It looked like a normal queen right? But then...!
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- A couple days ago I introduced new Carniolian queens to the hives. Today I need to get in there and see if the new queens have been released. Join us on our search, and see the surprises that we find!
For some reason, a bee video appeared on my recommended and now not only am I binge watching these videos, I really want an apiary
Hope you can get one! Thanks for watching!
Noble Alexander I'm totally with u on that. lol x
Me too but.....I do fear a potentially dangerous possibility. If someone with a bee allergy is stung by one of my bees and dies, am I going to be sued? Is there "bee" or "apiary" insurance? Plus, the entire idea I caused a death, worse the death of a child gives me some pause to move forward on the idea.
Meee too! I've been watching bee videos non stop for 6 weeks just out of the blue!!!????
I'm on a bee watching spree lol loved the video
Thanks very much for watching!
One video leads into 6....after about 2 hours you get to realising, you guys have like a whole network going on. Making sure the bees are safe and restocking them after the monsanto incidents.
Thanks guys for having the common sense to do this. I know it's not easy dealing with hives that sting you.... and i know it's because you weren't around since it started so I've actually learnt a fair bit today.
Wish city slackers would damn well do the same and just work together like you guys.
Thanks for watching. Hope you can find a few more of them. :)
Same here
Same here
I like how the bees dont mind you handling the hive. Theyre just working like nothings wrong.
Most of the time they are like that. I have been blessed with gentle bees. Thanks for watching!
Paul Otis are they non-africanized?
Jerry Giesler
They are Americanized as long as somebody brings them food they will not get off their ass
Carniolan honey bee is not so aggressive as some others bees
dejan emersic Actually, Honeybees in general are way more peaceful than natural Bees and wasps.
Thank you for educating me!! On a night where I couldn't sleep, i feel I've learnt so much!! Bee's are amazing! Thank you for being kind to them ❤
Thank you very much for watching!
Thank you for supporting our bee population !
You bet! Thank you for watching the video!
I looked up queen bees of my own accord and now it’s almost 1AM and I regret nothing.
Thanks very much for watching. :)
fluffylover1231 me too!! It’s been an hour already and I still want to learn and see as much as possible about bees! They are amazing!!!
I could not sleep,and came across this video,fascinating!!!!🐝🐝
Thank you for watching!
I looked up queen Bess at 11pm now it's 5am I regret nothing
I ❤ honet bees and bumble bees. It's 5am and I've been up all night watching bee videos. Pine City Apiary got me addicted to the bees as much as their honey!
Thanks for watching! Hope you can get a nap in!
bless you for helping our friends, we must save as many bees as possible
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for showing me not to fear bees anymore and thank you for taking care of them like you do. I still am horrified of wasps tho.
This is so cool . I can’t stop watching bee videos tonight !!! HELP
Thanks for watching!
I live in the south & the only way to get rid of sinus infections is with local honey. Although I'm allergic to bee's I really love & appreciate their honey. Thank you to all those who work with these valuable creatures!!!! 😁❤
And thank you for watching!
Got to this video because I originally searched “how to kill wasps” after they built two nests on our garage door. Makes me stop and think twice. Thanks for the super-educational video!
Hope you got to take of those wasps! Thanks for watching the video. :)
Take a 2liter plastic bottle and cut the top off about 5 or 6inches from the top. Turn the top over and insert it into to cut side of the lower portion of the bottle. Tape it with duct tape so it doesn’t come apart. Put some sugar water inside or some raw ground beef. The wasps and hornets will fly inside but will be unable to get out. You can let them starve (it will take a long time if you put meat in the trap) or you can just toss the whole thing in a fire when it’s full.
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Great, it’s late and I have to watch this with the volume all the way down. Did you find them? So is that steam? Does it make the bees more calm so they don’t attack you?
Hello, I did find the queens, eventually. The "steam" is actually smoke, it does calm the bees down a little yes. Thanks for watching.
