Yes. Goldenrod! I never thought it was responsible for that smell. I thought it was something I was overlooking. Even though I have been doing this a while (6 or 7 years), I realize there is so much more I have to learn. Your site is the number one site I go to, to learn especially by the question and answer episodes.
THANK YOU for the Aster/Goldenrod smell answer! I've noticed this smell every year and every year I panic about AFB smells, glad to have a good explanation now!
Green chair time, and the live stream, is a great resource for new bee keepers. Many of my questions get answered during this time. Keep putting out the much needed Bee content. Thank you David.
As for the yellowjackets, You can close the hive off for a day or 2 and they will forget the hive. Also moving the hive will help a bit. If its a weak hive, better to just close it off and feed it as the wasp will bring friends. You may have to do this for a bit until the wasp die off but we got plenty of ways to feed them.
David, great session answering questions. Big change in weather - 47 degrees, T-storm, 2.25 inches of rain. Before yesterday I put top feeders on both hives with your recipe. So for Bee activity looking good!
We lost our queen. After that the bees created queen cell. About a week and a half later, they were all capped and eventually hatched or eaten in. in my opinion that proves that either moved the Eggs or larva.
Thank you, David I really appreciate the green chair Questions follow up I had one of the most horrible things happen today I dropped a frame I was so disappointed in myself Mark that off my list Thanks again for everything you do Your selfless
I've dropped a frame or two. Sometimes if you are wearing the rubber type gloves and you get a tiny bit of honey or nectar on those gloves they are so slippery!
For Yellow Jackets, grind or mash up some fish(or anything else they like but bees don't) and mix it with boric acid about 50/50. They with take it back to their hive and feed it to their brood. It takes a while but will kill the nest.
I will never do a screen bottom board through winter again knock on wood. This last winter we had a -75 polar vortex inches below the cluster it has to be what killed them
thanks for answering the question. i actually made a propolis tincture but it's so strong that i've been thinking about adding honey to the propolis tincture. great for sore throats, cuts, you name it. using on my husbands funky toenail now.
If capped over honey is 18% moisture by fall what is it coming out of winter has it dropped to 16 15 14 13 12% coming out of dry Illinois winters? On the other hand can you have too much honey on a hive in winter such that it creates too much moisture and kills them? I've got three deeps + three super configurations and I plan to just leave them everything and take the honey in March when the colony is smallest. I hope this works out I don't plan to take honey during summer or fall anymore from now on I'll just take it coming out of winter that way I never have to worry about resources or going into the hive when they're busy or even freezing frames for winter. Fingers crossed SMB don't proliferate during winter die down.
Hi David, first time bee keeper from PA. One of my colony’s that I checked two weeks ago were Queen less, but I had found a virgin queen in the hive making noises. When I checked back 2 weeks later, that queen was gone. There were no eggs. I noticed there are two new capped over Queen cells. And heard anther virgin queen making noises. My question is, should I let them figure this out on their own? Or should I buy a mated queen with it being late in the year? They are also putting a lot of nectar and pollen in the brood area. Should I spin the brood frames so the new Queen has a place to lay? Thank you!
Hi David... You say that you feed 1:1 in the Fall to get the queen to lay Winter Bees. I keep my Super on year round so 1:1 feeding would be difficult. Would feeding a dry sugar with some dry pollen added to it work? I could do a Mountain Camp between the brood box & the Super with a 2 inch shim. or Must it be 1:1? Thank You for your kind reply and for for advice. I am in Southern California
3:30 I have a hive with a queen. Check on her today she was running around the hive with an egg hanging out her rear end. The workers were trying to grab her and get it. But I will say if they have been successful at getting it off her butt they havnt been placing them into the cells. All empty. I’m afraid I’ll have to pinch her and combine the hive with another.
Very common especially queens that are prolific layers. They produce so many eggs that even while looking for a cell, eggs can be on their way out. Why are you wanting to kill her?
