Backyard Beekeeping Questions and Answers Episode 247, what about the Eclipse? Thermal Imaging?
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
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Here are today's questions:
1) Is it possible to judge plant varieties based on honey they produce?
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2) I purchased land where my bees are within 30 feet from horses. What is a "Bee Fence"? A fence that bees will have to fly over?
3) Tried to heat set honey in frames, the foundationless comb got soft and made a huge mess. Just giving you an update.
4) A hive has a 10 frame deep with a shallow super on top. The shallow super is full of drone brood as if there is a laying worker. Thoughts?
5) I bought medium supers that arrived with black foundation. Does it matter if the frames are black or white?
6) Are you doing any kind of research during the Eclipse on April 8th? You are in the path of totality.
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7) Could you please tell me which heat camera you use as a tool to monitor cluster movement?
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Chapters:
00:00 introduction
05:47 Is it possible to judge plant varieties based on the honey they produce?
10:15 I purchased land where my bees are within 30 feet of horses. What is a "Bee Fence"? A fence that bees will have to fly over?
15:23 Tried to heat set honey in frames, but the foundationless comb got soft and made a huge mess. Just giving you an update.
22:20 A hive has a 10-frame deep with a shallow super on top. The shallow super is full of drone brood as if there is a laying worker. Thoughts?
27:06 I bought medium supers that arrived with a black foundation. Does it matter if the frames are black or white?
34:10 Are you doing any kind of research during the Eclipse on April 8th? You are in the path of totality.
45:02 Could you please tell me which heat camera you use as a tool to monitor cluster movement?
1) Is it possible to judge plant varieties based on honey they produce? 5:47
2) I purchased land where my bees are within 30 feet from horses. What is a "Bee Fence"? A fence that bees will have to fly over? 10:15
3) Tried to heat set honey in frames, the foundationless comb got soft and made a huge mess. Just giving you an update. 15:23
4) A hive has a 10 frame deep with a shallow super on top. The shallow super is full of drone brood as if there is a laying worker. Thoughts? 22:20
5) I bought medium supers that arrived with black foundation. Does it matter if the frames are black or white? 27:06
6) Are you doing any kind of research during the Eclipse on April 8th? You are in the path of totality. 34:10
7) Could you please tell me which heat camera you use as a tool to monitor cluster movement? 45:02
Thank you Adam
Also, in the slow-mo portion, I love that you can see their legs shaking in time with the wing beats. They are working so hard!
I'm so sorry to hear of your recent loss. may you and your family receive peace during this difficult time.
Thank you.
What was fred lost did i miss it
That time of year again. Get those wasp traps out! Catch the queens now and save a headache later.
Sir I am sure you know about chickens, but as a heads up, when the path of totality came over our chickens went to roost crowing. Also when the light filtered through the trees it was crescent shaped which reversed as the light came back. I don't remember anything special about our bees but the chickens were really telling
Got me glued to that time lapse. I pulled over because I knew it was going to be a good one.
You pulled over to watch my video? Thanks, Randy! :) I hope you're doing well!
@@FrederickDunnI had to. I like to get the full experience of quality art.
We're doing good.
@@FrederickDunn Great Time Lapse - thanks.
The next time you do a time lapse of pollen sub can you have a thermometer in the view so we can see when the hoards start flying?
@@bj8342 I will do just that! I did it for the syrup feeding experiments, but not with pollen. Watch for it next week!
@@628DirtRooster That's a great compliment coming from a truly talented street photographer! Respect!
I remember the total eclipse in Oregon 2017. Besides the actual event, one thing that I will always remember were the native song birds. Once everything started to get dark the birds started roosting and singing like they normally do in the evenings. Think the event happened mid day. Crazy!
"Doublers are craaap!" Sing it, Fred!!! :)
Don't even want to talk about those, I bought the best they make from Nikon and for video.... fine, but with still images they are barely passable. :)
First, Hope your bees are doing well :) Have a great weekend Fred
Same to you! :)
I look forward to watching your video of the eclipse.
Thanks, let's hope for a nice clear day :)
Yea the weather will be the question mark. I'm over here in Ezel Kentucky. Got the day off and we'll see what happens. Using the new Vaonis Hestia for the eclipse
Great opening video!
Thank you!
