Maybe it's just me. But... Some of your narrative at this point is difficult to follow. I get it. Beekeeping ~ Not my thing. ~But~ I think I've got the vocabulary: Patties, Rocket Fuel, Bacteria, Karrie's Queens, Knocking them off, Too Strong and too old. Striping off the boxes. Presence of brilliance ~ Intense Robbing Pressure. Strips~ Patties ~Pails. Etc. So exciting ~. I just know that my field of Zinnia flowers have a bee on every bloom! I know of a couple of neighbors with bees but not close by. August 30, New Hampshire. Wow! So cool. Thank you so much for this. ✨
You are watching the Premier Manitoban Bee Wrangler Mr. Ian Steppler of Steppler Farms ! With 2200+ beehives knocked down to about 2000 or 1800 boxes for Winter storage shed with -40degC harsh Manitoban Winters. These IceField Aptoides colonies can survive these frigid temps to once again emerge in March-April raring to go ! RocketFuel is his special secret-sauce Pollen feed that he gets specially made for him that explodes his colonies in less than two weeks from few bees to gobs gobs of bees in no time. Sunflower/Canola are the main crops that these Artic Apiary Swarms feed on during the "summer" months. Then back to syrupy feed buckets for rest of their outdoor life. Oxalic acid vapour or Formic acid vapour treatments are for Varroa Mite control and I believe he has anti-viral for Foul-brood and other viral infection avoidance. There is something called Hive-beetles that affect bee larvae and brood comb but I dunno what treatment for that could be. Dearth is the time when all seasonal flowers are pollinated and no longer producing pollen or nectar. Hence bees try to get sugars from anywhere and anything including "robbing" by going into unprotected hives. So Mr. Ian duct-tapes any beehive boxes that have gaps or holes in them. Winterizing is when all that green pasture and meadows suddenly turn into ice-fields and snow-drifts and temps plunge to -40degC in manitoba. So all the bees need to shart themselves and load up with syrup and winter-compatible honey stores. Recent issues with canola-honey stores in some of the hives causing crystallization and becoming useless to bees hunkering down in freezing temps. Mr. Ian is a Bee Scientist at the cutting edge of Honey farming and production! We all learn and grow from his method to all the Bee madness 😀
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Did I accidentally do something dumb ? I want to apologize if my comment was not the right thing to do. Im not sure if it was naming you or your business that was the problem. Very sorry! I apologize profusely !
Still have a crazy nectar flow in the North Cariboo BC. A lot of farmers not cutting their final alfalfa crop and we have had enough moisture to keep it running with whatever else is out there. Knocked them down and had bottom boxes plugged instantly so added some supers again and will have some extra honey but Monday is final cut off for Apivar i am finding mites scared even leaving it this long but maybe we get a longer fall they seem to be more common recently. I did do a formic treatment here 2 pads and can definitively say it did not kill mites under the capped brood....
Ian, Which do you like better.... The 6 fr nucs (3 x side) or the 5 frame nucs (4 by side) with Supers over. Which seems to over Winter better for you. I think you should make a VIDEO on this as it is great info. FYI Milwaukee makes a smaller blower too if you are looking to save on space. Works good, just a little weaker then the big ones but shorter nozzle makes it easier.
what kind of food /yellow/ was on the hives ? Are you buing food for bees or you making food by yourself. What kind of sirup ? sugar-water only ? thanks
Una consulta.......eso es final de temporada....? Las tortas proteicas de cuántos gramos son....? Le ponen una sola vez....? Saludos desde Argentina.....
Which blowers do you prefer Ian? Seen an electric one there and it looks good? Stihl are one of the few manufactures that have kept a gas powered ones going
Hi. I don't understand how you manage to get 6 frames of brood in colonies, at this time I have from 2 to 4 frames. Do you have a video on this topic? With best wishes
That's a lot of bees going back in the box. I know it's super late but are you prone to late swarms driving them I to a single with such a large amount of bees? We are about to start our big honey pull here in Nova Scotia. Goldenrod just finishing. Cheers
Ian…. curiosity Q…. Do you have a rough number on how many pounds of wax do you get from a super or from a hive in an average season? Also…. Do you sell it all or use some to coat the replacement foundation?
That is fascinating! That means from a 100lb honey hive , get only about a 1-1 1/2 lb of wax….. no wonder I’m always running out of wax for my new foundation.
