I Left Honey on The Beehives, Here's What Happened...
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- In this video, we'll open up the beehives during winter to check for some important things. We'll check to see how much honey the bees have left for winter, the amount of bees in the hives, the amount of brood they're laying, and we'll even replace some rotting boxes. This video shows the results of good varroa mite treatments and leaving lots of honey on the hives for winter. Honey is far superior to corn syrup or sugar syrup in bee health these bees are doing great! Thanks for watching Fall Line Ridge!
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My parents were professional beekeepers until I was 10, ranging from Vero Beach to Stockton, GA to Dillard, GA to the Dakotas. We made orange blossom, gallberry, tupelo, sourwood, and clover. My dad died in 2007 and my mom died on Christmas morning. Your video reminds me of my childhood and my parents. I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you.
Give it up. They're long gone
@@crazypeoplearoundtheworld304 I don't care if it was meant as a joke or not. That comment is down right unnecessarily mean.
@@crazypeoplearoundtheworld304 God people like you disgust me.
@@crazypeoplearoundtheworld304 idk what people have done to you throughout your life for you to say that but i really hope you can heal and learn from it all you’ll only help yourself to become better spreading unnecessary hate won’t make you feel better or be better in the long run it’s just spreading negative energy you never really know what other people are going through or how bad some suffer please keep your head up and stay positive💙💙
thank you for sharing some of your story with us even though they aren’t here physically they’ll always be with you there’s signs everywhere it’s always about the little things :)
I love honey bees but am so allergic to them and all their products. One sting sends me to the hospital. I envy you and your ability to handle bees so well. I do my part by planting flowers and other plants they love.
Maybe you were vaccinated.
Vaccine can mess up the system.
Subscribe to Mercola.
You likely find solution there
I had bees when I was a child 11-18 I developed an allergy. So I feel you.
@Ward Twitchell I am going to sound like a pompous know it all. I do not mean to at all. It is something of a misrepresentation when people are told that they develop an allergy to honeybees. We are being subjected yo venom when we are attacked by bees and wasps. It is not actually a case of you develop an allergy as much as it is your body loses its capability to fight that venom in a reasonable fashion. I read up on this extensively when I was younger. When I was a youngster. Like 11 to 15 years old I spent my summers working for a friend of my stepfather family who owned an organic blueberry farm. The way they got the bulk of the protection for the plants on that farm was by introducing large populations of mud doubters in the fields as they were quite hostile to most of the pest type insects. Working on a picker swapping out the lugs in those fields was quite an adventure. There were numerous occasions I would end up running from whatever field we were working that day towards the sorting packing shed and the pond that was next to it. You would have to dive into the pond and come up under the raft floating in the middle of the pond and stay there for up to an hour. Having up to several thousand of those at a time start pouring out of the feeding chute going into the transport lugs was one hell of a motivation to run like hell. My record as near as I could tell was 317 stingers I had to pull it with tweezers one day. That was fun. I get hit by one of anything of that nature anymore and I'm down for a few days.
@@nathandehaan183 Sorry. I have been allergic to bees from childhood. I developed an allergy to beeswax and honey in my 60s.. For your information fire ants have a very similar poison and I have to be careful about them too. Edited to finish thought.
Hi. I dont know how old you are, i was taken to er several times as a child. 2 years ago i got nailed by some grumpy bees. About 30 stings. The allergy was gone. Of course i dosed heavily with liquid childrens benedryl, ibuprophin and stayed very calm-no panic! It can happen. I am 68 years old. I was hit another time too so its not a fluke! Weird right?!?
I always picture bees interacting with beekeepers like the alien toys in "Toy Story", just a chorus of "Behoooooold! The Keeper! Bzzzzzzz"
I’m definitely no expert, but “traditional” hives are a LOT of work. If you love bees and want to make bee life easier for the bees and for you, check out horizontal hives and specifically Dr Leo Shiraskin (spelling?). My horizontal hives are SO much easier to maintain and when I deal with the bees, they never get upset. I never have to wear a suit. I RARELY smoke them and never need to do a lot of the “typical” treatments, feeding, etc, etc. Anyway, I love bees!
