I'm disabled. I know how hard it isto have a broken body. I've always dreamed of having bees, since I was about 8 or 9. I just need a strong, able-bodied person to do it with me!
I'm disabled, and just learning about bees. I love the 8 rack kit that I am interested in. I could handle that, I think. My motto? "HONEY, HONEY, in 2020!" This year is my learning year! I'm 51. I enjoy this guy!!!
i literally dont know anything about beekeeping or anything like that, i live in the centre of a city lol, but these videos are so fascinating, and you seem like such a chill guy. I hope you keep posting :)
This has to be one of your finest videos EVER! The range of emotions that this video evokes rocks even the Ricketier scale. I was almost in tears with the opening and then before I knew it, it was like a Halloween movie going into the shadowy, over grown backyard of the abandoned house where you know something is going to jump out and slash your brand new tire. Then it really gets scary when you show the hive full of the nasty maggots, I can just imagine those things crawling out of an eye socket on a decaying body. With the preliminary stuff over with, you went for the climax of the video, using your own brother as a stand in (and I can't imagine how much you had to pay him), you had him giving the maggots a warm bubble bath. Then, after I cleaned the vomit off my monitor from seeing the maggots swimming in their own excrement, you hit us with grilling hamburgers. True artistic creation. This is proof as to why you have over 25,000 subs. My one regret after watching this video was I could not hit the thumbs up a hundred times. Keep 'em coming, we'll be watching. Mr. Ed
Aw man you know you're giving me bad dreams with all the scary talk. I hope you got the puking scene on video. That could put you on the viral video map. Thanks for the great comment.
It just so happens I did video the whole thing. Unfortunately, a big piece of back splash landed right on lens and the entire event was blocked out by what appears to be a large piece of a nacho chip. Just my luck.
The retired bee keeper is lucky to have you as a friend. Bless you for going over there and starting the clean up. I was so sad when you explained why the keeper had to stop keeping. You gave a lot of good information whilst you cleaned up and then.... a Turtle! A very nice looking healthy turtle. Thank you for ending on a high note!
My heart goes out to the man that aged beyond his hobby I hope he has lots of good memories from his bee keeper days. Hopefully he has found something that his body allows him to do to keep him happy. Great video.
This video is pretty great. A little bit of sadness, handled delicately, without recriminations. If he ever gets where he can go home but still can't take care of them, it's be nice if someone could treat those hives as a secondary yard. That way the bees can be taken care of and he can still enjoy them as much as possible.
I know this is an older video. But I have to say again you are a rockstar and this video was so personable, so caring, and just plain genuine. Thank you again. A fan
I’ve been through the same thing too often. Gave up trying to wash everything like you did here. I fire up my steam wax melter and throw all the frames in and scrape in all the grubs. I get clean frames, rendered wax and excellent compost. Love your channel, mate. Keep it up.
Hey Dirt Rooster, a subscriber of mine suggested I come check your channel out. I post my beekeeping struggles along with other homesteading type activities. You're videos look good. Thanks for sharing!
If you have a dedicated freezer you can just put frames in it for two days. Thaw and they're good to go. If you're new you're going to have it happen. Trick I use is dreching under hives with permethrin. Usually an infestation can be tolerated until the hive starts making its own Beatles in the ground under it.
Sort of a somber subject but full of interesting facts. We had a tortoise like that roaming our backyard. She loved eating the rose petals and hibiscus flowers. Those suckers are faster then you think too. My hubby left the back gate open just a tiny bit. 5 minutes later the bottom of the gate had been pushed open a little and she was long gone. Anyway, awesome video. 👍
We had one inside a fenced area around a big fig tree when I was a kid. Somehow it got out. I still think it climbed the tree and jumped the fence. LOL
I have absolutely no problem with bees. But I would have killed that infested box with fire! Cut my losses and take joy in the cleansing power of fire.
Love your vids dude!! Very interesting for a 16 year old who Took some AG classes been subscribed to you for a while thanks for keeping me Entertained man aslong as you make vids I'll be here thanks again.
New to your channel and love your videos. You mentioned in one of your videos that you have a 2 day holding period on new bees to your place. Why is that? Do you have videos that take the viewer through the whole bee keeping process? This is fascinating! God bless you for taking care of the bees that help keep us all fed!! I ❤️🐝's!
Hah I was fastforwarding the video at the end. Saw you guys cleaning the frames. Next click there were burger steaks on a grill. Maggots ---> steaks.. :D
Aaah I hate larva of any kind! Bad experience with maggots when I was younger scarred me for life. I guess this video helped me a little bit, Definitely helped me clear my stomach.
Eat these with chop sticks and a little soy sauce. I hate the thought of getting too old and unfit to function. I dug out my boxing gear yesterday and plan on starting back on that a little.
Make ya up some beetle grease and no more mites or beetles! I made video on it and it makes beekeeping easy! I did not come up with this but i did copy it and it works great there in sunny Florida where beetles come to vacation and get a sun tan!😁
You are incredibly brave walking through the tall grass. I'm always terrified of snakes lurking! Do you think your wife's chickens would have enjoyed the wormies? Or would it be a bad idea to let them touch the ground where they could hide and grow into big beetle?
it was like a train wreck... just couldnt quit watching... lol i would think a tourch moved along the inside of that hive or dump em out in a pile might of got most of them... dk how flamable that stuff is, or if i could stand a 2-3 second flame without igniting.. but would be intresting to find out... thanks for another great vid...
That was a hard to watch but needed video. Knowing when to stop when you can't take care of things. No one would want things to get that point I would think if they ever cared to begin with, and if you took the time to care about bees you would care I would think. This seems like a video that should be shown to some elderly folks with early onset dementia so they will understand if you catch it early enough. I lived through helping my mother enough with dementia that after a point there is nothing you can do, one of the saddest things I have ever had to do in my life was deal with that!
