Dyson Apiaries
Dyson Apiaries
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What is an Inner Cover and how to use it on a honeybee colony
Discussion on the purpose and use of an inner cover. How to properly use an inner cover and some of it's alternate uses. How does an inner cover benefit the colony when used as originally intended with a telescoping top.
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Видео

Supering Bees for Nectar (Honey) Flow
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
Discussion and demonstration on how and when to add supers to honeybee colonies. Discussion includes 10-frame versus 9-frame configurations and 8-frame verses 7-frames configurations. How do we deal with foundation, and the importance of having drawn comb. Timing of supering to maximize honey production. How many supers should we add to colonies. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips....
Spring Set Up for Honey in Single Deeps
Просмотров 49 тыс.Год назад
Discussion and demonstration on taking colonies from double deep winter configuration back to single deeps for honey production and adding supers. Hives are balanced and brood pushed to the bottom deep for peak population to hit right at the nectar flow. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson...
Feeding Pump Setup Using a Semi-Trash Pump and Water Hose
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
A quick video discussing my feeding pump setup. Video discusses pump type, hose types, configuration, and etc. Feeding with a semi-trash gasoline pump through a 3/4 water hose using a gas nozzle. Inexpensive setup for the sideliner beekeeper for feeding. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson...
Managing Honeybees in the Post-Solstice (late Winter) season for success presentation
Просмотров 2 тыс.Год назад
A one-hour talk for the Gaston Beekeepers Association on managing honeybees after December 21st (post-solstice) for success. Topics included managing for honey production, managing swarms, timing of supering, honeybee feeding and nutrition. and when or when not to make splits. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dy...
Converting Colonies Back to Double Deeps with only Foundation
Просмотров 3,5 тыс.2 года назад
Moving colonies off of Sourwood honey and converting them back to the double deep configuration for Winter. How to draw foundation in the late season. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
Splitting With Swarm Cells
Просмотров 34 тыс.2 года назад
A demonstration on dealing with a colony that is about to swarm. Making some useful splits, and saving the old queen just in case. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
Setting Up Queen Castles - Mating Nucs - 4-way Mating Nucs
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.2 года назад
A discussion on how to set up and establish queen castles (4-way mating nucs) as mating nucs. Salvage swarm cells and turn them in to valuable queens for your honeybee operation. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
Early March Inspections and Balancing NC
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.2 года назад
A discussion on inspecting colonies in early March in NC and balancing colony strength to increase brood / queen production. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
The Winter Solstice and why it is important to the beekeeper
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.3 года назад
A discussion on the Winter Solstice and its importance in the beekeeping calendar. What is going on in the hive at the Winter Solstice and what should we be doing. Th first day of beekeeping has arrived. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
How to Use Fume Boards to Remove Honey Supers
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.3 года назад
Tutorial on how to use Fume Boards for removing honey supers. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
Varroa Mite Treatment Using Apivar
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.3 года назад
Discussion on Summer Varroa mite treatment. When to apply, how to apply, and why. Discussion includes the importance of timing the treatment for healthy winter bees. Also includes using the treatment in hives other than standard 10 frame deeps. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries ...
Robbing - Tips to Identify and Prevent
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.3 года назад
Discussion on identifying robbing. How to prevent robbing and how to robbing once i begins. Subscribe to Dyson Apiaries on RUclips: ruclips.net/user/dysonapiaries Like Dyson Apiaries on Facebook: Dyson.Apiaries/ Tag Dyson Apiaries on Instagram: #DysonApiaries
Growing Nucs Two Story Style
Просмотров 8 тыс.3 года назад
Growing Nucs Two Story Style
Nuc pickup day instructions
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.3 года назад
Nuc pickup day instructions
Setting up for splits without having to find the queen
Просмотров 19 тыс.3 года назад
Setting up for splits without having to find the queen
Late March Inspections and Balancing
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.3 года назад
Late March Inspections and Balancing
Pollen Substitute in Winter
Просмотров 3,5 тыс.3 года назад
Pollen Substitute in Winter
Hive Placement and Setup
Просмотров 4 тыс.4 года назад
Hive Placement and Setup
Oxalic Acid Drizzle (Trickle) Method
Просмотров 7304 года назад
Oxalic Acid Drizzle (Trickle) Method
Hive Components and Setup-Langstroth
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.4 года назад
Hive Components and Setup-Langstroth
Installing Queen and Eliminating Queen Cells
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.4 года назад
Installing Queen and Eliminating Queen Cells
Fall Inspections-Are the bees ready for Winter
Просмотров 3204 года назад
Fall Inspections-Are the bees ready for Winter
Why my Oxalic Acid Treatments aren't Working
Просмотров 3,4 тыс.4 года назад
Why my Oxalic Acid Treatments aren't Working
1:1 or 2:1 When and Why to Feed Which Syrup
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.4 года назад
1:1 or 2:1 When and Why to Feed Which Syrup
Yard Feeding and Building a Bucket Feeder
Просмотров 6714 года назад
Yard Feeding and Building a Bucket Feeder
September Beehive Inspections
Просмотров 3064 года назад
September Beehive Inspections
Beekeeping and Bees: A quick lesson for kids
Просмотров 7254 года назад
Beekeeping and Bees: A quick lesson for kids
Different Types of Honeybee Feeders
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.4 года назад
Different Types of Honeybee Feeders
Using nucs to fix a queenless hive
Просмотров 13 тыс.4 года назад
Using nucs to fix a queenless hive

