Thanks for the plug to start keeping bees. I started last season largely because of your content and I'm up to 8 colonies this year and loving it! Keep up the great work!
I was privileged to be teaching a friend about bees the other day when a new queen started piping. My friends mind was blown. Always a cool experience. How many hives are you up to now?
Love hearing Vino getting some recognition. His videos were spectacular, and I learned so much. When my son sparked my interest in bees back in 2018 and I started watching UA-cam videos all of 2019 before getting my first hives in 2020. I spent tons of time watching UA-cam videos and have came so far in last 4 years hopefully this being my 5th year I start seeing some returns on all this time and money! Thanks for the video sir!
I decided to keep bees for the first time this year and I think I'm hooked. Watching bees has turned into something i look forward too. I will have forever engraved in my mind when i installed my first nuc and i was watching a guard bee defending her new home of all 5 minutes head butt an ant off the bottom board making me laugh out loud and my parents extremely confused why i was laughing while being surrounded by bees. Bees are quite fun to watch up close, videos don't do it justice (although i enjoy following others). Listen to the bug farmer, if you can and are thinking about it, do it.
@BugFarmerBees 3 is going to be my maximum. I have someone allergic in the area and don't want to push my luck. They were cool about me getting them though!
I wish I had the space to start beekeeping. As for keeping your apiaries free from SHB, don't discard wax in the grass. I saw you remove some chewed out queen cells and just drop the wax from it. As for bees killing superfluous virgin queens, that doesn't happen. The first one to hatch will search out the rest and sting them in the cell, after which the bees get rid of the remains. Alternatively, sometimes the first to hatch will swarm (and sometimes even the second and third, leaving a much dwindled colony).
I actually pick it up after I am finished in the apiary. I bring it home and melt it in a crock-pot. I tried carrying a bucket with me from hive to hive but it's just too much to carry around with all of the camera gear.
@@BugFarmerBees Thanks for the info, but you might with to say so sometimes in your videos as a lot of people see you throwing it in the grass and they don't see you picking it up, so learning bad habits.
Hi Brad. It's great to hear from you. If you can get a migratory top with a hole for the nuc you can put a 1 gallon bucket feeder on top. I am about to make 20 migratory tops for my splits.
I wish I had a place to put a few hives. I live in a town, I rent a house with a small back yard but I don't think that my neighbours would appreciate a few bees in their houses.
I just watched one of your videos from four years ago where you had a flow hive. I was just wondering if you still have your flow hive and if you do, is it still working as good as it was back then? And if you think the flow hiveis one of the greatest things that ever came around for beekeeping?
I do still have both of my flow hives but haven't installed them in a few years. I do still think they are the best innovation in beekeeping since the langstroth hives but they are most definitely designed for the person who only want's a couple of hives. Since I have been expanding my bee yars(s) it is important to me that all of my equipment be interchangeable. Unfortunately the flow hive is firmly in the hobbiest category. I may reinstall them in the future just because I like them but i am currently focusing on consistency.
Bees are like children. We spend a lot more time on the unproductive ones. lol If the virgin stats laying you may need to put a few frames of brood in the hive to help them make it.
Man, all your frames look so clean of propolis compared to mine.... do you have many pine trees in your area? Propolis so thick in my hives i have to scrape it out a few times a year just so I can get frames in an out again. Makes it so hard to get frames out, and then back in again. Ive tried a few different breds now and they all do it. Great stuff! good luck on all your hives!
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Thanks for the plug to start keeping bees. I started last season largely because of your content and I'm up to 8 colonies this year and loving it! Keep up the great work!
Excellent. I appreciate you stopping in weekly to visit and enjoy the bees. With 8 colonies you should be getting a pretty nice harvest this season.
Glad you got laying queens 😊 enjoy your videos thanks
Me too! I should have just folded those hives into other colonies but I am glad I was able to save them.
You're a great inspiration. Thanks for all the content.
Thanks a bunch. I appreciate you.
I love your videos! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a ton. I really appreciate you.
Another find beekeeping video again
Keep them coming
I will. You keep watching and I'll keep making
:-)
I was privileged to be teaching a friend about bees the other day when a new queen started piping. My friends mind was blown. Always a cool experience. How many hives are you up to now?
