Typical Beekeeping Day in March | NUCs, Splits, Inspections
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- Well everyone, this video is going to be just a typical day in the beeyeard in March here in SE Louisiana. There are always a number of things to do in the hives as well as deal with unexpected issues that arise. I'll usually spend about 8 hours on any given visit making sure everything is as well as it can be to best of my abilities. It's a challenge for sure as we deal with weather, different bee behaviors, up and down nectar flows, and just keeping up with growth in general. Let's take a trip out to the bees and see what's going on.
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When worst of the worst happens, that’s when you are at your best. You take adversity and turn it to your advantage. You morph into professor of bees taking us on a journey of teaching as you spend your day in the Apairy as you did your bees your way. What a blessing for you to open up and share your skill’s with us.
Thanks so very much!
Thanks so much for the encouraging and kind comment William!!
The Lord blesses a man with an attitude of gratitude! You deserved that sunshine, Mike!!!
Wow what a day! Nice job Mike. Looks like your bees are plugging along. It’s always nice when the sun surprisingly comes out. Things are looking up for you this year. I think (hope) we are in for a better year this year.
Thanks Tom!!
Yes Bruce, we're seeing better weather for the spring for sure and if I can stay ahead of the swarms, I think we'll be fine if the flow comes in.
@@MikeBarryBees So many ifs in the joy of beekeeping. LOL.
Appreciate your testimony, we are blessed even in the midst of turmoil he’s with us.
Yes indeed Steve!! Yes indeed!
Yes, the Lord blessed you with a wonderful day and a smile on your face. Your acknowledgment of God’s goodness and giving credit to His creation is a great way to begin Holy Week. Happy Easter ‘2024…
Thanks and I agree!! Happy Easter to you as well!!
Enjoyed the video. God is good and gives what we need when we need it. We just got to keep looking up and sing his praises
AMEN!!! That's all needs to be said Brother!!
I think the challenges is what keeps us going or it is for me. The bees are so amazing
I agree Melvin, but I do like the weeks here and there where they leave me alone and just follow what the books say...LOL!! Take care Melvin!
AMEN!! Despite all our efforts as humans to manage these amazing creatures God still knows what’s best!
Dream Big brother 🙏
Indeed He does John!!
Thanks for the encouragement!!
You're not the only one who worrys about the bees when they should be trusting God. It's amazing how things just work out sometimes. 👍
Absolutely amazing!! We have to slow down and remember who it is that's really in control.
You grouchy at first and God was like haha now look what happened 😂 He’s too good to us for sure and I know I’m thankful for what He puts up outta me. 🥰
So true! He just needed to roust me outta of that funk!
I'm always encouraged by your videos! I admire your strength to always share your faith. You never know who needs to hear that some days. Your bees are looking Great! Boy they really hate that camera though! Take Care!
Wow! Thanks so much for the encouragement. I have to share my faith. It is what saved me and you know, when it's all said and done, we are blessed and all of this stuff and media and such, really means nothing. So why not use it to spread the Good News and encourage others. Thanks so much for the support!!
21:09 Queen in left of frame running from left towards top then right turn to run towards the upper right then going off screen towards top. Only in view for a about 4 or 5 seconds.
For the new folks, when he is talking about HIS schedule, remember he is in southeast Louisiana and HIS weather may be different from anyone OUTSIDE of there and HIS bees react to HIS weather. You have to come up with a schedule determined by where YOU are, YOUR weather, and YOUR bees' reaction to it.
Great video with many teachable moments. Loved it.
Great testimony Mike and another superb video in the bee yard.
Thanks so much and glad you liked it!
Thank you kindly Russ! Hope you are having a great Easter!!
This was an absolute GREAT video. Ty
Glad you enjoyed it John and thanks for watching!!
Freeze last nite,made 2 i call early gamble splits,its about to get crazy,but we are so blessed,and give him the glory,
Amen, He gets all the glory!
My colonies are exploding but it’s too cold to split here. I’m trying to make it to the third week of April to make splits. I have some Lappes queens on order. I hope mine don’t swarm but if they do then they do. Sorry about always commenting Mike. I do appreciate and enjoy your videos. May God bless you and your family.
Don't ever apologize for commenting Jim!! Happy to have you and glad you do comment. You weren't commenting for quite some time, so you have some catching up to do anyhow. Hope you keep them in the boxes and get those new queens off to a great start!!