Videos like this really help me not be afraid of bees! They are so good for our planet and such cute little things but I'm allergic to their stings. The more content of bees just chilling I see, the more appreciate and calm I am with them around in real life. Thanks for the interesting videos!!
I took a sip of my beer every time he said "Hive". I got a buzz within 3 min.
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You're a better man than me Wes, I go into overdrive when I get stung and start running away like a child. So, I really like the fact that I can watch you take care of the bees and make honey while I sit in comfort and safety drinking my cup of coffee and you take the hits from the bees. Great video thumbs up.
Glad I push this button. This man is one cool beekeeper. I have to believe that he had must have had a good teacher. Definitely subscribing.
How different people react to a bee being up their pant leg
Wes: "That's not ideal" *calmly finishes his work, gently shakes pant to get it out and continues on*
Me: *instantly panics*
😂😂😂
love your bee videos. you've inspired my wife and I to give bee keeping a shot. look forward to more videos on the bees.
Friend, thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work! Everyone seems to be an armchair expert. You do what works for you. God bless you and the family, brother.
Bee keeping is such a cool hobby.
It's on my bucket list.
love the bee videos. you do a great job explaining the process - thank you
Why so many supers in the winter?Bee population doesn't seem to warrant it. Some of those boxes would last the rest of our working life if put away in the garage for the winter months. But maybe the guy is doing something he didn't mention and I am not aware of.
Wes, this is one of the most videos to date. The society the bees have never ceases to amaze me.
looks like youve got quite a bit of extra boxes and space on those hives. even for us up in new york thats alot of extra boxes of honey for winter lol. i'd consider reducing down some of the more empty boxes so they dont have so much area to patrol, and with all those extra gaps, hive beetles and wax larva could easily take over a weaker hive.
Plus more area to try and heat which means eating more stores.
Bees don’t heat the entire space. Only where they are.
@@CrossroadToCountry since brood tends to be at the bottom and heat rises means they are working overtime and burning through stores to maintain internal temperature, which will be harder with all those gaps
@@CrossroadToCountry The other space outside the cluster is definitely getting heated. It may not get as warm as the cluster, but the heat is traveling since there is air and not a vacuum in the hive.
@@won2winit Which is one reason bees block the gaps with propolis.
Great job on being informative on bee behavior and your methods on looking after your hives
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next time, place the old box (and frames) upside down.
Remove old box while frames lay on ground.
Then slide new box on frame.
Simply tilt box & frames. Easier & safer.
Thank for taking such good care of the bee’s. They are so important!!!
Looking good, went out there a few days ago and they are bringing in a lot of pollen, have one that isn’t bringing pollen in, and checked in on the hive and seems that population has gone down, but gonna see how they do. Good stuff!
Some of those bodies are so rotted out that the paint is now load-bearing. 😂
Thanks for explaining the pollen basket. Good filming. I could see the little baskets full of pollen. How do you keep the bears from destroying your hives? Love your videos.
No bears here thankfully. Thanks for the compliments, and for watching!
Hello Wes. I would not even think about "beeing" as close as you were to the bees as I am allergic to the stings. Do you make your own boxes?
Have good days!
We always like watching you as a great bee keeper Wes. One question I have is do you sell your honey to the public or just your family and church members. I have a gentleman in the church I pastor that has raised bees for the past 30 years but has had to down size because of his health. Thanks as always for all the great videos and the positive attitude you have even when things don't go as planned. Y'all have a great weekend and God Bless.
you should try to make the boxes out of white oak. that stuff is pretty rot resistant
Great video. Really enjoy your explanations of how the bee hives work.
Great video. You have encouraged me to go do maintenance on my seven hives. I hope they are healthy like yours. God bless!
Yea, they're a little cranky. To be fair when someone wakes me up and exposes me to colder weather, I get a little pissy too.
