Beekeeping Spring Management
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- Part 1 of 2 parts of "Beekeeping Spring Management" with North Carolina beekeeper Greg Rogers. Swarm control, feeding, equalizing, checkerboarding, supering and much more was covered at the Macon County Beekeepers Association in Franklin, North Carolina.
Part 2 of "Beekeeping Spring Management" • Beekeeping Spring Mana...
The guy is pretty smart, like that, I hope more to come from him.
Wow, I wish I had stumbled upon this video sooner! It's so informative. Better late than never, though! Thanks for sharing this gem 🌟
SO glad he talked about feeding. So glad. So many look at me like I have two heads when I phrase it just like he did. KNOW WHY you're feeding, not just because youtube or google says to. Down here to feed in spring in cases where you won't split is guaranteeing you plenty of swarms. I always recommend the Bob Binnie four part feeding series......It's a tool and use the right tool for the right job....
Perfect timing. I love how you guys have your season just a little bit before mine starts lol
Lots of information I feel I can use in my bee yard! Enjoy listening to Greg. Thanks for taking the time!!!
Tried the reflectix on a couple hives this year. So far so good. I liked it and didn’t have any issues.
Ty so much for these videos, after your first videos series with your friend Greg, I knew I wanted to hear more about his management techniques.
Ty, so much Bob. Blessed Days...
This Gentleman’s presentation is outstanding!! It’s so interesting to listen to other Beeks way of beekeeping. Very interested in Part 2.
Thank You!! 👍👍
Thanks.
Truly enjoyed being at the presentation and thankful for the video to go back over my notes! Thanks so much for your knowledge!
Give Greg a hug for me😋 He does a great job of presenting good info clearly.
This is great video and information. Thank you for posting. It is a relief to hear him talk about the success of his mite treatment strategy in the beginning of the video because i am going to do a much more intense treatment strategy this year similar to what he described.
thank you for every video that you upload on this youtube channel
Thanks for sharing valuable content Bob & Greg 🍀👍🇺🇲
Bob, your friend shared so good information. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bob. Appreciate you sharing this with us. Good stuff in there.
Very informative and great information. Glad to see more from Greg. Thanks for sharing.
Bob thank you for sharing Greg's great information. Greg thanks for sharing your hard learned experience really enjoyed
Excellent Presentation! So much valuable information and knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, Mr. Binnie! Please pass my thanks on to Mr. Rogers. this was wonderful information.
Will do. More on Wednesday.
Greg is such a wealth of knowledge! I think I could listen to him for days. Thank you for sharing this with us Bob!
He's good. I suggested him as a speaker to Kamon for next year.
He would be a great addition to the conference!
Great tricks of the trade plus it's nice since he is probably 2 weeks ahead of us and gives us a heads up. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent info! Thanks for sharing Bob! Waiting on part two!
This was an outstanding presentation.
Thanks for posting! Great info and presentation.
Thank you! Priceless information.
Great presentation. Really liked the information. Thanks for the video.
This is very useful, getting more ways of doing things lets you try out and find the one that works best for your area. Thank you :)
Thanks Bob. Greg did a great job presenting!!
Thanks, he always does.
AMEN! Know why you are feeding! Not just because all the cool kids are doing it
Great job from an old beekeeper
Another steppler inner cover, so funny to watch it spread with his utube rise
Thank you for sharing this!
Great presentation.👍
Great presentation! I wish it had not ended where it did. Felt like there was some good information still coming.
It continues in part two which will post Wednesday morning.
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you!
Great info thank you 👍
Great presentation.
Bob this was great 👍 thanks and God bless
Thank you.
Bob, you always create some great content on TH-cam. Great presentation, the zip lock bag approach to feeding is a great idea to saving my back haha
Just use 1 Gallon Buckets saves your back too and you don’t have to have carry shimms and ekes, straight sit them on top. Also you lise way less due to bags always leaking.
@@kaistumer198 very good points.
@@robwildfieldhoney Also forgot about the price point, 1 gal Buckets are about 1.60$. Gallon bags are 15 cents each and need are not reusable
@@kaistumer198 very true. On my channel I'm going to try and make a DIY bucket. Every bit helps especially with how expensive things are getting.
