What you said about working with the association was spot on. I’ve never really thought about it that way. I’m not a supporter of my local association . I’ll go to the scheduled meeting a couple of times a year and it sorta feels like a waste of time. Talking about things I’m not interested in. Or giving vague basic information. Maybe 15 other people in the room 5 are leaders. So after listening to you and remembering the story King Bob gave about writing for bee culture magazine , I realized I can either shut up and get over it. Or be more involved. See if I can help in some way. Above all appreciate what they have done and the time they have given to do it. The time and energy they could have been spending with their families or on other things. So with that said. Thanks to you and your family for the videos and for the time it takes to make them
Gostei muito do resumo que fez dessa temporada até agora, muita experiência acumulada, que os resultados do seu trabalho sejam promissores e tragam muita prosperidade a sua empresa
Seemed like the hives were light throughout the prairies. Cold wet weather, they needed more feed than usual. A bit of an unusual year with barely a spring flow. Nice you got to the lake. Your kids are getting big. 👍🌻🐝
Timing is everything. With that said, I have never used formic. Maybe it was too strong for a bunch of split bees. I time apivar two weeks before we start raising brood, then pollen patties. Oxalic Acid as the fall brood emerges and another after all brood has emerged, it's timing. So I would try formic again if I was you, try it at the final honey pull when you still have loads of bees and the highest mite loads of the season, have queens ready, nothing wrong with a new queen going into winter.
Thanks I’m always encouraged and challenged by yer videos for managing my hives, this year I’m working on saving nice combs for spring splits, I need to slow my hives down for 30-45 days vs swarms everywhere
Thats what makes it so hard for us to control mites. It is like taking chemo for cancer. It is hard as hell on the body, but it does its job. Formic Pro, and Api Guard are very hard on the bees and queens, but they kill mites. OA is easy on the bees, but the amount of time it takes to properly apply to 100 or more hives is prohibitive. I usually plan a graft during my treatments knowing I will lose some queens. When I go through and do follow up mite counts I have my queen cells in the truck and drop one in the hives that need one.
Glad you got to take some time off. This was my 1st season using Rocket Fuel in the Spring I used it in syrup and the Global patties. All of my hives have been growing great but I had 1 colony that blew up so fast they that it seemed the queen got ahead of my local food cycle and when I pull back on the feed they crashed. I was able to save the core but I lost a box of bees because of my mistake but I learnt a lot this Spring. Blessed Days Ian...
Much of the same here in South Central Ontario. Hardly no initial early spring flow. The big flow here for me is the white clover, which it seemed to rain throughout the entire bloom of that. Focusing on the fall now.
Same in Sask We had so much pollen one week they were crowding the nest a week later they had eaten most of it and couldnt fly to the massive spring flower blooms . Back to suppliment . Its 08:30 and the bees 🐝 are beezy flying 😂
After watching your experience with the Formic and reading all the comments, i feel like you're in a tough position with mites because you have such a short season during which you have honey supers on for a good portion of it. You have a limited number of brood cycles before and after the flow. You can't afford any down time in your nests. Beekeepers in more southern latitudes have more cycles to treat and to recover from treating. I'm often jealous watching your videos of the northern flow but i would not want to experience your weather or your mite predicament. Thanks for the experience.
Having a long winter is beneficial because for several months there is no brood for the mites to retreat into, making oxalic acid treatments more efficient.
You got it wrong. We have only one month of let's say it's winter (January) and in the past we had to fork out a tea plate of brood from one frame to make the treatment effective. There was never a full brood break for a good treatment. And to think that l used to have a normal winter only 15-20 years ago
Ian l keep thinking how much varroa could it be there after that winter in the shed. Or. Would it be enough to treat OAV immediately after pulling out.. do you find too many brood frames coming out, so it makes it ineffective. Probably. I can't believe I have to be the one with the bright idea. The formic needs a rim, a shallow or a top feeder upside down. I wouldn't think about putting it in the middle.. not even my 60ml of 60% on a sponge in a bag. And that one pad looks like it has 600ml. There's more to be tested there... time to get on the honey...