I remember when you tasted some Nasty Tasting honey and then tasted it again, and again... I am still laughing about that.
Goldenrod, rough stuff.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I'm starting a beekeeping apprenticeship this spring with our local beekeeper and I'm excited to learn more and get hands on! Should be starting to open them up next month (March) here in the UK, I know he's worried about how many are in flight currently, but there are some at least, and they're bringing pollen from crocus and snowdrops already so that's a good sign 😁 thanks for taking the time to film while you were doing all that work, always interesting to see how other people do it
❤🙋♀️15 stings! I Heard your reasons.. Wear gloves anyway!
Really enjoy your vids. Do you make the boxes or do you purchase them? Thanks for sharing!
Most of these are homemade, there are 2-3 in the mix that are store bought.
I have just painted my first boxes, anticipating getting bees soon. I've watched many videos and talked to local beekeepers. This is the best video and info I have seen. Thanks for all your work.
The title implies that something exceptional happened after leaving hnoey on the hives...
Did i miss something?
or is this just sorta'... " i did this and followed protocol and the usual happened?"
c'mon man, u presumably already have cash flow from ur bees and 1/3 million subs etc. save the click bait ammo for desperate content creators out here!
preemptive apology if i missed some line of reasoning
how long were those boxes in service before they rotted like that?
I love it. I'm wanting to make a Lazutin Horizontal hive and join 2 deep frames together. I have a few theories that others say won't work. But it should.
My attraction to the Lazutin format Horizontal hives is that the frames are LARGE so each frame should have enough honey stores per each side of the frame for the bees and brood to survive the winter without having to leave the frame facing. Less energy used for going to get that food for themselves and for the brood means less honey stores used up and means they have more for energy going into them using their wing muscles to generate heat. Another theory is goes along with the laws of thermal mass and radiant heat. I've been told that leaving frames in during the winter might as well be putting ice blocks in the hive. But thing about the Corean Ondol, Roman Hippocaust, the Viking under floor heating, the old American and eautopean building where they used to build them out of brick or stone with one massive central fireplace... they all work on thermal mass radiant heat. It takes less energy to heat up that mass, and then allow the mass to help maintain heat, even if ir means keeping the fire going constantly, it still takes less everyday for thermal mass to absorb, radiate and transfer that heat... I'm really having trouble explaining it. But if you take the honey out and then pack that space with pillow or whatnot, in theory, the honey stores should help regulate and maintain temperature better. During the winter the stores absorbed heat from the sun and radiate it ad night. Harvest in early spring when they emerge so they can build more up. And during summer all that extra mass should help, again, maintain an equilibrium of temperature, so it's absorbing the heat from the sun during the day and at night it's maintaining that internal hive temperature.
I'm trying to get to putting a hive together. I'll have to try it out. Where I'm at in Tennessee is almost perfect for a trial run because we can have some fairly harsh, but not extreme summers. And then our winters get cold. But are pretty mild. So.
This wasn't encouraging to see. That even with Langstroth which have thinner walls, smaller breed sections etc, there shouldn't be a rish of hive die out.
I also noticed in several of your hives you tend to have a LOT of those "feral" dark bees, even in the ones that aren't necessarily wild caught. So that's a good sign. And it's also encouraging that you're foundationless. I personally feel a lot of the Varoa problems, the DWV, and trachea mites are caused by the larger cell size of the foundation. Anyone whose raised chickens and understands why you NEVER "help" a chicken out of an egg, or anyone whose every witnessed a butterfly emerge might understand more easily how the larger 5.4mm standard foundation cell cites can help contribute to these 3 plagues that are causing problems with the bees.
Either way. Thank you so much for this video and understanding the the bees don't need our help and are perfectly capable of survival if only we let them. And I'm sorry that you got stung.
Always love your bee hive videos!
See mainnanaces guy! It's one month for 3 trios to keep up with? 12 times a year! ? Not bad!
I'm a 4th generation beekeeper.
Thank you. 😔 I miss the bees.
I'm out doing other stuff until I return to them.
