This video shows how to install a package of honey bees into your hive. It is our hope that this video will help those who are installing bees for the first time.
Look up Kamon Reynolds on youtube, Tennessee Bees. He got the best and true videos I seen, unless you watch professors and doctors that talk about bees.
It is a old post but here we go. If you install a package you need to feed them sugar water at a rate of 1:1 per volume for about 6 weeks. This will help the bees to build up their combs. You need to check at regular visits to the hive how much food they stored and you may have to continue feeding them. There are different honey flows at different times throughout the year and at times like later in summer where nothing is coming in or in winter when it is to cold for bees to collect nectar. You may need to feed either sugar water or sugar bricks or straight sugar or even pollen in the early spring where there is no food yet for bees to collect, this is where many bees die. When the honey flow starts stop feeding sugar when adding honey supers, unless you just installed a package etc etc. Late summer or fall after you harvest that honey, you may need to feed them again. Bees can turn sugar water into funny honey. It almost looks like honey and is somewhat more sticky with an odd to no flavor. Sugar is the best substitute for honey and nectar. Nectar has vitamins and minerals which sugar water does not have. But before my bees starve, I will give them sugar water. Dead bees do not make honey and things for you and it will be expensive to replace bees. Bees can only live about 2 days without food.
I'm going to attach the queen cage to a drawn comb frame with rubber bands BEFORE I shake the bees into the hive box. I will take four frames out and try to get as many as I can in the box. Of course I won't get them all out and their cage will simply be left in front of the hive so they can go in on their own. I plan on having two jars of 50/50 sugar water in a shallow box on top and a strip of pollen patty until they get settled in. Nothing against you sir, I just think you were in too much of a hurry. You are feeding them which is good.
this is not the only way to do this. some of the steps shown here are out of order or not necessary. i am a newbee . not a expert,but if you are a newbee check out other beekeepers and how they do it,too.
Wow, now this is what a well organized bee keeping operation looks like! Beautiful! But I hate seeing bees get crushed by sloppy, uncaring handling, like when the lid was slammed down on top of several bees crushing them. Its honestly so unnecessary. I mean really, was that necessary? Most beeks just gently slide the lid over, or don't use it at all. Think about it...30 seconds later you were dumping them out anyway! Then you set the whole box on a few dozen bees sitting on top of the frames instead of sliding it over! Good grief! Who does that? I'm a farmer, and understand necessary killing, but please use someone else to make these vides...because I won't be watching anymore!
So excited, they arrived and in their new home! Thankyou for explicit instructions! So EZY!!!!
You are so welcome!
Great video. I can't wait to get my next package of bees this spring.
thanks for the video you guys are really helping new people get into bee's with out so many newbie mistakes
Thank you Ray excellent video
Got my bees today, very excited!
Thank you, great video!
Free bees
I just changed date of my order bc of family emergency and the did not such thing Julie was very nice and will do business forever!
How long after installing the bees would you treat for mites?
so if you spray the bees in the package with sugar water they don't fly away
Good detail!
Hey Ray I saw another video on UA-cam from a guy named Ray...Greenhorn beekeeping...west Tuckerton..funny as hell
Thanks Ray.
It would be nice if you would upload new and updated videos. Perhaps step by step instructional for beginners.
Look up Kamon Reynolds on youtube, Tennessee Bees.
He got the best and true videos I seen, unless you watch professors and doctors that talk about bees.
Thanks
If you keep giving them sugar syrup.. do they turn that into honey? or do they eat the syrup and do not make honey? why dont we always feed them?
Nectar makes honey. Sugar won’t turn into honey
It is a old post but here we go.
If you install a package you need to feed them sugar water at a rate of 1:1 per volume for about 6 weeks. This will help the bees to build up their combs. You need to check at regular visits to the hive how much food they stored and you may have to continue feeding them. There are different honey flows at different times throughout the year and at times like later in summer where nothing is coming in or in winter when it is to cold for bees to collect nectar.
You may need to feed either sugar water or sugar bricks or straight sugar or even pollen in the early spring where there is no food yet for bees to collect, this is where many bees die.
When the honey flow starts stop feeding sugar when adding honey supers, unless you just installed a package etc etc.
Late summer or fall after you harvest that honey, you may need to feed them again.
Bees can turn sugar water into funny honey. It almost looks like honey and is somewhat more sticky with an odd to no flavor.
Sugar is the best substitute for honey and nectar. Nectar has vitamins and minerals which sugar water does not have. But before my bees starve, I will give them sugar water.
Dead bees do not make honey and things for you and it will be expensive to replace bees.
Bees can only live about 2 days without food.
best beginner video ever
I'm going to attach the queen cage to a drawn comb frame with rubber bands BEFORE I shake the bees into the hive box. I will take four frames out and try to get as many as I can in the box. Of course I won't get them all out and their cage will simply be left in front of the hive so they can go in on their own. I plan on having two jars of 50/50 sugar water in a shallow box on top and a strip of pollen patty until they get settled in. Nothing against you sir, I just think you were in too much of a hurry. You are feeding them which is good.
Should you use a little smoke when emptying the package?
not needed they are not defensive at all
Why don't you put the top on ?
this is not the only way to do this. some of the steps shown here are out of order or not necessary. i am a newbee . not a expert,but if you are a newbee check out other beekeepers and how they do it,too.
Take your gloves off man
Wow, now this is what a well organized bee keeping operation looks like! Beautiful! But I hate seeing bees get crushed by sloppy, uncaring handling, like when the lid was slammed down on top of several bees crushing them. Its honestly so unnecessary. I mean really, was that necessary? Most beeks just gently slide the lid over, or don't use it at all. Think about it...30 seconds later you were dumping them out anyway! Then you set the whole box on a few dozen bees sitting on top of the frames instead of sliding it over! Good grief! Who does that? I'm a farmer, and understand necessary killing, but please use someone else to make these vides...because I won't be watching anymore!
Free bees