Beekeeping | How To Inspect Your Hive This Fall When Bees Are Mean
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- Beekeeping inspections are easy in the spring when the hive is small, but in the fall, why are bees so mean? In today's video, I'll give you 5 tips to make your fall inspection go much better. Listed below are items I include in my Zuca cart, carrying everything I need out to bee yard.
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You are Not kidding they are mean! I got stung 9 times thru my all covering bee suit on Sunday! Yikes!
I know!! Hope these 5 Tips help!
Disc golf is my outlet for relaxation
Nice, then you have a Zuca cart too!
@@beek I love the Disc golf/beekeeping crossover! you play, Dave?
Awesome content
Awesome coffee chat
What a great mentor
I’m glad I found this channel
Whether I choose to keep bees or not, the bees do teach us much.
Thank You for sharing !
The best Tea time yet! Yes and go for live chat.
Thanks Ron
Thank you.Saturday is inspection day for me.I,m looking forward to the task.I,m a 64 year old stone mason new to bees and loving every day.
Thank you for sharing. A live chat should be great. Have a good day😀
Hi David, just wanted to say that one person's view of a perfect or balanced life is not another's. If you get fulfilled by making videos and beekeeping, than you've made it. However that may not be for someone else. I will say I enjoy your videos and save them for future when I need help with my hives or inspiration. So thank you!
Well said!
Having the opportunity to chat with you, will be wonderful. Go for it !!!!!
It's the added schedule time and extra stress in streaming that is....not inviting to me. If I had a team that controlled everything and a moderator then I'd probably be okay with streaming.
Amazing coffee time
Thank you so much!
I thank you,you have made me a better bee keeper.
Thank you, that's encouraging of you to say.
I like the positive attitude, you say can't a lot. I'm believe in can not can't. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Thanks for your feed back.
Middle aged. Won a hive in a contest and decided we'd love to get bees, be close to nature and do something new together. Got our first bees Memorial Day 2021. Frantically educating ourselves all the time. LOVE IT! Hoping our bees survive the winter. Planning on a second hive next spring. You have been a great help! Thank you so much.~New beekeepers in NH, Adam and Mary.
Enjoy your views. 😊and videos thanks 4 making them. Looking forward to becoming a bee keeper 😊
I use a bucket with a tool pouch on the outside of it and it works well. I carry everything right next to the hive
Yup I used that in the beginning
I think a live chat would be awesome!! Go for it!
I recently learned not to do a fall inspection in shorts, even when it's really warm out. Oof. At least the UPS guy got a good laugh out of watching me run from them.
Ups is at our place sometimes twice a day and they have always been cool about the bees.
Thank you David for the inspiring words of encouragement.
Glad you liked it. Thanks
I would love it if you live stream. I have lots of questions! I feel like I was well researched and prepared for my first beekeeping experience in spring. But I am floundering around trying to get organized for Fall prep for my bees. Your videos are super helpful. Keep up the great work. I appreciative you.
Specific things I am wondering, are rachets for beehive, how to wrap for winter, how to get better at finding the queen, how to clean up the hive if it gets too crazy with propolis etc…..
I love this video!! I wish I would have seen it sooner! Thank You!!
Cool
@@beek your the best David, thank you for the effort to share your knowledge with the less experienced be keeper like myself.
I really learn a lot from your bee information. Coffee time today was perfect for me
Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for your kind comments
Wow, I thought I was doing something wrong when the girls get pissy with me, now I understand more of the dynamics involved!
Glad this video was helpful!
Thank you so much David. I've learned a lot and coffee time was so perfect for me today to balance out life! Phenomenal. Yes on the live chat!!;
Thank you. Glad it was helpful
Absolutely agree with you, I'm having me midday cuppa, David is a no nonsense straight to the point teacher, he's the best. Reply meant for Nina
I would love live stream/live chat. As a new bee keeper your videos have been invaluable . And I love your coffee talks!!
Thank you Suzanne, I appreciate your kind words
You’re the best! Thank you David.
I appreciate that!
I would love it if you did a live chat 💬
Your videos are really informative and really useful for new beekeepers. Thank you
So nice of you
lets talk about your perty pink magnifiers!!!lol
Haha
Love you man! God Bless!!!
Hello David, new to your channel, bees really interest me, retired but thought it would be fun, so here I am trying to gain information on on a decision yes or no. The coffee time is a bonus, uplifting, alot of people could have a better life if they could just adapt their thinking into what you talked about, that was very useful information, like I said a bonus, it's no wonder you've excelled at beekeeping. Your second job could be a motivational speaker and I'm dead serious, thanks appreciate ya
Going to answer that in my next video!