Комментарии

  • @PappysCricksideHoneyFarm
    @PappysCricksideHoneyFarm 7 часов назад

    Great job delivering great information

  • @toddknecht2106
    @toddknecht2106 2 дня назад

    For winter set up I drill 6 -7/8” holes across one end of 2” styrofoam then place on top of inner cover. This keeps the airmass around inner cover hive temperature, allowing condensation to form on outer cover and drip on top of styrofoam.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 2 дня назад

      The styrofoam on top definitely makes a difference. Thanks for watching.

  • @DeanGoedel
    @DeanGoedel 3 дня назад

    Good info! Thank you

  • @autumnhillbees
    @autumnhillbees 9 дней назад

    Great video!! Love the way you walk us through your process!! I typically have been running a deep and a medium all year round. I think I am going to try and convert to a single deep in 2025…. Need to figure out how to move the mediums around, since I can’t easily put medium with brood in the lower box… any thoughts on that? Thanks

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 2 дня назад

      You could convert the mediums to sort of a nuc for the flow to have extra queens available, or if you don’t want that many hives running, stack up several of the mediums together to “store” for the flow as an extra colony. In either case, you can add the mediums back post flow. If you have a single go queenless during the flow, you could just add a medium with a queen and the brood to catch them right back up.

    • @autumnhillbees
      @autumnhillbees День назад

      @@DysonApiaries thanks for the advice… truly appreciate it!! Any new videos in the pipeline?? Your videos are very informative and I gain knowledge from each one.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 25 дней назад

    If it's there just remember to take it back out😊

  • @gene-sloca
    @gene-sloca Месяц назад

    Great video thank ya

  • @fishmut
    @fishmut Месяц назад

    Over confident bee keepers are a recipe for a disaster waiting to happen not using a vail for protection , I have seen some very nasty things happen to those not having a bee suit on , some people have even died , new bee keepers do not try with out a suit on because you will regret it really fast in a bad way. Just saying. Calm bees can turn nasty at any given time with out notice ,bee safe.

  • @neilmunro1512
    @neilmunro1512 Месяц назад

    Thanks Justin. Interesting to hear your perspective. In the UK inner covers are de-rigure. I'm interested to hear about the move towards reflective bubble wrap which Iam Steppler uses on all his hives.

  • @robertsmith9756
    @robertsmith9756 2 месяца назад

    It's the simple things like this that are so hard to find and as a new bee keeper I thank you for providing this info, very helpful.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 2 дня назад

      Glad it was helpful. Feel free to shoot me some other thinks you may be struggling to find. I can try to put something together. Info@dysonapiaries.com

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 2 месяца назад

    Why did you put your hand with the queen under your veil? What did you do?

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    You are a really good teacher thank you.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    Great video.

  • @lordshandyman
    @lordshandyman 3 месяца назад

    I have seen videos of people making new holes in their inner cover when using a top hive feeder. But they put hardware cloth over the new holes. Wouldn't that keep the bees from protecting the top feeder box area from hive beetles? Also, wouldn't outside bees be able to enter the unprotected area through the little notch in the inner cover edge?

