How To Do Your First Hive Inspection Of The Year. Beekeeping Management In Spring.
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2019
- In this video i show you how to undertake your first inspection of the year.
I give a full commentary of the inspection. Keeping an eye out for brood, eggs, and stores. - Навчання та стиль
You look like a baby in this video 😊😊
Less stress back then…and less kids!! 😂
Gwenyn I like your work and thinking.
Thanks 😊
Thanks! Keeps me from over thinking
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great video!!
Thank you ☺️
Just found your videos and I am definitely going to put the brace comb back on crown board for them to clean up
Welcome to the channel 😊
Nice one, I was just about to inspect mine here on Dartmoor and your tip on waiting for Dandelions made me hold back. I have subscribed, makes a change to BBKA mags.
Thanks Kit 😊
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Great video! Found it very helpful!!
Could you kindly provide me with the brand of bee suit you are wearing.
Thanks & keep it up
That’s a sentinel by old castle farm hives.
We sell the Apix air and swienty breeze suits on our website
Great job. I'm very much the same when I inspect my hives, spot tidy eggs check all is well close up. Q - I'm based in Carmarthen and it's mid March and haven't yet done my first inspection. I have sat by the entrances and observed good activity/pollen going in on fine days. Anyway I was sat by two hives and I spotted drones? One hive had quite a few drones coming out. Lots of workers/foragers also, pollen going in good activity. Is this expected or possible for mid march? I'm holding off until April to inspect. At this point I'm hoping it's not queen less, maybe a drone laying queen? Or maybe the hive didn't boot out the drones? Or maybe some hives have Drones this early? Anyway to put it simply, is it likely or normal to see drones this time of year? I suppose I will know one way or another soon.
Hi Richard,
Normally you don’t see drones this yearly. But everything you mentioned above can happen.
Nothing you can do now. Check them next month and work with what’s in front of you.
Hi gwenyn,
When should I stop weekly inspections?, I check once a week at present (2 hives), do I carry on weekly till next year or stop and leave them till next year?, Love your videos, they've really helped 👍
Hi,
No need for weekly inspections now. Treat for varroa and make sure their heavy with stores and your good.
Heft the hive every month to make sure there is enough food. 😊👍🏻
@@gwenyngruffydd thanks gwenyn 👍
I've got no supers of honey 🍯 as I started late, is it worth me buying a block of fondant and leaving it in the hive?👍
I would feed syrup now. Fondant later on 😊
Do you leave the inspection boards out on your hives for the winter..?
The crown board? If so yes, that stayed on all year.
Greetings from Cardiff. What stops the Queen legging it and what do you do with the wax?
Hi,
That’s a huge question to answer in a comment 😅 when they want to swarm there are a few things you can do here’s how I do it;
ua-cam.com/video/3pRLKBBS2-4/v-deo.html
There’s loads of stuff you can make out of the wax. Candles, beeswax wraps, bee foundation polish the list is huge 😊
@@gwenyngruffydd cheers my welsh butty
No problem 😊👍🏻
Hello my friend. Question.
We too here in NY are just now starting spring, yet I have a hive that has a little brood but zero new eggs! The pollen just started coming in like two days ago. Could it be that she is waiting on pollen/bee-bread stores to start laying?
I would wait another week then check again. What brood was there in the hive drone or worker?
@@gwenyngruffydd about 1000 capped worker, and about 100 young larva with a giant queen. I think she is just waiting for more pollen. I’ll give them a pollen sub today then check back in a week. If nothing changes then I’ll replace her. Thx.
Yea I think just give them time 😊👍🏻
@Brad Oliphant any update?
@@ThAt-ZeTeTiC that’s thoughtful of you. Ya, apparently I was unable to see the eggs in the cells because she had laid up the entire hive. Just had an explosion of like 20000 new bees, and right on time.
If you found them queenless and no eggs wouldn’t you join them with another hive over news paper (as long as no laying workers).
Hi,
Not in the spring, the bees coming out of winter are just to old to do anything with. Later in the year then I would consider doing it.
I have found over the years adding a bad or failing hive into a good hive doesn't help the good hive. likewise combining 2 bad hives together doesn't give you a good hive.
But used correctly can be a great managing technique.
What month was this?
Can’t remember exactly but would probably be end of April/ start of May.
Hello, I was taught the first inspection was most important for disease identification but you never mentioned disease?
Hi,
Great question. Disease can appear at any time. We check the bees all year for disease and is part of our normal inspections. They are more likely to get disease mid season.
This is just the first inspection of the year and how I personally do it. Chances are if the bees are diseased going into winter they won't make it through to spring alive...(not always but in most cases)
@@gwenyngruffydd It's been lovely for looking at bees the last few days and I have enjoyed going through my twenty or so colonies for the first time this season which I finished yesterday. Overall not a bad result but a bigger variation than I would like, from a pint of bees with a queen which I think might have suffered some robbing, a couple of bouncing colonies on two deep nationals and needing a super. One had what I hope is early season supercedure, two sealed cells remaining with nothing but sealed brood and two or three cells torn out sideways. I thought I would trust them to do the right thing! There were about one and a half boxes of bees. Do you do equalising? I like the idea for management later in the season? I notice you use QX above a single brood box, I used to use QX but found they always kept quite quite a large domed area ready for the queen which she couldn't access. Do you find that too? It looks similar in terms of forage to here in West Cornwall where your bees are. Thanks for your reply.
@@paulwilliams3494 Everyone gets the same results. Even though that site jas done very well. Other sites have experienced much larger winter losses.
sometimes you win sometimes you lose.
At least the season is upon us and were able to build up numbers again.
Yes if I think a colony is viable I add a frame of egg and brood into the week hive.
If I think they are passed it I leave nature to take its toll.
Yes I run all my colonies on single brood with a QX on top. I don't find it makes a difference the queen will sometimes lay the whole box up no problem.
They don't leave any space in the supers. The bees must know she can't get up there. and fill it all with honey.
@@gwenyngruffydd Thank you for your reply, lets hope its a good season like the last two pretty much. Its far easier for them and us and there's nothing better than seeing happy busy bees. Good luck.
Paul Williams absolutely!! Wish you all the best and stay safe in these crazy times.
*All thanks to Doctor alued on UA-cam for helping me cure my Hives after 3 years of suffering 🇺🇸🌍*
What language is he speaking? Are there captions in english?
English is my second language
@@gwenyngruffydd just pulling your leg. Great video. Thanks
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Don't understand a word you are saying, mate. Sry.
Hi,
English is my second language and I know my accent is strong. 😊
*All thanks to Doctor alued on UA-cam for helping me cure my Hives after 3 years of suffering 🇺🇸🌍*