Beekeeping : Is Your Hive Mean? How To Calm Down Your Hive
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2017
- You guys are always amazed my hives are so calm. Hi, I'm certified master beekeeper David Burns from Long Lane Honey Bee Farms and today I'll give you some tips on how to keep a colony calm as you work and inspect your bees. Check out our complete online beekeeping website at www.honeybeesonline.com or call us at: 217-427-2678
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I have very special bees. They specialize in propalyzing absolutely everything to the point where you find it almost impossible to not jerk those frames .
Another great video David! I watch your videos all the time. I live in the northeast so our weather is similar. Thanks for sharing your beekeeping knowledge.
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I am a first time B keeper, and have only done a complete hive check once. I still feel clumsy and awkward with gloves on, but not ready to go gloveless yet! This helps to observe how it should be done, slow and steady. Very helpful!
Are you gloveless yet? I am just starting.
I am not going to use gloves my first time, like a crazy person! I have about 8 epi pens & live right by the hospital.
I kinda want to get stung so I will know.
Good information about slow movements, I am new to beekeeping and have watched a couple of your videos, I enjoy your style and presentation. Subscribed from NSW Australia
Thanks!
Hey, I see you are wearing the exact veil with the cowboy hat I just purchase. Wow I love it. It is very well made. I plan on buying a few more for friends to visit the bees.
Greay Video David ! Enjoy all Your Videos ,Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you
Thank you for everything you teach!
Great video! Appreciate the upload. My goat-skin gloves finally wore out, so I've been feeling brave and going glove-less, LOL. So far on 3 attempts with no gloves and no stings! Actually, I appreciate the extra sensitivity on my finger tips. Its a bit scary when your holding onto a heavy frame and start feeling them crawling on your fingers. I certainly understand the slow movement and smoke! I hope those nighttime temperatures in your area warm up. Looking forward to your next upload. Have a good day
Good job. I love using my bare hands.
I find kitchen cleaning gloves are cheap and work quite well. Some brands are thicker than others. They're so much more flexible than leather gloves. I often buy the ones with the long forearm and a big colorful cuff sold at Walmart for about $3, hanging on pegs, not boxed. They get stiff and crack after a few months; I just buy another pair. Stingers have a hard time getting through. You might have 1/2 dozen hanging from the glove with their stingers stuck, but few get through to your skin.
Hi David
Thx for a really informative video. You left the 3 queen cells in the hive. As it's a small hive, are you intending to leave them all or will you remove any before they hatch?
To lessen that "snap" and the resulting jerk, hold your hive tool as far out, to the end, as you can.
This gives you more control, more torque (power) to break the propolis loose, with less (maybe none) jerking of your hands or frame.
Great video! Thank you! What do you use in your smoker?
David it 7/19/17 Last evening a friend and I opened a nuc he bought earlier this year . The workers were running to and fro on the comb . They were not defensive and we found the Queen on the fourth frame . The brood pattern was not very good eggs were in bunches but not wall to wall . I suspect the coloney will supercede her , found two queen cups , no eggs in them. The queen is Italian and the nuc was made up in california and sold in PA. I wonder why the bees are so runny ? Thank Rick
Awesome video! Thank you!
Thank you!
Was so proud of my calm hives, until today, when I went to split a double deep with honey supers and they went berzerker! Stung my hands threes times and were more than willing to give me a few more.
I have a tendency to move quickly and couldnt figure out why they always attack me. I walked up slowly, but moved my hands quick. So today I had to be really making an effort to move slow, once I did, they settled right down.i hope someday I can go bare handed...
What type of fuel sources do you recommend for smoker? I have trouble keeping mine going.
$2000 Queen? Is it encrusted in diamonds? The absolute best queens can be obtained for less that $300
Wow yes $2000 queen did they see him coming.lol
Where's the best place to buy a bee suit I've ordered one from Amazon 5 months ago I'm still waiting for it we'd like to know if there's a better spot to get it from? Remark thank you for all your information and videos they're very very helpful
I accidentaly dropped the top honey chamber and the bees went crazy. Now a day later they seem very protective, the start coming at me from 50feet away. Is that normal? Before the drop they were not going after me at all. Any suggestions?
David what is the best way to transport my hive from florida to north Carolina?
I got around 30 stings in half of the second today. Never seen anything like that before. But I know that I made a mistake. Better to wear good protection than to be surprised :) Got few shots at the doctor because of an allergic reaction, but I am fine now...
I am new to the beehive information if you have all of these queen cells ready to hatch and you don't want more bees do you just let them hatch naturally and MoveOn and swarm somewhere else
Seems that the propolis is cold and thus snaps, opposed to slowly pulling apart. That's been my experience.
Well done
4:45 bees at the round table haha 🤣
Like the frame hanger, good idea. $2000 queen ?
Hey David, have you ever tried spraying your hands lightly with Honey Bee Gone to see if it keeps bees from crawling on and stinging your hands? Please let me know. I'm trying new ways for gloves other than those cumbersome bee gloves. Thanks.
hi david, great video. I have about a dozen honey bees going into different spots at night on my deck. one went into the handle of my grill, another went into the arm of a chair, another in a gap in the siding. are they looking to build a hive? should I build a bee box for them? I don't want to spray they but some friends are allergic..
