Good morning Mr. Binnie. That is quite upsetting. One of the miracles of modern technology are small remote control drones that can carry cameras and take videos from above. I'm wondering if an aerial view from 50 feet or so might shed some light on where the pesticide is coming from. You may want to consider getting one of the lower end models if you have someone on your team that has the skills to handle it for you. Could give you an entirely new tool to gather information.
I’m sorry you took a hit Bob. I lost all mine to overspray 2 years ago, 27 in one day. I lost everything, it was in my home yard. Rebuilt up to 55-60ish and had another incident with the railroad again, only lost 19 so far this season. Made the decision to have no colonies in my home yard. Imagine a beekeeper with no beehives in his yard, but I will never get ahead with this. Keep cranking out the great footage bob and spreading quality content.
Bob. My brother and I use google earth to locate farms that may be spraying. We draw a 6km radius circle from your hives and have an aerial view of what is around. Helps for looking at vegetation in the area also.
Buy a drone so you can fly it around and see what's in the area. A good one can go a mile or better. There may be a sweet corn field around. They have to spray that stuff several times during the growing season, almost on the schedule you describe to keep worms out of the corn. If that's what it is you can talk to them till you're blue in the face. They're going to spray their corn.
Maybe sweetcorn but bees don't work it unless there is nothing else. Corn only has pollen for 4-6 days during plant development so they would have had to have multiple planting dates. Lawns and/or pasture or more likely to be the culprit.
Thanks for the video Bob and the Team. Another great insight to the problems encountered by beekeepers, when not expected. My extractor came from a guy in the UK who's bees just kept getting killed by crop spray. He gave up.
Sorry Bob, if it happens again, maybe you can collect the dead bees and have their pesticide profile tested in a lab? After two years with piles of dead in front of most of my hives, I had it done at my local ag station. They tested positive for pesticides, but they were below levels that kill bees. I moved almost all of the colonies out to a different yard, and it stopped. I never figured it out.
A friend and I stopped to get some honey at a residence. We noticed a large island of pollinator plants in the middle of the backyard and the hives near back of property. We also noticed the chemically treated lawn sign and the grass looked like a golf course. My friend, a chemical engineer, refused to buy any honey and inquired about the health of the hives. The beekeeper said he has started over many times due to colony deaths. When we left my friend said the lawn pesticides are being absorbed by the pollinator garden, poisoning the pollen and pollinator plants may have been grown using systemic neonicitinoids that kill the bees also, not to mention the toxic drift of lawn treatment after application. This was a wake up call and now I understand how these chemicals sliowly destroy our ecosystem and eventually us.
Ive had this as well. Ive even caught another bee keeper going through my hives. I now set up trail cams in any yard i think will be a problem or indicate a problem.
The sprayers and farmers used to call us if they were going to spray for insects . You could confine them or move them,before they were poisoned Now i dont think they are concerned about anyone but themselves . Its heart breaking to see .
The 70 acre field immediately behind my home is sprayed every April with a herbicide that kills all the new spring growth before they plant their corn or soybeans (alternating each year). Some years they have sprayed soybeans in August and September for fungus problems. The spraying has been done by helicopters, planes, and tractors with extended booms. Even when the prevailing wind brought the vapor from the spray onto my property and could be smelled, I have never observed a bee kill. I strongly suspect it was a pesticide treatment and would go to Google maps and scour a 1 mile radius around that apiary site to see where it might have happened. Dick Brickner
Sorry my brother! I'm new to bee keeping 1st year both nucs got robbed out so last year caught a swarm well it got robbed out too. Wish I could find somebody in Texas that sold nucs loaded with bees like yours!!
Such a bummer. You do everything right, and someone else throws a wrench in the works. I was worried that the spraying of a field near my house would impact my hives, but I think it was broad spectrum herbicide (Roundup?) of some kind that didn't seem to impact my bees at all. In my state, anyone spraying insecticide is supposed to notify the state, who in-turn notifies beekeepers in the area who are registered. This allows beekeepers to close up the hive for a day or two until the spraying is done. I have heard of several instances where this protocol was followed, but it's likely the exception and not the rule.
