she kind of has to "bee" calm or else the bees will pick up on her agression...nature is nature and you gotta love and respect it.... it's awesome!! :))))
+Glenn Locke lmao, this was anything but responsible. No need to smoke bees, sugar sprays are fine. No need for excluders, they harm bees wings. With the number of capped queen cells its obvious to see they are ready to swarm. No hive beetle traps means lots of beetles. this was amateur at best and im guessing you are not a beekeeper yourself otherwise you would have seen these Obvious mistakes.
+Permaculture Homestead Thanks for your constructive criticism Permaculture Homestead. You don't know me from a bar of soap & after watching your videos you clearly don't know your arse from your elbow. Experienced beekeepers refer to people like you as "bee havers". It really concerns me that with two years of experience and two beehives you are telling others how to do things. If you think that beekeeping without smoke is so good can you please post a video without your bee suit, veil, leather gloves and frame holder. I really enjoyed your latest video. One sting on the arse & you ran away. Anyway I'll let you get back to your trolling. facebook.com/Mt-Coramba-Apiculture-723210314434310/
i didnt tell any body how to do anything, nor did it troll your videos to talk trash cause you dont have the guts to post any. if your so wise how could you not see these blaring mistakes? thats my only real question for you, and then ill continue trolling, mr know it all troll.
awesome please sub and stick around i could always use some more trolls on my squad, dont forget to donate to our homestead on our YT page, and keep that ego about you its so befitting of a know it all.
I made my way here because I'm from Boston. Just moved to such a rural area, still in Massachusetts. Found we have carpenter bees, got so interested and curious. Then had to Google brood, I had no clue and learning so much about nature! So different! 💜
This is a great video series. I ordered and will receive my Flow Hive next week. My kids and I are excited to start. Are you going to continue this series of educational videos? The kidos really watching and learning about the bees. Thank you for the hard work and effort. It has been very educational. From Kerrville, TX.
Hi Erik, Queen cells can indeed suggest a swarm is going to occur. If they are found on the centre of a comb this suggest more that its a back up queen just in case. If there are signs of possible swarming, over crowding queen cells located at the bottom of comb. The best course of action is generally to split the hive to control the swarm. If a swarm occurs it can be caught and rehoused. We have videos on these practices too. -Kieran
Hi! I was wondering what you would do differently if you did spot the queen on the screen? Would you brush her off to try to prevent her from leaving the brood box? I’m interested in beekeeping in the future and am trying to educate myself as much as I can beforehand. Thank you!
Hi It was great to see your video. Being a novice I have a question. How I make sure I don't disturb or even loose my queen bee during inspection. Thank you,.
Did you allow your bees to draw their own wax comb? If not, what are your thoughts about it. I'm learning that plastic frames and plasticcomb in interfering with the bees vibrational signals and also helps promote larger bees thus tracheal mites.
Honey comb is not where the bees do their dance to communicate. If the comb has honey, it deadens vibrations anyway. Also, if the plastic interfered with their communications, the honey supers would remain empty.
Hey Joaquin, the Flow hive technology does make harvesting a lot easier/disruptive, but the reality is you still need to open up the hive regularly to manage it responsibly and stay on top of pests and diseases. Light smoking doesn't harm the bees, it simply masks the alarm pheromones and helps keep them calm. - Danika
نحن غالبا ما وضعت قليلا من السماد البقر المجففة في المدخن أوبور مع أوراق صديق و غراسكوتينغز كما السماد يخلق سرير الفحم في القاع. ننصحك بأن تطلب من النحالين المحليين أو نادك المحلي لتربية النحل لأنها أفضل مورد لتقديم المشورة بشأن أساليب تربية النحل الأكثر ملاءمة اعتمادا على المنطقة والمناخ. آمل أن يساعد هذا- ليه
Queen cells don't always indicate a swarm is going to occur, they can be present as a back up. If a colony is to lose a queen there is very little time for them to rear a new one. They need to quickly relocate an egg into a queen cell. There is also a process of queen replacement that a colony can undergo. Swarming is completely natural, and splitting can help control it. Its a sign of good health with bees wanting to spread their good genetic material. -Kieran
Thats a really old queen excluder isn't it. I never see them any more with holes running along vertical with the frames. If they sink at all on the hive, it limits the exposure where bees can pass through. The new metal ones are the best to use.
