It looked like you had all new frames in those boxes. If you put in a frame or two of drawn comb those bees would have marched in much quicker, I think. I have tried it before and they ran right in. Good video though, thanks for sharing!
Fascinating! I have a hard time believing you can handle those bees so easily without getting the daylights stung out of you. It goes counter to everything you ever hear about messing with bees. Great video!
Deaf as I am, I can still hear bees and see swarms afar. I always can 'scent' a hive from 1,000 feet downwind. It smells like ' Grandma's taking bread out of the oven ..
Hi i am not a Bee keeper but i every time i come across bees or bee keepers i am fascinated by them and listening to their chat and what they have to say about the bees , a very interesting subject thank you so much kind regards from N Ireland .
Love the 🐝 videos I think it’s a great mix for your channel.Glad to hear oxalic acid vaporization has been a fantastic benefit to the health of your honey bees 🐝.
I was fortunate enough to encounter a city bee swarm, in a tree branch over hanging a city sidewalk, along the Madrona Marsh here in Torrance, CA. Thought of your bee videos and my uncle that kept city bees.
Enjoy your posts on here and on wood. You were talking about putting the ramp for the bees to go up on. I was told it helps with orientation of where the entrance is for the workers when they start foraging. Good luck with your bees and keep up the great posts on youtube. I live in Denham Springs, La
I think that piece of paper was not laying flat in the entrance, and that was making it hard for them to squeeze in the opening. I think you should give it another shot but taking more time to prepare it, I think then it will work like a charm.
JP the beeman , lets them crawl in, some times on a sheet and the rest of the time, on the ground. Ones they know the queen is in the box, they will march right in.
It's possible that putting the sugar water on them is the problem with them going into the box. When they have sugar water on their wings (or honey), they will start cleaning one another up, licking off the sugar water. So perhaps you are asking them to do two thing: save themselves by quickly cleaning one another's wings and bodies of the sugar liquid; trying to get to the queen. It would be interesting if you looked very closely to see if the bees were 'grooming' or cleaning one another instead of making fast progress into the box where the queen is.
What you're doing with those bees is a great and impressive way to get a natural swarm into a hive. They are in search of a new place anyways and will walk into the dark. Also this reduces the probability of them moving back out because they somehow chose their new home by themselves. It's not ideal for packages like these I guess.
Why did you install the queen in the upper brood box - except for the first one that was shaken in front of the hive? There is nothing in those new hives to attract the workers except for the virgin queen's pheromones, and those will be very weak. If you had put a frame of brood in the bottom box with the queen, you would have seen bees 10 feet away from the entrance start to march.
To me, you aren't re-inventing the wheel by letting the bees just march in. Every swarm I have ever captured, (and I am in my late 60's) I shook the entire colony onto a sheet in front of the hive on the ground. The difference is I was taught to tap the hive with my small hive pry bar and that always got the entire colony marching in. When I was sure the queen marched in, I mostly left them alone to finish filling the hive until nightfall. I would then go back and block the entrance and bring it home. And I know things change.....the thing is, both ways work.
Wonderful informative videos on your site. Thank you. I'm in a class now for people interested in starting and it's been eye-opening. I had no idea that bees were this interesting. btw - what is in the cans you are opening and putting in the new hives?
Since you have the empty box on top when dumping the bees in why not put the transport box on its side in that space. That way you leave and dead or sick bees in there so they can be removed once all the rest have left and less work for the hive to clear out
Interesting video Wes. I don't like Honey, and not much interest in Bees, but I do appreciate they are extremely crucial for the whole environment. Your Jeep sounds fabulous - how about a thick rubber mat in the rear to give that floor some protection? Best wishes from UK - Stay safe & well. 👍👍
Actually that way for me is the best because it leaves all the dead bees in the package outside. Also, if you add one dab of lemongrass oil into the back of the box they March in quick!
First time I have seen installing a package in 2 -10 fram boxes. How are they going to control the temp, and guard all that space? There isn't 5 frames of bees!
Do you make your own bee boxes? I want honey bees but I’m allergic, do you get stung a lot? I know last year you had some square containers that you used, did you use them again?
Just don't get in a hurry to become a big BK. Start buying bees. do your splits and use your queen cells and catch more swarms. Soon you will have more than you can take care of ~ another thing i keep with 1 size frames too ~ I only use deeps, Its your choice . Just with mediums, shadows it takes more bee equipment . There for more cost. Bee Keeping can be profitable or a money pit like wax foundation and cell rite are money pits use guild wedges with melted bee wax on your frame its the best way fastest way and the cheapest way to go
I'm curious about something. When you dump most of them, the remaining bees in the boxes from the store eventually get inside a hive. Do they always go to the hive where "their queen" is, or do some migrate to another hive? And do they get into battles if they go to another queen's hive?
