The Nectar Flow Has Begun | It's time for the bees to get to work!
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2024
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About this video: Today we will be visiting the farm to check on the splits and remove queen cells in the upper boxes. We will also take a look around to see what is in bloom. Let the flow begin! It's Flow Time!
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*I'm jealous hahaha Here in Northern KY we have things just started blooming, but a cold spell is up on us. Glad to see bees are doing great.*
We had a cold snap this morning which I think is the last of the season. The low made it to 33F but we did have a freeze warning. My fingers are crossed we are now out of the woods and the flow won't stall. I am jealous of your Fall flow. I don't really have one :-(
Remembering back to last year when you were setting up that yard and having all those queen issues, now you're hive tool testing queens. Keep up the great work . Side note, setting up a empty hive to store tools and accessories in at remote sites works great.
Yes it does. Have you ever seen my black hive build? ua-cam.com/video/QtOvJuPBPNs/v-deo.html. :-)
As long as the bees don't take over your tool shed.
Looking good down there. Can’t wait til the weather is right up here for splits. Thinking about leaving a few queen cells and trying a two queen deal with a few of those splits.
I am strongly considering it.
@@BugFarmerBees let the strong colonies raise them and then you can replace bottom queens when flow is over or use them in splits or any queenless ones.
Beautiful! Lots of liquid gold. Nice to see you broke 10k
It's coming in strong :-)
If you know it's going to freeze turn yor water sprinkler on it will save your blooms wooks for me in northern MN!
Thank you. We will have one more freezing morning. It is supposed to hit 32F briefly on Tuesday morning and that should be it. I hope.
Nice going
Thank you.
Bees have a memory for sure. I had to get into a hive twice over two days. On the first day they are tolerable, like two or three guards hitting me. The next day I came out to add a frame feeder and you would have thought they were Africanized! I had on the same bee suit and I think they recognized me. I went out today (yesterday was the bad day) right by the hive in shorts and a t-shirt and they paid no attention to me. That said, gentleness is an easy trait to breed for so maybe a new queen makes sense.
I had one fly up and sting me in the side of the head yesterday. I was just adding water to my bee bath. They must not appreciate all of the work I do for them :-)
Had a similar experience today it’s definitely not fun having angry bees in your face. I feel like it distracts you from the inspection. It was cloudy and I didn’t have smoke as I was adding drawn comb but I may do the same and replace her
I think I will replace her after harvest. I really want to see if an aggressive hive produces more honey than a calm hive. After the demaree splits have settled I will not be getting into that box again until harvest so it shouldn't cause much of a problem.
The little purple flowers are purple dead nettle.. red pollen.. if they are really short and hug the ground, they are henbit. Same red pollen.
So that is where the bright red pollen comes from. I wondered about that. Tanks a ton.
Those start to bloom for me here in SE VA in December and kick off the brood production right before the red maples pop.
Did you enjoy the beekeeper movie? I hope we don't get another freeze also.
I actually decided to wait for it to show up on the Prime or Freevee. I want to see it but I hate parting with cash. My patience will pay off. I am sure it will be out soon.
oh I need to see that one
While you was talking about the nectar coming in an showing all those Beautiful flowers and trees people needs to REMEMBER March is a month that a lot of people loooooose there colonies for the lack of food because everyone does not have all those beautiful trees where they live . Also on that first hive you went into you started off destroying queen cups an saying you did not need them because you had a queen down stairs well you could have got yourself in trouble because you had not even looked down there at that point yet . Well when you did go down stairs you said capped brood every where but you never said if you had any eggs or larvae an also you did say the queen did not have a place to lay an you did not say if you had saw the queen SO after you damage all the cell an moved cells you really do not know for sure if you have a queen down stairs or you did not say . Just a thought.
