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Alcohol wash your bees, or the other option? Screen bottom boards on a percentage of your hives!
Do you need a screen bottom board on every hive?
Heck no, just know that you are monitoring a percentage of your hives.
Personally I monitor 10% to 50% of each bee yard. (When I have multiple bee yards) The hives closest to my honey house get the 50% screen bottom boards. I corrolate the hives being monitored to the rest of the yard.
One test inaccurately tells you if you should treat your hives.(mite wash)
The other test tells you how effective your treatment was.(screen bottom boards)
When it comes time to figure out if your bees need treated. What is the standard for not treating your bees? 90% of your mites you can't monitor.
Are they saying a 3 percent infestation of pheretic mites is enough to treat but 2 percent is not?
Are they saying an alcohol wash test is even that accurate? If I take my first sample from frame #3 in the brood chamber then I take a 2nd sample from frame #5, will I get different numbers?
The current standards are not good enough yet to be considered accurate when we already know during the common times of year to treat our hives that 90% of the mites are going to be underneath the brood cappings.
And in all likelihood if you do get a very high mite count from a hive in the middle of honey season, it is because the queen has either cut back on laying, or maybe you have lost the queen. The theoretical mite bomb could also be a possibility but those are rare.
The high mite count is typically not because the mites started reproducing faster than the typical to the power of 5 every 21 days. We can always count on that. But it's because of one of the previous mentioned situations.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 faults of current practices
01:30 bad info in bad info out
03:00 inaccurate test
06:30 the most accurate test
08:00 getting accustom to your method
08:45 pays for itself in saved labor
Heck no, just know that you are monitoring a percentage of your hives.
Personally I monitor 10% to 50% of each bee yard. (When I have multiple bee yards) The hives closest to my honey house get the 50% screen bottom boards. I corrolate the hives being monitored to the rest of the yard.
One test inaccurately tells you if you should treat your hives.(mite wash)
The other test tells you how effective your treatment was.(screen bottom boards)
When it comes time to figure out if your bees need treated. What is the standard for not treating your bees? 90% of your mites you can't monitor.
Are they saying a 3 percent infestation of pheretic mites is enough to treat but 2 percent is not?
Are they saying an alcohol wash test is even that accurate? If I take my first sample from frame #3 in the brood chamber then I take a 2nd sample from frame #5, will I get different numbers?
The current standards are not good enough yet to be considered accurate when we already know during the common times of year to treat our hives that 90% of the mites are going to be underneath the brood cappings.
And in all likelihood if you do get a very high mite count from a hive in the middle of honey season, it is because the queen has either cut back on laying, or maybe you have lost the queen. The theoretical mite bomb could also be a possibility but those are rare.
The high mite count is typically not because the mites started reproducing faster than the typical to the power of 5 every 21 days. We can always count on that. But it's because of one of the previous mentioned situations.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 faults of current practices
01:30 bad info in bad info out
03:00 inaccurate test
06:30 the most accurate test
08:00 getting accustom to your method
08:45 pays for itself in saved labor
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Oxalic acid vapor treatment and mite drops on screen bottom boards. August 22, 2024 Chapters added.
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For the last few seasons I have always started doing my OAV treatments in September. This year I decided to start in late August. Typically I can always count on a mite drop on a bottom board of around 100 mites. Which makes sense that if 10 percent of mites are pheretic this time of year, you can almost always count on having 1000 mites under your brood cappings. Or in other words 90 percent o...
Bottom board mite counts 1-24-23. Important notes in description. And sorry about the audio
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In all likelihood, the number of mites that fell onto these bottom boards were probably dead since the Winter Solstice treatment I performed the month prior. 12-21-22 And the reason they fell during this treatment was simply because of the bees getting agitated from this current treatment on 1-24-23 and either fell off of comb or possibly from some bees. But whatever the case may be, more botto...
Some of the most powerful bee keeping tools and manipulations. Chapters added in description.