Don’t get me started I m expecting to lose most of my hives after today, the local Commercial bee keeper’s bees hit all my hives today and it’s devastating death is everywhere and the smell is horrible , i didn’t know they could smell that bad
Maybe it's just me. But... Some of your narrative at this point is difficult to follow. I get it. Beekeeping ~ Not my thing. ~But~ I think I've got the vocabulary: Patties, Rocket Fuel, Bacteria, Karrie's Queens, Knocking them off, Too Strong and too old. Striping off the boxes. Presence of brilliance ~ Intense Robbing Pressure. Strips~ Patties ~Pails. Etc. So exciting ~. I just know that my field of Zinnia flowers have a bee on every bloom! I know of a couple of neighbors with bees but not close by. August 30, New Hampshire. Wow! So cool. Thank you so much for this. ✨
You are watching the Premier Manitoban Bee Wrangler Mr. Ian Steppler of Steppler Farms ! With 2200+ beehives knocked down to about 2000 or 1800 boxes for Winter storage shed with -40degC harsh Manitoban Winters. These IceField Aptoides colonies can survive these frigid temps to once again emerge in March-April raring to go ! RocketFuel is his special secret-sauce Pollen feed that he gets specially made for him that explodes his colonies in less than two weeks from few bees to gobs gobs of bees in no time. Sunflower/Canola are the main crops that these Artic Apiary Swarms feed on during the "summer" months. Then back to syrupy feed buckets for rest of their outdoor life. Oxalic acid vapour or Formic acid vapour treatments are for Varroa Mite control and I believe he has anti-viral for Foul-brood and other viral infection avoidance. There is something called Hive-beetles that affect bee larvae and brood comb but I dunno what treatment for that could be. Dearth is the time when all seasonal flowers are pollinated and no longer producing pollen or nectar. Hence bees try to get sugars from anywhere and anything including "robbing" by going into unprotected hives. So Mr. Ian duct-tapes any beehive boxes that have gaps or holes in them. Winterizing is when all that green pasture and meadows suddenly turn into ice-fields and snow-drifts and temps plunge to -40degC in manitoba. So all the bees need to shart themselves and load up with syrup and winter-compatible honey stores. Recent issues with canola-honey stores in some of the hives causing crystallization and becoming useless to bees hunkering down in freezing temps. Mr. Ian is a Bee Scientist at the cutting edge of Honey farming and production! We all learn and grow from his method to all the Bee madness 😀
Straight off the cuff, yard talk
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Did I accidentally do something dumb ? I want to apologize if my comment was not the right thing to do. Im not sure if it was naming you or your business that was the problem. Very sorry! I apologize profusely !
@@plusmanikantanrI’m not following you. Did I say something?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I had posted a tongue-in-cheek comment about a foot-long 😆 😛 Its not there anymore.
That’s so cool watching the bees march in.
Still have a crazy nectar flow in the North Cariboo BC. A lot of farmers not cutting their final alfalfa crop and we have had enough moisture to keep it running with whatever else is out there. Knocked them down and had bottom boxes plugged instantly so added some supers again and will have some extra honey but Monday is final cut off for Apivar i am finding mites scared even leaving it this long but maybe we get a longer fall they seem to be more common recently. I did do a formic treatment here 2 pads and can definitively say it did not kill mites under the capped brood....
Ian, Which do you like better.... The 6 fr nucs (3 x side) or the 5 frame nucs (4 by side) with Supers over. Which seems to over Winter better for you. I think you should make a VIDEO on this as it is great info. FYI Milwaukee makes a smaller blower too if you are looking to save on space. Works good, just a little weaker then the big ones but shorter nozzle makes it easier.
6’s by far
what kind of food /yellow/ was on the hives ? Are you buing food for bees or you making food by yourself. What kind of sirup ? sugar-water only ? thanks
Una consulta.......eso es final de temporada....?
Las tortas proteicas de cuántos gramos son....?
Le ponen una sola vez....?
Saludos desde Argentina.....
Which blowers do you prefer Ian? Seen an electric one there and it looks good? Stihl are one of the few manufactures that have kept a gas powered ones going
Hi. I don't understand how you manage to get 6 frames of brood in colonies, at this time I have from 2 to 4 frames. Do you have a video on this topic? With best wishes
How much oxytetracyclene you add to a hive.Great to see this in all this years.Thank you
That's a lot of bees going back in the box. I know it's super late but are you prone to late swarms driving them I to a single with such a large amount of bees? We are about to start our big honey pull here in Nova Scotia. Goldenrod just finishing. Cheers
Ian…. curiosity Q…. Do you have a rough number on how many pounds of wax do you get from a super or from a hive in an average season? Also…. Do you sell it all or use some to coat the replacement foundation?
My figures are 1- 1.5% honey volume by weight
That is fascinating!
That means from a 100lb honey hive , get only about a 1-1 1/2 lb of wax….. no wonder I’m always running out of wax for my new foundation.
That's a lot of bees wow. Is there a market for selling those gobbs of bees in the fall? there's no way they all get in a box overnight lol
Letting them rob out the honey frames, don't they tear up the wax? I've done that but they really chew ip the wax. I'm a hobbyist with 9 colonies.
How bad do they chew or ruin comb when they rob ?
Good morning, Boss!
Do you do honey in the fall?
Does the powder really help
?
Bottleneck, bottleneck, bottleneck!😂❤️
What does blowing out the bees do? Will not the bees go right back?
Less fighting if they aren't defending the box.
Gobs of bees is right! My goodness!
Hola colega se terminó la mielada 🐝👍👍👍👍☕☕😎
Bees on door need a rain shower. Good old garden hose take care of that.
What is the purpose of adding oxytetracyclene to the colonies? I'm a bee keeper in Ohio.
It is a AFB preventative/treatment.
It also treats EFB
AFB yes, but I’m using it for EFB preventive measures
Don’t get me started I m expecting to lose most of my hives after today, the local Commercial bee keeper’s bees hit all my hives today and it’s devastating death is everywhere and the smell is horrible , i didn’t know they could smell that bad
I would have like to have seen the yard which was left too strong and it went wrong.
i am a bee keeper in punjab
Weed sprayer with black water will stop the bees at the door
You should mark all of those late season requeen hives to see how they do during winter then spring build up
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Yup lol