2021 Beekeeper Field Exam Frederick Dunn Long Langstroth Honey Bee Hive Inspection Start to Finish.

so i'm frederick dunn and today we're  going to do something fun we're going to   walk through a horizontal hive inspection  but first i want to talk a little bit   about my apiary where it's situated  and what i like and don't like about it   so let's get started this is going to be uncut  straight through the whole thing i know it's   amazing so anyway what we're doing is giving  you the overview here this is my backyard apiary   which is only about 85 feet from my house  one of the things i like about it of course   is the location we have acres and acres of  unmanaged farmland here i've also got my hive   spread well apart and my future plan of course  is to keep moving these hives farther apart   from one another because that cuts down on drift  disease spread and lots of problems like that so   in the future we'll of course spread  them even more and set them by landmarks   like these grapevines here or we've got a  spruce tree over there another spruce here   and then of course hive configuration so ideally  we want nice sunny days look at the sky here   we do have blue sky patches the bees are foraging  it is august the 8th i don't know if i said that   already so they have a lot of forage right  now they are bringing in resources we're   coming out of a light dearth period i have two  cameras today because again i'm working alone   and i want to see everything from all angles  you may wonder what the environment looks   like out here the goldenrod is coming  in before i do a hive inspection i want   to look around the outside of the hive always  check the landing board and get in close here these bees are doing extremely well  what's a long length roth hive anyway   well it's just a horizontal format for the  langstroth frames so instead of stacking boxes   we just put them one after the other in a  horizontal arrangement and this one is five   feet long so we can go over 30 frames and we look  at landing board here we've got a lot of venting   going on and that's because the nectar has been  coming in consistently what they really needed   has been a good pollen source and now we look  today we see that they're bringing in pollen   i see a pollen carrying forager about 15 to  20 loads per minute so that's pretty good   how often do we inspect these hives in general  we inspect them within over 21 days that's my   target the other thing is before we get into the  hive i look at the landing board but i also look   at the front on the ground what's going on got  any bees crawling around any problems like that   another thing i might look at here get close  to that entrance this has a single entrance   it's a half inch high and six inches long  not much guard bees looking at me are they   at all defensive we have a semi overcast  day the weather could go bad at any moment   no they don't care at all that we're here that's  good news this hive i built myself copper flashing   ventilated through the soffit gable ends here well  one of the reasons of course for horizontal hive   is there's no lifting when you build it yourself  as i did here then we know that we can make it   to suit our personal needs so someone had a hard  time lifting boxes stacking hives things like that   then they would want a horizontal format because  all we're lifting here are going to be the frames   and this is how we're going to inspect as you  can see it's insulated and some people ask fred   why aren't you painting that looks kind of  ugly considering the stuff you normally do   well since i teach about bees i like people to  see that that's r10 and how the insulation is   arranged so i leave it unpainted just so you'll  know right away this is held down with clips   so now let's get on with the inspection  because that's the funnest part   the other thing is how long ago have we  looked at this hive it's been two weeks   so i want to talk to you about what we're gonna  see before we see it what what should we expect   this time of year we're getting into the beginning  of a nectar flow and the last time i inspected and   that was two weeks ago we found eggs here in the  first few frames these are cover boards right now   these are quarter-sawn red oak boards they're  an inch thick the thickness of this material   right here and they run the full length of it the  other thing i did was during my last inspection   as i marked with an orange mark here  that's where the last occupied frame was   that they were using so we're right at about 19  frames in here and we're going to get into that so   the other thing is i mark these in order to make  sure they stay in order because what the bees do   is they probably all these joints and i like  to fit everything together exactly the way   they did before what if we had to feed the bees  and i've got this cover here i blew it already   because now they're up there  and i can't get them off of that so they're very calm actually we haven't even  smoked them yet but we're going to get to that   i'm going to leave this up like that for now  maybe given a couple live light puffs of smoke   just to get them going there let them know we're  coming in fact let's come around here give them   some light puffs right at the entrance don't  overdo it of course bees are not a fan of smoke   some people think that it makes them prepare to  leave the hive but actually what they do is they   seek deep shelter they have a nice aluminum  table here so i can set a hot smoker on it   and now we're just going to go ahead  and start pulling up these boards   and where am i going to put them on  the ground no right on the hive stand   there and of course i need to free up my  hands so we're going to mount this camera right here on the tripod and i'll turn on the  other camera second camera is going to be used   for close-ups or to give you a different  angle but we're not going to cut away   during