Thank you for the Eclipse Photography lesson. Hoping you get some great footage. You were on fire today, love your sense of humour. For the bird seeds you might be able to sieve the dust out. I have seen some people with pellet BBQ doing this so the auger does not jam up.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Fred, have a great weekend!
Thanks, you too!
I'm going to try
Thanks!
Martha! :) you are always ALWAYS too generous! :) Thank you.
I'm in Delhi NY and amazingly I have 2 late swarms that I collected in October that made it so far.
That's great news. It's always nice to see something so small, survive.
Love the info about invertase,ive often wondered about that enzyme,and how 😊 nectar becomes honey
Glad it was helpful! :)
Have A Great Weekend Mr.Dunn,,🇱🇨👍🏽❤️
Thank you, Robert! You too!
Excellent music choice. Another great video, thank you Sir.
Thank you, Tommy!
Do a time lapse of your yard during the eclipse 😊
Way ahead of you on that one :)
This is Allen from GrillingNetwork CZcams channel, you have inspired me to start a new CZcams and start sharing my passion for bees. Thanks for doing what you do!!
That's fantastic! I hope your bee channel leads you down a great beekeeping path. :)
Love your so-mo
Thanks Fred, very good vid
Thanks, Thomas!
I got one of those little flir
Great video as always. Alot of work on you and the bees.to make this happen.
Such a great video! Can’t believe they were removing the seeds - so so interesting. Enjoying watching your bees as we are over here watching it snow 🥴 (Eastern WA).
Pushing the seeds out of the feeder was new for me too :)
One member of our bee club ( we're based in Canyon, TX) lost 98 hives. The small town of Fritch lost almost 100 homes. Ranchers are shooting cattle that are fatally burned but still clinging to life. It's bad.
Wow, I knew it had to be bad news. The cattle seem to be scattered. They are facing some real hardship there. Thanks for the update.
Fire Update: Sunday afternoon, the winds are high again today, the biggest fire is still only 15% contained, meaning it's almost burning out of control. This is a range fire, burning mostly grass and brush. Several human fatalities and thousands of cattle & other livestock lost.
We need to reprimand your supervisor that is substandard performance lol just kidding love the guy
Mistakes are part of learning. Should never feel bad- didn’t learn this until after my kids were grown. I love the patience and opportunity you give him to make them!
My bees loved the borage i planted last yr,until hard freeze. Tons of blooms ,direct seeded in 24" rows, May ,northcentral ind. Will plant alot more this yr.Thanks for doing what you do ,Fred!
Hi Phil, thanks for that. Did you find that your borage self-seeded the following year? Or is this your first year with that? Thanks.
@FrederickDunn that is yet to be seen if they come back this spring ,2023 was my 1st time of planting it.i think you will be pleased with the amount of native pollinators that will be visiting! Big fan of buckwheat also,for the same reasons,easy to grow, long boom time and attractive to wide variety of pollinators. Have a great day!
@@philweaver9299 Thanks for the additional information :)
Hi Fred.
Here in Scotland 🏴 I have wild Borage Plants dotted all over the Garden. It's self Seeded. And it comes up each Year.
Mine has a much smaller Paler Blue Flower (than the 1/4lb Pack you showed Stateside !)
Anyhow, it grows in Verges, Fields, along Road Sides, and probably anywhere, where, no Lawn Mowing occurs.
My Bees just love Borage as a Resource for Nectar.
They have Food and Pollen in a long sequence re availability. Starts with late Winter Hazel Tree Catkins, Snow Drops etc. Then Spring Bulbs and Dandelions. On to Fruit Tree Blossom, Rosemary and Thyme as well as other Herbs. Then Borage from say mid May, right through until August, or as late as September (if Frosts don't knock it back.)
If you have young Flowers and Leaves : they are delicious in Cold Drinks. Taste a bit like Cucumber ! Guess you Guys make Iced Tea. Here is more like 'Pimms' with added Lemonade, Orange Slices, some Cucumber and of course 'Borage Flowers & Leaves' to decorate up the Glasses. Cheers ! 🍸
Think I might look up some 'Garden' Variety of Borage, to give the Girls more of the Good stuff. 👍
Reason you didn't have Borage in the USA as a Native : was because you were not invaded by the 'Roman Empire' !?! A Google Search said 'these Guys' aka Roman Soldiers : needed "Dutch Courage" pre Battle :
so they all knocked back fortified Wine with Borage in it. Maybe some 'dutch courage' is needed flying in all that pending Nectar and Honey ! 😎
Off to search a Seed Catalogue.