Hi Brad, our new ones are plastic but you are welcome to use a metal one if you prefer. The reason Cedar likes the plastic is so that you can slowly peel them off if they are attached with Propolis. - Sam
How do you rid the hive of beetles? Also, if you see a queen cell, can you remove it and place it in a separate nuc to reproduce hives, or do you have to wait for the old queen to swarm?
Hi Kira, the base of the Flow Hive comes with a screened bottom board and a coreflute slider underneath that has an upper and lower position. One option is to attach cloth to the coreflute board to trap the beetles, please see this video for more information - ua-cam.com/video/9Z36cJpKtTY/v-deo.html&feature=share Another great option for a beetle trap is to replace the coreflute slider with an oil beetle trap that sits in the same position. We have a great resource available with our Community Forum forum.honeyflow.com/ which helps connect people with experienced beekeepers from around the world. Michael Bush gives some helpful information for splitting hives. You can read about them here: www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm. I hope this helps,
How is beekeeping for women as far as lifting the weight of the supers with the honey, and and how heavy they may get with the amount of bees in them. Is beekeeping a full-time job? as I know wintertime is very different with bees to the summertime.
Hi Cathy, when the super is full it can be 18 or 21kgs to lift, a lot of people get help if needed. Beekeeping does take a lot of work but less work in the Winter and more in the Spring, check out thebeekeeper.org for more information :) - Sam
Yep. The Flow hive doesn't guarantee an immunity from those diseases, and you wouldn't be able to put any new colonies inside those supers after they were exposed.
I am getting so interested in bees! I have a general question. My neighbor sprays roundup regularly in the summer. I've read conflicting reports from being non harmful to the bees, to causing colonies to collapse and die. What is your opinion on this subject?
I have read mixed reports about round up. It is recommended to you chat with local beekeepers to hear their opinions, or you can ask on our community forum: forum.honeyflow.com. You may wish to read our bog post 'Garden sprays could be killing your bees' here: www.honeyflow.com/blog/garden-sprays-could-be-killing-your-bees/p/248 - leah
+Permaculture Homestead actually I have never done this before, I'm moving this winter, so by this time next year I hope to have a hive or 2 in my yard, just learning till then
Avoiding a swarm is incredibly difficult unless you add another section for brood. Mostly you just inform your most local professional bee keeper and they'll have the proper equipment for collecting the swarm safely
The bees will return to the hive after an inspection. being on the outside of the hive is very normal for bees. They also do something called bearding in hot weather. It looks like a big beard at the front of the hive. -Kieran
Admittedly I may not want to incinerate my Flow Hive which cost me £500! Is there anyway to just burn the wooden component and not the plastic honey supers?
In some countries the Flow Frames have to be destroyed. In some it is acceptable to irradiate or sterilise the Flow Frames. We have tested the Flow Frame parts with multiple doses of 15kGy gamma rays. We load tested the irradiated parts and tested them to destruction. The results were: 1 dose had minimal effect; 2 doses made the plastic significantly more brittle. Please email info@honeyflow.com if you need more information.
Bees rarely find their way into empty beehive boxes, even though they are designed to be a perfect home for them. We recommend that you contact local beekeepers as they can also help you to obtain or purchase a bee colony, and instruct you on how to place them in your hive. If there are no bees available locally you may be able to buy them from a bee supplier online. You can buy bees in a package or a nuc (a prepared hive that comes with some drawn frames and eggs). The nucs or packages can be bought from beekeepers’ suppliers in most countries, for example in Australia see www.aussieapiaristsonline.net/bees-for-sale.html
+Adam Johnson just some of them is not an issue. A healthy hive will manage it. In an area where they are abundant, having 0 beetles is impossible, countermeasures are then always necessary and the bees will then fix it on their own. But at a check like this you make sure that the beetles are not overrunning the hive. Then you'd need more drastic measure. Check your local beekeeper for that.
My flow hive arrived yesterday iv oiled and painted it to last the weather as soon as my brood frames arrive I should be ready to move my bees from my nuke box to there new home. Just very nervous about my queen flying off during transfer 🫣
Wonderful Arron, so exciting. Your brood frames should have been flat-packed in with your hive body. Please email us at info@honeyflow.com if you have any further trouble locating them. It can be a bit nerve wracking at the start for sure - do you have a local beekeeping mentor that can help you get started? best of luck! - Danika
+Bob Lim Bees don't store their honey in the brood boxes. Because there's a queen excluder, the brood box will mainly be used to lay brood in. When all the comb in the brood box is drawn out and there's brood on every frame, you can put a super on top.
