Hi the I believe reason those bees dies is because the number of bees got low (most likely lost queen) and you had to much space and the colder nights we had killed the bees. Something I have learned from experience is you have to have a good ratio of bees to the amount of space you have in the hive. An example that I like to use is trying to heat a 3000 square foot house with a small electric heater is like a small cluster of bees trying to keep two boxes of the hive warm.
It appeared your bees were clustered together to try to maintain/promote warmth for their queen and any brood, but there were way too few bees. If a hive goes into winter with too few bees, they can't generate enough heat to survive. Also, could they reach their honey stores? In cold weather, they tend to only move upwards for honey, not side to side. Just something to think about. Believe me, every bee keeper has lost their share of bees. You just keep on trying the next year!
Agree with your assessment that the bees starved to death even though they had some honey in the top super. Really could not tell for sure since they didn't pull out the other frames in the brood chamber. Also, the wasp had nothing to do with the death of this hive. Good luck to them this spring on their new hives. They should have feed this hive in the fall.
Really enjoyed watching you build the greenhouse and seeing how Lorraine harvested the honey. I know what it feels like to lose your first colony! Been there! Just bought your chicken tractor plans and probably will buy the course on chicken processing too. Thanks for making these available!
If the bees are dead and the their tongues are sticking out that means they where poisoned somewhere that ppl have sprayed. I lost 8 hives due to ppl spraying chemicals.
Ridge pole -I’ve done 2. The long pole method I didn’t have space for. Attaching 1 at a time was exhausting for me. But building out 3 lengths to run into the brackets & adding a new length everytime the other end was in the bracket on the hoop worked for me. There was a lot of back & forth. But less stress on my neck & shoulders
Well that is very upsetting! I would cry if I lost a hive. Now you have a chance to capture a wild hive of bees. Put a bee box in a sturdy tree and see what you can catch.
We lost our first batch of bees too, but most of them left in the middle of winter and there were not many dead ones left behind in the hives. We're not sure what happened, but we assume they abandoned the hives due to lack of resources. We had water and pollen out for them but we didn't provide any extra sugar water and they must have thought they didn't have enough honey to survive the winter. Oh well, we'll try again. The honey from the abandoned hives is the best tasting honey I've ever had! It's worth it to keep trying bees even though it's an expensive hobby with a huge learning curve. Good luck to you guys!
So enjoyable to watch the two of you learning as you go, your interest in finding the cause, so many of your posts, you have many people who will help you long the way. I am not a honey lover, but it always looks so good. The two of you work so good together, and so patient with each other.
Merci for sharing your experience w/ bees! Strongest hives survive, weaker ones go by wayside, Bond method, live & let die survival of the fittest. Now you have proven strong survivor hive that can be split into another hive or 2 later this year. Your empty can be used for splits. Also can use styro coolers (Omaha steaks/Jenny craig etc) to make swarm lures to catch your or other feral survivor honey bee swarms. Keep on Beekeeping the Planet! 🐝🐝🐝
Yep welcome to bee family. We are in northern Montana. Lost three hives last year. FYI order bees ahead. Some have a time limit when you can order bee,mine is March. I scrape my frame with a pancake turner into a colander. Then let it drip. With only the few frames I wrap and freeze.
One time we were at a festival and my wife and I were showing how to braid wool rugs. I took a break and visited a been vendor who let me help him spin out the honey in his equipment loved the opportunity. I would suggest going to a class hands on and see this being done first hand and in the coming years you too can add to your homestead classes on this subject. Great fun and oh so good.
We actually leave our honey covered tools outside for a couple days for the other hives to clean out because they can recycle other hives honey. OBVIOUSLY CHECK to make sure it is parasite and disease free first.
You can get yourselves set up to catch a swarm this year as well. I had one year a mouse got in the hive and destroyed it. This year I had one swarm catpture hive be lost to wax months. I still have two swarm capture hives going. PS I don't have an extractor either. This year I got 15 pints from 7 frames. Had to manually scrape frames and strain just like you did.
It would be easier to have a pet tiger than try to keep bees alive. They are the most fickle and infuriating creatures. They are wildly unpredictable, and such a mystery. Bees gonna bee.
Hi Jason, sorry about the bees, but looks like you have good advice from others on that score. High tunnel is looking great just remember to install the plastic on a warm day. If you do it on a cold day then when it warms up it will sag and you will have to re-tighten it. Also, did they supply anti-hotspot tape for you to put between the metal poles and the plastic. It will extend the life of the cover if you use it.
