I ❤ your Chanel. Treatment free means you searching possible genetics in all hives. Lots of resources wasting you need find 10 years minimum. U.S Agriculture solved problem with Dr. Harbo. He worked them 30 years. You can easily Harbo VHS breed stock. Also Italian ( hot area) stock Tom Glenn. Just buy breed queen 30 years gain. Also check Dr. Harbo pages how maintain VHS bees. USA beekeeper always lucky. Love from Turkey.
Treatment free up north yea, but down South ahhhhh, ya gonna need to keep the bees away from soils, like on a rooftop or some asphalt like terrain. Maybe a seriously dense pine area.
Hi, the mites can live for longer than many people think. The research shows they can survive without brood for over a year. Up here in Maine our bees often go several months without brood. The mites are definitely still there come spring, it doesn’t cut them down at all. Instead you can have more mites per bee come spring. You are literally calling commercial beekeepers or people using treatments ‘beehavers’ I hope you do realize that this is the most offensive term you could use. Normally small hobby people will actually fall into this category. They have bees but don’t really know much about them. I’ve seen some of your videos, it’s obvious you are a new beekeeper. Just some information. The mites can chew through the brood cells. They are not going to starve to death inside a cell. You have no peered reviewed research to support that claim because it’s false. An old man who wanted to sell books made it up. The only thing brood beak can do is stop mites from reproducing. If the bees are not able to get them off you will have almost the same mite levels and less bee’s after. Meaning more mites per bee. This OTS you are talking about is old news and is definitely still considered a treatment. Using brood breaks is a treatment. You are not raising resistance by doing brood breaks. you are doing the same thing as the person you call behaver. Those bees will die without intervention just the same as theirs. I’ve seen many people use the method you describe and they do ok for 6 years then everything dies. They start over and pretend it was anything but mites. I’m trying to be nice here. You can try your treatment free thing without attacking people like me or commercial beekeepers. Why would you choose to burn that bridge so early in your career? You really going to buy pallets off them, just to turn around and call them beehavers. I wish you the best of luck. You are not taking about working towards treatment free you’re talking about a method of treating for mites, so that name calling from you is extremely hypothetical.
I just stuck up for you on another post you're a Badger if you had any b knowledge you would understand that everyone has a loss. I don't care what her success rate is who did you learn from the grates all had years where they lost everything almost 90% at the worst a natural selection came about. She's going to learn she has so many different methods and techniques After she learns from her mistakes she'll be able to write a book And be amongst the legends You're a Badger for life go somewhere else and make your comments cause nobody cares
Explain to us great master without his own videos or information or book or semin ours why is it she's going to lose at least 50% and tell us how we can prevent that I know she would love to learn from you. I would love to find You on the streets Stop distracting people and start helping or get the heck out of here
@@dominicaparker4799 thanks I am a great beekeeper don’t know about master. If you don’t want to lose bees you grow with your apiary naturally you’re learning grows with your apiary you don’t just push and push for this high number of colonies that she obviously not ready for. 20 colonies one deadout 3 years of beekeeping. I also will have 100 colonies one day but I won’t have killed 100 to get there 🙌🏻
What do you think about this as a treatment, is it bad, is it better to not treat like this? ua-cam.com/video/timAIlH_1OQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ctNTTW_5rQkx0SoY
Just saw this video Dec. 14, 2024. Are you still a treatment free beekeeper? If you had a Russian bees wouldn't that be easier then removing queens from the box.
@@geraltofrivia8529 No poor genetics in my 17 colony apiary. New Wold Carniolan Sue Colby line!! I’ve lost 1 colony in 3 years of bee keeping. Bet that 🙌🏻 Perrysville, IN
Emily, I love that you’re talking about this. how late into July would you say we can remove a Queen for a brood break? Like when is it too late? I’m in MI near you. Secondly, I’m planning to follow Mel D’s OTS system for this. I think you met him at Napoleon Bee Supply. Curious what your thoughts are on his notching and requeening method!
I'm in Virginia near the south border of WV, I had a mean hive in September, requeened from a nuc I started in mid August from a cell. The hive overwintered very well and the queen was amazing all spring.. The drawback of making queens in late summer is the success rate is reduced from predators on the mating flight. If you do a late season brood break by removing the queen, you may use a dbl screen board to double your chances of getting a mated queen, if both come back you will have two strong nucs. If only one is successful, combine back together.. Just so you know, I'm requeening all my colonies and breed extra nucs to combine for better acceptance, you can follow the same process after a brood break because the queen's brood does help the hive accept the queen.
