1) What ideas do you have that dry honey but don't cost anything? 6:52 2) I had a late season swarm, and caught the Queen. Does she have enough time to build up? 23:20 3) How do you remove honey stains from porous rock? Ideas? 35:14 4) I have a swarm that was housed in a 6-frame Layen's Swarm Trap. Now it's completely empty. Did the bees abscond? Why? 37:40 5) Did I kill my queen, or did the workers eject her? After treating with Formic Pro. How can I keep a queen alive outside the hive during formic treatment? 53:00 6) What is that sound I hear? I don't see the bees wings moving? 59:40 7) I saw your video where you add spirulina to your sugar syrup. How much should I use? 1:05:35
Another great informative video. Amazing that they kept the hole the same size and that even if capable the hornets didn't even pay any attention. The watered down feed sugar keeping the robbers busy and not feeding your neighbors bees.
Great Q&A Fred. Thank you. I have had great success with the mossy bird bath. I have neighbors with pools so keeping the bees interested in my watering station has been a struggle. This is the first year the bees were all over my station and did not “abscond” mid summer. Here is what I have observed. Bees love a concrete paver just above the waterline as much as moss on top of a paver. But, moss growing at the waters edge is much more popular. I did not clean the bird bath out other than removing any large debris, like falling leaves. I did keep the water level full, checking it every day or two. Fill at night. Turns out messing with a bees water station can upset them. I also used mosquito dunks and they appeared to have no effect on the bees. (No increase in dead or poisoned bees). My goal for next season it to get more moss to grow on the edge if the concrete bird bath. One last thing. Google moss concrete. It is a concrete designed to encourage moss growth. The concrete includes nutrients and the correct acidity for moss to grow…
Thanks for sharing, Ross. :) We are obsessed with moss around here. I've been establishing it in my woodlands for more than 20 years. I wish I'd started it on my watering wall sooner. I find rocks that have moss on them and use that for seeding the concrete. If nothing else it looks great :) Now, if the chickens stop picking it off the concrete I'll be all set. (">
A cool, damp 56 degrees here at 8;30 this morning. Light rain over night, but skies are clearing with the breeze predicted to be 10-15 and gusty, still at the moment. Ilike the discussion about the dancefloor, thought provoking. Had to install some robbing screens this past week...hoping to check out that hive today or tomorrow when the wind maybe less because they were strong...Thanks for another great Q&A. Have a great week!
There are always holes in the winter brood.. "not used cells" that a heating bee enters and vibrates to warm the 6 capped cells around. The empty cells are spread around the capped brood so bees can enter in and vibrate from time to time to keep the brood warm. It's one of the jobs that makes bees get older faster
Re: vevo sun tents: I’ve got 3. One for carnivorous plants with heat, light, and high humidity, one for hot peppers and tomatoes through the winter with the heat from the lights and ambient humidity, and a third that I’m setting up for both dehumidifying honey and space for the emu egg incubator, since I live in a literal swamp at 50 to 70% ambient humidity, and the emu incubation failed without the 35% required humidity. Fingers crossed for emu success!
European hornets are puppies. They just look scary. The yellow jackets are the monsters to hate and kill. I like to catch the new queens this time of year. I even feed them quality food
Morton salt has a factory right outside of windsor Ontario (where i live) i also want to say that i love your videos, and your interviews w/experts keep them coming lol
Here in SE coastal VA , the goldenrod is still golden, the cotton still has blooms, my goats have eaten all my sunflowers and my tulip polar saplings, the bees are pulling in nectar and yellow pollen, the temps are consistently bee friendly, and the asters are getting started. I’ve begun open feeding syrup with some hive alive juice in there, I’ve pulled the honey supers and most are half capped but at a good low water content, but to fail safe, I put the frames in a plastic tote with a gasketed lid to keep air and ants out, and place a dririte dehumidifier pack in there with them. Life here is good, and the bees are having a blast! Thanks for the videos and see you at the Expo for that free donut and coffee offer!
Great episode! I've been away for a while; I liked the 1 gallon zip log bag feeding tip. What is the PH of your tap water in your area? Mine here in SW Missouri is 7.6 to 7.8, I know that from my time trying to grow aquarium plants that prefer below that on the PH scale, the high PH was very hard to keep in check without expense means. I wonder if that factors in as well with bees.
