Deaf as I am, I can still hear bees and see swarms afar. I always can 'scent' a hive from 1,000 feet downwind. It smells like ' Grandma's taking bread out of the oven ..
It looked like you had all new frames in those boxes. If you put in a frame or two of drawn comb those bees would have marched in much quicker, I think. I have tried it before and they ran right in. Good video though, thanks for sharing!
I think that piece of paper was not laying flat in the entrance, and that was making it hard for them to squeeze in the opening. I think you should give it another shot but taking more time to prepare it, I think then it will work like a charm.
Fascinating! I have a hard time believing you can handle those bees so easily without getting the daylights stung out of you. It goes counter to everything you ever hear about messing with bees. Great video!
To me, you aren't re-inventing the wheel by letting the bees just march in. Every swarm I have ever captured, (and I am in my late 60's) I shook the entire colony onto a sheet in front of the hive on the ground. The difference is I was taught to tap the hive with my small hive pry bar and that always got the entire colony marching in. When I was sure the queen marched in, I mostly left them alone to finish filling the hive until nightfall. I would then go back and block the entrance and bring it home. And I know things change.....the thing is, both ways work.
It's possible that putting the sugar water on them is the problem with them going into the box. When they have sugar water on their wings (or honey), they will start cleaning one another up, licking off the sugar water. So perhaps you are asking them to do two thing: save themselves by quickly cleaning one another's wings and bodies of the sugar liquid; trying to get to the queen. It would be interesting if you looked very closely to see if the bees were 'grooming' or cleaning one another instead of making fast progress into the box where the queen is.
Why did you install the queen in the upper brood box - except for the first one that was shaken in front of the hive? There is nothing in those new hives to attract the workers except for the virgin queen's pheromones, and those will be very weak. If you had put a frame of brood in the bottom box with the queen, you would have seen bees 10 feet away from the entrance start to march.
Your ramp was too flat and too flexible(movement made 'em nervous). Bees have a very strong instinct to walk uphill and crazy as it seems a steeper ramp will get them in quicker. Enjoyed the video.
Since you have the empty box on top when dumping the bees in why not put the transport box on its side in that space. That way you leave and dead or sick bees in there so they can be removed once all the rest have left and less work for the hive to clear out
Love the 🐝 videos I think it’s a great mix for your channel.Glad to hear oxalic acid vaporization has been a fantastic benefit to the health of your honey bees 🐝.
JP the beeman , lets them crawl in, some times on a sheet and the rest of the time, on the ground. Ones they know the queen is in the box, they will march right in.
Got to watch those pennies. cause when you get 300 hives. there making even more. So I make my own bee equipment. I get 4 x more bee equipment by building it Rather than buy it. It also make for a nice winter job building your own bee equipment he hee my problem is i make 25 of every thing when summer hits i need 50 😆 i make 50 next year and i will need 100, i can ever make to much~ when you get to 200 hives its a full time job for 1 person. i sell out at 250 hives ~ to go commercial production of honey ect. take BIG MONEY ! Those SS Holding Tanks, honey extractors ect are not cheap! Every thing got to be stainless steels! Then have a tanker come get the honey, propolis, and wax. So i can't afford to go big time ~ i tried to few times 😒
just seen this pakkage install, nice videoos.... But the queen you showed at 28 min. has a lame left behind leg. she will proberbly later superseded. th-cam.com/users/buckfastimker
If its a New Queen they Should Get dumped Inside bcos they have not used the hive before and You can Dump a few out the front the few that wont come out the box, If your changing a queen and there are bees already in the Box which was there Hive take them out put your New Bess in and Throw the bees you took out Infront of Hive about 1 Meter Away and tey willl slowly walk in bcos it was there Hive and they will Find the New Queen in the Cage.
First time I have seen installing a package in 2 -10 fram boxes. How are they going to control the temp, and guard all that space? There isn't 5 frames of bees!
What you're doing with those bees is a great and impressive way to get a natural swarm into a hive. They are in search of a new place anyways and will walk into the dark. Also this reduces the probability of them moving back out because they somehow chose their new home by themselves. It's not ideal for packages like these I guess.
