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Bear Behind Apiary & Maple
United States
Приєднався 30 чер 2023
We're a VERY small scale apiary and maple sugar producer. My goal is to run 10-12 hives and 100 maple taps annually for a side-hustle hobby. Not really trying to make money....but I am trying to break even!
Mite Check | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
In this video, I inspect a hive and conduct a mite check using a hybrid dish-soap & alcohol solution. I added 70% alcohol to try to cut the suds down.
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Honey Harvest and Extracting | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Just a quick video highlighting my harvest and extraction.
Search for Queen Cells | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Continuing saga of the squished queen. Looking to see if the girls built any queen cells. It's pretty late in the season, do you think this experiment will succeed?
Squished Queen Saga Continues | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Continuing saga of the squished queen. Quick inspection and the next steps I take - assuming some risk. Will it be worth it?
Strange Turn of Events | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Quick follow up on the hive where I squished the queen....and some unexpected results. What would you do?
Beekeeper Blunder - Huge Set Back | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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In today's video I check on some nuc's....and attempt to mark my new queens. Full disclosure - I make some pretty detrimental mistakes today. What do you do when your apiary day doesn't go as planned?
Green Drone Comb | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Green Drone Comb & quick mention of predators
Did the Queens Take? | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Just a quick...well....not so quick video checking in on the red & green colonies, checking for a mated queen. What do you do if you don't see eggs? I share my technique.
Hive Combination Follow-Up| Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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In this video, we check on a combined hive. I didn't record laying the newspaper between the boxes, but there are some really good videos if you want to see that "live". I tried using a GoPro, sound was very faint when I worked the hive - so I sped up the video in some places - let me know what you think of this technique.
Mating Nuc Check-up & Queen Marking | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Just a quick video checking in on a mating nuc & marking her majesty. It started out as an hour video, but I stuck to just the nuc & queen marking. I use a "one handed" plunger method...I'm not quite ready for prime time picking up queens by hand just yet.
Nuc Build Part 2 | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Part 2 of my attempt to cut queen cells from a donor frame & place into nucs. Cutting cells was much harder than I anticipated......not happy with the results, but if I'm going to post videos, better to show the bad as well as the good.
Nuc Build Part 1 | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Well....I call it a walk-away split in the intro, but really I'm just harvesting queen cells after pulling a queen for brood/mite management. My camera quit while I was attempting to "cut" queen cells & place in additional nuc's. I'm kinda torn - it was pretty ugly, but hopefully I can recover some of the footage so you can see my mistakes. The fades/edits are my cutting the walk between the ho...
My First Swarm & Follow-Up | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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Today's video is mostly a highlight reel of my first swarm capture EVER! I have a friend/beekeeping mentor who referred me to a swarm (which ended up being just down the street from my home). Really nice family & some visiting friends shared the experience with two of my son's as I wrangled the bees. I hope to do this again!
Winter Hive Peek & Feed | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2024
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It's almost February...but Happy New Year! In this video, I check in on my hives and see how the insulation boxes and added food (sugar bricks) are doing inside the hives.
Winter is Coming | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Winter is Coming | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Extracting | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Extracting | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Bee Escape and Adding Feed | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Bee Escape and Adding Feed | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Production Hive Checkup | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Production Hive Checkup | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Entrance Reducer Change | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Entrance Reducer Change | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Mite Check - trying a new technique | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Mite Check - trying a new technique | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Late August Puttering | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Late August Puttering | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Behind the Apiary | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Behind the Apiary | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Risky Combo Follow-up | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Risky Combo Follow-up | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Hail Mary with the Nucs | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Hail Mary with the Nucs | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Marking a Queen & Supering Hives | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Marking a Queen & Supering Hives | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Late July Nuc CheckUp | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Late July Nuc CheckUp | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Mating Nuc Checkup | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Mating Nuc Checkup | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Midsummer Inspection | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
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Midsummer Inspection | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple 2023
Robbing Blunder | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple
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Robbing Blunder | Bear Behind Apiary & Maple
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So I have been thinking about buying the 3 in 1 extractor like that and wondering if you liked it or would you go a different route if you did it over again?
I do like it. It's kinda big, but if you have the space I think you'll be happy. Cleaning isn't hard, but does take a bit of hot water & time to dry Here's the longer video: ua-cam.com/video/RgnvSLAun3E/v-deo.html
@@BearBehindApiaryMaple-rg8dn that was a perfect review and what I was looking for thank you!
I have also tried using an electric filleting knife for uncapping honey frames. I wanted it to work well but ended up just being faster with a conventional decapping knife. A conventional knife would only take a few seconds to uncap your frame and would be easier on your wrist vs holding the electric knife like you have shown. I only have 4 hives but we extract about 40 boxes or about 1200 lbs of honey a year in this method.
Wow! I'll have to give that a try. Did you use a serrated bread knife?
@@BearBehindApiaryMaple-rg8dn, if you google "serrated uncapping knife" you will see that its similar to a bread knife but it has an offset handle, has teeth on both sides, is wider and a little longer than a bread knife.
Cicadas... The sounds of summer!
Thank you for the video. I'm very sorry about the queen. I hope she is doing well. Let us know, please.
I'm so sorry, that is a heartbreaker. But thank you for letting us learn from your mistake. You may have saved several of us from a similar future mistake.
Thank you! - just recently discovered her walking around. Cautiously optimistic she's still able to lay.....
Oh wow! I pray she will be okay!! Please keep us posted, I feel invested in her!
This is something new for me. Thanks
Does this mean a green foundation inticiats drones?
The green foundation is sized for drone cells, slightly larger "base" than worker cells. The bees usually follow the pattern when they draw it out. The queen will measure the cell size, and lay an unfertilized (drone) egg
So sorry about your queen. Love the Robin in the background. Your sound pick up is great.
thank you!
I've just been to the club apiary today - it will be a while before I get my own bees - I think I just learned a whole lot about raising queens. Thank you.
Hello, I found your channel a few days ago, and have watched all of the videos, you have some great content hope to see you're channel grow.
Thank you!
Hello from Kajun Homestead
Does each box need a queen?😊. Learning a newbie
Each hive (small box in this case) needs either a queen or an egg (and nurse bees) to raise a new queen.
Its obvious you are calm with the bees. Something I never acquired. Interesting to watch.
Thank you Dan
Your a natural. Great you got the queen.
Looks like you have a beautiful day with the bees, that is how it's done. Blessed Days...
Congratulations Roger! I’m glad I was tied up, well sort of!
Congratulations the 1st swarm is so, so much fun. You can hear all the excitement all around, Blessed Days...
I see happy hungry honey bees.😁wow say that 3 times fast.😂The cover art with the bee in Winter gear is great. Have a great day, thanks for sharing your time.
Thank you!
😂Ya I have regretted not using a smoke a few times this Fall into Winter.
Hey get a fume board. They leave in 5 min.
Hey with populations that small you really don’t need anything! Those girls definitely had a mid summer brood break at some point.
So peaceful to watch while your calm demeanor makes for a wonderful view.