@@heavymechanic2 thank you for this information! It’s great to hear you’ve had success even later in the summer! I’m going to take note of this method :)
Hello Emily. Thank you for another video filled with great information. What are your thoughts about freezing brood to kill the mites? Do you sell queens or nukes?
No, hygienic behaviour can be observed from the entrance if you watch closely. They will place larvae outside the hive. The queen will quickly replace any uncapped brood.
@geraltofrivia8529 but wouldn't it interfere with the starvation cycle of the varroa mite being captured under the cap not being able to escape to another cell. If they are released before starvation, wouldn't they continue the cycle of going under a new freshly capped cell. Are climb onto another nurse bee until a laying queen returns.
@@raymondrobinson5251 If mites are disturbed in their cycle, they will need more time to get ready for another try to fertilize. So uncapping drops the rate.
i have never know anyone of my fellow beekeepers do this, i can see it working, but a lot of extra work when we have many hives. i treat my hives with OA vaporizer. I treat 1 time every month except in the fall I do 3 treatments around September or October 7 days apart for the brood break. i stop monthly treatments before winter months this works for my bees. I don't lose any hives with my method of treatment. we all do things differently as you know. Happy Bee keeping girl. you have a lot of bee knowledge for your age!! 😘😘
I've had my bees for 6 years I have never used any kind of treatment now they are mite resistant. They are healthy and everytime I do a mite wash there is zero mites. I wished I could share some pictures on here of them but it is possible it just takes a little work. It depends on how much you love your bees and if you want to be treatment free. Thank you Emily for your video they are amazing keep up the amazing work.
I am experimenting with brood breaks. But instead of removing their queen cells, I’ve been waiting until near time for their queen cells to hatch, like day 14 or so, and then I’ve used a razor blade to cut queen cells off the frame and split the hive into nucs, putting 1-2 queen cells into each. Then I recheck in a couple weeks looking for mated queens. If any queens don’t return, I just merge the queenless nuc with another that has a queen. Why buy queens when the bees will make one?
If there is one thing I ever learned, in bee keeping a queen will not lay in a dirty cell if there is a mite in it she won't lay in it, and worker bees won't clean it out
And the Academy Award goes to...dromroll...Emily Pedzinski!🤣👏🤣Love when u do ur little acting bits it's Hilarious!🤣I always wondered how long bees live for and a queen lives for 3-4 years thats Impressive! Amazing that the bees can detect when the summer/winter solstice takes place🤯As Always we can learn a Lot from ur winged friends☺️Interesting comparison between a beehaver vs a beekeeper, I can't imagine not entirely caring if I lost a hive over the winter or not😢Guess that's the difference between Caring about these living creatures and just Using them for selfish profit😔Well Thank U for another Great video, my Favorite Keeper👏😊👏Hope u had a Greag 4th of July and hope the fur babies were okay with all the fireworks🎉Take care and I will see U in the next one✌️☺️💛#emilyisthebeesknees #beefitbeekping #beefithoney #beefitapiary #beefitbeeyard #beefit #beekind💛
I love what you do You say at the beginning of the video do your research and do what works for you and your bees so I don’t know how some people can come on here and say half your colonies gonna be dead over winter but I’ve heard break the brood cycle
You will have to tell mites by washing, boards or any other method. Few hives won´t have to be treated, because they have very low numbers of mites. If you graft out of them, you get a chance getting really treatmen free in your yard.
that's funny treatment free
Day 1 to day 16 is a Queen Day 1 to day 21 are workers
And drones come out of the capped cells at their Day 24
I wish you luck.
I hope you honestly and truthfully disclose your overwintering percentage of survival next spring.
That’s bad beekeeping management do you have many winter losses ?
I ❤ your Chanel. Treatment free means you searching possible genetics in all hives. Lots of resources wasting you need find 10 years minimum. U.S Agriculture solved problem with Dr. Harbo. He worked them 30 years. You can easily Harbo VHS breed stock. Also Italian ( hot area) stock Tom Glenn. Just buy breed queen 30 years gain. Also check Dr. Harbo pages how maintain VHS bees. USA beekeeper always lucky. Love from Turkey.
Treatment free up north yea, but down South ahhhhh, ya gonna need to keep the bees away from soils, like on a rooftop or some asphalt like terrain. Maybe a seriously dense pine area.
