Beekeeping Hack to Not Suck At Beekeeping. Become A Better Beekeeper
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By popular request, this year we are going to try and add more educational beekeeping videos in addition to swarm catch and hive removal / honey bee rescue videos. This will include more time in the yard doing day to day beekeeping. This is, of course, as time allows. I hope you'll stick with us as get into the inner workings of hobby and sideline beekeeping. We may even show a little commercial beekeeping work.
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Welcome to "Between Two Trees" with the Dirtrooster!
Too funny😆😆
Haa! Good one!
It's one tree with 2 personalities. Or a Gemini. 😂
This is a great tip that I picked up last year. Here is my method. I time my spring when dandelions start to bloom here in NYC. And I count back from that day, 42 days: 21 days for worker bees to emerge and 21 days for them to become forager bees. So it’s almost always March 10th for us. On that day I start feed MegaBee Pollen Patties and HiveAlive Fondant. This assures me once spring hits my hive will be loaded for adult forages ready to rock. Thx Dirt Rooster.
If Mr. Ed has things blooming two weeks ahead of you, no wonder he always thinks he's going to win the swarm-catching contest! :) (Love you, Mr. Ed!)
He always catches at least two before I get one.
Elizabeth needs her own channel !!!!
She'd put out two videos a year and only because I was on her about it.
Randy you have a winner in Elizabeth. She has a sparkling personality that will brighten up anybody's day. And I'm not a beekeeper but that sounds like great advice to time nature with the "nature" you're trying to help along 🐝. Thanks for the advice and see yah on the next one.
Thanks so much. Timing is so important. Elizabeth has put up with me for 33 years now. :)
@@628DirtRooster 33 years is fantastic these days. I think a lot of folks probably don't make it 3 years now and it's taken with a grain of salt - well it's almost expected to be short-term. 👍
That's my primary goal as a beekeeper, not to suck.
100%agree
Great info.....but the Sylvester got me
Ha! I tawt I saw a putty tat.
She’s funny. The way she walked up to camera was hilarious 0:05
Haha She was trying to figure out where I wanted her to stand.
Really cool info! Oddly, I met the neighborhood beekeeper this week when he bought my old junker car. I am an urban homesteader and I go no-mow in May so his bees must be getting all my dandelions, violets, and creeping Charlie until June! He's going to drop me a couple of jars this week. Fun the way the world works sometimes. 🌷🐝
Up these parts Randy the best thing growing this season so far is snow! You have some really good pointers along the way. Almost a subtle way of teaching people to live in the present time. What is the furthest that you have followed bees back to their natural hive? Mrs. Rooster seems to have you pretty well near figured out too! Nice clear video quality, as usual! -Bob...
I should do this. Really noticed myself watching nature more once I started keeping Bees. And welcome back to the 628 Dirfwooster chanter. .
LOL Where huffy bee squeaking is a day of strife
Good video identifying plants and the dates. I love the two of you together. Love the interactions .
I use the calendar app in my phone. I color code it yellow and I also set it as a yearly repeat event. I can easily filter the calendar based on the event color and since it repeats each year you can quickly see when things bloom each year.
I wouldn't have thought of that. I'm old school. lol
What a great idea Randy, since beekeeping is always local. Gonna start doing it now! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Document where all that good TN honey comes from.
Good idea Randy! I watch the Red Maple every year. There’s one that I can’t reach around about 75 feet from some of my colonies at my out yard and one about 175 feet from the colonies at my house. The 2 locations are about 7 miles apart by the way the crow flies and those 2 trees bloom at least 2 maybe 3 weeks apart most years. I need to make a chart like you but I suck at documenting. My profession before retiring entailed tons of documenting so now I don’t have to so I don’t. I normally start out documenting everything each spring but that doesn’t last but about 3 or 4 inspections . Call me lazy or crazy but I bet there’s others like me!
I'm in the same boat rowing the same direction as you Mr. Don. 33 years of investigations, reports, documentation and so on has me not wanting to write much of anything. Every year I start off with good intentions and by mid season it's hit or miss whether I do my documentation.
The only things blooming in my neck of the woods, are ice storms, and snowstorms! 😂
Ice blooms? ;)
@@628DirtRooster 😂
Started doing this last year and I have like 6 plant identification apps along with a helpful website that shows bloom times and even nectar flow for pollinators. But beyond that can I just say I love the bloopers between you two.
Wow. Have you seen the NASA plant study info?