I have 40. After harvest I will split the 20 at the farm bringing the total to 60. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees oh wow
Love hearing Vino getting some recognition. His videos were spectacular, and I learned so much. When my son sparked my interest in bees back in 2018 and I started watching UA-cam videos all of 2019 before getting my first hives in 2020. I spent tons of time watching UA-cam videos and have came so far in last 4 years hopefully this being my 5th year I start seeing some returns on all this time and money! Thanks for the video sir!
All the credit to @vinofarm !!! He is the inspiration that got me into beekeeping years ago. All hail VINO!!!
*Happy to see you got a queen in that hive. I like the cell has been chewed out by bees "Not by me" hahaha I hope you're not chewing queen cells LOL*
I chew out queen cells when no one in looking :-)
@@BugFarmerBees hahahaha I must try that
Good job on getting those hives going again. You sure have a good eye for queens and it is so nice to not see all those stinky SHB.
So far this year I have only seen about 7 hive beetles in the farm yard. The beetle sucker 5000 is a beetle destroyer.
I decided to keep bees for the first time this year and I think I'm hooked. Watching bees has turned into something i look forward too. I will have forever engraved in my mind when i installed my first nuc and i was watching a guard bee defending her new home of all 5 minutes head butt an ant off the bottom board making me laugh out loud and my parents extremely confused why i was laughing while being surrounded by bees. Bees are quite fun to watch up close, videos don't do it justice (although i enjoy following others). Listen to the bug farmer, if you can and are thinking about it, do it.
The little buggers are addictive. Be careful though, they multiply like rabbits.
@BugFarmerBees 3 is going to be my maximum. I have someone allergic in the area and don't want to push my luck. They were cool about me getting them though!
I wish I had the space to start beekeeping.
As for keeping your apiaries free from SHB, don't discard wax in the grass. I saw you remove some chewed out queen cells and just drop the wax from it. As for bees killing superfluous virgin queens, that doesn't happen. The first one to hatch will search out the rest and sting them in the cell, after which the bees get rid of the remains. Alternatively, sometimes the first to hatch will swarm (and sometimes even the second and third, leaving a much dwindled colony).
I actually pick it up after I am finished in the apiary. I bring it home and melt it in a crock-pot. I tried carrying a bucket with me from hive to hive but it's just too much to carry around with all of the camera gear.
@@BugFarmerBees Thanks for the info, but you might with to say so sometimes in your videos as a lot of people see you throwing it in the grass and they don't see you picking it up, so learning bad habits.
Try using the Competitive Advantage Paint Markers they stay on the Queen
I just ordered some. Thanks.
Cool idea to have those nucs attached to the fence! Hey-do you know of a top feeder for a five-frame nuc? Good seeing you
Hi Brad. It's great to hear from you. If you can get a migratory top with a hole for the nuc you can put a 1 gallon bucket feeder on top. I am about to make 20 migratory tops for my splits.
At 1 colony so far. Not even 2 months into being a beekeeper. Hope to have more.
Awesome. it would be a good idea to have a second colony going to provide resources if you main hive gets in a jam.
How many days after adding queen cells did u wait before checking for a queen? Thx
I check after a week and if still not hatched I wait another week.
I wish I had a place to put a few hives. I live in a town, I rent a house with a small back yard but I don't think that my neighbours would appreciate a few bees in their houses.
You can beekeep vicariously through me :-)
I just watched one of your videos from four years ago where you had a flow hive. I was just wondering if you still have your flow hive and if you do, is it still working as good as it was back then? And if you think the flow hiveis one of the greatest things that ever came around for beekeeping?
I do still have both of my flow hives but haven't installed them in a few years. I do still think they are the best innovation in beekeeping since the langstroth hives but they are most definitely designed for the person who only want's a couple of hives. Since I have been expanding my bee yars(s) it is important to me that all of my equipment be interchangeable. Unfortunately the flow hive is firmly in the hobbiest category. I may reinstall them in the future just because I like them but i am currently focusing on consistency.
Bees are like children. We spend a lot more time on the unproductive ones. lol If the virgin stats laying you may need to put a few frames of brood in the hive to help them make it.
I never looked at it that way but you are 100% correct. I guess we just can't help ourselves. We want everyone to succeed.
Man, all your frames look so clean of propolis compared to mine.... do you have many pine trees in your area? Propolis so thick in my hives i have to scrape it out a few times a year just so I can get frames in an out again. Makes it so hard to get frames out, and then back in again. Ive tried a few different breds now and they all do it. Great stuff! good luck on all your hives!
I do have a ton of pine trees in the are but generally don't fight the propolis battle until mid summer :-)