Already we need supers!! colonies look amazing!
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
- Well welcome back everyone. the good weather continued this week and i was finally able to get deep in to my colonies. really pleased with what i found. many colonies bursting at the seams. Lovely to see.
here is me at one of my furthest out apiaries "the slope Apiary" bees look amazing.
Hope you enjoy the video!.
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Good for you. All the effort you're obviously putting in should show rewards
bon début de saison richard 👍
Hi there.. Nice to see videos from a UK beekeeper. I am in Kent with a single hive started last year and still alive. What a great feeling when they do so well. Mine overwintered in two deep nationals with the queen in the top box in 11 frames and the bottom one with 6 frames of mainly food. My first inspection had a frame of drone brood and 2 of BAS. Would you be concerned about the drone brood to worker brood ratio? It cold again here again so not opening any soon
Great job
Good news they are looking great . Grab another gear an pull your hat down tight an hang on became our season is coming in fast . Thanks for the update. Thanks
10 degrees F this morning here in Northeast Pennsylvania USA!
There just booming a very busy year ahead for you . Thank you Richard
Ha Ha Ha mow the grass😂 We will be shoveling 4-7 inches of snow in the morning. Two weeks ago it was 70°F and I was checking stores.
Good news. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯🍯
They are doing great.
Cold here in Michigan again but thanks to fondant and pollen sub and 2" of foam insulation were still moving forward lots of brood hatching right now good month ahead of normal.. going to drop cells on April 1st see what happens susposed to warm up again
All we need now is massive numbers of Asian hornets to ruin all of it. 😢 colonies look great but as you said cold weather coming in soon. After the cold weather passes I reckon it will catch people out and lots will swarm in April
Same situation here in southern England. Bees started building into the upside down poly feeders. Things are kicking off.
Good to be back in the hive’s again, here’s to a bumper year
To get away from cutting grass so much I started using heavy duty landscaping fabric under my hives and it makes a huge difference
HI I used that stuff for a long time, being a landscape gardner for a good few years i know all about that, however personally long term it rips, tears and weeds eventually grow through it. unless you pay for a really good quality matting it dosent last long. 🙌
Top tips… thanks Rich
Naah, I don't have to get to work with the bees yet, I still have my weekends off! 😁
Bob's your uncle and fanny's your Aunt :)
another note on changing out older comb, after a couple years of brood cycles and the chrysalis' accumulating in the cells, it decreases the amount of space inside them for the larva and ive heard can cause bees to emerge smaller than they normally should be.
Loooking goood Richard 👍 from 🇩🇰
And here I thought you throw to many frames away too soon. LOL People sure like to criticizes YTers. You sure are looking at a potential bumper crop this year. The weather often times throws a monkey wrench in there but you have the chance. Good job Richard.
what did you do against the asian hornet?
Issue is around cell size narrowing and residual pesticides. But it’s gotta be Black Black Black old.
“The bulk of the evidence suggests that new combs optimize overall honey bee colony health and reproduction. These findings suggest that beekeepers should eliminate very old brood combs from their operations.” [Effects of comb age on honey bee colony growth and brood survivorship
JENNIFER A BERRY; KEITH S DELAPLANE]
Super up for a super crop 2024! The payoff is here!
More years combs are in use the more cocoons there are shrinking the cells size. Another reason to rotate out old comb.
Are your few deadouts eaten up by wax moth, Richard?
No their all changed out and hives cleaned. Frames cleaned or burnt
Yeah, artificial brood breaks are not natural.. your bees look totally unnatural. Much better to use 6 or more chemical treatments over the year.. (good for the old comb).
I tried drowning that open drone brood from the drone layers with a tea that I have with me in a spray bottle.. and they clean it out. Using a bucket of water and shaking most of it out will probably work too
Yes but artificial brood breaks are far better than using hard chemicals in the colony? A soft oxyalic acid treatment afterwards and zero mites are logically a way better prognosis!!
What do base your research on?
@@richardnoel3141 sorry, I didn't see the comment. Or UA-cam has problems. I wrote it thinking it will be a kind of a hard joke.. sarcasm. Probably wrong, with my English. Richard l keep bees since 76-77 and a queen in a cage in combination with oxalic-glycerin strips is by far the best treatment l ever tried. Once l take down my varroa numbers with a brood break,, after it those strips keep it low and I never have my bottom trays full with dead varroa again. It's many years by now that I use only oxalic in combination with brood breaks (if they need it) and the drop is always low 50-100 mites. Usually l don't treat more than two times per year. But those strips stay in 70 days. So it's my research my experience with it.. sorry if I offended anybody with my writing. I was there when varroa arrived and I don't even want to mention all the stuff we used at the start of it
Do you have the pest in America we call small hive beetle 🪲?
The Asian hornet is way worse than the SHB
@@RippleAffect lol debatable. Their both a P in the A. i certainly wouldn't want SHB.
Cold here in Michigan again but thanks to fondant and pollen sub and 2" of foam insulation were still moving forward lots of brood hatching right now good month ahead of normal.. going to drop cells on April 1st see what happens susposed to warm up again