My Bees Are Cross Combing! // 🐝😩🍯
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This is a video for those that love the bee keeping side. I am not professional but I'm getting better at bee keeping every inspection! Hope you enjoy!
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First time to ever watch someone do all this bee keeping, so interesting. A lot of attention to detail kind of work. Thank you for explaining everything.
I totally agree. Very interesting. Thank you Sydney.
Your confidence and nerves of steel are outstanding! I breathed a sigh of relief when you put the roof back on! Well done.
Thanks Sydney, your patience and dedication to your bees is amazing 👍 I hope the sting is not too painful.
I learned so much about bees. I am enjoying watching your bee keeping journey. Thanks for taking us along. ❤
Learning a lot about our beloved 🐝🐝through your channel.
Thank you Sydney this is very interesting and something most of us would never see. Your attention to detail and great care with the bees is so beautiful to see. Just thank you for caring so much 🙏 best wishes to you both and your precious fur babies 🐾
Great video! Fascinating, and so important to help the bee population thrive! Colorful gardens wouldn't exist without them.
@@Rod-ew9zb life won't exist without them. We have to save the bees. 🐝
Thanks for showing this, interesting
Very interesting. You are so patient.
Super informative and fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing this bee-keeping experience with us.
I don’t understand what you’re talking about or what you’re doing, but I will say this you are one brave lady!!😊
I love hearing the ice cream truck on your street- summer sounds…
I am literally fascinated with the bee stuff. I did think at the beginning you started with a plastic comb. Glad you went all natural
You most certainly can and there is no incorrect way to do it. It’s more of a preference than anything! Bees are adaptable they would build comb if they lived in the wild so in my mind, I choose to let them do it the same as if they didn’t live in a hive I put them in in my backyard!
Sydney, it looks like you are off to a great start with your bees. I enjoy watching you work with them.
I find this more fascinating than plants! Thanks for sharing.
I had no idea that bee keeping was so complicated. You have admirable patience. I enjoy your channel and watching how you have made your new home, your own. Your garden is beautiful! p.s. when do you harvest the honey?
Thank you for the kind words! I won’t harvest until next summer! I need to get them established in 2 deeps to make it through winter before I think about harvesting!
Great job Sydney. You are so patient with the bees. Hope this will straighten the combs.
Sorry about that bee sting. Beautiful hive. Thank you for the video.
This is so interesting. Thank you so much for the your instruction and description. The only thing I know about bees is that they love my salvia.
Thank you for sharing, very interesting. Never seen it before. Love what you're doing & have learnt so much from your videos ❤
Really enjoyed this video. You should have a small folding work table with you so you have everything you need at your height level. So you don’t have to reach down. You can even make a folding table off the fence near the hive.
I keep a roll of painters paper in my tool box to help light my smoker and then I use pine needles that collect from a nearby parking lot and wood pellets. All together it works really well.
I love the painters tape trick! Didn’t know about it! I wish I had access to pine straw! We have virtually no pines around here!
New Beek too! Aren't they amazing!!! Love these videos and hope you will do more!
I definitely will! I enjoy them so much. Planning a split in the spring 😉 learning everyday. I’m almost obsessed with learning about them!
S, I am so petrified of bees. I could/would never do what you’re doing. Your are both crazy and courageous. Good luck.
You are a good teacher! I learned a lot. It is a whole different vocabulary !!
Very interesting, and you are so conscientious and patient with the process.
You might want to think about wiring your next batch of deep frames. New wax is very soft especially when it’s hot. Then when they fill it with nectar it gets very heavy. The wires will help keep the comb stable
I considered but I haven’t had any issues other than cross combing thus far. I have seen where some queens won’t lay on the wire lines. Not that that is a big deal but I just decided to go totally foundation less.
Wow, I just looked & saw you have over 18 thousand followers, great job.
Sydney have you been stung sense you’ve started your bee hive. You’re one brave gal.
Yes, quite a few times. All of my own fault. Placing my hand directly on a bee, typically. They are hard to miss when there are thousands of them!
@@SydneyDorman if I got stung even one time that would be be the end of my bee keeping. Have you harvested any honey yet?
We got bees early this spring, they are so interesting and I love tending to them! We have a lot of acreage and many traditional boxes/ frames, so I love seeing how your Flow hive functions! I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on one to put in my bulb and rose garden 🐝🌻
I’ll keep you posted on when I harvest honey next year! There are some mixed reviews out there about the supers but I think if you prep them right you can have a lot of success!
I’ve always wondered what it was like to have bees. Thank you. It is very interesting and I enjoyed it 100%.
Interesting…..hope you have continued success
This is so interesting! Thank you for doing this!
Thank you for sharing this video with us. I think it’s very interesting to watch and learn a little about bees. I have a nephew that has bees also but haven’t had the chance to watch him care for his.
