Bee Hive Removal from Wall
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- It's time for my annual hive removal. I don't make a habit of doing these anymore, but just to keep my skills up, why not do one or two every now and again. Come on along for the fun!!
Thanks for joining me in my bee yard here in Louisiana as I share how I maintain my beehives. My videos are not meant to be 'How To' videos, but simply me sharing my experiences in beekeeping as I learned it from my mentors, teachers, and studies.
I didn't expect to see Mr. Ed and Good - Time - Charlie to come rolling up to help. It's nice to see all three of you together in one video. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see some great beekeepers working together to save some honey bees!!
Thanks an yes it is!! We had a really good day.
Nice job Mike!!!! You had to call in Mr. Ed to get it done!!!!!! LOL!!!! Thanks!
He needed a fresh cutout video, so I thought I better help him out.
Wow, what a slab of honey!🐝🐝🐝 Tell you’re buddy good luck in his first year. I have 4 deeps, 2 mediums, and 2 nucs ( to set swarm traps) and ordered 2 nucs for early April delivery for my first year in East Texas. Hope I have enough equipment... Say a prayer for @628dirtrooster, he’s got some minor trouble. Good video!👍👍🐝
Thanks for the comment!! Sounds to me like you have enough equipment to get started. Won't be but a couple weeks and it'll be time for swarm traps here in my area. Good luck!!
That Jay Leno chin looks good on you Mike, you should wear it more often. Ha! Last summer I took one between the eyes and looked like a Klingon from Star Trek for a couple days. Fun times.
Yea, it was quite pronounced!! I took about 10 others up and down my arms. My old jacket has zero elasticity left in the wrists....
Hi Mr. Ed, Good Time Charlie!! LOL
I love watching removals. It's like unwrapping presents during Christmas.
Yea, the initial opening is always a surprise. You just never know what you'll be getting!!
WOW 😮 really neat video.... I enjoyed that cut out video... you should do more....
Thanks Chris, but I got my one annual cutout. I'm good...
@@MikeBarryBees I am going to have to come down and get you and Mr Ed and Rooster all to do a cut out together with me.... 3 birds with one stone... lol 😂
always awesome to see the collabs! blessings from Jamaica Mike!
Thanks so much!! and yes, it's a great thing when everyone gets together to pitch in. Your latest series of videos have been great, by the way!
@@MikeBarryBees Thanks!
Hi Mike, cool cutout you guys did Jeff is right you should get together more and do more cutouts there real fun to watch how it should be done and jeffs excitement when you both seen the queen at the same time boy great day had by all. Thank you Mike for sharing your vlog with us and godbless to you all my friend.
Glad you enjoyed it Mark and thanks for watching the fun. I'll leave them to Jeff though. I enjoy doing them here and there, and especially with Jeff, but I've had my share of cutouts over the years. Son one or two a year is about all I can take before they become a chore to me.
It was worth every second of watching to hear Jeff say, "thank you Jesus". I would like a cutout with it 40 outside if the house has no heat on it will be real good. So the college guy from a Latin America is going to have someone else's equipment and these guys collecting the bees for him. I just hope he is smart enough to raise bees. Not everyone who is in college should have bees because it takes some moxie.
He’s a very smart man. He is doing great with the bees and has already fed them up into a second deep using equipment he bought. Only equipment that’s not his is the vacuum. He was over in my yard last week helping me split my bees and re-queen. So I’d say he’s doing pretty well and has been very easy to mentor.
Fun times with good people. Fun in the big city. I lived in Metarie for 3 month a long time ago. Looks about the same.
Yea, it hasn't changed in the last 20 years since I've known it. Maybe some renovations, but that's it. Thanks for stopping back by Russell!!
Mr. Mike I really enjoy watching your videos hopefully some day I will have bees of my own. The Honey Bees are truly amazing.
Looking forward to your next video
Keith Devillier on the Atchafalaya river
Krotz Springs, La.
Glad you enjoy the videos Keith. Be sure to join the Capitol Area Beekeepers Assn. over in Baton Rouge. That will be a great start when you decide to dive in to beekeeping. Good boudin balls there in Krotz Springs!!
Mike, it looks like you and Mr Ed are spending a lot of time together! Why don’t you take him to a barber shop because he’s looking like a hippie! lol I’m only joking. It does look like y’all had a good time and didn’t fool around getting the job done. Hopefully the bees will stay in their new home, I know I would. It’s too cold to be moving and I’m definitely looking forward to spring! Thanks for the video!
Yea Don, we got it all wrapped up in about 3 hours. It was a good time. Spring is right around the corner and things will be getting busy before we know it. Thanks for the comment!!
Mike, I really like the method you used with the rubber bands to frame the brood comb. I've used it several times before and it works so much better.
Yea Richard, when my friend showed that method to me, I was sold. It is so much easier. Thanks for watching!!
Another great video thank you Mike
Thanks!!
Thanks for bringing us along on a beekeeper's journey.
Glad you enjoyed it Chad!!
Great job and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Roger and thanks for watching!!
Nice video Mike thanks for sharing. I hope the bees does well for the gentleman who got them.
Thanks Mark. So far they look great.
