6 Weeks As A Beekeeper... Now What? with Kim Flottum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- It has been 6 weeks since you have installed your package of bees. What needs to happen now? What should you be looking for in the hive? Find out these answers and more in this great webinar!
Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge. It makes me less nervous about the bees I have arriving in just a few months.
Felt like I was back in college. An excellent course, great content, well worth my time. Thank you.
a wonderful info i would like to thank you to both, recorder and mr kim, i got a lots of info from this 2 hours record .again thank you very much guys .have good season .
A wonderful and informative session, thank you both!
You guys sure do a great job!
Great discussion guys.
Great lesson. Thanks!
This is very informative. Thank you from a newbee!
This is really a very good video.
Couldn't bee more pleased.
What is your opinion about checkerboard when I add my second deep on my first deep so I give my bees more space now that they’re starting to multiply. I would just add a couple of new frames to the first deep and take the frames from the first deep and add it to the second deep. Is this something that beekeepers do to encourage the bees to start working on the second frame. Or do you feel I should just leave the first deep the way it is and put empty frames on the second deep and let the bees do their thing???
In the vid title what do u mean? 6 weeks as a beekeeper what do u do?, u keep right on beekeeping lol. I'm about 2 months into my beekeeping hobby and its hard to keep my hands off of them. Moved them from some homemade boxes into professional boxes and at the time I thought they was hopelessly queenless but halfway through the transfer I ran across a butt load of capped and uncapped brood. And that was about the time they started getting pissy with me. But I try. I put alittle 1 min video on my names channel. Its nothing like what u do in ur videos I literally just put them on there just in case some one wanted to see what my setup looked like maybe tell if anything they see wrong. Not to show off or anything. Cause I am not trying to give advice other than to recommend videos to ppl. Like u said in another video, find a local beekeeper and I be using her as my mentor. Helps tremendously to have some one to call up if u have a question.
No I’ve had my beehive for a little over three weeks I got one super with eight frames now it does take 10 frames but because I did not open my top to my beehive until last week and they are a build a comb from the top lid or whatever you call that second lid inside lid of the beehive. So no Frame can go into that little section of my beehive when I assemble my second super Tuesday I don’t know what I’m going to do with that excess non-frame buildup of wax honey whatever it is that they build up on there. But my biggest concern now it’s no longer pollen season or very little pollen in Pennsylvania so I am giving them sugar water with honey be healthy I’d like to give them pollen pallets bars whatever you call those things they sell on the Amazon so that they have pollen and will not starve to death this coming winter I know I know it’s still a few months out but I have to think about their well-being this coming winter.
With breeding hygienic behavior is capped brood really a proper indication of queen performance now? Won't hygienic behavior result in spotty capped brood pattern now. Uniform capped brood would be an indication of non-hygienic genetics now?
Observing your brood pattern in still a working indicator of a healthy queen & colony. Hygienic behavior can present a spottier brood pattern, but only if there is a threat to the hive where the hygienics inform the bees to clean out the brood. If you do see a spotty pattern, it can be an indicator that either there are issues with the queen or that there is a disease in the hive that is causing the bees to clean out the brood.
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Logic would indicate you are correct, Rob. I believe the combination of larvae mortality and hygenic abortion is still fairly low. Plus the older the larva gets the lower the mortality (as with the pupae - that's really low) - I would assume the hygenic abortion would follow that curve and be equally low as well. From that one could assume that most hygenic behavior would occur early in the larva development, and the queen could quite possibly backfill pretty early as well? Just spit-balling on your excellent point. I like it a lot.
What to do about the excessive heat in the high 90s
My knees are so annoyed at this hot weather I can’t even go near my beehive without them swarming around me they don’t want nothing to do with me even when I bring them sugar water there like go away. I feel sorry for them I wish I could put them someplace cooler but my mentor said I can’t move the beehive Because I put it next to the garage so I hast to stay there. Is that a fact or just his opinion I don’t know can you let me know when’s a good time to move by beehive to a better location where they get part shade during the hot sunny days
What is the shameless plug that you’re referring to???
What can I do to cool off my beehive that’s sitting in the sun from sunrise to sunset. Or is that just part of the having to beehive.
good discussion, but please improve your audio.
got mine as a hive but all i can find is a bee club here but no help other than videos
We offer many educational services other than our videos. Join our monthly email list for relevant information on products and things happening within the hive, check out our 'Bee Educated' section of our website, or please call/email our customer support line with questions to help you through your beekeeping experience.
I really want to start out as a bee keeper but i dont know the laws in florida to own one... If someone could help me out that would be awesome.
One of the best ways to figure out your regional regulations is by contacting you county's agricultural extension or finding a local Beekeeping Association. We have a map of all Bee Associations that we are aware of you can use to help find an association near you. www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Resources/bee_assoc.asp
+BrushyMtnBeeFarm Thank you! I have it all figured out now!
Are those worms on the bottom of the cone call Drew
I refuse to have union workers :P
Your math from around 27:00 through 34:00 is all wonky. Then saying 1200 eggs a day is a good queen, that means the maximum number of capped brood cells you can have is around 14,500... and just a few minutes earlier you're all talking about having 50,000 capped brood cells in a colony. That would be a laying rate of more than 4,200 eggs per day! Yikes.
Maybe there is a union,lol
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