Since the package bees had a few days in the cage traveling with the new caged queen they think that queen is their ruler. They now smell like her. They will all be loyal only to her. If another queen comes into the hive the guard bees will smother the foreign queen to death and if any of the package bees fly into another hive they will be treated as robber bees and be stung to death. Only male bees can go into a hive not their own and not be stung.
wow!! this pretty awesome, well African Bees are wild am sure you wouldn't have had the same kind of engagement. can African Bees survive there?? am willing to sell some to you guys. all the way from kenya.
We have imported African bees for many decades here in North America. The African bees are still Apis Mellifera subspecies that have been traded for thousands of years between Egypt Africa and Rome Italy and have not made Italian beekeeping or North American beekeeping any different. There are fictional stories that have made alot of money about African bees starting in 1972. None of these stories are real
Your ramp was too flat and too flexible(movement made 'em nervous). Bees have a very strong instinct to walk uphill and crazy as it seems a steeper ramp will get them in quicker. Enjoyed the video.
Will Fire Ants Kill your bees? I saw a really good video from Texas Prepper 2 showing how to kill them very quickly. I know nothing about them myself thank goodness. I live in the Texas Panhandle and they don't live up here. Is it because we get temperatures of 15 below 0 in the winter? I enjoy watching all your videos and I appreciate your time in making them.
Look like them hives have a mighty fine foundation to me! 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Have a great week! These post always make for a brighter day!
Off the subject, I am shopping for a tractor to use with a sawmill. One of the Mahindras I am considering has a loader lift capacity of 1640. Log weight calculator says a 24" x 8' pine log is 1188 lbs. Adding an average grapple weight of 300 lbs. adds up to 1488. Not a lot of play there. What is the loader capacity of your L3701? Do you think it is sufficient or do you wish you had picked an upgrade?
Hey Gene. I've got the 4701. With the grapple I get a net of about 1200lb lift capacity. I like it because it's a light tractor and not an overload behind my 1/2 ton pickup truck. Now, having said that, it's ALWAYS nice to have more lift capacity. Also, I don't have a lot of oversize logs to saw anyway. So, I would say that if you're going to regularly be sawing logs that get close to the max capacity on the Mahindra, get a size or two higher and you'll be much happier.
How come you don’t wear the suit at this point like you have in the other videos… do they not really want to sting you at this point when you are homing them VS checking up on already installed homes? Anyone know?
I spray them down with sugar water first, so they can't fly very well. Also, they're usually not all that defensive in a package like this because they dont have anything to protect. Once they get established they have something to protect so they become more defensive.
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It looked like you had all new frames in those boxes. If you put in a frame or two of drawn comb those bees would have marched in much quicker, I think. I have tried it before and they ran right in. Good video though, thanks for sharing!
Fascinating! I have a hard time believing you can handle those bees so easily without getting the daylights stung out of you. It goes counter to everything you ever hear about messing with bees. Great video!
Always beautiful to watch. You should try a log hive, too.
@Weston Zayd Yup, I've been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
Bees with a fall line mini me video on a Sunday night!....whoohoo!!
Blessed and ready!
Thanks so much!
Little guy helping daddy, that's cute.
Deaf as I am, I can still hear bees and see swarms afar. I always can 'scent' a hive from 1,000 feet downwind. It smells like ' Grandma's taking bread out of the oven ..
Very interesting stuff!! Have never really watched anything about bees, but might have to check it out more.
I never thought I would enjoy watching bees but I do love watching these!!
Awesome!
Hi i am not a Bee keeper but i every time i come across bees or bee keepers i am fascinated by them and listening to their chat and what they have to say about the bees , a very interesting subject thank you so much kind regards from N Ireland .
Great video as always and many blessings to your family.
Very cool. Good little bee keeper helper you have there.
Love the 🐝 videos I think it’s a great mix for your channel.Glad to hear oxalic acid vaporization has been a fantastic benefit to the health of your honey bees 🐝.
Great job and very interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing.
She is a beautiful queen. Thanks for sharing!
It is always so incredible that each bee knows which hive is home.
I was fortunate enough to encounter a city bee swarm, in a tree branch over hanging a city sidewalk, along the Madrona Marsh here in Torrance, CA.
Thought of your bee videos and my uncle that kept city bees.
The cows 🐄 are like...hey pal...got any 🌽 🌽 corn over there ?
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Great bee video,, loved it,, I learn more each time,, thanks!!
I always enjoy your Bee videos that’s a interesting practice for sure. Thanks young man for sharing your videos with us and God bless!
Glad you were wearing strong boots when you stepped on the fire ants' nest. I once stepped on one wearing sandals. I itched & burned for four days!