  • @rexlancaster3654
    @rexlancaster3654 3 месяца назад

    Hey Dyson I miss your videos

  • @WilliamBryan-q5q
    @WilliamBryan-q5q 3 месяца назад

    I just found your channel and it is now my new favorite channel

  • @WilliamBryan-q5q
    @WilliamBryan-q5q 3 месяца назад

    I became a beekeeper October 2, 2022. I need many more years of experience to gain this level of understanding.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    Stay with feet or yards not meters. We're Americans.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    You're a good teacher.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    You forgot bucket feeders. Great video.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 3 месяца назад

      You are correct. Just implemented those recently. Thanks for watching.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    I'm in southern ohio. How many production hives do you think I would need to run to be able to make $50,000 profit selling nukes and honey?

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 3 месяца назад

    How many colonies did you run in 2024?

  • @aaronparis4714
    @aaronparis4714 4 месяца назад

    Need3 for 10 yes never know

  • @aaronparis4714
    @aaronparis4714 4 месяца назад

    I’m gonna do the same this tmw

  • @g8rgrl13
    @g8rgrl13 4 месяца назад

    still in my first year and all my mentor told me was i will not get honey this year and i have to build up to double deeps, thank you for this video. the biggest struggle as a new beekeeper is understanding "the right thing to do".....and not having comb haha

    • @johngardner1898
      @johngardner1898 4 месяца назад

      @g8rgrl13 I started with a similarly minded mentor like you. Now I only operate single deeps. I find it easier and more fun, with the added bonus that swarm control leads to more splits, nucs, and more colonies!

  • @HoneyBoard88
    @HoneyBoard88 5 месяцев назад

    Cảm ơn vì những thông tin bạn chia sẻ

  • @davidpatrick1813
    @davidpatrick1813 6 месяцев назад

    Very good. Thank you.

  • @michaelmcnair1880
    @michaelmcnair1880 6 месяцев назад

    Hello, i came back here looking for you because I remembered your channel and I really enjoyed the content. I realized that i had not seen a video from you in a long time. thanks for all the great videos and i hope you will make more when your life allows it.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 5 месяцев назад

      Thank you. I’m working back towards this. Had to back off a bit this year to get things settled. Hopefully content coming soon.

  • @SallyHampton
    @SallyHampton 6 месяцев назад

    Hi - I live in Los Angeles and found your video trying to figure out what to do. I got a nuc of bees on May 26th and was told by the guy I got them from that he was 99% sure there was a mated queen. On June 1st I inspected and saw no new eggs or active brood but what looked like queen cells or cups on one frame (didn't move the bees to know for sure). But, I assumed I either had no queen to start or something had happened to her so I left them alone. On June 8 I checked again and saw no evidence of any queen cups at all (unless possible that bees repurpose cups after one hatches?) but still no active brood at all. So, I am thinking that this hive is "hopelessly queenless?" and the workers could start laying themselves soon. I was offered another nuc of this guys nuc with an queen to combine and was at the bee store yesterday and the beekeeper there told me was very risky and that once a hive has been queenless for a few weeks (and especially if the workers start laying) that they won't accept the queen in the nuc and the workers from both hives will also fight and kill each other. She also told me that giving the queenless nuc a frame of new eggs and larvae won't be the answer because I will weaken the queen right nuc and that the queenless nuc won't have nurse bees, could reject, etc. AND she claims even if they did make a new queen, there are no drones around for her to mate with. Then I see your video and everything she says seems to be wrong and I am so confused. If you can offer me any insight I would appreciate in case things are different in southern california? and, yes, I am a fairly new beekeeper as I have only had one other feral swarm that I managed for about 1-1-/2 years.

  • @matthewleewillis
    @matthewleewillis 7 месяцев назад

    This was super helpful. Thank you!

  • @genelovesr.302
    @genelovesr.302 7 месяцев назад

    Great lesson. Rarely talked about

  • @3Beehivesto300
    @3Beehivesto300 7 месяцев назад

    Do you top vent or offset supers ice you get 3 supers on?

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      No. I just stack them up. There’s a little device called an Imirie Shim that some use but I just stack them up.

  • @fnz22
    @fnz22 7 месяцев назад

    Perfect setup!!

  • @markcarey5673
    @markcarey5673 7 месяцев назад

    I'm sorry, did you say bees will turn 1.5 gallons of syrup into 20 pounds of honey?????

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 3 месяца назад

      More like about 12 lbs. I misspoke. 2:1 weighs between 11 and 12 lbs per gallon. In one gallon, there is about 3.6 lbs of water. We need to remove about 45% of that water to achieve 18.3% moisture content. In doing so, the overall weight is reduced to 9.24 lbs per gallon of syrup. Or in this case about 13.5 lbs of honey. This is just running math and does not account for loss from bees using up some as energy while processing. Just raw sugar calculations. Thanks for the catch.