@@beek thank you for being so devoted to your channel and helping the newbeeks to success. The problem in that particular hive, the brood frames were empty and polished up. No eggs or larva at all. But the queen had an egg hanging out of her rear.
Hey David, this is my first year beekeeping I live in Massachusetts I have two hives I like to know do I have to might treatment this year, I have to wait till next year thank you David learn a lot from you.
Mite treatments can still be used in your area, but you'll have to do your own research to determine which treatment would and can work for you this time of year according to your hive configuration.
Thanks for answering my question! I live in sw ohio. There seems to be a lot of nectar in the hive. I moved some frames that had some space in deep with queen. Should I buy new frames, paint with wax, to give her lots of space? If I do that, what do I do with frames that have pollen and nectar? I'm guessing freeze them. Love your channel. Waiting for black Friday sale for your classes. God bless you!
Hey Dave, I hope this question finds you both well. I have been monitoring my mite counts throughout the season, and I only had to treat them once. I used Apivar. All was well. I did a wash today, and Oh My Goodness, it seems as if I have more mites than bees. I am treating Apigurd now. Do you honestly think it's a bit too late to recover? They are well populated, strong hives. I live in central SC. Thanks for everything.
Thank you for the videos. I ALWAYS learn something from you. Was that an Osprey airplane? I think the military used a V-22 Osprey for awhile. It can do vertical takeoff like a Harrier.
Dave I need to move a hive from my side yard to my backyard a total of 100 feet in distance from its original location. What is my best option to move it successfully? If I move it 2 feet at a time every other day also is it better to move it at night ?
Hi David. I like the recipe you use for your sugar water. I’ve been looking on a few websites. Can’t seem to find those exact products. If you have them for sale I would purchase them unless you know exactly who might have them for me to purchase if you can send me that link that be great if you have it for sale, I would definitely purchase it from you. Thank you, jim
Our additive packs sell out at a feverish and alarming pace! As fast as supplies come in, they put them online but many people place them in their wish list, so they are notified as soon as we place them back on line. That's why they sell out so fast. Keep watching for them. Should be soon.
Love your channel, question, I live in central Indiana, I have seven hives, it’s early September and I still have two supers on each, bottom on each over half full, thinking I’ll pull the top off set a couple hundred yards away from them. Let them fill the bottom supers up., Your thoughts and thank you
Thanks for enjoying and watching my channel. You can pull the super off and let them carry the contents back and place it hopefully lower in their hive and I like that you've chosen several hundred yards away, BUT, keep in mind you will only be feeding the hives with the most foragers, which may be someone else's hive.
David, I found something out. We had around 5 yellow jacket hives on our house, and a hornets nest. After I put out my first hive all the yellow jackets and hornets left.
Always interesting! Pass your name around whenever the conversation is about 🐝! Thank you Sherri and David!
Gosh that's so nice of you!!
Yes. Goldenrod! I never thought it was responsible for that smell. I thought it was something I was overlooking. Even though I have been doing this a while (6 or 7 years), I realize there is so much more I have to learn. Your site is the number one site I go to, to learn especially by the question and answer episodes.
Thanks for answering my question about queen cups. I know it doesn’t matter really but was curious.
I agree! I need to run that experiment.
Better Bee has a really good frame holder called the Little Mule Frame Holder. It's made so the frame won't fall off if you bump up against it.
Thanks for answering my question David! I really appreciate your helpful insight!
My pleasure! Your question helped so many others 👍
THANK YOU for the Aster/Goldenrod smell answer! I've noticed this smell every year and every year I panic about AFB smells, glad to have a good explanation now!
Green chair time, and the live stream, is a great resource for new bee keepers. Many of my questions get answered during this time. Keep putting out the much needed Bee content. Thank you David.
Thank you so much!! Glad we can be helpful.
You are dialed in sir. Great info and answers. Thanks as always
So nice of you
As for the yellowjackets, You can close the hive off for a day or 2 and they will forget the hive. Also moving the hive will help a bit. If its a weak hive, better to just close it off and feed it as the wasp will bring friends. You may have to do this for a bit until the wasp die off but we got plenty of ways to feed them.
