Thank you very much for the informational video. You can read it in the books over and over, but a presentation like this incorporates the unknowns you see in the field as you open the hive and manipulate accordingly.
Wow! Awsome! New beekeeper, my 5 th. week with my very first nucleus. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Ummmm I liked the penis comment, I live in N. Central Florida in a very old pine forest with total privacy, I daily go to my colony in the NUDE, So I am still laughing so hard it hurts. Please, please, More Videos of Yours, I so wish I have someone to come help, watch me one time and tell me everything I am doing wrong. But, I am pretty happy, with the help of guys like you here on TH-cam, I feel pretty confident, only 5 weeks with my first nuc. Happy new Beekeeper. Dave, Thank You! Oh, I am only 70 years old.
Thanks for the videos! Learning a great deal. Our local beek assoc. is inactive (NW Pa) and all my learning has been thru books, Online forums, and TH-cam. Piggybacking on the mic comment, how about introducing a chest-mounted GoPro for close up footage? Keep up the great work: you guys have a great association!
great video. will definitely try this. It seems that having so many boxes to go through above the excluder to check for QC is making it harder for you. Would placing a couple of honey supers above ex and then having a single deep on top that you could go through be a good idea, or should honey s always be top? thanks for the help
do you ever use winter green ess. oils in sugar patties for mites? You can use them year round I understand. I found the fate man and several other find them working quite well? I'm new but I have made my patties and see them cleaning the hives of it so I know it getting on them and the mites hate the wintergreen oil. I do not like chemicals so trying this to see what happens. All the video I have watch and a couple of sites I have read they are very happy with the out come. just wondering what you r thought are. I love this video thank you for they way you have constructed it very well done/
Dabbled with some of them but not enough practical experience to know if they did any good or not. There is a lot of lore out there about essential oils but no definitive science that proves pro or con to the effectiveness. It is safe to say that when used wrong they can really do some damage to a hive but there is enough info out there to get some perspective on how much of what you should put in. Might also search for the "honey b healthy" drench information that has been reported on here an there if there is an interest in that.
I'm a little blown away at the # of deeps used....or brood boxes used. a single frame has 4500 cells per side....9000 per frame. 10 frames is 90000 cells. A good queen lays between 1000 and 1200 per day. 21 days is between 21000 and 25000 cells, leaving the other 65000 cells for honey and pollen...and that is just one box. I can't fathom the need for three brood boxes let alone 4. Two deep brood boxes, yes during peak brood production and honey flow times.....Keeping up with supers (with drawn comb) during a flow seems the best method to give them room to prevent swarms. I guess this method would work if the bees got ahead of you to prevent being honey bound, but the best method is to try to stay ahead of the bees it seems. I have never gotten to this point, but it would seem if a hive is getting honey bound in its brood chambers, you remove honey frames and replace with empty drawn comb and add supers with drawn comb so the colony can expand.... I'm no expert...at all. Just trying to learn....part of it is to process the information I've been given logically. I still appreciate taking the time to show this. Thanks.
What blows me away is how incredibly fast bees can build up. And, it can sneak up on you. One day you’re worried about their numbers, the next day you’re trying to prevent swarms. This is definitely another weakness of mine this year as I just haven’t had the experience dealing with huge colonies in the spring. But, I’m getting my lesson now that’s for sure. Next year I’ll be equalizing a bit more and pulling earlier splits I’d guess to thin out the herd. Of course, these are all great problems to have when your bees are thriving. But there’s that fine line if they get to swarm mode and you lose your honey crop
Great info, but the crowd, people in front of the camera and the un-miked speakers are very distracting. Too many cooks! I applaud that your club does these demonstrations for new beekeepers...great learning environment! I would love to see this re-filmed as a standalone, focused explanation of the Demaree technique.
