🔵Successful Patty feeding!(Even with beetles!!)
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So educational. We don't even have bees but my children enjoy the videos and maybe someday they will be INFORMED
beekeepers :) Thank you!
As a follow up. In 5 days each hive devoured the pollen patties made w/your recipe. While laying patterns are different from hive to hive, all have multiple frames of eggs, larvae, & brood. I see 6-10 dead SHB in Beetle Blasters and
Well glad it helped. Sometimes colonies really benefit from some help on our part and I love giving it.
Love the closeup of the bees at the pollen patty smorgasbord. Fascinating! Thanks for the info.
I am a new Beekeeper in N Florida with 2 May nucs. I am working on building bees so I am feeding sugar water and I am going to feed some patties after I remove my Apivar strips. Your videos are really informative and down to earth. Thank you for your hard work educating backyard beekeepers.
Thanks Mark, we love beekeeping, and we hope that maybe what we have learned over the years can help.
Hi Kamon.
I just added pollen patties. Holy Smokes- they hit each one like there was no tomorrow. Between patties + syrup my boxes are full of bees. No wax moths so far. Have multiple SHB traps in each colony. Just finished mite treatment - time to test to see results.
Only have 9 hives. This is plenty for a 2nd year beek.
Thank you for your videos.
Lol, you did sound like Porky Pig.
Great information Kamon. It's the same way here. I use Ultra Bee pollen substitute and patties, at different times. If there is any pollen whatsoever coming in, my bees will not touch the pollen substitute. They are harvesting pollen from the bahia grass right now, it probably isn't the most nutritious. So I'm feeding pollen patties to supplement and they're eating them. Bottom line, if the bees don't need it, they won't eat it.
Exactly, they will just kick my patties out when they don't need it. I love the old looney toons. I need to watch some tonight
Thanks for sharing about the patties.
Absolutely! Here in Union County Georgia we are feeding our Michael Palmer's and nucs patties now! They consume it in 3 days tops! Keep up the educational, helpful, APPRECIATED videos! 👊
I just finished mixing up pollen patties using your 5 1/4# recipe. It turned out just right. With 10 hives this gives 1/2# to each one.
They are tearing into sugar syrup. It seems to help them draw out new comb. The pattie will help growth.
My boxes are full. Feeder rims also are nice to give them full access to the pattie. Hot as blue blazes in Atl but it’s summer, supposed to be hot.
Hopefully the Ladies agree with the formula.
Thank you
You have convinced me, finally.😁. Tell me all about your traps for I feel they have to go hand and hand if we are to feed patties? Thanks, Phillip Hall
How often should a hive be checked? This will hopefully give me an idea as to how many hives I will eventually be able to keep. I watch your channel almost everyday. I’m studying how to become a bee keeper. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Thanks Raul, It depends. Certain times of the year I might check the hives once a week. (honeyflow/swarm season) in slow times of the year we do a quick inspection every other week just to see if the colony is queen right and laying. We will feed patties once a week but that does not mean we pull out frames.
Kamon. Is it okay to pull honey supers even if the flow is not yet finish? I always see beeks who let their hives go 5 supers. .is it not okay to get them? I hope you understand my question. .still learning here
Porky impromptu was spot on! My hives are strong since I started using the patties more often. Appreciate you.
Glad it is helping! Well my Papa Jim always said I was a ham...... So there you go
Great info, sorry you guys are dealing with the beetles, those Beetle busters will change your world. Feed and make them strong, great advice :)
Thanks for another great video.
I have a question for you... I have been thinking about this for a week or two..... it concerns a video that you posted.... I assume it was an important subject...but I was wondering, just what did you name that kitten? ......lol. I look forward to your videos.....keep them coming....have a good day!
Thanks !!
So if you’re patties are still being eaten by hive beetles you can cover the whole pattie in paper with one slit and add icing sugar to the recipe they eat it faster and yes kamon you’re da man!!!
Stupid question here,, how do you store unused patties? If I mix to much or I don't have a lot of hives. Thanks for all the information you give use.
Freezer works pretty good for me. I just leave them in a bucket.
@@kamonreynolds OK cool thanks.
That is why I supplement as of last year!
I just finished 12 pollen patties for 3 hives. Plus I'm feeding 2 to 1 sugar water. Hopefully, the 4 patties for each hive makes it to 1st freeze.
Did you put all 12 on at the same time?