Thanks for the tip!
David, great session answering questions. Big change in weather - 47 degrees, T-storm, 2.25 inches of rain. Before yesterday I put top feeders on both hives with your recipe. So for Bee activity looking good!
We lost our queen. After that the bees created queen cell. About a week and a half later, they were all capped and eventually hatched or eaten in. in my opinion that proves that either moved the Eggs or larva.
Thank you! Lots of interesting information
Thank you, David
I really appreciate the green chair Questions follow up
I had one of the most horrible things happen today
I dropped a frame
I was so disappointed in myself
Mark that off my list
Thanks again for everything you do
Your selfless
I've dropped a frame or two. Sometimes if you are wearing the rubber type gloves and you get a tiny bit of honey or nectar on those gloves they are so slippery!
For Yellow Jackets, grind or mash up some fish(or anything else they like but bees don't) and mix it with boric acid about 50/50. They with take it back to their hive and feed it to their brood. It takes a while but will kill the nest.
I will never do a screen bottom board through winter again knock on wood. This last winter we had a -75 polar vortex inches below the cluster it has to be what killed them
Thank you!
Another great raw and unedited green chair video!
Thank you so much
thanks for answering the question. i actually made a propolis tincture but it's so strong that i've been thinking about adding honey to the propolis tincture. great for sore throats, cuts, you name it. using on my husbands funky toenail now.
Mary did you mind revealing how you concocted your tincture ? Even the changes you might make. 😁
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Thanks for helping us with Q&A. Hope Sheri is doing better 😊
Hey my friend Brian. Thanks so much!
Can u do a video how u make your candy boards.
I've made several of videos showing it if you can search my channel you'll find them.
If capped over honey is 18% moisture by fall what is it coming out of winter has it dropped to 16 15 14 13 12% coming out of dry Illinois winters? On the other hand can you have too much honey on a hive in winter such that it creates too much moisture and kills them? I've got three deeps + three super configurations and I plan to just leave them everything and take the honey in March when the colony is smallest. I hope this works out I don't plan to take honey during summer or fall anymore from now on I'll just take it coming out of winter that way I never have to worry about resources or going into the hive when they're busy or even freezing frames for winter. Fingers crossed SMB don't proliferate during winter die down.
That's a great question for me to answer on my livestream tonight, Thursday at 7pm central time. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
Hi David, first time bee keeper from PA. One of my colony’s that I checked two weeks ago were Queen less, but I had found a virgin queen in the hive making noises. When I checked back 2 weeks later, that queen was gone. There were no eggs. I noticed there are two new capped over Queen cells. And heard anther virgin queen making noises. My question is, should I let them figure this out on their own? Or should I buy a mated queen with it being late in the year?
They are also putting a lot of nectar and pollen in the brood area. Should I spin the brood frames so the new Queen has a place to lay?
Thank you!
Hi David... You say that you feed 1:1 in the Fall to get the queen to lay Winter Bees. I keep my Super on year round so 1:1 feeding would be difficult. Would feeding a dry sugar with some dry pollen added to it work? I could do a Mountain Camp between the brood box & the Super with a 2 inch shim. or Must it be 1:1?
Thank You for your kind reply and for for advice.
I am in Southern California
3:30 I have a hive with a queen. Check on her today she was running around the hive with an egg hanging out her rear end.
The workers were trying to grab her and get it. But I will say if they have been successful at getting it off her butt they havnt been placing them into the cells. All empty. I’m afraid I’ll have to pinch her and combine the hive with another.
Very common especially queens that are prolific layers. They produce so many eggs that even while looking for a cell, eggs can be on their way out. Why are you wanting to kill her?
@@beek thank you for being so devoted to your channel and helping the newbeeks to success.
The problem in that particular hive, the brood frames were empty and polished up. No eggs or larva at all. But the queen had an egg hanging out of her rear.
