This One THING Massively Improved My Honey Crop
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
- This One THING Massively Improved My Honey Crop
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Great tip. David Burns (USA) also recommends feeding early to keep the queen laying in the autumn and keep the number of bees up so the varroa per bee stays low instead of rising as the number of bees decrease. Do you also do an oxalic vape around December?
I remember a video where he explained that he vaped on a warmer day in December. I am also wondering if he still needs to do it with this new method
I am saving this! I am making a calendar of a bee care. Middle of August remove honey supers, Apivar strips and feed them.
I will certainly be giving this a shot with two hives this summer. I’m in PA so the weather seems similar.
Subbed. I always treat with OA coming out of winter when there is little or no brood. 3 times, 6 days apart. You will go into the spring flow with a very low count. Then switch to formic acid after the spring flow. I use apivar after the fall flow. Thanks.
Thanks for this, I am going to give this a go this August. Is that 12kg enough feed to get them through all winter? Do you leave any supers at all on hives over winter or just leave them with their stores plus feed? Thanks :)
Basically by treating early. Your making the bees that RAISE your winter bees healthy and low on mites. Which means winter bees get better nutrition. I do this, but not for honey. I do it for bee health.
This is the thing. The two are so interconnected. You cant have bumper honey crops without uber healthy bees. Took me ages to realise this.
I'll give it a go. As an aside, have you ever had a poly ashforth feeder which you can't keep the bees out of? I bought one to try last year on your recommendation and no matter what i did, bees were in the main syrup chamber every time i opened it, and some had drowned, while others made it difficult to refill with syrup. Tried different covers, lids, bricks on top to hold it all down. Could not see how they were getting in. Any ideas? Thanks
Thats what we do in the netherlands.
When and how do you dry out your supers ?
So what would you do in the North of Scotland when the heather starts on the 12th August??
Id definitely have my bees up there by the 26th July to catch the early flow :)
But also, probably go for an early season Apivar treatment from March to May and delay the supers
What do you do with your heather apiary?
Only tried demaree on one colony this spring. That was the only one that didn’t swarm on me. Think everything will get it next spring.
Great isn't it. They think they have swarmed! 😀
By condensing so many bees into a single brood box in mid August do you find that some colonies decide to swarm?
I'd say less than 5% that late in the year. Probably closer to 1-2%
Great video, I will try this method this season. On another note do you over winter on a double brood?
love the videos👍
what do you do with the honey in the supers which isn't capped yet?
When would you consider doing this in Essex? 2 weeks later?
Also do you treat every hive regardless of varroa seen on not seen?
Do you harvest a spring crop or just 1 at the end of the year? I like the idea but if i harvest a spring crop my summer crop will not be capped by that time in august
I think he said in previous video he doesn’t bother with spring crop.
Great. Thanks😅
You're welcome! 😊
Thanks 4 the tip 😊
what about MAQs?
I've given up on all formic acid products now. too many dead queens.
can only get formic pro now and can't use with supers so it's one useful feature has been removed
MAQs is not a good treatment for Veroa to much stress on bees and not very good at killing Veroa should only be used in an emergency. Better to treat in spring and August September and don't treat with suppers on.
I found MAQS was sledge hammer worked really well. But you gotta manage temperature. Too cold not effective too hot it saunas your bees in acid. It was alarming but good, did kill lots of bees. Penetrates cappings, suppresses swarming by dropping weak bees.
@@BlackMountainHoney Thanks I formic pro and was shocked at the label. Queried it with my local beekeeper group and it was mentioned that is cleared for supers in North America but not here yet. It seems to have the same amount of formic acid as MAQs. But I have to tip my hat to your experience and continue to take on your advice.
@BlackMountainHoney .. well.. weird enough- we CAN treat with Formic With Supers On.. in the USA. That just changed for us.
For me in California-
January ➡️The Bee Expo
February ⬇️
Splits /natural brood break in Hives.
April➡️Extraction #1
May⬇️
Formic Pro-2 strips for 10 days + be sure to add an Empty Super on top for extra ventilation.
➡️If your Queen died- replace her now-she was probably failing soon.🤷🏻♀️
August ⬇️ Extraction #2
Pull all honey above QE- Feed, feed syrup + BeeVital + HiveAlive solutions… Build strong Winter Bees
September ⬇️
API-Var-life “wafers” 1 wafter every 7 days -3X’s
November to December= Broodless⬇️
OAV (or VAO) treatments 1 time weekly…
January ⬇️
Rocket Fuel pollen patties -You must get some at The Bee Expo-See you there 👍😁🖐️🐝
I am going to trt this
Do you get to accept the advertising on your channel ? Cuz I'm quite disgusted
No. We have no say on it. Why what's being advertised?