Inspecting Welsh Black Bees In May. Beehive inspection Tutorial
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2020
- In this video I inspect a colony of welsh black bees at the start of May. Giving a full commentary of the inspection and giving you some handy and useful tips for inspecting your own bees.
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Or visit my website on www.gwenyngruffydd.co.uk
Learning Welsh as quick as I can to understand you but the videos is super super informative.
😄 thank you. The more you watch the more you’ll understand me. I know it’s a really strong accent.
@@gwenyngruffydd only joking. Love the Welsh accent. Irishman here. Looking to get in to beekeeping. Have hives and equipment. Reading reading reading and watching
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Such a helpful wise fellow Welshman . Thank you from a new beekeeper in Pembroke
Good luck on the Beekeeing journey William 😊🐝
An excellent and interesting video - informative and engaging. Your understanding of bees, their behaviour and how it changes for different varieties of bees is incredible. Keep up the great work and keep the videos coming.
As always thanks for the kind comment Iain 😊🐝🐝
Damn it Gwenyn I didn't ever test my black bees to see if they had Welsh accents. Keep smiling
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Love your videos,all so well done and informative.Could you do a video on building a swarm trap and also a video on making Welsh cakes? Thank you from Canada.
Thank you so much 😊 the swarm trap I can do! The welsh cakes....not so much 😁😂
Thanks for following from so far away! 😁😁
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great video! I'm a brand new beekeeper in the U.S. I only have one hive, a nucleus colony in got in July, so I've concentrated on making sure they have good numbers and stores going into winter. I've been building hives in anticipation of getting more bees in the spring.
Hi Mark,
Welcome to the channel 😊 great to heat you’ve started Beekeeing! Yes very important that they have enough stores...winter can be long especially here in Wales. What part of the states are you from?
Yes I think you’ll definitely need more hives in spring!! 😊 is recommend keeping 3 hives as a min. Gives you more options.
@@gwenyngruffydd -- I'm in Kentucky. If you draw a straight line east-west through the center of the U.S., then another line north-south through the center of the U.S., I'm about dead center of the southeastern quarter. We have mild winters, commonly several days below freezing, but not for long periods. Beehives in my area are not typically insulated for winter.
My current hive is a Langstroth design. I've also built a horizontal hive that takes up to 32 "deep" Langstroth frames, and two mini hives where each frame (6 frames to a box) is roughly equal to 1/3 of a deep Langstroth frame.
Wish you all the best on your Beekeeing adventure. And if your ever stuck drop me a comment. I always try and help 😊
Cool vid,
Thanks 😊
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Interesting video, thank you....I see you are wearing your Swienty Breeze suit, how are you finding it? Do you prefer it over the Sentinel suit?......looking at both cannot decide which?
Thank you 😊 still wearing the sentinel every week. Been wearing both just on different sites.
Really like the two of them. It’s a hard choice to make if your only buying one!!
Suit looks great, like the veil.
Do you have a link ?
Enjoying the videos.
Hi Gwenyn, great video mate. Just wondering where do you get your Welsh Blacks from?
Great question. They are all from wild swarms that I’ve caught over the years.
I found that’s the best way to get them.
Gwenyn Gruffydd you breed from those colonies I take it? Don’t suppose you’d be interested in selling a Nuc? Could do with a colony down here in Cardiff. 🐝🏴
Yes I do breed from them. Unfortunately I don’t sell any bees. Almost at a 100 hives at the moment and I really want to hit that number before the summer is over.
Set some traps out. You may get lucky!! 😊🐝🐝🐝
I’m a little confused. Is there any difference between the Welsh black bee, the English black bee and the European dark bee?
Believe it or not the internet hasn’t been overly helpful on this one 😂
Hi,
Genetically they are the same. But like most things in nature they will be slightly different depending on where they're from.
A black bee in Greece would act slightly different to bees in the UK. Being in different climates for hundreds or thousands of years will add different behaviour traits to the bee. Thats just evolution.
But to answer your question simply....they are the same bee. 😊
@@gwenyngruffydd ah I see, that makes sense, thanks man!
Your welcome 😊
Da iawn. Sut mae'r mêl o'r gwenyn du Cymraeg yn blasu?
Diolch 😊 blasus iawn! 😄🐝🍯
@@gwenyngruffydd Rhy felys i mi! Ond mae'n dda i chi
Given their slow brood up, why at this point are you using a QE, just curious.
I always use a queen excluder above the crown board
What you think of foundationless ?
I bc would always recommend using foundation. It will be a much stronger frame to work with.
@@gwenyngruffydd cheers mate , just finding my feet , nuc arrives in a few weeks, went for italian , you know where I can get welsh black nucs?
There are plenty of breeders there is a good chap in Cenarth called Ricky Wilson he breeds them. There is a native black bee group on Facebook that would be a good spot to find someone too.
I didn’t know that there was a special race of indigenous welsh black bees. Surely, they are no different to the European honey bees (Apis mellifera melifera) that we have in the south west?
They are the same bee. European Black Bee. But these ones live in Wales 😂
@@gwenyngruffydd I can’t argue with that 😁
I actually found a study that claims that the welsh black is actually unique and it is apparently a subspecies of European black like our red deer who are a subspecies they have devoloped here since the last ice age and have slightly different biology apparently
Waw, I had no idea