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So what are some of the most powerful tools and manipulations you've learned throughout your beekeeping career? The first couple years I was beekeeping I really stumbled a lot but it didn't take long to figure out that one good way to keep bees is to keep the population numbers high. If you keep the population high in your hives, then the health of the hive and honey production will follow the ...
What is small cell bee keeping, or small cell foundation?
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Here is an article from wikipedia Wax foundation or honeycomb base is a plate made of wax forming the base of one honeycomb. It is used in beekeeping to give the bees a foundation on which they can build the honeycomb.[1] Wax foundation is considered one of the most important inventions in modern beekeeping.[1] History Foundation press in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) Wax foundation was i...
Small cell foundation(Original foundation) and hive strength..5 mm was the original size foundation.
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Small cell foundation from the time they started making it had nothing at all to do with mites. It had everything to do with the size of the bee, the numbers of bees in a beehive, the number of cells on a frame, the number of frames in a hive, the strength of the colony, bees passing through a queen excluder and the number of bees to patrol The Hive against wax moths. Small cell foundation was ...
Small cell bees. Why are they still studying small cell offers zero help in preventing mites?
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So this is a very old issue that has already been resolved and determined that small cell foundation does not help reduce the number of mites in a hive. Did you know that there are still studies being put on saying the same exact thing. Saying the same exact thing that they have been saying over the last 15 years. How much money are we talking about? I have no idea. but my main point is why are...
Lonestar ticks, the latest tick with the latest disease, bee keepers be careful out there
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I'm not sure how many beekeepers have to be concerned about ticks much, but for me it's a huge issue because I have a couple of Hive locations that are completely ridden with ticks. I've never had any kind of issues before as far as the viruses and diseases that they spread, but now there is a new disease. The name of the virus is called alpha gal. And what it causes is an allergic reaction to ...
Do Russian bees rob?
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I've just been noticing a few different things about these Russian bees. The more I get to know them the better I like them. So far their temperament is good, introducing a queen to an existing Hive is tough but once you figure out how then it's just part of the process. And now that I'm seeing the robbing situation almost ceasing to exist, there are only two things left to have me completely s...
Bee keeping at night. Catching some lost bees
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So the other day I pull a bunch of honey and put it out in my barn. Well the bees smell it. So they get into the barn but they can't get out. They see the single window and try to leave out the glass window and that ain't going to work. so now you see what I'm dealing with. A nice little softball-size cluster of bees. Chapters 00:00 intro 01:30 the main issue 02:20 the tools for the job 04:00 t...
Oxalic acid mite treatment. Kill progression. I put chapters to the video to make it easy.
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Have you ever wondered when oxalic acid vapor starts killing the mites? Well it certainly isn't right away and it doesn't look like it's on day one either. But on day two oxalic acid definitely starts killing a lot of mites, with the highest number of dead mites being on day 3. Once you get past day 3 then the numbers start falling again. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:40 current conditions 04:15 vapi...
Demaree hive, harvest time. Chapters in description
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These are only 5 frame boxes, but 6 of them weigh 40 lbs. a peice. The 2 light ones are probably 30 lbs. a peice. chapters 00:00 intro 00.25 smoker lit 00:50 open hive 02:15 honey status
Russian bees temperment and first sting
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Since I recently bought eight Russian queen bees, all certified from Smith's Honey Farm, Coys Russian bees and Mann Lake. I started hearing concerns about their temperament and it made me concerned about their temperament. So when I first installed the Queen's the bees that were in the hive were not the bees that the queen made, so I gave it some time for the Queen's bees to populate the hive a...
Laying workers? Here's the drill down. Do not allow drone brood to mature in your worker brood combs
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Laying workers can be of bear to deal with. And there are several ways to deal with them. But most ways don't focus on the bigger picture. When dealing with laying workers we need to think about all the resources, not just the hive. Worker brood comb is considered beekeepers gold to many beekeepers and basically if you allow a bunch of drone brood to mature in your worker brood comb by attempti...
