Waited Two Weeks for This!!!
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- This is Part 6, The Epilogue of a 5 Part series...
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Part 5: • Just Wait... A Beekeep...
This is it... I waited two long weeks, but today I opened up the Italian hive to see if Queen Balboa's daughter was laying eggs. At the end of the inspection, I was swarmed with robber bees and had to close things up quickly.
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That queen cup will be for a stand by, and the others queen cups for the spring swarm. So be ready to do at least a small split in spring so you'll have at least 2 Balboa hives! Very cool, so glad Balboa offspring worked out better! I would feed syrup and pollen substitute if possible, so they will keep raising brood until the coldness of winter shuts them down. You'll have stronger hives in spring if they go into winters cold with more bees.
I'm going in tomorrow and will be starting the fall feeding and condensing the boxes a bit. I'm hoping they continue to build for the next few weeks. We are still quite warm here for the near future. I REALLY want to do some splits next spring if these hives make it. Thanks!
I am so glad your Italian hive had such a great happy ending. I still say you call her queen cleopatra. ;) Got to love the dancing at the end.
The upping of production quality is not going unnoticed, Jim, great stuff :)
I'm experimenting! Editing was getting too boring.
Love the videos! Not sure if you're familiar with Homesteading youtube channel "Appalachia's Homestead" but on there they've just started with bees, but her bee keeping mentor recommended that when putting the boxes back on, that instead of just placing them on top of each other, its better to start at one corner and slowly slide the boxes in to place, that way if any bees are on the edges of the box you just brush them off rather than risk squishing them.
I watched the whole series and this was such a satisfying outcome! You made a hive mind very happy by waiting it out! You have a true blood successor which will be much stronger for the original hive than a re-queened queen. Watch those robbers, though!
Good move removing those queen cups! She should ramp up the laying ...they are probably still thinking about supersedure just because it IS a big hive, but that should calm down pretty soon. Do you still have drones around or have they been kicked out since the major flow stopped? When you go in next just make sure you consolidate brood nest frames i.e. have major honey frames on the outside and the frames where they have brood (or have prepared laying space) in the rest, particularly in the second box from the bottom as that will be the warmer box away from any cold draughts from the entrance. You will start to experience a drop off in bee numbers caused by the broodless period, and that is also probably limiting how much she can lay as she needs younger bees to feed larvae, but don't panic as her first brood should be hatching next week and will give her more resources to cope with more egg laying. A small tip to help avoid robbing when there is honey around ...take some clean tea-towels out with you next time and cover the boxes you remove ...it conserves the heat and stops robbers getting the scent. I usually also cover most of the frames in the box that I am looking through for the same reason. Great job Balboa 2 ....very fabulous looking queen :) Looking forward to spring splits :) Great video as usual!
DreamofaHive Good tip about the towels. I had heard that somewhere else and forgot about it. Today is consolidation day. I'm heading up there to reduce the hives and probably start feeding a little syrup. Thanks for the great comment!
Hey just found your channel I have never watched anything about bees and understood nothing but after watching quite a lot of your videos it is quite amazing how it all works, Thanks for putting quality content on youtube you gainned a sub!
I have been looking forward to a new video all week. I was holding my breath when you took out that first frame and there were no eggs but I cheered when you took out the frame of brood. Woohoo!
I have been waiting for this!!! I got so nervous with that empty frame! I did a jig at home for you!!!!
Shawnda Waskel This was the best possible outcome. And the bees did it all themselves. Go figure.
Two cameras now? I like it!!
Experimenting! It's a juggling act with two cameras. Also, editing is a bit more complicated. I'll get the hang of it!
I like the two cameras as well... you’re not just showing off are you? ;-)
Great queen. Good laying patterns
Lets hope this is the start of a nice long healthy lineage. If you like their temperment, than maybe next year splits! It looks like they have produced quite a bit of honey as well. Great News!
Yes, this was great to see. I would REALLY love to split this hive in the spring. Hoping for a good winter.
I'm obsessed with this for some reason! love the vids
MartellaNutella It's been a dramatic year with lots of twists and turns. Very addictive to live through, too. Thanks for watching!
Me Too! Obsessed! :p
OK. I teared up a little. Yay!!!
Congratulations on your healthy hives! I've been enjoying your videos and am learning so much. This will be my first year in beekeeping. Hope to continue learning from you! Thanks for sharing!!
Glad to see Balboa Redux is locking it down for winter! And its crazy how you got the beginning of the robbing on camera!
