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woodslee Bee's
Добавлен 20 мар 2011
I started beekeeping in 2022 with 1 hive, in 2023 with 2 hives and 2024 with 5 hives. This is a video blog of my journey mistakes and all. It is helpful to me to look back on previous inspections and manipulations. Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to comment and offer helpful advice, id love to here from you if this helps you.
Bees and a healthy mind
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feed the Bees
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in this video I talk a little about how beekeeping has helped my mental health along with other healthy activities like eating healthier foods, exercising, taking vitamins and substitutes, introducing a healthy elixir, Magic Mind, does it help? I think it does.
Chuckar partridge
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I think this chuckar partridge was going to steal my amazon package 📦 🤣
SWIFFER PADS AND OIL TRAPS
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last week I inspected all the hives thoroughly, one hive in particular is having a lot of problems with small hive beetles, they have all recently been treated for varroa, but the only ways that I know of that effectively deals with small hive beetles is swiffer pads and oil traps, I put swiffers in last week and successfully caught a lot of beetles so in this video I replace the swiffer pads a...
Depression of a beekeeper
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This video is sponsored my Magic mind, the folks at www.magicmind.com were kind enough to sponsor me with a 15 day supply of magic mind 2 oz shots. This just so happens to fit into my new food regime and nutritional want and needs. Here I open up a little about mental health, well being and depression. If you are looking for something that will help you focus , give you energy, make you happy a...
beetlemania update
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What to do to help a beehive when small hive beetles are present in large numbers
START WINTER PREP FOR YOUR HIVES
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this is hive 4, the swarm that I caught, Im removing the formic pro treatment, and a honey super, preparing to store frames over winter and taking into consideration pest management in the hive and the stored frames. This is the start of my winter prep for my hives, they have all now been treated with formic pro, honey supers removed and now I will feed them 2/1 sugar water as long as they will...
After formic Pro, Removing Honey Supers
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After formic Pro, Removing Honey Supers
Comparing hives , formic pro at day 5
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Comparing hives , formic pro at day 5
Beekeeping can be frustrating, but worthwhile
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Beekeeping can be frustrating, but worthwhile
O.M.G QUEEN ABOVE THE QUEEN EXCLUDER !!
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O.M.G QUEEN ABOVE THE QUEEN EXCLUDER !!
They like tea as well
Really, i haven’t noticed that.
Feed da bee, feed da bees, yep it's that time of year.😁Have a good one, Blessed Days...
You got that right! Take care
What happened to the bee explosion
In comparison to how this hive was doing just a few weeks before it is an explosion, i had to add a box, they were down to 5 frames until i added the queen, they are now up to 20 full frames
The partridge hung around for 3 days and was returned to its keeper today
I was the same way you’re talking about. Until I found a good church community and found Jesus he is a life changer a lifesaver.
Also down 86 pounds
@@TracysBees8713 thats great! Im not a religious man although i love religious music, stemming from Elvis actually, if you have time look up Bob Joyce, very inspiring music , sounds like Elvis- could be him … maybe , new album this year ( safely home )
@@TracysBees8713that’s amazing! Well done 👍
Gotta love the smoker
So i got home tonight and put peppermints in the top of the hive and in the entrance, SHB apparently dont like them Lets hope my combination of swiffers, oil traps and peppermints works to knock the numbers down even more, im not seeing shb larvae on the bottom board
11:25 "This hive does need help with the beetles" Brilliant. As the Beatles sang, "Help! I need somebody" or "I get by with a little help from my friends"
@@hot2warm you are absolutely correct
Awesome 👍 getting them down 👍😃
Yep you gotta get on top of these pesky beetles
No I wouldnt do that. The bees can get caught in them too and they will want to drag the pads out of the hive anyway
Ah ok that makes sense 👍
Gak! Beetles 😬 but rough but you've slammed the numbers down quite a way👍 I have a question about the Swiffer pads, would it be effective to have them in the entrance on the floor? We don't have hive beetles in NZ but we do have wax moths but they aren't a massive problem for me in central Otago, probably because of our climate, it's as close to desert conditions as you can get in New Zealand but they are a problem in other parts of the country.
Cleaning out supers?
@@jasonseaward8506 yes, I extracted the honey and the bees are cleaning out any remaining honey
Smokers are such a pain sometimes, the bee should just be nicer to us.😂We are the ones that feed them. Blessed Days...
@@dcsblessedbees i need to buy a better one and probably use better fuel. Something more natural They are all now getting fed ready for winter , they need to fill their stores.