The vertical Demaree. Going from a 24 day manipulation to a possible 7 day manipulation
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The vertical Demaree. Going from a 24 day manipulation to a possible 7 day manipulation
For the veteran bee keepers. A combination of manipulations. The vertical split and the Demaree
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For the veteran bee keepers. A combination of manipulations. The vertical split and the Demaree
Hive combine? Yes but better. This is the best hive combine.
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Hive combine? Yes but better. This is the best hive combine.
Inner covers. What are their real purpose?
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Inner covers. What are their real purpose?
Dalan AFB bees. Let's talk. I haven't heard a lot of talk about this yet. Justin case yes I moderate
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Dalan AFB bees. Let's talk. I haven't heard a lot of talk about this yet. Justin case yes I moderate
Demaree not for swarm control, but to turn your hive into a Monster
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Demaree not for swarm control, but to turn your hive into a Monster
The standard Demaree. Not rolling, not modified, and in my opinion the best Demaree
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The standard Demaree. Not rolling, not modified, and in my opinion the best Demaree
The best bee feeder ever made as an open feeder. This is in the playlist for this feeder.
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The best bee feeder ever made as an open feeder. This is in the playlist for this feeder.
Bald Faced Hornets can be one of the best pest controllers ever made
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Bald Faced Hornets can be one of the best pest controllers ever made
Mann Lake Russian queen bees. Have they been accepted?
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Mann Lake Russian queen bees. Have they been accepted?
Hive top feeder easily converts to a trickle feeder. A top contender of all time best bee feeders.
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Hive top feeder easily converts to a trickle feeder. A top contender of all time best bee feeders.
Demaree hives. Numbers are looking good but will know for sure when I check for marked queens.
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Demaree hives. Numbers are looking good but will know for sure when I check for marked queens.
The best bee feeder ever made? With an easy modification then yes arguably so.
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The best bee feeder ever made? With an easy modification then yes arguably so.
Checking temperment of my Coys Russian queen hives.
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Checking temperment of my Coys Russian queen hives.
can you use vegetable oil in aladim lamp, I want to know how much light it will give if we put veg oil !
@@the_eternal8928 you need to mix it with a more volatile fuel. They have the list of fuel mixtures on their website And every fuel I've used in it so far is bright as the sun. Just you need to follow their mixture guide.
That piece of plastic is a book of the hive. You can see which frame of brood emerges, what frame of food they opened, your treatment varroa kill, where is the cluster, do they collect pollen... all without opening the hive. People don't like them because they have to clean them and they last less than full bottoms. But if you could buy cheap plastic ones with the option to collect pollen like we can in Europe.. every back yard beekeeper would have them
I like that. Thats a super good way to put it.
It's that time of year.👍
The black flacks are wax moth larva poop. I wouldn't worry about it.. bees catch them when they grow bigger. That one looks like a wax moth larva bees thrown out. I can see a couple, 3,4 varroas on those boards. There could be 70% or more in the capped brood right now. They too have a cycle like bees and can enter 2-3 in one cell this time of year. But it doesn't look like you have a problem.
Thank you so much for the identification of the wax moth fesces. I truly was totally guessing. Same with the larvae. I'm kinda surprised about any moths being able to be in the hives at all. They are all so strong right now. But now you have me thinking the wax moths are kinda like the mites. You can always count on having them, just the bees are doing what they do with them too. Yea this way of treating the mites I do is I OAV them once a month in the fall, then when December hits I will treat them at least weekly until I get zero mites on a bottom board. Then I'm done with all treatments till next fall. My hives go near broodless around the winter solstice so it works out very well.
That's really good! Were your hives mostly broodless when you treated? I noticed a lot of my Russians totally shut down laying about the beginning of august - it was to the point I was seriously concerned about 5 or 6 of them thinking I had queen failure issues. But all but 1 recently started back up again & are back to laying up solid sheets. When they went broodless they also seemed to get really OCD about ridding any and all invaders from the hive - mites, beetles, etc.