+Bob Lim That is the case when starting a new hive. It is then still small and the hive will first store honey in the broodbox along with some brood. Once full they will start replacing honey storage for more brood. Thats when the honeysuper is added. A big healthy hive will eventually fill the almost all of the broodbox with brood and have just a little honey stored in the broodbox. In the broodbox it is one big circle of life for all the cells. As soon as a bee comes out of a cell the cell is being reused and/or cleaned and later an egg is layed. Therefor not all cells are "capped". Cells with partial honey storage. partial pollen storage, in the state of being cleaned, waiting for an egg, or having a live larve that needs food are all not being capped. Therefor it seems that this brood is not full, but it actually could be. Have a good study of whats going on in your hive and you'll notice :).
Hi, if your colony is queenless and is not already raising a queen you will need to get a queen as soon as possible. Please speak with local beekeepers and they may be able to help - Leah.
It's good to realise that swarming is the normal response of a hive to success. It means they are doing well enough to reproduce the hive. However, it can be inconvenient for the beekeeper to have to try and catch them. Michael Bush has some great information on Swarm Prevention. You can read about it here: www.bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm - Leah
Its hard to say exactly as bees can be unpredictable. Swarming is a completely natural process, and splitting the hive is the best method of control. -Kieran
I don't use smoker, I think bees should be agitated when their hive is open, they are protecting their colonly. I sing or talk to them while inspecting my hive, "Beautiful Lady" seems to work & I think its their favourite song.
Smokers can be really helpful to keep the bees calm and protect the beekeeper and the bees. Each colony is very different and some are quite calm. Slow and careful movements are very good. It is very quick for the smoking effects to wear off, and they take flight once more. It would be really wonderful if you have a video of singing to your bees. Such a great comment to read. Contact us on social media if you want to share more. -Kieran
Hi, this is Esmond from Malaysia. I came across your website on the unique way to harvest honey. I am very interested with the beekeeping method and would like to know if there's an opportunity to be welcomed as volunteer at your place for hands-on on every single "How-to". I understand that support from the expert will be given online with any purchase of flow products but i haven't got quite enough yet and sincerely request to be showered with kindness from your team and yourself on sharing me the knowledge of beekeeping cycle back in your country. Please rest assure that I will definitely find my way to pay my flight expenses from my side. Kindly advise what will be the timeline for someone with zero knowledge to master the whole beekeeping process and cycle? Upon understanding Malaysia regulations and getting approval from agriculture authorities, i would like to submit a proposal to them and be the pioneer to bring Flow Frame tech...
Momo * Ok ummm NO! lol my friend wants to get one to make cannabis honey. She is much braver than me. YES! I have seen so much good from edibles for the elderly it is mind blowing. To add honey would be awesome. GOD bless maybe I will overcome a fear =)
+Marci Lynn It is. An inspection like this is necessary for other reasons then just harvesting honey. It is necessary to check for diseases and check for the health of the hive. This is the only way and only necessary around twice a year. Check your local beekeeper for exceptions. Harvesting honey on the other hand could be necessary around 4-24 times a year, depending on region, season, temperature, weather and flower availability and such. Again check your local beekeeper she'll know. So disturbing them just twice a year instead of 6-24 times is a huge difference. Of course if you keep bees just on the edge of where its possible for example near the poles it could be that you could only harvest honey twice a year. In that case the number of disturbances aren't less, but there is still the advantage of that harvesting is way easier and you'd need way less equipment (no spinner/centrifuge).
+Marci Lynn That is part of the perception problem FlowHive has after their videos became popular. Beekeeping requires a lot of hive inspection and hands on work. All of which disturbs the bees (and sometimes humans.) The FlowHive only helps when it comes to honey extraction - which typically happens just once a year.
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This lady has a really calming voice😴😴😴
she kind of has to "bee" calm or else the bees will pick up on her agression...nature is nature and you gotta love and respect it.... it's awesome!! :))))
Was a must subscribe for me as I am brand new to starting out bee keeping brilliant videos and very helpful thank you so much 😊😊😊🐝
Great example of a brood inspection. Really important to shake the bees off the frames. Well done Flow for promoting responsible beekeeping.
