Beekeeping | Three Tips For Getting Your Bees Through The Winter
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- There are three certain tips for helping get your bees ready to survive winter. Because beekeeping becomes hands off during cold winter months, fall is the last chance to get your bees prepared for winter. Today, I'll share three tips to help you prepare your bees for a cold winter.
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I like the patina idea. Think I’m patinaed myself I’m old and weather worn! You need to learn to love yourself how you are wrinkles and all, and you can be happy. Thanks for the chat.
Dear David, Wow! this video is such an super eye opener for me. The lightbulb went on in my head when you pointed out that bees have to be fed not only sugar water in Sept but they also need protein. I was taught by other videos and beekeepers that only sugar water was to be fed in the fall. No one ever mentioned to add protein in order for brood to be raised with winter physiology. I would look at my bees in Aug. and think that I had enough bees for the winter. 2 winters in a row of my bees not making it. It's Nov on Cape Ann, MA and I'm realizing that I waited too long to replace my queen and I'm now short winter bees. My queen never recovered back after the severe drought and heat this summer. Happened to my neighbor's hives as well. I'll be combining 2 hives but still way short of 40K. Maybe my queen will keep raising winter brood now that I'll be feeding protein mixed in fondant and I can perhaps make it through. I'll cross my fingers for a mild winter! I truly get it now about how to get your bees through the winter. Thanks soooo much!! I know I'll do better next year and I'll watch this again plus your video on feeding bees.
There can be approximately 1800-2000 bees on one deep frame..so in order to have 40,000 bees u would have to have about 20 deeep frames fully covered with bees on both sides.
Good.
I just LOVE Your Coffee Time David. This one was awesome but the one you were tell the story about your son, I had an evening with my boy the day before and your story helped me go back and talk to him. So thanks for that!
I just want to tell you that I appreciate you. Besides your teaching about bee keeping, your coffee talk is very refreshing and relatable. Blessings on you.
Wow, thank you!
Great information david. I cannot stress enough all of what you just said. Big strong hives in the fall that are properly taken care of become big strong hives in the spring.
David l Elliott
Certified Master Beekeeper
University of Montana.
From one certified master beekeeper to the other!
Thank you for the Video Happy New Year!!!!!
That was the Jordanian coffee for you sir!
Good video
That’s awesome.purchased the same mug in Alaska. Beautiful land
I'm always enjoying in your stories. I think you were in Palestine when they cooked their coffee for you. Beautiful people. I am glad you were with good people and you want to share your knowledge. All the best to you.
It was a Bedouin camp
Lovely coffee talk, enjoyed the bee advice also.
Glad you liked it.
Also we really enjoy your video! There is so much to learn! You’ve helped us so much! Thank you 😊
Wow, thank you so much
Well that was interesting , dont have mites here thank god , its spring time here , lots of pollen coming in, great time of the year , caught 7 swarms last year in bait boxes , have 6 boxes out again , i am content . Peter Australia .
Great video!!! Thank you for putting out all this great information.
Thank you, I really enjoy it.
Enjoyed the video and great information.
Thank you Garry
Love your videos, inspired me to jump into beekeeping this year... at least something cool came out of 2020
John, I'm happy to hear I've inspired you to keep bees, thanks!
good to see you hooe sheris knees doin well,yeah i need to treat for mites,1st season,i have been feeding syrup,thank you
Sounds good Mark
That was very good video thank you dave
Glad you enjoyed it
First-year with bees. Did I make a mistake not adding super, any super? Two large boxes stacked. I was told I would probably not be getting honey my first year because we got our bees so late in the spring. We have two hives. two large boxes in each and in one of those hives the top box is full of honey, brood, and a little pollen but the bottom is a lot less. Plus the bees hang out on their front porch (you know what I mean, I hope) late at night???
Thanks for the video David, great as always, this year have been really feeding my 4 colonies, they are still producing lots of brood, I was a bit concerned that I might be overfeeding, but as you say they know best and if they don't want it, they will no doubt leave it. Keep up the positive outlook, we all need more of this. Regards. Peter
Thanks!
Coffee time, very good.
Cool, I really enjoy it too. I'm making a video now and coffee time is about rewarding yourself when you do difficult or hard work.
Welcome back David 😎👍
Thanks, out on some missions
David,
Our fall bloom here really is bringing in the resources (nectar) my bees are building a good deal in the Supers this fall.... no feeding needed right now
The best coffee I have had served to me in along, long time was in Ramallah, and a very close second was a coffee in Hebron. You don't get much of it though!
Shortly after the civil war ended in Monrovia, Liberia I had a cup of coffee that was as if someone boiled down an entire pot of coffee into one very small cup. Wow, my heat skipped a beat!
Thanks for sharing David! Also thank you for your book it was unexpected I appreciate it.
My pleasure!