She is beautiful! She filled out nicely. I'm going to check my hive that created a new queen a few weeks ago, tomorrow. I hope she has filled out like Balboa's daughter. I'm so happy for you.
she looks lovely! she got so big~ i got a bee tattoo because of how much i love bees since watching your channel XD look at her go!
You're going to have to send me a picture of your bee tattoo you got because of my channel! Awesome! Or put it on Instagram and tag me!
Love the videos. So involved with your hives I have learnt a great deal from your experiences. So pleased to see the brood. I hate robbers!! I had problems for a few days in mid September and put a gauze bee escape on and reduced the entrance to half an inch until the robbers gave up. I had thousands of bees on the hive one day, a few hundred the next then they left as the girls defended well. Now I hope they over winter as this is my first. They seem to have enough stores so the robbing didn't seem to hinder them.
If you shut down the entrances for an hour or so, the robbers will disperse. You just have to catch them in the act. Thanks for watching and best of luck with the winter.
Love your passion for your bees. Do that bee dance.
Call the Bee Police!! There's been a robbery!
Yahooooo! The House of Balboa continues to reign! :D Congratulations!
Looking very good! And they are storing a lot better than in the fall last year! Things are looking up!
Wulferious It's night and day compared to last year. This hive is full of surprises.
Excited by the progress! Thanks for an update. All worked out so well!!
This makes me happy
Me too!
Thanks for the update.
AHHHH I didn't know I would get this attached to a beehive and it isn't even mine! I just binge watched all the videos about the Italian hive from july to now XD What amazing little fighters! Love the videos and I wish all your well loved bees the best of luck!(subscribed beecause I love your vids!)
also riposare in pace to Queen Balboa, The first of her name
3:07 - Yes!!!
6:13 - Noooo!!!
Have you had any trouble with mites this season? I had them but I treated and I will be testing again this weekend.
Ciao!
The robbing happens occasionally. I just shut down the gates and the robbers disperse in about 30 minutes. I have seen no evidence of mites on the Russians. Nothing dropped on the mite boards at all. The Italians were broodless for 5 weeks in the middle of the mite ramp-up season, so I think that interrupted the mite cycle perfectly. I was going to do a test a few weeks ago, but I accidentally tore up a bunch of drone cells and saw no mites at all in any cells. I'm going in tomorrow so I might do a test to be sure. I'm hearing it's a minimal mite season this year.
I hope that is true. I haven't seen any on my mite boards since I treated so I think my eradication measures were successful. Good luck!
Love the happy dance!
The Balboa Jig.
Yes!
Congrats to Balboa II ! And to you detecting the robbing bees. To find out who's bees they are, take a handful of powdered sugar and toss it on the biggest clump of robbers. Then watch as the little white bees head for home. You can have some primitive bee-lining fun, or better yet, phone your neighbor and claim there are halloween ghost bees coming to visit his hive. -enjoy & Trick or Treat!
Yay for the new brood!
I'm new to bee keeping. Whats the visual difference between capped brood and capped honey? Are the caps different color?
Yes, they look quite different. Brood is yellowish and slightly convex on top. Honey is almost white and the caps are flat.
sweet! she looks like a ripper too! good stuff.
You look so happy and I'm happy for you! Yay bees!
Those are some awesome drone shots!
Why not use a queen excluder to keep the queen in the brood box? This allows the nectar to become honey in the second box or shallow super giving her room below to lay below and the frames won't used for nectar storage. Katie.
This particular situation was a hive I was trying to build up from almost nothing in the spring. They were a softball sized cluster but they survived the winter so I wanted to save them. I just fed them and nursed them all season. Not a production hive. I let the queen lay as much as she wanted. The queen wound up dying and the colony re-queened themselves and this hive is now the strongest hive in my bee yard.
Yay! Very happy for you sir
Jeff Messina Thanks for watching!
WOW good job momma!
Would it have helped to try and smoke the robbers? I'm thinking that they would smell the smoke and would want to flee the area.
Keeping busy is good.When you get 500 hives, you will be ready... to go for pollination,so make money.
Fantastic!!
Well done 👍🏻
Wouldn't smoking the intruders help discourage them from robing? Or is there no way to prevent it other then closing the doors?
turgsh01 You just have to shut them out. After an hour or so, they will disperse. Smoke won't help. It's like a feeding frenzy.
Are you going to build an enclosure for them this winter?
Hawk Worley I'm floating a few ideas right now. It will definitely be a bit different than last year.
