Beginner Beekeepers: 3 Essential Skills
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- I'm outlining the three most important skills I think you'll need to be successful early in your beekeeping journey. 1 - Finding eggs in your colony. 2 - Recognizing and preventing swarming behaviour. 3 - Sampling your bees for varroa mites.
All critically important things to know if you want to get through your first year or two of keeping bees!
Music by Andrew Applepie
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Thank you! You’re the first video I’ve found that showed me how to see eggs and larvae and had a good camera angle to do it
Yes! I agree
You don't have to kill your bees to find mites. You can use powdered sugar. Use the same kind of jar he has but only one jar with the top like he has. Put the bees in the jar and put some powdered sugar in with them and shake em up a little so they are powder coated and then shake the jar over a black surface and you will see the mites. The other bees will help clean up your bees that are covered in powdered sugar.
Yeah, I came to comment a method of mite check that doesn't require killing bees too. You can put vaseline or something sticky on the bottom board, making sure the board is painted white, and look for mites that have fallen off after a few days.
Found your no nonsense approach really helpful. I'm just starting out so found really helpful. Loved the close up camera work.
Love your videos, you and vino are by far the best educational beekeepers. Being raw and honest
Looking forward to your 2020 videos. Love your humble attitude and your willingness to share your knowledge and experience with us.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos for those of us who are just getting started in bee keeping. This is great information and you do a nice job of presenting it.
Awesome documentaries! Your care for bees is evident.
Thanks for doing amazing videos. Really miss your updates. All the best!
Super video. I am just getting started. Never thought I would love bees, but I must say it is the most fun thing I have ever tried. I'm excited to venture into this culture, not for money but for the world. I always misunderstood bees. My lifelong friend got into them a few years ago and I am infatuated. Thanks again.
Excellent video and great camera work Daven . Thank you so much.
Devan, you do a great job on beekeeping and making videos. I hope all is well with you. Thanks for the videos!
thank you
Thank you Devon! This video was just what I needed.
Just been exposed to beekeeping videos and becoming really interested. Your videos really are very good...very understandable information provided in a good down to earth way.
Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to share this info. I am a fairly new beekeeper and am always looking for more to learn.
Good info! I got a lot of good tidbits from this. Thanks for posting!
Great video Devan, a real eye-opener for most newbies as their often educated by the wrong people (Solomon Parker and Michael Bush to name 2) who encourage their listeners to ignore the mites and they'll go away. I've argued with these 2 individuals in particular at length, sent them several publications and papers which disprove their claims repeatedly, and yet they choose to ignore all scientific evidence in favour of their ignorant, biologically misinformed beekeeping philosophy which is based in the fantacy world, not in the real world. Everyone, who is planning on keeping bees must be aware of varroa mites, and I strongly encourage all newbies to take a course before getting into beekeeping so they can have a better shot at being successful. Losing bees to problems which are preventable is totally unexceptable in my opinion and education is never a bad thing. If an individual understands the biology of bees and varroa mites, then half their problems have been solved for them and they already know what to do when mite thresholds reach critical levels.
Pavica Dosenovic : I agree with you that one must take the « the living in la, la land approach. At the same time, the chemical approach must also be twined with other efforts so as to weaned from the chemicals. I am especially impressed by the beekeepers in Avignon France who have succeeded in this regard. Now their bees are known to be free of Verona. Maybe a study of their approach may be the way to go. Of course this is not going to help line the pockets of those chemical industries! This also is something to consider.
I am trying to crash course learn as much as possible in a short order to help save 50 hives!! This has been one of the best videos on bees I have seen o far!!! Thanks and new subscriber here
I love the music you choose. Please add your playlists. 🎉
Hey Devan,, Thank you for you ideas... some great input ,,,
You are amazing! Please keep posting. You should bee in everyone's life more!
This was very informative and well presented thank you. A lot of people will have learned a lot.
Excellent video, and advice. Thank you.
This is a brilliant video I've learned a lot about the process and the pssible problems.well done young man.
Hundreds of videos and nobody gets to the focal appoint, literally. Great video. Thanks
Devan, I enjoy your videos very much, aside from the music volume. Can you please set it lower than your speaking volume, so viewers don't have to continually adjust our levels up and down?
Oh I totally agree. Devan's information, knowledge and insight is the reason I came to this channel. Not the music. Thankyou....