Green House is coming together. I'm so excited for you. All the veggies, herbs, flowers you'll be THANKFULLY EATING. It's nice to get a taste of your honey. ❤❤❤🀄🥀🌹🙏🇮🇱🙏🛐🛐🛐🌹🥀 I am very thankful to watch your Loving family VLOGS And🎉 FRIDAY SHOPTALK. You are BLESSED. FROM SE MICHIGAN.
New or weak bee hives can be attacked by wasps and destroyed. The wasps are going after the honey and protein. Wasps can sting multiple times while Honey Bees can only sting once. You will have to fortify protections for the hives going forward if you want them to survive. Also, you can look into wasp-killing sprays or some other way to kill the wasps in addition to fortifying the protections around the hives. I am so sorry that your bees died.
Stinks about the colony. This is beekeeping. No matter how hard you work or study, you are going to lose bees. Man, I wish I was closer to help you as you take on these amazing insects.
Can you please tell me where to get the blue barrels? I’m in Burlington, NC. Thank you, Keith Henderson Btw: I’ve been on the Carnivore Diet for two years and have lost 127 lbs. and am no longer diabetic. Have stopped 12 medications.
Get you some buckwheat and seed your garden bed-beds it grows fast and add nutrients back to the soil also bees love it for nectar. One of the fastest growing flowers for bees. For you maybe in late April or May put the seed out. Not sure your area but if you know when the time of your last frost date. Plant some clover they call it frost seeding just broadcast it to help fertilize your soil plus food for your animals when they graze...and we'll bees like it for honey also.. look into Gabe Brown and green seed cover. I am trying to learn myself cause they talk about making sure you do it right but what's the right way?? I just do it to give my chicken food the best I can...
Greetings. I’m a 10 year beekeeper. There is so much to learn! I would put the empty brood box on the living hive. That way they will use the space in spring. If you leave the empty boxes where they are, wax moths/hive beetles may ruin it as soon as it gets warm since there are no bees to defend it.
Bees can die for a variety of reasons including varroa mite load, damp, lack of honey stores, wasp attacks etc. Were you doing inspections during cold weather? They should really be left over the winter and make sure they have enough stores (including some extra fondant) if you took of the supers
Hey Jason, if you pay attention to all those pine trees, you won't find much grass growing underneath them. You should get rid of all of those pine trees. Plant something like Whiteoak, Hickory, Poplar, or Maple. Any thing besides pine. Hope you have a wonderful new year and God bless you and the family.
You’re both good at learning & I’m sure your bee keeping will succeed. Maybe you & the Hollars can rent some processing equipment together? Sad that you lost a whole hive. The progress is wonderful in spite of this. May 2024 be a prosperous, healthy year for everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦
That time lapse on the honey dripping was very cool! Now you can make some honey garlic ferment!! It’s considered GOLD for preventing illness and colds! God bless! Thanks for sharing love your videos! Listened to the podcast today always enjoyable!❤️🥰🇨🇦🍁🙏🏻
I so enjoy watching what you and Lorraine do all around the homestead. It's definitely a huge improvement from two years ago. I'm sticking around for all of it. Happy New Year Jason, Lorraine and Penelope.
Great Job on the high tunnel. I built mine last year by myself and so can truly appreciate your accomplishment. My elbow hurt for months from using the impact driver. Sooo many trips up and down the ladders! 😂❤ Many blessings on your endeavors!
A wise man once told me "knee pads aren't for old guys, their for smart guys, but the older you are the less good they will do, so get smart while you're young". I still don't where them even when I know I should.
Sorry about your Bees but at least u did get to taste the honey. You are doing great with a High tunnel and working by yourself. Tell Zeke to help you 😂
Hi I joined 2 tubes at a time on my tunnel, both work as you show. Our tunnels in UK are a bit different (they were 10 years ago when I put mine up) I didn't have the spring clips like yours They looked interesting on your pig one. I did mine in summer to get poly really tight . It is still like a drum skin, it was 50°C inside the tunnel when covering on my jack as all the people that said they would help with cover dissapeard for a few days LOL. I enjoyed a cold beer or 10 when I was done
Hi the I believe reason those bees dies is because the number of bees got low (most likely lost queen) and you had to much space and the colder nights we had killed the bees. Something I have learned from experience is you have to have a good ratio of bees to the amount of space you have in the hive. An example that I like to use is trying to heat a 3000 square foot house with a small electric heater is like a small cluster of bees trying to keep two boxes of the hive warm.