I've only been into 2 hives and that was to harvest honey. I checked the brood chambers, Freshened up marks on the queens and each hive had 4-5 frames of brood. neither hive was Russian and I can't forsee getting into the Russian hives the rest of this year except to resize their hives for winter. Which will probably be in October sometime.
I had another really good honey harvest out of hive #2. The boxes weigh 200 lbs. so I'm going to say I have another 150 lb. hive. I need to get it spun out before I pull another hive. :)
Mite resident is around the corner!😂
Theyll be piling up the next month or two.
U have mites keep treating
Totally agree. My next planned treatment is September 22. Then Oct, Nov. Then December starts my indicating treatments. Until I have a zero drop on the boards.
Y'all seems to have inhaled a might too much
I'm not going to say anything about other items that might be used for less serious purposes. 😂😂😂
Looks like it's dead..❤❤
Yea, I just treated my hives for the first time this year.
@@strutt01 I'd rather see them belly up than crawling ...was that the Russian hive you treated I'm interested in your mite count
@@greenhornbeekeeping I have 6 Russian hives and 6 of my old strains. They all dropped between 50 and 100 mites so It wasn't as much as I thought it would be. I expect september I will have a couple drops between 500 and 1000
@@greenhornbeekeeping I'm starting to wonder if my bee populations just outbred the mites???
@@greenhornbeekeeping I just pulled honey off hive #2 and its another 150 lbs. easy.
I got to send you a mite. I think it's been so long ago you seen one, you forgot what they look like 😂
That sounds like a very good problem to have. Lol
I’d love to have you come on a live sometime and talk about all of the different uses for the Demaree. Have a great day!
Do you have messenger? Or any other kind of messaging?
Yeah I have messenger!
@@flowerstreetfarmbeesif you look for martin manufacturing I should pop up. Whats your messenger?
@@flowerstreetfarmbees i found your FB page but it didn't have a message option.
I'm bummed, I wanted to see that hive in the thumbnail 😢
@@gallowaylights ohhh Galloway, you making them wheels turn in my head again. Hmmm
have you ever seen a filing cabinet beehive?
Me too, it looks super.🇬🇧
I like all those things. Haven't tried Demaree yet. I'm gonna start supplementing them with vitamin C I saw some research indicating putting vitamin C in with the syrup extended worker bee lives 20% and colonies were also healthier and had significantly lower mites during the winter.
Prolonging the lives of the bees by 20% adds to the population by??? I think it's more than 20%. Hmmm, got me thinkin,
So if a hive has 50,000 bees. (Just an easy number to work with) they live an average of 90 days, then we extend their lives by 3 weeks???
I like Demaree and Snelgrove (double screenboard with 6 doors) but you better have a strong back or friend /family with one 😅 i did bothband learned that you can split the Snelgrove and make 2 hives or recombine after nectar flow if you dont want more hives.
I've had people tell me how versatile a snelgrove board is. I'm thinking about getting a book on them because of everything you can do.
You put your video real well. I like the book marks, that'll help new beekeepers real well. Thanks for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
Did you see how I did that? Look in my description and if you number them like that, it divides it up for you. And keep those cameras rollin DC, I watch you before I watch the newsman every mornin! :)
Using those old queen cages was a really good idea
I think I came up with a more sleek and better solution. Just wait. 😁😁😁
I'm glad you made this I've noticed a massive decrease in robbing with the russians compared to italians. It's not talked about enough. Usually in this part of NC we can't even open hives in July through mid-august because it'll set off a robbing frenzy. I've been opening hives multiple times every week and haven't had a single incident. I did have a nuc getting robbed a couple weeks ago that I had to close down temporarily, but it was getting robbed by the neighbors italians 1/2 mile down the road when there were 20+ Russian hives 50 yards away that didn't bother it. Russians pretty much keep to themselves & do their own thing.