Love the hat. Hey I have had hive beetles all summer. But I've checked every few weeks in all the frames and I never see larvae, just dead beetles outside the hive and underneath the bottom board. The hive is on a concrete slab so you would think I would see them crawling. Anyway, things seem to be under control. The bees are doing fine. Where do you think the larvae are coming from oh wise one? Could you think of anything else they could be? Just dried up multl legged maybe 1/4" x 3/16"
An abandoned lot behind my house has had hives for years and have never seen anyone tend them, fenced in well so can't get to them but bees have lived for at least the last decade without help in the hives
Oh my god, that's so nasty. D: That poor guy, having to give up what he loved doing because of age. :( It was nice of you to take the hives that weren't completely dead or hopeless, to give them a second chance. I'm really afraid of bees, but these videos have shown me that bees aren't the evil little demons I thought they were, especially since they're so important for pollination. Now, wasps, yellowjackets, and hornets, there's nothing that'll get me to believe they're anything but evil little demons.
Thanks for the education, one question I have would the start of wax moth problems in the hive start with a funny smell. One of my hives, has started to smell not right. And i have seen larvae on my bottom screen . And have seen a couple of moths in the top cover.
Weak hives many times have a different smell than healthy one regardless of why they are weak. Wax moths don't usually cause a bad smell like small hive beetles do though.
Ouch! By the time you see larvae it may be too late. Take that frame out and freeze it for two days. After it thaws it can go back in a healthy hive to be cleaned up. You're going to have to keep an eye on that hive. Feed them.
Love watching these videos , but I have a quick question for you .. so I had a hive in the corner of our roof , and when the roofers came to do our roof they decided on taking the combs !! And now I'm having these beetle larvae creeping into the room where the hive was !! What should I do ?
you forgot the fire ant trick... fight fire with fire ha.. that works if you have fireants witch I know you do but if you don't. the way your doing it works. a nother great video.
Those two busy hives looked like they could be saved and kept, at least. Maybe that weak hive could be, too, if it got some help. A nasty bit of work (maggot slime; ugh! DX), but not one without its up-sides. That first hive on the row looked especially strong. And I agree with some of the other commenters; all those larvae could make some pretty good chicken feed :) Ah, well; next time you get a call like this, your wife's birds can have their fill then~
+628DirtRooster You and me both, man. I'd dump the grubs and hightail it out of there before I could toss my cookies~ XD Oh, man, I just noticed... You must have had to hose out your truck bed, too; it was covered with the..ugh... So nasty. DX
I am such a wuss lol- I can't look at stuff like that since "The Lost Boys". A couple chickens would be an odd thing to add to an equipment list... Have you ever tried using them to clean up beetle larvae? It's your fault- you inspire wacky ideas in me. (I love it)
Haha What was that like thirty years ago? That movie really left it's mark on you. I have one or two old videos with chickens eating them but I can't remember which ones.
I'm amazed. Here in Europe the whole lot, including the healthy hives, would have been destroyed. The ground around the hives would have been treated and an exclusion zone of several kilometers would have been put in place round the apiary. It would have been out of the question to keep, let alone transport, any of the equipment. There was a beetle outbreak in the south of Italy in 2014 and so far no new infestations have been discovered thanks to this policy.
id love to start bee keeping when i get my house, could you recommend books or video that would be good to check out. my main concern is the equipement, can't seem to find any complete list
Hey DR.! Been a while since we "talked". I don't know what you pick up on having 25K+Subscribers but I'm an old Mississippi boy that loves God, Country and Momma (and 628DirtRooster channel)! I will support the Constitution of the United States and Bill of Rights with my life. I am (apparently) Conservative but not Republican (like I thought I was for the past 40 years). My ancestry is White Evangelical Christian for many generations. I can trace my lineage back to the early 1700's and that only matters because I had hoped that the supply of prayers laid up for me would get me through these last 61 years! I WAS WRONG! I'm thinking now that I've been such a heathen that I've used up all my prayers and I'm on my way out! So far in 2016, I've lost a long term employee and my closest friend, I've had a series of heart related issues that has monopolized my time (something like your friend in this video) causing my bees to be unsupervised for 6 weeks. An area about 100 miles wide(east-west) and 300 long(north-south) are in severe drought and my bees are suffering! BEE RECAP: I started in March with 6 strong hives. I had 1 hive that just went crazy and I ended up with 4 splits from it. I also pulled about 25 pounds of honey from it. I didn't take anything away from the other hives. I did capture one swarm using your "Swimming Pool Lawn Chair Method" that should be patented. The strong hive is still strong but all the others are struggling. I've gotten In hive feeders and I am pouring the sugar syrup to them. I've lost 2 hives, 1 was a split and the other was once my second strongest hive. the strong one that I lost seemed to have succumbed to hive beetles and the other to wax moths. However, the pests may have moved in after the hive had starved to death. This is much harder than I expected it to be! BUT!, I will know how to deal with drought next time, assuming that I live long enough to experience another one!
Good to hear from you man. Glad you're still making foot prints. God's grace is sufficient to wipe away how ever many decades of heathen living we can manage to pile up so long as we have accepted Christ as our savior. I'm thankful for that because there's no way I wouldn't end up in hell otherwise. There's strength in numbers so you can count on my prayers. Hate that you're having such a time with your bees but I guess that'll keep you from getting bored. lol Keep at it. We have a little bit of time left to build them up for winter. Maybe you snag some more easy swarms in the spring. Stay in touch and let me know how you are doing.
Hey Randy, hope you and your family are doing ok. I see a lot of 'weather' on the news here in NZ and hoping not hitting you all. I guess that your line of work has been a bit crazy busy this Autumn! My thought n prayers with you bro, take care.
