We Saved The Bees | Two colonies brought back from the brink.
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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About this video: Today we will be doing our final inspections of Hive 10 and 20 before harvest. We will also mow the bee yard and look at a Vevor mower blade sharpener. If you are interested in the mower blade sharpener vave a look at the following link or scan the QR code in the video.
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Although this beekeeping channel is primarily about beekeeping I am also a quasi pepper who believes in becoming self-sufficient. With that in mind, I have started a garden, planted fruit trees, replaced the hedges in front of my house with blueberry bushes, and have recently built a chicken coop. In short, I will share a lot more than beekeeping on this channel.
A little about me:
I am a person who believes you are never to old to learn something. Be it beekeeping, farming, raising chickens, painting, filming and editing video, making wine, beer, bread, cheese, and other fermentation consumables, play guitar etc... If I see something I want to try I start it immediately. If there is one thing I could choose to pass along to my children this would be it. Never be afraid to try. My wife famously told me once that if you are not willing to be bad at something, you will never be good at it. I am bad at quite a few things.
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The term is derived from an old children's game called dibstones, which takes its name from the obsolete verb dib, meaning "to dab" or "to pat." (For our angler friends, in the past, "to dib" also meant "to fish by letting the bait bob and dip lightly.") Dibstones, or dibs for short, has had many different incarnations over the years, some of which date back to the 17th century. In most versions, it closely resembled the game of jacks, often involving tossing up small objects and catching them on the backs of hands. Other forms of dibstones were similar to what we generally consider to be the game of marbles. It's not absolutely clear how dibs acquired its sense of "claim" from the game of dibstones. We do know that, in whatever form it took, dibstones almost always centered on the manipulation of small objects, themselves called dibstones or dibs. These dibs could be anything from pebbles to the small knucklebones (which is also a game) of a sheep. It's likely that the game allowed a player to gain privileges over their opponents if the dibs went a certain way. Another theory is that dibs was influenced by dubs, a shortened form of double that is used in the game of marbles as an exclamation to declare one's right to two marbles knocked outside the ring of play. If dibs came to be used in a similar way, it is possible that its meaning broadened over time to convey the more general sense of "rights" or "claim" that it possesses today.
Comment pinned! Thank you so much. Now I know and will share with the world :-)
Thank you for making a longer video.. I just love them and give me a chance to sit down and make grape juice while watching
I love longer videos, and if I need to leave, I pause it and come back later for the rest of it.
Once again thanks.
Thanks. Now just add yeast to that grape juice and make wine :-)
Glad to hear more advanced beekeepers are seeing more nectar and honey in the brood box. First year keeper our mentor checked with us last inspection and said the same thing. Adding more supers to encourage them to rectify the situation. Your channel has been a wealth of knowledge to us.
Thank you so much @Bee_Cathy . I just learn as I go the same way you and others do while sharing my experiences in hopes that you can learn from both my successes and failures. Thanks for being out there.
Man I started following you after you made the bee barn a long time back. Your channel has grown so much since then. I am really enjoying the fantastic content I missed over the years. Thanks for sharing with us!
I really appreciate you being out there and taking this journey with me. Sometimes my videos aren't that good but I can say I work hard to improve with each one. I have a Bee Barn inspection coming up on Friday where I finally pat them a little attention. Thanks again for your support. You are appreciated.
Remove your queen excluders until the bees start working the honey supers then put them back on.
Once the bees are working the honey super, the queen excluder won't slow them down. Especially true if foundation in the honey super instead of drawn comb, make sure there is at least one frame of comb up there
Great suggestion. I will do it today. Thanks.
I love the magnet in the pocket to hold the tool
It works like a champ.
Dibs the right to share or choose something
Look at he pinned comment above. They provided the origin of dibs :-)
Nice to see that your hive is doing ok for you.
It has been a struggle but it looks like we finally saves the Enigma hive and hive 20.
I always used it when there was a girl that caught my eye
dibbs!!!!
00:21:41 I can fix it! I made a video on the repair. Ha 😅😅ha
00:24:48 I have three deeps with a few frames of brood in each. They also keep filling the drawn comb around the brood with honey.
I expect the rainbow pattern of honey and bee bread but my bees just seem to be filling entire frames down stairs which is causing a bit of trouble for my harvest :-)
You should have rubbed that wonky comb you removed (from 22:14) back onto the frame, giving the bees a foundation.
I actually tried but it wasn't soft enough. If you watch you will notice a cut right there. I cut that part out :-)
I find our girls will backfill the broodnest if we don't have an upper entrance for them. I set the boxes back just enough to expose the rabbet. Gus Mitchell described this and I think Bruce also shows it in a recent video.
I do have upper entrances in each of the hives.
@@BugFarmerBees My other thoughts are that they bring it in and put it where they can and go back out and reorganize at night but I can't confirm that.
If you have watched other videos around the south, we are all having the same issues. We are all having a super year but we are all having too much nectar stored below. Big hives are 5 and 6 high and hives that are solid are keeping it all in the nest. I am getting a lot of honey but I have had to do a ton of manipulation. I am in the midlands of S.C.