Wonderful informative videos on your site. Thank you. I'm in a class now for people interested in starting and it's been eye-opening. I had no idea that bees were this interesting. btw - what is in the cans you are opening and putting in the new hives?
hey is there any beekeepers from skandinavia in here ????? i im located on a Baltic island called Bornholm. i would like to pick your brain regarding the local adversities , before i purchase my startset and bees a bit later this year (no one avalible now )
Oh dear me all bees give me a heart attack, stood nest when i was three by time dad caught me my leg very swollen he rushed me home! By then my face and hands etc were swollen . Next thing I know was needle in my leg in doctors room Doctors or needles or bees were not popular with me. Had carry medicine after than! And that was 60 years ago did needle and doctors as became a nurse,
Look like them hives have a mighty fine foundation to me! 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Have a great week! These post always make for a brighter day!
Will Fire Ants Kill your bees? I saw a really good video from Texas Prepper 2 showing how to kill them very quickly. I know nothing about them myself thank goodness. I live in the Texas Panhandle and they don't live up here. Is it because we get temperatures of 15 below 0 in the winter? I enjoy watching all your videos and I appreciate your time in making them.
wow!! this pretty awesome, well African Bees are wild am sure you wouldn't have had the same kind of engagement. can African Bees survive there?? am willing to sell some to you guys. all the way from kenya.
We have imported African bees for many decades here in North America. The African bees are still Apis Mellifera subspecies that have been traded for thousands of years between Egypt Africa and Rome Italy and have not made Italian beekeeping or North American beekeeping any different. There are fictional stories that have made alot of money about African bees starting in 1972. None of these stories are real
Just don't get in a hurry to become a big BK. Start buying bees. do your splits and use your queen cells and catch more swarms. Soon you will have more than you can take care of ~ another thing i keep with 1 size frames too ~ I only use deeps, Its your choice . Just with mediums, shadows it takes more bee equipment . There for more cost. Bee Keeping can be profitable or a money pit like wax foundation and cell rite are money pits use guild wedges with melted bee wax on your frame its the best way fastest way and the cheapest way to go
How come you don’t wear the suit at this point like you have in the other videos… do they not really want to sting you at this point when you are homing them VS checking up on already installed homes? Anyone know?
I spray them down with sugar water first, so they can't fly very well. Also, they're usually not all that defensive in a package like this because they dont have anything to protect. Once they get established they have something to protect so they become more defensive.
Interesting video Wes. I don't like Honey, and not much interest in Bees, but I do appreciate they are extremely crucial for the whole environment. Your Jeep sounds fabulous - how about a thick rubber mat in the rear to give that floor some protection? Best wishes from UK - Stay safe & well. 👍👍
I was fortunate enough to encounter a city bee swarm, in a tree branch over hanging a city sidewalk, along the Madrona Marsh here in Torrance, CA. Thought of your bee videos and my uncle that kept city bees.
Do you make your own bee boxes? I want honey bees but I’m allergic, do you get stung a lot? I know last year you had some square containers that you used, did you use them again?
Enjoy your posts on here and on wood. You were talking about putting the ramp for the bees to go up on. I was told it helps with orientation of where the entrance is for the workers when they start foraging. Good luck with your bees and keep up the great posts on youtube. I live in Denham Springs, La
Actually that way for me is the best because it leaves all the dead bees in the package outside. Also, if you add one dab of lemongrass oil into the back of the box they March in quick!
Hi i am not a Bee keeper but i every time i come across bees or bee keepers i am fascinated by them and listening to their chat and what they have to say about the bees , a very interesting subject thank you so much kind regards from N Ireland .
Off the subject, I am shopping for a tractor to use with a sawmill. One of the Mahindras I am considering has a loader lift capacity of 1640. Log weight calculator says a 24" x 8' pine log is 1188 lbs. Adding an average grapple weight of 300 lbs. adds up to 1488. Not a lot of play there. What is the loader capacity of your L3701? Do you think it is sufficient or do you wish you had picked an upgrade?
Hey Gene. I've got the 4701. With the grapple I get a net of about 1200lb lift capacity. I like it because it's a light tractor and not an overload behind my 1/2 ton pickup truck. Now, having said that, it's ALWAYS nice to have more lift capacity. Also, I don't have a lot of oversize logs to saw anyway. So, I would say that if you're going to regularly be sawing logs that get close to the max capacity on the Mahindra, get a size or two higher and you'll be much happier.
It's amazing to me a non bee guy that you do that with no protection or suit, you must just be calm and they know it and don't sting you or your very insensitive to stings?
No, they still hurt. I don't swell anymore, and the pain subsides within 10-20 seconds. The key is to know when not to handle them (like in bad weather), and to handle them as gently as possible.
