How to Strengthen a Weak Hive Part 3: Giving the Queen Room to Lay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- This is the third video in the series and is very short. The main point in this video is setting up the next video, trying to bait the queen into laying twice as many eggs as she has in the same relative space!
Excellent and thank you! I am up in Northern Colorado!
I enjoy watching your videos. you have become my first official subscribe for bee related information (after having bees for about a year). I really enjoy the method that you present the information.
I live in pennsylvania so many things I learn about wintering and spring management are always shifted a few months in either direction and such based on climate. But easy enough to adjust for.
Either way, just wanted to say that I like your method of presentatio, and look forward to seeing more videos in the future.
Thank you very much. I hope to get better and better as time goes on, but thanks for watching!
Your video is really informative. Thanks for the very interesting videos.
Thanks Elisabeth!
Hi Loved the short video's just wondering how the hive is going now? Seeing as how your in the middle of your winter atm. I live in Australia and have a hive in similar condition and were about 6 -8 weeks away from getting some cold weather so need to do something to help it along.
It looks like the weather will be perfect to check on them this Thursday the 9th, and i'll get a video out as soon as possible! Here's to hoping. We just finished a round of cold weather and I know they were still alive, but I need to check for strength, eggs and capped brood. Thanks for asking!
our bees are pretty much ready to hang out for the winter.
Good info!
Where does the syrup come from? Do you fill the cans yourself? If so, how do you seal them? Where do you get the cans?
I make the syrup myself and I use standard quart paint cans (never used). They are very cheap and sometimes a paint store will just give you the cans.
By the way, just had to mention that I love your choice of intro music.
HI HBH. I just read in my book to use some sort of cloth weighted down at each end and a gap in the middle to show two gaps in frames - purpose to keep robbers out and fewer bees round the beekeeper. It also suggested (this is a beginners book) that if you see the queen, to put her in a queen clip and remove her whilst you inspect and put back in at the end. What you think for us students?
Hi Again...the cloth you mentioned, I can't remember what it is called, is offered from many of the beekeeping suppliers. I used one when I first got started and my personal experience was that it tended to roll bees under it if you weren't careful which then made them angry. However, I may have had a badly designed tool. If I remember correctly the space to get at those two frames was not quite wide enough to easily slip a frame through and it would catch it on the way out. There could be better ones out there. But, I do have to say that if you are working with a hive that is getting robbed, or during a bad dearth of nectar I would say that the benefits outweigh the costs. During normal nectar flows robbing isn't usually a problem unless you have a queenless hive.
Nice video. Where did the queen in that hive come from? There have been some comments from people on the Internet that had problems getting queens from Winters Apiaries. Just wondered if you had any problems or issues. Thanks, Jeff
Hi Jeff, I did order the queen from Winters Apiaries in Tennessee. I ordered six of them and they were delayed a week because of bad weather, but they arrived in great condition and I had no problems. I looked at his website and it has been improved in the last year...you can now order from his website. No problems in Spring of 2016 at all, though this is the first year I have ordered from him. I do plan on ordering again this year however.
Your videos are really useful, thank you.
Thank you very much!
What part of the Country you are from , looks like a high dessert , Thanks for all your videos
I am in Pueblo, Colorado. It is like a high desert, technically I think it is classified as a grassland. But, we are 4600 feet above sea level and basically a desert! Thanks for watching!
Hi. HBH I was wondering if you saw another youtuber channel called flow hive and seen their own invention on bee hive's to live. If you did what do you think of it and does it affect bee lives ?
I haven't. Do you have a link?
+Honey Bee Honey I honestly don't know how to get links for TH-cam so sorry . The channel is called Flowhive so it would be easy to search it up.
First I would like to say thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I have been looking into Bee Keeping and I have found your videos to contain the most education which I find extremely valuable. From watching your videos I am having a hard time understanding some of the terminology. Queen, Drone, Worker bees. But I hear you say things like Capped Brood and such. Could you possible make a video showing the types of bees and terminology your are using like the above. As an example I watched your videos on introducing a queen / splitting a hive / nuks. You selected 4 frames but I did not fully understand what type of egg was on the frames etcs... Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you again for your time and making these wonderful videos.
That's a great idea. I will put one together...good winter video!
Hey Brian,I give you some advice.Because it is free.But find your self a Bee buddy around where you are .Because you have a verylong learning curve ahead of you.Just stay with it because it is a very very rewarding hobby,That could turn into a lot more for you down the line.
You didn't use a frame holder in this one so can I take it off my equipment list? I'm guessing it is to help stop you squashing the bees (not got to that part in my books yet)?
Also, was your camera person wearing a netted hood/hat? I ask as my partner will (hopefully) want to watch/video the unboxing of the first bees when I get them and I'm not sure whether to buy him a 'viewing' hat when I buy my full suit.
Either I film with a tripod or my son's do and they usually wear a veil. Sometimes they choose not to, but most of the time they do. I would buy anybody that is helping you at least a veil, probably an actual suit. However, as you get comfortable with the bees try to get to the point where you only use a veil - it gives you more respect for the bees and teaches you how to work the bees carefully and with as little disruption as possible. I truly think the bees get used to your scent as well, but if you're scared...it's just like dogs...they can smell it and they don't much like it!
I would definitely get one...I probably just forgot mine in this video. It is not a necessity, but definitely helpful!
Frame holder that is!
Thank you. Frame holder check, second veil/netted hood? Please :)
Could not hear most of, but understand most.
I'm always searching for new equipment what are your thoughts on screened inner covers th-cam.com/video/SEMYPO6ozSk/w-d-xo.html 5:30 mark ?
Over time bees will propolize all of a screened inner cover. So, you need to have a mechanism to melt it off, e.g. a solar extractor or heat gun. I would definitely recommend one if you have signs of chalkbrood, stonebrood, etc.
Honey Bee Honey I have heard of Foulbrood, but not chalkbrood or stonebrood. Do you cover those in any of your videos? Thanks.
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You put empty frame next to the brood the posibillity that frame gets laid is very low, only if in nature there is a lot of polen, and honey i think u made big mess here
Hi Vlatko, honey bees keep pollen in the hive throughout the winter, so usually pollen isn't a problem anyway. However, I also gave them a supply of a pollen substitute (with actual pollen in it). I also gave them a source of carbohydrates in the form of sugar syrup. Research has shown that giving a hive syrup and pollen patties will simulate the rearing of brood. But, I don't know for sure if it worked out or not (it was three months before the weather allowed me to check). Shortly thereafter they appear to have shut down brood production. They have now resumed, however, and they are still on the same frame. I will be posting a video soon to show that.
Thats true what are you saying, but i wanted to say that the frame that you put next to the brood will get laid only in summer days, not in winter days not even if you feed them. I tryed the same as you I just stopped the queen from laying eggs.