My grandparents brand was 26-66
I forgot my grate grandparents brand
I think 26-45 maby
Do you not pull honey in the fall? Why do you have such tall hives into the winter? That is just more area for them to have to heat. I leave one medium full of honey on my 2 deep boxes in central Iowa with no problems. I would think all medium boxes 4 should be enough.
Love your work and channel, one quick question, these are 8 stories high boxes and how can these withstand the high winds or storms? 🙄
How do you keep the hives from blowing over in strong wind?
Put bricks on top
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I just got 2 gallons of honey today.
I started putting honey in my tea in 1967 and, to this day, I can't have a cup of tea without it. Montana Musselshell Valley honey from the Carlstrom Ranch.
I wondered why you left all the boxes on all winter, but that makes sense. I used to take mine off but they did get infested with wax months even when I stored them in plastic bags.
Interesting, late winter maintenance is better than none..Good healthy hives and will be making some good honey. You made good use of a rare warmer temps.
brilliant! just about to do a similar job with my girls - I'm going to wait for better weather though - I'm in the north of England and we are still dropping below 0"C some nights. great to see this! Thank you
Hey bubba I’m an Alabama beekeeper I have 16 hives with 10 to 12 splits coming in spring. I live in east central Alabama and would love to chat with ya sometime
you should do a bumblebee hive just for the pollination. they are native to the states unlike the honey bee which is from eurasia
Nice job !! I am hoping my bees do as well. Watching from central New York State.
Great video! How long do your boxes last before they start to rot in the humid Georgia climate?
If your bees know you.. and you know them... there's almost no risk of a sting. I don't understand how people can be so obtuse about this. Beekeepers KNOW their bees. They know which ones they can work with safely without protective gear and which ones they can't. When I was a boy, my father had 4 hives of bees. 3 of them were very docile and he could work with them without gear. He could raid them, relocate them, repair the boxes etc. That 4th hive however was a WHOLE other story. It was aggressive. ALL the time. Even proximity would set them off without any other type of disturbance. When he wanted to raid that hive or work with it, he always wore gear and we always stayed far away while it was going on. Keepers know their bees.
Makes sense, but it is still probably instinctual to be wary of a sting for some people.
You could tell me the bees are the friendliest bees on the planet and I'm still gonna freak out if I hear a bzz, or it sits its stinger having body on me.
You sure do have tall hives for January. I thought you needed to reduce the size for wintering so they won't chill.
Very interesting video. Thank you for caring for our precious bees. Oh, and I love honey...
That's some serious equipment neglect.
New boxes needed. Not having to haul heavy boxes is a godsend for me - I use Flow Hives and a hired "honey girl" to help.
Q: Is a bee up your shirt BETTER or WORSE than a bee in your bonnet? Asking for a friend.
Definitely worse. A bee in your bonnet indicates you may be thinking pretty hard. A bee up your shirt indicates you are in mental pain and may soon be in physical pain.
Are the colors of the boxes significant at all?
We wait for your videos 😉
They are so cute with their little pollen pants on!!! ❤❤❤
it's good you can get strung that many times and be okay. i almost died when i was young. dad got rid of his bees. take care, be safe and well.
Yikes!
Olá Sr no Brasil temos grandes apicultores com excelente produtos . Wery show congratulações yor vídeo
Hi! I heard you mention in one of your videos that you switched from chemical pest control to organic. What recommendations do you have on organic mite control in hives? Thanks!
We use homemade powder sugar. We buy minimally processed sugar or even Sucanat and grind it into powdered sugar and dust each frame twice a year. Once in early spring and again late fall. You never want to use store-bought powdered sugar because they use anti-caking agents that can harm bees as they can not process it properly. It forces them to clean themselves, thus removing any mites.
I hope this helps! Best to you and yours.
@@Wolfe_Metals_Stacking great!! Thank you so much. Wishing you a great honey crop and healthy bees!