So tell me if you don’t treat and I do treat and your mites get into my hives and kill my bees ?
Hi, the mites can live for longer than many people think. The research shows they can survive without brood for over a year. Up here in Maine our bees often go several months without brood. The mites are definitely still there come spring, it doesn’t cut them down at all. Instead you can have more mites per bee come spring.
You are literally calling commercial beekeepers or people using treatments ‘beehavers’ I hope you do realize that this is the most offensive term you could use. Normally small hobby people will actually fall into this category. They have bees but don’t really know much about them. I’ve seen some of your videos, it’s obvious you are a new beekeeper. Just some information. The mites can chew through the brood cells. They are not going to starve to death inside a cell. You have no peered reviewed research to support that claim because it’s false. An old man who wanted to sell books made it up. The only thing brood beak can do is stop mites from reproducing. If the bees are not able to get them off you will have almost the same mite levels and less bee’s after. Meaning more mites per bee. This OTS you are talking about is old news and is definitely still considered a treatment. Using brood breaks is a treatment. You are not raising resistance by doing brood breaks. you are doing the same thing as the person you call behaver. Those bees will die without intervention just the same as theirs. I’ve seen many people use the method you describe and they do ok for 6 years then everything dies. They start over and pretend it was anything but mites.
I’m trying to be nice here. You can try your treatment free thing without attacking people like me or commercial beekeepers. Why would you choose to burn that bridge so early in your career? You really going to buy pallets off them, just to turn around and call them beehavers. I wish you the best of luck.
You are not taking about working towards treatment free you’re talking about a method of treating for mites, so that name calling from you is extremely hypothetical.
She will lose 50% of her hives this winter, and i bet we never will hear about it
If she's lucky
I definitely won’t be hearing about it because I can’t watch this killing 100 colonies on my way to 100 colonies 💩 no more
I just stuck up for you on another post you're a Badger if you had any b knowledge you would understand that everyone has a loss. I don't care what her success rate is who did you learn from the grates all had years where they lost everything almost 90% at the worst a natural selection came about. She's going to learn she has so many different methods and techniques After she learns from her mistakes she'll be able to write a book And be amongst the legends You're a Badger for life go somewhere else and make your comments cause nobody cares
Explain to us great master without his own videos or information or book or semin ours why is it she's going to lose at least 50% and tell us how we can prevent that I know she would love to learn from you.
I would love to find You on the streets Stop distracting people and start helping or get the heck out of here
@@dominicaparker4799 thanks I am a great beekeeper don’t know about master. If you don’t want to lose bees you grow with your apiary naturally you’re learning grows with your apiary you don’t just push and push for this high number of colonies that she obviously not ready for. 20 colonies one deadout 3 years of beekeeping. I also will have 100 colonies one day but I won’t have killed 100 to get there 🙌🏻
What do you think about this as a treatment, is it bad, is it better to not treat like this? ua-cam.com/video/timAIlH_1OQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ctNTTW_5rQkx0SoY
Just saw this video Dec. 14, 2024. Are you still a treatment free beekeeper? If you had a Russian bees wouldn't that be easier then removing queens from the box.
This is sad on so many levels. I wish you luck.
Your going to lose a lot of bees this winter 😢 treatment free is hippie bull 💩.
That is obviously how the asian bees learnt to cope with varroa "hippy bull"
5th year treatment free.
Constantly treating is breeding weak bees. Feral colonies will exist for years, even in the states with your poor genetic diversity of bees.
@@geraltofrivia8529 No poor genetics in my 17 colony apiary. New Wold Carniolan Sue Colby line!! I’ve lost 1 colony in 3 years of bee keeping. Bet that 🙌🏻 Perrysville, IN
She's gonna lose a ton regardless.
She has no clue what shes doing. She wont even answer me every time I ask how many she lost last winter. Her silence is a obvious answer
Hello. I'm curious about your thoughts on the use of a push in queen cage for brood breaks.
I'm curious about this too......Following....
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Emily, I love that you’re talking about this. how late into July would you say we can remove a Queen for a brood break? Like when is it too late? I’m in MI near you.
Secondly, I’m planning to follow Mel D’s OTS system for this. I think you met him at Napoleon Bee Supply. Curious what your thoughts are on his notching and requeening method!