The music is cringe.... At least lower it!
this
Excellent camera work on those close-ups. Exactly what I've been looking for.
Great tips. Just getting started. This will help! Thanks,
Great info Devan! Most of the emergency calls I get trace back to management issues: either missing swarm prep or failing to apply effective mite control. It is critical to KNOW you can see the eggs if they are there (I need reading glasses to see them as do lots of beekeepers but sometimes vanity gets in the way of using them!).
Devan, first time watching your videos, sure do enjoy the great information that you present, again thank you very much. Ron B
Thanks David I am a new sub and keen to learn all I can . Keep them coming mate .
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills with us.
Dana Nelson that is what I think to mate . Thanks David
Thank you for breaking it down in a simple yet thorough way. Best bee keeping video I have seen thus far.
First time bee keeper. Getting two colonies on the 14th.
good luck with it 🔥
Hey Devon sure wish you would put More videos out there love your knowledge in the beekeeping.
I totally agree Devan. I say work the heck out of your bees as a beginner ,you may not know what you're looking at or doing ,but the more you're in them, the more you see the bees doing on their own, the more you notice the more it clicks in your brain what they must be doing .And that is how you learn when you are new to beekeeping, is by observing what the bees are doing that making lots of mistakes don't be too scared to try something that's how we learn how to not do it again or maybe just a better way I learned a ton the hard way but I ain't never been scared to take risk and not to brag but now I know a ton and you will too .Good tips ,good video
Thanks for sharing this video. Good info.
As a beginning beekeeper... ive watched a lot of videos. This is the most informative and condensed ive found. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Love from ATX
Love the channel - thanks for the work!
Your channel is the best I personally have come across. We’re very lucky on the Isle of Man to be perhaps the only country that doesn’t suffer from mites and maintain strict controls to prevent it coming across from the UK or Ireland. Once again, great channel.
Hi Devan
Tks for share yours point of View. It's so hekpfull. Regards from Brasil.
There's alot of bee keeping videos, i really enjoyed yours, clear instruction .
Another awesome video. Loved the content. Photography, and the music.
Question- you added an excluded super to make more room for those swarm prone bees. Should I consider swapping a few frames from the brood chamber to give her majesty more room to lay? Thanks!
Awesome video. Hive issues with solutions. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing.. enjoyed your video, keep up the good work...!
Thank you for nice video. Best greetings from beekeepers in Ukraine!
Enjoyed your video and very educational
I started with bees last year and have watched 50 plus videos since then. Your video editing and knowledge are such a breath of fresh air! Thank you so much.
Awesome video, thanks.
great video, thanks
Hi Devan great videos, from Craig in Wales.
Thank you for posting cheers
You did a great job explaing.
New sub. Enjoy your videos and hope to learn a lot from you as bee keeping is my next adventure!
Sick musical interludes, hoss.
Thank you for sharing as well
thank you for these helpful tips
Well done! Thanks
This video was helpful as everyone has a different opinion of how often you should be in your boxes...if I had followed you view; I could have caught mite issues before it was too late and loosing one.
Enjoyed your show
Such a fascinating creature...
Another excellent video! Thank you so much. As a newbee I am very interested in learning some fundamentals. It would be great if you could make a video on your smoker. You always seem to have clean, cool smoke available. Mine always seems to go out too soon. I experiment with different fuels but haven't found one I'm in love with yet. What do you use?
I wish you would have showed how you got rid of queen cells and how the bees reacted, but this is a great video and I appreciate the added knowledge.
Great Video Thank you!!!
Good info. Thanks!
Devan thanks for the video. I used this technique today but should have done the additional swirl you demonstrated while flushing! Instead I added the fluid back and pulled out 2 more mites.
Good Instructor !
Devan,
New sub, and Beek here!!
I think you have the one of the most informative beekeeping channels on YT.
Not bashing, but I do agree with some of the comments about the music.
I beelieve (HAHA), that music is not necessary to make you a success.
Wow good video. And thanks for not being boring why you teach.
Great video thank you!
Iv watched this before and your video on one hive management have been a huge help
Thank you for sharing what you have learned & your concise presentation of bee handling techniques.
Has helped make this venture into beekeeping an enjoyable experience.