Very interesting on your honey production. I was wondering why do you stack the hives so high? Wouldn't that keep them from crushing so quickly? Just surious.
there's a bee up my shirt and he continues to keep talking. This guy is funny☺
your torch keeps going out because the nozzle is pointing downward.Solve this problem by tipping your smoker on it's side and lighting it that way.
I assume there aren't many bears in your area?
New subscriber here! Great video. Your footage is amazing. Can I ask what camera you’re using?
I don't own a pair of bee gloves or a suit. I do wear my Bee hat and sometimes a denim shirt. Bee keeping can be very regional and especially Georgia. My maple started blooming out last week and the bees were all in it this past weekend, I had to go down below Folkston today and all the maple trees there had Red leaves. 2 1/2 hour drive makes a big difference.
Huge difference. Thanks for watching!
With the last forced pushing of all 10 frames and coming apart slightly could that be a good chance to injure the Queen.
Question: New/learning beekeeping. You keep your supers on the hive that tall all winter? I see where some go down to one or two brood boxes after the fall harvest. Can you tell me the difference?
Mate great vid, you are dead right about the gloves you don't have the same amount of sensitivity wearing them. Also like that you don't use excluders they are a great way to keep your hives under strenght, How long has the Varroa mite been in the USA for and is it easy to treat?
I think since the 1980s. Reasonably easy to treat, I use oxalic acid vapor over 3-4 weeks twice a year. Knocks them out.
Bee keeping is a sticky business😄
I also am in the fall line area of GA and would love to get into bee keeping eventually, my grand father and my great grandfather used to be in it, any tips?
Read as much as you can, get on Beesource beekeeping forums and look up all the questions that others have posted, and post some of your own. Then go for it.
You can really learn a lot from right here on TH-cam. Fall Line Ridge is a good source of information, lots of how to videos. Going into my second season with bees. Most of what I have learned and retained cam from TH-cam. Great source for bee stuff!
Local bee clubs are a great place to start
@@joer5627 I did join my local bee club as well. I’m teaching part of the class this month.
We are 9 days into April and had our last snow a week ago. I am lucky to see 55F for a few more weeks but my bees will fly in 45F if the sun is shining. Already seeing lots of pollen coming in on sunny days (and some even on rainydays). We try to not open the hives much until 55F but I found one of my older queens has slowed down this year and started producing only drones so far. So I opened that hive and a strong hive and gave them a frame of eggs and brood to let them build a queen. The local queen breeders won't have queens until at least the 5/10 so I am hoping I will get one a little sooner this way. Fun to see another beekeeper working hives though.
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Thank you for sharing.
Be well and be safe.
Peace
It was 19 below zero here at rich city mg this morning.
Oh my goodness that must be tough
Don't understand why you have so many supers on. Did you have more you harvested honey from. Are you just raising lots of bees to sell or what? I'm just 4 miles north of the Georgia line in North Carolina and here we overwinter with double deeps for the most part.
Could you use composit wood like what they use on decks to make the boxes ?
Possibly, never tried it.
You gotta really love your pets to be stung every time you take care of them and still stay up at night worrying if they're alright. ❤
Come on Wes...we know you like that pain from the 🐝 bee stings !
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Ive never liked honey but watching these videos I really wish I did. Back in the 70's on school trips the ones I remember the most were the farm ones... Not the animal farms but the produce farms. Great videos.
Well done . Informative 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦
Looks like you have gone to all medium boxes. I’m thinking about doing the same. What are your thoughts on all mediums and how did you convert if you started with deeps?
Wow!!! I live in Georgia too!!! Go Dawgs!!!!!
Interesting... When you said the part about... Their might not be pollen for bees in YOUR AREA.. so pay attention to that...
I was thinking. Wonder which areas he might mention... And as a Pennsylvanian. I was like, well damn... That's a coincidence. But.
Is their any reason why you picked Pennsylvania first??? I mean.. we are pretty far from Georgia, awfully big coincidence that you mention a state a 1000 miles away, first...
Just wondering if their is any reason at all you would say Pennsylvania first???
Does bee keeping have something to do with PA... And maybe is known country wide???