Hi Kathy, Thanks for all of the great input. Beekeeping is local and in my area it is time to super because the flow turns on here like a fire hose. As far as the queen down below, she is still there, I may have left that footage on the cutting room floor so to speak. That said, I did see her walking on a frame but the bees down there were loading those frames with honey while drawing out another for the queen to lay. I have since provided her with an empty drawn frame to lay on until the girls have it all drawn out. Thanks a ton fro stopping in and taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.
Love your thumbnail game and the new intro if I haven't already said so!
Thanks buddy. You are the first to notice.
@BugFarmerBees oh wow that's surprising with all the subscribers you have now I would have thought someone else would have as well by now
Good job
Thanks.
If i may play armchair beekeeper. Shouldn't you not allow the drones in the hot hive to exit? I scrape down drone cells on hot hives.
I am doing that today based on the recommendations of the comments :-). Thank you.
Good video. Im delayed in watching but I’ll catch up
I really appreciate you stopping in. New videos out each Friday :-)
REQUEEN 17!!!
After the harvest I will. I do think it is a good idea to whack the drone cells though. No propagation :-)
Try flipping the upper entrance board so that the notch is on the top side of the board instead of the bottom. It’ll make it easier for the bees in the top boxes to exit and enter the hive and also faster (less walking required for the bees). Just a suggestion.
They are just notched shims, not full inner covers, so it wouldn’t make a difference.
The inner covers aren't notched unfortunately. That is why I had to come back with notched shims. That said, you are correct. The bees and drones can get out without trapsing through the brood nest. :-)
@@dougstucki8253 I still wouldn’t want the bees to have to walk on the queen excluder when they enter and possibly be prompted to go through rather than going back up to the top boxes. It makes sense to me and it won’t hurt anything even if it turns out to be irrelevant.
Youll have supersedure cells next inspection look should be priceless.. bees will think something wrong with the queen splitingway early like that
I have removed over 70 queen cells from the Demaree hives. I have also missed a few and hatched about 6 queens.
Here in Denmark its still a bit cold.
I am cursed and fortunate where I live. My flow generally starts early and runs March-June, but once it is finished, that's it. My fall flow is almost non-existent. Some folks are fortunate to have a spring, summer, and fall flow. Thanks for stopping in from Denmark. I hope to see you in future comments. Take care.
It has been my experience that hot bees do make more honey than calm bees however the difference is not worth the little more honey you get from the hot hives. Could be my area as I am in Southeast Texas. Only been keeping bees here for 65 years.
I would say your 65 years of experience makes you someone worth listening to. I really appreciate you stopping in to watch my channel and share your knowledge. Feel free to stop in and drop any tips or tricks in the comments any time. You are much appreciated. Thank you.
That method takes alot of extra equipment and is alot of work my friend. I'm still waiting on the spring to be sprung here lol. It gets warm and then it gets cold again. Ticks me off lol
It does take a little more equipment but I won't know if it was worth the equipment and extra work until the harvest. My fingers are crossed.
@@BugFarmerBees hey brotha, I think in your operation you should start grafting. I just put out a video on how to make a queenless starter finisher hive to to install your grafts. I did it for the first time last year and had great success. I know you can do it too! You can have an endless supply of Queens!
Good video and yes I think you should requeen that hive. I had one that bad or worse last year and it was not fun. What happens when the farmer comes out to check his orchard and gets lit up? He may want your bees gone. Plus it isn't fun to put up with that all year long. Not worth it no matter how much honey they make. Have a great week. Looks like we have some cool weather coming next week.
Agreed, a hot hive gets worse as the dearth moves in. Last fall I requeened all my hives because older queens are tired and I usually have 1-2 with a nasty attitude. Last summer it was so angry I could not work the hive at its normal location.. Bug can rear some queens or drop a cell on a frame from his demare into a nuc to get the cell ripe or mated. My best success was using a charged cell before it is sealed.
Fortunately for me he doesn't have an orchard next to the bees :-). That said, re-queening is definitely an option. I will give it a couple more inspections and the deceid.
If I can add, temperament is passed down through male bees. You don't want #17 drones to mate with the queens (yours or others, you gotta pinch her.