All the flooding in Louisiana missed us by a hundred miles or so and hurricane Matthew missed us by a good ways. Thankfully we skated by this time. Thanks for checking. Hope all is well on your side of the world.
628DirtRooster Spring here, flowers blooming, hives are booming. As we are island we don't seem to get the weather extremes. I've been inspired and had a crack at rearing my own queens using Cloake Board. Got nine queens on my first attempt but only eight hatched and one of those was weak n didn't survive (don't know why). Been able to create seven splits two weeks ago and will check this weekend to see if nucs are queen right. Made the nucs myself. Been very interesting. Hobby beekeeping definitely a way of life! Good to hear you all sweet.
Yes the seasons being opposite is a little weird. I was surprised at my grafting success too. I saw that Tommy was using what looked like a nicot cupkit in one of your vids, so I have purchased one to give it a go when it arrives. My problem is bees not building up fast enough to fill nucs. How many frames do you use (min) to get them building up fastest? Is there a sweet-spot?
GoBeeZerk We use three frames minimum for mating nucs and such but we mostly run five frame nucs. We only have a hand full of three frame boxes. I like the Nicot system. Feeding them 1:1 will make them draw comb faster which gives the queen more room to lay and grows them faster.
so funny story, I work at a truck shop and we once had a garbage truck in that needed the transmission fixed. well, the mechanic working on it dropped the valve body, and ripped the internal wiring harness. our shop is not Allison certified and the truck ended up sitting in the shop for about 3 weeks. due to being full of garbage, the truck would drip juices on the floor. in the last two weeks when we came in the mornings we would shovel the maggots off the floor where the truck had been dripping juices all night, like 1000s and 1000s of them. That was 4 years ago, and the concrete floor is still stained all the way down to the drain. nasty things
Always a shame for such a loss.BTW, need advice. Have a church member with a bee problem,any advice on what to use for repelling them from her house, & attracting into a hive box? As well as where to get the supplies? TY.
They will likely need to have the hive removed. Most beekeeping supply companies sell repellents used in honey extraction but it has a short term effect and you have to strategically place it. In other words if you just pray it in the hole where they are coming and going they will just draw into the wall until the smell goes away and then they go back to work. You can also buy swarm lures. Probably just google swarm lure. Most suppliers don't carry that as far as I know.
I know this is old but researching what to do since I now have this issue. I did not see what you did with the comb...Do you have to remove all the comb from the boards or are you able to re-insert in into another new hive? If so, how do you get all the bad honey out?
Rinse everything very good then freeze it all or use phostoxin to kill everything in the crevices. Bees do not like the smell of hive beetle slime and will not work those frames until they are pretty clean. Don't put those frame in a healthy hive until they've been frozen for a couple of days and rinsed really well or you'll just be causing another problem. Don't worry about trying to salvage any of the honey. It's a loss. After you rinse the frames you can leave them out to see if the bees will take anything off them. Do this well away from any of your hives so you don't cause robbing within your good hives.
Great video - thanks for posting. I have a similar problem, not quite as bad and still trying to save the hive. You said you can reuse the comb after cleaning. I know the honey is unusable, but did you harvest it and dispose of it before the cleaning process?
I don't recall there being any honey in this one but if there were I wouldn't worry about doing anything with it other than cutting the cappings level if there was capped honey. I may leave it out for my other hives to rob but they don't like hive beetle slime so if there's much of anything in bloom they may not even take it. I'd just wash the combs.
I'm getting into my hive tomorrow. This freaked me out. That is digusing. Poor bees. Getting old is pretty scary. Im looking at 50 & just started bees. I think my bees will go in my will, wants & wishes. I dont care if I go in a dumpster when I die...but take care of my pets.
Chinese delicacy. Crunchy beetle larvae to snack on like meal worms for chickens. Thanks for the video. Now we can all see that a mess that large can be cleaned up and reused. #RockOn!
Hello! Are the box/frames valuable enough to go through all of that normally or was this just for the sake of the video? Seems like a lot to go through. Thanks for posting :-) ~We love your videos, Been watching them for a while now. I find it fascinating everything you do. I don't think I could ever have my own hive where I live but my whole view of bees has changed after watching for a while. That's saying A LOT. I really appreciate it!!
One complete setup like what we washed out can run around $100. A little bit of soap and scrubbing and some time in the freezer or a bleach bath and it's like new again. Well, maybe not new but usable. :)
628DirtRooster I get it. If it was mine, I would be soaping it too. $100 saved is $100 earned lol! Those things where so nasty 😬 like maggots. Also after posting my comment UA-cam was kind enough to display ads for beekeeping startup kits lol. Thanks!
MeggsMermaidHair LOL UA-cam doesn't miss a trick. BTY I checked out your channel real quick. Congrats on that Double Dutch Braid video. That thing is stacking up the views. Everybody loves a braid. Thanks for watching. I'm gonna send my daughter over to check out your channel.
628DirtRooster lol Thanks 😎 My channel not as maintained as I would like but I have three children now. Maybe one day haha. I simplified the Dutch braid as much as I could. It's really hard to learn! People seem to be benefiting so, win 😁
could you reuse the frames with the wax combs in place that are cleaned. I just went through this and saved my super but the bottom box was so bad I had to burn it. I am buying a new bottom and will put new bees into it. I want to reuse the super and is loaded with wax but clean and free of the beetles and larvae.