I know my grandfather always fed his bees sugar-water during the cold months when no pollen was available. (WV)
Did it snow during the winter? If so did he change it daily if it froze?
Have you thought about those horizontal hives.. they look nice and easy to work with
The top bar hives? No, I like the Langstroths fine. Bees tend to build vertically in nature, so I like keeping them that way.
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What part of Georgia are you located? You have one colony 7 supers high and the brood box is a super. Do you make splits to make another colony or are you continuing going up? Just curious. I've seen hives blown over and turned over by animals. My granddaddy was also a beekeeper. He lived in Lowndes Co. east of Valdosta.
i did have thoughts about the (lack of) gloves while watching (before you addressed it) and thought it was the case (for dexterity reasons).
though my thoughts weren't at all criticisms but more "holy fuck, man's got balls". then again, you also nonchalantly said, "there's a bee crawling up my pants" and, well, i would have squealed in the least manly way possible while running who knows where.
Hello. I also keep bees, I live in Siberia, the breed is "Carpathian". I watch your videos with interest .Thanks for the video. A good bribe .
I really enjoy watching, thanks for putting this together!!!
"I think there's a bee crawling up my pantsleg. That's not ideal." - This Dude, calm AF
You answered my question about not wearing gloves. My eyes would be swollen and not breathing good at all then I would break out in hives!!! So I have another question, have you ever had problems with the Africanized Bees? Not sure if t
We only have two hives and I know already one did not survive this winter which was expected. We are in are late 60s and wish someone would have talked to us about the sizes of the boxes we use. Had no idea they would get so heavy. But I don't know how to switch to the smaller boxes. I do have an empty hive (large boxes) that I could cut up????
If you cut down box size you would still need smaller frames.
I can only tell you how I would do it, not necessarily the best way. First, you can cut the bottom off your present boxes, but the frames will have to be replaced. I would totally replace your empty hive with the size boxes you want. Like 2 mediums to replace a single brood box or 3 mediums to replace 2 brood boxes, an excluder, then small supers above that. With a new colony of bees, I would start with one medium brood box, excluder and then one small honey super since they will be drawing out the frames as fast as they can and expand from there. I would limit the brood boxes to three mediums.
On the other hive, I would try to duplicate the first hive by putting a medium super above the brood box(es), then the excluder. When the new medium brood box is drawn out and the queen is laying there, I would try to isolate (with excluders) her above the bottom brood box and another medium brood box inserted just below the upper excluder. The second medium brood box may have to be drawn out before she can be isolated from the bottom one and the workers may try to make the upper medium into a honey super, but that is ok because you can spin that honey/nectar out and feed it back to the bees. As soon as you know the queen is laying in the upper medium you can put the excluder below the queen above the bottom deep box. After the brood has all hatched from the bottom deep, it and the excluder can be removed. If you have two deep brood boxes, the same steps can be repeated with one more medium brood box by putting it between the two mediums already there or on top of the other two. The upper honey supers may be replaced one at a time on the bottom of the honey supers, above the excluder to be drawn out and filled with honey. With two active hives you can swap honey supers and/or frames (and possibly medium frames as well) to suit your and their needs in the expansion process.
Of course, the bees may have other ideas so you may have to wing it more than optimal.
@@edmartin875 Thanks Ed. I need to study your answer. I do have supers that have frames in them.
Shame on you for ever letting hives get that rotted.
It's not like those fell apart over the previous winter.
PSA: He does not leave honey ON the beehives, only INSIDE. Clickbait.
greetings from southern middle tn. About to get into beekeeping myself. Quick question: those hives look pretty tall, when you treat with vapor do you keep them stacked that tall? thanks hope this year is going well for you and the bees.
All can say is rather you than me! I find your bee videos really interesting. I love the way you seem so calm while there are bees flying around you.
É as caixas estão bem estragada e os enxame estão bem fortes parabéns amigo
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I catch feral bees. You wouldn't be opening my hives like that without getting lit up. Wild bees defend themselves more.