New beekeepers don't let wax moths and hive beetles destroy your hive
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Use this method to prevent wax moths and hive beetles from destroying your hive. This work excellent. Wish someone had told me when I started in beekeeping. Please spread this video. Please like and subscribe.
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Great tips - reduce to managed frames, all hives probably have wax moth - you need enough bees to control it, wax moths wont thrive if there is daylight. If i have learnt something, you have done a great job.
Thanks
Thank you for this video. I cleaned out larvae but had no idea those black dots are eggs
Great video. As a new beekeeper, small hive beetles are the thing that concerns me the most. The child of teachers in me, however, feels compelled to point out that your friend is able to "attest" to your statements. Were he to "contest" to the facts, he would actually be disputing them.
I had a hive this year and I moved a frame into it but there were wax moth eggs I guess because within a few weeks the bees had left and it was full of wax moth larva. Boy was I upset, this is a good lesson learned. Thanks for putting this video out.
The idea of swapping out boxes is excellent. I've had hive beetle issues in the past in both production hives and nuc boxes. Nice way to also clean up the boxes for the next season.
i really enjoyed this vid . It was timely .I am a new beekeeper.I just lost my first ever hive due to absconding. The small hive beetles had infested my hive,hard way to learn about hive beetles.It broke my heart.I had only had them two days and experienced a robbing by wasp,hornets,praying manthis and other bees.All this at the same time.My poor little bees were black and furless. Thought I had staved that off .Then the bees left.I found the nuc box full of hive beetle maggots.I caught a new swarm or the original ones returned to a top bar hive I had next door.
So I will surely use your advise.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing this information. Good luck for for everyone.
good points. I was with Joe last year learning the hard way. Him and I both lost more nucs than we wanted to tell. Joe and I spoke many times before we figured it out. You will help a lot of people with this David .
Good on both. I enjoy your videos. I'm going to build my daughter Lillian a small bee business. She also enjoys your videos. We hope that your shop prospers as well. The best of luck David, from us in Oklahoma, we will be watching.
We just adopted 3 hives with these issues. Very helpful, thank you for making this video!
Thanks for the advice David! I started seeing beetles here for the first time last year, now they are a full blown plague. My bees seem to have learned to deal with them now for the most part and I'm keeping traps and baits in now. My bees are doing great so far this year.
I really like the looks of those feeders, they're very similar to some ten frame feeders I bought from Kelley's last year in principle except mine are big rectangle feeders with that bunt pan style design. Those look great for something smaller like for Nucs.
Thanks David. Great advice and an excellent video
Thanks for info. Just lost two hives due to wax moths. I wish I had seen this earlier.
Thank you for the video.
i made a split, the queens hatch and the bees carried them out the hive dead. Don't know what happen.
But, I put a frame of brood into the nuc once in a while to keep them strong and so far that worked.
The only issue I had one day was robber bees and I fixed that by building a robber screen and using a robber screen for 2 days.
Having some more queen grapes on the frame again. This time I transplanted some of the queen cells to a different hive using a queen excluder and left some cells on the frame in the nuc , maybe I have more luck with it this time.
Thank you very very much for your information.
Love all your wonderful information. Thank you
Great video thank you!
Great video for us Newbs. Thanks for all the knowledge you share.
Thanks I enjoy knowledge about my new bees. I can't get enough. between yourself and Don the fat bee man, I'm in the knowledge, I feel like I've been bee keeping for years, wish I have had that much experience, thanks again David.
good info
Good advice! I love it!
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if you store your frames of drawn wax in empty hives, unless you leave the lids off you are inviting wax moths, I have a few pieces of perspex in the yard I use it as a temporary lid, and it works
i had some in a 8 frame and seen a lot of hive beetles and broke them down to five. then i put them into a 3 frame. they are doing better now. they queen didnt come back. so i gave them one on may 24. looked the other day and they was some capped brood now, not much but some.
Ok, what do you do when you don't have a bottom floor to your 10 frame deep boxes of your brood chambers and the only bottom that you do have is the Screen bottom boards which is mandatory in FL to help Colonies breath and survive here where I live at.
Do a video with a 10 frame deep box screen bottom boards foundation hive and show us what to do in that situation
Good info about scraping out or change the bottom board. I've lost many splits to hive beetles and ants.
Very informative
Barnyard always to the rescue with good videos. Thanks so much for all you do. I try to order from you when I can.
Excellent Video,great info
Hi
I am a new beekeeper and i really like your videos.They are very informative.How do i control or get rid of ants entering the hive.
Thanks for the advice.
Excellent as always
David i love your videos i have a question about ac acid use how important is it and when best to use
Hey David.... I love watching your channel on bees. I have 3 hives in my yard. I ordered an queen from you a few weeks ago and she arrived fast and in prime condition. She has been in the queenless hive now for a few weeks, but she does not seem to be laying. I have inspected the hive for the last 3 weeks and she is is there but nothing is going on... Any thoughts? Oh yeah, I did add a frame of brood to the hive this week.
Thank you!!
Would using a piece of glass or plexiglass on top of the hive keep the hive beetles at bay? I mean like opening the hive an hr or 2 to get rid of the beetles
So how long does she take that fly for to let wax moth get in
OK love the video, I have a question about this though. In winter I'm removing boxes and I have to store them somewhere, but invariably I always loose some frames to wax moths. Whats the secret to keeping my drawn comb through the winter without losing them to wax moth.
