Empty Honey Supers! Could the Demaree Method Save a Potentially Dismal Honey Harvest?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- Foul, wet, rainy weather in May has put a damper on my honey harvest here in Central Pennsylvania. Could the Demaree method help improve the situation?
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Hey Darren, hope you’re able to catch the flow! Our main flow should start this week. All the rainy weather might ruin it though. Thanks for sharing.
My honey harvest is looking better since I did the Demaree method on those few remaining hives. Thanks for stopping by. - Darren
Darren, good video. It was nice to see your hives again.
With the bee population getting strong now they could fill a super in a week. It will be a pain to check to see how full the super is. But you should get some honey for sure. My honey crop is suffering also, to many windy rainy days with only a few days to forage. I maybe lucky to get half the crop I got in a drought year. UGH
Hey Russell, The Demaree's will be a pain to check but I only have a few more weeks to go. It's interesting though that my one traditional hive is doing best of all. - Darren
A couple of adult beverages and a good nights sleep always seems to do the trick 😄
At least I know one person watched the video up to that point - lol!
@@PennsylvaniaBeekeeper I watched the whole thing, I just liked that comment 😂. Those Demaree splits really work!
Hi there! This video was on my FYP nice to see another central PA YouTubing beek.
Hello UnlikelyBeek, Where are you from? I'm in Clearfield County.
@@PennsylvaniaBeekeeper Southern York county
Thanks for showing this, Darren! I hope the flow goes well for you!
Brad, It's going better already. Thanks for saying hello. -Darren
Nice Darren. Next week I'm starting to harvest the supers. Too hot this week.
Hey Tom, I'm a few weeks away from pulling my supers but this season is quickly winding down. Then it'll be off to doing splits. -Darren
Great video Darren. Im glad you were able to salvage some honey. My season has been a total wash out (rain thru out April and May). In desparation, and just to know, I removed the queen excluders from a few colonies. My last hope is Mesquite and ill know if that gave me anything on Saturday. It looks like you have your own troll in the comments. Im jealous. Having trolls is a sign of YTube success!
I tried removing the excluders and the bees still wouldn't move into the honey supers, so then I did the Demaree which seemed to work. But as you can see in the comments, I'm a bad, bad beekeeper for doing so. lol! - Darren
Glad to see another Demaree fan. But there are 2 versions of it. It sounds like you learned the Rolling Demaree. The other one is a 28 day manipulation and that's the end of it. They are both very powerful manipulations.
Yes, I'm doing the rolling Demaree but depending on my flow I might only do two more rotations. -Darren
Dumm
@@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm have you seen the amounts of honey coming from a Demaree hive? Not pushing it on people, just showing people results.
I used the Demarre system this year. No swarms and got 320 lbs from 6 hives.
I'm probably looking at about 200-300 lbs from 6 honey hives. I was worried that I was looking at maybe 100 lbs, but it's looking better.
Dumm
not a bad idea, I have mostly foundation only supers that need drawn, I am prolly gunna give this method a try to speed up drawing comb. Question, what is the big water bottles for?
Hello, the water bottles are so that I have water at the apiary for those sticky days in the supers. Also smokers in the dry summer months make me nervous, also there is a fire extinguisher in the truck. -Darren
@@PennsylvaniaBeekeeper We keep 55 gallon barrels at the bee yard and the garden to rinse my hands off when I need to. And today we added our summer guppies to the barrels. Guppies will eat mosquito larvae so it actually is supposed to cut down our mosquito problem by letting the mosquito lay eggs that will be eaten. This is also my bee watering hole so sometimes it gets interesting to rinse my hands but so far it works out. Usually we add some duckweed, water lettuce, and other top water plants so the bees have something to land on. Been doing this for several years and works out great here. Fortunately this is at my home yard so I have well water for fires, but yea, I get it for outyards.
That amount of honey happens regardless. Of anything your probably giving the queen more space to lay Your forcing them to make emergency cells and breaking up the main colony for no reason
It worked for my bees. Thanks for your comment.
Lets do a technique wrong and make a youtune about it. You geeks just
Like saying Demaree.Method.
I actually dont like saying Demaree b/c I say it wrong every time.