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HiveIQ Review of first beekeeping season
Alan Woods of Woods Bee Co. reviews the Hive IQ after his first year of using it. This video answers many questions about the reliability and practical use of the Hive IQ. Watch this video to see the results of Alan’s review as he rates the Hive IQ on bee health, assembly, ease of use, who should use this Hive and the cost.
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HiveIQ Assembly
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NOTE: Please do not use liguid nails as I did, rather use a waterproof silicone with an adhesive property!!!!! The HiveIQ is an Australian 3-story beehive made of a high-density Expanded Polystyrene (ESP) constructed to last a long time. The HiveIQ has one of the highest R-values of any hives today. The R-value is 6 times greater than the standard Langstroth hive which helps the bees remain hea...
CHAPTER 3 - Equipment/Clothing (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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This is Chapter 3 of the Washington State Bee Association Apprentice Beekeepers Certification online training. In this chapter, we will cover the most common bee hives, tools, and protective clothing used in Washington State. This section will assist you in making the best decisions on the equipment right for you.
Spinning honey with GRUB the old way
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In this video Alan of Woods Bee Co. and Beau Gromley of GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) team-up to show you how to uncap and spin honey the old way, using nothing but an uncapping knife, an extractor and a bucket and filter. Woods Bee Co. and GRuB has also teamed-up to serve Military Vets and the community by providing them with the knowledge, skills and materials to build, plant and maintain garde...
Building Our New Honey House Before Honey Season - Part 2
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This is the second of two videos where Alan moves Woods Bee Co. honey processing from a trailer to an updated building and system that will allow honey to be processed faster and efficiently. This honey house has been Woods Bee Co’s faster and most challenging build yet. Watch Part One of our Honey House Build at: th-cam.com/video/hg9g0KA5-5Q/w-d-xo.html WOODSBEECO HONEY LINE CONTENT LIST Maxan...
What to do about Chalkbrood.
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Alan shows us how to identify and deal with chalkbrood. While chalkbrood is not considered a serious brood disease, if it persist it could destroy the colony. However, there are a few steps that you can take to help restore the colony's healthy.
Installing a Queen
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In this video Alan Woods will show you how to successfully install a queen and the steps to take to reduce the chances of the hive rejecting her.
Building Our New Honey House Before Honey Season - Part 1
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This is the first of three videos of us replacing our trailer honey house for a newer more spacious one. In the first video, we change out, clean up and improve our 20 frames Maxant Extractor. Adventures by A Himitsu soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported- CC BY 3.0 Free Download/ Stream: HTTP://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT Music released by Argofox th-cam.com/video/88XNwnxaVQE/...
Setting Yellow Jackets traps in the Spring
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In this video, Alan tells you why it is important to set up yellow jacket traps in the Spring. Not only does he tell you why it's important, but he shows you how and where to set them up. Rescue Yellow Jackets Traps - amzn.to/3qin7WL
What to do with a Dead Beehive!!!
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In this video, Alan shows you what to do with your beehive that died over the winter. So if you have ever wonder what to do with the frames and honey, then you really want to watch this video.
Beekeeping FAQ | Woods Bee Co
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We're answering common questions we get from our followers and fellow beekeepers! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions on Facebook and Instagram! Still have a burning question we didn't answer? Leave it in the comments and we may include it in our next FAQ! Facebook: woodsbeeco Instagram: woodsbeeco?hl=en Music | Winter Love by Declan DP Watch: th-cam.com/video...
CHAPTER 8 - Native Pollinators (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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There are approximately 4,000 native bee species in the U.S. and over 600 in Washington state. Native bees include the native leaf-cutters, masons, and bumblebees, and many other bee families. Native bees are the most important pollinators of native wild plants, helping to maintain ecosystem diversity.61 Solitary bees gather both nectar and pollen in a single trip, while honey bees usually conc...
CHAPTER 7 - Service Products (Apprentice Course)
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The honey bee is used for crop pollination and honey production and is considered agricultural livestock. As such honey bees are critical to our economy. But the business of honey bees is more than pollination and honey. Current data indicates the US honey industry is evolving into the pollination and bee industry. Small operations, even though there are thousands of them, coupled with many mor...
CHAPTER 5 - Diseases and Pests (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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Many beekeepers start beekeeping as a hobby to help support pollinator survival efforts and they don’t want to use “hard” chemical treatments. In fact, most hobbyist beekeepers want to minimize the use of all chemicals as much as possible. Doing effective hive inspections and following the best beekeeping practices is the first step. Monitoring the health of the colony and attempting to identif...
CHAPTER 10 - Helping Honey Bees and Native Pollinators (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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The loss of biodiversity, destruction of habitat, and lack of variety in forage due to monocultures, in addition to the effects of pesticides, are all factors in the threat to pollinators. Recognizing the steps that individuals can take to mitigate the impact these factors have on both honey bees and native pollinators is important. This section is included in the manual as a readily available ...