this whole sequence so camera  two is running let's get going so you might like to see  everything what beekeeper doesn't we use this camera as a mobile cam to get me  close and i want you to see inside this hive   they're really doing a good job of keeping  the bottom clean and we have vents through   the bottom that are two inch diameter holes we  have standby equipment here this is interesting   too so i'll go over that we have wooden  frames and because these are plastic frames   i break away the corners because the bees  can't chew it and make their little travel   corridors their venting corridors so when  i use a heavy wax plastic frame like this   we pre-cut the corners and they're  stored here in this empty space   and we've even got some bees here look at these  loiterers maybe they're malingerers i don't know   but even though the interior has a divider  board it's not snug to the point where bees   can't come through so it is interesting  to me that the bees go into that space and then still manage to remain overall  inside the main body of the hive as far   as the bees are concerned this is where the  wall of the colony begins the hive begins   and then because the entrance is over at this  end over here we expect to find more honey   and resources stored here as we get towards the  entrance we'll find more brood and egg activity so let's get some of these bees out of the way  again we're going to do a light smoke in here and listen to your bees they're a little annoyed by the  smoke but overall they're very calm the other thing is even though this follower board  or divider board whatever you want to call it it   goes all the way to the top here inside you'll see  that there is a space between the bottom interior   of these surfaces and the top of the frames  that is b space so they can travel over the   top of each frame and use that to get forward and  back there breathing some smoke there's another   vent we have the ability to control those  vents from underneath there's a wheel there and in the past the bees have  managed to close those up   but what i want to do is set up a stand here so that when we find a frame that's  interesting i'm going to stage it right here this is homemade of course just  with a couple pieces of angle iron   the other thing is we're inspecting at just  afternoon that's because we really want the   sunlight to be coming straight down so if we go up  here look straight into the sun look straight down   we have a pretty good view here so we'll be able  to look into the frames as we pull them up and i'm   only going to pull one frame at a time and i'll  show you that whole process here as we get going the other thing is make sure that when you  have your five tools that you use in each hive   clean them between hives getting smoked out by  my smoker make sure they're clean sometimes if   i have a flat hive tool i'll just leave it in  the hive and then each hive will have its own   oh look these guys went down on their own  so now we can put that back that's handy so we'll go along and we're going  to get the first one up here   this is held with propolis and propolis  is just resin that the bees get   from trees and plants and they use it to glue  things up so what i want you to notice here is   how much propolis they put on this because  it's rough cut lumber so this actually helps   provide an antibacterial a barrier inside that  helps them defeat disease inside the hive so we   encourage propolis and as nice as even building  that up there i'll just move this one over and we come along here and the  first thing we grab is a drone   so let's take a look at this rascal right here drones are male bees very easy to spot you  can see up to 20 percent of the population   in here could be drones and it also shows  that they've got enough resources that   they're creating extra mouths to feed male b   doesn't really contribute anything to the colony  they just uh that's a reproductive resource for   the bees in case they need a new queen it doesn't  they're not gonna mate with anybody from this hive   of course the drones will fly out and  continue the genetics of this colony you have to be careful when you're reaching  under these two it could be bees on the surface   you could put your fingers right on it and that's  when you're gonna get stung but again one of the   things we document when we're inspecting is the  disposition of the bees and these are very calm so don't have to lay that on the ground  we're going to put it right there on   the table so the other thing we look  at the resources the last time they   were inspected as i mentioned was a couple  of weeks ago a little history on this hive   is that they were a package that we got in the  beginning of the year back in april i believe   and they were saskatras bees but they quickly  superseded that queen now we got a lot of problems   holding that in place so i'm going to pull up this  divider board so you can see what that looks like   this is also very thick stock it has problems  all along the bottom there is a copper screen   down there that i thought would be great for  venting so if i built another one of these   i would not repeat the copper screen instead  i would let the ford of course go all the way   to the bottom so it's inch and a half thick it  has a cherry cover piece actually and of course   we just glued this on the back and this allows  us to expand the colony or contract the colony   depending on how much space they actually need and  because we're in the beginnings of a nectar flow   it's not going to be long before we're going to  actually be expanding this so i'm looking at how   they're using the frame and the resources that  they have already in place i have tool in here the other thing is because i have these cover  boards in place i leave them there until i get   to that part of the frame so what we have  here is a foundation it's heavy wax but the   beads are not working