You can use all of this. Just freeze it all for a few days first. Don't burn you equipment next time. Just freeze it for a while. That kills everything. Then you can wash it all before putting it back to use.
i wonder if someone's chickens wouldn't appreciate those beetle grubs. or if fish would eat them. like talapia? i know they both go crazy over mealworms. the reason i ask is because i want to start a beehive or two and if i get hive beetles i wonder if i could feed them to my quail or talapia. please let me know
Question regarding the use of bleach: Would the residue repel bees? maybe I'm just not good at cleaning bleach off wood products but it seems like there's always bleach residue for a long time. If I had the choice, I too would've used a dish soap over bleach for the reason of avoiding the residual bleach smell afterwards
Do you think it would be worth trying to put the entire box in a trash bag and then filling it up with a mixer of bleach and water then letting it sit with the top of the bag tied for about a day?
If you run across a similar situation, may I recommend pouring boiling water over the equipment? Then you can wash, but it will kill any maggots bugs and other unwanted critters.
Most of the time its to just have a healthy hive. A few beetles are not really of much concern, and a healthy hive can handle them. It's when a hive has a problem that the bees get overrun. It's analogous to a person dying of a secondary infection because of a compromised immune system.
Good night that is definitely the worst hive beetle infestation I’ve ever seen. That was so gross. Definitely a lesson in what can happen if you let the hive beetles get out of control. (If you had some chickens they probably would have feasted on those) Good that some of the hives were still thriving even without care. Amazing that such an apparently healthy hive is thriving right next to maggot city. What will happen to those hives? Are they just staying there as wild hives now?
This comment will probably make zero sense. Anyway, I came across your channel a few weeks ago and at first it creeped me out to no end. But I've noticed the more I've watched the less I fear bees. (I'm allergic to stings so I use to take off running) Thank you for showing that they are not evil, attacking demons but they are in fact rather docile creatures.
Thank you for being gracious and not blaming the old gent for letting his bees go south. It's hard when your body doesn't work anymore.
Old age does slow you down.
I'm disabled. I know how hard it isto have a broken body. I've always dreamed of having bees, since I was about 8 or 9. I just need a strong, able-bodied person to do it with me!
I'm disabled, and just learning about bees. I love the 8 rack kit that I am interested in. I could handle that, I think. My motto? "HONEY, HONEY, in 2020!" This year is my learning year! I'm 51. I enjoy this guy!!!
i literally dont know anything about beekeeping or anything like that, i live in the centre of a city lol, but these videos are so fascinating, and you seem like such a chill guy. I hope you keep posting :)
So glad to have you watching.
Beats By N Puvi me to, I'm actually terrified of bees and wasps, but I find theis videos cool. so I guess u can say I like them from a distance
It is possible to keep bees in the middle of a city, more than you might think.
This has to be one of your finest videos EVER! The range of emotions that this video evokes rocks even the Ricketier scale. I was almost in tears with the opening and then before I knew it, it was like a Halloween movie going into the shadowy, over grown backyard of the abandoned house where you know something is going to jump out and slash your brand new tire. Then it really gets scary when you show the hive full of the nasty maggots, I can just imagine those things crawling out of an eye socket on a decaying body. With the preliminary stuff over with, you went for the climax of the video, using your own brother as a stand in (and I can't imagine how much you had to pay him), you had him giving the maggots a warm bubble bath. Then, after I cleaned the vomit off my monitor from seeing the maggots swimming in their own excrement, you hit us with grilling hamburgers. True artistic creation. This is proof as to why you have over 25,000 subs. My one regret after watching this video was I could not hit the thumbs up a hundred times. Keep 'em coming, we'll be watching. Mr. Ed
Aw man you know you're giving me bad dreams with all the scary talk. I hope you got the puking scene on video. That could put you on the viral video map. Thanks for the great comment.
It just so happens I did video the whole thing. Unfortunately, a big piece of back splash landed right on lens and the entire event was blocked out by what appears to be a large piece of a nacho chip. Just my luck.
Nasty! LOL
Yeah, we know where the jumping out thing is going to come from, pal!
Fell out of the smoker??
I took to the chicken pen and they cleaned it up pretty fast.
The retired bee keeper is lucky to have you as a friend. Bless you for going over there and starting the clean up. I was so sad when you explained why the keeper had to stop keeping. You gave a lot of good information whilst you cleaned up and then.... a Turtle! A very nice looking healthy turtle. Thank you for ending on a high note!
Can't leave everybody sad. :)
My heart goes out to the man that aged beyond his hobby I hope he has lots of good memories from his bee keeper days. Hopefully he has found something that his body allows him to do to keep him happy. Great video.
This video is pretty great. A little bit of sadness, handled delicately, without recriminations. If he ever gets where he can go home but still can't take care of them, it's be nice if someone could treat those hives as a secondary yard. That way the bees can be taken care of and he can still enjoy them as much as possible.
He talked about quitting for a couple of years. After a few falls this year he decided to hang up his smoker.
I know this is an older video. But I have to say again you are a rockstar and this video was so personable, so caring, and just plain genuine. Thank you again. A fan
Aw thanks Lonna
I have been splitting wife's aunts hive, she is 80 and still be keeping. A great lady that always goes.
Pretty cool that she's still at it.
Wow, that intro was emotionally powerful. I could feel your bee passion. I love your channel.
It was a tear jerker. lol
I’ve been through the same thing too often. Gave up trying to wash everything like you did here. I fire up my steam wax melter and throw all the frames in and scrape in all the grubs. I get clean frames, rendered wax and excellent compost. Love your channel, mate. Keep it up.
Hey Dirt Rooster, a subscriber of mine suggested I come check your channel out. I post my beekeeping struggles along with other homesteading type activities. You're videos look good. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching man.
If you have a dedicated freezer you can just put frames in it for two days. Thaw and they're good to go. If you're new you're going to have it happen. Trick I use is dreching under hives with permethrin. Usually an infestation can be tolerated until the hive starts making its own Beatles in the ground under it.
@7:25 LOL I was watching this with my headphones on. When my grand daughter asked me did you guys made those worms into those patties?