I live in Australia and have saved many bees I found on the ground. 2parts sugar to 1part water and feed them as they are starving. Bees never go on the ground and if anyone sees one please do this.. no bees, no plants, no earth, nothing.
Karen, thanks for watching!
To all the negative comments........Beehive yourselves......i know...terrible...
lol
I'll bee on my best beehavior 🐝
Gene Vincent I get it, not terrible. I made that joke once.
Gene Vincent dont worry ill bee on my way and ill beecareful
People should buzz of if they dont like bee videos.
Why cant people just beehave .
To bee or not to bee that question.
I am binge watching bee videos. I love to garden and have a big respect for bees .
I'm watching all these bee keeping videos because I'm bored as hell....but I'm sitting here like "HOW ARE YOU ALL NOT AFRAID OF GETTING STUNG!"
Don't want to get stung. But, not afraid of it. :) Thanks for watching!
Yeah, looking at your bare arms and thinking... I wouldn't want to be within sight of this, not even with a full suit
My arms aren't that scary! Thanks for Watching though Matthew!
Paul Otis: the best comeback ever! Thanks for the cool video!
Why am I watching this stuff lol 😂 first I was watching animals giving birth now this it’s actually interesting
Thank you for finding it and watching!
That dog keeps crying, them bees must be stinging the hell out of him/her lol.
You take VERY good care of your bees/hives!!!
Thank you :)
You are very welcome. I wish all beekeepers were like you!
The bees have probably cleaned the paint off the queen I had the same problem last year, Are they varroa trained ?
Yes they are VSH. Thanks for watching!
Hi, I'm a biology student and don't really know much about apiculture, but would like to learn. I have some questions
1) does the second comb have holes for the bees to go out or get some oxygen in?
2) what did you spray before getting the combs out?
3) why aren't you wearing gloves?
Thanks for sharing your work.
1. Yes, there is ventilation in the hives. These top bar hives have a screened bottom, plus the entrance holes to let in air. If the bees get too hot, they will go outside of the hive and fan air into the hive with their wings.
2. At this point, the only thing I am "spraying" them with is smoke. If you are asking about the glass jars, those are filled with a sugar syrup. Because the hives were queenless (I thought), I wanted to make sure that they had plenty of food in which to make wax with.
3. I rarely wear gloves. There has only been 3 times this year that I had to. Mainly because even just the veil and helmet, you get very hot. Gloves make you warmer still. Also because the bees will not bother me, unless I accidently squish one.
Thanks for your questions, and for watching. I hope you enjoy some more of my videos.
Gosh you take care of your bees so well! I can’t wait to get out of college so I can hopefully start to beekeep as well (is that the right verb for it? I don’t know 😖) Videos like this have turned my childhood fear of bees to passion and awe! Keep up the fantastic work, know that you’re inspiring younger generations to carry on what you do now!!
Thank you, good luck on your beekeeping adventures!
There would be no way I would be handling them without a suit. After nailed buy wasps (that are always aggressive), I would wear a suit. They are some pretty mellow bees though. In Arizona we have 'kept' bees, feral honey bees (which the bee guys love to get), which tend to be quite mellow, and Africanized (which are ALWAYS aggressive). The bee guys always kill them.
I dumped out the bits of scratch and finely ground corn at the bottom of a chicken scratch bag one warm February day for the feral pigeons, and the bees were all over it. I was like what in the world are they doing? I bent over to look at them and they weren't bothered in the slightest.They were stuffing it into their pollen baskets! I thought 'Wow, they must really be hungry!'. I guess the corn looked like pollen to them, but I would never have guessed they would have eaten it. So I put out the sugar water for them and talked to several bee guys to come get them. I must have had a hundred bees slurping up the sugar water. The first guy that got there was happy to get them, the others were like 'Oh, they're gone? Aww :( ' I've had feral bees that needed to be taken away twice. The first guy charged me, the second guy was happy to get them for free. He was so gentle with the bees and sucked them up with a bee vac and put the comb into a hive box. Once he got them in the box he showed us the queen that was in a mesh topped mason jar. She was a twice the size of the workers. Never once did they show any hint of aggression because he was so gentle with them. He even said jokingly said 'you're such good bees' a couple of times. He was such a sweet guy, no wonder the bees were calm.