I would like to see the NASA info study,for south Africa,I would also see the similarity's in plants in Mr dirtroosters neck of the woods and ours
@@628DirtRooster I have not.
That was one of the more informative maple sugaring videos I've watched. 😊
So many scanarios out there!! hahaha That app will mis identify the young hops leavers that look like nettles haha
Thats a good idea doing the plant ID especially for those just getting into Bee Keeping. Do not forget farm fields too. Some farms have thick wild life hedges round the edge full of brambles gorse and hawthorn. Some trees like Linden you can find with your eyes closed. You can hear them humming with bees 30 meters away. Some ground flowering plants bees will not touch unless there is a mass of them then they go crazy, Welcome to the 628 Dirtrooster chanaaar haha So funny. Hope y'all have happy plant spotting.
Your imformation is helpful all everyone. Thanks you so much!
Thank you sir
He's nicely framed!
Dead center. haha
Thank you Randy :) It's always appreciated to have more ways to being a better beekeeper :D
Thanks Lagrangebees. I'm going to try and include more helpful tip videos this year.
Great Tip
I will definitely be checking on the local plants.
Keep those "be a Better Beekeeper " coming
You bet
I use google sheets to keep an annual list of blooms. Add a new tab every year and you can compare over time. Share the spreadsheet with your gardener wife and she starts updating it too. Win win.
I have a 45 acre peanut field just behind my house, bees don't work peanut blooms, but the field is covered with Henbit now and they're bringing in nectar from it. Great video with awsome tips Mr. & Mrs 628 DirtRooster. 👍👍👍👍👍
That's nice that there's something for the bees in that situation and not just empty dreams. lol
All this time and I was wondering what it was going to take....Thanks, Randy!
Any time! :)
Thanks for the info Randy, FYI I got a call and caught my first swarm of the year here in Va. On the 15th of Feb.
That is awesome!
Way to go Randy!! Great tip! I don’t write mine down either!! Drone brood, man your 5 weeks ahead of us!! Respect bro!! 😎🤓🐝🐝
We're kicking off. I heard you've got Jennifer grafting. She might be my new queen producer.
*AWESOME!* Anything to help me learn and Use this 'found' Notebook on this table. *THANK YOU BOTH!*
10 years ago, learned Spiderwort blooms most the year after getting some from neighbors yard. Liked it, Even if it *Only Bloomed in early Spring, ... Until He MOWED.* hahahaha i'm just _slow_ must see if new neighbors will let it grow.
Might have to sabotage the neighbor's mower. LOL
This is an awesome tip! This is something I need to improve in. I don’t know all of our floral sources. Good stuff Rooster
It's kind of fun to me learning all the plants.
@@628DirtRooster I downloaded an app
Very timely information. We just had a toxic bloom overnight. It looks identical to something called a blizzard. Definitely toxic to bees. But, it's interesting to see you talk about red maples blooming. We have them here in Minnesota, too. Ours bloom the last week of June and that let's us know we have 2 weeks to enjoy the warm weather, because July 4 is our beginning of Fall.
Not fair.. why can you do that but I cant.can't.. not saying I want to make it so you cant.can't.. just I should be able to also..
I bet that made your pecker stiff
Google has a camera on the bar..it's what it's there for ..welcome! I use it all the time to identify plants,flowers,trees..and it's free.Good info as usual Dirt Rooster.
Cool, thanks
I never write mine down but I am going to follow your tip. Thanks for the advice. Enjoyed the video. Take care.
I like tracking this stuff. Some of it sticks in my head but every year I struggle to remember the name of Asters. LOL
thanks for the video, excellent idea. i have started beekeeping because of your and mr. eds videos. love your interaction together. you said we all have a smart phone and always have it with us. yes we do and why not use it to record the plants on it instead of a notebook that you may not have on you or you threw away? here in southeast florida it is going to take a bit longer because we have so many plants blooming throughout the year.
Y’all have a very blessed beekeeping season. 😊
Our red and silver maples are budding now... it hit 81 degrees F here today
Wow! It's warmer there than here.
Hey buddy. Your iPhone will identify plants for free. Take a picture of a plant and then open the photo in photos. There will be a little circle with an "i" in it. Click it and it will show you what type of plant you just photographed. Great video. I watch you on TV but had to grab the laptop and drop you a comment. Take care buddy.
No way!! 😮
@@timbervalleyhomestead Way 🙂
Good info. I should have checked for free options.
