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RoosterPig Honeybees
Registrace 26. 09. 2013
This channel is a video log of working honey bees from the very start. I hope to help viewers see what to, and not to do during my learning curve. As well as encouraging people to go out and get started in beekeeping for fun and for making our flowers, and gardens more productive. Hopefully this will make our communities a nicer place to bee!
SHB control with Swiffer Sheets
This is a video to show how using swiffer sheets in your hives can be an easy and quick way to keep Small Hive Beetles (SHB) in control. I want to show what the sheet look like before and after as an example of how it works to trap the beetles. This is something I have been doing for several years and started after I saw a video talking about doing this.
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Free honeybees with little effort
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While out and about I noticed honeybees took up residence in an old hive that I have been keeping out just for this occasion.
Wax moths, small hive beetles, and what I do to try and fix the issues.
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I found wax moths in my hive and I am trying to get rid of them before they ruin the hive.
What’s happening in the Long hive
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Checking the progress of the long hive after 3 weeks.
Why are bees on the outside of my hive?
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Why my bees are on the outside of the hive.
Checking laying pattern of re-queened hive
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Checking how the new queen is doing after being in the new colony for a little over a week.
Just a quick peek in the long hive.
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Looking in the long hive to see how far the bees have moved down.
Checking to see if the queen is laying eggs
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Added a new queen to a queen-less hive and I’m back to see if she is laying eggs.
Adding a queen to a queen-less hive
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A hive that swarmed the second week of April appears to be queen-less. I have checked for a queen and does not appear to be one in the hive. I am trying my first attempt at re-queening a hive before a laying worker takes over.
A change I made that has made my hive grow faster
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Growing honeybee hives faster.
Using empty hive as swarm traps.
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Second swarm in less than two weeks using new method of swarm baiting.
Tips for getting honeybees through the winter and splitting in the spring
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Tips for getting honeybees through the winter and splitting in the spring
Subbed neighbor. I’m a new beekeeper in the Piedmont Triad. Only one hive so far but hoping to expand in the near future. I appreciate the time you put into this video as I need all the info I can get. I would also like to catch swarms at some point.
@@Primal_Tao welcome to beekeeping. I am always learning something new and better ways of doing things. The one thing I wish someone would have told me when I first started was to make sure you are feeding during the dearth at the end of July or around that time and to make sure you treat for mites by the end of September. I lost my first two hives that first year and started making sure I kept up on those two things and I have only lost one hive due to it being very small going into the winter.
@@roosterpighoneybees Thank you sir! I have been feeding the girls religiously on the advice of the folks at Beez Needz where I got the nuc. They added an apivar strip before I picked it up but I will research the mite problem on my own as well.
Why? You don't say. Total waste of my time, to watch you.
Possibly try running a couple of cheap digital thermometers with its probe on a wire in a hive with a reducer and without one, the extra wide entrance may allow more wider airflow in helping to keep hive conditions more ideal, could also just be a bigger hole and landing area allows more bee's in and out. the thermometers may help indicate the difference.
@@weegaz22 I have run thermometers during the winter in the past just to see how warm the bees kept the hive. But, that’s a good idea about different entrance sizes and the temp inside. I might try that. Thanks.
Also where it exactly do you put them? I'm using a layens hive so I need to figure out how to orient them.
I got a box of swiffer dry sweeper sheets. I cut 4 strips from one sheet. The box I have has 32 sheets in it. That should give me 128 strips. You can get them at Walmart or Amazon. Amazon has a lot of choices. A Layens hive is like my horizontal hive with langstroth frames, correct? So, when you take the cover off of the hive, just lay a couple of strips along the top of the frames next to the side of the hive. It will catch the SHB even if they are laying in the middle on top of the frames. They should be sitting between the bottom of the cover and top of your frames in the 3/8" space. I hope that gives you a good picture of where I put sheets.
Which swiffer pad do you mean? Like for the mop? I've seen someone else use dry unscented swiffer pads. But don't know specifically which ones yall are meaning.
Where are you in NC? New beekeeper in Snow Camp(near Burlington)
Clemmons. Just the other side of Winston Salem from you.
The only need for a reducer is to protect a small hive during a dearth . Even the hives off and you can use the same opening on all your hives
This was my first year to open the entrances all the way. It has seemed to make the flow of bees a lot better.
