Beekeeping | When Do You Add Another Box To Your Hive? Too Late, Swarm. Too Soon, Straight Up.

First of all: thank you for making content. I enjoyed binge watching most of your videos and didn't know bees are so interesting. Keep up the good work and greetings from across the world (The Netherlands)! Answers: Question 1: I think the larvae are tended to approximately 7.200 times during their larval state. I came to this conclusion because I think a (different) bee would visit every minute to check up on them. A quick calculation would be: 60 times per hour * 24 hours a day (larvae signal for food continuously) * 5 days. Question 2: How much food they consume in relation to their own size? I think the size of a larvae in their larval state increases significantly to about 1.500 times their original size.

Beekeeping for many years. Taught by my grandpa in Rhodesia and now here in the US. What I've learned is, you are a day late, you're screwed. You are a day early, you are screwed. Bees are going to do what they do when they want to do but sometimes we get lucky!

Another super video. Dave’s knowledge and willingness to produce high quality videos is greatly appreciated by us newbies. Spread the word so he can keep them coming.

We are new to beekeeping this year, and with the help of our beekeeping club and your videos, our hive appears to be doing quite well. We added a second deep and they are working on it as well as continuing to work on the last few frames in the first deep. We are so concerned with doing things right, and your videos have helped us to avoid many beginners mistakes, and no doubt will continue to do so. We appreciate you and Sherri very much. Oh, and let Sherri know that we made the Honey Glazed Carrots from your book and they were DELICIOUS! We look forward to trying some of the other recipes as well Thank you to both you and Sherri for sharing your knowledge! Our bees thank you, too. :)

Just got my first two families and one of them seems real strong so perfect video for me right now! Subscribed for more.

I’ve learned a bunch from you David. I try to pass on what I learn. I appreciate your efforts.❤️✝️

I miss hive talk with David and Jon!

Nurse bees make about 10,000 visits to a larvae, and the weight increases about 1000 times the weight of an egg. Thanks for you videos. Second year bee keeper and learning a lot!

Your shop look really great, it has that old Tim looks

You’re my go to 🐝 guy! Thank you for helping us amateurs.

Funny shirt at the beginning, thanks for the info, God bless you!

I clicked the like button and hit subscribe 👌 I'm going to start beekeeping next spring. Right now in the winter months I work on salvaging lumber from 100 plus year old barns in Ohio. Thinking about using some of the scraps of hardwood boards to make my boxes ☝🏽 so one day I will have to leave them in a will 🤣👌 keep making these videos bro 👌💝💝💝

I love your informational videos. I just got two 3lb. packages on May 19. I never had bees before but I'm learning along the way. Thank you for all your information

Great T-shirt! laughing out loud.. :D Thanks for your videos David!

Thanks for all your videos and content, i am sitting with pen and notebook when i am watching them, and putting down notes. I am finally starting up my first hive this summer - I even bought your beekeeping Inspection Guide ..Cheers from Sweden.

Just getting into the idea of wanting some bees for the past couple years. I realized as I was growing things I was having trouble cuz not a lot of bees come around my area at all so things weren't growing so well. I realize how important it was going to be for me to see about getting some bees especially if I get some land and want to grow in a bigger bigger area. So lately, working with UPS, ship a lot of bees in the mail and I was like trying to find out how much it even order bees and how I'd even go about raising bees. So this is been pretty interesting.

First answer 100x a day. Nurse bees visit and feed. Second answer 10x it's weight until it gets capped. Love you videos. Wish everyone the best of luck winning a class!

You read my mind this morning!

I have no idea...I'm a new beekeeper...that's why I need the course 😍🐝

Quite good, I am from India 👍