When it comes to sugar syrup, the bees aren't apt to show a preference for one PH level over another. I use filtered well water, so there isn't any treatment as you'd fine with municipal water supplies.
In last weeks Q & A, you showed a plastic trivet to hold the fondant pack on top of the frames. I saw that and began to suspect I've been doing it all wrong. Is it incorrect to cut the window in the fondant pack and slap it face down on the frames? Some fondant does drip down during really hot weather, but it won't be hot very long. Winter is coming early this year.
Hi Fred, gr8 vidéo… interesting to see the bees suck out the spirelina bag… You mentioned bee vibrations towards the end…do bees have the ability to change vibrating frequency? I wonder what frequency would destroy VDMs? I remember in Shanghai we set up a 7 axis shaker table and took it through its paces. At 26Hz the building shook… natural frequency reached! It would be interesting if VDM could be killed with hi frequency and keep bees safe!
If you cannot get the "stain" out your stonework, perhaps "staining" all of the stonework or an area of it would be preferable. Instead of noticeable stain areas you'd have an overall tone.
@@FrederickDunn thank you. I had tried PlantNet in the past and didn’t really like it as it didn’t seem very accurate. I got the PictureThis app today and I really like it. I tried it out on about ten different plants and trees that I knew the identity of and it only misidentified one of them and it was a picture of the bark of a tree. When I used the leaves of the tree it correctly identified it.
Hi Fred. What lovely Stripey Bee at the beginning of your Q&A today. Watch at x23 Minutes after Broadcast ! (3.30AM here in Scotland ! 🏴) 😄 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2024 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 I mainly have Mutt Bees. Of the AMM type : little Dark local Girls. Now more Black Bees as in Summer of 2024 : I purchased x2 Black Bee Breeder Queens. So good to know I have there Genetics to increase the % of Black Bee in my Splits / etc. Each time I do Re-Queening. Know some find 'Black Bees' to be Fiesty (Angsty) but in my Locality Black Bees Rule ! They survive our Scottish Winters well. Are Bees that are as hard as Nails (re cooler Days) and go Foraging even at below 15C (Mid 50sF) Sweet ! A famous Bee Farm and Beek says Black Bees are they way to go. They are approximately x10 Miles from me. They've been there for over x 60 Years ! An awesome Bee 'Tourist' Attraction to visit. 👍
Hi Fred, I seen an ugly sight the other day. A mite walking on my queen. I'm assuming it was a temporary Phoresy? Or do you think it was looking to feed?
Today I was cleaning up the honey and comb from last weeks cut-out in town (#20 in 2024). There were lots of honeysuckle bushes and a huge trumpet vine growing around the shed where I removed the colony. To me, the honey did not taste very good, but I did give the allergic owner a piece of capped honeycomb when I removed it. All the honey goes to feed my bees, and not myself or family. I will not use strange honey for human consumption, because I have no way of knowing what factors came into play when the bees made it. I had thought that the bees would re-make it, adding enzymes and changing the finished product. But you just said that honey would be directly stored in cells. Please tell me more! My misconceptions make me feel so stupid when you explain things.
What about muriatic acid… powder form and scrubbing brush… most stone is alkaline so acid will etch… don’t use on marble or limestone… concrete and bricks are OK and gr8 for cleaning lime off glass…
How should I put out comb for my bees to clean up so that the red "pissants" don't swarm it? I set up a station covered in foil and squirted dish soap along the walls, but the darn ants still got into it. I also made the mistake of putting more comb residue (from a cut-out) than they could clean up in one day. I had to leave it out over night. I'm anticipating a red ant mess that I'll have to drown tomorrow, possibly getting ant bites; and I expressly wanted to use the wax. Update; Surprise! I just went out with a flashlight, and not only had the bees all gone in for the night, the ants were in their nest as well. There were several cabbage butterflies (not moths) on the comb. I moved the whole platform to another area that might not give ants access.
I'll talk about this in another video, likely for next Friday's Q&A. I'd put the comb on a pedestal, with a water mote underneath of it and put the comb on top of that.
Open feeding is illegal in Massachusetts which I think is a good thing because I do not want my bees getting mites and diseases from other people's bees or feral bees.
