I think you've made those two hives very HAPPY!! Am sure after a couple days, they're going to feel much better! ALWAYS great to see a new video! Take care my friend and continue to 🐝 Happy!! 👍✌😁
I was watching a Mike Barry video who suggested your channel. I've subscribed and been binge watching ever since. Good content with useful tips. Thanks. (Carmen/Tampa, FL)
Mike Barry is awesome and has done so much for me. I don't use Facebook so it is very hard for me to get my videos out there and shared so his shout out was wonderful and gave me some exposure. I hope someday I can repay him. Also, thank you for stopping in and for giving my channel a try. I will work hard to keep it fun and interesting. have a great day and thanks again for watching.
Just be careful. You have to make sure you don't harvest it or your honey will be blue or green. I usually only feed hives I know I will not be harvesting from and after the flow is over. For instance, Pine and Teal are new and will not be harvested this year, and all of my hives wintered last year with the blue syrup and this spring I made sure that any remaining frames with the blue syrup were in the brood chamber and away from the supers I gave the girls to fill. Any way, thanks for watching and have a great day my friend.
We had an unexpected two-week stretch where it was in the low 90 and burnt everything that was a nectar source. So we had a dearth when we should've had a strong nectar flow. Keep those girls fed for sure my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping in. I still have a few of hives with harvest-able frames on them which I will be removing in the next week and then all of the hives should be on feed until the goldenrod hits in the fall. Thanks for stopping in buddy. have a good one.
@@BugFarmerBees yeah we are only a month away from Goldenrod and then some of my higher elevation apiaries the early Goldenrod is just about ready to start flowering.
Thanks. You just have to careful when you do it or you could foul your entire harvest. You can't harvest a frame with even a little Blue syrup on it or it will turn your honey green. Your garden is looking wonderful by the way. :-)
That is how I do it, other beekeepers may do it differently but the goal is to get the girls some food especially if I have absconded with their honey. Thanks for watching B44. I do appreciate you.
In the wild they would store enough food to sustain them through a Dearth (nectar dry spell), but we beekeepers take most of their honey so we need to make sure they have enough to eat. :-)
Thanks Jake. Good to hear from you. I was going to ask where I could get one of those Hercules trees because the bees seem to like them but your last video showed the close up and I had no idea it was covered in thorns. I am thinking about getting a couple of Mimosa trees. Anyway, thanks for stopping in and having a look. Have a great day.
@@BugFarmerBees The Hercules grow native here. They are everywhere. We have 1 mimosa tree, it just went into bloom but it doesn't have as much bee action as the (Hercules club) tree.
@@BugFarmerBees, Love your independence Bee also like that you said you learn how to keep Sweat out of your eyes from Mr Miyagi, I watched that movie to in the 80's. A Lot more work to having Bee's than I thought I didn't know you had to feed them.
Excellent. Our flow started early and has ended early this year. Crazy year but I was fortunate to have very strong hives in the spring and they really took advantage of the flow. Thanks for watching.
Caught a swarm about 3 months ago and they are bringing in pollen and still getting nectar but I'm feeding them to help keep them going and building up the population of bees before winter.
I am so jealous. I have been trying to catch a swarm for two years now with no luck. I'll keep trying though and when I do it will be spectacular! Thanks for watching. I really appreciate you.
Great video as always. I use your dying the sugar syrup blue idea to be able to track if the girls are bringing in nector, since I don't know the flows here yet. I actually saw the story of the blue honey before finding your channel, it was waste water from dying M&M's, Skittles, Starburst, etc. that Mars Wrigley candy company sends overseas for processing and disposal. The overseas company didn't screen off their holding tanks properly and the bees got to it. Your the only beek I've seen installing fans in the hives. Have you found they help with high temps more than simple hive top vents? With the expected week to a month of 100+ degree days coming soon, I want to make sure I haven't setup a pair of wax melting ovens.