I don't understand why keep watching your videos. But I do, I've binge watched most of your videos now. Got my sub.
Ha! Thanks for the sub.
Sort of a somber subject but full of interesting facts.
We had a tortoise like that roaming our backyard. She loved eating the rose petals and hibiscus flowers. Those suckers are faster then you think too. My hubby left the back gate open just a tiny bit. 5 minutes later the bottom of the gate had been pushed open a little and she was long gone.
Anyway, awesome video. 👍
We had one inside a fenced area around a big fig tree when I was a kid. Somehow it got out. I still think it climbed the tree and jumped the fence. LOL
Amazing work from turning this 5:58 into this 7:24. very resourceful !
LOL Took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about. That's gross.
hahaaa ;)
Love your vid's man, and your dad is the coolest cat!
I have absolutely no problem with bees. But I would have killed that infested box with fire! Cut my losses and take joy in the cleansing power of fire.
Everybody loves the crackle of a cozy little fire.
"Soapy water doesn't kill them immediately....uhh pure water takes...forever" idk why but this was hilarious. You're a cool dude love what you do!
Thanks for the views Timmy.
Thanks for posting all of this for us who are just starting out
Love your vids dude!! Very interesting for a 16 year old who
Took some AG classes been subscribed to you for a while thanks for keeping me
Entertained man aslong as you make vids I'll be here thanks again.
Thanks for the support.
>wash with soapy water & set out
>freeze & set out
>bleach
what about FIRE? To me, that looks like it could use a healthy dose.
If you use fire, then you're not saving the hive itself. Randy's whole purpose was to rescue the equipment...
it was a joke. :p
Actually, you can use a blow torch or a heat gun on a hive to help kill hive beetles and other parasites.
SpiritBear12 Perfect!
Skinny Mcdoogin
wat?
Can you reuse the drawn frames? After cleaning with soap and putting in the freezer?? Thanks for any answer
628 I enjoy your videos very much thank you and God bless
Thanks a bunch David.
This happened to my uncles when he was in hospital for a while we washed the frames and put the box on the side for the chickens to clean up
New to your channel and love your videos. You mentioned in one of your videos that you have a 2 day holding period on new bees to your place. Why is that? Do you have videos that take the viewer through the whole bee keeping process? This is fascinating! God bless you for taking care of the bees that help keep us all fed!! I ❤️🐝's!
Two day hold is on all swarms and on cut out colonies that I'm not sure I got the queen. Got quite a few video about it.
628DirtRooster - looks like that's what I will be watching tonight!! Thank you and great videos!!
Hah I was fastforwarding the video at the end. Saw you guys cleaning the frames. Next click there were burger steaks on a grill. Maggots ---> steaks.. :D
Found a slime out just yesterday while stacking boxes on. Time to wash some frames.
actually made me consider bee keeping as a hobby to help them out. + the honey be pretty good too. keep up the good vids
Aaah I hate larva of any kind! Bad experience with maggots when I was younger scarred me for life. I guess this video helped me a little bit, Definitely helped me clear my stomach.
You're welcome.
I just started beekeeping. I Absolutly love your channel! Keep up the good work
Thanks Erik
Nice wriggly rice dinner! LOL! Nasty! Sucks to get old...I don't even want to think of the day I can't do the stuff I do now! Keep on Keeping Man!
Eat these with chop sticks and a little soy sauce.
I hate the thought of getting too old and unfit to function. I dug out my boxing gear yesterday and plan on starting back on that a little.
Good to keep active! I really feel my age when I don't do anything for a few days!
A blow torch is the best tool to clean larvae followed by the soapy water.
Damn DirtRooster, you and yours are a good people. Keep up the great work.
It's all a front. We're rotten scum. ;)
TURTLE!!! Woooh yea .. good video 👍🏾👍🏾 enjoyed it
Thanks Gustavo. :)
Make ya up some beetle grease and no more mites or beetles! I made video on it and it makes beekeeping easy! I did not come up with this but i did copy it and it works great there in sunny Florida where beetles come to vacation and get a sun tan!😁
You are incredibly brave walking through the tall grass. I'm always terrified of snakes lurking!
Do you think your wife's chickens would have enjoyed the wormies? Or would it be a bad idea to let them touch the ground where they could hide and grow into big beetle?
Is the comb savable after washing out or will it need to be scraped back down to the foundation ?
I just found your channel man! Been bingewatching for like 2 hours now. Subbed
Ha! Thanks for the sub. Now take a break and go get some ice cream. :)
Way you started the video I had thought you were going to announce your retirement from beekeeping. Glad to see that's not the case just yet lol
I thought about titling the video that way but I hate click bait tiles. lol
628DirtRooster Really glad you didn't
Great to see you still uploading! keep it up!
Sure will. Thanks for watching.
it was like a train wreck... just couldnt quit watching...
lol
i would think a tourch moved along the inside of that hive or dump em out in a pile might of got most of them... dk how flamable that stuff is, or if i could stand a 2-3 second flame without igniting.. but would be intresting to find out...
thanks for another great vid...
How about drop them on the driveway and take a rolling pin to them?
That was a hard to watch but needed video. Knowing when to stop when you can't take care of things. No one would want things to get that point I would think if they ever cared to begin with, and if you took the time to care about bees you would care I would think. This seems like a video that should be shown to some elderly folks with early onset dementia so they will understand if you catch it early enough. I lived through helping my mother enough with dementia that after a point there is nothing you can do, one of the saddest things I have ever had to do in my life was deal with that!
Thanks for this. I just had to clean up one of my hives that was infested by hive beetles. I did pretty much the same. Its a nasty messy job.