I'm in Virginia near the south border of WV, I had a mean hive in September, requeened from a nuc I started in mid August from a cell. The hive overwintered very well and the queen was amazing all spring.. The drawback of making queens in late summer is the success rate is reduced from predators on the mating flight. If you do a late season brood break by removing the queen, you may use a dbl screen board to double your chances of getting a mated queen, if both come back you will have two strong nucs. If only one is successful, combine back together.. Just so you know, I'm requeening all my colonies and breed extra nucs to combine for better acceptance, you can follow the same process after a brood break because the queen's brood does help the hive accept the queen.
@@heavymechanic2 thank you for this information! It’s great to hear you’ve had success even later in the summer! I’m going to take note of this method :)
Thanks for the info great video
Hello Emily. Thank you for another video filled with great information. What are your thoughts about freezing brood to kill the mites? Do you sell queens or nukes?
Question? If you have bee stock that uncap varroa mite infested cells. Doesn't that, in a sense, shot yourself in the foot?
No, hygienic behaviour can be observed from the entrance if you watch closely. They will place larvae outside the hive.
The queen will quickly replace any uncapped brood.
@geraltofrivia8529 but wouldn't it interfere with the starvation cycle of the varroa mite being captured under the cap not being able to escape to another cell. If they are released before starvation, wouldn't they continue the cycle of going under a new freshly capped cell. Are climb onto another nurse bee until a laying queen returns.
@@raymondrobinson5251 If mites are disturbed in their cycle, they will need more time to get ready for another try to fertilize. So uncapping drops the rate.
@@schulerimkereiobsflotwedel35 ok, that answers my question.
i have never know anyone of my fellow beekeepers do this, i can see it working, but a lot of extra work when we have many hives. i treat my hives with OA vaporizer. I treat 1 time every month except in the fall I do 3 treatments around September or October 7 days apart for the brood break. i stop monthly treatments before winter months this works for my bees. I don't lose any hives with my method of treatment. we all do things differently as you know. Happy Bee keeping girl. you have a lot of bee knowledge for your age!! 😘😘
I've had my bees for 6 years I have never used any kind of treatment now they are mite resistant. They are healthy and everytime I do a mite wash there is zero mites. I wished I could share some pictures on here of them but it is possible it just takes a little work. It depends on how much you love your bees and if you want to be treatment free. Thank you Emily for your video they are amazing keep up the amazing work.
I am experimenting with brood breaks. But instead of removing their queen cells, I’ve been waiting until near time for their queen cells to hatch, like day 14 or so, and then I’ve used a razor blade to cut queen cells off the frame and split the hive into nucs, putting 1-2 queen cells into each. Then I recheck in a couple weeks looking for mated queens. If any queens don’t return, I just merge the queenless nuc with another that has a queen. Why buy queens when the bees will make one?
Spot on Emily Good job!!!
yeah really spot on 🙄 She’s going to kill 100 colonies on her way to 100 colonies 😔
If there is one thing I ever learned, in bee keeping a queen will not lay in a dirty cell if there is a mite in it she won't lay in it, and worker bees won't clean it out
And the Academy Award goes to...dromroll...Emily Pedzinski!🤣👏🤣Love when u do ur little acting bits it's Hilarious!🤣I always wondered how long bees live for and a queen lives for 3-4 years thats Impressive! Amazing that the bees can detect when the summer/winter solstice takes place🤯As Always we can learn a Lot from ur winged friends☺️Interesting comparison between a beehaver vs a beekeeper, I can't imagine not entirely caring if I lost a hive over the winter or not😢Guess that's the difference between Caring about these living creatures and just Using them for selfish profit😔Well Thank U for another Great video, my Favorite Keeper👏😊👏Hope u had a Greag 4th of July and hope the fur babies were okay with all the fireworks🎉Take care and I will see U in the next one✌️☺️💛#emilyisthebeesknees #beefitbeekping #beefithoney #beefitapiary #beefitbeeyard #beefit #beekind💛
Taking a page from mel disselkoen
I love what you do
You say at the beginning of the video do your research and do what works for you and your bees so I don’t know how some people can come on here and say half your colonies gonna be dead over winter but I’ve heard break the brood cycle
Karen - How do I know I have a hive that removes mites in their hive
You will have to tell mites by washing, boards or any other method. Few hives won´t have to be treated, because they have very low numbers of mites. If you graft out of them, you get a chance getting really treatmen free in your yard.
Stop treating bees time now