People I have known since the late-70's never mentioned anything about bee allergies until I show them some bee hives. According to my data 99 out of 100 people are "deathly allergic to honeybees". When I ask them about their epipen and they give me that "???" look I know that they're stretching the truth.
Do u have a light on in that area they probably just didn't know it was dark and got lost.landed in a dark spot and went to sleep
Mike, very few people are actually allergic to bee stings, and those people do need to carry an epipen. Talk to your doctor about it if you are worried personally. Mine informed me that epipens are not to be used except under emergency because their side effects can be more deadly than the bee venom. The thing about this that makes people worried, is that all humans react to bee venom in a negative way. Because of that, it is normal to have big puffy swellings, itchiness and pain at the sting sites. But swelling inside the mouth, throat, nasal cavities that can cut off your air supply, causing asphyxiation, is a killer. Not the venom itself. This is what the epipen is for. Beekeepers, who often take bee stings in their work, don't swell as much as other people who have had very few stings. Some beekeepers claim that regular bee stings will help reduce allergies.
I've been beekeeping for 6 years and sometimes when I get stung I swell and itch for a couple of days. I stared stinging myself a couple of weeks ago and one of the stings to the finger swelled up as the day went on. It got really hot and itchy. This one happens yesterday and the swelling has gone down a lot and not real itchy now. So I was reading about stings and I seem to have a large local reaction. Is this a signal I'm becoming allergic?The swelling wasn't really that big maybe silver dollar size. I've read a lot about stings and have gotten a lot of different opinions.
I've noticed that stings on different parts of my body react differently. My doctor does not think I need to carry and epipen, and I have read that it is normal to have varying reactions as long as they are not internal, reducing your breathing. For me, stings on my knuckles (or other bony places) are super painful, but stings on my face and neck are the worst. Whole face swells up, bruising type tenderness can lasts weeks if on a sinus area, eyes swell shut, and that flabby area under chin swells up like a ball. But none of these reduce my breathing. Stings on my thighs, calves, arms, shoulders don't really bother me much except for the itchiness and tenderness for a couple of days. Also, I had read there is another factor involved. Bees can carry 2 kinds of venom, most only have the milder variety, but some have a mixture I think, and others have the strong one. I'm guessing the strong variety is what africanized bees have. But the article where I remember reading this had mentioned that about all bees, not just southern ones.
Awesome videos!
If you want to be just a hobbyist having bees. How can you only keep a couple of hives and not have any more?
As they will keep having more baby bees and the hive will grow and then swarm if no more room!
So how would you keep only two hives ?
Let them swarm 🙃
@@beek Thank you for your reply!
Dave I see that you have 4 slots cut out on your inner covers is that for more ventalation
Hey Dave, can you reply to Doug's question please? I am curious about the answer too. Thanks
Sometimes just a little wisp of smoke, all good, other times the bees get really noisy and start flying about. Noticably irritated, what's up with that? I usually decide it's not the day to inspect.
Dave - what software do you use to edit your videos? I like the arrow and the on screen explanations.
Final Cut Pro/MacBook Pro
David Burns were are the arrows. we use FCPX and haven't found them
Thanks for the video David! Looks like you didn't take me up on the offer on the tripod for the $2,000.00 Queen. Oh well! What's your favorite smoker fuel? I personally have access to pine needles and like them.
Pine needles are great. Old blue jeans are best for me.
David Burns old burlap feed sack too
yup
I have a handy bale of straw, so that's what I use. I keep a large handful in a ziplock in case the bale gets rained on just when I need to use it! I have pine needles too, and tons of dry weedy material, but the straw is easy and pretty clean to deal with. I also ordered these little herbal smoker things on ebay that look like a big cigarette filter. Just light the end of it and put it inside with the straw/needles/paper etc. It stays lit longer than the dry material, so keeps it going for a long time. You can even open it and add another handful of straw if gets used up before you're done. The little filter thingie lasts quite a while.
Dave, I appreciate you and your videos because they educate and help so many people. New and old bee keepers.
However, it’s unfair to make people think that there are hives that are not aggressive. There are aggressive hives. It has nothing to do with your movement. It’s genetic.
This year I purchased a Nuc. This Nuc was amazing and a bee keepers dream. A 5 frame Nuc placed in April were able to draw out 2 deep supers and a honey super filled with honey by June.
Then the nightmare began. The bees would sting anything and everything. They went for me outside the apiary. My neighbors fifty feet away from the hive. It had nothing to do with vibrations or fast movements. The hive was behind a covered fence. I couldn’t examine the hive. 60,000 bees would pile out of the hive. Smoke? The more smoke the worse they were. The neighbors had young grandchildren visiting and elderly parents. Normally, I would have requeened. I could not wait 6 weeks for the monsters to die out. I had to eliminate the hive. The night that I finally made the move in them. The bees actually came out of the hive in the dark. Those bees hung around for a week. There are aggressive bees. I wish that the producers of the Nucs in the south would make sure the queens are not Africanized.
