Spring feeding round
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2024
- Today was my first trip round my out yards this Spring and what a beautiful day to be outside. A real Spring day in Maine! This yard of saskatraz bees are in great shape and those with good supplies of honey got some pollen substitute and those a bit short of honey got Winter patties.
I’m glad to see that your bees are doing so well. Thanks for sharing.
Ha Peter I really enjoyed your video, your bees look great. Doesn't feel great to be back in your bees, and just to hear there sound. Keep the videos coming. Have a Blessed week
We had a good fly day yesterday. I have a hive in another apiary that has some Heather in bloom nearby and they are collecting pollen from it. There is no other pollen coming in yet. I did see a silver maple at a friend's that is about to pop. I may bring a weak hive over there to replace a couple dead outs he had. That silver maple is usually a week or more ahead of the alders, red maples, and willows around my home apiary. Thanks for sharing, Take care, Brice
Peter, your bees looked really good there. In a couple of weeks a little equalization and you're ready for spring buildup. Have a great spring.
Yes this will be a great yard to bring my overwintered nucs to to boost them on top of these big expanding clusters.
Hey Peter, great to see the size of the hives. Sweet revenge against your Toons the other day. We owed you for that loss at your place. Arsenal 4 Newcastle 1. Keep up the great videos and good luck with the bees this spring.
That was painful to watch!
2:03 what a lovely sound!!!!
I finally started to see pollen coming in this weekend. Crocus and silver maple pollen I think.
Peter I enjoy your videos. I’m in a northern climate as well I was wondering if you sold sakatraze queens or know any queen sellers I’d like to try out that stock of bees in my yard. Thanks for posting
I stock them from May 1 to mid July
Do u ship queens?
Hi Peter,
We are having a similar weather pattern where it is too cold to feed syrup but the bees are very active.
Curious if you can share any details about your “Winter parties” as right now we are only able to emergency feed sugar bricks.
Thanks in advance.
When I see tires like that with water in them, I always think "mosquito factory". Of course not an issue in winter.
It's forecast to get to 61F Wednesday. I have a question. Do you know if bees have memory ability. I have a dead out and periodically this winter which you know has been very mild I have bees robbing a frame of honey I left out for them. I don't know if they are from a wild colony or someone else's hive in the suburbs. I do have a lot of woods near me though. I left the frame in a hive and when it is warm enough they rob it. I was thinking that if I keep this location on their radar I might catch a swarm this spring. Do they just find it a new with each warm spell or are they capable of any long term memory?
Bees that swarm in the spring are NOT the bees alive in the winter. So no, they dont pass along the memo, but! You have the ideal swarm trap it sounds like.
Sadly no, Bees will remember through their life but food and home are different. They will also be different bees as current bees will have died. However you can set things up as a swarm trap and you may get lucky.
I lost a swarm last year from my layens hive and I also caught a swarm which might have been my own bees but they did not make it. I've had consistent robbing when warm and know they are not my bees because they leave my yard going north of me so I'm hoping I will catch a swarm this spring.@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer
I was debating when to put pollen patties on my 3 surviving hives. If we have a decent weather break Wednesday I will at a pollen patty to each hive
Does insulating hives make a difference?
YES, manyfolks will say no, but it does, It reduces losses during wild temperature fluctuations in Winter and helps speed up Spring build up.
Nice video. Just out of curiosity. When dropping pollen like this directly on the bees do they die ?
Some will.
@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer But they die happy
With the temperature in the 50s will you start mite treatments.?
Not yet that was our first 50 day this year! Havent had one since!
Are do you worry about swarms in the tires? When the time comes?
No
Why are you putting the patty’s right on top of the bee?
Are those hives only one deep?
Some are yes.
Got a lot to work with in that yard those will build right up .. I have a lot ended up starving.. guess I didn't feed enough last fall... Bees burned thru way more than normal.. we only had 4 % sun in January they must of burned thru it. Got some instrumentally inseminated VSH breeders coming in May .. I have 150 latshaw carnolian Italian hybrid and Caucasian virgins coming from guy out your way.. I got some last year great stock.. I still have 80 really big ones plenty to work with.. good thing I checked them about to lose everything. Don't want them all to live anyway frees up equipment. We had first pollen here in Michigan week ago it was pouring in today.
Can't wait for pollen then you feel they have made it!
I'm at 100% of 43 colonies surviving winter.
@@AmericansBee that's great... I've had years like that.. I've had mini nucs over winter..