it yet we have a couple of  really light areas here that look like new wax   they might be trying to do that but  what we have here just unemployed   workers inside of course we have another drone  right there if you want to practice picking   up bees grab the drones every chance you get  young drones don't fly yet the other thing is   when we're putting these frames back we like to  put them back the way they come out so i've marked   each frame this is frame number 18 and that way i  make sure that if i'm flipping it around to look   at the cells on a drawn out frame that i'll be  able to put it back exactly the way it came out so they really have glued these in here  so that's another thing that you might   want to document is that the beads that  you have when they supersede it of course   we got a queen that flew out made it came back  so we don't necessarily know those genetics   so these frames again they're just starting  to work the wax we can get closer on that these light areas here on this nice back black  plastic foundation that's just new wax that's   being worked by the bees and listen to  how quiet they are how calm they are   but we added these because  we're expecting this of course   on set of a new nectar flow here which  is going to be goldenrod primarily and um   i'm going to switch hive tools here  it's going to be goldenrod and asters and the other thing is when we start  to pull these frames out we make sure   to pull them to the side before lifting  because as we get to the populated hives   the populated hearts as we  get to the populated frames   we don't want to take a chance that the queen  could be in between these two surfaces and if   you pull it straight up without pulling it  sideways you risk rolling and injuring the   queen of course and we're going to look for her  as we go but that's just something to be aware of in fact let me elevate that camera so we can look down on this from two  different angles and switch back and forth   now when i say this is uncut it means that we're  doing this inspection in one continuous take so now we've got a couple of angles here  and i want you to be able to see up close what's going on here so july 1st i marked  this frame here and that was the end of the   hive as far as the frames that they were  using so we're going to pick this one up   and the first thing we notice is how heavy it is  so when this is full of honey and this is full   of honey right now even though we're going  to see some differences in the frame this   is a foundationless frame so what that means is  when we put this frame in here there was nothing   no foundation i don't even use starter strips i  just make use of b space and i put it in there   but if you notice it's only connected  on the side here a little bit   it is not connected very well on the bottom  so if you pull this up on a hot day like today   you might be wondering how hot is it right now  well it's 82 degrees and it's supposed to hit 88   but what we have here if you tipped it it  would start to sag and lean out because   it's unsupported but i want you to notice the  large cells here so we're going to get close so the cells that you're seeing here lower  left those are drone cells see how fat they are   these are drone cells also they're  a little bit cinnamon colored   and they're not full but right next  to them you see the worker cells   so it's easy for you to tell the differences in  size when they're right next to each other like   that and then of course lower right here we have  capped honey so everything looks healthy so far   we do want to be paying attention to the bees  overall condition we know the disposition   they are laid back easy going bees what's going on  on the other side of this frame whoa capped honey   so again this is all come they built  themselves so it was the bees that decided   to make drone come there you may be wondering  why isn't there a queen excluder here   and that's because i don't care where they where  they lay eggs where they develop brood this is   not a hive intended for honey production if it was  you might consider a queen excluder of some kind   but for me for my purposes i don't need one and  if you were going to harvest honey from this hive   then all you would have to do is observe the  frames and make sure that you're going to   pull up a frame that has um just honey and  no brood on it and you could harvest that   but remember this is a young colony they  superseded the queen i found the new queen   and marked her so she's marked with a dot  with any luck we're going to find her today   so i'm going to park this one over here lets  them feel more secure under there let's get   this other cover board off i like to hear the  sound of the propolis gluing things down and   again it's because this is a rough cut they work  that up and they keep adding to that as they go put those over there now even though we don't  expect to find the queen this far over i'm not   going to take chances of course and just assume  that she's not there we're going to look and   again this is one of those new frames new wax good  population here by the way so i'm confident that   things are going well you should be looking at  the workers too to see if there's anything like   deformed wing virus see if they look nice and  dry healthy then that way you know that we may   not be dealing with some kind of disease this  is a very heavy frame so this is a deep frame   and it does have foundation so when it's fully  capped you can expect one of these to weigh   you can see all the nectar in it so i'm going  to get a close-up of that you can expect it to   weigh about seven pounds when it's full so if we  look at all this this is a honey frame for sure and it's just full of nice glistening some  capped so i'm not and i noticed i didn't work   it all the way to the ends there but there is  nectar that is yet unfinished and when it gets   finished when they've dehydrated