It's a responsibile choice.
"She does not have a place to lay" is why you only put capped/emerging brood in the bottom box during a demaree
Yes. That way the frame of brood I left can hatch leaving her a place to lay while the workers draw out more comb.
After the top brood hatch are they going to fill with nectar/honey
That is certainly the goal. That said, this my first year doing this type of internal split/swarm control and I don't know for sure. That is what is supposed to happen.
ouch!!
It's a HOT one! They are bringing in the nectar though :-)
Good video. Although if you want to see hot hives just come on over here to Texas
I don't bother to put a full suit on but occasionally they do get me through my jeans
I have a solution for the Africanized bees in Texas and surrounding areas. Buy a couple of packages of nice calm Italians and set them up in your bee yard. Add two of those green drone frames in each of the hives. Let your docile Italian queens crank out docile Italian drones in mass. The docile Italian drones will outnumber the Africanized drones and mate with the Africanized queens to create docile bees :-). I have it all planned out for you :-)
@@BugFarmerBees I should devote several hives to produce drones only
Guardian bee apparel has a fencing veil with an additional mesh panel that keeps the front panel an additional 3 inches from your face. FYI.
I have a solution for the one I have. I am just not a fan of the fencing veil. The problem I have is the Ultra Breeze company only makes a fencing veil from what I can tell. Also, Ultra Breeze uses a #10 zipper so none of the veils from other companies zip on. Had I considered this when I bought it I would have selected a different brand.
Ha I really enjoyed this I am going to do the dameree my self on several hives this year and it is nice to see some one doing it now. I have a couple of questions if u do not mind. It must be a bit warmer there then here I am in virginia and we are still going down in the high 30 at night so I am thinking it is a bit to cold now,
I am going to decribe my hives for you, I use 8 frames, double deeps for the brood chambers a lot of my hives have 6-7 frames of capped brood in them right now in 12 days all those bees will be emerging, is it to soon to do this or should I waite. when u did yours how many frames of brood did u have, I know u use 10 frame boxes and if I am not mistaking singles for brood. Your thoughts if u do not mind. Thanks
In my part of Ga the flow starts very quickly. I waited to do my demaree until the long range forecast said there wouldn't be any more days below freezing. My deep brood box had about 5 frames of bees but the medium above the deep had between 6 and 8 brood frames. Any boxes with fewer bees were not split. The three frames in the bottom had enough nurse bees that would stay with the queen to keep her warm and tend to the new brood. The bees up top will tend to the brood until they are all hatched and then begin to do wax works and back fill with honey. I have been checking the boxes every week since the split and the bees are all doing well.
@@BugFarmerBees Thanks I look forward to seeing more videos have a Blessed week
Need to put them back together just going to stall them out . Way to soon to split those.. that deep supper full of syrup making funny honey. Could have left those cells at least you have some extra queens for your troubles.. none of that makes sense
It's my first year and I am trying my best. This far it is working out. I have 17 super strong hives at the farm, two strong single box colonies, and one massive laying worker hive. I will deal with the worker hive in short order but the Demaree splits are doing great. They are all packing in the honey. I will be removing the upper excluder next week because the flow is in high gear and I think they have given up on their March swarm.
@@BugFarmerBees it would work fine but you need to wait until they are ready for it .. just stalls them out going early.. wait on swarm cells start seeing those its time split the whole yard before they start forming cells .. I did same thing 10 years ago lots of mistakes.
BugFarmer, would getting rid of all that hot hive's drone cells help keep their genetics out of your apiary?
Yes, I will be removing them today.
Curious as to what type of magnet you have in your pocket for the hive tool
Here you go, just cut off the eye with a hack saw and you're good to go: a.co/d/dBPqT4J
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I noticed a lot of white boxes. Are you moving away from the bee castle hives
No. When I purchased them I needed 60 and they didn't have that quantity in stock so I went with some commercial grade that I had to paint.
@@BugFarmerBees so just curious where did you buy the boxes from and are they good quality?