Thanks for watching. Actually I both heat and cool my hives. You can watch the videos to see how to build the system in the Thing I Build Playlist. In Georgia the temp is usually 90+ in the summer with extreme humidity. The fans keep the hive vented and allow the workers to focus on collecting nectar instead of fanning the hive to cool and evaporate nectar. Basically my bees don't beard on the front of the hive, :-). In the winter I kept the boxes around 70F and this year I came out of the winter with a very strong population in each of the hives that had the heater installed which has translated into an excellent harvest from my 4 producing hives this year. If you want only the cooling system you wouldn't have to run power to the hives because the fans themselves would easily run on a 12V solar system. I have my hives powered with 110 because the reptile heat lamps require 110v to operate as solar cannot be relied upon in the winter month and batteries would be to hard to maintain in the cold weather. My bees didn't cluster at all last year and produced brood all winter. As far as the blue syrup is concerned, be careful. If a frame has any blue syrup on it at all do NOT harvest the frame or you will end up with blue or green honey. I use it to make sure I have the purest of honey. A little dye goes a long way. Sorry for the WALL of text but I wanted to make sure I addressed your question properly. Have a great day and thanks for watching and commenting. :-)
A pizza cutter wow who would of thought it would work so well. So what do you do with the other colors in the package? I think the guy from backyard bees NC gets big bottles of blue from Wal-Mart. Have a Happy 4th!! Bee Safe!
New to your channel but I like it a lot, thanks for sharing your beekeeping experiences. May I ask where do you get your hive bodies & supers from? Regards from NC
Welcome. Thanks for stopping in. I get most of my wood wear from Better Bee. I usually buy the 2nds and bargin stuff and then assemble, sand, stain, and cover in spar varnish. I will probably start cutting my own pretty soon to avoid paying shipping costs of having wood wear shipped to me. Thanks for watching and commenting. It is much appreciated.
Very interesting. Hubby B said he saw another channel and the guy had green honey. He said he had blue frames. Is that because he is dying the sugar water and it is mixed with the honey?🤔☺️👩🦳🏵
Was it the guy next to the M&M plant from the article? If you are going to dye the sugar syrup you really have to manage it or it could foul your whole harvest. I never feed while the flow is on or from a hive I intend to harvest. If a frame has any colored sugar syrup on it I leave it for the bees. Currently I am feeding two NUCs (small bee colonies), and three hives (Pine, Teal, and Pink) which I will not be harvesting this year. In the spring I will wait for them to bring the nectar and will not feed them until after the harvest. If They need food and I have to feed I will not give them any more than they can store in their brood box. I never feed when they are super-ed. Thanks for watching Lady B. You are appreciated. :-) Tell Hubby B we need to see his Star Wars videos!
Hello my friend. Could you share what to look for in a dearth. Watching youtube videos, it looks like everyone is in a dearth, but my hive is till going strong? Confused. And it's July 24th and my queen is still laying and they are still bringing in lots of pollen.
You will start seeing a lot of idle bees and may see other beekeepers colonies or even wild bees begin to rob your hives. Basically all of the available nectar in the wild is drying up and the bees will need to be fed if they don't have enough honey on their hives until the next flow which will begin usually in the fall. Pollen may be abundant but nectar is the key for the bees this time of year. I hope this helps.
@@BugFarmerBees Oh yes, this helps a lot. I'm guessing, being in NYC is a blessing for bees, because there is always flowers blooming somewhere. And after yesterdays inspection, they are still packed with honey and filling the super--can you believe--in the end of July?
It didn't last year but it really doesn't matter because the feeding frames will never see a honey super. It is something I do because I want the purest honey and this guarantees I don't get any sugar water in my honey. Again, this is something I do and actively manage my feeding. I never feed with supers on and will use frames that stored blue sugar syrup in brood chambers next year. They will not be used for honey storage next season. Great question.
