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Lessons Learned from an Aggressive Honeybee Colony
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- Today we talk about the lessons we learned from dealing with an aggressive Honeybee colony. Remember to always have important tools like smokers handy when dealing with bees.
We also visit a swarm we caught weeks ago and see if they need more frames for honey production.
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Glad you waited and thought about what happened. Looks like the smoker was the proven answer. 🐝🐝
Definitely made the difference, happy they we're nicer today!
Next week, we will be introduced to queen cells... ha ha😂
So glad to hear that the other Hive is going to be okay. Thanks for sharing another valuable video. Appreciate it!
I'm glad they let me visit without too much trouble today. 😅
great video appreciate your update on making the point of how a smoker is important every time
Won't make that same mistake again!
When bees are ornery, they are telling you something is bothering them. They let you know. As a back up, always have a smoker and personal protection ready. Glad you didn't get tagged too bad.
They were much more forgiving today!
Awesome! Glad to hear and see that you are really thinking it through. Continued happy keeping. Are you going to make a new video about keeping bees in a Layens style hive. Have your perspectives changed since you started? Looking forwards to more.
Thanks for watching! I can't say exactly what topics we're going to speak on in the future but Ill keep that in mind!
Another thought, if you can and have any swarm cells, maybe you can requeen that hive with a gentler queen from a hive you have on another part of your property ... have a friend who had the same problem with one of his colonies and it happened after having it for two seasons ... one season, all was great, the next spring it was like your colony did ... he requeened and the colony calmed down. Hope this helps as he said he knows several beekeepers who've had that problem and they always requeen when it happens ... I hope this helps ... Semper Fi ...
Semper Fi!
I generally don't requeen but at the same time our Bees have always been great. I probably won't do anything else to the colony in question as they weren't too bad today when I had the smoker. We'll see how they are in October!
You're right that you don't want "too much space" in the hive for a small colony, but think of space in terms of surface area (mostly comb). It's likely not harmful to give them several empty frames with foundation headers. But when you're a few years farther along and have fully drawn frames of comb to give them, THAT's when you have to be careful because it gives SHB and Wax moths too much space to hide in.
Will definitely keep that in mind. Thanks for the advice!
I’m not sure I agree with adding straw to the other side of the divider board. That would be a small hive beetle playground with all that tangled mess. I usually keep 3 or 4 frames on the empty side next to the divider board (3/8” space under it) and there are a few bees that hang out on that side but don’t do any comb building. I like to open the top every week or so and use a small rechargeable vacuum to suck up the SHB that hide at the ends of the top of the frames.
El humo y unos guantes de cuero son importantes.
¡Sí, gracias por mirar!