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Newcastle District Beekeepers
United Kingdom
Приєднався 22 бер 2020
Відео
Oxalic Acid (Api Bioxal) trickle method
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A demo of the method to apply Oxalic Acid (Api Bioxal) Please always use a licenced product and record us on Veterinary Medicines Directorate record sheet
Winter set up
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Getting a colony through winter is vital. Early preparation to ensure a colony is healthy, has a descent queen and plenty of stores is important. I prefer to under super (nadiring) I also add fondant early in autumn and change the entrance block add a mouseguard
Preparing for Winter 2021
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NDBKA meeting August 2021 - A look at the ways to improve colony survival over winter
Monitoring Varroa
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Monitoring for varroa on an inspection tray. To decide if a treatment is necessary compare your daily average mite drop with the varroa calculator on BeeBase or their Managing Varroa booklet
Using a Clearer Board
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Using a clearer board (a crown board with porter bee escapes in) to empty a super of bees ready to remove
Using Apiagurd
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Using Apiguard as a late summer varroa treatment. Make sure you record all chemicals used on a Veterinary Medicines Directory Report sheet (Available on the Beebase website)
7 7 21
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An average inspection of a mid sized colony in July on brood and a half. Looking to point out key things like , eggs, larvae, sealed brood, drones, workers and signs of pests/disease
Nuc to Hive transfer - full length version
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Nuc to Hive transfer - full length version
Choosing a Queen Cell
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Selecting the best queen cell to leave 4 days after intentionally removing the queen as a swarm prevention measure.
Stocking an Observation Hive
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Stocking an Observation hive for a world bee day event
Snelgrove Method of Artificial swarming
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This is a simplified version of the snelgrove method. It uses the snelgrove board as a division board and leaves the option of using the multiple entrances to balance the colonies if you so wish and have the time. However this works as a vertical split. Apologies one error in the reconfigured hive there should be a queen excluder and above the lower brood box and below the super
Early May inspection on a smaller colony
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Early May inspection on a smaller colony
Excellent video, right to the point. Thank you very much for this short video.
Hi, what does that thing called you trap her in?
Interesting Screened Apiary Build you have there. . . . May I ask why you made a Trellis and Fine Mesh Enclave ? Is it to isolate Bee Drift from other parts of your Garden ? Protect 'others/passer-by's' from flying Bees ? Or is it a Security thing too (?) Hope you can Advise. . . Wanting to relocate my Hives within my Garden: so I have more room for Inspections etc. But still need to access the Shed, Chickens, even the Washing Line. 🤭 Would be interesting to hear why you made that setup and your thoughts on Building such a Structure. Any Changes ??? 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
What happebd your sound
sorry but I'm hard of hearing and cannot hear what you're saying
The Snelgrove board can be used very effectively for several different purposes. A very detailed explanation of the board and how to use it is on the Internet. It is titled “The Many Uses of a Snelgrove Board”, written by Wally Shaw. To find a copy of this article perform a Google search, using the title I have just given. Two methods of swarm control are described - "Method 1" for pre-emptive swarm control, before the bees have started building queen cells, and "Method 2" for reactive swarm control when bees have created queen cells. Actually there are other uses which are also described, such as raising queens. Many other different types of swarm control have been devised over the years, including Demaree and Pagdon. Snelgrove's methods are not really more complicated than other methods, but the differences mean that the Snelgrove method is more versatile. Some methods of splitting a hive just give instructions, saying just follow steps (A), (B), and (C) etc, in which they say, "Do this, then that, and then something else". When instructions are followed just like a recipe, without understanding the reasons why, then perhaps the Snelgrove method(s) may seem complicated. If you take the time, and make the effort to read Snelgrove's book, or the article by Wally Shaw you will find that it all makes good sense. I think that Snelgrove's methods enable beekeepers to achieve very pleasing results.
so will colonies produce a honey crop ? and do you have to keep adding super to both colonies ?
Depends on the time of year the split is done. Better than losing a swarm. A Demaree may help retain honey crop
But this is an artificial swam. You just happened to use a snelgrove board to cerate a top entrance.
Yes indeed and it works as a simplified vertical split. It's the outcome that's key.
Hi, what was the outcome of the added frame?
Interesting question. Have just checked back on the records. It raised a lot of queen cells on the test frame. They were thinned to one & a new queen was laying by mid July. However in September no queen could be found and more queen cells were seen. Being late in the season the colony was united to a queenright colony.