Love the hat. Hey I have had hive beetles all summer. But I've checked every few weeks in all the frames and I never see larvae, just dead beetles outside the hive and underneath the bottom board. The hive is on a concrete slab so you would think I would see them crawling. Anyway, things seem to be under control. The bees are doing fine. Where do you think the larvae are coming from oh wise one?
Could you think of anything else they could be? Just dried up multl legged maybe 1/4" x 3/16"
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An abandoned lot behind my house has had hives for years and have never seen anyone tend them, fenced in well so can't get to them but bees have lived for at least the last decade without help in the hives
I would have just thrown that hive in the fire pit
You should see if they'll give them to you.
Oh my god, that's so nasty. D: That poor guy, having to give up what he loved doing because of age. :( It was nice of you to take the hives that weren't completely dead or hopeless, to give them a second chance. I'm really afraid of bees, but these videos have shown me that bees aren't the evil little demons I thought they were, especially since they're so important for pollination. Now, wasps, yellowjackets, and hornets, there's nothing that'll get me to believe they're anything but evil little demons.
Thanks for the education, one question I have would the start of wax moth problems in the hive start with a funny smell. One of my hives, has started to smell not right. And i have seen larvae on my bottom screen . And have seen a couple of moths in the top cover.
Weak hives many times have a different smell than healthy one regardless of why they are weak. Wax moths don't usually cause a bad smell like small hive beetles do though.
628DirtRooster Thanks sir.The hive has a very poor queen can see nothing on the frames but it just dont smell right.
littleninpo Are the bees pretty active?
628DirtRooster Yeah taking pollen in was watching them tonight but. But was getting a little cold so numbers wasnt as busy as usual
littleninpo Oh you're probably smelling the golden rod honey. It has a foul odor sometimes.
i found a couple larvae in my hive how do i get rid of them and prevent it from happening again?
Ouch! By the time you see larvae it may be too late. Take that frame out and freeze it for two days. After it thaws it can go back in a healthy hive to be cleaned up. You're going to have to keep an eye on that hive. Feed them.
Randy so those were hive beetle larvae and not fly maggots ?
Love watching these videos , but I have a quick question for you .. so I had a hive in the corner of our roof , and when the roofers came to do our roof they decided on taking the combs !! And now I'm having these beetle larvae creeping into the room where the hive was !! What should I do ?
Please reply
Sad story. Glad you are doing what needs to be done.
Thanks for watching.
can't help but watch everyday since I saw the first video should have your own TV show.
Ha! That'll be the day.
you forgot the fire ant trick... fight fire with fire ha.. that works if you have fireants witch I know you do but if you don't. the way your doing it works. a nother great video.
Oh you know we have the ants. lol Hope Y'all are enjoying the cool weather.
Do you use a Varroa Gate on your hive?
I was thinking that they could not resist hot water and they would still be food for fish or birds. Would that work?
so, question: can you use those larvae (I don't know is that it's the term I'm looking for) those baby beetles as fishing bait?
Chicken feed. They're pretty small for bait.
Those two busy hives looked like they could be saved and kept, at least. Maybe that weak hive could be, too, if it got some help. A nasty bit of work (maggot slime; ugh! DX), but not one without its up-sides. That first hive on the row looked especially strong. And I agree with some of the other commenters; all those larvae could make some pretty good chicken feed :) Ah, well; next time you get a call like this, your wife's birds can have their fill then~
They would eat till they puked. I'd probably puke as soon as they started. lol
+628DirtRooster You and me both, man. I'd dump the grubs and hightail it out of there before I could toss my cookies~ XD
Oh, man, I just noticed... You must have had to hose out your truck bed, too; it was covered with the..ugh... So nasty. DX
I am such a wuss lol- I can't look at stuff like that since "The Lost Boys". A couple chickens would be an odd thing to add to an equipment list... Have you ever tried using them to clean up beetle larvae? It's your fault- you inspire wacky ideas in me. (I love it)
Haha What was that like thirty years ago? That movie really left it's mark on you.
I have one or two old videos with chickens eating them but I can't remember which ones.
Great Video. Never seen it that bad. I use a huge cooler with bleach water and i place blocks on the wood to sink it.
Same cooler you take on picnics? lol
Sure!!! I leave the cooler fully loaded too.
Smokeydabee Charles Coleman Make sure there's some hot mayo in there.
Smokeydabee Charles Coleman Y'all get any wind from Matthew?
Nah, but i'm getting a lot of calls for downed bee trees on the east coast. Thank you for your concern . :)
Does this kill the larvae. Are not afraid they will get with your bees again.
I'm amazed. Here in Europe the whole lot, including the healthy hives, would have been destroyed. The ground around the hives would have been treated and an exclusion zone of several kilometers would have been put in place round the apiary. It would have been out of the question to keep, let alone transport, any of the equipment. There was a beetle outbreak in the south of Italy in 2014 and so far no new infestations have been discovered thanks to this policy.
Wow! We just have to deal with them here. They are in all 50 states to my knowledge and dealing with them is just part of beekeeping here.
That 🐢 at the end made my day.
Turtle turle
Definitely going to share this with friends.
Much appreciated John
id love to start bee keeping when i get my house, could you recommend books or video that would be good to check out.
my main concern is the equipement, can't seem to find any complete list
Beekeeper's Bible
Smoker, hive tool, veil, Bottom, two deeps, one medium and a lid. That's a good start.