Could you link the literature you mentioned in regard to the laying worker?
Hey David, this is my first year beekeeping I live in Massachusetts I have two hives I like to know do I have to might treatment this year, I have to wait till next year thank you David learn a lot from you.
Mite treatments can still be used in your area, but you'll have to do your own research to determine which treatment would and can work for you this time of year according to your hive configuration.
Thanks for answering my question! I live in sw ohio. There seems to be a lot of nectar in the hive. I moved some frames that had some space in deep with queen. Should I buy new frames, paint with wax, to give her lots of space? If I do that, what do I do with frames that have pollen and nectar? I'm guessing freeze them. Love your channel. Waiting for black Friday sale for your classes. God bless you!
Thanks for asking your question because it helped so many others wondering the same thing.
I'm having some trouble with wax moths. If I change to hives made from cedarwood will this protect them from the moths?
Hey Dave,
I hope this question finds you both well. I have been monitoring my mite counts throughout the season, and I only had to treat them once. I used Apivar. All was well. I did a wash today, and Oh My Goodness, it seems as if I have more mites than bees. I am treating Apigurd now. Do you honestly think it's a bit too late to recover? They are well populated, strong hives. I live in central SC.
Thanks for everything.
Can your temperatures stand Formic Pro? You need a flash kill.
@@beek I am still on edge of temperature range, maybe for two weeks or so.
Yes bandsaw!
Do you have a preferred form to fill out, or method you recommend, for keeping regular hive check information in an organized manner?
Yes, check this out: www.honeybeesonline.com/beekeeping-inspection-guide-downloadable-item/
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Thank you!
I see you’re sold out of your Burns bee feeding system for a 10 frame hive. When do you think you’ll be restocked? Thanks!
They are back
I still have drone brood that has not hatched yet😅
I am in Massachusetts. What do you think of me using VarroxSan now?
You were looking for the Alaskan Sawmill I think, David
Yes, thanks
Can you treat your bees with oxalic acid, leaving the supers on without harming the honey for human consumption,thanking you in advance David?
Most Oxalic labels, now, allow to treat with honey supers on
thanks david
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for the videos. I ALWAYS learn something from you. Was that an Osprey airplane? I think the military used a V-22 Osprey for awhile. It can do vertical takeoff like a Harrier.
Yes, it was an Osprey plane, and the Marines are know for those!
Dave I need to move a hive from my side yard to my backyard a total of 100 feet in distance from its original location. What is my best option to move it successfully? If I move it 2 feet at a time every other day also is it better to move it at night ?
That's a great question for me to answer on my livestream tonight, Thursday at 7pm central time. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
Hi David. I like the recipe you use for your sugar water. I’ve been looking on a few websites. Can’t seem to find those exact products. If you have them for sale I would purchase them unless you know exactly who might have them for me to purchase if you can send me that link that be great if you have it for sale, I would definitely purchase it from you. Thank you, jim
Our additive packs sell out at a feverish and alarming pace! As fast as supplies come in, they put them online but many people place them in their wish list, so they are notified as soon as we place them back on line. That's why they sell out so fast. Keep watching for them. Should be soon.
@@beek thank you where do I find that special list.
Love your channel, question, I live in central Indiana, I have seven hives, it’s early September and I still have two supers on each, bottom on each over half full, thinking I’ll pull the top off set a couple hundred yards away from them. Let them fill the bottom supers up., Your thoughts and thank you
Thanks for enjoying and watching my channel. You can pull the super off and let them carry the contents back and place it hopefully lower in their hive and I like that you've chosen several hundred yards away, BUT, keep in mind you will only be feeding the hives with the most foragers, which may be someone else's hive.
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Yes!
David, I found something out. We had around 5 yellow jacket hives on our house, and a hornets nest. After I put out my first hive all the yellow jackets and hornets left.
That is interesting!
Yes, wasps would build nests all around the sofit on our shed. With 2 hives 15 feet from the shed, all the wasps are gone.
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