CHAPTER 9 - Forage (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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CHAPTER 9 - Forage (WASBA Apprentice Course)
CHAPTER 6 - Pesticides (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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CHAPTER 6 - Pesticides (WASBA Apprentice Course)
CHAPTER 4 - Management (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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CHAPTER 4 - Management (WASBA Apprentice Course)
CHAPTER 3 - Equipment/Clothing (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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CHAPTER 3 - Equipment/Clothing (WASBA Apprentice Course)
Chapter 2 - Anatomy (WASBA Apprentice Course)
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Chapter 2 - Anatomy (WASBA Apprentice Course)
CHAPTER 1 - The Honey Bee (Apprentice Course)
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CHAPTER 1 - The Honey Bee (Apprentice Course)
Fixing a hive with laying workers (Part 1).
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Fixing a hive with laying workers (Part 1).
Chapter 4 - Installing a Package or NUC
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Chapter 4 - Installing a Package or NUC
Chapter 1 - Bee Hives, Protective Clothing, Tools, Site Location, and Journal
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Chapter 1 - Bee Hives, Protective Clothing, Tools, Site Location, and Journal
Installing a NUC in the Great Northwest
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Installing a NUC in the Great Northwest
Chapter 9: Preparing for Overwintering and Seeing the Results in the Spring
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Chapter 9: Preparing for Overwintering and Seeing the Results in the Spring
Dude, what are you doing to only get 3 years out of a wooden hive? Mine are all old enough to vote. Too much rain in WA?
Jake Landis from Monroe Washington I bought 2 HiveIQ kits plus 2 more mediums from woods bee company and let me say these hives are the best I actually had to buy 2 more mediums to add to the hives as they both filled out the 2 mediums on each hive best hives I’ve ever used Each year I’m going to buy 2 more kits plus extra mediums to eventually get all my hives swapped over to HiveIQ boxes Thanks woods bee company for supplying these in Washington
Thank you … I learned a lot.
We are in Queensland AU. We started coming out of summer with one HiveIQ box and just assembled the next two. The difference in bee health and resources is amazing. Yhis hive is still two boxes high and thriving in winter, whilst the timber hives are just ok. I recommend researching them further and getting obe to try just like us. You will buy more@
Al, thanks for that review. It's great. I plan on getting one soon. Question: is there space to lay a Formic strip between the bottom and middle hive bodies?
I’m in Canada bad winters for 5 months I use most poly hives up here
I’m happy to see a brother doing bee videos I’m from Canada
Excellent video. Thanks.
Any thoughts on the queen excluder and feeding sugar water? I watch all your videos, thanks!
I dont care for the Qx, it fits too tightly, great if there is no propolis ,wax or squashed bees on it, any little thing and the next box will not go down properly as it gets held up. To me, it looks like the metal just has not been pressed together well enough. Too much of a gap that will allow SHB and wax moths a place to grow.
Picked up my bees this morning along with a hiveiq kit excited to see the results-thank you for being such good ambassadors to the bee keeping community
Alan, great video. I noticed you recommended latex paint, however, HiveiQ says to use acrylic paint. Have you noticed any issues with using latex?
What frame size should I buy for this boxes?
great video thank you
Alan, this was a very helpful video. I bought a HiveIQ setup from Les's Bees in Bellingham six weeks ago. Over the last couple of days I applied two coats of paint and assembled it last night.I had watched your video a couple of times and it certainly made the process easier. These hives are tight as a tick and are very lightweight. I look forward to comparing results with my 8 wooden colonies. Thanks! Mike Johnson, Seabeck, WA
I saw one you sold to a couple from Longview who are taking the apprenticeship class. It's impressive. Aussie made too!
Thabks for sharing Alan and Bev. I have had very similar reaults with a colony in i have in a HiveIQ. This was a weak colony I moved into the HiveIQ in July fully expecting them to not survive. By September they were one of my strongest colonies. I treated for mites with 2 roumds of extended OA, fed Super Fuel fondant in the fall and a winter pollen pattie in February I have not done a full frame inspection yet. I did find out of the 8 frames I checked (4 in each box) 2 had honey and 6 had brood including drones. Both boxes were full of bees and very active. I added a super a few days ago since maplea are blooming in my area with plans to split as soon as maple is done.
Thanks for the video and the review. I'm also in the Pacific Northwest and your results look extremely promising.
Alan, great video! Question for you, how do you feed your bees in the HiveIQ setup? This will be my first year and it was recommended that I use a top feeder but HiveIQ doesn't use an inner cover. So I was curious how you fed syrup using HiveIQ? Thank you!
I'm starting with a hiveiq hive this spring. I will feed my bees with an internal feeding tray on top of the queen excluder enclosed by my medium box.
@georgeahacker I was thinking of doing the same thing! Thanks for the reply George!