Hey DR.! Been a while since we "talked". I don't know what you pick up on having 25K+Subscribers but I'm an old Mississippi boy that loves God, Country and Momma (and 628DirtRooster channel)! I will support the Constitution of the United States and Bill of Rights with my life. I am (apparently) Conservative but not Republican (like I thought I was for the past 40 years). My ancestry is White Evangelical Christian for many generations. I can trace my lineage back to the early 1700's and that only matters because I had hoped that the supply of prayers laid up for me would get me through these last 61 years! I WAS WRONG! I'm thinking now that I've been such a heathen that I've used up all my prayers and I'm on my way out! So far in 2016, I've lost a long term employee and my closest friend, I've had a series of heart related issues that has monopolized my time (something like your friend in this video) causing my bees to be unsupervised for 6 weeks. An area about 100 miles wide(east-west) and 300 long(north-south) are in severe drought and my bees are suffering! BEE RECAP: I started in March with 6 strong hives. I had 1 hive that just went crazy and I ended up with 4 splits from it. I also pulled about 25 pounds of honey from it. I didn't take anything away from the other hives. I did capture one swarm using your "Swimming Pool Lawn Chair Method" that should be patented. The strong hive is still strong but all the others are struggling. I've gotten In hive feeders and I am pouring the sugar syrup to them. I've lost 2 hives, 1 was a split and the other was once my second strongest hive. the strong one that I lost seemed to have succumbed to hive beetles and the other to wax moths. However, the pests may have moved in after the hive had starved to death. This is much harder than I expected it to be! BUT!, I will know how to deal with drought next time, assuming that I live long enough to experience another one!
Good to hear from you man. Glad you're still making foot prints. God's grace is sufficient to wipe away how ever many decades of heathen living we can manage to pile up so long as we have accepted Christ as our savior. I'm thankful for that because there's no way I wouldn't end up in hell otherwise. There's strength in numbers so you can count on my prayers.
Hate that you're having such a time with your bees but I guess that'll keep you from getting bored. lol Keep at it. We have a little bit of time left to build them up for winter. Maybe you snag some more easy swarms in the spring.
Stay in touch and let me know how you are doing.
Hey Randy, hope you and your family are doing ok. I see a lot of 'weather' on the news here in NZ and hoping not hitting you all. I guess that your line of work has been a bit crazy busy this Autumn! My thought n prayers with you bro, take care.
All the flooding in Louisiana missed us by a hundred miles or so and hurricane Matthew missed us by a good ways. Thankfully we skated by this time. Thanks for checking. Hope all is well on your side of the world.
628DirtRooster Spring here, flowers blooming, hives are booming. As we are island we don't seem to get the weather extremes. I've been inspired and had a crack at rearing my own queens using Cloake Board. Got nine queens on my first attempt but only eight hatched and one of those was weak n didn't survive (don't know why). Been able to create seven splits two weeks ago and will check this weekend to see if nucs are queen right. Made the nucs myself. Been very interesting. Hobby beekeeping definitely a way of life! Good to hear you all sweet.
GoBeeZerk Awesome success with your first run at queen rearing. Fun stuff isn't it?
It's so odd to me that it's spring there and fall here.
Yes the seasons being opposite is a little weird. I was surprised at my grafting success too. I saw that Tommy was using what looked like a nicot cupkit in one of your vids, so I have purchased one to give it a go when it arrives. My problem is bees not building up fast enough to fill nucs. How many frames do you use (min) to get them building up fastest? Is there a sweet-spot?
GoBeeZerk We use three frames minimum for mating nucs and such but we mostly run five frame nucs. We only have a hand full of three frame boxes. I like the Nicot system.
Feeding them 1:1 will make them draw comb faster which gives the queen more room to lay and grows them faster.
I’m not familiar with any of these costs but what’s the time or cost to just toss it and build a new box?
so funny story, I work at a truck shop and we once had a garbage truck in that needed the transmission fixed. well, the mechanic working on it dropped the valve body, and ripped the internal wiring harness. our shop is not Allison certified and the truck ended up sitting in the shop for about 3 weeks.
due to being full of garbage, the truck would drip juices on the floor. in the last two weeks when we came in the mornings we would shovel the maggots off the floor where the truck had been dripping juices all night, like 1000s and 1000s of them.
That was 4 years ago, and the concrete floor is still stained all the way down to the drain. nasty things
That had to be horrible to work in.
Always a shame for such a loss.BTW, need advice. Have a church member with a bee problem,any advice on what to use for repelling them from her house, & attracting into a hive box? As well as where to get the supplies? TY.
They will likely need to have the hive removed. Most beekeeping supply companies sell repellents used in honey extraction but it has a short term effect and you have to strategically place it. In other words if you just pray it in the hole where they are coming and going they will just draw into the wall until the smell goes away and then they go back to work. You can also buy swarm lures. Probably just google swarm lure. Most suppliers don't carry that as far as I know.
I know this is old but researching what to do since I now have this issue. I did not see what you did with the comb...Do you have to remove all the comb from the boards or are you able to re-insert in into another new hive? If so, how do you get all the bad honey out?
Rinse everything very good then freeze it all or use phostoxin to kill everything in the crevices. Bees do not like the smell of hive beetle slime and will not work those frames until they are pretty clean. Don't put those frame in a healthy hive until they've been frozen for a couple of days and rinsed really well or you'll just be causing another problem. Don't worry about trying to salvage any of the honey. It's a loss. After you rinse the frames you can leave them out to see if the bees will take anything off them. Do this well away from any of your hives so you don't cause robbing within your good hives.
Great video - thanks for posting. I have a similar problem, not quite as bad and still trying to save the hive. You said you can reuse the comb after cleaning. I know the honey is unusable, but did you harvest it and dispose of it before the cleaning process?
I don't recall there being any honey in this one but if there were I wouldn't worry about doing anything with it other than cutting the cappings level if there was capped honey. I may leave it out for my other hives to rob but they don't like hive beetle slime so if there's much of anything in bloom they may not even take it. I'd just wash the combs.
I'm getting into my hive tomorrow. This freaked me out. That is digusing.
Poor bees.
Getting old is pretty scary. Im looking at 50 & just started bees. I think my bees will go in my will, wants & wishes.