Enjoy your posts on here and on wood. You were talking about putting the ramp for the bees to go up on. I was told it helps with orientation of where the entrance is for the workers when they start foraging. Good luck with your bees and keep up the great posts on youtube. I live in Denham Springs, La
I think that piece of paper was not laying flat in the entrance, and that was making it hard for them to squeeze in the opening.
I think you should give it another shot but taking more time to prepare it, I think then it will work like a charm.
❤❤❤ I'm new to the channel but I'm sure a fan. Keep the videos coming, they are AWESOME
The cows became curious, so they came to see what was going on, lol!
These videos are very relaxing.
JP the beeman , lets them crawl in, some times on a sheet and the rest of the time, on the ground. Ones they know the queen is in the box, they will march right in.
Love the bee vids cant wait for the honey harvest
Very enjoyable video. Thanks for posting.
awww hes just darling...cutie pie!
It's possible that putting the sugar water on them is the problem with them going into the box. When they have sugar water on their wings (or honey), they will start cleaning one another up, licking off the sugar water. So perhaps you are asking them to do two thing: save themselves by quickly cleaning one another's wings and bodies of the sugar liquid; trying to get to the queen. It would be interesting if you looked very closely to see if the bees were 'grooming' or cleaning one another instead of making fast progress into the box where the queen is.
Aprecio todas suas atividades. Você faz tudo com muita dedicação. Sua família é linda!
Parabéns!
Obrigada!
.Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
What you're doing with those bees is a great and impressive way to get a natural swarm into a hive. They are in search of a new place anyways and will walk into the dark. Also this reduces the probability of them moving back out because they somehow chose their new home by themselves. It's not ideal for packages like these I guess.
I had to laugh you got a great bee buggy going on getting them out of the boxes and its nice to see your hives growing. Great vid.
I hope that Jeep's name is Kermit! 😊
Awesome shot of her laying!
Lord of the Flies. Good book!
Why did you install the queen in the upper brood box - except for the first one that was shaken in front of the hive?
There is nothing in those new hives to attract the workers except for the virgin queen's pheromones, and those will be very weak. If you had put a frame of brood in the bottom box with the queen, you would have seen bees 10 feet away from the entrance start to march.
How do you eliminate the fire ants and not harm the bees and any other insect? Boiling aluminum cast?
Ant poison. Bees don't eat it.
"right on time." BWAGHAHAHA!
Congratulations on having no winter dead-outs!
lol, bee lives matter. That's funny. Bees and black people are both wonderful and deserve love.
I enjoyed this. Thanks man 👍 good health and God bless 👍
👍 From Cadillac Michigan
Good little helper.
To me, you aren't re-inventing the wheel by letting the bees just march in. Every swarm I have ever captured, (and I am in my late 60's) I shook the entire colony onto a sheet in front of the hive on the ground. The difference is I was taught to tap the hive with my small hive pry bar and that always got the entire colony marching in. When I was sure the queen marched in, I mostly left them alone to finish filling the hive until nightfall. I would then go back and block the entrance and bring it home. And I know things change.....the thing is, both ways work.
Great video!! How did you treat those fire ants? In SE Texas we have so many and I just wondered what you used. Good luck with your packages!
Wonderful informative videos on your site. Thank you. I'm in a class now for people interested in starting and it's been eye-opening. I had no idea that bees were this interesting. btw - what is in the cans you are opening and putting in the new hives?
I like watching you raise bees and I always wanted to try myself. If you would like to sell me some honey I sure would like to buy some!
Hey David, I do sell my surplus, but just locally. Sorry about that!
Since you have the empty box on top when dumping the bees in why not put the transport box on its side in that space.
That way you leave and dead or sick bees in there so they can be removed once all the rest have left and less work for the hive to clear out
I still have to get my bees
First of your videos I've watched. Won't be the last! 😁
Interesting video Wes. I don't like Honey, and not much interest in Bees, but I do appreciate they are extremely crucial for the whole environment. Your Jeep sounds fabulous - how about a thick rubber mat in the rear to give that floor some protection? Best wishes from UK - Stay safe & well. 👍👍
For such a Walk In swarm, you should have some OLD frames in the lower box.. Bees loves old, used frames to relate too.
I couldn't do that even in a hazmat suit.
What are in the jars and what are they for never seen it on hives before
No veil or protective clothing for handling the bees?
Please add CC for those of us who are hard of hearing. thanks.
Sometimes UA-cam is slow putting them up.
Thanks for the videos!!!
Very interesting methods, don't you get wind gusts sliding your frames about? There seemed to be no pegs joining them.
Cool video.
Swarm commander may have them marching in faster.
"March of the Bees"
Thanks for sharing.
Actually that way for me is the best because it leaves all the dead bees in the package outside. Also, if you add one dab of lemongrass oil into the back of the box they March in quick!
Ah good point!