@@MikeBarryBees Thank you Mike! Happy Easter.
before I retired I was constantly going through my hives in the evenings. They did not like it that was for sure - never mind if it was overcast. I feel your pain Mike. You could leave them and hope they don't swarm.
That is my season right there what you said. Evenings after work and never fun when its rushing and getting bees all stirred up. So what you're telling me is I need to retire.......
@@MikeBarryBees losing the money income sucks. Waking up at 8am instead of 6 am is awesome.
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Thanks Mike, it’s always a pleasure watching you do bees, God bless you!
My pleasure as always and thanks so much!!
Once again, another video packed with great tips. I am close to you in timing. However, I had a surprise swarm around 2 pm today. Best laid plans can go to crap in spite of what you do. I did catch the swarm so, that is good. Thanks for your efforts.
You said it Jim. Best laid plans aren't guarantees for sure. Glad you caught them. To me it's disappointing, but always eases the disappointment a bit when I catch them before they're all the way gone. We live to fight another day. Glad you enjoyed it my friend!!
Hi Mike, @ 21:09 the queen walks on the left side of the frame you showed with eggs. She's a dark queen walking up the upper left side.
Good eye, I was looking at the eggs and she was right there. 👍
Great catch Jimmy!! I missed her altogether! Even while editing!
@@MikeBarryBees Oh, she was there with traveling on her mind.
Great video Mike 👍🐝😁 thanks for sharing. Got to love these little ladies, even when they are spicy 🌶️🐝💜
Thanks so much and glad you enjoyed it!!They do have a spot in my heart.
I have a theory that has been proven by our last three in a row overcast springs. My theory is that bees don't fly in overcast because flowers need direct sunlight to produce nectar, ie. No sun no nectar, no fly. It is a proven fact that bees can still navigate in overcast, but there is just little reason to leave the hives. I have had three crappy springs in a row thus no spring honey, and I have even last year had to feed through summer, Luckily it was just a local thing and further north things were different. Also bud try to take on a positive attitude before you do bees or the novelty will soon wear off and you will start to hate it.
Yep, sun and warmth pull the nectar. When it cools down the nectaries in the blooms slow up, as well as in overcast conditions. So the bees have no reason to go. The few foragers report back via waggle dances for abundant nectar sources and I have to believe there’s also a dance for low nectar conditions.
Sometimes you just have to roll with it!
I'm just ready for them to start rolling with me for a change Brian! LOL!!
Wheew.....that was a lot of work!!! Bees looking good....and not too crazy today!!! Like you, I've done all the splits I really want to do and trying to keep the ladies strong for the tulip poplars!!! Hard to hold them back!!!! Glad you mentioned checking for a queen BEFORE you destroy cells. That SMALL tidbit gets left out and really messes up a LOT of new beekeepers!!! Great video Mike. Thanks!!!
Thanks for the comment Keith!! Holding them back is such work. I think I need to start putting my mind to equalizing them early on and then systematically building them into boxes with feed and purpose. Then I'll at least know where they stand as a whole. Yea, I've had folks that insist on knock down cells and forgetting they might've already swarmed. I preach that from the rooftops.
Lots of dead bees 🐝 in front of my colonies. The yellow jasmine is over but the bad weather has them eating the stored pollen. I think it’s Jasmin pollen poisoning them.
I have only seen the yellow jessamine affect my bees one time and it was in Mississippi and it did a number on them. Didn't see a bunch of dead necessarily, but the hives just started regressing very quickly. As soon as the blooms were over, they picked right back up. This was in an area where there were flowers everywhere. I hope you see a turnaround when the blooms die off.
Good stuff thanks for sharing 👍 Happy Palm Sunday 🌴 😊
Thanks Brian and glad you liked it!! Happy Easter!!
Mike, another wonderful video. I know that you work very hard with your bees and I hope you have a wonderful flow this season. I liked how you said that you told us that story for nothing because you saw eggs and it’s a Queen rite hive. I honestly thought I saw a queen on that frame that you were holding when you said that.
Thanks Don and hope you are well my friend!! You did see her. A lot of comments that she was on the corner of the frame somewhere near the 21:00 mark. I missed her totally but saw the eggs and i was still a happy beekeeper...LOL!!
They don’t like that camera. I appreciate you sharing.
It is true for sure! It is getting better though. I think its the weather improving and a bit more nectar coming in finally.
@@MikeBarryBees The bees attracted to the camera may be a good thing. The angry ones are not attracted to you.