Then open feeding isn't an option for you. I've not observed a varroa mite traveling from one forager to another at a feeding station. It's rare for foragers to have mites on them at all... but, if they did have one on the abdomen, what do you think inspires the varroa mite to leave the abdomen of one bee and travel to another forager at a feeding station? I find that to be highly unlikely. As I mention, it's more efficient to feed inside the hive. Within your own apiary, you're not stopping bees from entering all of the hives as drift is happening at a very high rate.
@@FrederickDunn Mite transfer from flower to forager, although rare, has been shown to occur (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5152851/) so I assumed that transfer can also occur at feeding stations. I agree with all that you said.
Fred you might want to go see a cardiologist to get checked out. It appears in the video that your left eye is drooping and your lower eyelid is puffy and swollen. Best to be safe
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1) What ideas do you have that dry honey but don't cost anything? 6:52
2) I had a late season swarm, and caught the Queen. Does she have enough time to build up? 23:20
3) How do you remove honey stains from porous rock? Ideas? 35:14
4) I have a swarm that was housed in a 6-frame Layen's Swarm Trap. Now it's completely empty. Did the bees abscond? Why? 37:40
5) Did I kill my queen, or did the workers eject her? After treating with Formic Pro. How can I keep a queen alive outside the hive during formic treatment? 53:00
6) What is that sound I hear? I don't see the bees wings moving? 59:40
7) I saw your video where you add spirulina to your sugar syrup. How much should I use? 1:05:35
Another great informative video. Amazing that they kept the hole the same size and that even if capable the hornets didn't even pay any attention. The watered down feed sugar keeping the robbers busy and not feeding your neighbors bees.
Thanks Kennith, I appreciate it :)
Thank you for another great video. I value your indepth research based responses, always learn so much. 🙏
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. :)
Great Q&A Fred. Thank you. I have had great success with the mossy bird bath. I have neighbors with pools so keeping the bees interested in my watering station has been a struggle. This is the first year the bees were all over my station and did not “abscond” mid summer. Here is what I have observed. Bees love a concrete paver just above the waterline as much as moss on top of a paver. But, moss growing at the waters edge is much more popular. I did not clean the bird bath out other than removing any large debris, like falling leaves. I did keep the water level full, checking it every day or two. Fill at night. Turns out messing with a bees water station can upset them. I also used mosquito dunks and they appeared to have no effect on the bees. (No increase in dead or poisoned bees). My goal for next season it to get more moss to grow on the edge if the concrete bird bath. One last thing. Google moss concrete. It is a concrete designed to encourage moss growth. The concrete includes nutrients and the correct acidity for moss to grow…
Thanks for sharing, Ross. :) We are obsessed with moss around here. I've been establishing it in my woodlands for more than 20 years. I wish I'd started it on my watering wall sooner. I find rocks that have moss on them and use that for seeding the concrete. If nothing else it looks great :) Now, if the chickens stop picking it off the concrete I'll be all set. (">
Thanks Fred, I think you even mentioned my name and the question I asked.
You're very welcome, and thanks for taking a moment to comment :)
Great cinematography as always Mr. Dunn 💯👌🏼
Thank you so much :)
A cool, damp 56 degrees here at 8;30 this morning. Light rain over night, but skies are clearing with the breeze predicted to be 10-15 and gusty, still at the moment. Ilike the discussion about the dancefloor, thought provoking. Had to install some robbing screens this past week...hoping to check out that hive today or tomorrow when the wind maybe less because they were strong...Thanks for another great Q&A. Have a great week!
There are always holes in the winter brood.. "not used cells" that a heating bee enters and vibrates to warm the 6 capped cells around. The empty cells are spread around the capped brood so bees can enter in and vibrate from time to time to keep the brood warm. It's one of the jobs that makes bees get older faster
Great explanation on drying moisture down
Dear Frederick, as always, thank you for showing the applicability of the tool. Greetings from Poland
Are those your isolators ? I see you have some products on your channel. Do you sell.. I'm down in Croatia
You already know that I find them indespensible these days :) Thank you for making so many useful tools. :)
Fred, you mentioned that you were going to add the link for the spirulina you purchase.