Try getting with your local farmers and ask them to spray in the evening or at night night . This would minimize the amount of destruction or your colonies. I just saw where a bee sanctuary was hit pretty bad in San Diego. Seems identical to what’s happening to you.
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I had this happen twice to an apiary - the second time I tracked the issue to a pond 400 yards away that was "treated" to kill mosquitoes (not with an approved product). No choice but to move the bees.
We’re close to some expensive homes that do not tolerate mosquitoes. Their properties are loaded with landscaping and flowers and the company they hire for the insecticide application sprays everything including flowers. A day or two later our numbers drop by about half. Needless to say we don’t consume the honey. The native pollinator population is my biggest concern. And also what kind of effect are all these poisons going to have long term on the environment including human health
@@rarefruit2320Contact your state USDA pesticide division with name of company date & time if you have it. They do follow through and it's important to stop this before it's too late.
Thank you so much for your very informative videos . I have had 2 of my very large hives totally wiped out . Will all the brood frames be ok to use again . Hope your bees pick up and make it through the winter . My bees died of wheat fungicide over spray 😢
Sorry to hear about the damage to your bees. Hopefully most will bounce back for you. It can be disheartening but you seem to be well diversified in other locations so hopefully this will only be a small set back. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I pollinate melons, cucumbers, strawberrys, apples, blueberrys, and pumpkins, the farmers tend to be careful, but I had an issue this year 4 out of 6 hives dead when I visited a week ago at a farm where they rent hives for the season. Every year they seem weak coming off these fields and I wonder if they are getting into some spray
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That's a real bummer! I've had spraying, vandalism, skunks and bears. Sure puts a crimp in production. With a crew like yours, I wonder what you use for smoker fuel.
Could it be a beevirus? In Australia and New Zealand our bee industry has been impacted with the Varroa virus. Apparently they are mites the size of sesame seeds which have critically damaged the bee industry here and many hives have been euthanized. So sad to see your hives aren't thriving at the moment. Hoping that you can get to the cause quickly.
That's bad, so sorry that happen to your bees. I had a beeyard too that was affected in the Spring next to a cornfield, and the bees facing the cornfield were more affected than the bees facing away. It seemed like some of my bees were afraid to go in the other frames and they just remained in a couple frames within the hive for a long time. Some of my hives never recover, in the entrance there was something sticky that when I tried to clean it, it peeled the paint off. And it also affected honey production at that beeyard for sure this year. Next year, I am going to try to put a barrier and face away for any hives I have near cornfields. I hope most of the bees at your yard survive.
some people are pretty sensitive to ragweed and if you touch it or get it on your skin can cause irritation and redness that may turn into blisters like poison sumac. I'm one of those people and I have ragweed all over my property and bee yard.
@@bobbinnie9872 2 years ago spring arrived 6 weeks early in Ontario. If you didn't treat in early August, rather than mid September you got wiped out. Most got wiped out.
Sorry for the hits your girls keep taking. Feeding question: as long as you don’t see, or smell evidence of fermentation in your syrup, do you think that the dark material that can accumulate in the one or 2 gallon bucket feeders is a concern? And is it mold, mildew, or some kind of algae?
how small of an area of pesticide spray could cause this much damage? would someone spraying 4 or 5 fruit trees and a small home garden cause this? or an acre+ of a monocrop?
For the whole yard to be damaged this much I would think it would have to come from something larger than a small home garden. A large garden could be another matter though.
Place one light-up beeswax candle and put your hands together. Take everything out of your mind apart from what is personal and of heart. No words just pure harmony with a bit of heart, and then pray for the bees for them not to fly to the pesticide places, and bees won't fly there. The prayer also represents your knowledge and who you are in your mind a spirit. The beeswax candle will clear the room so praying is possible. I personally like night times for prayers. I do not know God in person, but when I pray it is Toms praying for bees, not Toms praying for God to do something for me that I can do it myself. Also, for a successful prayer, it is important to know for whom or what to pray. Who knows, you might as well evolve bees to the point where bees don't use pesticide-treated plants.