@@danskisbees7348 No, one at a time. I freeze the others. Patties don't freeze solid. Patty lasts 1 to 2 weeks in the hive.
@@Mackabees You scared me for a minute there, lol. I just ordered some more myself.
I saw on one video a bee keeper put a stiffer cloth over his pollen patties... does this help?
Another great video, Porky...er...Kamon...
Regarding hive beetle traps and double brood chambers, do you put traps on both boxes or just the upper one?
If I was going to have 2 traps I would have them both in the top. Beetles tend to het herded toward the lid.
@@kamonreynolds -- Perfect. I have two traps on the top box, one at either edge.
What SHB trap do you use?
Looks like you use alot of "particle board" lids, do they last, how do you seal, or do you just consider them temperay and replace regularly? Thanks for the videos and knowledge by they way.
It's probably Advantech.
@@danskisbees7348 Thanks
@@moorrona17 I used to think the same thing, lol.
They need to be sealed. PDX plywood works as good maybe better than the advantec. If you paint them paint roll the whole lid!
@@kamonreynolds Thank You.
Buzz buzz
Kamon, I was inspecting my hive and found a queen less here in mid august I'm in SC.so there was lots of bees and food still there. so I went and purchased a new queen.do you think that is going to work for the hive to recover before winter?Or should I be thinking about other options like splitting those bees up between the other 2 hives? any advice would be appreciated. thanks for the videos
As long as they get busy brood and you boost them with sub thru late fall after flow they should build up fine.
I made a bucket of pattie gloop, but is too runny. What can I add to thicken it up?
Just add some more ultra bee till it's about the thickness of peanut butter. It will thicken a little more overnight.
@@kamonreynolds I used your recipe, but forgot I had used some already to make a small batch. Sho I don't have any more ultra bee. With only 9 hives I had planned on keeping this in the freezer.
(Speaking of peanuts. I think that could be one source of protein.i smell a faint peanut odor. ) just my guess.
It has been 2 days. And it's still the texture of gravy
well, perhaps add sugar then, It won't be as high in protein content but there are patties designed to have less protein and more carb. The problem with our recipe is that it seems to be very water-dependent. I can tell a decent difference in how it turned out from my municipal water and the well water
So why reduce the amount of pattie during re-queening?
Little or no uncapped brood to feed.
right!
@@kamonreynolds But what if the situations where you've exterminated a bad queen and are in the process or have introduced a new Queen? And thank you and Paul Christu for your response!
How long is too long to leave a patty on
I think that it's more about how much, rather than, how long. Me personally, I usually check my hives weekly. If I open a hive and see that that the patty is still moist and almost gone, then I probably gave them the right amount. If I open a hive and see that the patty is dry or has some SHB larvae, I give them a smaller piece that they can cover. I hope this helps.
Swedich beekeeper..
Do you buy or make The patties?
www.mannlakeltd.com/shop-all-categories/hive-colony-maintenance/feeds/pollen-substitute/patties
My bees prefer the Ultra Bee. I just ordered another 10 pounds. It has a 2 year expiration date.
I buy the Ultra bee powder and mix my own.
What is your reciipe for your pollen patties.
Is it necessary to leave the paper on the patties?
Yes, the paper protects the patties from the beetles laying eggs in them, wherever the bees don't cover, the beetles have access.
Did you ever get any synthetic comb?
We don’t have SBO (yet) here in Portland OR, but patties without paper rapidly dry out, get hard; at that point bees won’t eat it, just haul it off.
@@paulchristu996 Yep.
@@danskisbees7348 Yes. I installed 8 into frames using toothpicks. Then did another five with with electrically embedded wired frames.
Why not feed the patties just outside of hive ?? Maybe mage a stand
kamon
how nutritious is tarweed pollen in California?
I have no idea! Let me know if you find some cool stuff out
Fiddlesticks......hahahahahahahahhahah😂🤣
Over slept. What do you use for bait in the traps?
Qtip dipped in food grade lemongrass essential oil.
@@Strictlyfishin76 For beetle traps or Swarm traps, I know lemon grass for swarm but what about the beetle traps? Thanks!
Thomas Kmet ahhhhh didn’t catch that lol. I use a honey and borax mixture that’s really thick so it doesn’t run out of my beetle barns. Works great!!!!
I use Bettle Blasters from Mann Lake. I put corn oil in them.
@@Strictlyfishin76 Definitely a good trap.