Thankfully I have not needed a suit so far. Thanks for watching!
Life on this salt water park depends on bees 🐝 Big respect!
Man, I feel like you are super sad .. I know very little about bees but love it that you are so emotional. So .. pls let me know if your hive is ok. THanks for taking care of bees !! you rock sir
The hive did just fine. Still alive, just waiting for some spring weather to come to look in on them again! Thanks for watching!
I saw that too. Goodness. My heart was breaking for him but I didn't know why....But his face said he was unhappy with the results...
crazy,cuz its 4:12am on a monday night-Tuesday morning & i have no idea how i got here either..its about my 5th video & its very cool..had no idea bee's were this interesting..cool stuff,keep it up
Thanks for watching!
I'm no bee expert, but I just had to say after watching this video I have never seen a hive like this. I'm used to seeing the normal or regular hives that stack. But I do like this. So those pieces of wood on top act as a lid and the bees just build their comb straight down from each piece of wood? That's amazing!
Yep. It's called a top bar beehive. The top bars serve as the base for the comb, and as the lid for the colony. The roof keeps the weather out. Glad you found me, hope you watch more!
Paul Otis absolutely! You have earned a subscriber....
I've come to notice that bee keepers all speak - move in steady smooth ways .
Thanks for watching Josephine! :)
Interesting hive box. What would you call that design? And, what keeps em from sticking the comb to the sides of box?
They are called, Top Bar beehives. The slanted sided ones are actually Kenyan Top bar beehives. The slant mimics the floor, and bees do not typically connect comb to the floor. The will connect to the sides if, the bar is full of honey, and needs the extra support, or if the side has an observation window. For some reason bees like to build wax on glass. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoy them!
Ah ok, does it perform better? Which do you prefer using?
I prefer using the top bar hives. The reason for that is because of health reasons, I have a difficult time lifting the heavy boxes in a regular bee hive. On a top bar hive, you are lifting 7 or 8 pounds max per bar. Also, because you are exposing less bees at a time, I find they are easier to work with. Regular hives will produce more honey. Regular hives overwinter better.
You should explain more of what you're doing/why as you are going along for people like me who are new at this. I wish you had showed us the queen up close. Also, thank you for what you do!
Thanks for watching. I will try to improve. :)
5:52...lmao, scariest part of a bee video ever. The camera made me jump. 😂😂😂
My son Josh bumped the tripod. :) sorry for the fright, and thank you for watching!
Bee keepers must be the bravest people on earth.
Well, my knees are always shaking...naw, not really! :D Thanks for watching!
In order to strengthen the comb, if you drill a hole in cents of top bar and push a barbecue skewer right down to the bottom of the comb this will strengthen it!!!!!!
Sounds like a good idea!
Cool video i would wanna own a bee hive too right now when watching this amazing video Keep up the good work
Thanks! Thanks also for watching. Check out the rest of my beekeeping videos. :)
Would this kind of comb not be extremely unhandy for honey extraction? A different way of putting a question about the kind of comb would be: What is the advantage vs the Langstroth hive and comb?
awalt26439, some people do use an extractor for top bar combs. However, you must run slow with it. Most top bar beekeepers use the "crush and strain" method of processing the honey. Advantages? Well, they are easier to work with as far as lifting goes. With the top bar, the comb can weigh up to 8 pounds, but if you have to move a Langstroth super, it can weigh 70 pounds or more. Langs will produce more honey. Top Bars produce more wax. I hope that this answers your questions, and thank you for watching the video.