Perfect! Just Perfect David!!! Thanks ✅ 😁👍👍🏴☠️
Thank you
Thank you David for more great 🐝 beekeeping tips. My bees are busy bring in a lot of nectar and feeding on gallons of sugar water. Don't get stressed out. Remember .... all you can do is all you can do and all you can do is enough. Nothing is worth stressing over. Thank you again for sharing your videos with us
Glad you liked it. And so true about all you can do is enough
Hi David! I think a livestream would be awesome as we have so many questions that come up as we watch your videos :) Thank you for your awesome and informative videos!
Thanks! Beekeeping has many opinions and some can be "wrong" and I'm wondering how to control questionable advice that someone may recommend on live chat. It might turn out to be very difficult to moderate.
@@beek those are good points, I was thinking about it and I would say that the majority of people here trust your guidance. Moderating would be difficult however it can be up to your viewers own discretion what advice they take. Personally, I would always take yours :) Maybe a Q & A format
(not sure how youtube really works on that end of things) Either way I am looking forward to more videos!
Thanks for this video. i had been thinking about needing to work on fall technique differences. So this was nice to reference.
It does feel completely different going into a hive in the fall for some reason.
David, Thanks for the videos. I watch every video you make trying to get as much information as I can. This my second year of bee keeping and I failed last year. Going much better this year. I like the idea of you doing a live chat.
Thank you so much
Thanks for the video David, you seem to have a great outlook on life and a joy to be around. Surrounding yourself with positive thinkers definitely helps you to keep a healthy balance. Your idea for live videos would be a really cool thing. Especially for new bee keepers like myself who is trying to absorb as much knowledge as possible. One thing I would mention about the live videos is the day of the week. My schedule wouldn't allow me to join a live video due to my job but would be great for a Saturday when I had the opportunity to join in. Live chats would also be great for people in different regions of the country. I'm in the deep south so maybe my question and your answer would be different than one from the north or far west. Thanks again for your informative vidoes, you have helped me immensely.
Thank you. Saturday would have to be the day for Live Chat.
@@beek I watch a beekeeping live and the questions for the beekeeper get lost in the chat. Sometimes the chat is so busy sharing with each other we clog up the chat. Be sure to have a good moderator to catch questions or a plan that typing QUESTION gets your attention.
Thank you very much for these great tips specially just in the right time.
Live chat is great idea but quite a time commitment and can get a bit chaotic.Look at Diane the Beekeeper she does live chats on weds evening in Oldham in Britain starting at 7 if you wanted to see how it works.She has a Facebook page.
Your awesome thanks
From Texas
Health is the most important aspect to an enjoyable life - one needs to make time for exercise .One needs to be goal oriented to be successful in this life . 40 minutes dedicated toward exercise is doable and manageable
Agreed, 45 min. A day works for me.
Oh to Bee a Thearpaist!
Love the tips, hope you get 100,000 subs! Love coffee time, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much
Thank you so much for this great video. Very informative. I hope you have an awesome day. I enjoy life more being a beekeeper, it’s so fun and uplifting🐝🙋🏼♀️
Thank you so much
Thank you Dave for the bee keeping tips. I will be sure to use some of your advise and give my hives a thorough inspection. In addition, I will be sure to implement steps to give my hives the best chance of making it through winter. Just my opinion: I think we are in for a doozy...but that's OK. I love the snow.
As far as coffee time:
At 56 years old I think I have learned to balance my life the best I can.
I have a wonderful family. A small core of very good friends, A fabulous career as a senior captain with a major airline. I exercise when I can. I do a fair job of eating healthy. Eating well when one travels is tough, but it can be done if I pack food for some of my trip and try to visit grocery stores when able.
(doesn't always work)
I even became a musician at forty years old, am now in a band with some childhood friends and have just started writing my own simple melodies.
All this in addition to the bee keeping which you have so graciously helped me with in your videos. A full and balanced life.
That said, on to the negativity. As you can imagine as a pilot, I travel to mostly cities. Cities that as I see it, are in a seriously state of decay. You live in the country. It seems to be a nice place. A bubble if I may be so bold. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the country living way of life but what I see happening around me gets me a bit down.