They say two week vacations are best. First week slow down. Second week is when you rest. Didn’t have opportunity in my career very often but retired now.
70 % of the mites are in the drone brood.. seems to work well I'll do chemical treatment after the flow.. I finding 1 mite for every 1000 bees in my washes here in July.. removing the drone brood has worked well.. one yard I didn't do drone removal is crashing right now
I have said apiguard I think bob will recommend it also it’s time to get rid of the chemicals in your hives. Also you missed the shark over your left shoulder at 12:14 of the video😂
I just finished caging 250, the treatment and the supersedure queens.. all at once. Now I'm going to meet my Italian friends in the middle of the adriatic sea to smuggle some equipment back home.. and then I'm going over to Italy with their boat to help cage 4000 queens as my vacation. At least their Ligusticas are easier to see than my Carnies.
@@chasanchousein9681 it will be a full screen comment. Basically when you cage the queen and the hive has an emerging box of brood... when the brood pheromone gets lower and lower you get a hive full of bees that have nobody to feed.. than they want to change her. They don't understand the cage only the pheromone lack. Than you can change the cage to a push in 7×10cm excluder, or graft on them. It's a hive full of bees like a starter. They are not getting old when they don't feed brood. The hives are full of pollen they collected where it was brood before. I like the push in cage method because the bees do everything and l think those are better eggs because she kept them in her body longer (probably bigger but not tested) and the bees picked which ones will be queen cells. My every production hive becomes a starter about to explode of bees and they are making only 3-5-6 cells... You have to understand that I do it right before the dearth and I don't have a flow until September. And if l get a rain by any chance like this year and a flow I still do all this and put them to work like this. They can only collect more because the lack of brood and the dearth comes after it anyway. I'm making this queens almost a decade by now and the grafted ones too. This are better queens.. bigger, wider in the cleft area, if you let them ,live longer.. there's no way this one will pass an excluder... it's for experienced beeks who understand what l'm talking about. It's not for mass production. It's to change your production hives queens at the same time when you do oxalic treatment.. especially if you need a box of pollen to survive the summer. Ian here has no reason to try this stuff.. his flow is different and doesn't have a hall summer of drought. I will always rather make me this than grafted ones.
I take those cells and put for breeding... and I release the caged queens so they can lay me all they can after being caged. And they are really keen to do it.. all healthy winter bees. You actually can see the change of the generation and the healthiness of the new bees. All done with 2 -3 strips of oxalic-glycerin hanging above the entrance and between brood... my only treatment. Yeah, after a little bit of selection. Since varroa arrived.. 77 -78. 😂 Anyway, those are the queens we use for production hives in the last decade. I know it looks complicated but the bees do all the work and you're not obligated to a specific date like with grafting. But you have to be able to find your queens. And I don't mind the work if I can produce a better quality queens. At least in my opinion. I know that here we go into bees behavior and it becomes difficult to explain and understand. It's all about pheromones and the lack of some. It's all done in those 21 - 25 days needed for a brood break. Or you whayt 15 days for the capped brood to emerge and gorge in pollen, get fat. The best cells are made when there's no brood in. It means that the hives have the maximum of nurse bees who don't want nothing but to feed their cells.. and then you get the best queens. They make them with the old queen still in the hive right there caged on the seme frame many times. That's why I call it supersedure cells.. and they never make too many
@@chasanchousein9681 l wrote a full new column but you have to put under the 'newest comments'. O man I'm really sorry you lost the game. You made great pressure right to the end. They were lucky there at the finish..
How does the associations that represent beekeepers compare to other types of farming like cattle and grain? I know of now defunct grain pool, which probably compared more to our co-op than commissions.
