Sustainable Beekeeping through Nucleus Colonies by Joe Lewis Susquehanna Beekeepers 2015
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Beekeepers learn how to "make increase" by making nucs from existing hives. Beekeeping tips and techniques as presented at the Susquehanna Beekeepers Association meeting on April 8, 2015 (Harford and Cecil Counties, in northeastern Maryland).
I don't know why you criticize this video. It provides very valuable valid important recommendations .
Enjoyed the video, but to much insulation will not overheat a hive. It would keep it cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The bees would regulate an even temperature and expend less energy especially in the winter.
I have 3 first year hives (doing very well, 18 - 20 full frames in each of them), however one of them appears to have swarm cells. I am told by a more experienced bee keeper it is unlikely that they will swarm and that they are just replacing the queen which happens in about 10% of first year Californian queens. My question is can I make a nuc using frames from all three hives or should I only make nucs from second year colonies?
Paul Bowen-Smith you should split the hive that is making queen cells. don't split the hives that didn't create queen cells. with the hive that has decided to make queen cells, get a nuc, find your old queen, put her in the nuc with frames with all types of resources. you want a colony with eggs, open brood, capped brood, honey and pollen - a little hive in miniature. make sure you have the old queen in the nuc without any queen cells, leave the queen cells in the parent hive.
keep in mind my reply is 1 week late, so it's very possible the hive swarmed or superceded already. if that's the case, don't do anything, let them do their thing and you can split next spring.
Bush and Palmer are two different ways, I like what Michal Palmer teaches.
We are a treatment-free apiary in Baltimore. I totally disagree with the notion of requeening colonies every year...WHY?
+BeeFriendlyApiary Here, here! I have a four year old (yellow marked) "Super Queen" that made 270lbs of honey and I pulled three splits from her hive this year in the wooded Hickory Nut Gorge of NC--south of Asheville. Her 2 y/o daughter's hive made 258 lbs honey this year.
I set SQ's hive up as a cell builder and rear queens from her each year right after the Sourwood flow. Then I re-unite her once I place capped cells into mating hives. I wouldn't dream of replacing her until she dies!
DrewT Sounds like you have a seriously abundant nectar flow down your way. The only reason I can figure as to why folks convince others to requeen is because they want others to buy queens and bees from them every season. Its BULL!!!! Let the bees raise their own queens and save money and work!!!!
Agree BC,it's risky on acceptance and unnecessary in my mind...
Good for a little brood break maybe if anything?
How is Michael Bush your hero yet you advocate the opposite of his teachings.
I was just thinking the same exact thing.
I had a hive swarm and let them requeen. Big mistake. The hive 3-4 months later was hard to manage. It was taken to a farm where there weren't any people. The first time the top was taken off they preceded to start stinging the farm animals. Maybe if you live somewhere where there aren't any Africanized bees. We get hybrids here and they can get nasty. I live in a neighborhood and need calm bees. I need to know the genetics, very important. Different people have different needs.
Good topic, I live in north Alabama and we don't have Americanized bees, but regardless a mean hive is a mean hive, re queen it , even if you buy the queen elsewhere, make sure she is bread before you buy her. I have Carniolan's and I won'y put up with a mean hive.,bees have to be fun to work with.
Good presentation
I would say it's much more accurate to say bees naturally build down, not up.
+Conor Darcy It is the beekeeper that directs the bee upward. You are right in nature bees do build down. To say they like to go up and do not like to go sideways is a statement made without thought. Bees will build to fit the cavity in which they find themselves. I am currently in Cameroon. Literally all hives used here direct the bees to build 'sideways'. The traditional hive here is built like a log and hung in trees.
+Calvin King yes, there are a few "top bar" style hives here in the states that are horizontally oriented as well. People seem to have great results with them
+Conor Darcy i would think it has to do with where the entrance is located.... with 2 boxes and the openeing only at the top, i would assume they will start near the entrance?