You just have a super flow going on aparently here in Mo. we have it going on but not like i have seen it in the past, opening the entrances helps them get air flow to dehydrate the nectar too, on those big hives watch for a lot of drone activity, that happens a week to 10 days before they swarm, . A super flow is a comb building machine ............😋
My hives were definitely growing earlier. I kept them with space and frames to work with. Our flow slowed and we will pick back up for sourwood any time.
A great topic . Last summer i shaded my hives with an old trampoline and was surprised at how much more comb was being drawn out, when it gets too hot the wax will not stiffen , so they quit drawing comb..........
Does the trampoline let enough light through to keep the wax moths away?
I flinched when that 1st bee flew past the microphone 😂 I had my headphones on..
having an entrance reducer actually made my bees much calmer than having it open. I can stand in front of the hive 10 ft away and not get attacked
I have been able to stand, walk, and mow in front of the hives without any issues. I think the bees have to work harder to keep the entrance guarded with it all the way open. But I think I’ve helped the flow of bees in and out by opening it.
Hey you bring up a fascinating topic, that of variables! Like entrance reducer size, and there could be other things too like distance between hives, distance from trees or other buildings, maybe distance from roads or highways for car exhaust emissions. I guess thats what makes beekeeping so fascinating is the mystery of it all. Thanks so much for this vid. I’m gonna sub. Keep up the good work.
Entrance is not very important
I have noticed that I don’t have the back up of in coming and outgoing traffic. Seems that the bees can move more freely and don’t impede the flow of workers. If anything it keeps the bees out of my way instead of hovering outside the hive waiting for a place to land.
Also, the nectar flow has been CRAZY strong. I’m at the border of NC and VA, and we have privet and blackberry now, and I’m piling on the supers weekly!
I have two suppers on one, and three on another. I checked today and they are almost finished capping it all.
It sounds like I live south of you. I have always run entrances reducers thru the winter and in a dearth from robbing but in the spring I have always opened the colonies wide open . I have Italian bee an I have had to do splits I think it was the second week of February before. Thanks
I have always made entrance reducers with openings that are about 8” wide and 1/2” high. In my mind I was hoping to keep SHB populations down and intruders out. The past several years the bees make a cloud outside waiting to get in and I always say I need to open up the entrance. This year I did and it has made a big difference in my hives. I reduce the entrances to about 3” wide with 3/8” screen in front to keep mice out in the winter or when it drops down below and stays below freezing at night. I take that off when spring comes. Guess I will be taking off all reducers from now on. TY
Good advice neighbor. Been thinking My entrance is too small as well, even though my hives are small. maybe that is why., :) Thanks bro! :)
We shop at the same place tried bee supply.
Nice.where can I get those lure tubes
I ordered 100 for $8 on Amazon.
They are called 1.5ml microcentrifuge snap top tubes.
Interesting. It's a shame you didn't leave reducers on a coupla stong colonies to test. Good luck with your season. I just subbed.
I used reducers all year last year. So this year I was going without. I started noticing that a huge cloud of bees would wait to get in the hive. As soon as the reducers were removed the cloud went away and all the bees could land and take off. I have a lot more honey this year so far. I’m going to sling a couple of supers this weekend and put them back on wet.
I found by pure accident years ago that running a medium super for a hive body with a open entrance is much more productive here in Kentucky than when I run a deep body.
The only deeps I use are with the long hive. It’s been an experiment for me. I decided in the second year having to restart from all dead outs, that I only wanted medium bodies so I only had one size to deal with and could swap them around anytime if I needed.
It’s because it’s also a swarm, the other hives are not swarms. The bees that swarm are triggered to start a new hive and draw comb like crazy, when I do splits I move the queen and give them half foundation and some comb, they grow fast too.
great bideo😊
Thank you
Good flow in NC also. I’m up the road from you in foothills. I’ve always taking reducers out during flow. I knew you were from NC before you said so. We got that accent.
I’ve been trying different things to see what works best.
I think its good to have your entrances open, however, the reason your colonies r “bustin out” is because of the above average spring we r having along with a mild winter, not the fact that u have no entrance reducers. Very respectfully
This is my 2nd year of beekeeping.. I had 1 hive only last year. Earlier this year they EXPLODED, and I split them, plus they swarmed TWICE. totally my fault I should have been on top of it but it all caught me off guard. Now I'm at 7 hives lmao. Next year is going to be fun!