Really sorry to see this Bob. I hope they make it. Be glad you don't have hive beetles in abundance like we do, or these colonies wouldn't be worth saving. One of my yards got hit with roadway herbicide spraying last year and knocked them back hard. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen again this year.
Those companies are required only to spray under certain weather conditions and in many states you can tell them not to spray your property and that you'll maintain the right of way. If they ignore the weather regulations (and you record them) and show evidence that these were ignored your claim for damages is an absolute slam dunk (at least in my state).
It certainly could cause future issues including synergistic interactions with other future chemical exposures. It also could depend on the half life of whatever chemical it was. Some chemicals disappear fast and others last a long time. Although the colonies look small they do look healthy so hopefully they'll be OK. We'll be watching.
@@bobbinnie9872 I know it won't change your course of action but it would be interesting to send off a wax sample somewhere and see if they could identify the pesticide.
We're still using 1.5 parts water to 1 part sugar for the next week. When we see the temperatures begin to change in the forecast we'll thicken things up to 1 to 1.
I had one hive Beatles wipe them out. The other no mites no sign of Beatles but half the hive is dead and all there food is depleted😢 I add some sugar water and a feed strip hoping i can safe them😬
Bob- I have one colony still going big and strong in 1 deep and 3 supers…..do I wait until it gets a good bit cooler and the population decreases (will it?) to reduce for winter? In atlanta
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT UP CAMERA AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES CLOSE MIGHT NOT WANT THEM THERE AND SPRAYED SOMETHING WHEN YOU HAVE LARGE AMOUNTS DEAD AT THE DOOR!!!!!!!!!
Do your state inspectors actually do anything about the pesticide damage in your experience? Are you also using the P801 or just regular DFM? We've found biologix helps with yellow brood here I'd like to see if it helps at all with pesticide damage.
@@bobbinnie9872 oh dang. That’s probably a good thing TBH ain’t much you don’t know that one will tell you and you don’t need the hassle that can come along with them in a large scale op. Here in NC we have a great inspector program and most our guys/gals are retired commercial guys but I’ve heard of some of them in other parts of the state that usually defend the farmer’s pesticide use as they make more money for the ag department unfortunately. Luckily I have a great relationship with mine as he’s helped me really start to get my operation off the ground.
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Yeah I asked the farmer not to spray into everything pretty much quit he done got his crap out you said I got the spray to kill the weeds I told him I would I would spray it or pay him the spray later so he left I went to town and come home Son was out spraying it up I walked over here to the pickup ask Daddy to walk over to the boxes with me he said they look fine I said come back in the morning and he did he apologized and told me what do it again that way
@@bobbinnie9872 I use your double screen bottom board method for small colonies going into winter and it works beautifully. I also use it when creating splits using queen cells.
There is something in the Soybean Dust, when Combining, that will kill your hives, Several Beekeepers in Piedmont N. Carolina have had trouble with Soybean Duct. Keep watch on them, they might just keep dwindling down for no apparent reason.
It's a terrible thing to see bees that have been killed by poison. I had some close to a road and someone sprayed them with hornet spray because they left the cans in my yard
Ok so here’s the question of the year .. you said about half of the returning field force was bring in pollen ( the same here in my yard) what is the other half doing , or returning with ?
Good morning Mr. Binnie. That is quite upsetting. One of the miracles of modern technology are small remote control drones that can carry cameras and take videos from above. I'm wondering if an aerial view from 50 feet or so might shed some light on where the pesticide is coming from. You may want to consider getting one of the lower end models if you have someone on your team that has the skills to handle it for you. Could give you an entirely new tool to gather information.
I’m sorry you took a hit Bob. I lost all mine to overspray 2 years ago, 27 in one day. I lost everything, it was in my home yard. Rebuilt up to 55-60ish and had another incident with the railroad again, only lost 19 so far this season. Made the decision to have no colonies in my home yard. Imagine a beekeeper with no beehives in his yard, but I will never get ahead with this. Keep cranking out the great footage bob and spreading quality content.
