Ep 1. Setting Up A NEW Yard! / How To Grow A Bee Yard Pt1. Beekeeping 101
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- OH NO!!! I am still not so happy about what I did at the end but...its all a part of being a beekeeper. But.. I need YOUR help!! This is a new season where we are going ti work together on how we build this yard. Any opinions and methods you give me...I will use!! So....what should we her????? Pt 2 coming out next week!!!
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I normally give mine 1 strip of apivar kinda let them grow into the treatment.. that way they never pickup a mite load until I put them out for honey production .. makes big difference in growth and they make more goldenrod
I like that thought! Getting rid of mites while they’re small I think is a game changer. This yard in particular is still treatment free since it is our breeding yard, we are treating all of the others but……if we are moving these nice onto pallets to grow……hmmmmmm lots of experimenting to do to see our best approach
It needed requeened anyway
Shook swarm onto fresh foundation is what we have to do in UK if we find EFB.
I hear that it is tricky getting them to clean up the comb theirselves. They just keep on reinfecting theirselves each time they injest infected brood..I hear this with AFB too. Requeening and throwing on a pollen party is the experiment in trying out
Name her Deceased!
There is definitely a genetic trait for more swarming or less swarming. In my opinion
It’ll be good for them to get a brood break and clean up that possible foul brood Emily. And she’s not gonna swarm now 😂❤
Just a couple days ago I was working my calmest Carnie hive and after getting it all back together I noticed the Queen walking on my arm. If I had been wearing a bee suit I may not have noticed and carried her away from the hive. Some of my hives have Italian and require a jacket with veil but I like all of them.
😱 it’s a good thing you felt her! Some of those queens like to hide and move all over the place 🧐
Name her Run Away Bride
I love this name! Check out the video I have coming on Wednesday!! ☺️
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Hey i am living in the macomb area and would like to know if you are located nearby. I am interested in beekeeping but don't know how to get started here in Michigan.
I'm in Macomb, my bees are in St. Clair. Look up Pine River Bee Club. Attend a meeting. They meet 3rd Tuesday with club hive inspections, then presentation. Beginner to advanced.
I’m located near Hillsdale. Definitely join a bee club! That would help immensely! If there’s enough interest I’ve been considering hosting my own classes. So if that’s something you’d be interested in driving over for let me know!
Sry about queen. Hey theres eggs so its not a total loss
Not at all, she was needing to be requeened at some point anyways. That may have been why they had already started on a queen cell for her 🤷🏼♀️ so it works out!! I hope your bee season is treating you well! ♥️♥️
That's a sick colony. The queen was laying eggs in every cell but later I see brood diseases and most of the brood is missing.. there's EFB, Sack brood probably more. That's the colony where you throw away the brood frames and restrict it to minimum.. and if you really have some hygienic bees you use those.. but I doubt. If it was here everything would be washed in chlorine and later painted with a propolis tincture with a thick coat. How can you watch that frame in hand and not see the disease on it ? Where is your needle to poke the cells with a small hole on capping ? You want to learn something.. don't you
It is what I'd you skishedqueen on purpose to requeen against European fullbroad but is varoa or queen pattern week not mated well
My first thought was maybe she’s getting old since she was a swarm but since her egg laying pattern looks good but her capped brood pattern is what looks bad with those gooey looking cells I’d say EFB it is. I’ve been told that efb is always in a bee hive, it’s not until they become stressed that it pops up. Nutritional stress especially a lack of pollen can cause it too.