Ya, the worst thing that has happened has been the loss of the coop grain elevators, we could not play that expensive game. CWB, just an arm of the government… Our industry pales in comparison to other agricultural industries. We have no money, whereas other commodities are flush. They have floors of office staff and manage millions of $$$ in regards to advocacy and research and marketing. But our industry does very well
17:17 says it all.... thats why "we" are here and not 'there' FWIW I am very new to bee keeping... ironically because of this I have way more time to read than take care of the bees as I have so few. I watch all your videos. In my opinion you varied from the exact instructions on purpose to learn. What you could never have known going in was how much a small variance would make a big difference. Also you are VERY observant and most people just are not. It is my understanding instructions says treat and then stay out of the colony for two weeks. Once expert laughed and said "of course you have to stay out for two weeks because if you saw how the bees responded and how many died you would never use it again... BUT it is so effective at killing the varroa babies in the brood it is worth the set back." You saw the set back but most never see it thus never report it. On one hand we can not take the loss of all the bees that are not VRH but the longer we go on treating the adult varroa might the stronger we make the mite. We are working against our selves in the long run if we dont get off treatment and onto bees that deal with the mites on their own.
Haha, I can't say l don't agree. We already told you how we do it with formic. There's no sense in repeating. And I understand why you used those instead of our tried recipe with liquid. My friend just used it on 35c and went on holiday. That pad looks way to heavy.. there's the problem. Not with your work.
What you said about working with the association was spot on. I’ve never really thought about it that way. I’m not a supporter of my local association . I’ll go to the scheduled meeting a couple of times a year and it sorta feels like a waste of time. Talking about things I’m not interested in. Or giving vague basic information. Maybe 15 other people in the room 5 are leaders. So after listening to you and remembering the story King Bob gave about writing for
bee culture magazine , I realized I can either shut up and get over it. Or be more involved. See if I can help in some way. Above all appreciate what they have done and the time they have given to do it. The time and energy they could have been spending with their families or on other things. So with that said. Thanks to you and your family for the videos and for the time it takes to make them
That’s good! To be involved does not mean you have to do the work, to be involved means to be engaged. They need to hear your voice.
You know what amazes me is that every single grain in those massive silos is the result of a single bee touching that flower that created it.
Gostei muito do resumo que fez dessa temporada até agora, muita experiência acumulada, que os resultados do seu trabalho sejam promissores e tragam muita prosperidade a sua empresa
Seemed like the hives were light throughout the prairies. Cold wet weather, they needed more feed than usual. A bit of an unusual year with barely a spring flow.
Nice you got to the lake. Your kids are getting big. 👍🌻🐝
Timing is everything. With that said, I have never used formic. Maybe it was too strong for a bunch of split bees. I time apivar two weeks before we start raising brood, then pollen patties. Oxalic Acid as the fall brood emerges and another after all brood has emerged, it's timing. So I would try formic again if I was you, try it at the final honey pull when you still have loads of bees and the highest mite loads of the season, have queens ready, nothing wrong with a new queen going into winter.
Crazy rain 🌧️ year, here in Wisconsin it’s been crazy!!
Thanks I’m always encouraged and challenged by yer videos for managing my hives, this year I’m working on saving nice combs for spring splits, I need to slow my hives down for 30-45 days vs swarms everywhere
Pullin honey today here in Oregon 😁
Thats what makes it so hard for us to control mites. It is like taking chemo for cancer. It is hard as hell on the body, but it does its job. Formic Pro, and Api Guard are very hard on the bees and queens, but they kill mites. OA is easy on the bees, but the amount of time it takes to properly apply to 100 or more hives is prohibitive. I usually plan a graft during my treatments knowing I will lose some queens. When I go through and do follow up mite counts I have my queen cells in the truck and drop one in the hives that need one.
A vida do apicultor tem que ser feita de trabalho e família,se não Vc não consegue progresso.
Glad you had a great time.
Check out oxalic acid strip's from aluen cap. You can apply them with supers on and they have a good efficacy on the mite.
Glad you got to take some time off.
This was my 1st season using Rocket Fuel in the Spring I used it in syrup and the Global patties.
All of my hives have been growing great but I had 1 colony that blew up so fast they that it seemed the queen got ahead of my local food cycle and when I pull back on the feed they crashed. I was able to save the core but I lost a box of bees because of my mistake but I learnt a lot this Spring. Blessed Days Ian...