It appeared your bees were clustered together to try to maintain/promote warmth for their queen and any brood, but there were way too few bees. If a hive goes into winter with too few bees, they can't generate enough heat to survive. Also, could they reach their honey stores? In cold weather, they tend to only move upwards for honey, not side to side.
Just something to think about.
Believe me, every bee keeper has lost their share of bees. You just keep on trying the next year!
Agree with your assessment that the bees starved to death even though they had some honey in the top super. Really could not tell for sure since they didn't pull out the other frames in the brood chamber. Also, the wasp had nothing to do with the death of this hive. Good luck to them this spring on their new hives. They should have feed this hive in the fall.
It's definitely worth getting a honey extractor/spinner. The honey pours and it's super fun to bottle up gallons of delicious honey 🍯😋
it's on my Christmas list for this year
You never ever do a hive inspection in the winter you want them to stay warm and wait till spring
Love your methodical non drama ways.
Make sure you plant flowers for them in the spring
Really enjoyed watching you build the greenhouse and seeing how Lorraine harvested the honey. I know what it feels like to lose your first colony! Been there!
Just bought your chicken tractor plans and probably will buy the course on chicken processing too. Thanks for making these available!
If the bees are dead and the their tongues are sticking out that means they where poisoned somewhere that ppl have sprayed. I lost 8 hives due to ppl spraying chemicals.
It can also mean they starved to death.
My wife and really like your channel and content. We watch 99 percent of your videos but hardly ever if ever comment. Thank you all so much!
Ridge pole -I’ve done 2. The long pole method I didn’t have space for. Attaching 1 at a time was exhausting for me. But building out 3 lengths to run into the brackets & adding a new length everytime the other end was in the bracket on the hoop worked for me.
There was a lot of back & forth. But less stress on my neck & shoulders
Love your videos! Till up a patch of land and sprinkle wild flower seeds to help your bees this summer 🙂thanks for another video!!
Well that is very upsetting! I would cry if I lost a hive. Now you have a chance to capture a wild hive of bees. Put a bee box in a sturdy tree and see what you can catch.
We lost our first batch of bees too, but most of them left in the middle of winter and there were not many dead ones left behind in the hives. We're not sure what happened, but we assume they abandoned the hives due to lack of resources. We had water and pollen out for them but we didn't provide any extra sugar water and they must have thought they didn't have enough honey to survive the winter. Oh well, we'll try again. The honey from the abandoned hives is the best tasting honey I've ever had! It's worth it to keep trying bees even though it's an expensive hobby with a huge learning curve. Good luck to you guys!
Put the honey in the other hive to help the other hive survive through the winter.
So enjoyable to watch the two of you learning as you go, your interest in finding the cause, so many of your posts, you have many people who will help you long the way. I am not a honey lover, but it always looks so good. The two of you work so good together, and so patient with each other.
Merci for sharing your experience w/ bees! Strongest hives survive, weaker ones go by wayside, Bond method, live & let die survival of the fittest. Now you have proven strong survivor hive that can be split into another hive or 2 later this year. Your empty can be used for splits. Also can use styro coolers (Omaha steaks/Jenny craig etc) to make swarm lures to catch your or other feral survivor honey bee swarms. Keep on Beekeeping the Planet!
🐝🐝🐝
Put the honey frames on top of the other hive to help save the comb.
Yep welcome to bee family. We are in northern Montana. Lost three hives last year. FYI order bees ahead. Some have a time limit when you can order bee,mine is March. I scrape my frame with a pancake turner into a colander. Then let it drip. With only the few frames I wrap and freeze.
Sorry to hear about your bees. Hope your other hive continues to thrive.
That high tunnel looks great!
My husband & i put up a 17× 48 gothic greenhouse 10 years ago . We put 1 ridge pole at a time .
Happy new year
Awwwww the poor bees😢
I'm soooooo glad you did the ridge pole in sections
Jason did u forget to screw nails in the individual poles making up the middle big pole on the green house ?
One time we were at a festival and my wife and I were showing how to braid wool rugs. I took a break and visited a been vendor who let me help him spin out the honey in his equipment loved the opportunity. I would suggest going to a class hands on and see this being done first hand and in the coming years you too can add to your homestead classes on this subject. Great fun and oh so good.
Trying to do the ridge in one long piece strikes me as mildly insane.
