1 Week Swarm Checkup | Gentle Bees | Moving to a New Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2023
- Welcome to our beekeeping adventure like no other! In this video, we'll take you through the mesmerizing process of transferring a nucleus beehive into a larger box, all without the use of smoke or gloves. It's a daring feat that showcases the incredible relationship between beekeepers and their precious colonies.
🐝 No Smoke, No Gloves: We'll explain the reasons behind our decision to forgo the traditional beekeeping gear and share our experience handling bees in their natural state.
🏡 Hive Expansion: Watch as we carefully relocate our nucleus hive into a larger box, providing our bees with more space to thrive and produce honey.
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Really enjoy watching your videos! Nice to see some good news with your bees!!! Mine are doing well, finally :)
Thank you. It means a lot.
Glad to hear.
Great video 👍 you handled dropping that frame beautifully. Last time I did that, I dropped the F bomb. So glad she was ok and still on the frame. Such sweet lovely girls 🐝💜✌️
It doesn’t happen very offer but when I do I do it properly.
Lovely calm bees , dropping the frame well shit happens . 😂
I couldn’t believe it.
Without prejudice - some suggestions for this hive to improve/increase/survive . . .
I consider that this hive requires at least one full frame of honey or needs to be fed sugar syrup. 1 sugar to 1.5 water to simulate nectar.
It takes one frame of honey to make one frame of broood plus pollen.
You mentioned that there are a lot of eggs and for these eggs to increase to larvae, a lot of nectar, honey or sugar syrup is required. Otherwise the hive will go backwards.
Regarding frames that do not have foundation on them - it takes approximately 7 pounds of honey with plenty of nurse Bees to produce 1 pound of wax (old scale).
They are a 1 week old swarm. Full of nectar ready to deposit. That’s why I left two empty frames. They have been busy on a flow so I think they will be fine.
@beetek0903 Are you suggesting that a frame with plastic foundation gives the bees an advantage over an open frame with a starter strip? I would argue that the amount of wax on the foundation is insignificant, especially compared to the amount in the starter strip. In my experience, when you place an open frame next to a foundation frame the bees will draw the open frame first.
OMG .what are you doing???dropping a frame with the Queen on it.???
I like how you asked the question and answered it all in the one comment.
I was buying some local honey. I gave Jason your you tube address if you don’t mind. He had some ideas for ant control and also mites.
Do I know jason? Feel free to share the channel with anyone.