that down  far enough that's when you get the capping   some people wonder when they  look at the wax capping here   why is it different colors how come it's really  white in some areas and kind of dark in others   well it's been my observation that  it really has just to do with how   thick the wax is that they put on it so i'm  going to put that one right back in there notice they're totally workable and  this is a semi overcast day we've got   some weather dynamics going on and the  bees are nice and quiet listen to them so they seem very content now that i've  said that of course watch them act up   and what i did was the reason some of these  are loaded with resources and some are not   is because we added these in and i color coded  them the yellow ones are the most recent they've   only been in for two weeks so they've got room  to expand no reason to really see the queen here so i keep this gap going so the queen you know  if she's around here at all she would be heading   that way but i expect to see her when we come to a  brood area i recommend that you inspect your hives   at least once every three weeks good time to get  in there you might be wondering what about varroa   counts do you have any varroa mite problems  here there are varroa mites in this colony   here's another nectar storage frame so this  is going to be a honey frame and nothing else   let's get another close look at that  might as well show you everything so this is loaded with nectar they'll  be finishing this off very fast and we have of course some is capped but this  is going to be just a straight honey frame so   during our last varroa check and i try to  do that again every three to four weeks   before the big nectar flow comes in because if you had to treat  you might want to treat before   you get into a big honey flow nectar  flow whatever you want to call it   and so we have three out of 300 bees we had a  three percent varroa account and so the bees   have done really well and this particular  colony has had no treatments this year and it was just started this year so we  don't know its wintering capability yet but if we had to treat of course  if it's in a broodless period   we would use oxalic acid vaporization as my  choice and that's what we did in the wintertime   end of november beginning of december last year  the colonies that had varroa mites we treated   them with oxalic acid vaporization at that point  and this year had great success in knocking the   varroa mites down so they've been very  slow to start but then again remember   they superseded their queen so we had a  natural brood break so again the varroa mites   lost their reproductive edge here  because they need brew to reproduce   and again we don't even know what kind of  queen this is because she is derived from the saskatras queen that was here   and then of course when she went out and  mated she mates with these of unknown   origin unknown genetics so now we're into a  brood frame here and i like to look close to   see if i see eggs or open larvae and so we've  got a variety of things on the same frame here so i'll show you this not a  terribly impressive brood pattern   in fact let me let's flip my screen  so i can see while i'm talking   so what we're looking at here cinnamon colored  caps there that is brewed when you're looking   at brood of course we want to be mindful  of its overall appearance and make sure   that it's not sunken or greasy looking or  that you don't get some kind of off odor   uh there is uh brew disease in our area now in the  next state over new york so we have to be aware of   american foul brood and it may smell and sometimes  it doesn't here comes the sun right on cue   just so we can look into these cells but what's  absent from this frame no eggs no eggs no larvae   so the queen it is my educated guess that she  is not there so we're going to move this along pull another hive cover here always mindful not to stick your  fingers over the only time i get stung   doing inspections like this is  when i grab a bee where she um you know i squash one so moving slow  and steady is really just the key here   keeps the bees calm if you notice we haven't  had to follow up with any other smoke   if you did notice guard bees at the top when  you pass your hand over if they're looking   at you and following your hand light smoke  would get them to take cover again down below pull this frame up now this one is interesting  too there is no open larvae but we have capped   brood and it gives me a chance to  show you something else about this   we have great kept root on this side so i do need  to watch for the queen i also need to be careful   because this is again a foundationless frame but  it's so lightweight that i'm comfortable and you   can flip it on its vertical axis to look at things  you want the sun over your shoulders to look down   in those cells break out your magnifying glass  if you want to but looking at this one again   i don't have evidence of the queen being active  here but what i have is a great opportunity   to educate you based on what we're looking at  notice the difference in these capped brood   on the right look how proud those cells are how  much they stick out and look at the diameter   of the open cells here compared  to the cells over here on the left   these are worker cells worker brood drone cells  drone brood and of course run on q there's a drone   right there making its way around and  it's nice and fuzzy and soft looking   that is a newly hatched drone and when they  first come out they're not ready to fly and   mate yet they have to mature just like  other bees do when they first come out   and then of course in the upper right there  we've got some capped honey we're going to   move right along here because i'm queen hunting  and of course i want to see evidence of the queen   other than capped brood have i  seen any evidence of the queen yet   i really have not here's a nice  drone