Paul Otis : you say they are easier to work but you GRUNT and make straining noise every time you lift a frame out of the hive. Next time less grunts more narrative please. Thanks for watching ps.Was the queen regular looking or not? Thanks for watching
Yes they are, and yes I did. I had tweaked my back, so all movement was painful at the time. Sorry about that but life happens. Thanks very much for watching.
Always liked bees. We had a "wild" or escaped batch under the granary for years
They like yours were gentle
Windy days we walked a little farther away but in all the years we lived there I only got stung once
Bees are fascinating! Thank you for your story, and thanks also for watching!
I don't think no one loves honey and the comb more than me. I always make a large Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Have for over 35 years. We have a house full to come enjoy the feast. When my son was small he loved home made baked beans with the roasted turkey. Well it became a regular every year. He's 40 now and still loves it. The baked bean pot was always eaten up. Everyone would say there's just something different about yours. It was the honey and brown sugar i put in them. It really does make a big difference. I also add honey to my pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato pies. I have a friend that lives local that had bees I always get from him. Sure wish I had a jar of your honey and comb. It really did look good. I sure enjoy your video.
Thanks for the nice Story! Also, thanks for watching!
Shirley Johnson Jamaican bee keeping
Bee keeping in Jamaica'
Maple syrup bacon. 😊
Shirley, can I buy a ticket to your Thanks Giving get-together..? It sounds delicious.. ;-)
very well done my son had multiple queens in a couple of his hives after we ordered more queens. we will look before ordering more next time
Yeah, if I had waited just a couple more days, I would have not had to order. Have to learn patience!
What do you use to mark the queen? Toe nail polish ???
Another question.... that's a different type of hive, it looks like a rectangle.
Beekeepers that raise queens have paint pens that they use to mark queens. Nail polish would take too long to dry, and the fumes from it probably would cause problems. They have 5 colors they use,
Color Year ending
White 1 or 6
Yellow 2 or 7
Red 3 or 8
Green 4 or 9
Blue 5 or 0
So, it being 2017, queens are marked with a yellow dot.
OK... I learned something. Bee keeping is really an in depth process all the way from introducing a new queen to getting rid of the Africanized bee queen.
Can you take a domestic European queen and put them in an Africanized hive and make it an European hive or do you have to kill all the A worker bees and just start over?
The new queen's genes would take over. Bees live for up to 2 months in the summertime, so you would have to wait a while before the hive would be more gentle.
Also, the hive is a Top bar beehive. Instead of using frames, the bees draw the comb down from removable top bars.
Interesting I never saw this concept. Learn something every day.
What's the hives made from?
Pine and Poplar wood. Thanks for watching!
What's in the bottles ?
Sugar syrup
I love keeping bees. Not much pesticide around my area but some. They seem to like it where i am located:)
I really like what you are doing. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
jaymi421 I
I don't normally watch videos about bees but I will sub to your channel. keep up the good work buddy.
Thank you for finding me! Thanks also for the sub. :)
Just curious, did the second hive reject the new queen? I say this because when you removed the comb with the queen cage in the second hive there was a different queen running on the comb just behind it. You can see her running down the middle of the comb at 9:50-9:56 and again at the top left side at 9:57-10:05.
Yes. After searching for the queen and signs of a queen (eggs/larva/brood) and not finding any, I bought and added a marked queen. My guess is that a virgin queen was infact in the hive, and finally got mated. They killed off the purchased queen, and the virgin queen got mated, and is now laying. Whew... I am glad of that at least. Would have been better to have seen her before investing in that marked queen! Great question, and thanks for watching!
It is cool that you spotted that! I watched it I don't know how many times during editing, and did not see it! Thanks! If I had seen that, I could have saved that marked queen...
Good catch. Thanks for pointing it out. I was able to see her.
there must be quite a few hives in the area for 2 wild queens to come in and take your hives from the ones you bought. unfortunate though
lol, no more likely than not, I panicked and did not give the virgin queens enough time. If I had waited just a few more days I would not have had to buy the queens. Expensive lesson. Or, as another viewer said, perhaps the workers "groomed" the marking off of her.