Greetings from Australia .Love your Testemony
Thanks Walter and thanks for watching from abroad!!
Thanks Mike!
You bet Rodney and thanks for your support!
Well both my hives absconded in November they finally got completely robbed out a week ago. I threw a couple of brood Frames in a trap that in five years has never caught a swarm and Friday I saw bees around it like an idiot I opened it up and got stung 3 times. So I moved them to a hive yesterday. Hoping to catch another one for the other empty hive.
Glad you caught a swarm!! I'm sure it was worth the stings knowing you got it...LOL!! Hope you catch another. I keep mine up for about three months because you just never know what my happen by.
@@MikeBarryBees I had a bigger swarm on the Box yesterday so like a dummy I tried to get them in a hive instead of letting the move into the trap. Well it took off into the neighbors crepe Myrtle. Rained on it last night and I caught it this afternoon.
Mug up Mike, our rain came down as snow...2 feet of it...shoveled out yesterday. I snowshoed a trail to the top of Pine Hill yesterday afternoon when the snow was wet. Hope to hike up and catch some freshies(ski turns) today and enjoy the view. Last year, I was enrolled in swarming 101...wow! I hope to be a little ahead of swarming this year and after 4 seasons, fingers crossed, hopefully get a bit o honey! Thanks for swamping with us, peace, Brice
Hope that's last of it for you guys Brice and each year beings new challenges. Staying ahead of the swarming will normally always produce some honey, provided the flow is good, and I hope you get a great harvest!!
@@MikeBarryBees It's not May yet,🤣
Put some honey bandit or whatever you use on the mic
Great video Mike!
Thanks Greg!! Glad you liked it.
I started making some two frame nucs to split my hives down to make room and to make new queens maybe this will work for me.
It will as long as you stay on top of them. The two frame boxes are good for quickly making a few queens, but they do grow fast once they start laying, especially if fed, and the queen runs out of space in about one to two days depending on open cells and has to wait for an emergence. The foragers will also fill up empty cells restricting her. That's what I found with them, so once she begins laying, she needs to be moved to a five frame of even introduced to a queenless colony.
@@MikeBarryBees Good teachers never stop. You are a prince of teachers.
Great video Mike! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and faith. God Bless you Brother!
Thanks, and yall be blessed as well Mike!!
Happy Easter Mike!
Mike ur the best
Thanks so much for the vote of confidence!!
wow Mike Great advice and thoughts.
Thanks and Glad you enjoyed it!!
You should spray your microphone cover with honey be gone
I tired. It doesn't keep them away. They do bounce off very quickly now, but still make a bunch of noise. And with the honey-b-gone, they don't tend to sting it anymore, but again, just as noisy. I did a video a couple days ago and they were much better in better weather. I hope it calms down. I need a wireless mic really. Thanks for watching!!
Great video, I have seen a lot lately that backs up everything you have said, liked your hands on presentation the most though. I have a daughter that lives about a 10 min. drive away that I can likely set up hives to get past some of my town's restrictive bee rules. Thanks for the video! (I'm still going to push the limits as far as I can in my own yard though😉)
Thanks as always Tommy and I sure hope it works out for you to put your hives there at your daughter's. 10 minutes is close enough to keep it easy with quick inspections when need be. Keep us up on how it works out my friend.
Angry bees are no fun!!! Been picking and choosing my days. Planning on starting queen rearing Friday.
Yea Tim, and finally been able to work them in some nice weather this past week. Like night and day. Thanks for watching Brother!!
Mike I keep 10 hives mark each queen a different color if a hive swarms I know what hive swarmed
Good plan for sure. Hopefully you don't have many swarms and a great crop!! Thanks for the support!!
Great video Mike, I hear we will see you in July in N.C.! Awesome! Have you tried the Demaree splits to retain your honey flow? I have done this the past two years with Great success!
Lord willing, I will be there. I have not tried the Demaree but have seen it. I think if I had more time I would try a few to see how I like it. For now it is just a bit burdensome for me. If I will split more consistently, I can prevent swarming and still get a great crop, but back to my schedule and time, I an so all over the place with work and time, I can't be as consistent as I was only a couple years ago.
Queen at 21:09
Good eye! I missed her for sure.
Just wondered if you could make a wire screen piece formed around the mic to keep the bees at least at a distance from the mic?
That would keep them off, but then they'd probably be all over the wire. While I have a pretty cheesy little mic, it picks up sound very well, and even when the bees aren't on it, it accentuates their buzz more than you would believe. I know one way or the other, I need to get it under control so I can get the audio right. People will grow weary of the noise for sure.