Raw honey is more susceptible to crystallization than the pasteurized honey you would get from you local store primarily because it wasn't heated during bottling process. The best thing you can do to prevent crystallization is make sure to store it in an airtight container and at room temperature. If you keep it in the fridge it will cause it to crystallize quicker. If your honey has crystallized simply put the jar in warm bath (on the hot side) of tap water for a while and it should turn back into the liquid gold you expect. Just make sure you keep the water below 105F to protect the integrity of the honey. I hope this helps. Others may have more to add but this is my understanding. Oh, one more thing. A sure fire way to prevent crystallization that works every single time is eat your honey quickly and finish the jar before it can crystalize. :-)
I think you've made those two hives very HAPPY!! Am sure after a couple days, they're going to feel much better! ALWAYS great to see a new video! Take care my friend and continue to 🐝 Happy!! 👍✌😁
Thanks Ken. We really enjoyed the new poem. The crossing. Very nice.
@@BugFarmerBees Thank YOU so much!
Your videos are so interesting 🧐 and when they start stinging is funny To 😂🤣😂
Thanks Scott. I am happy you like them. Have a great day.
Loved hearing about the bees
Thank you for stopping in and watching. :-)
Great video. Thanks for sharing the great ideas.
Of course. Thanks for watching.
I was watching a Mike Barry video who suggested your channel. I've subscribed and been binge watching ever since. Good content with useful tips. Thanks. (Carmen/Tampa, FL)
Mike Barry is awesome and has done so much for me. I don't use Facebook so it is very hard for me to get my videos out there and shared so his shout out was wonderful and gave me some exposure. I hope someday I can repay him. Also, thank you for stopping in and for giving my channel a try. I will work hard to keep it fun and interesting. have a great day and thanks again for watching.
I do like the food coloring idea. I may "borrow" it. :)
Just be careful. You have to make sure you don't harvest it or your honey will be blue or green. I usually only feed hives I know I will not be harvesting from and after the flow is over. For instance, Pine and Teal are new and will not be harvested this year, and all of my hives wintered last year with the blue syrup and this spring I made sure that any remaining frames with the blue syrup were in the brood chamber and away from the supers I gave the girls to fill. Any way, thanks for watching and have a great day my friend.
Me too
@@JakeBeesos me three
A great video
Thank you. It's always nice to be appreciated. :-)
We had an unexpected two-week stretch where it was in the low 90 and burnt everything that was a nectar source. So we had a dearth when we should've had a strong nectar flow. Keep those girls fed for sure my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping in. I still have a few of hives with harvest-able frames on them which I will be removing in the next week and then all of the hives should be on feed until the goldenrod hits in the fall. Thanks for stopping in buddy. have a good one.
@@BugFarmerBees yeah we are only a month away from Goldenrod and then some of my higher elevation apiaries the early Goldenrod is just about ready to start flowering.
Very interesting video
Thank you as always. It always makes me happy to see you and MSB in the comments. :-)
Really interesting about the honey changing colors with that they eat. Such a good idea you have to add the die in!!
Thanks. You just have to careful when you do it or you could foul your entire harvest. You can't harvest a frame with even a little Blue syrup on it or it will turn your honey green. Your garden is looking wonderful by the way. :-)
Thanks for the video always wondered how you feed the bees
That is how I do it, other beekeepers may do it differently but the goal is to get the girls some food especially if I have absconded with their honey. Thanks for watching B44. I do appreciate you.
Very good and interesting video. I never knew bees had to be fed. Just thought they would fly around and collect pollens naturally hahaha 😀.
In the wild they would store enough food to sustain them through a Dearth (nectar dry spell), but we beekeepers take most of their honey so we need to make sure they have enough to eat. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees OIC ☺️
@@mikeries8549 👍👍🥰🥰
We had some nectar that was green our neighbors where big Mt. Dew drinkers so now it's called garbage can honey.🤣👍👍😎
That would be some interesting tasting honey. And neon green too. :-)
wow from the candy factory waste lol thats kinda cool blue
It certainly was a neat and inspiring story. Thanks for watching. I appreciate you.