If it wasnt for the bees fruit trees wouldnt get pollinated keep up the hard work girls
Jon Alarcon Yup, just think of all the almond milk used today. Every almond that grows needs a bee.
Alot of eastern beekeepers ship their hives to Cali n winter to pollinate the almonds. Problem is, theres a new herbicide/pesticide that is being used n place of round up that is much more deadly to the bees & many bees don't make it home again after workin n Cali. Humans r dumb
Jon Alarcon I wonder what agriculture existed in the Americas before Europeans introduced the honeybee. They are not native to here.
Lisa Baltzer Prolly birds & other insects. Hummingbirds pollinate as well.
It's a lot of everything that gets pollinated, like two thirds of everything we eat, and the big chemical companies keep coming up with more deadly chemicals to put into our food to make more money for themselves and destroy our environment and our health. GMOs are also making things worse as well.
vortexgen1 It's very frustrating that the public has such a warped understanding of GMOs. Genetically modifying food has been going on for thousands of years, just slower. Any time u cross breed a plant, u r modifying it genetically. These new modifications r doing great things like larger & more plentiful products.
The true problem that people think they have with this is NOT the fact that ARE modified but WHAT they r modified for. The problems arise when the plant is modified to survive TREMENDOUS amounts of herbicide/pesticide. Therefore, we r eating great quantities of Roundup & have been, n increasing quantities, from womd to tomb, for 5 or 6 generations. What we dump on our GMOs is the issue, no so much that we have artificially evolved them.
There has only ever been 1 single true independent study on the effects of Roundup & that ONE 2yr french study was on rats. All other studies were biased to prove a point so cannot b accepted. We have been dumping millions of gallons of this poison on ALL or food for 70+ years & don't really know what it can do to us. The French study indicated that the r hormone issues (now all the youth gender bending makes some sense) as well as kidney, liver, & gall bladder problems. I only found all this out when my son, then 16, was having bad gall attacks & I had heard of other kids n his very small charter school having thier gall bladders removed. Those odds seemed off.
Research is impossible to find & my son suffers many problems that no Dr can quantify & online I'm finding MANY other teen males with frustrated mom's n the same boat.
I don't know why but I'm feeling super happy right now
Mr. Otis, This is the first video of yours I've ever seen. Everything you have created looks wonderful. How heavy are those inserts? It appears that you are straining as you move them around. Do you have a health issue like COPD which causes you to to breathe as if they all weigh 50 - 60 pounds? I'm not trying to troll, I'm just concerned.
Andy, yes I have COPD, I also have a back injury from a car accident that sometimes flares up. Some of the bars can weigh 8 pounds or so. They are also "glued" in place by the bees. I also am on oxygen, but have not been on it when working with the bees. That may change this year. Thanks for watching, and for your concern.
Mr. Otis, I am so sorry that you suffer from COPD. My wife has chronic COPD and cannot go more than 6' even with 2L of O2 without becoming breathless. Being with her has made me very sensitive to the detection of the disease. Please take care of yourself and may God bless you and your family.
Full bee suits are for the inexperienced or pussys. I’d personally go in with a full body bullet proof suit...I’ll just buy honey. Great video
I had captions on and one of the lines said "Alright we're Gandalf''.😂👏
I watched with CC on, and did a screen shot of that. :D Thanks for watching!
I've had captoins on once and intead of it saying what the vidoe was saying a guy was telling me his life story
I heard him say that right as I read your comment. He said "Got the rubber band off."
I do fear if someone with a bee allergy is stung by one of my bees and is hospitalized or dies, am I going to be sued? Is there "bee" or "apiary" insurance? How much more often are people stung by bees near an apiary? Hey beekeepers? How often do you get stung in a week, month, or year? Plus, the entire idea I caused a death, worse the death of a child gives me some pause to move forward on the idea of becoming a bee keeper. Any experienced people with a comment for me?
