees become foragers and can give you a honey boost. All mites will be phoretic and get crushed by the OA. My fatal flaw last year was placing her in the middle of the top box. At the end of 24 days she was dead and since no brood no way to make another queen. Purchased queens to replace and found out that since she was up in the top box she had more contact with foragers which are not so queen friendly. Oops. Always learning... and thank you Fred

Great video Fred, thanks.

I tried this method with a towel. Skunk looked to be sleeping, skunk woke up, jumped, immediately sprayed. Now I have a skunked skunk in a live trap and will have to shave my beard. "Skunks really don't want to spray."

Thanks for all your time Fred. I’m learning so much. I have 3 grandsons, my 7 year old is a real bug guy and is showing interest in my bee yard.

"I hope you got something out of this." Well I really enjoyed watching and yet again learned something new.

Thank you Frederick, and thank you for your service! Very informative video!

You got real lucky I went out yesterday and I also have a hive queenless I put a frame of eggs hopefully they make some cells my queens are gonna be ready saterday so then I’ll remove the frame with cells hopefully and add a mated queen back to them I’m glade I spotted it early there was brood capped hating but no eggs so tell me can a queen just die or did I kill her lol

Hi Fred, Actually the mated VSH queens from bee weaver family cost 50$ including shipping. I just got one last week

I really like these voice-over videos.

European hornets are still invasive and are still an issue

Thanks for the excellent video and info.

Thank you Fred, Always enjoy your videos.

1:12 low performing eh? Well judging from that drunk bee on the landing I'd say they been making and drinking Mead... and lots of it! Lol... i jest... in all seriousness, this was a Great video, solid info and a great wind down to a monday evening... thanks!

Fred, what an excellent example of “voluntarily coercing” a swarm to march into their new home and just in time before the storm. Great viewing!

Easily one of the best Bee videos I've seen. Good information. Quality presentation. Great job Sir. Thank you.

That's great 👍 thanks for sharing 👍

Beautiful bunch of bees you got to watch. Thank you so much for sharing another day in the apiary.

What are the odds of the Queen less hive killing that introduced Queen when she’s not protected with a cage? I figured the guard bees would fight the newcomers.

That was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. You teach me so much. ❤

Thank you!

Awesome video, thanks

The march of the bees never gets old!

That was awesome! They are so amazing.

I said, I don't have time for a 28 minute video. I was wrong. I've been Dunn'ed again! Great videography/editing/storyline. Your extreme close up pan at 14:00 was amazing.

What a great video after a busy day... kombuca and sunshine completed the moment! Thank you Fred

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Very cool, looking forward to the swarm videos.

Beautiful! Did the queen just walk into view or did you have to dig gently into the pile?

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I had an emergency virgin queen. She's so tiny, even smaller than a regular worker. Is that even possible? It wasn't a big colony to begin with. Can she overcome this with good mating flights?

Outstanding interview! I also think it is your best one yet! I read Repasky’s book and thought it was very helpful. At NAHBE after one of Larry Conner’s lectures I walked up to him wanting to ask him a question. As I started to speak to him, he completely ignored me and began another conversation with someone he knew. As opposed to Fred Dunn who stood there with me for 20 minutes listening to me babble about bee related stuff! 👍👍

This one touched my soul Fred. I'm a pest control technician and I love my work but I strongly dislike the corporate industry. I hope more companies like this pop up.

Breaking bad, honeybee edition. 😎

Nice,I have the book swarming its control and prevention by L.E SNELGROVE😊

What a great interview/discussion. My copy of Swarming Essentials is coming tomorrow and I’m excited for the book on single brood chambers.

I have the same issue with not having a demand for comb honey.

Learned a thing or two here. Thank you. I have all three species and did not differentiate from one wasp to the other but now I see I was way wrong. I will adjust.

I saw the part about using a wooden dowel and drilling.25 in hole thru it. But what O.D. Dowel are you using? And are you just butting it up to the entrance? Thanks

Thank you Fred... Fun interview

Liked & subscribed! What a pleasure to get wise advice from a beekeeper who is observant & intelligent enough to work with Nature to get desired results on his homestead. God bless you for being a good caretaker of the natural world. We have both aggressive yellow jackets and a newly forming paper wasp nest only a few feet from each other near our fire circle & potting shed. We can't use the fire circle till we relocate or eliminate the yellow jacket nest, and there isn't enough room in our tiny potting shed to accommodate the paper wasp nest so we'd like to carefully move that to a suitable wooden habitat structure that I could build for them. Another issue is that some wood boring bees have tunneled into our newly constructed temporary potting shed, and I'm told that once established they will return season after season and build ever more tunnels - weakening the structure. They will also seek out any new wooden structures that we build and tunnel into them as well. Not sure what to do about them. If I unsealed the current tunnel entrances, perhaps the wasps would feed on the wood boring bee larvae as they hatch and solve the problem for me? (We're in a forest with lots of dead & dying trees for them to tunnel into - they don't need to burrow into my various structures.) Anyway, lots to learn about being a wise steward of our 5 acres and listening to an experienced beekeeper is a good starting point for us. Thank you!

People making videos that don't know what they're doing is okay as long as they finish the video with, well this is how I screwed up, this is what I learned, if I were to do it over again I would do this differently.

Watched this morning and my 6 year old daughter watched with me. She has a new suit and will come with me to the bee yard. This video inspired her to get out one of the bee books. Thank you for producing great videos that are interesting and fun for kids 6-60😊

"first blood!" "double kill!"