Much of the same here in South Central Ontario.
Hardly no initial early spring flow. The big flow here for me is the white clover, which it seemed to rain throughout the entire bloom of that. Focusing on the fall now.
Same in Sask
We had so much pollen one week they were crowding the nest a week later they had eaten most of it and couldnt fly to the massive spring flower blooms .
Back to suppliment .
Its 08:30 and the bees 🐝 are beezy flying 😂
After watching your experience with the Formic and reading all the comments, i feel like you're in a tough position with mites because you have such a short season during which you have honey supers on for a good portion of it. You have a limited number of brood cycles before and after the flow. You can't afford any down time in your nests. Beekeepers in more southern latitudes have more cycles to treat and to recover from treating. I'm often jealous watching your videos of the northern flow but i would not want to experience your weather or your mite predicament. Thanks for the experience.
Having a long winter is beneficial because for several months there is no brood for the mites to retreat into, making oxalic acid treatments more efficient.
You got it wrong. We have only one month of let's say it's winter (January) and in the past we had to fork out a tea plate of brood from one frame to make the treatment effective. There was never a full brood break for a good treatment. And to think that l used to have a normal winter only 15-20 years ago
Ian l keep thinking how much varroa could it be there after that winter in the shed. Or. Would it be enough to treat OAV immediately after pulling out.. do you find too many brood frames coming out, so it makes it ineffective. Probably. I can't believe I have to be the one with the bright idea.
The formic needs a rim, a shallow or a top feeder upside down. I wouldn't think about putting it in the middle.. not even my 60ml of 60% on a sponge in a bag. And that one pad looks like it has 600ml. There's more to be tested there... time to get on the honey...
Ian, nice place! I always wanted to get out there to fish muskies.
Have you considered OAV or dribble for a summer treatment?
Manitobas beautiful lakes !!!
They say two week vacations are best. First week slow down. Second week is when you rest. Didn’t have opportunity in my career very often but retired now.
You'll be cracking King Bee jokes before you know it.
Glad you got a break. I’m at the beach with my family this week. You catch any fish?
Bunch of delicious Pike
70 % of the mites are in the drone brood.. seems to work well I'll do chemical treatment after the flow.. I finding 1 mite for every 1000 bees in my washes here in July.. removing the drone brood has worked well.. one yard I didn't do drone removal is crashing right now
Sounds like a lot of work but if you see those kinda results, it’s worth it
I have said apiguard I think bob will recommend it also it’s time to get rid of the chemicals in your hives. Also you missed the shark over your left shoulder at 12:14 of the video😂
Have fun not everything in life is work
I read between the lines and I have come to the conclusion that you should stay at the lake another week..
Is your biggest flow from the crops u plant?
I just finished caging 250, the treatment and the supersedure queens.. all at once. Now I'm going to meet my Italian friends in the middle of the adriatic sea to smuggle some equipment back home.. and then I'm going over to Italy with their boat to help cage 4000 queens as my vacation. At least their Ligusticas are easier to see than my Carnies.
How you sepersedure queens?
@@chasanchousein9681 it will be a full screen comment. Basically when you cage the queen and the hive has an emerging box of brood... when the brood pheromone gets lower and lower you get a hive full of bees that have nobody to feed.. than they want to change her. They don't understand the cage only the pheromone lack. Than you can change the cage to a push in 7×10cm excluder, or graft on them. It's a hive full of bees like a starter. They are not getting old when they don't feed brood. The hives are full of pollen they collected where it was brood before. I like the push in cage method because the bees do everything and l think those are better eggs because she kept them in her body longer (probably bigger but not tested) and the bees picked which ones will be queen cells.
My every production hive becomes a starter about to explode of bees and they are making only 3-5-6 cells...
You have to understand that I do it right before the dearth and I don't have a flow until September. And if l get a rain by any chance like this year and a flow I still do all this and put them to work like this. They can only collect more because the lack of brood and the dearth comes after it anyway.