Those bees hate that camera!!!!
And then some!! It's getting a bit better, but they really just hear or feel something from that camera more than the older camera.
@@MikeBarryBees Since it is just the mic they don't like I'm thinking it may emit some kind of ultrasonic that tics them off.
Ya had that queen scurry across the frame at 20:10. She was fast. Could be new
Sorry 21:10
Yea, I totally missed her. She is new and the pattern looked great the following week I check. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
I had an inch an a half of snow, so suffice it to say I'm not doing bees. Not as bad as Hall Apiaries though, the storm that dropped a inch or two at my house dropped three feet on him.
Wow!! It's getting warmer by the day here. We did have a cool front push through which is probably what dumped snow on you all, but we got into the 40's and it was sure nice out in the sun.
Hi Mike, I cannot recall the video you mentioned the bees “turning the corner” on swarming. Has that happened yet (25 May 2024)?
Yessir, it’s happened. Seemed like this season they wait longer, but we’re in the place where it’s just monitor for enough space to put honey. Usually around mid April to last week of April, they’re simply worried with forgoing and filling, and not swarming. Provided they have enough space of course.
@@MikeBarryBees Thanks, as always…
So, is that the camera Dirtrooster gave to you? if it is....I think he must have dipped it in bananas before handing it over as a prank!
Wouldn't put it past him!! He's a character capable of such shenanigans....LOL!!
Maybe a wireless bluetooth mic that clips under your veil.
Yes, it would help. I’m looking at them now for the future.
What if you attached a cotton ball to the mic that you sprayed with honey bee gone or honey bandit / robber? Would that keep the bees off the mic?
It might. I tried some on the camera the other day and it did help some. At least they jumped back off of it as fast as they jumped on it.
Weather here in ohio sucks too
Hope you're seeing some better days! We finally got a week of nice weather and it was much nicer to work the bees.
I got 2 if they don't come down by next week I give some Dawn district
Gotta do what you gotta do. I've done it one time. They were simply too bad. What I have now is NOTHING compared to what they were and they got the dawn treatment. I tried, but they never got better, even after re-queening.
@@MikeBarryBees I heard about bees at the truck stop . And I went and got them That's the ones I'm having problems with tomorrow I'm going back into them if they bad they got to go
How do you keep your queen cells good?
Incubator. I’ll place any unused in that and use them later or give them away. Although this run of queens, well, I had some issues. I’ll explain in an upcoming video.
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Hey Brother Mike,
You've always been a blessing, Mike and this video is no exception.
Your endorsement of Guardian Bee Apparel sold me. I need to try them.
Can you give me a telephone # for them please???(ASAP) THANKS.
KEEP SHINING, BROTHER.
"HIS EYES ARE ON THE SPARROWS and HE'S WATCHING US BIRDS ALSO"
GOD Bless📖✝️🛐
Chuck, thanks so much and great to hear from you!! Been a while. Honestly, I don't have a phone for them and they only list email on their site. I have emailed them and they are normally quick to answer. Try emailing Cory at support@guardianbeeapparel.com. I've had great success with them. God bless you Brother!!
You need a gorilla cart so you don't have to carry boxes around.
I have a dolly I use, but I need to look at this Gorilla cart you mention. Ok, I just looked. I know the cart. I almost bought the knock-off at H. Freight. I think I am at that point. I do have a tractor coming to the property bigger than my little one and that will free up my little one to use as a transport, but the cart would be nice for these quick trips.
I love your videos but have trouble understanding what you are saying because of all the noise the bees make. I suggest you get a wireless microphone that you wear.
I do apologize for the bad audio. I just don't have a camera that will take a wireless mic. The Hero8 will, but the adapter is a large investment at this point. I think the bees will get better as we go on. They normally haven't been this bad and I have switched back to the camera that they tolerate better. Hope you stick around and hopefully I can find a way to get a wireless mic and camera combo that will work for what I do.
Cheif you know you love it.the two mean hives might be commies LOL
Yea, well, I guess I am a glutton for punishment...LOL!!!
A couple of dabs of honey robber or something similar on your microphone might keep them away from it.
I tried it and it helped a lot. They still hit it, but backed off and didn't sting it anymore.
@@MikeBarryBees By backing off they didn't leave any attack pheromones.
Awesome video Mike!
Thanks and so glad you liked it!!