Why buy in bees when you could split a hive into four? Shaking the bees in front of the hive is how we do it over here in GB, you have to give them time to walk in. Don't those fire ants invade a hive and steal all the honey?
Deaf as I am, I can still hear bees and see swarms afar. I always can 'scent' a hive from 1,000 feet downwind. It smells like ' Grandma's taking bread out of the oven ..
It looked like you had all new frames in those boxes. If you put in a frame or two of drawn comb those bees would have marched in much quicker, I think. I have tried it before and they ran right in. Good video though, thanks for sharing!
Always beautiful to watch. You should try a log hive, too.
@Weston Zayd Yup, I've been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
I think that piece of paper was not laying flat in the entrance, and that was making it hard for them to squeeze in the opening.
I think you should give it another shot but taking more time to prepare it, I think then it will work like a charm.
Fascinating! I have a hard time believing you can handle those bees so easily without getting the daylights stung out of you. It goes counter to everything you ever hear about messing with bees. Great video!
To me, you aren't re-inventing the wheel by letting the bees just march in. Every swarm I have ever captured, (and I am in my late 60's) I shook the entire colony onto a sheet in front of the hive on the ground. The difference is I was taught to tap the hive with my small hive pry bar and that always got the entire colony marching in. When I was sure the queen marched in, I mostly left them alone to finish filling the hive until nightfall. I would then go back and block the entrance and bring it home. And I know things change.....the thing is, both ways work.
It's possible that putting the sugar water on them is the problem with them going into the box. When they have sugar water on their wings (or honey), they will start cleaning one another up, licking off the sugar water. So perhaps you are asking them to do two thing: save themselves by quickly cleaning one another's wings and bodies of the sugar liquid; trying to get to the queen. It would be interesting if you looked very closely to see if the bees were 'grooming' or cleaning one another instead of making fast progress into the box where the queen is.
Why did you install the queen in the upper brood box - except for the first one that was shaken in front of the hive?
There is nothing in those new hives to attract the workers except for the virgin queen's pheromones, and those will be very weak. If you had put a frame of brood in the bottom box with the queen, you would have seen bees 10 feet away from the entrance start to march.
Great video!! How did you treat those fire ants? In SE Texas we have so many and I just wondered what you used. Good luck with your packages!
Very interesting stuff!! Have never really watched anything about bees, but might have to check it out more.
Your ramp was too flat and too flexible(movement made 'em nervous). Bees have a very strong instinct to walk uphill and crazy as it seems a steeper ramp will get them in quicker. Enjoyed the video.
Since you have the empty box on top when dumping the bees in why not put the transport box on its side in that space.
That way you leave and dead or sick bees in there so they can be removed once all the rest have left and less work for the hive to clear out
give the ants finely ground cornmeal and they eat it but can not digest it in the stomach and die
The cows 🐄 are like...hey pal...got any 🌽 🌽 corn over there ?
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Little guy helping daddy, that's cute.
How do you eliminate the fire ants and not harm the bees and any other insect? Boiling aluminum cast?
Ant poison. Bees don't eat it.
Enjoy your son, they grow up too fast!
Love the 🐝 videos I think it’s a great mix for your channel.Glad to hear oxalic acid vaporization has been a fantastic benefit to the health of your honey bees 🐝.
JP the beeman , lets them crawl in, some times on a sheet and the rest of the time, on the ground. Ones they know the queen is in the box, they will march right in.
Glad you were wearing strong boots when you stepped on the fire ants' nest. I once stepped on one wearing sandals. I itched & burned for four days!
Got to watch those pennies. cause when you get 300 hives. there making even more. So I make my own bee equipment. I get 4 x more bee equipment by building it Rather than buy it. It also make for a nice winter job building your own bee equipment he hee my problem is i make 25 of every thing when summer hits i need 50 😆 i make 50 next year and i will need 100, i can ever make to much~ when you get to 200 hives its a full time job for 1 person. i sell out at 250 hives ~ to go commercial production of honey ect. take BIG MONEY ! Those SS Holding Tanks, honey extractors ect are not cheap! Every thing got to be stainless steels! Then have a tanker come get the honey, propolis, and wax. So i can't afford to go big time ~ i tried to few times 😒
just seen this pakkage install, nice videoos....
But the queen you showed at 28 min. has a lame left behind leg. she will proberbly later superseded.
th-cam.com/users/buckfastimker
Bees with a fall line mini me video on a Sunday night!....whoohoo!!
Blessed and ready!
Thanks so much!
If you been through what they have been through in the last couple days you'd be moving slow too
Good point.