I think you saw them walking in on JP the bee man
Good evening. Do you sell your honey. Great video, even though it made me squeamish. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
Oxalic acid dribble method has over 95% efficiency so thats great.
First time I have seen installing a package in 2 -10 fram boxes. How are they going to control the temp, and guard all that space? There isn't 5 frames of bees!
Do you make your own bee boxes? I want honey bees but I’m allergic, do you get stung a lot? I know last year you had some square containers that you used, did you use them again?
Just don't get in a hurry to become a big BK. Start buying bees. do your splits and use your queen cells and catch more swarms. Soon you will have more than you can take care of ~ another thing i keep with 1 size frames too ~ I only use deeps, Its your choice . Just with mediums, shadows it takes more bee equipment . There for more cost. Bee Keeping can be profitable or a money pit like wax foundation and cell rite are money pits use guild wedges with melted bee wax on your frame its the best way fastest way and the cheapest way to go
Do the ants steal the honey? And how did the those tree hives you made last year work out?
how do you know that they wont all decide to all attack you and cover you?
give the ants finely ground cornmeal and they eat it but can not digest it in the stomach and die
What do you do about ants?
What is the name to this place you buy those bee’s
I'm curious about something.
When you dump most of them, the remaining bees in the boxes from the store eventually get inside a hive. Do they always go to the hive where "their queen" is, or do some migrate to another hive? And do they get into battles if they go to another queen's hive?
Since the package bees had a few days in the cage traveling with the new caged queen they think that queen is their ruler. They now smell like her. They will all be loyal only to her. If another queen comes into the hive the guard bees will smother the foreign queen to death and if any of the package bees fly into another hive they will be treated as robber bees and be stung to death. Only male bees can go into a hive not their own and not be stung.
have you ever used corn meal to get rid of the ants
A sheet may have allowed them to crawl up better than paper?
Very possible.
wow!! this pretty awesome, well African Bees are wild am sure you wouldn't have had the same kind of engagement. can African Bees survive there?? am willing to sell some to you guys. all the way from kenya.
We have imported African bees for many decades here in North America. The African bees are still Apis Mellifera subspecies that have been traded for thousands of years between Egypt Africa and Rome Italy and have not made Italian beekeeping or North American beekeeping any different. There are fictional stories that have made alot of money about African bees starting in 1972. None of these stories are real
What year is your jeep
Your ramp was too flat and too flexible(movement made 'em nervous). Bees have a very strong instinct to walk uphill and crazy as it seems a steeper ramp will get them in quicker. Enjoyed the video.
Have you had any trouble with bears?
Do you run all mediums?
How late would split a top bar in middle ga
Do you know somebody you can get cornelian Queen from
Will Fire Ants Kill your bees? I saw a really good video from Texas Prepper 2 showing how to kill them very quickly. I know nothing about them myself thank goodness. I live in the Texas Panhandle and they don't live up here. Is it because we get temperatures of 15 below 0 in the winter? I enjoy watching all your videos and I appreciate your time in making them.
If you have armadillos Denning on your land you won't have any either. Armadillos are the only anteater that survives North of the border.
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Look like them hives have a mighty fine foundation to me!
1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Have a great week! These post always make for a brighter day!
Amen, thanks for sharing!
@@falllineridge thanks for the fellowship!
Wow. What year Jeep is that.
76
Off the subject, I am shopping for a tractor to use with a sawmill. One of the Mahindras I am considering has a loader lift capacity of 1640. Log weight calculator says a 24" x 8' pine log is 1188 lbs. Adding an average grapple weight of 300 lbs. adds up to 1488. Not a lot of play there. What is the loader capacity of your L3701? Do you think it is sufficient or do you wish you had picked an upgrade?
Hey Gene. I've got the 4701. With the grapple I get a net of about 1200lb lift capacity. I like it because it's a light tractor and not an overload behind my 1/2 ton pickup truck. Now, having said that, it's ALWAYS nice to have more lift capacity. Also, I don't have a lot of oversize logs to saw anyway. So, I would say that if you're going to regularly be sawing logs that get close to the max capacity on the Mahindra, get a size or two higher and you'll be much happier.
amazing 👍👍
At 3:35 "lying" around. Most people these days would have incorrectly said "laying" around.
Falllineridge, What state do you live in?
Wes lives in Georgia.
How come you don’t wear the suit at this point like you have in the other videos… do they not really want to sting you at this point when you are homing them VS checking up on already installed homes? Anyone know?
I spray them down with sugar water first, so they can't fly very well. Also, they're usually not all that defensive in a package like this because they dont have anything to protect. Once they get established they have something to protect so they become more defensive.
Enjoy your son, they grow up too fast!
Are you still using that Archiforce electric chainsaw?
Yes, all the time. It's great.
...bee with me.
Good 🎩🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Awesome