This is amazing!! Thanks Mr. Mike for mentoring me and helping me to get some bees!! Mr. Ed, you are the man!
You’re welcome!
Definitely do a video crushing that comb and wax rendering
Maybe on the next one.
Would be cool to follow that hive for us through the 2021 season. Always wonder how they work out. Nice video.
I will be going back in about a week and I will probably bring my camera, but not sure how much I will be able to follow it through the season since it will be at someone else's house. But that's a good idea and I might see about keeping everyone updated if I am able to. Thanks!!
Thank you Mike, great cutout. Who were those rookies you had with you?!! LOL
Thanks Julie. Well, I figured I'd let Mr. Ed come along so he could get some fresh cutout video....
@@MikeBarryBees
That was sweet. I know he must be running out..... (in about 10 years!)
Hope you made a video of what you did with that honeycomb. I would love to see that.
Unfortunately I did not. I got home and just started breaking up the comb and got it over with. If I do another one, I'll try to get it on video.
It’s more fun to do a project with friends! Thanks for sharing with us again and good luck with the new bee keeper first hive! Still enjoy your channel and can’t wait till the next one
Thanks Joel!! And yes, it's always a good time with friends. I won't do them by myself anymore or they just become a chore, and that's no fun. I hope to begin posting more videos soon as things begin to pick up. Time to hang swarm boxes in a couple weeks!!
Mike, I have yet to do a cut out. Neighbor has a hive i her porch and I passed on them. Just no time. That one looks decent sized.
Well, it's not for everyone and you'll know once you do the first one. I think I them every now and again to remind me why I don't do them all the time. One thing for sure, there are tricks of the trade if they are to be successful and even then there's no guarantee they'll make it.
It’s amazing how bug all those south Louisiana hives are.
Honestly, I did not think this one was really that big. It was only 3 combs deep and about 4'X4'. Definitely not that many bees. 5 frames.
oh wow that is a cool watch glad it was not my house
Yep, I would hate to have to deal with them in my house too. Glad you liked it!!
Incubator i bought yesterday from honey run Apiaries would have been perfect for keeping that brood warm till you got home ... Cabinet is a nuc box .. Yall need to up sell them jobs leaving alot money on the table ... Seal up the whole house for bees bats mice ...what i do for a living ... Good luck to those bees looks like nice flow they can use to build a new colony
A very large portion of the people down here will not pay to have colonies removed. They’ll kill them instead. Additionally, if I do find a person that would pay, I would need liability insurance. I leave the paid jobs to JP or the other couple of folks down there.
I start at 600.00 charge 145.00 just to bid it service call .. Im full service fix the entrance repair what needs repaired .. End up causing alot damage having insurance 550.00 ayear is cheap .. Charging or not goes to court could cost ya .. Bees are normally sick cant really call them payment .. End up requeening giving them brood stands a good chance ...sometimes their great bees
@@hootervillehoneybees8664 yea in my area they’d hang up as soon as you gave them the fee to bid it. Some of the people down there where we took this one out would pay, thus JP and a couple others, maybe even Baton Rouge. But here on the north shore, they’d spray them first. And we as beekeepers know where that goes. I’ve even explained they’ll pay later when the SHB slime and honey seep thru their wall and the smell frequents the living room, but they don’t want to hear that. 1 out of every 50 persons around here would pay to have them removed, so for me, it’s not t worth the extra rider on my insurance to fool with them. Plus, it’s too much like work...lol😂😂
@@MikeBarryBees ya its not easy work add in that heat and humidity yall have .. Were fixing to be below zero for ten days .. Great hive beetle treatment .. Will be driver our trucks out on the ice fishing in a week .. Getting 6" of snow tonight its pretty out so calming
@@MikeBarryBees how could i use med plastic foundation in deep frames looking for ideas ... Guy gave me a truck load of med foundation ... Ive got pile of the stuff
Nice removal!
Thanks!
Where did you did those noobs to help you with the cut out? You need to buy that one a beard trimmer.
He never trims it, he just stops shaving around end of November, and mows it off with clippers in April!😂😂🤠🐝😹🙉🙊🙈
Yea, he's quite the Grizzly Adams!! I'm glad I found them, I enjoyed the help....LOL
What will you do with the honey? It didn’t sound as if you wanted it for eating.
Angela, I will probably just dispose of it. I don't eat honey out of cutouts from houses or any structures. You don't know what people have done to the bees. I know the owner didn't do anything, he wouldn't do that. And he had only recently bought the place. But who knows what anyone else did. And I will never sell anything that's been pulled out of a cutout. You never know if someone could have tried to kill them with poison or what kind of pests or rodents have been in there. Plus most of the old black honey comb has very old, dark, sticky honey that frankly tastes bad to me. Now if it's a cutout that has new white comb, then I will usually save it for the homeowner and take a little myself. That is normally ok in my opinion because it's from that season. It's also not the best time of the year to feed straight honey back to the bees. And I'm leery of feeding cutout honey to my bees anyhow. So I will most likely just throw it out.
@@MikeBarryBees, thank you.
Mr Eddie needs a barber 😱
I agree Norma!!
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