Things will be slowing down here really soon
@@honeybees1970 things are supposed to be speeding up but we've got snow again, looks like it's going to be a rough start to spring 😬😄👋
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping we had a lot of rain this past spring
Cool👍I wish I was doing that too but I will be in your winter 😂
Awesome 👍😃 well down here i just finished doing some comb honey starter frames and rewiring some frames then setting new wax foundation for a neighbor so he can get comb honey this year and he has good foundation for his hive which he wants to split. Queens were supposed to arrive but we are getting slammed with snow 😳🥶 so put it off to next week, i don't bank queens and i can't get hives ready in wet snow which is what were having at the moment. Weathers supposed to break by Wednesday and warm up again 😂 so next Tuesday will hopefully be fine for the breeders queens to turn up👍
I really don’t have much to do in the bee yard when there is snow on the ground other than make sure they have feed and a clear entrance, cant really pull frames when its winter so won’t know how things are till spring again, this past spring I was pleasantly surprised.still a few months though before winter kicks in
@@honeybees1970 😂the queens arrived with a few hours warning yesterday 😅 got them in hives but the guy was supposed to give me three days warning and he forgot and couriered them, so that was a small panic😂
I plan to buy a stainless motorized extractor next season
Nice 😁 even a little honey is nothing to sneeze at, great stuff👍 honey off in any quantity is a win😄
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping after removing all 4 of my supers ive now got a fair bit for a backyard beekeeper. I honestly thought id get more but thats ok, next year eh !
@@honeybees1970 absolutely 😃👍 any honey off is a win😁 I see in the description that you got 4 gallons/ 15 litres off👍 3 litres a hive average isn't record breaking but it's not bad either and most years aren't epic yeilds😃 honey in a jar that your bee's produced is the best 👍😄
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping this amount was from 3 hives, 4 boxes, 26 frames only, not all capped so its in the jars, lids off and in the dehumidifier room
Well I might have been too late, i checked the bottom board today and there were quite a few shb larvae. Ugh
Nice, grats.👍
One of the few things I like very much about being a Northern beekeeper, we do not have near as much an issue with SHB's. I think I mentioned but peppermint oil/candy really seem to help. Gunline Bee's down in Louisiana I think, they have have to shop-vac the SHB's🤢 they maybe able to give you some recommendations on helping with SHB's. They have had to learn some hard lessons because of those buggers. Thanks for sharing your time, sorry for the SHB's. Blessed Days...
I have since put swiffer pads and beetle blasters in that hive just in case Ive used peppermints before, i should get more
Eek!!! Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 😵💫 well that's thirty plus less hive beetles so you might have saved the day slamming their numbers down. Time for traps and pads. Don't lose heart, you'll get the mongrels 👍😃In southern New Zealand news,the first fruit tree blossom has started in central Otago with apricot and plum, nice little start to the pollen season, everyone else is getting their hives into orchards, so it's big pollen time for me in about ten days because the river willows won't be far behind it and while everyone else puts their bee's into orchards around here and gets their wallets stuffed, my girls get the pollen monopoly on the river willows 😂 and they produce more pollen than you can shake a stick at😃less money in my pocket not getting in on the pollen fruit tree action circuit in Otago to be sure, but full pollen frames from the willows because no one else has hives on them and that's a win for me, everyone else will be feeding substitute in November and I'll be chucking in pollen frames😃👍
Same day i put swiffer pads and oil traps on every hive, also started a formic pro treatment for mites.
@@honeybees1970 brilliant 👍 it's evil mite time here and I'm treating for that. 😬 I hate those blasted varroa mites
Well done getting that weak hive to flourish! I love your gentle approach with your bees. Personally, I try to wear the thinnest gloves I can get away with, so I can feel the bees with my fingertips, and I lift the frames at the ends, so I don't accidentally squish them where they're moving around a lot in the middle of the top bar. Speaking as a second-year beekeeper. I'm not a fan of 10 frame deep systems as they weigh a ton when the honey starts to appear. It's much easier managing ideal sized supers, and of course you can put as many of those as you want on top of your brood box. As for double deep brood boxes, I think that just causes more work trying to inspect each hive, and the bees get more disturbed when you have 2 big boxes to go through with the hive open for inspection. What I have is a 10 frame brood box with a permanent ideal super on top which I never rob for honey. On top of that first super I put either a flow super (which I love due to the ease of harvesting honey), or more ideal supers. The bees always have the honey in their brood box in addition to a full super to get them through the winter, and this seems to do well where I live. Our winters seldom get below -1 celsius or so. In colder climes you might need an extra super going into winter. Making small colonies like mine makes them easier to manage, and you can always do a split if you see swarm cells developing (it looks like your girls have these and are getting restless).