The man I watched the other day put supers in the middle and the split up on top and they filled the top first and the supers as well and the little bees hatched and went down some time in the first two weeks because he opened the top up and they were gone
Why would you think Two out of 10 bees being infected is pretty good. You should do an alcohol wash and if your infestation is higher than 2% tread however you treat
Hi, I am not a bee keeper but a seasonal honey hunter in the forest. Due to this reason, sometime I watch your videos of bee keeping. In the forest the bees build their hives in the bushes and on the tree branches, where they remain exposed to open air, sunlight and climatic changes but you put the bees swarm in a box with a very small hole for entry/exit and completely isolate from the outside world. I am sure they do not get the sunlight in the box.I have the following questions regarding this: 1. Why do you completely isolate the bees from sunlight and fresh air by putting them in the darkness of a box? 2. Is it not harmful for the health of queen, brood and larvae to keep them completely isolated from the outside world? 3. How do the worker bees build the hive in the darkness contrary to building hives in open in the jungle? I would be definitely grateful to you if you answer my questions. Regards, Nasir
+Nasir Malik Hi Nasir. It is true that you will find bees hanging in bushes and trees in nature but this is a temporary state. Bees will leave a home and gather on a tree branch in passing before they move on to a permanent home. In the forest or jungle bees live in trees - meaning inside hollow cavities in trees. When a colony of bees wishes to reproduce 1/2 to 2/3rds of the bees leave the cavity and gather on a resting place with the queen while they await instruction from scout bees which are looking for a new home. The truth of the matter is keeping bees in a box is not unlike keeping bees as nature intended - in a cavity that is always dark and temperature controlled by the bees. Bees work through touch (to each other and the surroundings) and by sensation through antennae and sensors built into their body. They can operate, and always do, completely in the dark. I would recommend a book by professor Tom Seeley called Honey Bee Democracy. This book explains the swarming phenomena and how bees come to choose a new home. It will cover your question in far more detail than what we can provide here.
Hi nwnjba, Thanks for your utelizing some time in answering my question . Yes I removed some hives from tree trunks, holes and depressions in mountains and big rocks and boulders as well but never found them isolated with exception of some hives from hallow tree trunks. The hive that I remove in Spring Season of April-May are found 100% in the sun with little cover. Those I remove before the start of Autumn in Oct-Nov are found in shadowy bushes but not isolated. I think my question is still unanswered. I'll try to get your prescribed book as well. Thanks for your time.
Im sure you are not comparing bees with bees . Its like eagles and caged chicken. Both of them are birds Domestic bees are mostly from Europe and used to live in hollow trees . The inside temperature is 36 degrees . Winter or Summer. Bees will keep the temperature to survive . You get about 40 kg of honey in a year from one hive Bee keepers love their bees and it’s sustainable . They help the farmers ( environment) a lot with Pollen etc. I’m not sure about you collecting honey from the wild . In most countries it’s illegal I’m hoping you do it in a way that you don’t kill the hole hive Your lack of knowledge and trying to be right worries me Good luck to you my friend
@@nasirmalik5881 more then likely you live in a tropical environment. When our bees make open hives during our winters in Northern United States. They will be froze solid and covered in snow by mid December. As stated above Different breed of bees.
hi,
i am not a bee keeper but after watching your videos i have started an interest in bee keeping
big guys for the hard work you are doing
You are such articulate and concise teachers. Excellent!!
You guys are great to take the time to make these excellent and informative videos -- THANK YOU!
Thank you very much for the informational video. You can read it in the books over and over, but a presentation like this incorporates the unknowns you see in the field as you open the hive and manipulate accordingly.
+Jim maker Thanks for taking the time to leave a note. We appreciate that you got something out of the video and that you took the time to say so.
December 2019 and I'm watching this again. Good info and great camaraderie among everyone there. I hope to see more of these in the future.
I'm so glad I eventually watched this till the end I nearly pissed myself laughing when that bee crawled in your mouth how funny. Love the videos
Really helpful video and plan to use this strategy for my hives this Spring. Thank you!
Thank you Bob. I really appreciate you and what you do. I have subscribed and looking forward to more.