I concur that this has been an exceptional year for the bees, at least here in Fairfield County, Connecticut. I expect to extract honey sooner than usual.
I run my entrances wide open exsept for winter
Depends on your climate.
Looking good. I am thinking of doing that to my large colonies. The hive beetles are a big headache and the bees get nasty if too many get in the hive. I have oil traps but they are dangerous too if the get stuck on the bottom of a frame while lifting the box above. Charlotte NC
I use unscented swiffer sheets in the hive for SHB. I cut them into 2” strips and place them in the corners on top of the frames. I doe this under the inner cover and the next box down also. SHB get their legs stuck in the fibers and can’t get out. It has helped me in the at department the last few years.
I don't use any entrance reducers at all not even winter specially winter here in southern pa central
I have in the past. I decided not to this year. I have talked to several people and the feelings were mixed on queen excluders. I figure a queen can only lay so many eggs so I decided to go without. I know the boxes are filling fast.
Do you use queen excluders when you add supers?
I forgot to mention that I used lemon grass oil instead of swarm commander in the bait tube.
This only works in non dusty areas. I tried grease Vaseline diatomaceous earth. The only thing that has worked for me is surrender but it’s not recommended because it’ll eradicate anything that touches it
I have stopped using grease on the legs because I kept getting into the grease and messing up my pant legs. My strong hives do not get ants in the front but try to enter through the top. I sprinkle ground cinnamon around the top and it messes up the ants ability to communicate the ant trail. I sprinkle diazinon on the ground under and around the hives to kill the ant colonies. It seems to work for me.
@@roosterpighoneybees I’m in Bakersfield ca. we have an abundance of black ants and they don’t care how strong the hives are.
@@Bakersfieldman we have black ants in NC and so far the diazinon has knocked them down pretty good. They are bad right now since we are in a honey flow.
@@roosterpighoneybees I’m waiting on my boric acid in powder form to arrive to mix with crisco and put in beetle traps so only the ants can get into it. Then they will carry it back to the best and do me the favor to die
@@Bakersfieldman I did the same thing with Vienna sausage cans and put 1/8” hardware cloth over it so bees couldn’t get to it. I mixed in a little honey to sweeten up the bait. I laid them on their side under the hive stands. It worked pretty good. I have a lot of wooded areas around so no telling where the ants are coming from. Seems like a constant battle. They slow down for a while and then back at it.
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Lol no likes
not the point of the video
@@froggyplaysgames8708 did I ask
hey..how are your hives? i haven't posted much this summer either...had some issues and was a bit discouraged, then found out the hives were ok! we still have what we think are 3 healthy hives, praying they get ready and make it thru our crazy winters here in the north east...(Pa). hope to see an update soon!!
You can get cheap straps at Walmart for less than $5. The eyebolts came from Lowe's for $1.50 ea.
They have not messed around the grease. I thought about that after I put the grease on the legs, but so far so good.
thanks for the video! we need to strap ours down too! thanks for the ideas
have any of your bees been stuck in it?
Nope. Ants didn’t stick to it either. It just stopped them from communicating their trail. The diazinon has worked really well.
could you do a video explaining how you strap your hives down? i want to do this, but havent quite figured out the way to do it..thanks!
the past few hive inspections I have put the cover on top of the other hive flipped upside down. then I only have 4 small contact points for the feeder to sit. less smooshed bees.
We had a beekeeper friend suggest to us to not put anything on the ground because of bugs or disease....so maybe you can put your cover in between the 2 hives instead of on the ground? don't know if it makes a difference...
isn't it a great feeling when you see all the work they have been doing? i am so in love!! i like just sitting and watching them come and go too!!
great job finding the queen..is she marked? you may want to get a paint marker and mark her back so you can finder her easier. 2018 is red...
She is not marked. I have thought about getting a marker to do that but have not had the time.
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thanks for the video! My dad and I just started with our bees mothers day! We bought nucs instead of the package..but we are having a blast...I subscribed, and would love if you subscribed and watched our videos too..i will post a link to our first video.. We also were able to catch our first swarm exactly one week after we bought our 1st 2 nucs!. they are still in their hive, so hopefully they will choose to stay with us! You did a great job!