Nice inspection 👍 great pollen frames, nice looking stores and brood 👍 im a heartless sod 😂so that drone brood would be history even though I like drones i don't like that many myself but hey your hive your rules👍 i was a little shocked someone's checkerboarding brood frames though, i think that's not a wise practice, honey frames yeah but brood frames i totally wouldn't checkerboard. drones get a bit of a bum rap but when i think of the energy investment for drones, 24 days rearing, constant feeding, i personally feel they play a much greater role than most people give them credit for. Drones are big and great at picking up brood and queen pheromone and getting it around the hive during peak numbers, drones are great thermal mass when cool days strike in summer and the colony has to go from cooling to heating and i personally believe they release pheromone during the honey flow which helps keep the hive in balance. Just my opinion but one of the first lessons you learn is bee's are economical, and they spend big to create drones. Glove cleaning, i use a little turpentine to remove the stubborn propolis and wash by hand after in warm soapy water, then apply a leather care to stop the leather drying out 👍 great video 👋😃
Sorry I dont wear gloves My bees have only been nasty 2 times. I just closed it up and walked away for the day or 2 then got back into it
@@dcrosco1458 i always wear glove although they are rarely nasty, i just dont want to get stung, ive ordered myself a new pair as these ones are so sticky with propolis now
@@honeybees1970 I hope you dont not think I was making fun of you for wearing gloves I just read over what I wrote. I see where you could think I was putting you down. I was not at all, just saying I don't. I understand about bee stings. I walk out my door and one of my ladies stung me in the eye brow. Thank God it did not swell up. Sorry if you thought I was putting you down.
@@dcrosco1458 didnt even cross my mind, i see people wearing no protective gear at all, i am definitely more comfortable around them as I was year 1 but still dont trust them completely at year 3, i dont swell too bad if stung and actually dont mind the after itch. Lol
Bob binnie started small too so you're in good company there. Whoever told you 8000 bee's die a day in a colony is off his rocker. What a crock. 20-30 thousand bee's in a average colony at 8000 a day well nobody would be keeping bee's for long. It peaks about 200 ish in mid honey flow and your queen should be laying 1200 plus eggs a day at least, the average is around 2000 so under normal conditions your colony will always be increasing up into the main flow then drop down with increasing nutrition being fed to "Winter bee's". I'm a little concerned about the lack of pollen on those brood frames, great honey bands🎉😁 and nice brood arcs 👍🐝but (in typical kiwi fashion, here comes the whinge because we're sooooo optimistic 😂) I'd personally actually consider a little pollen feeding or pollen sub I didn't see much beebread or pollen on legs in the video, but those blasted beetles love it too so your call there, you know your bees. Extra points for dead mites and beetles👍😃
Yes pollen patties, cant stand them because the beetles love them, maybe a small strip wont hurt Ive got more video to upload as I put formic pro on 4 of the hives so after 10 days( sept 12th) ill remove the formic pro strips and give them a small amount. I have a bucket of pollen sub powder but haven’t seen much interest from the bees Maybe if i put that under the telescopic cover…. Thanks for stopping by
@@honeybees1970 kamon Reynolds has hive beetle issues in his state, they are bad there, and he has some good videos about pollen sub feeding in beetle prone areas, I don't think Bob binnie has a lot of problem with beetles in his area but I know Kamon does.
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping one of my hive i had to smash at least 30 beetles The other hives seemed ok with a couple to smash I put 2 beetle blasters in that 1 hive and swiffer sheets in all of them
Im about to just hit my hives with the formic I bought; weather dosent seem like it wants to co-operate for me so im going to just 1/2 cover my pads with their wrapper. Aparently pormic pro has a really heavy off gas of formic vapors initially (day 1 honestly) and then immediatley flatlines on day two and has very slow release after that. If you cover the top half of the formic pad with its wraper that half-ish reduction in surface area stops the day 1 off gas flash (by stops I mean its about 1/3 the released of formic being more in line with day 2-14 release/decay rates). I still cant tell if randy olivers test trials with formic pro were done using single pad or two pad treatment aproaches tho.