@@falllineridge do you know somebody with cornies or Caucasian bees Queens I would like to get a couple
Very cool. Good little bee keeper helper you have there.
❤❤❤ I'm new to the channel but I'm sure a fan. Keep the videos coming, they are AWESOME
At 3:35 "lying" around. Most people these days would have incorrectly said "laying" around.
If its a New Queen they Should Get dumped Inside bcos they have not used the hive before and You can Dump a few out the front the few that wont come out the box, If your changing a queen and there are bees already in the Box which was there Hive take them out put your New Bess in and Throw the bees you took out Infront of Hive about 1 Meter Away and tey willl slowly walk in bcos it was there Hive and they will Find the New Queen in the Cage.
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First time I have seen installing a package in 2 -10 fram boxes. How are they going to control the temp, and guard all that space? There isn't 5 frames of bees!
What you're doing with those bees is a great and impressive way to get a natural swarm into a hive. They are in search of a new place anyways and will walk into the dark. Also this reduces the probability of them moving back out because they somehow chose their new home by themselves. It's not ideal for packages like these I guess.
Please add CC for those of us who are hard of hearing. thanks.
Sometimes TH-cam is slow putting them up.
Great job and very interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Barely 2 minutes into the video and a commercial. I know they're necessary, but geez.
Wonderful informative videos on your site. Thank you. I'm in a class now for people interested in starting and it's been eye-opening. I had no idea that bees were this interesting. btw - what is in the cans you are opening and putting in the new hives?
lol, bee lives matter. That's funny. Bees and black people are both wonderful and deserve love.
hey is there any beekeepers from skandinavia in here ????? i im located on a Baltic island called Bornholm.
i would like to pick your brain regarding the local adversities , before i purchase my startset and bees a bit later this year (no one avalible now )
👍 From Cadillac Michigan
She is a beautiful queen. Thanks for sharing!
Oh dear me all bees give me a heart attack, stood nest when i was three by time dad caught me my leg very swollen he rushed me home! By then my face and hands etc were swollen . Next thing I know was needle in my leg in doctors room Doctors or needles or bees were not popular with me. Had carry medicine after than! And that was 60 years ago did needle and doctors as became a nurse,
I still have to get my bees
Great bee video,, loved it,, I learn more each time,, thanks!!
First of your videos I've watched. Won't be the last! 😁
Great video as always and many blessings to your family.
Look like them hives have a mighty fine foundation to me!
1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Have a great week! These post always make for a brighter day!
Amen, thanks for sharing!
@@falllineridge thanks for the fellowship!
I never thought I would enjoy watching bees but I do love watching these!!
Awesome!
Will Fire Ants Kill your bees? I saw a really good video from Texas Prepper 2 showing how to kill them very quickly. I know nothing about them myself thank goodness. I live in the Texas Panhandle and they don't live up here. Is it because we get temperatures of 15 below 0 in the winter? I enjoy watching all your videos and I appreciate your time in making them.
If you have armadillos Denning on your land you won't have any either. Armadillos are the only anteater that survives North of the border.
how do you know that they wont all decide to all attack you and cover you?
It is always so incredible that each bee knows which hive is home.
Aprecio todas suas atividades. Você faz tudo com muita dedicação. Sua família é linda!
Parabéns!
Obrigada!
Do you know somebody you can get cornelian Queen from
wow!! this pretty awesome, well African Bees are wild am sure you wouldn't have had the same kind of engagement. can African Bees survive there?? am willing to sell some to you guys. all the way from kenya.
We have imported African bees for many decades here in North America. The African bees are still Apis Mellifera subspecies that have been traded for thousands of years between Egypt Africa and Rome Italy and have not made Italian beekeeping or North American beekeeping any different. There are fictional stories that have made alot of money about African bees starting in 1972. None of these stories are real
No veil or protective clothing for handling the bees?
The cows became curious, so they came to see what was going on, lol!
Love the bee vids cant wait for the honey harvest
Just don't get in a hurry to become a big BK. Start buying bees. do your splits and use your queen cells and catch more swarms. Soon you will have more than you can take care of ~ another thing i keep with 1 size frames too ~ I only use deeps, Its your choice . Just with mediums, shadows it takes more bee equipment . There for more cost. Bee Keeping can be profitable or a money pit like wax foundation and cell rite are money pits use guild wedges with melted bee wax on your frame its the best way fastest way and the cheapest way to go
Good 🎩🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
How come you don’t wear the suit at this point like you have in the other videos… do they not really want to sting you at this point when you are homing them VS checking up on already installed homes? Anyone know?
