Boosting Pollination Hives

[@noelobst284]

Careful, Mums watching!

[@bennybeekeeper]

😂

[@dougpeterson5257]

Good to see you back doing videos, nice boost for the pollinator hives. How soon will almonds start blooming?

[@bennybeekeeper]

Thanks. About 2 or 3 weeks I’ll be taking the bees into the almond orchard. Thanks for asking that, it made me look at the calendar 😳

[@KidGarden100]

fantastic video ! thank you

[@bennybeekeeper]

Glad you liked it!

[@CooperBees]

Thanks for the vid

[@bennybeekeeper]

Thanks for stopping by

[@geofftewierik7609]

That last queen didn't want to be found 😂 Will you put those saved queens back into fresh minis at home?

[@bennybeekeeper]

I requeened some of the other hives at this site that I wasn’t happy with. Cheers

[@jasonrasheed7670]

Good video, thanks. How many hives will you be sending to almond pollination? Will they all be 8f boxes?

[@bennybeekeeper]

I’m taking 55 hives. The poly boxes are 9 frames. I’ve also got 8 frame doubles out at my main bee site. They don’t really want single but if you’ve got some strong doubles it evens out the load

[@danielcollins9628]

When u feed to boost for pollination do u just use sugar syrup or pollen patties as well?

[@bennybeekeeper]

I use both but sugar water is more important. Often times when I start feeding sugar the bees start bringing in pollen that they weren’t before

[@barkersbees]

Does it snow down there? And how long is your winter time? And what’s the coldest it gets?

[@bennybeekeeper]

I doesn’t snow here. It’s between 10 and 15 degrees C during the day at the moment in the middle of winter. Frost in the morning every other day. Pretty mild winter really. Most hives have been raising some brood all the way through. And I usually get at least one day per weekend that is nice enough to do bee work.