OMG - thank you BugFarmerBees!! Thank you for the info. I tried it and that’s neat!!
It works for bugs and fungi too!!!
Thank you I didn't thank of that. My 3 hives are still hold up because all the cold snaps . Good information.
80 degrees down here today. It's that time.
Great idea. I use a google doc spreadsheet for this just because I always have my phone on me.
Great idea.
See y’all on the next one GOD BLESS
Stay healthy Randle.
"So many schenarios out there" LOL
Haha
Great information, Randy
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the app I been looking for a good one. So many to choose from.
Thanks for the tips, I know I will have a learning curve.
Yeah but it's fun hitting those curves at ninety miles per hour.
Funny, I know when these things happen, but I don’t have them written down. I need to do that. I learned this year that Forsythia bushes bloom when Red Maples do. Which is also when we plant sweet peas. Good info.
What a good tip Randy, Way to go Randy! Keep it up
Thanks Grayson
Great vid buddy! Always good to hear from the wife✅️😉😁
I hope to include her more.
Great advice Randy👍👍👍
Great information Randy 👏👏👏🐝🐝🐝💪 Thank you Sebastian Uk
I did my walk today. Red maple, dead nettle, etc. Picked up 4 ticks. Middle TN, not too far from Kamon.
Drop those ticks off at Kamon's house. Tell him they're from me.
Hey Randy ,our Red Maple Buds are still hiding under their blankets 🥴 .
Thanks for the great info t though 🌞.
JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
Still got snow up there?
Great job. Hero.
I've got to get my cape from the cleaners.
I'm still trying to find a beekeeper in San Diego. I like insects, but you made me a new lover.
Look on the beeremovalsource.com website. There are a ton of California beekeepers listed by county or city.
@@628DirtRooster thank you
I love this tip! and that app! Beekeeping is local
This is very true. More local than most people realize.
And my area it seems that the first thing that blooms, they I notice any way, is Bradford pear and then yellow jasmine. Then I notice peach trees, until a March frost comes along and kills the blooms.
Pears are blooming here now.
Randy these were great tips for all of us give my love to your parents. Bettie
Thank you Bettie. I'm sitting with dad now and I'll see mom in a bit.
Tell John I gifted Mandy (the mandolin) to Kamon Reynolds at the Hive Life conference this year. He didn't play it there but that's where it went. ua-cam.com/video/dmQ96kNwqhU/v-deo.html
Our prayers are with your Dad
Thanks for the information! I downloaded the Picture This app.
It's a good tool but more fun than anything.
Great opportunity
Thanks for stopping in Paul
On my 5 acre apiary I plant trees that are good for many pollinators.
That's good. All our other pollinators need love too.
Great strategy 👍.
Thanks Trent
Good info, since you are close to the gulf I expect it's a bit earlier than inland a few more miles
Spring does come on a little earlier here.
Love your channel!!
Thanks so much
Hey Rooster 🐓 and Mrs Hen
Hey Randle. Elizabeth says hey too. :)
Stay awesome!!!!!
Thanks man
Awesome video.
Glad you enjoyed it
I almost yelled at you when you tossed down that red maple bloom! I expected you to eat it! I loved eating the sepal peas of sweet maples, you know what we used to call the little whirly giggs). Here's what I found on google in case you think I'm crazy: "The blossoms lend themselves to both sweet and savory dishes, and the flower clusters are entirely edible. Maple blossoms can be stripped from the flower stem and tossed into salads and soups, or they can be blended into pesto and other raw herbal sauces." I used to love to go out foraging for wild edibles and medicinal plants. Can't now d/t being an old disabled nurse. But you are young and are out and about all the time. The wild weeds that are edible are so much more nutritious than the stuff we normally eat...and they're free! Your wife is lovely and fun! hagd
I did this when I first started, I know when the black locust blooms that swarm season is about to kick off in my area.
good stuff,randy,
Thanks Son of thunder
If only I had some bees. Good video, Randy (didn't suck). And Elizabeth is so cute!
Might have to get you into bees. haha
@@628DirtRooster I'm thinking the neighbors might object, ha. I will come visit yours.
"Hi, Spencer" :) [5:51]
Sweet hoodie😎
I haven't had many but this one is super comfortable.
Good information.👍😎
Thanks birdnest
good tip, thx
My pleasure.
Identify this... $5.99/month or $29/year on my Android. Thanks Randy. Still have snow on the ground here. 4-5 more weeks to go.