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Canola is prone to crystallize as per Ian Stepler
I wonder if that is true of both GMO and non-GMO canola
@@bthyme doesn't make a difference. 40 years ago before GMO the apiaries surrounded by canola had fast crystalizing honey. The ones in clover fields had slower crystalizing.
Seems to me the silver maples have a dull yellowish white pollen & red maples have bright yellow pollen.
Fred, even as a kid I knew double dip was better than single dip. Was sometimes able to convince the dip cone maker to dip more than once! Keith / STL
Aha! :)
Regarding weird things bees do, my bees keep going after my chicken feed for the dust.
Very common with corn meal included. The bees are very keen at finding stuff that isn't quite nutritious but contains dust that imitates pollen particulates.
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lol my chicken run to me when they come out and what ever I put down they eat 😅😊
My daughter used to let baby chicks sleep on her when she was outside. That was really cute, but when they grew up, somehow she didn't want them flying up and landing on her head or shoulders when she was outside :) Lessons learned. I don't need a bunch of chickens underfoot just waiting for food to drop (">
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I taste tested pollen Oak, very sweet
I knew a dairy farmer who ate the cattle grain while he did chores... mollasses... thanks for inspiring that memory. :)
Thanks for another good video
Thanks for watching!
Great episode like always. I wonder if the bees coming back from the pollen sub area would cause hyper cleaning much like in the same way a powdered sugar shake would. Could a bee with a mite on them be more inclined to cover themselves knowing they would be cleaned, possibly removing mites when they got back to the hive? There is so much we don't know that could be at play.
Pretty rare to see a mite on a forager. By the time you would see that, I'd think the colony was heavily mite infested. BUT, we could try to count mites on some of them, I'm just not expecting to see much on those older bees.
93 degrees earlier this week in north Texas and yesterday it was sleeting. My bees quit taking Ultrabee this week. I’ll see one or two going after it. I’ve got a job this weekend. This afternoon, UPS just delivered 70 flowering seedling trees that I’ve got to plant. I just planted 12 red yucca this week that I got for free that someone dug up. I’ve got a house full of seedling trees I grew from seed this winter that I’ve also got to plant. QUESTION: how does the Queen find the new location when the hive swarms? Do the workers waggle dance to show her or do they somehow drive her to it?
That's a great question, and you have your hands full with all of those trees! The queen just goes with the worker bee and scout flow. She doesn't decide anything other than if she's going into the new cavity or not once they all get there. :)
On melting honeycomb, the wires on Layens frames run up and down. I had wax foundation on a few Layens wired frames collapse. I had built and wired the frames myself. I heat installed the wax foundation starter strips, so they were stuck on the wires well, but dropped in the heat of summer. I wonder if I used a wire crimper on the wires before installing the wax foundation, would that help keep the wax foundation from slipping down the wires. I will try it the next time I work on my Layens frames.
Have you reached out to Dr. Leo on that issue? Several keepers have mentioned that particular problem. He may already have a solution. :)
@@FrederickDunn I have not reached out to Dr. Leo, but that's a great idea.
Do you have bats nearby as it would be interesting to know if the bats fly out during the eclipse , the temps really drop though even during a partial eclipse it went absolutely freezing , looking forwards to these videos and photos , great Q&A Fred
We do have north american brown bats, but I won't be observing them during the eclipse. They are most active at dusk, so I don't think the eclipse would cause a sudden call to action. But you never know.
Do Not Freeze Fondant to store doesn't make sense. It's being used in the hive during freezing weather.
When I asked the producer of Hive Alive, if freezing is a good way to store it, the owner advised against that. I don't have details as to why that's not a good idea, just passing it along.
Hello,im building a lattice enclosure arbor, where i can stick a hive,cause i like bees
Maybe they think they're dead bees. They sort of look like that.
If we put a box on top in the spring, wont the queen still keep going up and using that as her brood box instead if going down to bottom box? I seem to have. Hard time getting that bottom box getting used. I don't have an upper entrance either.