@@robwildfieldhoney Where you are located i wouldn’t bother with that and just go with the bee maid feeding bucket which is top notch. Just drill a couple holes in the lid and punch a hole for filling the bucket ghats it (first get the plugs then get the punch).
Great info! 👍👍👍
I use blue painters tape swatches on the backside of my hives, to write in pen any info I feel pertinent. Then I just peel off and replace, to begin the next years info on fresh tape. Get re-usable entrance feeders, no plastic bags!
Thanks Mr Bob
Excellent!
The reflextech is a radiant barrier, the r value increases from almost nothing to quite good with a slight air gap
I think I'll be drawing from his note taking and implementing it myself. Too much trouble to keep the pad handy and not blowing away, or setting a hot smoker on it. Writing on the lid, great idea!
It works good for us too. We use the same marker we use for marking queens. That way the color tells us what year it is.
Thank you! Keep going!
peppermint cany can be crushed and sprinkled over/on pollen patties to keep beetles away! If it was not true I wouldnt have told you! It works for me! God Bless!!!
Im giving it a go Casey!~ thanks......putting your idea on Texas Friendly Beekeepers Facebook-- 6,000 members. Have 10 folks doing a testing on the peppermint!>..hoping for the best! - have a great spring!!--Stan Gore
@@texasfriendlybeekeepers8210 I can not wait til you all find out how well it works and how good it is for the bees!! You will be amazed at how well it gets rid of them and helps with other things like tracheal and veroa mites! Yep I said it! You just let me know when you see for yourself! God Bless youns all and your Bees!!!
@@DooleyBFR great!!! would love to have you on Texas Friendly Beekeepers. You have some great ideas! --take care!
@@texasfriendlybeekeepers8210 Just what I have been taught! Thank you! After youall get rid of your beetles Id love to be on! Wont take long!
@@DooleyBFR thanks so much! love your channel!
Good stuff here. Last year, I changed to 2x pallets, modified single brood chambers, Reflectix inner covers, no upper ventilation. Loved it all through the summer. It made working my hives so much nicer. It seems to be paying off through winter as my losses dropped from 60-75% to around 30% so far this year. I'm in Minnesota. We actually get a real winter.
I have found that contact with acidic substance (e.g. Formic acid, Oxcalic acid, bleach, etc) will remove the aluminum coating off the Reflectix. Doesn't seem to affect the insulation value or utility of the Reflectic.
I think I'll try the baggie method of feeding this spring. Buckets and jars are kind of a pain. Will reserve those for the hives I don't have shims for.
Question: When Greg talks about counting frames of brood, what exactly does that mean? Is a frame which has brood on both sides counted as one frame, or two frames of brood? When evaluating colony strength I typically just count "seams" of bees. I'm curious what they are actually looking for in pollination brood evaluation. Everyone talks about "frames of brood" or "frames of bees", but I've never really seen a formal definition of what that means. Obviously counting one side as one frame is very different than counting two sides as on frame.
I believe Greg refers to a frame of brood as covered 2/3 or more on each side. I look for the equivalent of a frame even if it takes two or three to add up to one. I'm not sure about Greg's pollination contracts but in the past the farmers I worked with were looking at frames of bees.
Thank you Bob and Greg. I was hoping you would do a spring split video, as I recently retired and want to expand from 15 to 50 or so by fall. All of them are strong and my plan was to do traditional nuc splits, but after I heard Frederick Dunn and Greg, I was thinking of going to a deep and a medium set up. I would strip off the top deep, put on a medium with drawn comb.
Hi Hope. Next Sunday I will be posting a video on how we are preparing colonies to split and then within a week another video showing how we are splitting this year. You might want to watch our existing video "How To Split Bees"
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@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob, I will be looking for it. I've watched your fall split video and didn't know if you did anything different in the Spring. Thanks again.
@@bobbinnie9872 Hey Bob, I was the 2nd video with Greg, which I greatly enjoyed and he said he wants to go into the flow with 6 frames of brood. The 1st hive I inspected today is a double deep with 11 frames of brood with 70% of it capped and very little stores. The remaining frames were full of pollen and scattered amounts of nectar. I am feeding it 1.3-1. Would you buy time and add a 3rd brood box and strip it off when the flow starts or do 2 -3 3-5 frame walk away nuc splits? I can't tell you how much I appreciate you valuable feed back. I was up you way in Franklin a few weeks ago and wanted to come by the store, but the only day I had was Sunday and under standardly you were closed.