I dont care if I go in a dumpster when I die...but take care of my pets.
Ugh, this is so sad and gave me the chills. On the other hand, my chickens would've loved to get their breaks on that larvae
The chickens work them over once they figure out what they are. It takes them a few minutes to mull it over.
@@628DirtRooster beaks I meant to say, lol. Also, awesome that you replied on a 5 or 6 year old video. 🐝
Great insight....
Chinese delicacy. Crunchy beetle larvae to snack on like meal worms for chickens.
Thanks for the video. Now we can all see that a mess that large can be cleaned up and reused. #RockOn!
Good video as always. keep em coming.
Thanks man
Hello! Are the box/frames valuable enough to go through all of that normally or was this just for the sake of the video? Seems like a lot to go through. Thanks for posting :-)
~We love your videos, Been watching them for a while now. I find it fascinating everything you do. I don't think I could ever have my own hive where I live but my whole view of bees has changed after watching for a while. That's saying A LOT. I really appreciate it!!
One complete setup like what we washed out can run around $100. A little bit of soap and scrubbing and some time in the freezer or a bleach bath and it's like new again. Well, maybe not new but usable. :)
628DirtRooster I get it. If it was mine, I would be soaping it too. $100 saved is $100 earned lol! Those things where so nasty 😬 like maggots. Also after posting my comment UA-cam was kind enough to display ads for beekeeping startup kits lol. Thanks!
MeggsMermaidHair LOL UA-cam doesn't miss a trick. BTY I checked out your channel real quick. Congrats on that Double Dutch Braid video. That thing is stacking up the views. Everybody loves a braid. Thanks for watching. I'm gonna send my daughter over to check out your channel.
628DirtRooster lol Thanks 😎 My channel not as maintained as I would like but I have three children now. Maybe one day haha. I simplified the Dutch braid as much as I could. It's really hard to learn! People seem to be benefiting so, win 😁
Wow. Imagine how many beetles were added to that bee yard. I'd go and treat the ground below that hive before thousands a hive beetles hatch.
We moved everything out of there.
I learned it from Little Creek Bee Ranch!😁
could you reuse the frames with the wax combs in place that are cleaned. I just went through this and saved my super but the bottom box was so bad I had to burn it. I am buying a new bottom and will put new bees into it. I want to reuse the super and is loaded with wax but clean and free of the beetles and larvae.
You can use all of this. Just freeze it all for a few days first. Don't burn you equipment next time. Just freeze it for a while. That kills everything. Then you can wash it all before putting it back to use.
i wonder if someone's chickens wouldn't appreciate those beetle grubs. or if fish would eat them. like talapia? i know they both go crazy over mealworms. the reason i ask is because i want to start a beehive or two and if i get hive beetles i wonder if i could feed them to my quail or talapia. please let me know
My chickens will eat them.
Question regarding the use of bleach: Would the residue repel bees? maybe I'm just not good at cleaning bleach off wood products but it seems like there's always bleach residue for a long time. If I had the choice, I too would've used a dish soap over bleach for the reason of avoiding the residual bleach smell afterwards
if you put in in the sun it will dry up with no scent , we do it all the time with no problems what so ever
I have to try it, thank you!
Question out of the blue.......................One video showed you looking @ Privet Hedge, do they have anything to do with bee's too?
Bees produce a lot of honey off privet hedge in the spring.
Do you think it would be worth trying to put the entire box in a trash bag and then filling it up with a mixer of bleach and water then letting it sit with the top of the bag tied for about a day?
If you run across a similar situation, may I recommend pouring boiling water over the equipment? Then you can wash, but it will kill any maggots bugs and other unwanted critters.
That would be a good instant kill but would probably melt out some of the wax and warp the foundations.
What a roller coaster, so sad, in awe, in destroy mode and then oooo~! Cute tortoise~! 😂
Ha! :)
what would be the best way to keep beatles out?
Most of the time its to just have a healthy hive. A few beetles are not really of much concern, and a healthy hive can handle them. It's when a hive has a problem that the bees get overrun. It's analogous to a person dying of a secondary infection because of a compromised immune system.
Wow, I was thinking a torch might be the answer. But your way was better..
A torch would make short work of the situation.
Excellent video. Thank you Randy
Thanks Tim. Now we just have to keep the rest of these boxes healthy.
Woah that's a mess. Dawn soap and duct tape. The essential tools of mankind. Nice hat! haha have a good one bud.
Can't live without the two. Thanks for watching.
could you still recover wax from the comb?
Yes
I honestly didn't think you were going to say "wash it out with soapy water" I was predicting "kill it with fire".
Give it a bath.
Good night that is definitely the worst hive beetle infestation I’ve ever seen. That was so gross. Definitely a lesson in what can happen if you let the hive beetles get out of control. (If you had some chickens they probably would have feasted on those)
Good that some of the hives were still thriving even without care. Amazing that such an apparently healthy hive is thriving right next to maggot city. What will happen to those hives? Are they just staying there as wild hives now?
what about the hive that was on the verge of dying? was it possible to save it?
Not typically but yes it is possible.
I liked the 2nd intro lol great job dude
:)
That is sad. But thank you for saving the others. Did you take the healthy hives back to your house?
We did move them to a managed apiary.
This comment will probably make zero sense. Anyway, I came across your channel a few weeks ago and at first it creeped me out to no end. But I've noticed the more I've watched the less I fear bees. (I'm allergic to stings so I use to take off running) Thank you for showing that they are not evil, attacking demons but they are in fact rather docile creatures.
Thanks so much for the nice comment.
Yuk that was gross, but now I know what beetles can do to a hive.
Thank you.
They are nasty
that is lizard heaven right there lmao
Ooo that would be fun to watch.