That's how it is around southern WV too. I've never not seen robbing this time of year. I haven't seen it all summer and we had about a 1 month drought.
DC made a comment about food stores. And since I demareed all my hives this spring could be a factor. But so far really feel its the Russian breeding part of them. We will see.
Don't forget, mites and small cell originally had nothing to do with each other. Thats an entirely different book in beekeeping. Do not let people corrolate the two together until you are ready. For now, small cell makes for extremely healthy and extremely densely populated hives.
We studied the small cell for a long time. My father still has all his bees on it. You know why they went to bigger cells back then.. because a bigger bee has a longer tongue and can reach deeper in some flowers and obviously has a bigger reservoir to fill. I think they even had a particular flower in mind but I forgot.. I'm not sure about that
@@researcherAmateur I'm familiar with that. I I think it's the crimson clover.
@@strutt01 yes, it could be.. We did one test without moving any frames position ever. They build 4.6 in the middle of the nest and going out it arrived to 5.5 for honey.. even wider and more angled up. That's how their natural behavior is when we don't play poker with the frames. I did it long time ago but I don't stick to it.. it's not practical. Our carnies tend to be a bit bigger than other bees (in average) anyway. My old man jokes that the queen has problems pushing her butt down in 4.6
@@researcherAmateur Lol. I can see that. But now do you allow for drone comb to be built? Personally I keep 2 frames of drone foundation in a 10 frame deep acting as a magnet for the mites. And I don't cull the drones. Although I do get my mite counts to zero on a bottom board right around the winter solstice. I have found if I get the hive nearly mite free in December, their winter survival rate has jumped to nearly 100%. Then the only other big obstacle is moisture when the maples start blooming. (February)
That's cool knowing they build the smallest cells in the middle of the nest.
Yes we use a lot of drones.. I'm on an island and in spring there's nobody else with bees. They all move their 50 hives trailer- boxes to better flows on land. So l have to keep a book of the two lines of bees that we keep and breed our own queens. Same as the queen line l have to keep track of the drone line.. l call it grandma genetic.. as the drones are the genetic lines of the old queens... I don't use plastic drone frames, just put and empty in early spring at position 2 or 8 and they end up being drone frames for the season. We have our drone congregation area souranded with hives that are used to keep the drone frames collected from our other hives. They have to be overfed with everything, never feel the lack of food. Than in July it gets to hot and dry and by then l'm done with it and those last drone frames end up in a solar melter and the queens caged for a brood break. By mid August varroa is gone and the hives have new queens and new bees will soon be there all healthy for the flow. This is a different place.. very warm. I get most of the honey after summer in the late fall flow. I'm writing to long.. and it's never enough. Growing up under a queen flying path.. or a congregation area. But it's not an area.. it's more a long narrow path that drones patrol whayting for a virgin to enter into. Never mind
Going to give this ago next season (uk) but I'm not sure you get more than if I just made 2 separate hives? What's your thoughts
Timing is everything.
Heres the detes on when small cell was first produced in the 1800's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_foundation Nothing to do with mites. It was started in the 1800's because that was the size of bees.
00:07:54 Not more bee math... ha ha😂
I know right! Lol
At least it's easier to prove that nailor dogs are tree happy goofballs and wipeout dogs can be a little trashy lol. I kinda want to go foundation less but it's real hot in Louisiana
Id sure have 4 strings of wire for sure. Wewww.
you should check out Butts Bees
She is a great Beekeeper and she knows a lot. It's a shame that YT beekeeping doesn't work on knowledge for getting subscribers. I'm not a stranger to criticizing bad practice... In my opinion she could have one of the best channels...
@@researcherAmateur yea, I'm a fan of her too. 😁
If they start out small cells, then they can't be reused as many years do to cocoons?🤔
I don't think that's the case. I've used nothing but small cell since I started and the main thing I've noticed is my cell walls never get thick. I have noticed old comb with standard cell size the walls getting thicker and thicker. ??? We have many rabbits holes brother, many rabbits holes. That's why I want more study's on it.
