Great information! I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast so hurricanes are a real threat! I haven't gotten any hives yet. I am doing research and taking in all the information I can and hope to begin next year.
Best of luck! You get hurricanes much worse than what I've seen here (knock on wood!). It's important to be prepared. It also really helps when they're near where you live so you can keep an eye on them.
Mann Lake carries a 3/4" x 60" black polypropylene nylon nuc hive strap. It has a plastic adjustable buckle that kind of looks like the shopping cart straps used to help keep a toddler in while you're in the grocery store. It only costs $1.95 a piece. This and a red clay brick and two wood screws at opposite corners of my hive cedar migratory and plywood hive lids is what I use in high winter winds in California.
Are we not worried bees themselves will be blown away as they emerge into the winds? or do they just ticker down and not emerge. Just had 2 hurricanes back to back but we're not huge. I put cinder blocks in both sides and one in roof and use ratchet tie downs ...didn't use reducer tho... good idea...thanks for posting.
I trust that the bees know better than to leave the hive when it's windy out. They also don't leave the hive when it's raining really hard. The bees who were already out when the rain and winds start, those guys might not make it back to the hive. It depends on whether they find a safe place to hide and how bad the storm is.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple I live in Central Texas, and have hives in a few spots...one spot, in Jarrell, they've blown over 2 or 3 times. That was no fun. It was just one hive stand (with 3 very large hives on them) but I didn't know where all the boxes went. I ended up just putting them back--guessing. One went queenless (oops), but I quickly made a split. But---nothing horrific like a hurricane. When the wind is 80mph...I can't complain too much...mother nature always wins. Still, so far, it hasn't been too bad. One hive the hive was insanely tiny and tall and ..it blew over...sure, it doesn't count (I made a better hive stand)... My new ones are better. (I loooooove my hive stands, free from construction sites and practical!)
Great information! I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast so hurricanes are a real threat! I haven't gotten any hives yet. I am doing research and taking in all the information I can and hope to begin next year.
Best of luck! You get hurricanes much worse than what I've seen here (knock on wood!). It's important to be prepared. It also really helps when they're near where you live so you can keep an eye on them.
Mann Lake carries a 3/4" x 60" black polypropylene nylon nuc hive strap. It has a plastic adjustable buckle that kind of looks like the shopping cart straps used to help keep a toddler in while you're in the grocery store. It only costs $1.95 a piece. This and a red clay brick and two wood screws at opposite corners of my hive cedar migratory and plywood hive lids is what I use in high winter winds in California.
Thanks for your comment!
Are we not worried bees themselves will be blown away as they emerge into the winds? or do they just ticker down and not emerge. Just had 2 hurricanes back to back but we're not huge. I put cinder blocks in both sides and one in roof and use ratchet tie downs ...didn't use reducer tho... good idea...thanks for posting.
I trust that the bees know better than to leave the hive when it's windy out. They also don't leave the hive when it's raining really hard. The bees who were already out when the rain and winds start, those guys might not make it back to the hive. It depends on whether they find a safe place to hide and how bad the storm is.
It's mortifying to think of beehives flying through the air and getting smashed up---not to mention just the loss of your equipment & bees.
It is a terrible thing that can happen and thankfully I've never experienced it.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple I live in Central Texas, and have hives in a few spots...one spot, in Jarrell, they've blown over 2 or 3 times. That was no fun. It was just one hive stand (with 3 very large hives on them) but I didn't know where all the boxes went. I ended up just putting them back--guessing. One went queenless (oops), but I quickly made a split.
But---nothing horrific like a hurricane. When the wind is 80mph...I can't complain too much...mother nature always wins.
Still, so far, it hasn't been too bad.
One hive the hive was insanely tiny and tall and ..it blew over...sure, it doesn't count (I made a better hive stand)... My new ones are better. (I loooooove my hive stands, free from construction sites and practical!)