+Glenn Locke lmao, this was anything but responsible. No need to smoke bees, sugar sprays are fine. No need for excluders, they harm bees wings. With the number of capped queen cells its obvious to see they are ready to swarm. No hive beetle traps means lots of beetles. this was amateur at best and im guessing you are not a beekeeper yourself otherwise you would have seen these Obvious mistakes.
+Permaculture Homestead Thanks for your constructive criticism Permaculture Homestead. You don't know me from a bar of soap & after watching your videos you clearly don't know your arse from your elbow. Experienced beekeepers refer to people like you as "bee havers". It really concerns me that with two years of experience and two beehives you are telling others how to do things. If you think that beekeeping without smoke is so good can you please post a video without your bee suit, veil, leather gloves and frame holder. I really enjoyed your latest video. One sting on the arse & you ran away. Anyway I'll let you get back to your trolling. facebook.com/Mt-Coramba-Apiculture-723210314434310/
i didnt tell any body how to do anything, nor did it troll your videos to talk trash cause you dont have the guts to post any. if your so wise how could you not see these blaring mistakes? thats my only real question for you, and then ill continue trolling, mr know it all troll.
+Permaculture Homestead I'm looking forward to the next episode of your comedy series. Any questions just ask.
awesome please sub and stick around i could always use some more trolls on my squad, dont forget to donate to our homestead on our YT page, and keep that ego about you its so befitting of a know it all.
I made my way here because I'm from Boston. Just moved to such a rural area, still in Massachusetts. Found we have carpenter bees, got so interested and curious. Then had to Google brood, I had no clue and learning so much about nature! So different! 💜
I dont know if anyone cares but I was more researching the young bee breaking its way out of the brood cell.
@@ritap7458 There are many wonderful things to discover in the world of bees. -Kieran
@@FlowHive Thanks! I really enjoy it, thanks for the reply.
they're so cute! great shot of that drone.
Under normal circumstances how often should you inspect the beehive like you demonstrated here in this video. Thank you for being a beekeeper.
The zoomed-in to a drone was so awesome 😊
This is a great video series. I ordered and will receive my Flow Hive next week. My kids and I are excited to start. Are you going to continue this series of educational videos? The kidos really watching and learning about the bees. Thank you for the hard work and effort. It has been very educational. From Kerrville, TX.
Let us know how everything has been going. -Kieran
Thank You ! Very helpful video !
Thanks for the photos and help
Are you concerned with the multiple queen cells on the frames? That hive is preparing to swarm.
+Erik Darm She is not too concerned -- 2:29 -- "Check brood twice a year.".....
+sevenmile exactly...
Hi Erik,
Queen cells can indeed suggest a swarm is going to occur. If they are found on the centre of a comb this suggest more that its a back up queen just in case. If there are signs of possible swarming, over crowding queen cells located at the bottom of comb. The best course of action is generally to split the hive to control the swarm. If a swarm occurs it can be caught and rehoused. We have videos on these practices too. -Kieran
8:50 this brood comb is very black and should be replaced, right ? How do you do a hygienic change of the brood combs ?
+Exil right :)
Thank you Madam , nice, mashaallah.
Hi! I was wondering what you would do differently if you did spot the queen on the screen? Would you brush her off to try to prevent her from leaving the brood box? I’m interested in beekeeping in the future and am trying to educate myself as much as I can beforehand. Thank you!
Hi It was great to see your video. Being a novice I have a question. How I make sure I don't disturb or even loose my queen bee during inspection. Thank you,.
Check the frame if there's the Queen bee in the frame
you have such a nice voice and i love the way you keep calling them "the girls" haha
Good video.
i would love to have a flow bee hive, but i don't have enough confidence to take care of the bees, so sadly, i have to miss out on this little joy
Did you allow your bees to draw their own wax comb? If not, what are your thoughts about it. I'm learning that plastic frames and plasticcomb in interfering with the bees vibrational signals and also helps promote larger bees thus tracheal mites.
Honey comb is not where the bees do their dance to communicate. If the comb has honey, it deadens vibrations anyway. Also, if the plastic interfered with their communications, the honey supers would remain empty.
