Honeybee Hive Inspections and Splits with Homestead Refuge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2024
- I returned to @HomesteadRefuge to inspect the beehives and check on the swarm traps. While there we looked for swarm preparations, discussed what we saw on the frames, and created some splits. Keep following to see how these hives progress and how our comparison of lemongrass oil to Swarm Commander turns out.
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I grew up on a farm on the edge of the Nebraska sandhills. A cattle ranch that bears our family name, founded in the late 1800s by my ancestors, is still owned and worked by my cousin. Life events have put me in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area in middle America, where my wife and I have raised our two kids. It's in this environment that I work to make as sustainable a life as I can, converting much of our backyard to grow food, including a garden, fruit trees and bee hives.
I attempt to use natural methods, as much as is possible, in my gardening and beekeeping. I garden organically and continue to learn to work with the soil and the plants, without the use of chemical supplements, herbicides or pesticides, to improve our harvest. Our honey bees are sourced from local colonies through swarms, trap-outs and cut-outs, and are kept, using treatment-free, natural methods, in Layens horizontal hives.
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I want to thank you for all your videos and how graciously you answered my questions. I learn so much. I did my splits in my layens as you showed and they all took.
Thanks for all you do.
I'm glad to hear that your splits went well. Thank you for the encouragement of your kind words.
very informative ,,, I have to make time to play with my girls
@suburbansodbuster, I recently received several of your swarm traps. Well done! Your attention to detail (the hive, frames, swag, packaging and ordering process) is commendable. These are a great value! Highly recommended!
I'm so glad they got to you well and that you're happy with the product. Thank you for posting to let me know. Would you do me a big favor and please leave a review on the product page on the website?
@@SuburbanSodbuster Happy to!🙂
The bees looked great! Thanks for sharing!
They're really blowing up this year!
Great video.
One suggestion though, it would be awesomeif you could have the camera closer to the hive so that we can see the frames better. Thank you again for your very informative videos
That's a good suggestion. When recording videos on my own I've been working to be conscious to give an angle where I can show, and not just tell, what I'm seeing. But to get everyone in these videos I sent the camera back farther. I'll work to improve the angles in the future.
Just went out and baited swarm trap. And smell like lemon grass.
It kind of permeates everything, doesn't it?
How long do you leave the splits before moving them to their own box?
I usually try to move them ASAP. The queen-right side is the first to get moved out; the other(s) may wait until the new queen(s) are mated and laying. I will move a colony with a queen cell but as it gets close to emergence I prefer to wait. In any case I don't want to run out of space once we get into nectar flow. In hive splits are a good way to make the split before other hive space is ready but it's just a temporary situation.