Cleaning up Dead Hives
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- See how to clean up a dead hive in preparation for new packages or nucs. Watch as we clean up dead bees and brood, mouse damage, and burr comb. See how to use burr comb in the middle bar frame.
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Even though this video is several years old, it provides a tremendous amount of useful information. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
This video was super helpful to me - a beginner beekeeper who just had their first hive die. Thank you so much!!!
Hi Stan, So glad to see you sharing your knowledge. Thanks for the info. Seeing you here make me reminisce our old scouting troop activities. Keep it up!
Excellent tutorial on cleaning a deadout. Exactly what I needed to see. Thanks!
I maintained my first hive for a couple years, and it died out, so ordered a new one that arrived today. Thanks for the info!
Great video ! Thanks !
Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
Glad it helped!
Excellent video, learned a lot. Many thanks.
As a matter of good bee yard hygiene it might be advisable to collect and haul-out the debris from a dead-out bottom board. Then fire up the propane torch and give the bb a good scorching. Just a thought.
Hallo, for me ist your cleaning to Danger to get the sick bee's
take all brown frame away how good it look ,better it build it new !!
My tump go down of your work
Great information thank you
Moister gone up because not vent holes
I wish you could have zoomed in on some of the things you were showing
Thanks, very helpful.
My first colony died a little while back and I have to clean out the hive 😔
Sorry to hear that. It's never fun to lose a hive.
So sad losing our bees! It's important to learn how and why they died and learn from our mistakes. Hopefully I have a safe and death free winter here in Canada. Thank you so much for posting both the good and the bad. All the best! Enjoy the bee funeral I had last spring th-cam.com/video/zKmT61eeQmQ/w-d-xo.html ;)
Why do all the frames have that middle bar?
Hello, last week I had bees I feed them. This week I just checked on them the hive had dead bees on the bottom board and the others were gone. There was 2 bees Ali e in the hive. When I looked at 2 of the frames I can see baby bees forming will they die now. Also there is mold on the bottom board and side walls of the hive box
I am so sorry to hear that.
It sounds like the adult bees absconded. They might have moved to another location, like in a tree cavity or your neighbor's barbecue unit. There was something about their hive that they did not like, like a sprinkler hitting it every morning, skunks, lawnmower vibration, the smell of the hive, or any other reason the bees used to decide they wanted to move. Sounds like the equipment was getting wet and that could be part of the reason. It's hard to know why they left.
I hope you can figure out some possible reasons, fix them, and try again.
if you find a hive wiped out in january should you freeze the frames till spring or leave it ?
There are two reasons why you would freeze frames. First, to prevent honey from crystalizing. Second, to use the freezer as a pest-tight place.
Is there honey in the colony? If so, extract it now so the mice don't get it.
If you don't need to do that, you don't have to freeze the frames and can leave them outside until spring.
Excellent info! Thank you! I have 6 new hives as of 2 weeks ago.. Looking forward to keeping bees!
can maggots attack a hive
Fly maggots usually don't attack a hive. We do see larvae from wax moths fairly often in dead, overwintered hives. Wax moths like dark, warm storage places and are super gross, leaving webs and wood damage everywhere.
Can you tell me what AFB spores look like please, and is there any other evidence that you can see of AFB? Thankyou!
You're not looking for the spores even if you were, you wouldn't see them, they're microscopic. You're looking for the putrid pupae/larvae, specifically the roping, gooey mess that AFB leaves behind. If the larvae/pupae we're infected by AFB, you should incinerate the entire box.
pretty interesting thank you for posting this.
Thanks for posting.
why do you have a bar through the centre thank u
We use middle bar frames, which is a handy way to use natural comb on supported, deep frames. th-cam.com/video/n9KLR23Ckfs/w-d-xo.html
We use deep middle bar frames to support the new comb. It makes the comb just the right size in a deep frame to cut 4x4 comb.
For queen rearing
Hello have a Question when the bees die and no brood in colony do mites die with bees or can they live on empty comb and if yes how long TY
Mites are parasites on the bees. When their host dies, they die too.
What we do with honey in dead cells...tell me pls
What should be done if there is mold on the wax and on the cap honey? Is it still usable?
Very informative!
I'm looking to buy old dry honeycomb, can you sell me pieces? I need for artwork
Andrew,
Send me an email and I can see what we have. info at thehoneycompany.com.
This is the cleanest dead hive I have ever seen. No wax moth, no burr comb, No black comb, even the frames are looking less than a year old.
Beekeepers are the single coolest people, ever.