1:14 but this is why I wanted to get a flow box so I didn't have to use a smoke box or harm the bees or get them high
Hey Joaquin, the Flow hive technology does make harvesting a lot easier/disruptive, but the reality is you still need to open up the hive regularly to manage it responsibly and stay on top of pests and diseases. Light smoking doesn't harm the bees, it simply masks the alarm pheromones and helps keep them calm. - Danika
من الممكن ايضا التدخين بفضلات البقر اليابسة لانها لا تاذي النحل
نحن غالبا ما وضعت قليلا من السماد البقر المجففة في المدخن أوبور مع أوراق صديق و غراسكوتينغز كما السماد يخلق سرير الفحم في القاع. ننصحك بأن تطلب من النحالين المحليين أو نادك المحلي لتربية النحل لأنها أفضل مورد لتقديم المشورة بشأن أساليب تربية النحل الأكثر ملاءمة اعتمادا على المنطقة والمناخ. آمل أن يساعد هذا- ليه
this transelaited not nice whith google but thank's verry match in algeria
Do your bees need more room or is there an other explanation for the presence of the queen cell?
+hoggy1707 Looks like she needs to split her hive or they will swarm.
+hoggy1707 they dont care... this flow hive thing is all a money making fad.
Queen cells don't always indicate a swarm is going to occur, they can be present as a back up. If a colony is to lose a queen there is very little time for them to rear a new one. They need to quickly relocate an egg into a queen cell. There is also a process of queen replacement that a colony can undergo. Swarming is completely natural, and splitting can help control it. Its a sign of good health with bees wanting to spread their good genetic material. -Kieran
So what swarming really is and what how and when splitting should be done?
Thats a really old queen excluder isn't it. I never see them any more with holes running along vertical with the frames. If they sink at all on the hive, it limits the exposure where bees can pass through. The new metal ones are the best to use.
Hi Brad, our new ones are plastic but you are welcome to use a metal one if you prefer. The reason Cedar likes the plastic is so that you can slowly peel them off if they are attached with Propolis. - Sam
How do you rid the hive of beetles? Also, if you see a queen cell, can you remove it and place it in a separate nuc to reproduce hives, or do you have to wait for the old queen to swarm?
Hi Kira, the base of the Flow Hive comes with a screened bottom board and a coreflute slider underneath that has an upper and lower position.
One option is to attach cloth to the coreflute board to trap the beetles, please see this video for more information - ua-cam.com/video/9Z36cJpKtTY/v-deo.html&feature=share
Another great option for a beetle trap is to replace the coreflute slider with an oil beetle trap that sits in the same position.
We have a great resource available with our Community Forum forum.honeyflow.com/ which helps connect people with experienced beekeepers from around the world.
Michael Bush gives some helpful information for splitting hives. You can read about them here: www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm. I hope this helps,
How is beekeeping for women as far as lifting the weight of the supers with the honey, and and how heavy they may get with the amount of bees in them.
Is beekeeping a full-time job? as I know wintertime is very different with bees to the summertime.
Hi Cathy, when the super is full it can be 18 or 21kgs to lift, a lot of people get help if needed. Beekeeping does take a lot of work but less work in the Winter and more in the Spring, check out thebeekeeper.org for more information :) - Sam
@@FlowHive Thank you :-)
Can the queen fly out when doing a brood Inspection and what happens if you get hive Beatles in your brood how do you get rid of them
Is there a hive to visit or how do I find out the nearest?
We don't have a public location, but you can try a local club.
www.honeyflow.com.au/pages/bee-club-directory
-Kieran
so even with the flowhive, if you end up with getting AFB or EFB you would still need to burn the whole hive including the super?
Yep. The Flow hive doesn't guarantee an immunity from those diseases, and you wouldn't be able to put any new colonies inside those supers after they were exposed.
Ioreck i actually contacted on there forums. Each frame of the super can handle up go 3 irradations. So they can be reused
Chris Miller
Well, TIL.
I am getting so interested in bees! I have a general question. My neighbor sprays roundup regularly in the summer. I've read conflicting reports from being non harmful to the bees, to causing colonies to collapse and die. What is your opinion on this subject?
I have read mixed reports about round up. It is recommended to you chat with local beekeepers to hear their opinions, or you can ask on our community forum: forum.honeyflow.com.
You may wish to read our bog post 'Garden sprays could be killing your bees' here: www.honeyflow.com/blog/garden-sprays-could-be-killing-your-bees/p/248 - leah
Hi Flow Hive, what do you do with the plastic flow frames if your hive gets AFB or EFB?