Wow, that just seems like so much work when you can used the wax foundation frames and not worry about cross combing. I used to help my parents with their 4 hives and I can’t imagine having to spend that much time in the hive! But aren’t bees fascinating creatures? I’m so glad you are doing some videos about the bees so people can see what’s involved.
Yea, the wax foundations would be easier but I have zero issues in the first deep with cross comb and I just preferred to have them do it all. I maybe change my opinion when I do a split and start my second hive! I’ll keep you posted!
Fascinating! 🐝
I’d love to maybe help out a bee keeper and see this process in person. Really cool!
Absolutely love the bee video. Want to have bees in my garden sometime.
Take classes and have a mentor and then give it a shot! There is so much to learn but it’s very rewarding!
Fabulous video.
I have zero interest in bee keeping , but found this so fascinating that I watched the whole thing. So what is the purpose if bee keeping Is it strictly to have your own honey? I got a little container of the honey and honey cone from a recent high school boutique and loved it!!! BTW... I am way out here in California, and our Ice Cream man comes everyday in the summer. But he doesn't stay as long as yours did. You have to be quick to catch him! You have to have the money sitting next to the door, when you hear him, or you miss out.
Honey is a big part of it for most people but for me it was pollination and trying to help the bee population!
Try adding a spray bottle of sugar water to your kit. Sometimes works better than the smoker. You're doing great!
I love that you're sharing the bee keeping with us. It is so interesting but I must say I was getting a little nervous when you put your bee suit on so close to the hive. Don't you worry about a bee flying into your suit while your putting it on. Yikes! 😬
Haha no, standing at the back of the hive they don’t pay much attention to me. I can actually sit on the raised bed right by the front of the hive and they don’t really care about me. One bee may come over to inspect me but doesn’t care much!
This was very interesting, fascinating to watch. I thought for first 3/4 of the video that you would have used more smoke and closer to the bees to calm them down. I would love to know more about the queen bee, how you identify her, etc. Please keep us updated on the hive!
I will do! I will do another video and find the queen! I didn’t specifically go looking for her bc I know she’s there by eggs & larva I see. When I inspect the top next time I’m hoping she’s moved up there and started laying and then I’ll show and talk about the queen! It’s all very interesting!
Interesting. Looks like beekeeping is hard work.
It certainly takes some work!
fascinating!!! ❤
So interesting!! My neighbor keeps bees and I never see him doing anything to his hive.
Pine straw is an excellent fuel source for your smoker.
I wish I had access to pine. There next to no pine trees anywhere near us!
I know nothing about bee keeping so please don’t mind my silly question….Why can’t you use the brush to move them off the comb so it can be pushed back into the frame? Obviously it’s not done or you would have, so just wondering why? Great video, so interesting!🇨🇦 🐝🇨🇦
I could easily use a brush but I moved them out of the way with the hive tool before I manipulated the comb. :) the brush tends to piss them off and I only have 2 hands so if I can just work with 1 tool that will move the bees and 1 that will adjust the comb that is just easier. 🙂
@@SydneyDorman Awesome, thanks Sydney! ❤️
I always wondered what all was involved with bee keeping. It was interesting to watch! How often do you inspect for cross combing? Thank you so much for this video!
Right now once a week since they are building out frames. Swarm season is pretty much over. If you let them go too long without checking when they are building comb it’s a really big mess. Once they build out these frames, I might inspect once every 3 weeks or so!
Fascinating but…. Omg- that was scary 😱. Can we have spoiler alerts before the video starts to let us know the sting count ahead of watching?😂
Haha! A lot of times it’s zero but when you stick your ungloved hand right on top of one they make you pay! 😂
lol.. I admire your bravery!
Hi Sydney
Excellent work. What I don't understand is why they are cross combing. There is plenty of room on those cards? I don't really know the correct term❤
Yes, they have plenty of room on the frames. However, they can get off track. Naturally they would not make their comb perfectly straight they would assembly it for best airflow however that might be in their location and the space they have to build in. However, beekeeping in hives we have to make sure they are build how we want them to build so we can inspect and manage the hive. That includes managing frames, pests, splitting hives, replacing queens, etc!
@@SydneyDorman Thank you so much👍🥰
Why didn’t you buy the sheets with preformed cells on it for the frames? That way you don’t have to deal with the bees trying to do that. They will always build the comb crazy. Always keep your smoker close by you and don’t mind shooting in the hive if needed.
I chose to allow them to make all their own comb just because I know if I can handle a hive with natural comb I can handle one with wax foundations and I just decided they are bees they can take care of it since that’s what they do! I have zero issues in the bottom deep so this cross combing has taught me a lot and forced me to learn how to handle it.
I'm sorry but, I wondered why you were playing that weird music😂
😂 yea, I started filming and I heard it and was like can’t stop now! I’m all suited up and it’s hot so there will be ice cream truck music in this video! Haha
Loved the ice cream truck music…it was hilarious! 🍦🇨🇦🍦