We had bees for years. We live in Arizona and my favorite honey is Desert honey. It’s real dark and has a flavor on its own.
I hope you plant lots of flowers in and around your veggie boxes this year, so your bees have plenty to choose from.
Sorry to hear you lost a hive. If it was wasps, try restricting the entrance so your bees can defend the hive
We actually leave our honey covered tools outside for a couple days for the other hives to clean out because they can recycle other hives honey. OBVIOUSLY CHECK to make sure it is parasite and disease free first.
Thank you - so much to learn about bees and from bees!
Honey looks wonderful
You can get yourselves set up to catch a swarm this year as well. I had one year a mouse got in the hive and destroyed it. This year I had one swarm catpture hive be lost to wax months. I still have two swarm capture hives going. PS I don't have an extractor either. This year I got 15 pints from 7 frames. Had to manually scrape frames and strain just like you did.
It would be easier to have a pet tiger than try to keep bees alive. They are the most fickle and infuriating creatures. They are wildly unpredictable, and such a mystery. Bees gonna bee.
The honey looked great
Didn’t you put some feed jars on your hives to get them through the winter?😊
Sorry for your bees!
That high tunnel is a lot of work ❤
Jason: 3 pig friends .... I can see them on ladders!
When your done filtering the honey, i think if you take the funnel and boil it in hot water the wax should come off.
so sorry for the loss of your bees. it's always a problem when you lose any animal.
Talk to your bee mentor about freezing the frames to destroy any wax moth eggs.
Hi Jason, sorry about the bees, but looks like you have good advice from others on that score. High tunnel is looking great just remember to install the plastic on a warm day. If you do it on a cold day then when it warms up it will sag and you will have to re-tighten it. Also, did they supply anti-hotspot tape for you to put between the metal poles and the plastic. It will extend the life of the cover if you use it.
What about a heat matt like for sprouts to warm the jar and help it drain?
I'm very disappointed all of my Bees just Disappeared a few days ago too
Also, if it's below 50 degrees you shouldn't be opening your hive. Leave the honey in the hive until late spring.
Sorry to hear about the bees 😢 thank you for sharing 😊
Green House is coming together. I'm so excited for you. All the veggies, herbs, flowers you'll be THANKFULLY EATING.
It's nice to get a taste of your honey. ❤❤❤🀄🥀🌹🙏🇮🇱🙏🛐🛐🛐🌹🥀
I am very thankful to watch your Loving family VLOGS
And🎉 FRIDAY SHOPTALK.
You are BLESSED. FROM SE MICHIGAN.
New or weak bee hives can be attacked by wasps and destroyed. The wasps are going after the honey and protein. Wasps can sting multiple times while Honey Bees can only sting once. You will have to fortify protections for the hives going forward if you want them to survive. Also, you can look into wasp-killing sprays or some other way to kill the wasps in addition to fortifying the protections around the hives. I am so sorry that your bees died.
I lost 2 hives over last winter, I have been keeping bees for 5 years and it never gets easier.... It's always devastating to loose a hive....
Looks like a church❤
It would be nice if you lived outside a larger town to have rental butcher equipment, honey extractors, you know all the tools….
Stinks about the colony. This is beekeeping. No matter how hard you work or study, you are going to lose bees. Man, I wish I was closer to help you as you take on these amazing insects.
epic hair Jason
Did you put in the screws lower than the joint?
Great job on tunnel
You can boil your sieve and the wax should float off
Glad to see you using the knee pads and saving your knees for your future years.
Can you please tell me where to get the blue barrels? I’m in Burlington, NC.
Thank you,
Keith Henderson
Btw:
I’ve been on the Carnivore Diet for two years and have lost 127 lbs. and am no longer diabetic. Have stopped 12 medications.
Get you some buckwheat and seed your garden bed-beds it grows fast and add nutrients back to the soil also bees love it for nectar. One of the fastest growing flowers for bees. For you maybe in late April or May put the seed out. Not sure your area but if you know when the time of your last frost date. Plant some clover they call it frost seeding just broadcast it to help fertilize your soil plus food for your animals when they graze...and we'll bees like it for honey also.. look into Gabe Brown and green seed cover. I am trying to learn myself cause they talk about making sure you do it right but what's the right way?? I just do it to give my chicken food the best I can...
Plant lots of flowers they ❤️ flowers
Ive been keeping bees for about 12 years and I still make mistakes.
New beekeepers make lots of mistakes. Don't give up.
Have a great 2024
Nice job!! Sorry about your bee's!!
