Beekeeping - Cleaning Up Stray Comb
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2024
- It happens to the best of us. Beekeeping comes with the occasional mistake. You accidentally leave out some frames and the bees build stray comb everywhere. Now what do you do? In this video let's go in and clean up the mess together. Check out our complete online beekeeping website at www.honeybeesonline.com or call us at: 217-427-2678
I had a foundationless frame that completely feel off on a hot day (too heavy with honey), and I'm a beginner. I was so worried (and honey was going everywhere) that I just put the empty frame back where it was - close to the middle - and then kind of slipped the broken honeycomb back in place. I wished i had attached with rubber bands but 5 days later I did another check it was attached to the top of the frame as per usual as if nothing was ever wrong! Bees are incredible!
Nice when they fix what we break 😃
Came across this video and you've answered at least a dozen important questions I had. Thank you so much! And beautiful comb honey frame, by the way.
Glad it was helpful!
I really enjoy watching you work. You are diligent about doing the job but you also show great care for the bees that working too.
thanks for this video…I’m new at this and I have 3 frames that I didn’t put in..THIS is very helpful..I wondering why you didn’t just put a new box on and take the frames out of the old box and place them in a new box…just wondering..love how you take your time and show how this works…great video!
Thank you for this video. It's these videos where we see how mistakes are rectified that are so helpful in learning!!!
Thank you for this video!! I needed this exact thing because I had an issue installing a package and they made a bunch of comb in the empty/feeder top box.
All that comb-honey makes my mouth water... Id share that for breakfast with you! lol
Ohhh lordy, you are doing this without gloves; so metal. Thank you for sharing!
I needed this demonstration .
There are two double deep hives in my yard that had absconded however ; they both are completely full with wild bees that had swarmed and set up house keeping . Now I need to try to separate them out . You have provided me with an idea of how to go about it . Thanks !!
Finally! Thank you, Thank you for this video. I made a huge mistake starting my hive and have a bigger mess than this on the hive lid. I am now prepared to remove rogue comb.
Linda I just did exactly this!!! My girls made beautiful comb on the lid of the swarm trap because I didn’t put in enough frames and now all they’ve drawn out is on the lid of the swarm trap. Now I have to figure out how to fix it.. hence watching this video 😆
Just what I needed to watch.
Thank you I made the same mistake. I am a first year beekeeper in Canton and tried releasing my package with frames out and forgot to put them back in as it was raining that day.
Yup, bees love space to build comb.
Thanks for this tip! We caught two swarms this year and in the confusion Yes we left two frames out . They attached them to the queen excluder .. now I have more confidence in getting messy
That is awesome!
Hi David, I'm looking to get started as a new bee keeper. I'm currently living in a suburd of south London here in the UK. I found your channel sometime ago and watch with interest how you manage your bees. I hope that I can do the same. Keep posting these great and very informative videos for up coming ee keepers like me ... a BIG thumbs up
I really needed this video. I did this very thing and didn't know what to do. I'm in my 2nd year of bee ranching. . I just ignored it because I didn't know what to do. Now I know. Thank you very much
Glad it was helpful
Thanks for another informative video
Yep..get to sort this out this weekend. Thanks for the video.
Thank you David! I am doing this in the morning. LOL
Great video needed to watch this video before attempting to take honey, was not easy for us took our time but messier than your video. Hope to get better for the next time.
Great video. Thnx!
Glad you enjoyed it.
It's beautiful.
Awesome!
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Hey David, would love your input on cleaning live hives?
Have you ever tried cleaning up a hive with bees in it? My hive has gotten really dirty on two sides and was wondering what was safe. I was thinking just water and dish soap, keeping the towel pretty dry. Any ideas?
Would it not be beneficial to rubber band this comb back into an empty frame to save all the work the bees did. Do you ever do this?
When I tried this after removing an in hive feeder and the bees got VERY mad at me. I closed the hive to return another day. When i did i realized i never relaced the feeder with a frame. Then when i tried to add the frame they had taken up the space. While attempting to remove the excess comb the got too mad to work with. I think i need to use the smoker more.
Yep, lots of smoke
Hey! Great video! I'm a brand new beekeeper and I actually had to clean up my hive just like you did and put some more frames in. On the frames that were already in, the bees built the comb a little thick, so when I put the new frames in, things seemed to be a little crowded and bunched together. Will the bees remove some of the thicker comb to make room to work on the new frames? Thank you!
I'm afraid not.
what is the black rectangle between the first and second frames?
Why not just go to 9 frames since they are drawn out so far?
HEY DAVE YOU COULD SALVAGE THOSE TWO COMBS PUT THEM IN AN EMPTY FRAME LET THEM FINISH OFF THIN WIRE OR STRING. COOL WORK WITH. THAT WOULD BE MY THOUGHTS GOD BLESS. JUST WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE MYSELF. PUT THEM BACK INBOX
accidentally messed up installing wax starter sheets and they all warped and slid down. Not very excited about rectifying my laziness 2 weeks late xD
Did you use wires and or pins?
@@beek Problem was i didnt really know what i was doing and made the asumption it was just held by the wire. I rewiered old frames after cleaning but im dumb so didnt understand groove/groove frames shouldnt have wire xD. I could have saved myself if i melted some wax into the top channel holding the foundation but didnt. They all sagged down like an "s" pretty much immediatley and the bees are defenitly gluing things togeather.
at least on the bright side it wasnt a package so ill still have 5 good frames from the nuc haha.
@@beek Ended up worrying myself for nothing. Bees did their job better than i did mine & only had 1 frame that glued itself to a neighbor.
Love your videos; they are a tramendously helpful resource.
this video made me hungry
In stead of renewing 2 try 4
David...you could have been a surgeon !