I was not able to find it listed above
David
Sorry about that, I'll update the video description. Here it is: amzn.to/3ZOT9Pz
Fab Q&A , have a great weekend Fred and everyone else
Thank you so much, you too! :)
Re: vevo sun tents: I’ve got 3. One for carnivorous plants with heat, light, and high humidity, one for hot peppers and tomatoes through the winter with the heat from the lights and ambient humidity, and a third that I’m setting up for both dehumidifying honey and space for the emu egg incubator, since I live in a literal swamp at 50 to 70% ambient humidity, and the emu incubation failed without the 35% required humidity. Fingers crossed for emu success!
Greetings from NYC🇩🇴🗽🇺🇸🐝🐓🦅
Fred that intro was fire! 🔥
Thank you :)
European hornets are puppies. They just look scary. The yellow jackets are the monsters to hate and kill. I like to catch the new queens this time of year. I even feed them quality food
You're welcome to do anything you'd like to.
Morton salt has a factory right outside of windsor Ontario (where i live) i also want to say that i love your videos, and your interviews w/experts keep them coming lol
Thank you so much for sharing. :)
Here in SE coastal VA , the goldenrod is still golden, the cotton still has blooms, my goats have eaten all my sunflowers and my tulip polar saplings, the bees are pulling in nectar and yellow pollen, the temps are consistently bee friendly, and the asters are getting started. I’ve begun open feeding syrup with some hive alive juice in there, I’ve pulled the honey supers and most are half capped but at a good low water content, but to fail safe, I put the frames in a plastic tote with a gasketed lid to keep air and ants out, and place a dririte dehumidifier pack in there with them. Life here is good, and the bees are having a blast! Thanks for the videos and see you at the Expo for that free donut and coffee offer!
Great episode! I've been away for a while; I liked the 1 gallon zip log bag feeding tip. What is the PH of your tap water in your area? Mine here in SW Missouri is 7.6 to 7.8, I know that from my time trying to grow aquarium plants that prefer below that on the PH scale, the high PH was very hard to keep in check without expense means. I wonder if that factors in as well with bees.
When it comes to sugar syrup, the bees aren't apt to show a preference for one PH level over another. I use filtered well water, so there isn't any treatment as you'd fine with municipal water supplies.
In last weeks Q & A, you showed a plastic trivet to hold the fondant pack on top of the frames. I saw that and began to suspect I've been doing it all wrong. Is it incorrect to cut the window in the fondant pack and slap it face down on the frames? Some fondant does drip down during really hot weather, but it won't be hot very long. Winter is coming early this year.
The trivet is for patties. Fondant is fine in its enclosure with the window on the underside for bee access.
Hi Fred, gr8 vidéo… interesting to see the bees suck out the spirelina bag…
You mentioned bee vibrations towards the end…do bees have the ability to change vibrating frequency? I wonder what frequency would destroy VDMs?
I remember in Shanghai we set up a 7 axis shaker table and took it through its paces. At 26Hz the building shook… natural frequency reached!
It would be interesting if VDM could be killed with hi frequency and keep bees safe!
Wow, interesting concept.
If you cannot get the "stain" out your stonework, perhaps "staining" all of the stonework or an area of it would be preferable. Instead of noticeable stain areas you'd have an overall tone.
Interesting suggestion, thanks :)
Do you have a link for the plant identification app? I could not find anything under inature.
I have old dichotomous keys I could send you!
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet&hl=en_US&pli=1
@@FrederickDunn thank you. I had tried PlantNet in the past and didn’t really like it as it didn’t seem very accurate. I got the PictureThis app today and I really like it. I tried it out on about ten different plants and trees that I knew the identity of and it only misidentified one of them and it was a picture of the bark of a tree. When I used the leaves of the tree it correctly identified it.
Hi Fred.
What lovely Stripey Bee at the beginning of your Q&A today.
Watch at x23 Minutes after Broadcast ! (3.30AM here in Scotland ! 🏴) 😄
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2024
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
I mainly have Mutt Bees. Of the AMM type : little Dark local Girls.
Now more Black Bees as in Summer of 2024 : I purchased x2 Black Bee Breeder Queens. So good to know I have there Genetics to increase the % of Black Bee in my Splits / etc. Each time I do Re-Queening.