+MegaRedMan83 you have to burn and replace them.... cant reuse them
+Permaculture Homestead so if I got afb or efb I need to burn the entire hive or just the bees
No saving anything. Got to start fresh. Sorry if you got it
is the worst.
+Permaculture Homestead actually I have never done this before, I'm moving this winter, so by this time next year I hope to have a hive or 2 in my yard, just learning till then
Is it ever safe to remove a queen cell if you do not want some of your hive swarming with a new/old queen and loosing some of your hive?
Avoiding a swarm is incredibly difficult unless you add another section for brood. Mostly you just inform your most local professional bee keeper and they'll have the proper equipment for collecting the swarm safely
yea as long as you kill the queens before they hatch they wont swarm
there are many bees out of hive after inspection? we don't need to get them into the hive? it seems like that we lose many bees
The bees will return to the hive after an inspection. being on the outside of the hive is very normal for bees. They also do something called bearding in hot weather. It looks like a big beard at the front of the hive. -Kieran
Admittedly I may not want to incinerate my Flow Hive which cost me £500! Is there anyway to just burn the wooden component and not the plastic honey supers?
In some countries the Flow Frames have to be destroyed. In some it is acceptable to irradiate or sterilise the Flow Frames.
We have tested the Flow Frame parts with multiple doses of 15kGy gamma rays. We load tested the irradiated parts and tested them to destruction. The results were: 1 dose had minimal effect; 2 doses made the plastic significantly more brittle. Please email info@honeyflow.com if you need more information.
Is that the queen at 7:14 on the bottom edge of the frame?
It is her I believe but it may also be a drone 👍🏼
if i buy this hive then where i found the bee or buy?
Bees rarely find their way into empty beehive boxes, even though they are designed to be a perfect home for them. We recommend that you contact local beekeepers as they can also help you to obtain or purchase a bee colony, and instruct you on how to place them in your hive. If there are no bees available locally you may be able to buy them from a bee supplier online.
You can buy bees in a package or a nuc (a prepared hive that comes with some drawn frames and eggs). The nucs or packages can be bought from beekeepers’ suppliers in most countries, for example in Australia see www.aussieapiaristsonline.net/bees-for-sale.html
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Hive Beatles, but it's a "really healthy hive".? Do you have a place mat in the bottom of this hive?
+Adam Johnson do you think maybe that shot was from another hive??
+The Productive Garden No she's pointing to hive beetles in this hive and squashing them just after 14:14.
+Adam Johnson just some of them is not an issue. A healthy hive will manage it. In an area where they are abundant, having 0 beetles is impossible, countermeasures are then always necessary and the bees will then fix it on their own. But at a check like this you make sure that the beetles are not overrunning the hive. Then you'd need more drastic measure. Check your local beekeeper for that.
jo han There is a big difference between two beetles in the lid and the other shot they had for illustration purposes.
+Adam Johnson The flow hives come with a screened bottom board with a sheet that you can move to different positions.
My flow hive arrived yesterday iv oiled and painted it to last the weather as soon as my brood frames arrive I should be ready to move my bees from my nuke box to there new home. Just very nervous about my queen flying off during transfer 🫣
Wonderful Arron, so exciting. Your brood frames should have been flat-packed in with your hive body.
Please email us at info@honeyflow.com if you have any further trouble locating them.
It can be a bit nerve wracking at the start for sure - do you have a local beekeeping mentor that can help you get started?
best of luck! - Danika
Is it nuke or nuc ?
This day one for me of learning with knowledge of bee keeping were do I start I don't have bees I want to learn first
You've come to the right place!
what's a hive beetle? Do they cause problems?
There are Alvarroa in the cell kills the bees and we in Algeria, we use the medicine garlic and thyme, it kills
The beetle does not harm you should not be left in the cell may become a large and give birth
Flow hive have advised not adding the flow super until the brood box is full of honey which seemed not to be the case in this video - please comment
+Bob Lim Bees don't store their honey in the brood boxes. Because there's a queen excluder, the brood box will mainly be used to lay brood in. When all the comb in the brood box is drawn out and there's brood on every frame, you can put a super on top.
+Bob Lim That is the case when starting a new hive. It is then still small and the hive will first store honey in the broodbox along with some brood. Once full they will start replacing honey storage for more brood. Thats when the honeysuper is added. A big healthy hive will eventually fill the almost all of the broodbox with brood and have just a little honey stored in the broodbox.