@@SushikiIIer i simply took the 2 pads out of the foil wrapper and placed them in the hive, both still had their paper wrappers on, 10 days later i removed them, still a significant amount of material in the paper wrappers. Im not sure but i thought it was all supposed to kinda disappear? Anyway like you i need to treat my other 4 hives starting this weekend after inspections . I haven’t seen any fully capped frames to take as yet but im hoping for some. More importantly the bees be healthy and ready for winter with low mite load
2 queen cells also
Get a j hook hive tool so you can get your frames out properly and you won't kill bees or even your queen
Ive got about 4 hive tools, 2 of them are J hooks, ya think I can find them lol, nope thanks for watching
At 17:30 sec
17.30? did ya see the queen? I still dont see her
That sec box you pulled looks like a queen cell at the bottom and looks like they drawn some comb with no frame
Yes when I added that box I only had some medium frames so I put them in, that comb is drone comb ( never had eggs laid in them ) and is full of nectar, if it ever gets capped i was planning to cut it up and add it to jars of honey. I dont think that was a queen cell
God look at that smoker rolling its got a build in fan that Johnny getting it
@@ec9596 its a new smoker i just purchased Lots of smoke is good but it burns out fast Thanks for watching
I'll be interested to see how that works out for you. When I pull frames to a second deep box I only pull two frames and both are capped brood. I then replace those frames in between larvae or eggs. The reason I do it that way is the bees will draw out the two foundation frames in the bottom quickly because they do not like the blank space in the brood area. It also keeps them from drawing out the honey frames super thick in the second deep box. In my experience nectar and honey frames by foundation end up producing super thick stores on the frames you moved up, with little to no foundation being drawn on the adjacent foundation.
@@Mr.q895 its like they say ask 100 beekeepers a question and youll get 120 different answers. I was always under the impression that you shouldn’t split the brood. Im a 3rd year beekeeper, im going to assume you have many more years experience? Anyway I appreciate your input and maybe it is something I will try Take care
@honeybees1970 absolutely! It may work well for you, but I have never had success with moving honey/nectar against a foundation frames. I've been working bees since I was a kid with my grandpa, but only started my own personal apiary about 8 years ago. I have 35 hives as of now, but with the recent purchase of 1200 acres of farmland I hope to get closer to 350 hive over the next 5-10 years.
@honeybees1970 never split the brood is one of those things beekeepers like to say but can't really give you a good reason. As long as the overnight Temps are above about 50-55F there is no harm. And it does cause the bees to draw comb quickly. I do it all the time. It works especially well to bring outside frames into the center to get them drawn out.
Thats a lot of work for sure, i have a hard enough time remembering what i saw in my 5 hives when I do proper inspections, as long as I see eggs, lots of bees and no major pests then im happy, not sure if ill be pulling honey this year but thats ok as long as the bees have what they need to get through winter, next year hopefully will be great!
Hello my friend, I’m From Kentucky, USA I also keep bees, but I must say your hives look very healthy. Like the old saying goes; whatever you’re doing, keep on doing! Thanks for sharing your Apiary with us. Keep the videos coming
@@matthunt4512 hi and thanks for stopping by, yes im pretty happy with how they are looking, hopefully i can keep the small hive beetles, wax moth and Varroa in check. Take care.
The girls are getting busy.
They sure are , a real turn around after a late start, still not convinced ill be able to pull any honey this year though
Good video
@@TracysBees8713 thanks for watching
😬 the formic terrors 😬 I've been nervously considering formic acid for additional varroa treatment myself but the temperature here can be really erratic because I live in the mountains of central Otago southern New Zealand which means we either get weather from Australia across the Tasman which is hotter than normal or weather from the Antarctic which is colder than normal 😂 I think I might have a good window in November when it's not stupidly hot but not subzero either. I'm not a fan of chemical treatment but I hate varroa even more😂, be interesting to see what results you get 👍👋
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping Friday will be the day I remove the remnants of the strips, so far it looks like it is going well as far as I can tell. Its the first 3 days that it is critical to be below 85 degrees, next week will be hotter than that. I just purchased a 10 treatment pack of formic pro, so need to treat my other 4 hives, i have also used oxalic acid as part of my treatment so hopefully under control
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Thanks for watching
So my understanding is that for the first 3 days it is critical that the temps be under 85 degrees, its been 5 days and so far everything looks to be good, I also heard that they have a boost in brood production after treatment so we will see. Thanks for stopping by
You'll have to let us know how it works out for ya, some beekeepers really like it. But you have to watch out for heat on that one I think? Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days...