@@newcastledistrictbeekeeper5432Would have liked to see the video updated with the outcome
Did you kill the new queen or what does it mean what you did
I'm not sure I full understand the question. The is a method of artificially swarming a colony, the original queen is placed in the lower brood box.
Hi there. Some Years later ! He basically made the Bees think a :'Swarm had occurred' but they didn't ! By doing this manipulation. 🤞 That 'other' Box makes a 'new' Queen from that QC. This Box is basically a "New Colony" of its own dynamics. Either move it onto its own Stand as another Bee Hive in your Apiary. Or look and search for the 'older' Queen / or the poorer performer of Brood laying. (A Virgin Queen might have not got 'Mated' well!?!) Meaning she maybe 'younger' but not as good, to that of the main Older Queen ! Understand what you 'see' before 'mashing' anyone. Or you could do a Split Nuc : add the Older Queen and a Frame or two of Brood Frames & Bees And sell this onto another Beek. Or finally you could ask yourself, is your Older Queen likely to go through another Autum, a long Winter ? And still be a good layer at the time Drones come back on the Scene !?! eg next May the following Spring ! (That could be nearly x9 months where a Colony might think to replace 'her' but as everything relates to available VQ being well 'Mated'!?! So remember : this Colony could go what they call "Hopelessly Queenless". The Workers : become the 'Egg' layers (only Drones!) But with no more 'Worker Brood' being born (Only a mated Queen can choose to lay Workers: adding in Sperm (from her Sperm reserves) or she decides the Colony needs that Springs 'Drone' population (to aid post Swarm VQ mating !) A Queen can turn on/off her fertile egg laying !!! The Colony will die out if its HQL and a Worker breeds 'drones' ! Drones are basically the 'greater good' go out and Mate 'other VQs out there. (While we at home will Cease to exist. . .😢 If you keep the 'New' Queen' Mark her with a Year Colour (if you want to remember who she is and how old Year wise.) If a Queen is seen with 'no Mark' she's been superceded with the bees own made other 'Queen'! Finally. Some Beeks 'dispatch' that older Queen and add her into a Dark Glass Bottle with a bit of Rubbing Alcohol in it.. . Drop 'her' in. You have some DIY 'Swarm Lure' !!! The QMP that Queen omits/steeps in that RA, becomes a 'Scent' of ex Queen. The more RIP Queens you add the more Fragrant that 'Lure' becomes. Hope this all helps. 😎 Ps. If you don't want more Colonies, and didn't sell on a Nuc. Choose the Younger Queen, dispatch the older one. And combine this "two" Colony Stack by using some sheets of Newspaper with some slits added into it . The upper Colony (where the Queen isn't in (you may need to move that younger Queen Box, to be the Base Brood, and the ex Queen Brood put up top. Bees will chew that Paper, and slowly introduce each one to each other through touch, and moving 'colony' Scent about both Boxes. Meaning both have united successfully. 😏
don't think that's a swarm
Believe me it was, I collected it shortly after from a nearby tree
what month did you do this manipulation ?
That was late April 2020, normally May but everything several weeks early in 2020
Good demonstration thanks
Good demo thanks
Excellent. I’ll soon be doing a split on one of my 4 hives that made it through winter. I live in Longview, Washington. USA. I believe we share a similar climate. This will be my first time doing what we call a ‘walk away split.’ I’ve watched several videos and I belong to a local bee club. We just had a guest speaker talking about walk away splits. The way you explained it made it crystal clear. Thank you Was this split you demonstrated successful? Regards
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Thanks for the demo Steve LBKA
the bees keep attacking your hive tool because when you go to extract a frame you are inadvertently killing/squashing bills as your doing it.
Can you please confirm and I stand to be corrected. You are using a Snelgrove to do a demarie. You could have just added an eke with an entrance. The eke is so simple to make. 4 bits of wood and a slot cut out so the bees in the top brood box can fly in and out. Snelgrove is really to stop swarming by using manipulations of the doors. You could have still had the Snelgrove board turned round to the front so the entrance is at the front. This is better as it gives you the added additional option to merge the colonies later on. Nice video.
Not quite the same as Demaree or an eke. The snelgrove board actually divides the two colonies, although the mesh in the board means they can still smell each other which can make uniting simpler if that is the eventual aim. The multiple doors in a Snelgrove board are to balance colony strengths but often this isn't essential
Very informative and well presented. Thank you. 🐝
Glad you enjoyed it!
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