2024 Extraction: Pulling Honey Supers! LET’S GO!
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- It’s late June and it’s time to extract honey from the colonies! It was a blistering 90+ degrees outside with a heat index of 102! You can never bee too careful working in the yard in this kind of heat. Safety is critical! Join me as we work the bees to bring in our 2024 harvest. Cheers!
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Sorry to hear about your friend. Sending prayers and condolences to you and her family. Thanks for the video!
Have you tried using a flexi freeze ice vest? They are great to wear under a bee suit for about an hour or so.
I have not but I will definitely be looking into this!! I was outside in the yard for 3 hours yesterday (July 7th) and it was ROUGH! Thanks for the tip!
Great Video!! Thanks for sharing and sorry to hear about your colleague 😢
We appear to be a few weeks behind everyone here in So California as we had abnormal weather or at least that’s what I am hoping 😊
So you don’t put your supers back on to let the girls clean them up? Another question, you go immediately into Winter preparation, so Single and you feed for the rest of the season?
I finally started shooting videos and hopefully will get up to your level 😊
Hello! Great to hear from you again and glad you enjoyed the video! No, I do not put the supers back on as I only extract once a year. Any fall flow that we end up with the bees get to keep which means less sugar feeding for me. I set the supers out to be cleaned (stay tuned for a future video) and then I store them for the winter. I now shift to mite washes and treatments for the colonies (currently have ApiGuard on). Then I will shift to feeding and make sure each colony is at least 70 lbs going in to winter. Thanks for watching and hopefully you’ll get your channel up and running soon!