I am about as city girl as it gets, so the fact i am so intrigued by your channel says so much about you two! I simply love all the content you post. your personalities are so warm and inviting!
Well that was interesting! As a kid we cooked on an open fire all summer and the yellow jackets were miserable! If they could bite into your food they’d bite into you!
Great video Todd. Today it got up above freezing the sun came out. So i got over to my beeyard and got the styrofoam insulation around them. So they are ready for winter. I always think its neat to see what people do to their bees to get ready for winter, in different parts of the world. Thanks again
I so wish I could have a hive, it is sincerely so interesting watching & learning about them. I have heaps of bees this year in my spring/summer garden but also have a heap of our native bees too as a neighbor has a small native bee house. Chees Denise - Australia
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So much work, so little reward. The supermarket has all the honey I will ever need.
Every beekeeper hates wasps! LOL One way of clearing your super (or flowhive in your case) is to put it under the hive it came from, perhaps with the queen excluder ontop) so the queen can't move down into it. The workers will retain ownership of the box and move any remaining honey above their brood nest (i.e "nadir"). This prevents other bees/wasps from robbing it out (which is a great way to spread bee disease by the way) - just reduce the entrance if you haven't already. Wasps have a great sense of smell and will target any undefended colony - as will robber bees from other colonies. When the frames are licked dry, you can wrap the entire box in cling-film (or equivalent) which will prevent waxmoth getting in. I'm sure Rachel has plans for the honey :-)
I LOVE your channel! Can’t wait to move to our property and do all the things! I do have a question, will you be harvesting the bees wax and keeping it for projects or leaving it be? I don’t know very much about bee keeping.
I have 2 flow hives - I love them. Melbourne, Australia - open feeding is illegal for us, even sticky frames. I have to freeze and then store my fames each winter. Our season just ramping up - 2 splits already.
You can put a cover of netting over the the bottles as you're filling them or Saran wrap or you can do what you're doing and just take a pair of chopsticks out there with you and dip in and pull the bees out as they fall in
Great job! Getting thru the first year of beekeeping is a real test. Did you know there's a dog they use in Maryland that detects foulbrood by sent? (I think it's foulbrood, read about it quite a while ago...)
This is fascinating, I’ve never paid much attention to harvesting honey, just staying away from things that can sting me 😂. Will you do anything thing with the beeswax or does it get reused?
I've never seen "Flohive" before as the people that I know use an extractor that uses syntrifical (?) force to spin all the honey 🍯 out. I'll have to show this video to a few beekeeper friends of min. Is rather interesting.
Just test the water % in the last batch you have. It’s possible it’ll be under 21% total water content. I had 8 frames that were not more than 25% capped. All the honey tested at 15-18%.
You mention the yellow jackets, Fredrick Dunn modified his tunes so that the honey would flow more directly into his jars. You might want to check him out as he has done a few videos on the flow hive.
I was watching and thinking those yellow jackets were going to get in and go for a swim ,does that contaminate the honey ,can you not rig up something so they cannot get in just for sake !
Some people do. Not me. I don't take anything from the bottom boxes. That all belongs to them. You always have to feed in the fall, to fill every space in the hive. And the raw sugar (mountain camp method) is for emergency. Some hives are weaker than others as well.
Love watching you woke with the hives. I know you said you don't recommend the Flohive for new beekeepers, but it makes it look so easy!
Bee keeping and maintenance is so fascinating and while I haven’t got the facility to keep bees I’m very pleased to learn.
"oh man - come on" - my favorite part!
That’s quite a project! I would so love the flow hive. Mesmerizing to watch.
Your harvest was not that bad, look at those bees go, thank you Todd and Your Set Up To harvest your honey is beautiful!
So cool to watch. Good luck getting the yellow jackets out.
I am about as city girl as it gets, so the fact i am so intrigued by your channel says so much about you two! I simply love all the content you post. your personalities are so warm and inviting!
That was actually really cool watching the 🐝 clean up the trays.
Very cool to watch honey being harvested! Thank you! 🍁🐝
Well that was interesting! As a kid we cooked on an open fire all summer and the yellow jackets were miserable! If they could bite into your food they’d bite into you!