Bob. My brother and I use google earth to locate farms that may be spraying. We draw a 6km radius circle from your hives and have an aerial view of what is around. Helps for looking at vegetation in the area also.
Buy a drone so you can fly it around and see what's in the area. A good one can go a mile or better. There may be a sweet corn field around. They have to spray that stuff several times during the growing season, almost on the schedule you describe to keep worms out of the corn. If that's what it is you can talk to them till you're blue in the face. They're going to spray their corn.
Maybe sweetcorn but bees don't work it unless there is nothing else. Corn only has pollen for 4-6 days during plant development so they would have had to have multiple planting dates. Lawns and/or pasture or more likely to be the culprit.
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Thanks for the video Bob and the Team. Another great insight to the problems encountered by beekeepers, when not expected. My extractor came from a guy in the UK who's bees just kept getting killed by crop spray. He gave up.
Sorry Bob, if it happens again, maybe you can collect the dead bees and have their pesticide profile tested in a lab? After two years with piles of dead in front of most of my hives, I had it done at my local ag station. They tested positive for pesticides, but they were below levels that kill bees. I moved almost all of the colonies out to a different yard, and it stopped. I never figured it out.
I have had that happen. Very disturbing. With the impact on your honey bees, imagine how the native pollinators suffered.
A friend and I stopped to get some honey at a residence. We noticed a large island of pollinator plants in the middle of the backyard and the hives near back of property. We also noticed the chemically treated lawn sign and the grass looked like a golf course.
My friend, a chemical engineer, refused to buy any honey and inquired about the health of the hives. The beekeeper said he has started over many times due to colony deaths.
When we left my friend said the lawn pesticides are being absorbed by the pollinator garden, poisoning the pollen and pollinator plants may have been grown using systemic neonicitinoids that kill the bees also, not to mention the toxic drift of lawn treatment after application.
This was a wake up call and now I understand how these chemicals sliowly destroy our ecosystem and eventually us.
The possibilities are endless.
Thanks for sharing Bob! Thanks to your crew as well. I ran into this last year and lost some hives.
Seems inevitable if have bees very long.
How heartbreaking Bob when you and your crew work so hard.
Good video once again. Thanks for showing how you deal with colonies this time of year that are small as well.
Ha Bob I am so sorry for your bees I hope you can help them and u do not have much loss God Bless and have a wonderful week
Ive had this as well. Ive even caught another bee keeper going through my hives. I now set up trail cams in any yard i think will be a problem or indicate a problem.
The sprayers and farmers used to call us if they were going to spray for insects . You could confine them or move them,before they were poisoned
Now i dont think they are concerned about anyone but themselves .
Its heart breaking to see .
The 70 acre field immediately behind my home is sprayed every April with a herbicide that kills all the new spring growth before they plant their corn or soybeans (alternating each year). Some years they have sprayed soybeans in August and September for fungus problems. The spraying has been done by helicopters, planes, and tractors with extended booms. Even when the prevailing wind brought the vapor from the spray onto my property and could be smelled, I have never observed a bee kill. I strongly suspect it was a pesticide treatment and would go to Google maps and scour a 1 mile radius around that apiary site to see where it might have happened. Dick Brickner
Sorry my brother! I'm new to bee keeping 1st year both nucs got robbed out so last year caught a swarm well it got robbed out too. Wish I could find somebody in Texas that sold nucs loaded with bees like yours!!
There are plenty of beeks in Texas selling fat nucs, just not this time of year :)
That last statement is great info for me thanks!
Such a bummer. You do everything right, and someone else throws a wrench in the works. I was worried that the spraying of a field near my house would impact my hives, but I think it was broad spectrum herbicide (Roundup?) of some kind that didn't seem to impact my bees at all.
In my state, anyone spraying insecticide is supposed to notify the state, who in-turn notifies beekeepers in the area who are registered. This allows beekeepers to close up the hive for a day or two until the spraying is done. I have heard of several instances where this protocol was followed, but it's likely the exception and not the rule.
Try getting with your local farmers and ask them to spray in the evening or at night night . This would minimize the amount of destruction or your colonies. I just saw where a bee sanctuary was hit pretty bad in San Diego. Seems identical to what’s happening to you.