I spray them down with sugar water first, so they can't fly very well. Also, they're usually not all that defensive in a package like this because they dont have anything to protect. Once they get established they have something to protect so they become more defensive.
What are in the jars and what are they for never seen it on hives before
Have you had any trouble with bears?
The white paper blocked the entrance at the bottom
I think you saw them walking in on JP the bee man
What is the name to this place you buy those bee’s
"right on time." BWAGHAHAHA!
Interesting video Wes. I don't like Honey, and not much interest in Bees, but I do appreciate they are extremely crucial for the whole environment. Your Jeep sounds fabulous - how about a thick rubber mat in the rear to give that floor some protection? Best wishes from UK - Stay safe & well. 👍👍
How late would split a top bar in middle ga
Good evening. Do you sell your honey. Great video, even though it made me squeamish. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
I was fortunate enough to encounter a city bee swarm, in a tree branch over hanging a city sidewalk, along the Madrona Marsh here in Torrance, CA.
Thought of your bee videos and my uncle that kept city bees.
I always enjoy your Bee videos that’s a interesting practice for sure. Thanks young man for sharing your videos with us and God bless!
For such a Walk In swarm, you should have some OLD frames in the lower box.. Bees loves old, used frames to relate too.
Do you make your own bee boxes? I want honey bees but I’m allergic, do you get stung a lot? I know last year you had some square containers that you used, did you use them again?
Enjoy your posts on here and on wood. You were talking about putting the ramp for the bees to go up on. I was told it helps with orientation of where the entrance is for the workers when they start foraging. Good luck with your bees and keep up the great posts on youtube. I live in Denham Springs, La
Yellow bees Italiaanse bees
Oxalic acid dribble method has over 95% efficiency so thats great.
Falllineridge, What state do you live in?
Wes lives in Georgia.
I enjoyed this. Thanks man 👍 good health and God bless 👍
Very interesting methods, don't you get wind gusts sliding your frames about? There seemed to be no pegs joining them.
Actually that way for me is the best because it leaves all the dead bees in the package outside. Also, if you add one dab of lemongrass oil into the back of the box they March in quick!
Ah good point!
What year is your jeep
Some old comb would of helped.
What do you do about ants?
Hi i am not a Bee keeper but i every time i come across bees or bee keepers i am fascinated by them and listening to their chat and what they have to say about the bees , a very interesting subject thank you so much kind regards from N Ireland .
"March of the Bees"
Very enjoyable video. Thanks for posting.
A sheet may have allowed them to crawl up better than paper?
Very possible.
.Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
Off the subject, I am shopping for a tractor to use with a sawmill. One of the Mahindras I am considering has a loader lift capacity of 1640. Log weight calculator says a 24" x 8' pine log is 1188 lbs. Adding an average grapple weight of 300 lbs. adds up to 1488. Not a lot of play there. What is the loader capacity of your L3701? Do you think it is sufficient or do you wish you had picked an upgrade?
Hey Gene. I've got the 4701. With the grapple I get a net of about 1200lb lift capacity. I like it because it's a light tractor and not an overload behind my 1/2 ton pickup truck. Now, having said that, it's ALWAYS nice to have more lift capacity. Also, I don't have a lot of oversize logs to saw anyway. So, I would say that if you're going to regularly be sawing logs that get close to the max capacity on the Mahindra, get a size or two higher and you'll be much happier.
...bee with me.
Could you do a video about protecting your hives for a forest fire
Awesome
Awesome
Do the ants steal the honey? And how did the those tree hives you made last year work out?
A watched pot never boils
Truth.
It's amazing to me a non bee guy that you do that with no protection or suit, you must just be calm and they know it and don't sting you or your very insensitive to stings?
No, they still hurt. I don't swell anymore, and the pain subsides within 10-20 seconds. The key is to know when not to handle them (like in bad weather), and to handle them as gently as possible.
Swarm commander may have them marching in faster.
awww hes just darling...cutie pie!
Congratulations on having no winter dead-outs!
have you ever used corn meal to get rid of the ants
Why buy in bees when you could split a hive into four? Shaking the bees in front of the hive is how we do it over here in GB, you have to give them time to walk in. Don't those fire ants invade a hive and steal all the honey?
I very rarely have trouble with ants getting into the hives. I do keep them killed back as much as possible though.
I couldn't do that even in a hazmat suit.