Last year I used a 10 frame inner cover to hole my jar feeder. I placed a deep box with the lid over the feeder. This was not ideal though it worked to get the hive going. For feeding fondant I made a shim to put between the top box and lid. HiveIQ is working on a top feeder that will be out this year.
Thank you for the question. As stated by Jeff, HiveIQ is currently working on a top feeder which will be released soon. If you need to feed until then you can use a frame feeder. But the hive was able to collect enough resources to feed themself during the nectar flow.
I have three hives thats had two queens in them right now going on three years.i have the videos of each time i heck them to prove it
Between the second and third year; the queen typically and notably declines in productivity and can be superceded early and sometimes too late in Spring of third year. Suggest monitoring her production and think about requeening just after flow of second year
@@spirestocksnotification6710 not sure where the information comes from,but my two hives with the two queens still going strong and this the fourth year.i just have to keep plenty of room on the hives fod them.i also have a few hives with older queens and no problem at all.but bees will do what bees will do no matter how much we think we know about them we dont.what works for some will not work for others,people just have to find a system and bees that works for them
I love your video, I just received my HiveIQ and will be assembling it soon. I hope to video it as well. Great Job - I LOVE when your wife comments❣️
Thank you for this video. We are in E Wa, 20 aceres with 2 seasonal ponds about 500 & 800' from the house. Is these areas where I should be setting my traps ? I have been setting them out within 100' t0 200'from the house, with not very good results. We also put up a large pool each year with a salt filter and the bugs just love it ! Thanks again from Spokane ! B&H.
I really learned a lot from your video, thanks !Were in Spokane ,and are on 20 acers with seasonal ponds 'about 500 to 800' from the house. till mid summer when they mostly dry up. Is these the places I should be placing the traps you showed to catch the queens? ? Thanks again from B& H.
Thank you for this. I'm in NYC, but we have yellowjackets on our terrace. I got some traps and I'm going to put them out now.
Thanks, very well done
Excellent study.
I really liked the idea of placing the heated settling tank, or clarifier tank on the structure on wheels, with the suction pump and the filter attached. I'll copy your idea and do the same, it's very practical. Thank you very much and big hug from Portugal
Great video.....
Thanks!
That trailer was pretty sweet though! Subbed. Good stuff. That honey house is bigger than most apartments in Boston and WAY nicer!!!!
What a beautiful honey house and really nice setup. Gives me a lots of ideas.
Just got mine together. Before I move a hive into their new home, question regarding space for fondant/patties - doesn't seem there is enough room for these? Have you dealt with this or come up with a solution? I have an idea of using the 3rd box to create the space needed but wondered if that is too much room/air in there ? W
Nice workshop. Need more videos. 🙂 Oh wait, I just found your other play lists.
Who run the world...girls! Who run the world... girls
Great job thanks for sharing
I’m a first year beekeeper, but I’ve been at war with yellow jackets for years. I use meat bait tainted with Fipronil, which they take back to their nests and destroy entire colonies. In late summer, I trap the remaining wasps with sweet bated traps. So far, I’ve not seen any yellow jackets hanging around my hive, fortunately. Next spring, I’ll try your method, to prevent any local nests. Thank you for posting!
I do the same and it works amazingly well. Many people get up in arms about this, thinking that we are causing widespread decimation to a useful creature. But yellowjackets have a relatively small foraging area, so the knockout is quite small.
Hey Alan, Thanks for showing the assembly process! We can't wait to see how it performs in your freezing temperatures, the insulation should excel in your climate. I look forward to chatting more soon :) - Zavier
Great video! Learned a lot. Nice color of the hive.
Very nice! Good looking honey house and great video! God bless!
I am not a beekeeper but I found this so fascinating! 😊 I always wondered about how the queen bee comes to be!!
all the videos say it is ok to reuse moldy frames... wow, so counter intuitive.
I love your content bud keep up the vids
Nice! See my custom beehive and let me know what do you think about it
Hey man watched your video. Pretty cool set up. I need to build myself a honey house
Thank you! Time to get my traps out!
Great presenter, concise and to the point. Thanks.
Where is part II? I looked through your channel videos and can't find it. How did it end up?
This is my second video of watching you. You taught me a second thing tonight. I never knew there were yellow jacket traps just for the queens. What time in the spring are you talking when putting these things out. Temperature?
March, April time frame but it really depends on the weather. Alan
New subscriber. Love the uncapped. Sure beats the heated knife routine that I've used for 24 years. Your explanation of the clarifier was excellent along with explaining the needed temperature of the honey to be pumped. I used to use my friends honey house. It was certified but just a shed, a sink, and electric. It was small and it took all day to do a few hundred pounds of honey. Now that I'm a hobbyist again, I just scrap the frames in the field into my uncapping tank and go from there. Keep the videos coming. I'm checking out your next one.
Great video, I love your honey house such great looking equipment. How many hives do you have?