  • @rudolphdavis2387
    @rudolphdavis2387 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the video, im new to your channel what state are you in?

  • @johnnybigpotato2404
    @johnnybigpotato2404 8 месяцев назад

    Good advice on keeping Nucs around. Thanks for the video. I was thinking that a direct introduction would be successful. Thanks for showing that it is possible.

  • @Lsmith-ly2cm
    @Lsmith-ly2cm 8 месяцев назад

    What state are you from?

  • @johanconradie2120
    @johanconradie2120 8 месяцев назад

    to get the queen to run up to innerlid, just tap with nuckles on both sides of brood

  • @JanetYoung-qc7en
    @JanetYoung-qc7en 8 месяцев назад

    If it's raining and the nuc is in cardboard, do you still just put them where they'll go? Any covering? Thanks! Great video!!

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      Yes. The cardboards will stand up to water for a while. They have a wax coating.

  • @Tuner9069
    @Tuner9069 8 месяцев назад

    You could also put a queen excluder between the 2 deeps then come back after a couple days and then split the deeps and allow the queenless deep reer a new queen on its own.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 6 месяцев назад

      I prefer to do splits with a mated queen or ripe cell rather than walk away splits. Too much production time is lost in such a short season with walk away splits.

  • @davidsoloninka7742
    @davidsoloninka7742 8 месяцев назад

    When you load the bottom brood box with capped brood and then queen excluder doesn't that cause over crowding and invoke the urge to swarm? I am a novice an trying to learn, thank you.

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      It can. The timing has to be perfect. If the field bees have nothing to do, and you load up the bottom with brood, they will absolutely swarm.

  • @davidsoloninka7742
    @davidsoloninka7742 8 месяцев назад

    Where did u get your magnetic belt that holds the hive tool? Thx

  • @janepipkin8139
    @janepipkin8139 8 месяцев назад

    In the "quick no look" that you showed at the end, you didn't check to make sure the queen was in the bottom below the queen excluder?

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      I shook the frames that went in the top, so if the queen was on one of those frames, she is now in the bottom.

  • @janepipkin8139
    @janepipkin8139 8 месяцев назад

    Where did you put the nuke with the original old queen after you finished rearranging?

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      Easy method is to move them a mile or two away. If not, the one that is relocated in the same apiary needs too many bees because several will go back “home”.

  • @taililly2483
    @taililly2483 8 месяцев назад

    New subscriber here. Do the color of your boxes represent different things? Or you just paint the hives with whatever color paint is available on hand?

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      The colors mean nothing, but with hives very close together, the varying patterns help the bees differentiate between each others colony.

  • @BrianBebb-fk5sq
    @BrianBebb-fk5sq 8 месяцев назад

    Excellent video, Justin.

  • @clarkgriswold-zr5sb
    @clarkgriswold-zr5sb 9 месяцев назад

    Awesome suggestion!

  • @Fatschwab
    @Fatschwab 9 месяцев назад

    Do you always have the notch pointed up?

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 9 месяцев назад

      I occasionally flip it over if I need room for something like a pollen patty. Notch up makes the bee space right.

  • @weirhauch1002
    @weirhauch1002 9 месяцев назад

    Hello sir , Thanks for your videos .I am curious to know if you provide your bees with sugar candy in winter ? Is it fine to do that in the states amongst beekeepers ? I live in the middle East Thanks 👍🏻

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 7 месяцев назад

      I prefer to get them fed well before winter and don’t use candy boards, but several in my area do.

  • @philipmontgomery5626
    @philipmontgomery5626 9 месяцев назад

    Great video

  • @georgeashmore7317
    @georgeashmore7317 9 месяцев назад

    What happened to your channel? Your videos are very informative and you’re close to me. Thanks! George

    • @DysonApiaries
      @DysonApiaries 9 месяцев назад

      I crazy busy with my dad’s health and his bee operation. I’m planning to put some more content out.

    • @georgeashmore7317
      @georgeashmore7317 9 месяцев назад

      Sorry to hear about your Dad. My wife and I visited my Dad today in Columbia, SC. He’s 93 and living in a nursing home with advanced dimenta. He got me into beekeeping as a young boy and I’m just now picking it back up. Sad he doesn’t remember any of it now. Anyway, I live onSC/NC line and your videos have helped me tremendously. Prayers for your Dad on this Easter Sunday. Take care!