Try keeping that lower main entrance small and see them go back down. It's what they also do in unattended tree cavities.
It's Fred-day! Crazy weather here...last year winter low -26, which is normal historically, this year 6 f for a low. Not much tick die-off at that temperature. Could be a bad tick year. 12 f this am, temperatures warming tomorrow and will be above freezing for 5 days...Get my potting soil out. Will be planting seeds a couple weeks early this year....just because...
All I can say about those ticks... guinea hens :) and free ranging chickens!
@@FrederickDunn wish it was that easy, I spend a lot of time in the woods. That would be a big range for them chickens....hmmm, chicken herder...hmmm.
@@lambbrookfarm4528 My Minorca flock spends half the day in the woods and wetland area. (">
Best for ticks opossums.
What is your method for liquifying Hive Alive fondant patties?
Just peel off the plastic and run 105 degree water, dip the bag/plastic until clean. After the fondant is out, I finish off the mix with added sugar if needed.
Hi Fred. I watch all of your Q&A Videos. Thanks for contributing to my beekeeping knowledge. I am coming out of my 4th Winter; At this point, all of my hives have made it thru. I insulated the tops of my hives with a 1 inch board under the outer cover and supplement feeding with Hive Alive Fondant. I am running deep as well as single Langstroth hives. I understand that temperature fluctuations causing the bees to break and reform clusters as well as be active in flight causes resources to be used by the colony. I was wondering which behavior causes more resources to be used faster. Do bees use more resources clustering in an uninsulated hive? Or do bees use more resources by flying during warm winter days?
They conserve far more flying than when they remain clustered on winter days in a well-constructed hive. Some of our coldest winters have resulted in more honey leftover in spring than the more mild winters that permitted cleansing flights. Insulated hives can also decrease resource consumption.
thanks for your quick response. It makes sense to me.@@FrederickDunn
Have you read up on the possibility of sunflowers helping with shb Or mites? I can't remember which 1 it was that it could possibly help with
I'm not aware of that benefit from sunflowers. I do know that their pollen has demonstrated some benefit in reducing foul brood.
So weird .. I found about 5 small white bird seeds in my bottom board tray . No mouse the bees must have carried it into the hive
Are you sure it's birdseed and not chalk brood? Just a thought.
@@FrederickDunn I'm 99.9 percent sure they were seeds I don't know much about chalk brood .this is my first winter keeping bees. They looked happy and healthy . The past few warm days bringing in pollen. But what are the signs now I'm worried 😟
@@Jay-qv8hq Nothing to be worried about, let's say it's chalk brood. If it's on the bottom, they are cleaning it out and will likely be just fine. If you can scrape a few of them up and look them over it will be clear. Seeds would just be very unlikely but as always not "impossible". :)
I have a question. I am in SW Kentucky the weather has been warm and the bees have started up and brood rearing. I am running double deep boxes, they are brood rearing in top box. already had a cycle emerge. Should I rotate the brood to the bottom , temps will drop again for a night or 2 during a 2 week cycle. This hive is going to explode in population fast. I don't want to cause chilled brood syndrome by rotating boxes too soon. I expect to do splits off this hive and have Nuc's ready to go
Just my personal management choice here. I don't and wouldn't rotate that box. I keep an insulated inner cover on the hives and have a reduced single entrance at the landing board. With no upper venting and a small single entrance, they are encouraged to work their way back down as temps rise. Your climate is much warmer than mine, but disrupting early brood can set them back in my opinion. I hope it all works out for you :)
@@FrederickDunnThank you for your advise.
33° drop in 90 minutes? The girls couldn't have liked that.
They zipped right back to their hives just ahead of the drop. Remarkable really...
The person talking about her crystalized honey in the frame, listening i got the feeling she was impatient, no times were mentioned in how long she left it, but the tone, unless just the way you read it, seemed impatient! Just sayin
That's a great point, it does take several days to reliquify.
You will have 3 minutes to figure it out
What are we figuring out in three minutes?
The totality of the eclipse is 3 minutes long so if one is not set up correctly they have 3 minutes to get things together
@@davidpotts3844 Oh, now your comment has context. Thanks :)
He will figure it out pretty quickly after the first 5 figure vet bill. Horses are worse than boats dollar wise and that’s saying something!!!
I'm glad my horse never needed any serious care. Wow!
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