1. DO NOT TREAT! Raise bees that are in balance with nature! no chemicals!!!
+Robert Wheeler Odd that he mentions Michael Bush in his presentation and then says treat for varroa. I agree. Don't treat.
can you show your hives 100 colonies without treat
Show me a honey bee that starts drawing comb on the bottom and works their way up and I'll kiss your ass sideways. Bees are smart enough to know that heat rises and shit flows down hill. The only reason they go up is because you put the frickin box on the top and not the bottom.
They will draw comb in the warmer weather as long as there is a nectar flow. Done it for years with double nucleus colonies. The colonies will draw that bottom comb in a double nut as long as it's against the inside wall. It will happen on a flow. Watch the sustainable apiary by Michael Palmer and he will explain how this happens. I'll give you a break Southeastern Ohio Honeybees and you don't have to kiss my ass.
Great video! Thank you Joe Lewis! I have to include that someone was coughing and talking into the mic the whole segment. That is really annoying! I hope they read this because shame on you!!! I"m trying to learn something vital. Please place the mic next to Joe Lewis next time.
A lack of Pheromones from the queen does not cause the formation of swarm cells! Nor is it due to the queen running out of sperm. Then to follow such erroneous statements with a condescending one to the new beekeepers that 'for those for whom this is over their head to get on board', is too...
I know you meat well but you gave out a lot of bad information, you used Michael Bush as a reference. You need to study his work before you use him as a reference. There is no need to feed " leave them enough of their own honey, If yo use foundation-less frames they build the cell size they want and you don't have to treat for Varroa , you don't have to re queen every year----- Get your facts right before you try and teach others.
West Point Bees think you need to get yours straight to
How many hives does this guy maintain? This is a very obscure video. Tidy bits of facts not much else. Kind of just fluff and puff. How much honey does he produce? How many Nucs and queens does he produce?
Been doing nucs to replace dead outs for a few years now. Definately an advantageHowever I see some commenters here that are telling people to not treat for mites. These people better read the research. Your mite infested hives are traveling two miles and spreading mites into other people's hives. I have low mite counts throughout the season and when it's time to check them again in the fall the mite levels skyrocket. It's due to people who think they can raise better mite resistant queens than the experts. Trust me. You can't. So do all of us a favor and control your mite loads. I lost an apiary this winter because some beekeeper up the road didn't control his mite load. When his hives crashed my colonies robbed them out ( he wasn't too happy). My bees got sick shortly after and died. Now I have to clean up eight dead outs and start over. Please do what the pros recommend so others don't suffer because of others stubborness
So you would have us believe all the bees would be dead if it wasent for all the beekeepers praying chemicals all over them. And with that all people would have starved to death without bees and you are the hero that saved mankind. Sounds like a fairytail. More likely you are the problem and you are breeding weak honeybees that cant handle anything on their own anymore. Look at south africa for example they never treated when the vmite hit and now look, they have no vmite problem anymore, but in the usa we treated and all that did was make super vmites and weak bees. You do the reasearch pls
The only pro is the honeybee btw to bad they cant tell you wtf your doin wrong
Wow are you way off. Read the research. You can manage mite loads without chemicals. But you have to do it! If not the bees die. Don’t be pissed off at me because I control mite loads. Be pissed off at those who don’t!
Also be pissed off at the person who (as the story goes) smuggled queens into the U.S. and didn’t realize that mites were in with the bees. It only takes ignorance and stupidity of I’m not the problem for problems to begin. Please keep those mite loads down.
To end my comment you have no idea my education in this field. I am very capable and likely more competent than you are when it comes to this subject
Brad, the Africanized honey bee swarms multiple times a year. It’s their nature. Mites don’t build up to dangerous levels in those colonies because of the constant break in brood rearing. This strategy is used in warmer climates where the seasons are much longer and the colonies can recover. In my part of the us I don’t have that long a time period to practice this form of mite control. I wish I did, because it’s a very effective natural method
Lots and lots of swarms in my neighborhood from wild bees idk where this guy gets his info, my neighbor caught 12 swarms in less than a month pretty sure nobodys climbing up the tres and spraying chemicals on the bees lmao