Can someone tell me why the queen is locked up & how/why the bees free her.
Sorry, i just dont know anything about beekeeping but it's interesting so I want to know now!
Jenna, she is locked up in the cage, because that is the way she arrived when I purchased her. The cage has a candy plugging the entrance, with a small cork as well. We take off the cork, and the bees will eat the candy to free the queen. We do this so that it takes a little time for her to get free, so the bees will be accustomed to her scent. I hope that helps! Thank you for watching!
Way to awesome. Loved this awesome job. Send me some honeycomb 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
What was that divise that you have that you sprayed on the comb
izzy gutierrez, that is called a smoker. You putt some smoke at the bees, and it helps keep them calmer.
I really like this, my only complaint is that I can't see some of what you are doing.... which is such a shame as this is really interesting.
Thanks for watching. I agree with your comment, and have worked on trying to get better angles. Not perfect yet. but I think I am doing a bit better!
I guess the perfect time for a fly to land on my arm was when a bee flew up to the camera 😭😭😭
Thanks for watching!
I love bees and will raise them again really soon
Good to hear that! Thanks for watching!
Next time you can pinch any Queens a day or two before putting your new one in that will help them take the new queen if it's a laying in queen your replacing then you have to pinch or take the Queen out 3or4 days before the new queen is put in and make sure thay don't make emergency Queen cell thay can be small grown out cell that can be any were on the comb sometimes thay are not as big as regular queen cells.
It's a deadly game of where's Waldo lol
lol, thanks for watching!
Do a lot of bees get squashed when you just move bits around?
Nope. They kinda get out of the way.
Oh yeah, I watch all my TH-cam in 1.5x so it probably looks harder to avoid :)
Thanks.
Message to Paul: Your heavy breathing and vocal weakness is a sign of cardiovascular issues. Please see a doctor very soon. Make an appointment with a cardiologist, just in case.... God bless .
Thank you for your concerns, and for not trolling me. Yes, I have cardiovascular issues, and I am seeing a doctor about that already. It was also hot, and I got dehyrated as well. Thanks for watching, hope you will watch more of them!
Loved the video, worry about your health. I won't say "you should do this" because you likely have heard it.
Beekeeping is an art, thank you for your dedication.
Thank you for watching!
As a retired nurse thoughts were also for his welbeing. I said a prayer. Take care and God bless!
Paul Otis Sorry Paul but alot of us medically minded peeps r going to worry for u. Keep up ur bee exercise 🐝
So interesting
Thanks, thanks also for watching!
Don't know if you ever respond to comments on your vids but I'm curious about the strange hiveboxes and why you use them. I would be concerned about the open screen bottoms attracting predators/pests... Just curious.
Thanks for the question! I do reply on comments. The hives are called Top Bar Beehives. I used them because they are easier to work, as far as lifting goes. Instead of lifting a full box of frames, you just lift one comb at a time. The screen bottom allows for ventilation, but it also works as a pest management system as well. Pest such as small hive beetle and varroa mites can fall through the mesh. In addition, the bottom can be closed off, like for winter and such. Thanks again for the questions, and for viewing the video. Hope you can watch more of them!
You're doing a great job! I just think insects are satisfying for some reason! 🐞🐜🐛🕷
Thank you very much! Thanks also for watching. :)
Amazing Princess Peach that last one's an arachnid
edit: second to last is a centipede,cant remember but not an insect 🐞🐝
have bee's in the wall, if i build a hive outside will they migrate to it?
Not likely. Not sure of where you are, but you should be able to find a local beekeeper that can cut them out of the wall. Thanks for watching!
btw....I like the look of your hives....top bar frames...are these woria hives
They are Kenyan Top Bar hives. :) Thanks very much for watching!
I noticed that there was honey on every frame and the grass is green so it must not be winter time, Why are you feeding them sugar water????