Is there a local bee guild that owns an extractor for the members to use?
My brother in law is a bee keeper knows alot , he just moved to Georgia ... if ya need questions answered I think he had a Instagram.
You need to feed them, they dont have anything to eat outside the hive.. the whasp wont kill them. Do a mite check
How is your ecthma going? I know i spelled that wrong.
Sorry about your bees. It was an interesting video.
Leave the honey - they need it to get thru winter....
Eat it with the wax just spread on toast, that way none of the honey is wasted on a cloth.
Split your strong hive and buy a new queen for them.
Too bad about the bees, but it happens. Continue forward.
Welcome to beekeeping. Sorry it happened.
thanks
Try to plant some neem tree in border of your farm.
Heat the spatula.
Do you have a chainsaw recommendation?
Are you sure the honey is safe? Something killed all the bees???
you can eat the comb...
Greetings. I’m a 10 year beekeeper. There is so much to learn! I would put the empty brood box on the living hive. That way they will use the space in spring. If you leave the empty boxes where they are, wax moths/hive beetles may ruin it as soon as it gets warm since there are no bees to defend it.
Bees can die for a variety of reasons including varroa mite load, damp, lack of honey stores, wasp attacks etc. Were you doing inspections during cold weather? They should really be left over the winter and make sure they have enough stores (including some extra fondant) if you took of the supers
Hey Jason, if you pay attention to all those pine trees, you won't find much grass growing underneath them. You should get rid of all of those pine trees. Plant something like Whiteoak, Hickory, Poplar, or Maple. Any thing besides pine. Hope you have a wonderful new year and God bless you and the family.
Oh how upsetting!! I have 5 hives here and I love all my girls - I'd be devastated to find them gone. Hope your other hive survives!!
You’re both good at learning & I’m sure your bee keeping will succeed. Maybe you & the Hollars can rent some processing equipment together? Sad that you lost a whole hive. The progress is wonderful in spite of this. May 2024 be a prosperous, healthy year for everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦
Doesn't the cold weather have the same effect on bees?
That time lapse on the honey dripping was very cool! Now you can make some honey garlic ferment!! It’s considered GOLD for preventing illness and colds! God bless! Thanks for sharing love your videos! Listened to the podcast today always enjoyable!❤️🥰🇨🇦🍁🙏🏻
So sad about your bees😢. Hope the other hive winters over well. Happy, healthy 2024 to all of you!
You are going to have to get an extractor to spin the frames to extract the honey.
I so enjoy watching what you and Lorraine do all around the homestead. It's definitely a huge improvement from two years ago. I'm sticking around for all of it. Happy New Year Jason, Lorraine and Penelope.
make the passage to get into the hive too small and restricted for the wasp to get in
maybe that will work
a strong hive will try to kill the wasp
The hours of viewing pleasure!Thank you,dear Jason and family. The berrys in Nova Scotia
The high tunnel is coming along you been busy brother.
busy bee
You should of left the honey for the other hive, you aren’t that hard up for food. 🇬🇧
I’ve got greenhouse envy.
I'm awfully curious how you build your end walls. Can't wait for that video and I hope you give us details.
stay tuned, coming soon
The bees starved. That is what that dead cluster on the empty frame indicates.
Unfortunately it happens, I have a nuc and package coming in the spring
thanks man!
To help the honey flow put it in the oven with the light on
Great Job on the high tunnel. I built mine last year by myself and so can truly appreciate your accomplishment. My elbow hurt for months from using the impact driver. Sooo many trips up and down the ladders! 😂❤ Many blessings on your endeavors!
A wise man once told me "knee pads aren't for old guys, their for smart guys, but the older you are the less good they will do, so get smart while you're young". I still don't where them even when I know I should.
Sorry about your Bees but at least u did get to taste the honey. You are doing great with a High tunnel and working by yourself. Tell Zeke to help you 😂
If you did put the frame outside near the hive. The bees will clean it up.
you need to keep them warm and feed them during the winter
Hi I joined 2 tubes at a time on my tunnel, both work as you show. Our tunnels in UK are a bit different (they were 10 years ago when I put mine up) I didn't have the spring clips like yours They looked interesting on your pig one. I did mine in summer to get poly really tight . It is still like a drum skin, it was 50°C inside the tunnel when covering on my jack as all the people that said they would help with cover dissapeard for a few days LOL. I enjoyed a cold beer or 10 when I was done
Honey bees will clean the frames off themselves