I love coffee
Excellent
Thanks
Wow! I really enjoyed your video, informative and inspirational 👍 My son and I have our first bee box, we have alot of lessons to learn. I'm pretty sure we are going to loose our first hive do to a yellow jacket invasion. However, we are learning and that will not be our problem next year. Thanks again. You're a pretty cool guy 😎
Thank you for subscribing 👍 Glad you and your son are working on beekeeping together. Best of luck getting through the winter and overcoming those nasty yellow jackets.
Thanks for good information. I'm little lost. I started feeding in beginning of September and and the bees filled the almost all 9 frames and there’s not much room for the queen to lay. I added an extra empty frame next to the queen frame and they filled it too with syrup. It's a single brood chamber hive, and the queen doesn't have much room to lay.
Harvest a frame or two if they are too packed full of honey in the brood area, and place the empty frame back in the same day!
After you feed them in snow country would move them to shelter barn use wrap insulation blanket I have seen canda beekeeper he house building stacked 8 hive height severL rows , .
D Jamaica bluemountain coffee good.
We call it Fairtrade in Britain. I will drink my coffee with a different view on the taste.
Why are they called "Super"s?
Im new to Bees as of 2 weeks ago. 3 Hives, your my only " go to" person !
Hi David , I’m Gavin and just wanting to know how can I keep bees living in a apartment on the top floor. I love the fact of saving bees as without them we are distant to die ourselves.
Thanks for your help! I need help badly.
Glad to help Opal
I live in Ms. Cool today.
So, you just saved me sugar. ;)
Good!
I thought maybe you are here in Alaska, too. I thought ‘COOL’ ! Do you sell bees? I’d like to start in the Spring.
Coffee actually comes from Ethiopia, I believe..
Are you not worried about 1 to 1 creating too much moisture if it doesn't get capped before winter?
Haha you don’t know what a cold winter is . Try bee keeping in Alaska . Great info that I’ve never before
Hi David! Loving the videos! As a fellow Midwestern beekeeper (albeit a novice), I have a question about how open you leave the bottom entrance in winter? Do you cover it with your wrap or leave it fully exposed? I understand that you need some flow of air to help moisture escape, but I haven't seen the lower entrance opening specifically discussed.
Glad you are enjoying the videos Randy. I have spoken about this in many of my past videos even my most recent ones. Check those out.
Awesome information! What and how do you use powdered sugar?
Powdered sugar is used to sprinkle on the bees to help mites fall off, and we use it to test for mites too.
@@beek thanks, do you do this by frames or boxes?
I am in the Mediterranean in growing zone 8, any tips? It is a pretty mild winter but we do have some days below freezing and then often a late frost in April.
I been feeding syrup, and pollen patties.do you have mix for syrup, adding pollen subsitute for one gallon of syrup.
What are your thoughts on adding oregano to the smoker? I've read that the mites don't like it.
Mites are too dangerous, to me, for me to experiment with these additions to the smoker. I have to stick to proven methods
If you need 40thousands bees approximately how many frames of bee would you need going into winter
Hard to guess because it's based on how many bees are on those frames
Thanks for the video.
I thought bees that are not clustered eating a lot of food, so more heat may not what you want because if they eat a lot they may starve ?
Bees will eat in a cluster, they are consuming honey close to their cluster. They certainly eat tons more the warmer it is.
Excellent information.
If I use chemicals in the fall, is it after it's too cold for sugar syrup?
Always follow the label on the temp recommendation for use of chemicals.
How many green boards do I need, one per hive or one per box?
Two will capture more mites
@@beek thanks
Is it normal right now to start seeing bees dying, I have a couple dead in the grass.
Could likely be drones, the male bees are killed in the fall and pushed out of the hive.
How do you do a powdered sugar dusting? Sift sugar over the brood?
Yes, one cup per brood box and just let it fall between the frames from the top
Hi David from Mount Holly VT! I have got to get feeding but I have a honey super on top of two deeps. To feed can I put the fall feeding system on the top of the super? Thx! 1st yr bee keepers Kathi & Scott🐝
Yes, but do not harvest those supers if they are not yet capped because they could be filled with your sugar water.
Omg thx so much! As 1st year beekeepers we do not foresee getting any honey out of the super. It will be all for the bee. 🐝S & K we are have the best time getting into beekeeping! We’ll keep watching you’re videos!
Where can we find the green frame cage for the queen? I am not finding it on your site.
Try Amazon
Thanks for the info. Why is your sugar water so yellow?
All my healthy additives make it that color
Seems like it cost more to feed bees then you get for honey.
Where do I get top board with holes for feeding?
www.honeybeesonline.com/burns-bees-feeding-system-10-frame-with-2-holed-lids/
They sell out fast but my staff tries to keep them in stock. Keep checking if sold out. It's a highly popular item.
how about feeding sugar coffie to them LOL
Condensation is the #1 bee killer in winter.
Indeed it is not good for bees in the winter
How many cells on a deep frame? 7000 cells of bee egg or larvae per frame?,??? What's in your coffee
wellcome back, been a while. Hope everything is fine.
Yes, I'm safely back!