Package vs Nuc Challenge - part 1
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- čas přidán 2. 04. 2019
- Follow along as we take care of 3 packages and 2 nucleus colonies.
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Loving your videos man! 3rd year bee keeper, and your one of the best informational guys out there! Appreciate the slow and descriptive videos!👍👍
As a new beekeeper I am really enjoying your videos. Had planned to get a Nuc but now see a great way to handle packages. Thanks!
Good video and explanation of methods Kamon. Thanks.
I have seen packages installed where an inner cover was immediately placed on top and the syrup can placed over the center opening. A medium super was then placed on top and the whole hive covered with the top cover. This provides syrup for the bees for a few days until they can get the queen out and have orientated themselves to their new surroundings.
a classic install of a package of bees include spraying them down with a little sugar water first so they're not freaking out. You forgot that major part. But, I do like the other options. Thanks for the video
I don't think that is a major part. I have always been told if you want to spray something use water on a package and this method is very old. I am sure you can do it that way correctly, but why would I need to?
I have never seen anyone install packages like that before. It looks like just placing the bees there is a little less chaotic and a few less bee stings too.
Great video
Outstanding Kaymon! I will be very interested in your Nuc installation since I will be starting my beekeeping career in a couple of weeks when the Nucs are ready here at the New Jersey Shore. 👍👍
Thanks for watching One shoo nucs should be ready shortly!
One shoo. I have a new channel and will be posting videos. New beek and you can learn from my screw ups
Cool idea! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I am from Kashmir (India)
Cool ideas thanks for sharing
Interesting, I wonder if the frantic ones are also not calm on the comb and run around cause their hotter bees.End of April before we get nucs and packages, I gonna pay attention to this,but it's probably just cause been queenless more less .Good video,good way to teach newbies to install a package, thanks for sharing
Tried your method of install for several pkgs. Worked well for all but 1. Bees ignored queen cage and wouldn't leave pkg box. Fortunately checked next day and shook out bees that wanted to return to pkg box. Suspect 2 queens was the problem. In future think I'll give a good shake of bees over the queen cage before inserting pkg box or install pkg box in a 2d story over queen cage. But is good technique.
Yes the only time they won't cover the queen is if they have another in the package OR the queen in the cage is garbage. We check them all later that night to make sure they get covered by bees.
My bees will bring resources back into the hive within 1 hour after install, after house cleaning the box and doing the orientation flight. I will do an install when I get the bees, not what time of the day it is.
I am using a mason jar feeder for about 1 week, depending on flow.
Should be a good series. I will enjoy watching, thanks.
Thanks for watching and the compliment!
This video was my first ever on yt.. my first sub, my first pack ever seen..so i will write it here.
When i was thirty i knew everything about bees..now i am almost fifty and have no time to learn inaf..i'm sorry i didn't start experimenting before.. you better get started..make thet one for testing stuff.. don't be late like me..
Seems spraying them with a bit of sugar water would calm them down a bit... before shaking them?
Spraying them with sugar water can help but it also can cause bees to suffocate if you spray them and shake them in a heap. I don't worry about them flying around, they are going to do that no matter what you do they will lock in on a queen in a couple days once they start laying and be fine.
Tennessee's Bees cool. Will be looking forward to the coming videos!
You can keep frame feeder in, but place feeder on one side and shake bees in the other side. There is 3 or 4 frames in between.
That is correct installing not recommended under 45 degrees
I spray mine with sugar water before I shake mine.
Excellent
Great video I am excited to see the results
Im new bee keeper i only have one package should buy two
As a new beekeeper, this has been a great series to watch... BUT... as a new beekeeper, I did NOT have drawn out frames and because of that (I think) they swarmed faster/earlier than a hive with drawn out comb. Next time you do a series like this, can you have a new hive without drawn out frames to help new beekeepers know how to care for them to keep them from swarming?
When is the opportune time to use a treatment for hive beetles and mites? Should it be done before the new brood is capped? If so what would you use?
Is it true that we you order packaged bees, you never know what you are getting--like mixed bees and disease? Which you prefer, package or NUC?
I might have missed it, but how long do you wait before giving them a frame feeder?
2 days
@@kamonreynolds -- Groovy. Thanks, Kamon.
Could you delay your package installs a few hours? Maybe do one early and wait for things to settle then install another? Instead of doing 3 at a time?
you could but it wont make a difference on the bees end. they will fly like this for a couple days
Tennessee's Bees oh!
One question I've seen in other videos that thay take cork end out opposite of the candy end and then replace cork with mini mashmello what's your take on that way of queen release
I might have missed it but what was that feed you had on top of frames? You said patties but then later said you’ll put pollen patties on them later
queen candy
@@kamonreynolds what is the recipe for the candy
That was really interesting, cheers for sharing. There is so many ways to go about this, use the ideas and find what suits you best I recon. Many Thanks for sharing your ideas, I'm sure that will help a lot of people out. Out of interest, do you smoke yourself down before the video? I was wondering why you didn't cop at least 1 sting on that last install, there was a lot of bees in the air, and you didn't have the queen in the box,? I know they had nothing to protect, but I would have thought there was a couple of the girls who had a bad couple of days looking for a fight lol!
I've seen this video a few times it makes me wonder if the packages wouldn't do better if they were installed in a nuc box to start with? Mike Palmer thinks they expand faster in them.
It makes sense due to the thermo dynamics. Just stick a temporary 3/4 in divider and your good
@@kamonreynolds the apimaye hives I just ordered come with five frame dividers I'm really excited to try them.
@@josephwoodall832 let me know how they work for you
@@kamonreynolds I will. I think they'll be much better it's cold here some guys winter in two deeps and a medium I'd like to just use two deeps or one if the hives work well.
do you not usually spritz with 1:1?
Why dont spray the bees with a bit of water
seems really wasteful to me as I have only gotten bees from swarms. My bees do just fine and I can make splits and fill my colonies by myself thank you.