Nectar flows and Planting for Bees
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2019
- All about how i see nectar and honey flows in terms of my own area and honey production here in Brittany. You will see how we have to be timely with our interventions to make sure the bees hit the ground running.
Huge respect to to My sadly deceased first beekeeping mentor Charles Basset. A legend in our area.
💓 lovely talk 💓 you are not alone 😊👍🏼
Thank you soooo pretty loving much
Great vid.
Always remember the time taken from the time that the queen lays the egg until the worker becomes a field bee gathering nectar is about 40 days!
That is 6 weeks. If you want your colonies at full strength at the start of the nectar flow, then you need to feed at least 6 weeks before the expected start of the flow.
Bees take more than 2weeks to build up on a flow.
You are probably losing out on a lot of honey.
If you fed earlier in spring/end of winter, even though the colonies still have honey and pollen, you would stimulate the queen to lay more. Even if the bees were not foraging due to outside temperature and weather.
Think about that. You would be able to get supers of honey at the beginning of the season. The time that you are now using to still build up your bees naturally
Thanks for taking the time to share Richard!!! Love your enthusiasm and passion!! The the real deal!!! Keep your smoker lit and bee🐝🐝 safe.
Konrad
Thanks a lot Richard from Alsace. As a french new beekeeper I don't see many french people watching your channel and they miss something! Great informations + great enthusiasm! I appreciate all your videos!
Ok more videos more as good as this one tell us about when you met mike Palmer and nobody as far as I know has ever spoken about the different strains of bees and the pros and cons of the different breeds please you are becoming the best bee vlogger
One of your best informational videos Richard passing on knowledge thank you
Great video again, very good ideas. Think local.
Thanks for taking the time to share all the great info and enthusiasm!
Thanks Richard you've answered so many questions for me .. sharing accurate knowledge in beekeeping is such a rare thing !
Thank you -thank you -thank you! I’m in my first year.I’m trying to absorb everything that is worth knowing. Eating the fish and spitting the bones out. Absolutely love your talks it is like a feast of knowledge and enthusiasm.Thank you Richard!
Fantastic informative video Richard. Well Done love it ! 😎👍😎💚🐝💤💚
Great Richard lots of food for thought there, I think you explained all that the best way I have ever heard it said now just need to remember it and work with it thanks.
VERY GOOD EXPLANATION!! Man u nailed it,such good observation on your part and very good relay of info.I especially liked keeping food around the brood so when flow hits it can ALL go into Honey Supers,so glad you teaching, I learn so many "details" that are so important,but easily missed. I gonna fire channel up early spring and try to help some people too, I put it off for year now,but I'm ready
I work in north east of Italy and the flows and timing are quite similar to yours. Thanks for sharing.
Great vid! Great topic. Thanks
Richard great video as usual! I wish i could meet you this year i'm not that far away from you. :)
Usual you piss me off with your horticulture knowledge 😁😂
Great vid good eye 👁 opener keep them coming 👍
That was a long one Richard , but well worth watching....think you need a beer after that to wet the whistle. I did a talk on this same subject a little while ago and it always goes down well. Cheer mate!
Hauling in the pollen today - SW Ireland
great topic, more vids, about this people need to understand when the flows are in their area. (James noell) (P.S.) I have an extra L.
Its not your fault lol Thanks for your kind words James!
Great job, you just gave us plenty to think about and a good excuse to go take a walk regularly during the comming year starting now. Our main flow is probably the Eucalyptus but it is a variable flow and hard to pinpoint that changes somewhat from year to year, not being a native tree it almost seams like it decides each year when to flower depending on how the weather has been. gorze or toxo as the call it here is also comming back and can be found by acres, it was once used for cattle bedding and almost every houshold had 1 or 2 cows to cut bedding for but now the bigger cattle farms have taken over and the gorze is going wild as nobody cuts it down. We also have thousands of horse chestnut, not the sweet chestnut. I could go on but i think i'll have to write it down in a dairy throughout the year, Flowering diary. Thanks for your time in shareing
Is it a bad idea to Isolate a Queen on a frame of empty drawn comb. /with a vertical excluder to up your chance to find the correct size larva for grafting?
Hi Cindy, no its not providing you have adequate bees in both sides, (the queen right section and the section without the queen. ) Have a look at `mike palmers video on using this method. you can regularly rotate the frames so you have the correct sized larvae. you need to be on the ball with this though, you don't want the queen isolate otherwise she won't be well looked after, so plenty of bees needed. th-cam.com/video/UycH2CR-YoI/w-d-xo.html
I’m currently talking to the farmer next door to my apiary in Gloucestershire. He’s up for planting borders of flowers for pollinators. I’d be interested to hear what type of plants I should ask him for. He doesn’t know what to sow but he’s very supportive.
tofty21 hi, you should be looking at what he has and the cost versus what fits in when there is not much else inflower! You could get him to sow a mixed insect mix, that includes Phacelia! To sow a field of day 1 ha your looking at several hundred pounds alone! It can work out very expensive!
Nature will provide a lot of things naturally but it’s probably after July when you need to look to provide for!
Hello Richard
I'm planning a trip to Guadalupe for late this summer.
Do you know any beekeepers there?
Greg Sanderson hi Greg, sorry I don’t! You will soon catch up with some I am sure! Won’t be difficult to find!! Have a great trip!!
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers
G
Hi Richard, I've brought some pollen patties with the view to feed in the spring. I know there's always plenty of natural pollen out there but the weather is usually poor so their flying days would be limited. I have my hive near a lot of oilseed rape so need them ready for that. Would you agree with my thinking. Also the patties will be useful for nucs when ready to split the hive. Cheers, Rikki 🐝
potty plotter hi Rikki, no pollen patties put on to the hives would be wasted, it would I am sure, all get used up! When you have only a small number of hives then anything you can give them nay just give them that little bit extra! For us in this particular part of the world we can’t see it really benefitting versus cost and labour. Think about it like that!
potty plotter meant would not be wasted!! Lol 😆
By the wayvi ordered this book !
Very interesting, you ever think of making a swarm trapping video.
Paul Smith here’s my blog about them.,thinking of now doing a video!
Thanks. beesinbrittany.blogspot.com/2012/04/swarm-traps-how-to-make-them-where-to.html?m=1
great vid. mate! a request can you do a vid. on your hives ? Thanks
I was enjoying this until he talked about treating the bees.