here again goofing off he's not seeing evidence of the queen of course  we checkerboarded so here's another frame that   they're working on but the good news on this frame  is i can show you yet something else and that is   new comb that they're working drawing off  of that foundation but look what they're   storing here all of this here is pollen so  they've got the pollen stored in those cells   that means we're getting closer to the brood  frames because i expect to find lots of praline   lots of pollen next to the main brood frame area  because of course just like us they want a pantry   right near the nursery so we could be  getting close hope i find it hope i'm   not running out of time i'm trying to do this  whole thing in under 45 minutes start to finish let's get this one up nice light frame more brood nothing going on here now look what happened  see when i tip this see how the frame   tips out see how the wax tips like that be  very careful of these foundationless frames   but it's great for brood again  we're going to show you real quick   capped brood open cells more capped brood  now those patterns are not awesome but guess   what's been happening they've been hatching out  look at the pattern here solid brood one after   another and they're also storing nectar right  in among it there so let's put that one back and on the flip side lots more brood i see a  queen cup there which is along the bottom edge   i don't really want to tip it up but if i go on  the vertical axis of course i can look in there   and they're queen cups because they look like  the beginnings of a queen cell but they are   empty so that's for future use for the bees  if they decide to make a queen no reason to   smush those cups they are not threatening  anything let's get this cover board off watch for bees not smoosh them now we're getting close to where the  queen was because guess what's right here   the entrance so they tend to concentrate their  brood near the entrance where ventilation is best   and this is also where i  found the queen the last time lots of pollen some capped brood unimpressed  if my queen left i will not be happy   at all but the good news is if she  did leave what would i do well i   have those resource nucleus colonies that  i showed you at the beginning of this video   i would go and pull a frame with the  queen but here we have a bunch of   pollen stored right there empty cells and some  capped brood tiny bit no open no larvae no eggs   let's get checking now remember too we're coming  out of a period of dirt so a couple of weeks ago   she was laying eggs like crazy now i do have  some bees flying around here a little bit now so i want to just give a couple of cursory puffs   we're getting to the nerve center here we're  getting where i expect to find the most brood so   don't forget your don't forget your smoker keep  that going every now and again so we're up here now one of the other colonies a  couple of weeks ago i was looking at   and there was queen piping right then so let's look around now we're in see  eggs now this is great we have eggs   now because we have eggs and open larvae here good  chance the queen's around so let's do a flip turn   here really quick remember the last queen was  marked with a white dot but don't bank on that   you can lose your queen or she can be superseded  from time to time so still look for a queen   but i can at least show you this i think  i'm going to go to this camera over here   because it's angled better for the  sun but we have larvae of all ages so let's get a close look here put my fingers on this just right we have pollen here pollen here then  we get down here and what do we have   right next to the pantry where all the  pollen is being stored we have larvae   all ages and let me find the eggs here  we have eggs right there in the center   so i'm hoping that is showing up on this  camera so we have little c-shaped larvae   now one of the things that we need to look for  once we see that there's larvae that's hatched what kind of food resources are put around them   oh i've got little eggs in there  too so there's eggs in these cells i was concerned about the lighting here and the other thing is because it's in  the 80s it's a great time to be looking   at brood because we're not risking chilling  the brood and notice if we're a cooler day   the bees will be all over it keeping  it warm so we have capped pupa there   and i'm just going to do this really slow  because i want to make sure it comes through that there are eggs and larvae and of course loads of pollen we need a lot of pollen to feed the bees  and it looks like they're in good shape i   also don't notice again any signs  of brood issues it's also feeling   warmer over here even though it's in the 80s  what's the temperature that we expect to find   over the brood itself so 94 to 97 so even on a  day like today you'll feel some heat rising there and get this one up let's find that queen ooh lots of oh loaded with larvae here  so this is another great one to show all stages let's get up here and again  though we've got a foundationless frame larvae all ages and what you do is you follow  along and you look at the smaller ones and the   smaller ones and that's where you're going  to see the eggs right next to them so we   have evidence the queen's around and there's a  queen cup right there right there's a queen cup   we don't care about that one bit it's empty and here we have eggs these cells  right here have the eggs in them and we got to keep an eye  out for that queen though   so my problem is i can't see the screen to  know that i've got the eggs documented well   but they are present let me see if  i can find a bunch of them together and of course put these back  exactly the way you took them out   now we're going to pull this last cover board off i mean we don't have to find the queen at this  point we know that we've got uh eggs we know that   we've got larvae at