Great video
Thanks Jake. Good to hear from you. I was going to ask where I could get one of those Hercules trees because the bees seem to like them but your last video showed the close up and I had no idea it was covered in thorns. I am thinking about getting a couple of Mimosa trees. Anyway, thanks for stopping in and having a look. Have a great day.
@@BugFarmerBees The Hercules grow native here. They are everywhere. We have 1 mimosa tree, it just went into bloom but it doesn't have as much bee action as the (Hercules club) tree.
wow super nice interesting video , Thanks for sharing or to teh next paddy video
Thanks for watching SCT. I really appreciate your time. Have a great day.
@@BugFarmerBees My pleasure , you make good videos and they are super relaxing and interesting
Enjoyed the video. Definitely feeding time in Oklahoma. Everything is fried. It looks like no fall flow. Time to buy sugar. Thanks and take care.
Thanks GeezBeez :-)
Like your Channel, Great information, Happy 4th of July, Love the Sweet tea Myself.
Thank you. How do you like my Independence Day Uncle Sam Bee? :-)
@@BugFarmerBees, Love your independence Bee also like that you said you learn how to keep Sweat out of your eyes from Mr Miyagi, I watched that movie to in the 80's. A Lot more work to having Bee's than I thought I didn't know you had to feed them.
Look up Cobra Kai on TH-cam. Karate kid is back! And IT IS AWESOME! th-cam.com/video/_rB36UGoP4Y/w-d-xo.html :-) Enjoy!
@@BugFarmerBees thanks
Still not in our Dearth.... they are hitting the White Clover hard here right now.... Happy 4th
Excellent. Our flow started early and has ended early this year. Crazy year but I was fortunate to have very strong hives in the spring and they really took advantage of the flow. Thanks for watching.
Caught a swarm about 3 months ago and they are bringing in pollen and still getting nectar but I'm feeding them to help keep them going and building up the population of bees before winter.
I am so jealous. I have been trying to catch a swarm for two years now with no luck. I'll keep trying though and when I do it will be spectacular! Thanks for watching. I really appreciate you.
@@BugFarmerBees lemon grass oil and luck .
Great video as always. I use your dying the sugar syrup blue idea to be able to track if the girls are bringing in nector, since I don't know the flows here yet.
I actually saw the story of the blue honey before finding your channel, it was waste water from dying M&M's, Skittles, Starburst, etc. that Mars Wrigley candy company sends overseas for processing and disposal. The overseas company didn't screen off their holding tanks properly and the bees got to it.
Your the only beek I've seen installing fans in the hives. Have you found they help with high temps more than simple hive top vents? With the expected week to a month of 100+ degree days coming soon, I want to make sure I haven't setup a pair of wax melting ovens.
Thanks for watching. Actually I both heat and cool my hives. You can watch the videos to see how to build the system in the Thing I Build Playlist. In Georgia the temp is usually 90+ in the summer with extreme humidity. The fans keep the hive vented and allow the workers to focus on collecting nectar instead of fanning the hive to cool and evaporate nectar. Basically my bees don't beard on the front of the hive, :-). In the winter I kept the boxes around 70F and this year I came out of the winter with a very strong population in each of the hives that had the heater installed which has translated into an excellent harvest from my 4 producing hives this year. If you want only the cooling system you wouldn't have to run power to the hives because the fans themselves would easily run on a 12V solar system. I have my hives powered with 110 because the reptile heat lamps require 110v to operate as solar cannot be relied upon in the winter month and batteries would be to hard to maintain in the cold weather. My bees didn't cluster at all last year and produced brood all winter. As far as the blue syrup is concerned, be careful. If a frame has any blue syrup on it at all do NOT harvest the frame or you will end up with blue or green honey. I use it to make sure I have the purest of honey. A little dye goes a long way. Sorry for the WALL of text but I wanted to make sure I addressed your question properly. Have a great day and thanks for watching and commenting. :-)
A pizza cutter wow who would of thought it would work so well. So what do you do with the other colors in the package? I think the guy from backyard bees NC gets big bottles of blue from Wal-Mart. Have a Happy 4th!! Bee Safe!