You are correct about everything else in your video. Especially your comments about using the supersedure cells to create other Nucs or place in queenless hives.
When I was a kid in Oklahoma we had 2 hives in the back yard. One of the hives was pretty chill as long as you didn't jar the hive or do something stupid. But man the other hive was just a bunch of a-holes, the minute you approached within 5 feet they got after you and they didn't quit. We theorized they must have had some African bee DNA, that was back when African "killer bees" were all the rage.
@@inharmonywithearth9982 yep. We had our mean hive in 1977 or maybe 78. I remember all the hysteria and the horror movies. Fun times
Say David, when Stuart over in England has aggressive bees, (bees that fly out away from the hive and bother people on trails he gets rid of the queen). When I get aggressive bees that bother my neighbors they get the black garbage bag treatment.
Portable heater to keep them warm.
hi from maine
Come on down to central Texas and try to calm my bees. been trying for 8 years to raise calm bees. I've given up.
Yikes!
LOL probably too many Africanized genes flying around down there to keep a hive sane permanently!
What type of queen do you have that is worth 2k?
it's a joke
I appreciate the emphasis on working slowly, its slways best, more to avoid unnecessary bee deaths than anything. But I can hand in heart say that one of my hives is absolutely unworkable without a full suit no matter how slow you go. As soon as the super is off its like bastard bomb has gone off. They do settle after a minute. But them first seconds are hell. I don't know what is up with it.
More smoke and duct tape :)
You are so smooth and sexes foul , I am jealous , and new, not too good results on my 2 year, but I am learning thanks to you.
Why do smoke pacify bees?
If you worked my Aggressive hive you would not call them defensive
Grow some lavender. It's been proven to calm bees down.
Ditto. My bees are a holes.
You could replace queen
Why didn't you clean the burr comb off?
I'm a guy :)
Form me at my 2000 hives a queen is like part of my car engine,if it is not working, I just replace it.I mate them in lab, so they ready to go quik.But never pay $2000 for a Queen.
My camera/phone is black. Notice the lack of one-handed bee hive inspection videos? I could do a few for laughs.
Hmmm....so maybe it turns out our older digital cameras may still have a place after all? My family is constantly harassing me for not using my phone often enough for photography. I'm always saying, "wait I have to get my camera" and they're always saying "you HAVE a camera in your phone!". LOL glad I still have my little Cannon brick.
My bees are super “defensive”😳😖. Got stung 15 times yesterday 😭.
Did you say $ 2000 queen ?
Dave Where dose one get a $2,000.00 queen ?
Most expensive i ever heard a queen cost is 90 ... out of canada buckfast 2000?
It's a joke! Meaning, I don't want to sell her, but everything has a price :)
For what some of those worthless dogs go for i can see a bee which is worth its weight in honey work back some of that money in 5 years vs something that is an entitlement lol. You remind me a lot of Mike Palmer or from the 5 part show the monk and the honeybee some good info also out there is the National Honey Show. I can see you being a speaker at one of these events. I have friends in japan and china and its bad from what they say. In china they have to hand pollinate crops. In japan the pesticide companies blame the uneducated farmers yet they spray over the hives. I think of all this a lot like the dust bowl when it lands on washington dc then something will happen and then people will become awake i hope it is not too late.
The worst part is you would hope thatnone smashed spider would be a sign to the rest but noooo
What...do you think you're some kind of expert?!
Oh I guess you are.
lol
You know I was taking pics the other day of my bees working on crimson and ladino clovers, I was using my phone camera, apparently they do NOT like something about a cell phone. Every time I got my phone within a couple feet they started getting nervous and would fly off. It was kind of odd, you'd think they'd not pay attention to something like that at all while working flowers.
Easy Easy slowly slowly easy easy damit i just got stung!
I discovered a very good Native American way to deal with stings. After you get done rumming around screaming like a little girl and whining a lot, take some tobacco on it. spit on it. Your spit, not water ) put it on the sting (after of course you have removed stinger. ) Put a band-aid on it tightly. It really works.
Sometimes you just have to close the hive and walk away for a while.
A word = Agitated
2 Gs for a queen? Are your hives on a weed farm?
What kind of gold do you have in that Queen?! $2000 !!!!????
A $2000 Queen? WTH?
what the hell do you mean $2000 queen?
$2000 queen...? Howd you fit Latifah in there?
get a nikon p1000 instead of your camera you can zoom almost in their butts from 30 kms away lol
WHAT'S This about a $2,000.00 Queen?! *WHY?* Weather \ Splits \ Small box in Chilly, (cold) temps w\ 'elite' queen. ~ _hmm_
I was wondering Why wild Bees have been 'nice', (tolerate) but now Not So. =\ (years in low outer porch wall)
Another, New, 6-8 mon. in shrub - Not cool! - Really bothers me why temperament is so different. =b
Do they have Queen? How to tell? or where to find info. _mean hive - Bitch rules nest_ ? I think there's too much shade for Boxes. = (