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We rarely use pollen supplement patties but when we do we use "Ultra Bee" which is pre-mixed at "Mann Late".
I had this happen twice to an apiary - the second time I tracked the issue to a pond 400 yards away that was "treated" to kill mosquitoes (not with an approved product). No choice but to move the bees.
We’re close to some expensive homes that do not tolerate mosquitoes. Their properties are loaded with landscaping and flowers and the company they hire for the insecticide application sprays everything including flowers. A day or two later our numbers drop by about half. Needless to say we don’t consume the honey. The native pollinator population is my biggest concern. And also what kind of effect are all these poisons going to have long term on the environment including human health
@@rarefruit2320Contact your state USDA pesticide division with name of company date & time if you have it. They do follow through and it's important to stop this before it's too late.
So sorry. Just proves the problem is vast and no one is immune
Sending prayers 🙏
Ugh, not fair. Sorry to see this. Thanks for posting. Kevin
This is so sad I hope that there's a good ending to this evil, We need our bees
Thank you so much for your very informative videos . I have had 2 of my very large hives totally wiped out . Will all the brood frames be ok to use again . Hope your bees pick up and make it through the winter . My bees died of wheat fungicide over spray 😢
The frames could be OK. It depends on the life of the chemical. Perhaps don't use them until next year.
Sorry to hear about the damage to your bees. Hopefully most will bounce back for you. It can be disheartening but you seem to be well diversified in other locations so hopefully this will only be a small set back. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I pollinate melons, cucumbers, strawberrys, apples, blueberrys, and pumpkins, the farmers tend to be careful, but I had an issue this year 4 out of 6 hives dead when I visited a week ago at a farm where they rent hives for the season. Every year they seem weak coming off these fields and I wonder if they are getting into some spray
Even if they are not spraying while you are there the bees could be bringing in toxic residue.
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We lost about 50% of them. We didn't get them tested but we won't be using that yard this year. Thank you.
Twice in a season with no farm crops I'd start looking for one of those "mountain retreat" properties with a pool owning karen.
That's a real bummer! I've had spraying, vandalism, skunks and bears. Sure puts a crimp in production.
With a crew like yours, I wonder what you use for smoker fuel.
We use pine straw and wood stove pellets.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks! I appreciate you answering.
That’s a crying shame. I surely hope that yard of bees recover before winter.
I know exactly how you feel when it happens the hives are doomed I replaced all my frames on 45 double deep
Would be cool to just have a drone and trying to fly around to see what it might be
Could it be a beevirus?
In Australia and New Zealand our bee industry has been impacted with the Varroa virus.
Apparently they are mites the size of sesame seeds which have critically damaged the bee industry here and many hives have been euthanized. So sad to see your hives aren't thriving at the moment. Hoping that you can get to the cause quickly.
I don't believe this is a virus because other yards did not experience it. Thanks.
That's bad, so sorry that happen to your bees. I had a beeyard too that was affected in the Spring next to a cornfield, and the bees facing the cornfield were more affected than the bees facing away. It seemed like some of my bees were afraid to go in the other frames and they just remained in a couple frames within the hive for a long time. Some of my hives never recover, in the entrance there was something sticky that when I tried to clean it, it peeled the paint off. And it also affected honey production at that beeyard for sure this year. Next year, I am going to try to put a barrier and face away for any hives I have near cornfields. I hope most of the bees at your yard survive.
Hi Oscar. Thank you.
We have had similar loss of numbers when hives are full with CBPV
some people are pretty sensitive to ragweed and if you touch it or get it on your skin can cause irritation and redness that may turn into blisters like poison sumac. I'm one of those people and I have ragweed all over my property and bee yard.
My biggest problem being a backyard beekeeper is pesticides use in my community. There are no bee safe zones in this state. Charlotte NC.
Yep we moved ours to Dallas NC and having problems there too
Looks a lot like mite crash we see in the north this time of year.
How when he treated for mites?
@@piffy5594 well not all treatments are effective or timed properly. But relax, just my observation.