Easter eggs my friend. Easter eggs. :-) Thanks for watching.
New to your channel but I like it a lot, thanks for sharing your beekeeping experiences. May I ask where do you get your hive bodies & supers from? Regards from NC
Welcome. Thanks for stopping in. I get most of my wood wear from Better Bee. I usually buy the 2nds and bargin stuff and then assemble, sand, stain, and cover in spar varnish. I will probably start cutting my own pretty soon to avoid paying shipping costs of having wood wear shipped to me. Thanks for watching and commenting. It is much appreciated.
Very interesting. Hubby B said he saw another channel and the guy had green honey. He said he had blue frames. Is that because he is dying the sugar water and it is mixed with the honey?🤔☺️👩🦳🏵
Was it the guy next to the M&M plant from the article? If you are going to dye the sugar syrup you really have to manage it or it could foul your whole harvest. I never feed while the flow is on or from a hive I intend to harvest. If a frame has any colored sugar syrup on it I leave it for the bees. Currently I am feeding two NUCs (small bee colonies), and three hives (Pine, Teal, and Pink) which I will not be harvesting this year. In the spring I will wait for them to bring the nectar and will not feed them until after the harvest. If They need food and I have to feed I will not give them any more than they can store in their brood box. I never feed when they are super-ed. Thanks for watching Lady B. You are appreciated. :-) Tell Hubby B we need to see his Star Wars videos!
Was the sweet tea Blue?😁 c’mon bond with those Bees
No way. Blue nectar is only for the bees. :-)
I'm about to make some patties For my channel too.
will check your channel out later
What pollen sub do you use?
it's awesome!
@@BugFarmerBees I was hoping jake would have a video up , but sofar nothing wrt Pollen
Hello my friend. Could you share what to look for in a dearth. Watching youtube videos, it looks like everyone is in a dearth, but my hive is till going strong? Confused. And it's July 24th and my queen is still laying and they are still bringing in lots of pollen.
You will start seeing a lot of idle bees and may see other beekeepers colonies or even wild bees begin to rob your hives. Basically all of the available nectar in the wild is drying up and the bees will need to be fed if they don't have enough honey on their hives until the next flow which will begin usually in the fall. Pollen may be abundant but nectar is the key for the bees this time of year. I hope this helps.
@@BugFarmerBees Oh yes, this helps a lot. I'm guessing, being in NYC is a blessing for bees, because there is always flowers blooming somewhere. And after yesterdays inspection, they are still packed with honey and filling the super--can you believe--in the end of July?
Does the blue sw stain your wax?
It didn't last year but it really doesn't matter because the feeding frames will never see a honey super. It is something I do because I want the purest honey and this guarantees I don't get any sugar water in my honey. Again, this is something I do and actively manage my feeding. I never feed with supers on and will use frames that stored blue sugar syrup in brood chambers next year. They will not be used for honey storage next season. Great question.
I have a questions can you tell me why my honey always crystallizes? am I storing it wrong?
Raw honey is more susceptible to crystallization than the pasteurized honey you would get from you local store primarily because it wasn't heated during bottling process. The best thing you can do to prevent crystallization is make sure to store it in an airtight container and at room temperature. If you keep it in the fridge it will cause it to crystallize quicker. If your honey has crystallized simply put the jar in warm bath (on the hot side) of tap water for a while and it should turn back into the liquid gold you expect. Just make sure you keep the water below 105F to protect the integrity of the honey. I hope this helps. Others may have more to add but this is my understanding. Oh, one more thing. A sure fire way to prevent crystallization that works every single time is eat your honey quickly and finish the jar before it can crystalize. :-)
Great information
Hey, what happened to your middle "F-U" finger on your right hand??? I see it's black.
It got sucked into the belt drive of a lawn tractor. It was no fun.
@@BugFarmerBees OOOUUUCCCHHH