Summer Dearth. Also, I want more comb built for a queen to lay in. Great question! Thanks for watching!
I have helped my grandfather keeps bees for 28 years and the hive will make a queen if they can't release the store bought one!!!! lol give them 4 weeks
You didn't smoke them...thats a calm hive.
Indeed. Thanks for watching.
Ahh if I saw that in real life with my eyes I would faint to death I'm scared of bees
well, you're always welcome to watch mine, from the safety of TH-cam.
How to handle bees wearing only a t-shirt, shorts and bare-handed. ZEN! You must have a peaceful mind, first. If a bee is in your face, remember it is a female, be a gentleman/woman and thank her for her song. And, with a female workforce, move slowly and gently, make sure they are fed, when necessary ...otherwise you are a lout and the bee-ladies will attack rightfully so. Do NOT consume alcohol when around your hives. It makes them angry. If you do get stung do not pull the stinger out. You will squeeze the poison sacks and it will hurt a lot more. Scrape the stinger out, instead. Bees are so cool, once you understand.
Indeed, thanks for watching!
Please tell me What is the purposes of those water bottles
The jars have sugar syrup in them, it's given to the bees as feed.
Honey bees are so calm....but so endangered.....bald faced hornets eat them...wasp..yellow jackets....poor things have a lot of enemies!!
We always got marked queens until a seasoned beekkeeper told me that marked queens will often be killed as they appear defective ...we kept loosing our marked queens and now buy only unmarked queens....Karen
Yeah that does happen. I think I just did not wait long enough for them to get a laying queen. Thanks for watching!
Paul, I've never seen a hive of this configuration. I'd love to know more about it. Were the combs obtained from a feral colony?
Hi Bob, This hive is called a Top Bar Hive. A Kenyan Top Bar Hive, to be specific. It was designed so that people with little resources could keep bees, instead of killing the hives to get the honey. The hive was started with a 3 pound package of bees this spring, and they built all the comb themselves. They draw the comb off of the top bars. Thanks for the question, and for watching. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos!
So that 'stuff' that calms the bees, does that work on wasps as well? Cuz I would carry a spray bottle of that all Spring and Summer. I HATE wasps and hornets (Cicada Killers) with a passion...
Unfortunately no. Wasp and hornets are not social, in more ways than one. Thanks for watching!
What are you feeding them?
Lynn, we feed them sugar water. It helps them draw comb and build up.
Why am I watching a bee 🐝 video I’m scared to death of bees 🐝 don’t know why never been stung but it’s very interesting video I just subscribed
Thank you for the sub, and for watching!
Bees are amazing
Yes they are. Thanks very much for watching!
Some people commenting here are disgustingly rude. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, I will keep on keeping on. :)
I can't see any "rude" comments.. can you give some examples..?
It is a dangerous thing in a Langstroth Hive to pull the centre frames out without first taking the frame from one end out and working frame by frame. It’s too easy to roll a queen and kill workers unnecessarily by yanking the centre frame out.
This is true. I got lazy.
How do you know that the bees didn't just remove the mark from the queen
It is possible, but if they did, they did it super fast. :) Thanks for watching.
I had to put my reading glasses on to see that. you must have a large screen monitor. awesome catch for you.
....but then she whipped her wig off, glitter falling to the floor as she danced and lip synced to Whitney Houston?
but the disco lights never missed a beat.
Wolf Trekker yes. Just yes.
Paul Otis BEEt
Hey! This was posted on my birthday ! I turned 65.
Happy Birthday!
Doug Williams Happy late birthday!
I wish a a very long and happy rest of your life.
Doug Williams Happy Birthday
I tried carniolans three different times. Every time they started building out to early and ended up freezing out when they tried to save brood instead of clustering. Hard lesson.....
So far carniolans have been swarm crazy. Next year I think I will go back to Italians.
8:30, sorry but I don't feel like filling two bottles, I'll fill one though. Lol, love the video man.