In the broodbox it is one big circle of life for all the cells. As soon as a bee comes out of a cell the cell is being reused and/or cleaned and later an egg is layed. Therefor not all cells are "capped". Cells with partial honey storage. partial pollen storage, in the state of being cleaned, waiting for an egg, or having a live larve that needs food are all not being capped. Therefor it seems that this brood is not full, but it actually could be.
Have a good study of whats going on in your hive and you'll notice :).
Can you make a video of queen grafting mine is queen less
Hi, if your colony is queenless and is not already raising a queen you will need to get a queen as soon as possible. Please speak with local beekeepers and they may be able to help - Leah.
@@FlowHive Thank you
How do you prevent the hive from swarming.
It's good to realise that swarming is the normal response of a hive to success. It means they are doing well enough to reproduce the hive. However, it can be inconvenient for the beekeeper to have to try and catch them.
Michael Bush has some great information on Swarm Prevention. You can read about it here: www.bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm - Leah
this box is about to swarm
Its hard to say exactly as bees can be unpredictable. Swarming is a completely natural process, and splitting the hive is the best method of control. -Kieran
Next episode please?
I don't use smoker, I think bees should be agitated when their hive is open, they are protecting their colonly. I sing or talk to them while inspecting my hive, "Beautiful Lady" seems to work & I think its their favourite song.
Smokers can be really helpful to keep the bees calm and protect the beekeeper and the bees. Each colony is very different and some are quite calm. Slow and careful movements are very good. It is very quick for the smoking effects to wear off, and they take flight once more. It would be really wonderful if you have a video of singing to your bees. Such a great comment to read. Contact us on social media if you want to share more. -Kieran
Sorry but that's nonsense. They will not respond to singing or talking
Where's part 9?
Hopefully coming soon!
Are hive beetles bad?
+TaoVosh Games yes, will destroy weak hives, they deficate in honey.
Hi, this is Esmond from Malaysia. I came across your website on the unique way to harvest honey. I am very interested with the beekeeping method and would like to know if there's an opportunity to be welcomed as volunteer at your place for hands-on on every single "How-to". I understand that support from the expert will be given online with any purchase of flow products but i haven't got quite enough yet and sincerely request to be showered with kindness from your team and yourself on sharing me the knowledge of beekeeping cycle back in your country. Please rest assure that I will definitely find my way to pay my flight expenses from my side. Kindly advise what will be the timeline for someone with zero knowledge to master the whole beekeeping process and cycle?
Upon understanding Malaysia regulations and getting approval from agriculture authorities, i would like to submit a proposal to them and be the pioneer to bring Flow Frame tech...
capped queen cells
I thought the idea of the flow was not to disturb the bees......
Momo * Ok ummm NO!
lol my friend wants to get one to make cannabis honey. She is much braver than me.
YES! I have seen so much good from edibles for the elderly it is mind blowing. To add honey would be awesome. GOD bless
maybe I will overcome a fear =)
+Marci Lynn Can't make cannabis honey because cannabis is pollinated by the wind, not bees.
It's not to disturb the bees to get the honey, they need a brood inspection so we know that they're healthy.
+Marci Lynn It is. An inspection like this is necessary for other reasons then just harvesting honey. It is necessary to check for diseases and check for the health of the hive. This is the only way and only necessary around twice a year. Check your local beekeeper for exceptions.
Harvesting honey on the other hand could be necessary around 4-24 times a year, depending on region, season, temperature, weather and flower availability and such. Again check your local beekeeper she'll know. So disturbing them just twice a year instead of 6-24 times is a huge difference.
Of course if you keep bees just on the edge of where its possible for example near the poles it could be that you could only harvest honey twice a year. In that case the number of disturbances aren't less, but there is still the advantage of that harvesting is way easier and you'd need way less equipment (no spinner/centrifuge).
+Marci Lynn That is part of the perception problem FlowHive has after their videos became popular. Beekeeping requires a lot of hive inspection and hands on work. All of which disturbs the bees (and sometimes humans.) The FlowHive only helps when it comes to honey extraction - which typically happens just once a year.
Was a must subscribe for me as I am brand new to starting out bee keeping brilliant videos and very helpful thank you so much 😊😊😊🐝