Hi Hope. If you don't have access to queens walk away splits could be your answer. 2 frame splits may not make as good of a queen as a larger split. Go back 4 days after making your split and kill all the sealed queen cells and leave only the unsealed if there are some. This will remove all cells started from an older larvae. Also feed with thin syrup to get better cells. Make sure there is pollen in the split for good nutrition. Good luck.
Thank you Bob! I followed your video and chose what I wanted, shook them down and will harvest tomorrow.
Just what the doctor ordered 😁
I have yet to dial in spring swarm control. Right as he was getting into the equalizing it cut out, any chance there will be more? I’m in Richmond,
So this is awesome because it is a relatively similar season
Yes, part two continuation will post Wednesday morning (still editing).
Thanks about the great presentation!Is it possible to use candy patties instead of syrup in spring?What is the best option?
Yes, you can use sugar patties, and they will keep bees from starving, but syrup may work better at keeping up with the rapid expansion that occurs in spring.
Bob I have a question kinda off topic but I am a newer beekeeper and probably around April 1st need to be making splits and I am looking for a good reputable outfit to order about 10 queens from do u have any guidelines for choosing a new breeder or just luck of the draw?
thanks for all the videos and information keep up the great work and awesome information
It may be hard to find queens available for April 1 at this point and yes, sometimes you just have to try a few producers to find one you like. Good luck.
I'd like to know your mite counts before and after your Amitraz. I've used Amitraz with no mite kill.
The presentation was a well laid out process of spring management. I often find things that I've either missed or never knew. I like the sponge in the entrance until I'm ready to clean it out.
We have a few inches on the ground right now so obviously, you're ahead of us.
The last couple of times I used it in August and it didn't lower mite numbers but also didn't let them go up. And then I had to use something else in early September.
@@bobbinnie9872 I think you and I have conversed about this issue and I've had comments with Kamon Reynolds about the same issue.
I'm curious about the presenter and how well Amitraz worked on his mites.
I'm no longer using Amitraz because of it's low mite mortality and expense.
@@beebob1279 He's not liking Apivar much either.
Good afternoon Mr. Bob. Greetings from Ukraine. The question for you: what do you do so that the bees can climb into the upper body on the frame 145. How to raise the bees into the upper body if we put only wax. Thank you! Roman Shchurko
Hey Bob, I love your videos! I’m up in Asheville I would love to get in touch the Greg.
Search "Haw Creek Honey". Should come right up.
I agree with mriley528. I find that almost everybody does beekeeping different. Any chance he wants to share his swarm management method? Thanks!
Yes, part two continuation will post Wednesday morning (still editing).
Hi Bob! Can you provide a little more details on the RV paint that Greg uses on covers?
I honestly don't know much about it. I'll ask about it when I see him next.
Is there a second half to this video? Seemed like it ended abruptly. Great info though!! Thanks
Part 2 is posting Wednesday morning.
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Info we can all use. Thanks
What are your thoughts? I'm in SC.
For apple polination 75-100$per hive (Omg)in serbia we got 6$(per hive).what is apple price (wholesale,or in market)?just to compere.thanks.
Ah what was the answer to the last question? I think it was how many frames do you leave when you equalise your hives in spring? At least I hope it was that 😄
Part 2 will post on Wednesday morning and continue where he left off.
Thanks Bob and Greg
I agree that syrup in the spring isn't necessary for all beeks but could be handy if you need to make splits.Some local "pros" push it for the
newbees and then everyone complains about the swarms.
Can you give some phenological indicators for your manipulations,
like red maple or dandelion bloom so I can equate Greg's Ashville with my
Hartford CT?
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The maple trees in Gregs area start producing pollen in late February to early March.
Thanks Bob.Another 2wks for us I think.
It seem's late this year but could be nerves.
Sure wish he had gone into his method for reducing swarms, otherwise great video
It continues in part two which will post Wednesday morning.
Only time I got varroa was when i bought bees from a beekeeper that treated his hives. Since I started buying from beekeepers that don’t treat I never had issues. you treat hives you get problems, that is how pharma science works