I'm making this queens almost a decade by now and the grafted ones too. This are better queens.. bigger, wider in the cleft area, if you let them ,live longer.. there's no way this one will pass an excluder... it's for experienced beeks who understand what l'm talking about. It's not for mass production. It's to change your production hives queens at the same time when you do oxalic treatment.. especially if you need a box of pollen to survive the summer. Ian here has no reason to try this stuff.. his flow is different and doesn't have a hall summer of drought. I will always rather make me this than grafted ones.
I take those cells and put for breeding... and I release the caged queens so they can lay me all they can after being caged. And they are really keen to do it.. all healthy winter bees. You actually can see the change of the generation and the healthiness of the new bees. All done with 2 -3 strips of oxalic-glycerin hanging above the entrance and between brood... my only treatment. Yeah, after a little bit of selection. Since varroa arrived.. 77 -78. 😂
Anyway, those are the queens we use for production hives in the last decade. I know it looks complicated but the bees do all the work and you're not obligated to a specific date like with grafting. But you have to be able to find your queens. And I don't mind the work if I can produce a better quality queens. At least in my opinion.
I know that here we go into bees behavior and it becomes difficult to explain and understand. It's all about pheromones and the lack of some.
It's all done in those 21 - 25 days needed for a brood break. Or you whayt 15 days for the capped brood to emerge and gorge in pollen, get fat. The best cells are made when there's no brood in. It means that the hives have the maximum of nurse bees who don't want nothing but to feed their cells.. and then you get the best queens. They make them with the old queen still in the hive right there caged on the seme frame many times. That's why I call it supersedure cells.. and they never make too many
@@researcherAmateur thanks for explaining👌 and I'd like to talk this more in detail if you don't mind!
@@chasanchousein9681 l wrote a full new column but you have to put under the 'newest comments'.
O man I'm really sorry you lost the game. You made great pressure right to the end. They were lucky there at the finish..
Im from the government and im here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Exactly, we need to push back when needed
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog politicians listen to farmers. Bureaucrats dont.
In the states the bulk honey 🍯 prices have been cut in 1/2. How is your looking and would this make a video?
Good afternoon what mixer are you useing to feed for your syrup
How does the associations that represent beekeepers compare to other types of farming like cattle and grain? I know of now defunct grain pool, which probably compared more to our co-op than commissions.
Ya, the worst thing that has happened has been the loss of the coop grain elevators, we could not play that expensive game. CWB, just an arm of the government…
Our industry pales in comparison to other agricultural industries. We have no money, whereas other commodities are flush. They have floors of office staff and manage millions of $$$ in regards to advocacy and research and marketing.
But our industry does very well
I didnt see a single fish caught in this video, thumbs down lol.
Beautiful place for vacationing
LOL we caught lots of Pike :)
How well did the Api Tablets work for you i have had good results
17:17 says it all.... thats why "we" are here and not 'there'
FWIW I am very new to bee keeping... ironically because of this I have way more time to read than take care of the bees as I have so few.
I watch all your videos. In my opinion you varied from the exact instructions on purpose to learn. What you could never have known going in was how much a small variance would make a big difference. Also you are VERY observant and most people just are not. It is my understanding instructions says treat and then stay out of the colony for two weeks. Once expert laughed and said "of course you have to stay out for two weeks because if you saw how the bees responded and how many died you would never use it again... BUT it is so effective at killing the varroa babies in the brood it is worth the set back." You saw the set back but most never see it thus never report it.
On one hand we can not take the loss of all the bees that are not VRH but the longer we go on treating the adult varroa might the stronger we make the mite. We are working against our selves in the long run if we dont get off treatment and onto bees that deal with the mites on their own.
hello sir namaste
Haha, I can't say l don't agree. We already told you how we do it with formic. There's no sense in repeating. And I understand why you used those instead of our tried recipe with liquid. My friend just used it on 35c and went on holiday.
That pad looks way to heavy.. there's the problem. Not with your work.