I've seen that before in the past also.
@@bobbinnie9872 2 years ago spring arrived 6 weeks early in Ontario. If you didn't treat in early August, rather than mid September you got wiped out.
Most got wiped out.
@@slimpickens3863 I’ve simply asked a question, sorry if i wasn’t relaxed enough.
Thank you Bob!!! Would it make sense to combine these so they have 4 frames of brood? Maybe I am thinking too much for our Ohio winters
It may come down to that with a few. We still have a bit of pollen flow left so we'll look closely again in a few weeks.
Had one hive strong with brood eggs and looked great. A week later dead bees on bottom of hive and handful of bees left.
😬
sorry you took a hit Bob. we all take them. got to stay on top of it
Sorry for the hits your girls keep taking.
Feeding question: as long as you don’t see, or smell evidence of fermentation in your syrup, do you think that the dark material that can accumulate in the one or 2 gallon bucket feeders is a concern? And is it mold, mildew, or some kind of algae?
I think it's a mold or algae and yes it an accumulate over time. Bleachy water when cleaning cuts it nicely.
Horrible thing to happen. I left a farm years ago because of the same thing. They sprayed on a Tuesday and the hives were dead by thirsday
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how small of an area of pesticide spray could cause this much damage? would someone spraying 4 or 5 fruit trees and a small home garden cause this? or an acre+ of a monocrop?
For the whole yard to be damaged this much I would think it would have to come from something larger than a small home garden. A large garden could be another matter though.
Sorry to hear about the pesticide kill.
You don't want to think about someone coming in and poisoning them.
Place one light-up beeswax candle and put your hands together. Take everything out of your mind apart from what is personal and of heart. No words just pure harmony with a bit of heart, and then pray for the bees for them not to fly to the pesticide places, and bees won't fly there. The prayer also represents your knowledge and who you are in your mind a spirit. The beeswax candle will clear the room so praying is possible. I personally like night times for prayers. I do not know God in person, but when I pray it is Toms praying for bees, not Toms praying for God to do something for me that I can do it myself. Also, for a successful prayer, it is important to know for whom or what to pray.
Who knows, you might as well evolve bees to the point where bees don't use pesticide-treated plants.
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Really sorry to see this Bob. I hope they make it. Be glad you don't have hive beetles in abundance like we do, or these colonies wouldn't be worth saving. One of my yards got hit with roadway herbicide spraying last year and knocked them back hard. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen again this year.
Those companies are required only to spray under certain weather conditions and in many states you can tell them not to spray your property and that you'll maintain the right of way.
If they ignore the weather regulations (and you record them) and show evidence that these were ignored your claim for damages is an absolute slam dunk (at least in my state).
Thanks. A good point about the beetles. A big population would definitely take most of this yard out.
Any concerns with contaminated wax now that might lead to longer term issues?
It certainly could cause future issues including synergistic interactions with other future chemical exposures. It also could depend on the half life of whatever chemical it was. Some chemicals disappear fast and others last a long time. Although the colonies look small they do look healthy so hopefully they'll be OK. We'll be watching.
@@bobbinnie9872 I know it won't change your course of action but it would be interesting to send off a wax sample somewhere and see if they could identify the pesticide.
Sorry about your losses.
Thanks Richard. I have also seen it in Otto before.
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I kept part covered . Those plant not covered didn't survive.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Time to find a better spot!
You mentioned thin syrup. What should I be feeding a weak colony in Otto, NC, now?
We're still using 1.5 parts water to 1 part sugar for the next week. When we see the temperatures begin to change in the forecast we'll thicken things up to 1 to 1.
Put up some cameras to see what is going on
I had one hive Beatles wipe them out. The other no mites no sign of Beatles but half the hive is dead and all there food is depleted😢 I add some sugar water and a feed strip hoping i can safe them😬
Bob- I have one colony still going big and strong in 1 deep and 3 supers…..do I wait until it gets a good bit cooler and the population decreases (will it?) to reduce for winter? In atlanta
The population should level off soon and now would be a good time to reduce or reconfigure before winter.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT UP CAMERA AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES CLOSE MIGHT NOT WANT THEM THERE AND SPRAYED SOMETHING WHEN YOU HAVE LARGE AMOUNTS DEAD AT THE DOOR!!!!!!!!!