My wife and I were watching the video and she wants to know what the tree is with the “pretty pink flowers?” I want to know if it’s good for bees? We lost all three of our hives this year and we are starting over. I suspect it was a combination of the severe drought in California and the fact we kept our hives near a lemon eucalyptus tree. Anyway we had fun watching this video.
That was a Japanese Magnolia that is in front of our house. It's the very first thing we see bloom every year. I don't know that there are any benefits to bees from it but I've never seen a bee so much as check it out. Hope y'all have a better year this time.
@@628DirtRooster Thanks for the reply. I hope this year goes better with the bees. We are getting plenty of rain so hopefully plenty of flowers.
I try to only suck during cutouts, First to bloom here was the elms this year. I need to learn ALOT about tree plants and flowers. One of the places I keep bees the land owner friend is Heavily into horticulture. She planted 80 acres of flowers. I will be learning a lot from her.
Got my book and pencil, I erase a lot LOL
Thankyou.
You're welcome
Thank you for this info. I have a hard time knowing exactly when to put on supers, Is it when you see everything beginning to bloom, or later,Always a question for me.
The instant you see blooms coming on you need to add supers. By then there is likely stuff blooming that you haven't noticed.
Hey Randy love your videos. We just had a 16 inch snow bloom here in Minneapolis. Any suggestions??
Go skiing. That's all I know to do with snow.
Yes, I am trying to do better as a beekeeper!
I need to actually write things down more organized like. I take photos and videos of stuff like this every year and it turns into my journal. But if my phone gets wiped I'm screwed lol.
Have been using that app for awhile. Lots of stuff blooming here and several miles from me there is hardly anything blooming. North west alabama here and it's fixing to bust wide open. 84° today. ❤️🐝
Meehhh...lol..Northern maine here..9° ..6-8" tonight🥺..bees still alive though😃
@@franklotion8 hopefully temperature will get better soon.
Gosh hard to tell,at least you can see it now ?
Good luck 🤞.
JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
I have solitaire bees coming out of the ground after red maple trees in my yard.
That's something interesting to see.
Plant identification. Android phone, use "Google Lens". Pretty darn accurate.
Mind you I hate 1984 Google.
We have had soooooo much rain in atlanta. How does a lot of rain affect nectar flow?
It generally helps if it's just prior to a flow. Rain during a flow washed out blooms and pollen.
Hey Rooster. Love your work man. Thanks for the tips! Are there any flowers that can poison bees? Also, is city bee keeping viable or are there too many pollutants which can adversely affect hives?
You can keep in the city. Poisonous plants shown at the end of the video.
Am loving this new content Mr Rooster…🤛🏼 🐝
Teaching us How…
PS; u lost some weight?…u looking slimmer🤛🏼
No weight loss. These hoodies are slimming. :)
that kinda knowledge will acount for 20%, lol. But in all honesty, that is good info.
20%? That's too high. LOL
Question
We've got Acasia Karoo something similar to misqete(I think it's meat smoking tipe of wood,thorny)yellow pom pom looking bloom,looks loaded with pollen,but never seen a bee gathering pollen from it,then we have purple or white/light yellow ground cover succellent that I know bees go nuts for,then prevets(they fall on the ground so heavily loaded)
Which is pollen,which is beneficial for nector?
They probably all have both but if bees are on something really heavy it's almost certainly a strong nectar source.
00:04:00 We interpret this chat to let you know who's the boss!
Fred must sent you lot of videos and some note books
Nice intro
Watched this twice already but came back to see what the name of the app was.. got what I think is privet blooming and I'm tired of thinking.. I want to know.. had to find the
Dirt Rooster approved app..
Thanks again
I use that app almost more than any other except maps.
sup DirtRooster ? where you been?
Do they have black willow in your area
We don’t have that here.
I'm wondering why bee keepers aren't planting flowering plants in their yards for the bees ? Or do some keepers plant flowering plants ?
Many do plant fields of clover, buckwheat and other plants for their bees
For the past 3 years every time the red maples bloom here, it rains for 2 weeks. Before I was studying bee keeping that never bothered me. Now, I watch the blooms drown and feel sorry for the bees.
That's tough when the pollen and nectar all gets washed out.
O:28 😂😂😂😂
Those chickens look nervous.
I eat fried chicken in front of them to let them know what happens if they stop giving eggs.
2 weeks is a long time with a 6 week live cycle
That puts it in perspective when you say it like that.