Abandoned Hive Follow-up
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2020
- This is a part 2 to the previous video. In this video I need to follow-up on the abandoned hive as well as a swarm. Thanks for joining me in my 2020 beekeeping season as I share how I maintain my beehives from winter through the following fall. My videos are not meant to be 'How To' videos, but simply me sharing my experiences in beekeeping as I learned it from my mentors, teachers, and studies.
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Thanks again Mike.
You're welcome!
I’m a newbie who’s been thrown truly in at the deep end with a hive that’s not been inspected for approx 1 year. I found this video to help me before the inspection. Thankfully I have 2 experienced beekeepers coming over to help me. Im nervous/excited and hoping all will go well later today 🤞
As I read this I expect you’ve went through it already. Sure happy my video helped and I do hope it went well. Those experienced beekeepers will help get you out of the deep end I am sure.
Seeing how fast those workers are moving across the frame I'd have been looking to replace that queen.
Thanks Mike,2nd year bee keeper and had a hive gave to me last fall that's not been into for 5yrs! Thanks for giving me a clue on what to do with it!
You’re welcome Phil. Glad it is helping you out. Thanks for watching and for the comment!!
Pretty easy to tack some wood slats as handles
Barry, you speak so softly and you have a sweet southern accent so I need to turn up the volume just a little to understand what you are saying. I have to use ear buds so I don't disturb my grandsons and then my ears get blasted! I can turn the volume down fast enough. I had to stop watching you tonight in order to preserve my hearing. Please keep the volume level of the music the same as your voice so I can enjoy music into my 80's
I have fixed that, but there are still a couple of videos that have the issue. But as of a few days ago, all music has been reduced. Thanks for the feedback.
@@MikeBarryBees thank you for taking care of our ears☺☺☺
Enjoy going on this ride enjoy learning all I can , thanks. Keep being the video’s
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoy the channel!!
Thanks Mike for another great video
You’re welcome and thanks for the comment!!
Great video Mike I am going to have to go back and catch up on your videos I have gotten behind with everything that is going on. Hope all is well with you all and hope you all stay safe down there.
Thanks Mark. I know the feeling. Hope all is well up that way.
Thanks Mike!
Thank you for watching!!
If they run the queen to slim her down to fly with the swarm, she is not laying. So, most likely, that swarm didn’t come from your box or the old queen stayed.
Hello Mike , watched what you did , I have the same problem just didn't want to do it. I guess I'll tackle one at a time , I have mixed supers and I have no one to blame but myself ,but like you I will try to fix the problem. You can say that your videos and knowledge has helped one lazy bee keeper . Thanks .
Well, I'm sure glad that you got something from it. One good thing in your case is that they are your supers, so you can just leave them on once you get them above the excluder. These on my hive weren't mine and they have so much crazy comb, and who knows what's been done to them. So I guess in a couple of weeks, I'll take them and freeze them so I can feed them back in the fall. I'll just add my own supers when the flow starts. Thanks for the comment and for watching!!
2:53 I see some cells. Thanks for sharing.
Yep, there were a few on that frame. Thanks for the comment!!
Sir do, Barry njoying your vids 👋...
Thanks and glad you are enjoying them!!
Newbie keeper here. Enjoy watching.
Thanks and appreciate you watching!!
Thanks for this video,...gave me the answer to how to get my queen out of the soupers, ..I still haven't found the queen,....just missing her too,.. thank you,..such an easy fix !!!
blueyes043 awesome, glad it helped!! Thanks for watching!!
Hope you and Mr. Ed do a joint video together. Originally I found Mr. Ed was when him and Dirtrooster did a video together. Really enjoying the series, keep up the good work.
We did a cutout together and it actually made a show that was broadcast nationally!! Crazy, right? That video is on his CZcams channel, but I'd have to search to see what he called it. Here's the link to that show that had the video on it:
www.rightthisminute.com/video/these-beekeepers-just-found-honey-days
Theres far too few bees to have 4 boxes. I would have put all the bees into 1 deep, then queen excluder and put 1 medium on with brood to hatch out.
Thanks Mike. I enjoy the videos. If I could ask one thing? When you fast forward the video, the music is really loud. I have the volume up to hear you and the music blasts me out. Can the music be turned down a bit?
Jim Swank yes especially when you have 👂 phones on.
I’ll take care of that. I do apologize. I can drop the bar on the whole music clip and I believe that will take care of it. For the next 3 or 4 videos though, I’m not sure which ones have music, but they’ll probably be loud because they are already on CZcams waiting to be released and the projects are moved. So I can’t go back in and edit those. But starting today on any future videos, I will get that volume down. Surely appreciate you mentioning this!! I don’t want to blast it loud like that. Thanks for letting me know!!
Mike Barry thanks Mike. Keep the “not a how to video” coming.
Nature sugar
Correct!
@@MikeBarryBees Thank you Mike for another video. I came across a hive just about like another beekeeper and her husband was moving and couldn't take the bees with them so they wanted to know if I wanted them and I went and picked them up and it was just about like the one you have. It was too late in the season to do much with it so I am going to deal with it this spring. After watching your video I may have my work cut out for me, Thanks again Mike.
did you catch that giant swarm 30 foot up the tree
No, it was just too high. Wish I could've gotten it though. I think it came from my topbar. Thanks for the comment!!
@@MikeBarryBees I was just Curious last year I had a swarm way up in a tree and I put my ladder in the back of my pick up truck and was using a bushel basket on A-pole to try to grab it and when I was coming back down the ladder to dump it on the ground the ladder kicked out I did a somersault out of the truck did on my head sometimes you gotta know When it is not worth it lol. Thanks for the reply. Love the content
@@shanephillips113 WOW!! Man, that could've been deadly. Yea, sometimes they're meant to be elsewhere. If I can't get them from back of the truck with a long pole and a bucket, then they're free to leave....
@@MikeBarryBees yes I learned a lesson and my wife also banned ladders for swarms
If they swarmed then there would have been some queen cells in the hive, they don't generally swarm until after the queen cells are capped.
They swarmed. No doubt. The cells were already torn down and there were some old cells on one frame. They probably swarmed a while ago since I didn't do anything with the hive and we had swarms coming off of hives around here the beginning of March. But agreed, if it had been the one in the yard the other day, I would've seen some cells or at least some freshly opened cells. Thanks for the comment!!