I will go about my days giving my kids extra hugs, spending time with friends, going to the gym, eating healthy and continuing to grow as a human being, but if you think I'm going to sit around and sing Kumbaya let's all hug and be friends with the losers in this country who are more interested in what weed they can score from the dispensary or how they can sit around, not work and get some more money from the man...well, that taint gonna happen.
I'll be grumpy.
Hope you have a great day. I'm smiling right now...
Nice! Even though I live in the country now, I did grow up in a large city and my travels take me through large cities.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Hey Dave, if you want to do live chat then you should. But be ready for the disappointments and stress that you were just talking about. I don't think that I would be asking any questions unless I had a major Problem and No body that I know could help me. I enjoy your videos and they remind me what I should be looking for as I'm a new bee keeper.
Thanks,
Mike B. form Orlando, FL.
I agree on live chat adding disappointments and stress. Thanks
I know you've answered the question on your videos I've watched before...but I forget what your answer was.... How many frames of brood did you say there should be in a hive in order to make it through the winter?
Depends on more than just bees...mites...resources in the hive...but for me it takes about 4-7 frames of capped brood in the fall.
first year beekeeper here. holy smokes! i did not know they would be THAT mean. lots of stings. thanks for the tips. yeesh no one prepared me for them being this hot. yikes lol
Glad the video was helpful!!
When you let someone control how you feel, wether they make you angry, stressed or whatever. If you let them have this control over you, this is the worst kind of slavery.
If you are by yourself and you are suffering, then you are in bad company.
If your alone, you should always be in the best of company.
In the last 24 hours how many times have you been happy? When you were 5 years old hiw many times were you happy in 24 hours? Someone had to come and ruin your happiness as a child isnt that so?
Find your own happiness within yourself and dont let anyone else compromise how you feel.
Such good stuff
Do you recommend an entrance reducer along with the mouse guard?
No, have to choose one or the other.
Thank you David. This was very helpful, and thanks to you, have learned to plan my inspections thus. David, hey, when it turns 50 degrees, is this a temp that is going to considerably slow down a colony? It was 53 today and it looked like only one or two bees where going in and out. It worried me?
Great video, I have learned a lot from watching you, how ever I would like to see more of you doing the things that you only describe, like examples of the problems to be on the lookout for. I have been keeping bees for 18 months now and have went from a package that I got in April of 2020 to 5 hives 3 are really strong and 2 (witch are both from cut outs) taken in late summer, that are doing well but would like them to be stronger. Right now I am having a bad SHB problem even in my strong hives that I can't seem to get under control. I'm using (Beatle Blaster) traps (2-3) per hive as well as salted all around and under my hives . I live in central Florida so we don't have much of a winter and some what coserned about how my girls are going to do over the next few months. My question is what else can I do to get rid of the Beatles
When is the best time to repaint the hive boxes. Is it possible to do that while the bees are still in? All my hives need work.
I’m about 50miles west of STL in MO and I have a few single deeps, 2 have already swarmed this fall. Am I crazy to think I could add a second deep if I don’t have drawn comb? Could I FEED FEED FEED enough for them to build comb in September?
Hi Dave, watch your channels all the time and you are very helpful. Question? Where and how do I store my unused HopGuard III mite treatment strips after opening the package? Some say the refrigerator!!! It’s it toxic?
If there is insufficient brood, what do we do?
Decide if the queen is at fault, and that may be the case. If so, replace her ASAP
Question. Had a hive go queenless. I decided to let them finish out thd year building comb and resources. I now have a laying worker. Very messy, 3 eggs per cell. Advice as to what to do with these "brood" frames?
You can distribute the frames to other hives or just let them crash.
I had a horrible experience with a mean hive several years ago that was so bad I almost quit beekeeping. I was doing an inspection on a hive that I knew was mean but I did not know how mean until half way thru the inspection. I’m ok with a handful of bees buzzing around me but when that handful becomes a few dozen then a few hundred and then what seemed to be a few thousand that were seriously trying to kill me I knew it was time to walk away. My emergency plan was to literally drop what was in my hands at the time and calmly walk away. So I dropped the brood box that was in my hands on the ground and calmly walked to my house and waited for the bees that followed me to go back to their hive. I then stripped off my gear and waited about a half hour for both myself and the bees to calm down and then I geared back up and put the hive together without too much trouble from the bees. The final result was about 10 stings, thru my gloves , thru my jacket, thru my jeans and some bees found a way between my jeans and my boots and stung me on my ankles. Worst experience I ever had. The mean hive eventually calmed down thru no action on my part. I don’t know if I accidentally killed her during the inspection or she swarmed but eventually the hive calmed down.
