I have just become a recent customer in your Blue Ridge store (all of the people who work there are absolutely wonderful!!!!!). I am truly enjoying your videos. Thank you so much for these! I have so much to learn and these videos are invaluable to me!
I particularly liked where the audience had questions that the speaker repeated the question so that I could understand what was being addressed. Thank you for your excellent presentation and repeating the audiences questions.
One thing I don't hear often in dealing with hot (defensive) bees is to look below the hive entrance for mushed bees from skunk activity. A skunk, opposom or raccoon will roll the bees in the evening and of course the hive will become defensive, I've screwed a strip of carpet tack strip to the landing board. The nails are very sharp and the critters will move on from feeding on your beehives
I've been wondering also if the mini-styrofoam nuc boxes are strong enough / durable enough to be washed in dish washers? (And can they survive the hot water setting, or not?) In the spring after they've had all kinds of crud in them, they can be pretty nasty.
On bee suits, when you are looking for the ones that say triple layered or whatever, what do you look for in the label to find those, and tell them apart from the ones that are cheaply made? (There are a lot of foreign made suits that aren't very durable and very thin. Hard to tell them apart from the good ones before the package is already open.) Also, how do you get the really dark stains out of the bee suits so they are white instead of gray?
They're usually the ventilated, multiple layers of mesh suits. The ventilated ones are typically 3 layers like mentioned in the video. There's some great options here in the states for high quality suits!
I was visiting my mothers grave side on Christmas day 2020 ,and honey bees attacked me out or the blue and was hospitalized from that attacked ,to make a long story short ,it ended up coasting me 30 k for that getting attacked visiting my mother's grave side on Christmas day
I hate when someone is giving a presentation and it turns into a group suggestion session. People are there to hear the speaker, not to hear everyone in the audience throw in their two cents. Asking questions is fine of course, but raising your hand to offer your method or take is just unnecessary and frankly arrogant. Hold your own talk.
I have just become a recent customer in your Blue Ridge store (all of the people who work there are absolutely wonderful!!!!!). I am truly enjoying your videos. Thank you so much for these! I have so much to learn and these videos are invaluable to me!
I particularly liked where the audience had questions that the speaker repeated the question so that I could understand what was being addressed. Thank you for your excellent presentation and repeating the audiences questions.
One thing I don't hear often in dealing with hot (defensive) bees is to look below the hive entrance for mushed bees from skunk activity. A skunk, opposom or raccoon will roll the bees in the evening and of course the hive will become defensive, I've screwed a strip of carpet tack strip to the landing board. The nails are very sharp and the critters will move on from feeding on your beehives
This is an awesome topic. Thank you.
I've found that if you lift the crown board half an inch and put smoke under the crown board before you lift it off you have better results.
Very good advice!
I've been wondering also if the mini-styrofoam nuc boxes are strong enough / durable enough to be washed in dish washers? (And can they survive the hot water setting, or not?) In the spring after they've had all kinds of crud in them, they can be pretty nasty.
On bee suits, when you are looking for the ones that say triple layered or whatever, what do you look for in the label to find those, and tell them apart from the ones that are cheaply made? (There are a lot of foreign made suits that aren't very durable and very thin. Hard to tell them apart from the good ones before the package is already open.)
Also, how do you get the really dark stains out of the bee suits so they are white instead of gray?
They're usually the ventilated, multiple layers of mesh suits. The ventilated ones are typically 3 layers like mentioned in the video. There's some great options here in the states for high quality suits!
Thank you.
I was visiting my mothers grave side on Christmas day 2020 ,and honey bees attacked me out or the blue and was hospitalized from that attacked ,to make a long story short ,it ended up coasting me 30 k for that getting attacked visiting my mother's grave side on Christmas day
I hate when someone is giving a presentation and it turns into a group suggestion session. People are there to hear the speaker, not to hear everyone in the audience throw in their two cents. Asking questions is fine of course, but raising your hand to offer your method or take is just unnecessary and frankly arrogant. Hold your own talk.