Looks good. That Honey B Healthy will give them a boost. If there's not any pollen coming in, you might give them a very small piece of pollen patty, like a 1" strip right on top between the frames over where the brood is.
Thanks for stopping by, ive used pollen patty before and it seems the beetles like it more than the bees, but like you said a small strip is probably a good idea
Your queen was on the first frame you pulled out, running around towards the bottom of the frame. You can see her about the 2:46 mark.
Wow she was in plain view and I didn’t even see her, honestly wouldn’t have expected to see her on an outside frame . Thanks 😊
Well spotted👌🏼
Ugh😅 broken smoker 😬 i use lega Italian smokers, theyre bombproof 😂 and so are the hivetools, i haven't used amazon gear but if you like it and its working for you that's great 😃 👍 ten point bonus for the beetle 😂 nice looking colony. Fortunately hive beetle and European foulbrood are not in NZ, we have enough drama with varroa. Great video 👍👋
Thanks for watching, yes varroa destructor mites, we have those here too. The smoker I had was 3 years old and i do leave it outside after use, id hate to burn my shed down. I guess ill see how this new one is
It always feels good when they pull back and build up well, Congrats.👍Ya when the girls get big they get a bit sassy from time to time.😂Blessed Days...
Theyve all been pretty chill so far this year. Maybe 1 or 2 stings Smoker is ordered lol
If there is a laying worker, the hive doesn't want a queen and she is hiding because they bully her.
Frustrating, hold my beer. 😅
@@menglor yea you have had a rough go so far this year, we dont get bears down here 😆
Sometimes it makes ya wonder, doesn't it.😂Blessed Days...
It sure does 😂
Cool apairy, I love the block stands I might try that 👍 😃 nice video 👍👋
Thanks for watching, yea the block stands are ok, although i have other plans that i just haven’t had time for, at the beginning of this year I had 2 hives and with splits and a swarm I caught I’ve ended up with 5
@@honeybees1970 I want to get hives in my home apairy off the ground and I hadn't considered using blocks, it looks like a good solution 👍 no termites or anything, actually we don't have termites in the south island, or any of that other crazy stuff like bears and whatnot, I just want the floors up off the ground to improve their longevity 😃👍
Yea you dont want them on the ground, i need my hives 26” above ground level, last year we had a flood that caused problems in my apiary
It happens. Sometimes you can just miss her because you pull the top box, she drops and then hops in the super, sometimes a slightly damaged wire in an excluder will just be enough for her to squeeze through without being noticed, or sometimes if you're in a rush you can accidentally put the frame she's on and you've set aside into the wrong box😂 it happens, but great looking brood, excellent solution, dropping the box down, checkerboarding in space and giving the bee's foundation to work 👍 nice save😃 brilliant 👍
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping thanks for watching, I was not expecting to find this and did my best, i have now given them an extra box to move up to, again checkerboarding the honey frames with new frames
Looks like you should be watching how to videos not making them. Sorry but you need to study.
@@finiscary9689 well thanks for watching This is a blog of my journey in beekeeping, i dont claim to be an expert , my 3rd year in, this is an ordinary backyard beekeeper. And yes I do watch videos too. Lol
@@finiscary9689oddly,.I just read your channel about your videos, funny how your point is lost. Re read your intro. You might learn something
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋😃 noticed you had a little lid trouble, you might like to try an inner cover because sometimes pulling off a stuck down telescoping lid can be a complete mongrel. They'll stick the cover down but the lid will be free. It's another piece of kit, but I find them worth while. I wouldn't be concerned about finding queen cell starter cups, or what people call practice cups😅 it's normal to find them and they'll just draw more. The advantage of leaving them is if your hive goes into swarm mode, those starters are where they'll start drawing queen cells, usually😂 I make a mental note of their location and it's easier to spot any changes. In queen supersede mode, it doesn't matter because they'll pull them from scratch from suitable aged larvae. Great video 👍 it's mid winter here 🥶 so I'm watching everyones summer videos 😂
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping hi thanks for watching,, I actually do have inner covers on all my hives, they have managed to get some propolis in there and stick it to the telescopic lid , bit of a nuisance but bees will be bees. Cheers Rob
@@honeybees1970 😂 I'm watching one of your other videos and I saw that😂 it's the queen above the excluder one. There's just nothing like the moment when you're in a honey super and you see brood above the excluder 🤦😃 I think our inner covers are a different design, ours are full sheet covers with no feeder slot because we use inside frame or rectangular feeders so the bee's can't access the cavity.