Thanks for the upload and best of luck from way down south.
this was like the senior citizens bee movie, my friend went from 100 to 400 this year, lots of work
Very interesting and helpful. Thanks for your video
Wow! Awsome! New beekeeper, my 5 th. week with my very first nucleus. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Ummmm I liked the penis comment, I live in N. Central Florida in a very old pine forest with total privacy, I daily go to my colony in the NUDE, So I am still laughing so hard it hurts. Please, please, More Videos of Yours, I so wish I have someone to come help, watch me one time and tell me everything I am doing wrong. But, I am pretty happy, with the help of guys like you here on TH-cam, I feel pretty confident, only 5 weeks with my first nuc. Happy new Beekeeper. Dave, Thank You! Oh, I am only 70 years old.
really well explained. thank you.
Thanks for using the mic! Really helps!
Agree, it really helps. We're going to obtain another microphone soon so the lead and the support can be mic'd. Thanks for your comment.
Forehead gopro cameras or just another camera in hand would be excellent.
Thanks for the videos! Learning a great deal. Our local beek assoc. is inactive (NW Pa) and all my learning has been thru books, Online forums, and TH-cam. Piggybacking on the mic comment, how about introducing a chest-mounted GoPro for close up footage? Keep up the great work: you guys have a great association!
Really fine presentation! It is OK to repeat, some of us, at least me, are slow to catch on. I appreciate your patience. LP
+Larry Peterson Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you appreciated it.
great video. will definitely try this. It seems that having so many boxes to go through above the excluder to check for QC is making it harder for you. Would placing a couple of honey supers above ex and then having a single deep on top that you could go through be a good idea, or should honey s always be top? thanks for the help
I enjoyed your video....thanks.I think you should have gone through the boxes to see if there where any Queen cells or a second Queen.
Aren't you supposed to take the 2nd route Box and put it on top of the super?
Hello I love your videos just started watching but I have some advice for you guys should get some go pros and have 2 mics instead of one
hello nice work , this metod works whit african brazilian bees too? thanks
do you ever use winter green ess. oils in sugar patties for mites? You can use them year round I understand. I found the fate man and several other find them working quite well? I'm new but I have made my patties and see them cleaning the hives of it so I know it getting on them and the mites hate the wintergreen oil. I do not like chemicals so trying this to see what happens. All the video I have watch and a couple of sites I have read they are very happy with the out come. just wondering what you r thought are. I love this video thank you for they way you have constructed it very well done/
Dabbled with some of them but not enough practical experience to know if they did any good or not. There is a lot of lore out there about essential oils but no definitive science that proves pro or con to the effectiveness. It is safe to say that when used wrong they can really do some damage to a hive but there is enough info out there to get some perspective on how much of what you should put in. Might also search for the "honey b healthy" drench information that has been reported on here an there if there is an interest in that.
I'm a little blown away at the # of deeps used....or brood boxes used. a single frame has 4500 cells per side....9000 per frame. 10 frames is 90000 cells.
A good queen lays between 1000 and 1200 per day. 21 days is between 21000 and 25000 cells, leaving the other 65000 cells for honey and pollen...and that is just one box.
I can't fathom the need for three brood boxes let alone 4. Two deep brood boxes, yes during peak brood production and honey flow times.....Keeping up with supers (with drawn comb) during a flow seems the best method to give them room to prevent swarms.
I guess this method would work if the bees got ahead of you to prevent being honey bound, but the best method is to try to stay ahead of the bees it seems.
I have never gotten to this point, but it would seem if a hive is getting honey bound in its brood chambers, you remove honey frames and replace with empty drawn comb and add supers with drawn comb so the colony can expand....
I'm no expert...at all. Just trying to learn....part of it is to process the information I've been given logically.
I still appreciate taking the time to show this. Thanks.
What blows me away is how incredibly fast bees can build up. And, it can sneak up on you. One day you’re worried about their numbers, the next day you’re trying to prevent swarms. This is definitely another weakness of mine this year as I just haven’t had the experience dealing with huge colonies in the spring. But, I’m getting my lesson now that’s for sure. Next year I’ll be equalizing a bit more and pulling earlier splits I’d guess to thin out the herd. Of course, these are all great problems to have when your bees are thriving. But there’s that fine line if they get to swarm mode and you lose your honey crop
Great info, but the crowd, people in front of the camera and the un-miked speakers are very distracting. Too many cooks! I applaud that your club does these demonstrations for new beekeepers...great learning environment! I would love to see this re-filmed as a standalone, focused explanation of the Demaree technique.