You may cover them with something to keep the chemicals off.
That could work if we know when they are coming.
@@bobbinnie9872You can make them let you know when they are coming and find out what they are using. I personally have done that!
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn” - John Maxwell
And sometimes we refuse to learn 😂
Check for Chronic bee paralysis virus. They have cases over in Britain and it looks kind of similar to this.
Although small the colonies actually look healthy at this point.
Could be someone spraying for mosquitos. We have problems with it here
Could be.
Is it possible that someone is just sabotaging that yard? Just a thought, since theirs no obvious source. Thanks for sharing. 😢
That is a possibility and did cross my mind.
This time of year it makes you feel like knocking it down to a nuke
That would actually help and may get done.
Do your state inspectors actually do anything about the pesticide damage in your experience? Are you also using the P801 or just regular DFM? We've found biologix helps with yellow brood here I'd like to see if it helps at all with pesticide damage.
We're using the regular DFM and we don't have much in the way of inspectors in our area.
@@bobbinnie9872 oh dang. That’s probably a good thing TBH ain’t much you don’t know that one will tell you and you don’t need the hassle that can come along with them in a large scale op. Here in NC we have a great inspector program and most our guys/gals are retired commercial guys but I’ve heard of some of them in other parts of the state that usually defend the farmer’s pesticide use as they make more money for the ag department unfortunately. Luckily I have a great relationship with mine as he’s helped me really start to get my operation off the ground.
When you say "two penny hole" what does that mean?
Hole made with a 2 penny nail.
Corn and especially they got sweet corn
Frustrating losing so much field force to chemicals.
I want to get up with the head I am very fond of I am very curious I have 450 boxes I have a great export, I do the ractest of reducing you to take up with you or need something to be unbelievable for you.
look like not get cold, they have a time
А потом они хотят дешевый мёд и чтоб им воск отдавали на какиет окопные свечи
get em out of there
Great video I’ve always wondered about what chemicals do to the bees thanks for sharing
Hello sir i am I am Pakistan Honey bee form 450 box 7 year experiment
this yard in hot day no pollen, so they deal a lot bees
Yeah I asked the farmer not to spray into everything pretty much quit he done got his crap out you said I got the spray to kill the weeds I told him I would I would spray it or pay him the spray later so he left I went to town and come home Son was out spraying it up I walked over here to the pickup ask Daddy to walk over to the boxes with me he said they look fine I said come back in the morning and he did he apologized and told me what do it again that way
Sorry to see the damage Bob. Would it make since to use your double screen bottom board method to save the smaller colonies through the winter?
It could and we may do that with a few.
@@bobbinnie9872 I use your double screen bottom board method for small colonies going into winter and it works beautifully. I also use it when creating splits using queen cells.
Anyone helicopters or planes spraying crops or for mosquitos nearby?
Not that I know of.
Any local Soybeans?
There could be although I didn't seer any.
There is something in the Soybean Dust, when Combining, that will kill your hives,
Several Beekeepers in Piedmont N. Carolina have had trouble with Soybean Duct.
Keep watch on them, they might just keep dwindling down for no apparent reason.
Maybe have a poison spray somewhere else
Too bad. Sorry
It's a terrible thing to see bees that have been killed by poison. I had some close to a road and someone sprayed them with hornet spray because they left the cans in my yard
That stinks. Sorry about that.
I heard "if they follow the pesticide application label, then your bees should be ok."
What do you think of that?
Not necessarily. Chemicals deemed "safe" can interact with other chemicals that are "safe" and cause toxic interactions. Even when applied correctly.
That label is to protect the manufacturer to continue to poison the environment
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Your bees looks like a man after a heart atack ! Sorry !
Good comparison.
Ok so here’s the question of the year .. you said about half of the returning field force was bring in pollen ( the same here in my yard) what is the other half doing , or returning with ?
Good question to which I don't have a perfect answer.