@@strutt01 * fascinating. Less junk when you melt them down in ten years!🤔
👍🏻
Don't be letting that channel get dusty now Kajun. 😁
beesource.com
I made a post on Beesource.com and there are a couple of people that currently have Alpha Gal now.
Lonestar in my area of Maryland and Alpha Gal has also been right in my immediate area for years also and know several people with it currently. Seems like it affects people differently from gastro intestinal issues to anaphylaxis. I get bit by lonestar ticks several times of year and fear the dreaded red meat allergy very seriously.
Have you had the allergy yet?
No allergy yet scared to death everytime I pull off a lonestar that is stuck to me. From what I understand with Lyme it takes a prolonged exposure like overnight but with Alpha Gal I've heard it can transmit the virus after only like 15 mins. I spray down with permethrine when hunting but not while checking bees but that must change. I fear ticks more than snakes, poisonous spiders or other nasties in the wild.
How wonderful 😢 I'm finding ticks you need a magnifying glass to see!
Don't you dare! Lol I hate ticks, I'll grab a copperhead before i let a tick on me. And I get ticks all the time. I had one on me this February!!! At my tick place!!!
Ticks, Mostly thanks to our Federal Government.🙄Thanks for staring your time and efforts, Informative video.👍 I had heard of the meat allergy disease, it's newer but been around for maybe 5 or 10 years. I have seen videos on it and a few news stories. I think most of the news stories was back in the Mid West some place. 😂I watch far to many videos to keep them all straight. I found a tick for the 1st time in 50+ years, I have never seen a Tick in my area tell this year. After looking up a picture the 1 I found on my dog was a deer tick, not a good tick but not near as bad as those Lonestar tick, YaY Texas.😂
Oh brother, you ain't kiddin. And I know just what your talking about with the Lyme disease. I think that came from an Island just off of New York. Bahhh
I think bees only rob when they feel they need to, I'd bet that they have A LOT of food set aside. 🤔I'll bet they are Sitting Petty with Fall to Winter food stores🍯if that's the case Great Job Bees and Beekeeper.👍 We like it when our girls have plenty of food stored away.🍯🍯🍯😁 Ya Russians are not bad, mine were testy at times. I had the hardest time getting them to requeen and they could get worked up good, but I didn't have a problem with them. They seemed about like my Carni but a little More, they were always nice untell I made a mistake and then they would let me know Right Quick. They know how to defend their colonies well, they make good brawlers that's for sure. I found that my Russians tended to not eat as much and ran a little smaller brood chamber then my Italians did so they seemed to always have more food in the box, I figured that was a good thing. Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend. Blessed Days.
I didn't think of that. Just this is the first summer I've noticed that. I'll keep checking for sure.
👍👍👍
Thanks Kajun. How did Charlies go last night?
@@strutt01 I missed it.
An older frame from a hive would collect them all
I didn't even think of it. BAHHH! That would have been easier. But it still worked out good. I got the rest of them the next morning.
MAN... I have to wait until tomorrow 😮
Yea, I'm running all over the place today.
I hear night time beekeeping can be exciting some times😁a little bunch of bees rode in on boxes I see.👍
Yea, the rode in, but I was able to combine them easy enough.
I have 2 Russian Hives. Nicest bees until you mess with their hives. I could be around the hives all day and they won't bother me at all. But once I take the cover off they get feisty.
00:21:33 Can't make money selling mites that way!😂
For sure! And you know I'm still not sure if that hive still had brood or if it just didn't have many mites in it. All that debris building up on that bottom board was making me think there was still brood hatching.🤔🤔🤔
You think we can get someone to buy some mites off of us? LOL We would be millionaires! LOL
@strutt01 * that time of the year. Mine might have 10 brood.