Know some find 'Black Bees' to be Fiesty (Angsty) but in my Locality Black Bees Rule ! They survive our Scottish Winters well. Are Bees that are as hard as Nails (re cooler Days) and go Foraging even at below 15C (Mid 50sF) Sweet ! A famous Bee Farm and Beek says Black Bees are they way to go. They are approximately x10 Miles from me. They've been there for over x 60 Years ! An awesome Bee 'Tourist' Attraction to visit. 👍
I have to say that I really like seeing those dark queens when doing inspections.
Are they holly bushes in the background of opening
Yes, and the berries on them are the largest we can remember :)
Hi Fred, I seen an ugly sight the other day. A mite walking on my queen. I'm assuming it was a temporary Phoresy? Or do you think it was looking to feed?
A mite has no chance on the queen as the retinue would remove it asap....
Today I was cleaning up the honey and comb from last weeks cut-out in town (#20 in 2024). There were lots of honeysuckle bushes and a huge trumpet vine growing around the shed where I removed the colony. To me, the honey did not taste very good, but I did give the allergic owner a piece of capped honeycomb when I removed it.
All the honey goes to feed my bees, and not myself or family. I will not use strange honey for human consumption, because I have no way of knowing what factors came into play when the bees made it. I had thought that the bees would re-make it, adding enzymes and changing the finished product. But you just said that honey would be directly stored in cells.
Please tell me more! My misconceptions make me feel so stupid when you explain things.
Since it's considered "finished honey" little to no additional enzyme activity will be used to modify it further.
Hey Fred what is the picture on your shirt is that you when you used to dive
It's from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea... :)
Fred, researched and found a German Patent on ultrasonic vibration to kill varroa mites…
Please shoot that link my way... I have a background in Ultrasonics and would be interested in know more about how they achieved that.
Porous stone cleanup? Maybe hydrogen peroxide?
That was the first thing that came to my mind, though I don't have anything to back it up.
What about muriatic acid… powder form and scrubbing brush… most stone is alkaline so acid will etch… don’t use on marble or limestone… concrete and bricks are OK and gr8 for cleaning lime off glass…
How should I put out comb for my bees to clean up so that the red "pissants" don't swarm it? I set up a station covered in foil and squirted dish soap along the walls, but the darn ants still got into it. I also made the mistake of putting more comb residue (from a cut-out) than they could clean up in one day. I had to leave it out over night. I'm anticipating a red ant mess that I'll have to drown tomorrow, possibly getting ant bites; and I expressly wanted to use the wax.
Update; Surprise! I just went out with a flashlight, and not only had the bees all gone in for the night, the ants were in their nest as well. There were several cabbage butterflies (not moths) on the comb. I moved the whole platform to another area that might not give ants access.
I'll talk about this in another video, likely for next Friday's Q&A. I'd put the comb on a pedestal, with a water mote underneath of it and put the comb on top of that.
Open feeding is illegal in Massachusetts which I think is a good thing because I do not want my bees getting mites and diseases from other people's bees or feral bees.
I didn't know there were Communist states!
Then open feeding isn't an option for you. I've not observed a varroa mite traveling from one forager to another at a feeding station. It's rare for foragers to have mites on them at all... but, if they did have one on the abdomen, what do you think inspires the varroa mite to leave the abdomen of one bee and travel to another forager at a feeding station? I find that to be highly unlikely. As I mention, it's more efficient to feed inside the hive. Within your own apiary, you're not stopping bees from entering all of the hives as drift is happening at a very high rate.
@@FrederickDunn Mite transfer from flower to forager, although rare, has been shown to occur (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5152851/) so I assumed that transfer can also occur at feeding stations. I agree with all that you said.
Hi fred i open feed this time of year because yellow jackets fly early and they come to open feeder and leave my hives alone. Great vdo ty
I agree that it does help to divert the attention of would-be robbers :) Thanks so much.
H😊Appy fredday
hey uncle Fred!!!!! thought something happened to ya!!!!
A suddenly slow internet happened to me. :) Thanks for your patience :)
@@FrederickDunn LOL! Sounds like my internet!
Fred you might want to go see a cardiologist to get checked out. It appears in the video that your left eye is drooping and your lower eyelid is puffy and swollen. Best to be safe
Might be a bee sting
Orrr just a lack of sleep :) Thanks for being concerned. :)
L8, m8!
Sloooow internet hit us. Thanks for your patience :)