Dave. Your posts are awesome. I can not begin to tell you how much I have learned from them. I have watched some of them multiple times. Your passion and enthusiasm for raising bees is amazing and it’s inspiring. Even though I had a very good honey harvest this year, 75 pounds, my ultimate goal is the survival of the bees and your knowledge and experience, as well as your “winter be kind’s” , are a great help to achieving that goal. I consider the honey a gift. Thank you.
Yep, I’ve been encountering…I wouldn’t call them “mean”; let’s say “active”…bees since the beginning of September. I vote against live stream for now. I don’t need another schedule point further tipping my life out of balance!
The one question I have is what kind of gloves are you using and why?
When I have to work fast and when it's late summer or fall I wear these gloves. Bees have never stung through these gloves. I have a video coming soon about gloves.
My first year. I got 5 hives on the roof on the 6th floor in NYC. Each hive has two deeps and two medium boxes. Got more than 350 jars of honey. Should I treat with formic pro or apivar. How should I keep my supers over winter.
Always test for mites first so you will know if you need to treat and with what.
Live chat, what does your heart tell you, what does your spouse think about it. Make a list of the pros and cons. Think about connections with people and then what does your soul say? The message that I receive from your videos is that you want people to be better beekeepers and that you want people to enjoy the experience.
Nice
This is my 6th year but I still always have questions. I have never left a super on my hives but thinking about doing so this year. Did you say to continue to feed them also? and I think I heard you say that you stop feeding at some point. I've always continued to feed sugar cakes. It's still pretty warm here in Alabama and I had planned to treat for mites with formic acid but now don't know when to. Thanks!
Help, please.
My husband was mowing around my hives and completely turned over one of my hives. I mean totally upside down! I put it back together but not sure I got everything in the same order.
I have 3 medium for my brood. Pretty sure the queen may be gone.
Please advise, thanks.
Just let them settle down a few days, then do a typical inspection and see if you have a queen.
@@beek thanks. How long before they start making queen cells? Do you think they have time to ready themselves for fall/winter. Fingers crossed!
When is it safe to remove robbing screens and add mice guards in the northeast area of the US?
I'd say once the bees have gone through a week of real winter, they will not be too interested in foraging/scouting. Mice? Similarly, most have made their nest after a week or two of harsh winter.
@@beek Thank you!!
I lost 4 of 6 strong hives this fall. They were robbed by bees from a commercial hive close to me. When the commercial beekeeper removed the honey supers I immediately had problems. I had already treated my bees for Varroa mites with OA and Apivar and had been feeding them with internal feeders for almost a month. I harvested my honey on August 1 and the commercial beekeeper a month later. Once the robbing started, I was unable to stop it. I literally had my hive entrances reduced to 1-inch entrances with grass covering them also. It din’t matter, they were descimated. I have never seen anything like it. They even took over my strongest hive. Any suggestions? I am thinking that I can no longer feed after the commercial beekeeper removes his honey supers.
Use robber screens before he harvests his honey and do not feed that week
Ha David this was a great video I have a couple of questions if it is ok. It does not have any thing to do with this video, u know bees I do not know how many hives u have I have 46 and I go into my hives every week the hole season looking for queen evidence and swarm cells but I have found that I am having a very hard time doing this now I work a full time job and cut 10 yards as a extra job to help pay my bills, I am a care giver now so the time I have to check the bees have doped down to only on the weekends. Here is the 2 questions can u look at a hive entrance and tell when they are getting ready to swarm can u look at a hive entrance and tell they are queen less. I know people that have 3000 hives and there is no way they can go in all them hives any way if u will answer these questions if u know and thanks the video was great thanks.
No, you cannot tell much at all from the entrance. As I get older, it is much better to have other people work hives. Like I sell nucs in the spring but I have someone who handles that part of the operation. Same with queens. Most large scale beekeepers have workers doing the day to day hive management.
@@beek Thank u for your honesty I love your videos they are great hope u keep doing them
Feeder Additive link not working
I'll have my staff fix that, thanks
Okay, they updated the feeding additive links.
When I hear them buzzing loud, it's time to work fast and get it all put together...has anyone notice hive beetles that have been trapped in propolis and killed by the bees?...last time in hive found a bunch of beetles dead in propolis and no beetles anywhere else..
Yes, they build beetle jails and trap SHB with propolis
Can you talk about hornets?
Yes...here's my talk: "RUN!"
Shew....almost $300 for a cart...that is a bit rich for my budget