Essential Seasonal Hive Maintenance
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This video shows how I perform Seasonal Hive Maintenance, having bees necessitates taking care of beehives.
Beehives need to be scraped and painted on a regular basis. Additionally, the type of paint matters, and the colors can make a difference.
Personally, I like to use white paint, and many people paint their hives with whatever paint they can get at a discount.
What many don't know is that bees see colors differently than us and some colors calm them more than others.
Taking care of hives is pretty simple, but it can be time consuming. I find that the time spent painting and preparing my beehives extends the wooden ware life which saves me much more money in boxes than what I lose in time.
Besides, it is therapeutic to me to spend time performing repetitive tasks that don't take a lot of thought.
When doing seasonal hive maintenance I can free my mind and focus on the task and let my stress melt. I find that after spending an evening working on tasks like painting sometimes solutions to problems I have been focused on just pop into my head. I only wish I enjoyed painting.
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This is one of the linked videos to The Basics of Beginning Beekeeping: How to Start, Manage, and Harvest Honey from Your Hive Includes Many DIY Beekeeping Tools, Book 3 of the Homestead Basics Series
nice video thanks
Nice vídeo! Congrat!
What ever happened with the mason jars? The last update I can find only had the bees working in one jar at the beginning of the season. What happened after that? Was it successful?
Hi Dave. Thanks for the video (and all of the others too). Good tip to stack them up; makes sense and keeps the paint off the top and bottom which can be a pain until the paint really dries if you mess that up. I use another method by hanging them from a pole. Check this video for a preview: ua-cam.com/video/mPp-Hf3yEKY/v-deo.html
nwnjba Thanks, thats a cool video
How is the mason jar bee thing going?
nice video thanks