The man I watched the other day put supers in the middle and the split up on top and they filled the top first and the supers as well and the little bees hatched and went down some time in the first two weeks because he opened the top up and they were gone
Teach you about digging into the honey
Why would you think Two out of 10 bees being infected is pretty good. You should do an alcohol wash and if your infestation is higher than 2% tread however you treat
Trabajas con abejas y no con gallinas x más mansas q sean las abejas siempre hay q usar careta d protección para no quedar en ridículo.
You do not have the order of supers correct, try again.
Hi,
I am not a bee keeper but a seasonal honey hunter in the forest. Due to this reason, sometime I watch your videos of bee keeping. In the forest the bees build their hives in the bushes and on the tree branches, where they remain exposed to open air, sunlight and climatic changes but you put the bees swarm in a box with a very small hole for entry/exit and completely isolate from the outside world. I am sure they do not get the sunlight in the box.I have the following questions regarding this:
1. Why do you completely isolate the bees from sunlight and fresh air by putting them in the darkness of a box?
2. Is it not harmful for the health of queen, brood and larvae to keep them completely isolated from the outside world?
3. How do the worker bees build the hive in the darkness contrary to building hives in open in the jungle?
I would be definitely grateful to you if you answer my questions.
Regards,
Nasir
+Nasir Malik Hi Nasir. It is true that you will find bees hanging in bushes and trees in nature but this is a temporary state. Bees will leave a home and gather on a tree branch in passing before they move on to a permanent home. In the forest or jungle bees live in trees - meaning inside hollow cavities in trees. When a colony of bees wishes to reproduce 1/2 to 2/3rds of the bees leave the cavity and gather on a resting place with the queen while they await instruction from scout bees which are looking for a new home. The truth of the matter is keeping bees in a box is not unlike keeping bees as nature intended - in a cavity that is always dark and temperature controlled by the bees. Bees work through touch (to each other and the surroundings) and by sensation through antennae and sensors built into their body. They can operate, and always do, completely in the dark. I would recommend a book by professor Tom Seeley called Honey Bee Democracy. This book explains the swarming phenomena and how bees come to choose a new home. It will cover your question in far more detail than what we can provide here.
Hi nwnjba,
Thanks for your utelizing some time in answering my question . Yes I removed some hives from tree trunks, holes and depressions in mountains and big rocks and boulders as well but never found them isolated with exception of some hives from hallow tree trunks. The hive that I remove in Spring Season of April-May are found 100% in the sun with little cover. Those I remove before the start of Autumn in Oct-Nov are found in shadowy bushes but not isolated. I think my question is still unanswered. I'll try to get your prescribed book as well. Thanks for your time.
Im sure you are not comparing bees with bees . Its like eagles and caged chicken. Both of them are birds Domestic bees are mostly from Europe and used to live in hollow trees . The inside temperature is 36 degrees . Winter or Summer. Bees will keep the temperature to survive . You get about 40 kg of honey in a year from one hive
Bee keepers love their bees and it’s sustainable . They help the farmers ( environment) a lot with Pollen etc.
I’m not sure about you collecting honey from the wild . In most countries it’s illegal
I’m hoping you do it in a way that you don’t kill the hole hive
Your lack of knowledge and trying to be right worries me
Good luck to you my friend
@@nasirmalik5881 more then likely you live in a tropical environment. When our bees make open hives during our winters in Northern United States. They will be froze solid and covered in snow by mid December. As stated above Different breed of bees.
Gee so confusing; like a 3 ring circus !
If you google demaree swarm method you’ll find some very simple videos on the subject
one mistake everyone will be very unhappy.
That big boned dame in the veil's a keeper. She really knows what's going on.