Woohooooo!!!🐝👍
I'm not sure if you've considered this but most beekeepers have their Apiaries inspected once a year. These inspectors are a wealth of knowledge as they are our local (college educated) bee officials here in the Commonwealth, they are very attuned with what's going on in our region with everyone's hives, they WANT you to succeed in repopulating bees AND they are happy to answer questions and offer EXPERT advice as opposed to vague guesses on UA-cam. It could help give you some definite direction going forward. Here's the link for our local inspectors.
www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/agr/farm-products/apiary/mdar-apiary-inspection-request-form.html
Something about your videos there are addicting. Maybe I was a being a past life time... Or maybe you just remind me of the Colonel Sanders of beekeeping... Whatever it is enjoying your videos!
Nice love the bees
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Are you going to harvest any honey this fall?
Julee James I'm going to go through the hives tomorrow and make a decision. I'm hoping to steal a little. They had an amazing September flow and the hives are packed. I'm sure I'll be able to grab a couple frames. Just a taste! Then I'll start feeding right up to winter. Stay tuned!
ULTRA SUCCESS!!!!
Nice camera switch!
Have you used the flow frames yet?
Jim Schultz Not yet. I'm hoping to have one of my hives set up with flow frames this summer.
Obviously not as easy as they make it look. Has it been worthwhile?
Jim Schultz I'm just still learning how to keep bees. If you're into that, it's an incredibly rewarding learning experience. Rewarding financially? Not in the least! Maybe someday, but this is going to be a hobby for many years. I'm doing it for the bees, the education and for the pollination of my property. The honey part of it is like the 4th thing on the list... not entirely important to us.
Hi there, I love watching your videos so much. I would like to donate some money towards new batteries or equipment because I love watching your content. Is there any method you use or prefer for this? Please let me know it would be fantastic if I could contribute to your hives!
Casey Hastings This is very sweet of you. I'm not set up for donations at this point but there are two easy ways you can support the channel.
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I am doing this as a hobby because there's no way a channel my size could support a person, but like I said, I'm trying to grow. Someday, maybe next year(?) the channel will start to pay for itself but right now, I'm just trying to learn the ropes, improve the videos, get feedback and slowly increase the audience.
The best thing you can do is keep watching and tell a friend!
Thanks again for this nice comment.
More than happy to watch and share, I am unable to purchase anything from Amazon (Australia sucks). Are you sure I can send you some money via paypal? I would love to contribute to some gear, syrup whatever you may need for these little guys. Here in Australia we don't appreciate enough how lucky we are to not have veroa yet. These little guys don't just make honey they are the backbone to our agriculture, food supply and future. It would mean the world to me to support you and anyone else I can who helps our planet sustain these guys for the future!
Please just enjoy and share the videos. When we hit the big time and start having t-shirts and merch, you can buy something. We're OK on resources at the moment. Your warm comments mean a lot and inspire us to keep making videos! Thank you.
@@Casey_Ezaziel You are such a nice person. We need more people like you.
@@vinofarm It would help all of the UA-cam watchers to know this information. Does it matter if you watch the whole ad?
If your batteries continue to die even when charged, you may need to replace them.
Kimberly Rose Yes, I think it's just me not paying attention. User error. This time, I was trying to shoot with two cameras and I was distracted with the robbing. I just need to get in the habit of changing to fresh batteries in the middle of the shoot. Thanks for watching.
what we do for insects. yes we love them and maybe we do the right thing.
i think you need to feed them before the season ends...there is nothing for them to make reserves.... feed them..... or they will not make it..... through winter..... feed.....feed .... feed...
john neumann Feeding starts this weekend. Thanks!
cool
still waiting for the end of sourdough starter challenge 😩🤤
CHRISTINE MAYER probably winter time? Not too much to do for the hives and the crops (i guess)
CHRISTINE MAYER Yes, more sourdough videos will come. Right now we're in bee season and I'm doing one bee video per week plus I have 5 other videos shot from the summer that need to be edited and uploaded this fall. After that, it's baking season! I have two sourdough videos shot (need to be edited) and plans for several more. This is just a hobby for me. I'd love to do this full time, but there's the rest of my life, family, work, etc. UA-cam is a blast, but with my size channel, it's just got to fit in when I have 'free' time. And we all know how little of that exists. Please stick with me... I'm not going anywhere and the videos will keep coming. Slow and steady. Thanks for watching.
I know i’m just whining. 😀
Feed her.
Stimulate the laying of winter bees
Feeding starts this weekend!
what are swarm cells? i could google it ... but i dont want to, lol
Let me google that for you... lmgtfy.com/?q=what+are+swarm+cells%3F
If you used queen excluders you would know which boxes she should be in or shouldn't be in so you wouldn't have to dig though everything looking for her.
Do a small split and give her more room. If you put empty drawn frames in your hive she will have room to lay in.
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