I have been trying to find a beekeeper close to Orangeburg s.c do you know one
You are right. It has created a ton more work as I have to keep manipulating the brood chamber all season on top of the excess work I have created for myself with the demaree configuration. Live and learn I guess.
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I liked your scion trap video yesterday. I think I may be setting a few of those up for myself.
@BugFarmerBees thanks friend. I didn't mention in the video but the day before I was letting my mother smell some swarm commander gel I put on a stick. I didn't want to just waste it so I rubbed it on the bottom of that scion then next day boom!
If you don’t have honey and the brew chamber, how is the queen going to eat when you got the queen extractor to keep her from going up to where the honey is?
There is always going to be some honey in the brood chamber but this year I have bees filling the brood chamber with honey. So much so the queen has become honeybound multiple times in multiple hives.
At 7:18 top right queen cup
Yikes! Thanks.
Maybe instead of roundup you should try, horticulture vinegar, doesn’t harm you or the bees it not a long-term solution but it seems to do good for me
Good luck!
Thanks I will. I had another subscriber agree to send me a recipe.
We have dibbs in NY too
Look at the pinned comment above to see where dibbs came from. A subscriber provided all of the info. :-)
Gus Mitchell addresses this...
Try staggering honey boxes to allow bees into supers without passing thru excluder
I have upper entrances installed on all of the hives.
I have hives like this that seem from the outside weak, but a lot of bees inside. Sometimes I feed them or pollen paddy them.
Pollen sub will kick them into high gear for sure. I will give them sub after the harvest and OA treatment.
My girls weren't storing nectar in the upper super so I removed the queen excluders. Perhaps your queen excluders are too small when the workers have their bellies full. Try a different kind of excluder or remove one from a hive and test it.
That is an idea. That said, it seems to be happening to all of my hives and I have several different types of excluders. That said, I have heard from Bob Binnie that some of the plastic excluders sold by some manufactures are a bit small. Thanks for the tip.
We have weird spring going on here in Texas people say that there's no honey in one area and the bees are packing it in in areas 50 mi away
My bees were putting honey in the lower two brood Chambers I run double deeps
I don't understand it this year. Overall it won't be a problem and will make my after harvest splits a lot easier because I can transfer a good bit of food with the bees but it will lighten my harvest a bit.
Hi found out the reason there put feed down below cause one there are hungry or they are thinking of them self first put one to one till your flow
generally they will store the honey in the super directly above the brood chamber and keep as much space for the laying queen as possible. This year just seems to be different.
Saw the eggs
excellent!
Hello. Why did you put a narrow frame or frame above the queen excluder? What function does that frame that is between the queen excluder and the super serve?
That is the shim with the upper entrance. My goal is to ghet the field bees to enter and exit through the upper entrance and prevent the excess traffic through the brood nest. All I really want in the brood nest are the queen and nurse bees. I feel like if I have too much traffic through the brood nest the bees could feel crowded and decide to swarm.
Thank you very much for answering. So that is the entrance to the hive, it is similar to the Snelgrove method. That is, only the frames of the upper boxes are completed with food?
Don’t use RoundUp…use white vinegar instead. I can give you a cheap and easy recipe if you’d like.
Thanks, please send to my email.
My bees are doing the sane. Idk why. In Maryland.
I think they are on to us!!!
If possible move a food frame or three up and it will encourage them to draw above
It will also encourage the transfer of nectar/honey from the bottom to the top
That is a great idea and I actually started doing that this year in several of the hives. I just seed the super closest to the brood chamber with a couple of honey frames and viola! the bees start drawing comb and filling the supers.
I have same problem here in NJ with them fill brood up with honey. Big flow idk
I guess they are trying to keep it away from us beekeepers :-)
Then queen excluders are killing your honey
I have heard that from more than one beekeeper. Some people call them honey excluders.
Did you find the metal frame holder? Or did I miss that?
He did find it behind the enigma hive in the grass.
I did but did not show myself finding it in the video. It landed on the cutting room floor so to speak.. It was in the grass behind the Enigma hive. That would have been a disaster had I hit it with the lawn mower.
Great video as always, do you have a link to the magnet you use in your pocket?
Yes. Just take a hacksaw and remove the ring: a.co/d/742wV5w
Looking for a beekeeper close Orangeburg South Carolina
Get some hives and that beekeeper can be you :-)
It's really disappointing hearing that specially a beekeeper is using roundup😢
It's not my favorite thing to do but it's better than ants climbing on to my hives.
Calling Dibs is taking first turn at something. IE If thar are apples and you call dibs you have first pick.
We all understand that, but that still doesn't answer the question about what a dib(b) is.
Look at the pinned comment above. We now know what dibs are :-)
Ive been watching for a while now. i still enjoy content but that intro is a little long winded. I prefer the shorter content. have you considered splitting vids into 2 videos a week at about 12 mins?
There is a reason for the intro. It actually has more to do with google than the video but it must be there. Sorry. Just give it a quick skip.