I love bees use to help raise them
Bees are so fucking cool
Thanks for watching!
What does it mean when you say the Queen is not marked
The queen that I bought was marked with a yellow dot. The queen that we found did not have the yellow dot. Thanks for the question, and for watching!
Paul Otis ok thanks, now you have another subscriber keep up the great work!!
what's the strips of paper for?
Those are strips of Brawny Dine-A-Max paper towels. The bees will chew on it, which rough's it up. Then if there are any small hive beetles in the hive, the beetles will get trapped on the paper towel. th-cam.com/video/zbaozaKdODQ/w-d-xo.html
Dude, do YOU NOT get stung!?
Not too often. Thanks for watching.
Paul Otis WOW, good deal! Thanks for your reply! I really enjoyed the video
I been on a honey bee video watching spree 😁
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cant wait to do this
Thank you very much for watching, Rose.
I have been told by many beekeepers to never turn a top bar upside down. Better chances of losing the comb.
Kind of. You can not flip the bar over. You have to manipulate it around, always keeping the comb in a plane with the ground. If the weather is hot, you probably do not want to turn the bar upside down.
As a beekeeper of more than 50 years, and running around 400 hives back in the day, I fail to see why anyone would keep bees in these top bar hives. If anyone feels like commenting, I would like to hear the reasons for using this style of hive.
Why would anyone want to use plastic forms that immitate comb? In top bar hives the bees act as they would in a ceiling or wall and create what seems natural to them.. I opt for the log hive or one of the hives that are created in Africa. A top bar hive seems to be the most logical to me. Something natural, not plastic, seems to me to be the only way to keep bees.
Jenny Haskell, There are a number of reasons why one might run top bar hives. One reason is that they are much easier to work on. With a Lang, you have to lift 70-80 pound (or heavier) boxes. With a top bar, you have to lift a bar that weighs 8 pounds or so. So, people with back issues are able to work with them. Secondly, top bars can be made easily with scrap material you have on hand, and can be done so without the use of power tools. Langs, while you could build with scrap, it would be very difficult. In addition, many beekeepers buy their woodenware, much more expensive than a top bar hive. Also, when working with the top bar hive, you only have a small portion of the hive open and exposed at a time. Much less stressful in my opinion, than having then entire top of the hive opened up. I have worked Langs for many years. I will work them again. I prefer top bars. Everyone has options, and not many people know of these hives. Thank you very much for watching, and I invite you to watch more, and share your experience with bees!
Giant red bees have moved in by my front door. I don't see any honey but they sure get riled up when I check. I've tried smoking them but it just seems to anger them...
Yeah, I don't know.
Those are not red bees but hornets or wasps.. These types do nothing but kill other things and sting the heck out of you..
Be careful and dont let any children near there until you get rid of them.. Think those tall spray cans of Hornet Spray or something..
What does it mean to be marked?
They mark the queen with a colored dot, it helps to find her more easily. The dots are also color coded to show what year the queen was born.
Dont u worry about giants hornets w that peculiar hive. I've seen them in quite a few states ..
Not anymore than any other pest or parasite. I did actually see this hive chase off wasps that were trying to get in. Thanks for watching!
You need to explain things a little more. Not everyone who is watching this knows all there is to know about keeping bees
Thanks for watching!
What does spraying them do ?
Kristin, I am not sure where in this video I am spraying them with anything. I do use a smoker, but don't think that is what you are referring to. When I first hive the package of bees, I typically will spray them with sugar water, to keep them from flying, and to provide them with some food. Thanks very much for watching!
Paul Otis my bad i think it was the smoker i was talking about 😅 i don’t know much about this so it just sounded like you were spraying something. What does the smoke do exactly ?
Kristin, no worries! The smoke causes the bees to gorge on honey. They do this because, they smell smoke, and think they have to leave the hive. Gorged honeybees seldom sting. The smoke also covers any alert pheromone that they may produce, so in effect, they have less of a chance to turn grumpy.