Great video Todd. Today it got up above freezing the sun came out. So i got over to my beeyard and got the styrofoam insulation around them. So they are ready for winter. I always think its neat to see what people do to their bees to get ready for winter, in different parts of the world. Thanks again
Nice set up for your bees
I so wish I could have a hive, it is sincerely so interesting watching & learning about them. I have heaps of bees this year in my spring/summer garden but also have a heap of our native bees too as a neighbor has a small native bee house. Chees Denise - Australia
So much work, so little reward. The supermarket has all the honey I will ever need.
Until there's no more 🐝
So interesting to see this bee vlog!
Every beekeeper hates wasps! LOL
One way of clearing your super (or flowhive in your case) is to put it under the hive it came from, perhaps with the queen excluder ontop) so the queen can't move down into it. The workers will retain ownership of the box and move any remaining honey above their brood nest (i.e "nadir"). This prevents other bees/wasps from robbing it out (which is a great way to spread bee disease by the way) - just reduce the entrance if you haven't already. Wasps have a great sense of smell and will target any undefended colony - as will robber bees from other colonies. When the frames are licked dry, you can wrap the entire box in cling-film (or equivalent) which will prevent waxmoth getting in.
I'm sure Rachel has plans for the honey :-)
Very interesting. Never realized how much work they are. ♥️❣️♥️
Honey on tap, how cool is that. I never heard of a flow tap before. I must be behind on videos. Great video Todd.
Fresh honey on tap, love it! And love your "Bee" movie at the end! Beard looks great too.
I LOVE your channel! Can’t wait to move to our property and do all the things! I do have a question, will you be harvesting the bees wax and keeping it for projects or leaving it be? I don’t know very much about bee keeping.
Bees really are so clever, wish I had space for some hives 🐝
I have 2 flow hives - I love them. Melbourne, Australia - open feeding is illegal for us, even sticky frames. I have to freeze and then store my fames each winter. Our season just ramping up - 2 splits already.
You can put a cover of netting over the the bottles as you're filling them or Saran wrap or you can do what you're doing and just take a pair of chopsticks out there with you and dip in and pull the bees out as they fall in
Very interesting...thanks for the tutorial
Great job! Getting thru the first year of beekeeping is a real test. Did you know there's a dog they use in Maryland that detects foulbrood by sent? (I think it's foulbrood, read about it quite a while ago...)
@That1870sHomestead I wonder if you could finish dehydrating the honey by putting it in the dehydrator.
This is fascinating, I’ve never paid much attention to harvesting honey, just staying away from things that can sting me 😂. Will you do anything thing with the beeswax or does it get reused?
If you put a 90 degree elbow on you out pipe and a 2-3 inch piece pointing down. Then cut a hole in a lid,this will keep everything out of the jar.
If you mention a previous video can you link it in the video or description?
Please?
I've never seen "Flohive" before as the people that I know use an extractor that uses syntrifical (?) force to spin all the honey 🍯 out. I'll have to show this video to a few beekeeper friends of min. Is rather interesting.
Do you collect the bee's wax and use it? If so... for what different things? Thanks
Just test the water % in the last batch you have. It’s possible it’ll be under 21% total water content. I had 8 frames that were not more than 25% capped. All the honey tested at 15-18%.
Todd, how many of your hives are Flow Hives?
Just the one
My bees made very little fall honey..I didn't harvest any.. spring and summer they did well though..
You mention the yellow jackets, Fredrick Dunn modified his tunes so that the honey would flow more directly into his jars. You might want to check him out as he has done a few videos on the flow hive.
Recap mason jar lids! That's what he used to prevent bees and wasps entering the open jars.
Oh yes. I watch Frederick a lot. He's really good
I was watching and thinking those yellow jackets were going to get in and go for a swim ,does that contaminate the honey ,can you not rig up something so they cannot get in just for sake !
So, we take all the bees honey and feed them sugar water?
Some people do. Not me. I don't take anything from the bottom boxes. That all belongs to them. You always have to feed in the fall, to fill every space in the hive. And the raw sugar (mountain camp method) is for emergency. Some hives are weaker than others as well.
@@1870s thank you. I’ve watched a bunch of videos from various youtubers and that part wasn’t clear. Appreciate the response.
@C B thank you. That sounds like a symbiotic relationship. It’s nice to hear and thank you all for the education.
Pantyhose works perfect for straining the honey, clean of course.....lol Would love to get a flow hive, need to save more $$
Bad! It is very unnatural way to get honey from bees.
Hilarious