Managing Honeybees in the Post-Solstice (late Winter) season for success presentation

A one-hour talk for the Gaston Beekeepers Association on managing honeybees after December 21st (post-solstice) for success. Topics included managing for honey production, managing swarms, timing of supering, honeybee feeding and nutrition. and when or when not to make splits.
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[@framcesmoore]

Justin I just found your channel Tuesday I have very much enjoyed every one of your videos, You do a fine job explaining I live in Virginia so that even made it better I think your weather is closer to mine. I have candy on all my hives doing the winter the candy I make i put pollen in it. They eat it up to they just by pass any honey they have in there hives. I hope you continue to do videos this year All your videos are old. I hope u do the videos the day you are working your bees and upload them. that would be great. Any way just wanted to say hi the vedios are great and thanks for doing them. been doing bees for 11 years I have 41 at this point. Going for a encrease again this year I am now retired from my full time job. and that is great. I am still a care giver I do that from 4pm-9am unless he gets sick them it is a full time 24-7 you just made me think of a question you said u remove the q if the hive is trying to swarm, Do you ever remove the queen from a hive even before there is swarm cells just to increase, the hive does not ever think of swarming and u have another hive. Plus you have many queen sells to make small 1 frame splits this worked great for me last year. I have removed queens from strong hives to make me some queens. I have tryed grafting but I have a eye Dease and grafting is not working to good for me. I am going to try again I have gotten a very large magifing glass and special lighting with it and I also have a large magnifing glass that I can hang around my neck to help me see when I do inspections, so hoping this will help me, Anyway thanks again for the time you put into the videos. Have a Blessed week

[@DysonApiaries]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Sorry for the lack of posting lately. Takes time to process through the footage and I struggle to make the time. But thanks for watching.

[@keithspillman]

Lots of great info!! My bees made a lot of brood too early this year. Hopefully they can keep it warm through this cold spell. And yes......resource nucs are gold!!!!! Thanks!!

[@DysonApiaries]

Thanks for watching. Brooding up early can be good, but a lot of management comes with it.

[@parkinsonga3092]

It's always good to see what beekeepers in other areas do. Here at 55° North it's totally different for over wintering. We don't open our hives from the start of October until the end of February when we start to feed the girls.
Next time you introduce your wife, introduce her as your current wife, that will make your life interesting when it's quiet with the bees.
Great video.

[@DysonApiaries]

I know better than that introduction. 🤣.
We start doing management on good days in January which sets us up for making nucs and such before the flow. When does your first flow hit?

[@parkinsonga3092]

@@DysonApiaries our flow starts mid March, we have two garden centres quite close to us which helps, because of the constant turnover of plants in bloom at the garden centres it makes for a steady flow until September. The bees that we have are British AMMs as they seem to be the only ones that can thrive with the winter weather that we have.
If your wife complains about the new introduction just tell her to calm down as she is overreacting 😂