every stage of development  so we know that they're increasing so the queen   must be laying and by seeing eggs we know that  she's been laying within the last three days   and this is really glued up i've got one angry bee so let's give a couple of puffs over here the other thing is you don't always have to puff  the bees you can just puff yourself a little bit but we don't want anybody to ruin what's  been a perfect inspection experience so far pull this up look at that brood pattern awesome  so again the reason that the brood is really   collected off to the side there and i'm going  to keep this frame over the hive just in case   the queen is on it i don't want her to drop off   but we're looking at very good  brood here look at this one that is excellent a full frame of brood so we're looking at roughly  3 000 capped pupa that are going to be hatching   out and they will become the workforce just in  time for this big nectar flow that we're headed   into and this center field here the reason this  is open is these are recent hatches of course   and then we would expect to find new eggs in here where is that pesky there are eggs right here  so there again i am going to take a chance   try to show these eggs their eggs right in the center frame there and one of the things that helps us spot  those eggs is this black foundation tiny tiny   grains of rice but look at the continuous brood  here yep there's an egg right right in this cell   just beyond my thumbnail  like in that cell right there and you'll see an egg anyway look at all this really healthy good-looking brood no sign of the queen other  than of course her handiwork   which i'm very impressed by at this point  because when the golden rod comes in   strong these will all be hatching  out they'll be doing their thing eggs being laid here foundationless frame again   that we have to be careful with  so move it on its axis like this and we have a lot of drone as well remember that's not necessarily  a bad thing because we want those   genetics we have lots of open larvae here again i would say she's doing great this is the frame  that the queen was hanging out on the last time and let's get my last frame out  last chance to spot the queen you can miss her even if they're marked i like to get eyes on her got some nice pollen on this bee here   the pollen they bring in and scratch off right  into the frame so there's the queen right here   i'm taking her out there she is marked white dot  super healthy i am happy with her she's laid back and just tell her that she's doing a great job  i think she's just fantastic and where was she   the very last frame i don't want to miss  that just in case that camera lets me down let me come over to this other camera get  a close look some queens will actually lay   right on camera they just keep  working she's a very easy going queen and we're going to get her right back in  there now we're going to button up the hive   and finish up our inspection so that's it we got  them we got the queen we have healthy brood we   have no deformed wing virus we have varroa mites  at a low number and uh we have a calm disposition   in this hive in this colony so they're just  good bees all the way around and be very   careful at the end here not to get excited and  smoosh any bees and remember that there is a what's i'm going to say i numbered these so they would fit there you go  and i like to push these cover boards up nice and   snug and they're numbered so that i can remember  what's going on here cover board number three you can blow them they don't like that  as much they seem to like the smoke   better than my breath which i find insulting  i mean you'd rather have pine smoke and i'm   going to show you how to get these bees off  here at the end before closing things up number four this is number five let's see what that is that's number four this  is your chance to clean things up a little bit   even the cover boards i try to keep in the same  order remember this is my feeding hole if i ever   need to do that and i like these they're still  hanging out on that feeding sometimes there are   nurse bees nurse bees will stay on surfaces and  not fly on their own so they have to be in direct   contact with surfaces for them to find their way  home that's why sometimes we lean these boards   on the front of the hive in direct contact  again so they can climb right up in there   and try not to bump or bang anything  we're closing everything back up here number seven i have to say that based on today's inspection  i don't think i don't think they hate us   i think that these bees are  perfectly content to be here and i didn't have to use my rack  today so we can get that off of here get yourself down in there and i suspect those are nurse bees  because they didn't want to fly at all   i just annoyed them with my  breath to get them back in there finish buttoning this all up and we didn't have to use the extra frames that  we have here but they are present so the next   inspection if we find out that they are taking  on too much nectar they need more space for brood   we can easily expand them now before  we close anything up what do we have   here we've got bees on top so we can  smoke them off of there but sometimes sometimes they're nurse fees and they're  stubborn so they don't like to go anywhere so this is where i use my   vacuum cleaner this is a very low pressure low  suction vacuum cleaner i can get all these fees and get them right in there and then this lets us  close things up but if you notice they're right   here inside this container and they're not injured  of course we don't put them in the sunshine but   that lets me get them off of the cover boards so i  can close things up without smashing a single bee and that's the inspection right there

Channel: Frederick Dunn

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Length: 44min 57sec (2697 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 14 2021