Thank you for the video! I don't have bees currently. I'm considering it. Fascinating. 😊
Great video and presentation.I am not a bee keeper,although come in contact with bees quite often.Recently a beehive in my shed,in between walls,so checking anything is a bit problematic.And yes I'm a happy observer of a swarm ,building another hive 10 feet away-inside the wall,of course.Your bees must go on Xanax,seem to be tame and nice.Mine are a high strung variety,easy to upset even by looking from a distance.They are not of infamous African breed,as far as I know
Hello, great video, thanks for the info. Can you do one on the topic of managing space. It seems straight forward to give more space when a broodbox is 70% full. However, what do you do for example when a hive swarmed, and the remaning part is too small for two brood chambers and a honey super? How do you take away space if there's still capped brood in both brood boxes?
Wait out the brood to hatch and they will increase in number? What did you end up doing?
Excellent- thanks
I’ve been watching your videos for a while. Very well done! I learned lots. It will be nice to get in touch. I live in niagara, down in Ridgeway. Maybe I can learned more from you by volunteering working with you. This year I’m up to 8 hives. Next year hopefully 12.
Amazing tutorial and the man is also dynamic. May Allah azowajal guide n protect you olways
Doug in Denver: Great close ups. BEST I'VE SEEN.
Your a great teacher! thanks for what you do!
I learned from an old bee keeper, 1 that if the bees bring in polen, than you have eggs, thus a queen. 2 Keep them restrained and not too spread as the queen lays eggs that risk not to be attended thus rotting in there and get sick. 3 Make sure they have food and 4 Mites... These are my basics that have worked for me and my bees.
Totally interested newbie here - why would want to prevent swarming? Surely the more bees out there the better? Super interesting upload. Thank you!
I'm late to the convo but doesn't it bother them if you're looking all the time? Smoking, opening, etc?
Very educational video
Thanks for sharing the insight and doing a very good job of explaining the "why's" of your tips!
Good stuff!
Thank you very much
Excellent video Thankfully we don't yet have Varroa mites down here in Australia.
Well explained thanks for posting. Love your enthusiasm
Those are super nice hives
Great lesson! How are you able to touch all this without them stinging you ?
Those queen cells that are capped you can make a split out of each one.
Great video, I have to ask, where did you get that magnetic tool belt holder? I've searched and can't find one. that is the perfect solution to using the hive tool. I always put it in my pocket, but that's great. Can you tell me who makes it or where you found it? Thanks, Great vids very helpful . I use a single brood box on most of my hives also thanks for all the great info.
evanfly look for "Paul Kelly bee belt" online. He does also do a vid on that.
Wow that guy is good. Learn a lot .
Thank you Devan for great videos, i am a new beekeeper in the north, i like the idea of a single brood box on one of your video, at one point here in this video you mentioned to add space to a crowded brood box to prevent swarming, do you imply to take out an existing frame and replace it with a brand new one? destroy or totally clean the one you took out. Thanks again.
Put the frames you take out up into the super box that you add on. The brood will still be cared for and hatch. Bees will clean the cells and replace with honey. Queen can't access super box to lay more eggs.
Informative - thanks. I’m recently retired, and am starting beekeeping as a hobby.
How many beehives do you have?
Thank you. Your videos are very helpful. I am a second year bee keeper and can use all the help I can get!
Oh ... thanks for clearing that up
Devan, Thanks. Bees have been on my bucket list for more years than I care to share. I will begin my bee journey in the spring of 2018 I had planned on going with all medium frames ( 3 = 2 , 10 frame full size Boxes) Your three tips will be part of my start. Have you seen Bayers Mite treatment entrances yet .
How's your journey going?
@@SageandStoneHomestead I've had a couple restarts. I now use one deep box and two mediums. I got through an Illinois winter with one hive very well insulated. I lost a weak hive to wax moth in 2020 and this season is starting with a large healthy hive feed heavy in late summer and early fall. I plan on splitting this single if things look good on my first warm day inspection today or tomorrow. I have a Carniolan and a Saskatraz hive coming on the 19th .
Hi fairly a newbee here. Wonderful videos with some great information. I was wondering how we can tell if it’s a queen cell? Do we look inside each queen cup? Or do I understand you to mean to tear out each queen cup? Won’t they just keep building new cups and waist their own time? Or is that the point to help stop swarming?
Thanks for your help and time.
Thank You as always I learned something
Awesome videos! Where did you get your magnetic tool holder.
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