Do solid bottoms do better for beetles and moths or do screen bottoms? I'm thinking that screen bottoms will allow the eggs and small larva to drop out of the hives. So maybe if I use DE on the foundation below my hive. I've got a 40 frame long Lang.
If your hive was infested with beetles can you still boil the comb and get clean beeswax?
Oh yes, absolutely. Even wax moths.
@@davidhaught84 How long should you let your way boil because I have been having trouble with it setting and have no idea why.
Can you elaborate on what you referred to as a mating flight swarm coming back with her? I had always thought she returns alone and goes about her business, but I had not heard that she brings back a swarm of bees to fill up the hive.
I've also made this mistake with new hive from caught swarm expecting population increase that didn't happen
If they hate sunlight...why do they hang by porch lights that are on?
We found beetles and moths. Reduced the empty frames and additionally fed them sugar water for strength. The sugar water is gone after 24 hrs. Could they have taken in so much or might we have a leak?
We had a 3rd year old mature hive with 3 supers that we harvested honey from last year mid summer. While examining this spring we noticed some of the frames had still not been drawn out so decided to leave it alone. It has been a hot/wet summer and we were a little negligent with monthly inspections. Upon an inspection about 6 weeks ago we found it infested with moths. Went back today and it was completely dead. What could I have done to save my girls? The one next to it seems to be strong and no signs of infestation other than a few beetles. Though I did not break it completely apart and look for the tunneling on each frame. Should I do that?
Hey I'm a new beekeeper from mississippi my question is if I put all five of my nuk frames in the freezer for about a week because I lost my hive to wax moths. Frames was full of hunny can i take 3 of those frames and put them in anther nuke. And just let the bee's clean it out.
I see you used OSB as the structure on some of your boxes. Doesnt OSB have a bunch of chemicals in it? Also its not the best type of sheathing to use in a weather / rain / wet environment.....even when painted. That bottom board is absorbing moisture from the air. When OSB starts to "blow up" it opens up voids in the sheathing where mites and fungi can fester. Marine grade plywood better choice maybe?
Do you have any videos on getting a hive from a rescue like a house cut out or a swarm call
Use screen bottom boards!
What about essential oils and plants that repels them
one cup of bees and a queen not always a good idea
how long are queen keep in the Little
queen cage be for putting her in a new hive? the bee's store here buy
in a large number but I thank he hold them in stock too long . be for
selling them, I BOUT BAD QUEEN FROM THEM, BUT HE THE ONLY SUPPLIER I
Thank you for the info, is there a treatment to prevent them?
Looking for the magic pill for a hefty price? Haha ....
Is that stuff on the bottom possibly pieces of wax or brood particles? Is it always a sign of hive beetle and wax moth larva? I just got my hive boxes set up and the bees put in on Friday morning.....i shown my light into the entrance the first night to make sure the bees were ok and I saw all of that stuff on the bottom board......I wasn't able to be around the hives when they were set up...I never had my suit yet my husband helped me since he had his.....i'm worried to death about the bees lol
Its always best to tilt the hive forward, by doing that it assists the bees of riding out wax capping that could possibly be used by hive beetles as nesting for their eggs. And try to scrape out the bottom boards.
@@davidhaught84 thank you
Hi, I love your videos. I just wanted to ask what kind of ant's it is that I see crawling around on you hive's? I am asking because I had bull ants, and you don't see very meany while the sun is out, but around 10 or 11 at night if you shine a light on the hive you will see hundreds of then, and they will kill the queen, They also eat all the larva's. I know this because it happened to me. Then I remembered my grandfather telling me about bull ant's killing a queen bee. You may have already known about this, but I just thought I would share it.
***** Well bull ants are big and red, you might want to look at the hive late at night just to make sure. I hate to see anyone lose a hive because of them pesty things. Good luck.
Hey david
Wassup buddy?
Hope you are good.
I was thinking you might help me here. I got this huge moth in my beehive and I don't know if i should remove it or not and does it affect my bees?
I just got this beehive and the moth came out of nowhere .
I got some pictures let me know how i can send them to you
Or if you wish i can just upload it on my channel and you can have a look
Keep making videos they are really helpful
Cheers
Waiting for a reply😊
How about a clear top if the hive beetles are there?
David, what do you think of pre-fab frames with wax"board"
I have a hive without bees that has honey-frames and broodframes with these pre-fabs.
its funny i have an empty nuc im leaving as a swarm catcher and i go into every few days ill find moths and sometimes even wax moth larva in a grey/white cocoon btw would you suggest an entrance reducer for catching a swarm or leave it wide open?
great video, I notice you use starter strips is there a reason you prefer that or just don't want to put more money into them
he tries to keep his bees on natural comb.
Why not place a glass cover on the hive to expose moth and beetle to light ?
is that fishing line you use in your frames?
Why are there so few bees and so many empty or almost empty frames in that split?
I make my splits as strong as possible to start with. SHB and wax moths are merely the clean up crew after a hive has already become too weak.
If a split succumbs to either, that's MY fault, not the fault of the bees, the SHB or the wax moths.
Why is a robbing situation bad?
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