@@gallowaylights I wanted to treat them one more time to find out but never made it back. 🤔
I had Russians last year they can be a very good bee line, honestly I like most any of the cold weather bee lines so far. Thanks for sharing out time with us, Blessed Days...
Thanks DC and keep your videos coming. You have the best garden I've ever seen.
Is that just how you call them ? Because I know for a fact that the Russians in Russia don't have yellow bees, especially queens. The only yellow bees in Russia could be if someone bought a Buckfast from Germany
@@researcherAmateur well, they are the USDA certified Russians. The ones they brought from the Primorsky region back in the 90's. And from what I understand they are technically still a mutt. They are a combination of Caucasian and Carnica bees that were in the region for about 150 years. So ??? They're probably different than what's in the rest of Russia now.
There was suppose to be chapters on this video so you can skip around. Is anyone seeing chapters? Also the bee sting is at about the 8:30 mark. Lol no biggy, just I did finally get stung. And theres a summary about the 11:30 mark
Good video. The USDA did a study on laying workers and found they could be successfully requeened with queen cells about 60% of the time. I haven't tried it yet, but filed it away as something to try. www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=186563
I haven't had success requeening. But if it does take, do you know if the drone cells continue to develop in the worker comb? Does it destroy it? Some folks say if a queen takes, the nest will remove all that drone brood
@@strutt01 Oh I have no idea about that
@@kellyb72601 I think thats one of those type of things people figure out themselves. 😁
Carl I love your Bee Videos no Joke
my arms are toast brother. Its going to take forever for me to get back into armwrestling
@@strutt01 me too I went to a practice today 1st time in 2-months
Is it 9 frames of drone comb or 9 frames of Drawn comb?
If your into drone comb, I always use 2 for each 10 frame deep. But the reason I use it is mainly as a mite magnet. Otherwise just use drawn comb. Your queen will start laying like she just started a new nest immediately.
I did this in this year but right before the flow started i combined both brood boxes and placed my honey supers on top. I harvested 545 lbs of honey from 6 colonies. This method increased the number of bees which increased the amount of honey i got.
@@SylantBill you should check out my vertical Demaree and tell me if you think it will work. Criticism welcome.
My struggle is that manipulations only work in that fine window when bees are expanding. Pre spring and in the flower shortage. I can only plan for the next one and wait. Might be next year when the opportunity arrives.😢
Same here. Unless I find some swarm cells
@@strutt01 Yes! No!🤨
Yes, No To manipulations?
@strutt01 oops! YES! NO🤨 Swarm cells. They can be welcoming but inconvenient, too!
@@gallowaylights Totally! Especially if you have an older queen or something. Gotta be strategic with them. 😁
I'm told Baldface hornets like to hunt Yellow-jackets.
They like carpenter bees too, they go right up in the hole and pull them out. Thats why I call them my pets. Lol
How's it going Kajun? Do you know the fella that came up with the vertical split down your way?
Thanks for sharing your time.👍Interesting. Always trade offs with equipment, multi purpose with the same equipment can be very useful.
I'm shooting for a short or maybe an easy Demaree. I would try one this year but my flows are done. I'm thinking winter stuff already.
Hey sir do you have a social acc?? (like facebook,instagram,twitter)
No but I should probably start one. Thank you sir.
just made twitter it's struttinbuc
Very good video, tell me if the queen is in the bottom! y isn’t her fairmones don’t get to the top box spelling wrong?
There is still her pheromones going up there, but they are not as strong now. Remember that Queen Mandibular Pheromones are transferred with the bees antennae. And normally the nurse bees are all around the queen. So when they are in the same box as the queen, the pheromones are that much stronger. Then the same interaction happens to the Queen. Since she is always completely surrounded by nurse bees and open brood, once all that moves 2 chambers up, it just really weakened the amount of pheromone shes use to having. Like smelling bacon cooking when you first wake up, then when you walk in the kitchen! 😁😁😁