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Mind Your Hives Beekeeping
Добавлен 15 мар 2021
All things Beekeeping from husband and wife owners of Kara Jo Skin Care & Bee Farm in Southeastern PA. There are many different styles and techniques - these are ours.
Merging two Honey Bee Hives (newspaper method)
Merging hives couldn't be easier. Here Greg is merging 15 frames from a nuc hive into a full size hive that is queenless. As long as there aren't 2 queens present in the merge, this technique works for most scenarios. There are many styles and techniques...this is ours.
This was made for a mini-presentation for the Montgomery County Beekeepers' Assoc of PA. Thanks for having me!
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This was made for a mini-presentation for the Montgomery County Beekeepers' Assoc of PA. Thanks for having me!
Kara Jo Online store: KaraJoSkinCare.com
Podcast is available everywhere, here's the spotify link. open.spotify.com/show/6sirQ02CumRn3DWzkrdKIv
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Splitting a Honey Bee Hive - Start to Finish
Просмотров 309Год назад
At Kara Jo Bee Farm we have managed to double the size of our apiary each year by splitting almost all our hives each spring and getting them into winter healthy. Here you'll see Greg walkthrough a split start to finish - from seeing the first swarm cells to finding the queen and all things in between. You don't need to buy bees to grow your apiary and we hope this helps. Cheers! Kara Jo Produc...
Honey Bee Queen Castle 101 - Queen Rearing using Queen Castles
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This was a presentation made for Montgomery County Beekeepers Assoc of PA. Greg discusses and shows how we use Queen Castles to raise queens to expand our apiary. This is our primary method of breeding the queens with proven genetics year after year.
First Spring Inspection of an over-wintered Honey Bee hive!
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It is the end of March and Greg is doing the first inspections of our hives coming out of winter. Watch him do the inspection while he gives his thoughts on what he's seeing and what's happening next. Enjoy! Check out all of our Skin Care and Honey Bee products at KaraJoSkinCare.com and follow us on social media @MindYourHives, @KaraJoBeeFarm, @KaraJoSkinCare
Winter Maintenance: Checking Emergency Feed
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It is the day after Thanksgiving in Southeast Pennsylvania. We are checking to make sure the honey bees haven't eaten their emergency winter feed yet - which is super easy to check with our new shim setup! Listen to Mind Your Hives Beekeeping Podcast wherever you listen and check out KaraJoSkinCare.com for all of our products!
Overwintering Honey Bees - Adding Emergency Winter Feed
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At Kara Jo Bee Farm we make sure our bees have some emergency feed on heading into winter. This year we're using fondant. Here you can see our hive setup as Greg discusses the shim he designed and why this method is a little different than last years.
How We Test for Varroa Mites
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What we can only refer to as a 'necessary evil' in beekeeping...the dreaded Varroa Mite Test. Here's a quick video of how we use dish soap to do a mite wash. Shoutout to Randy Oliver at ScientificBeekeeping.com for his hardwork and guidance.
College Settlement Camp Apiary - New Hive Introduction and a Surprise Swarm Catch!
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Day 1 of managing a hive at College Settlement Camp in Horsham, PA was pretty exciting! We show you the new hive, find the queen, mark her and then catch a feral swarm! We hope you enjoy and will follow along to see this hive's progression all season. For more info on the camp check them out at www.collegesettlement.org
Swarm Trap Success - Virgin Queen Honey Bee
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A tiny (but adorable) secondary swarm equipped with a Virgin Queen caught at Glen Foerd in Philadelphia, PA.
Swarm Catch Inspection and Queen Marking
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Checking in 48 hours after catching a swarm to make sure the queen is laying and mark her. A couple things I would recommend doing differently. When you first home a swarm, don't feed them for at least 3 days. When they digest the honey in their stomachs that they were traveling with it will get rid of European foul brood spores...if you feed them syrup, the bees will put that honey in stores i...
Inspected Honey Bee Drone Comb for Varroa Mites and some chicken fun.
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As an Integrated Pest Management strategy we'll freeze a frame of drone comb and pull out the larvae to see what kind of mite pressure is in that hive...then we'll feed it to our chickens. Here's an example.
Hive Inspection - Early Spring 2021 - Talking Basics
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This hive just came out of winter and is starting to take off but I'd say its about average population wise for this time of year in PA. Just talking some basics as I go through the brood chamber.
Honey Bee Hive Deadout - March 2021
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Unfortunately this hive had some issues with moisture which lead to its death. After being knocked over in a flood and having a tree limb fall on it in a winter storm...we kinda knew what to expect, but its still sad. Hopefully you can learn from our mistakes here.
Good job!!
Just a thought....it is much more likely to roll or injure the queen when pulling the frame from the center of the box. I recommend removing a frame from one side first, which makes room to slide frames apart before lifting
Disagree. Safer rolling between wax vs rolling against wood. Ideally the second frame in would always be my first pull when you’ve got all built out frames.
Greatest video on youtube about queen castles.
Very kind of you to say...so few out there and wasn't any at all when we first started!
Do you cut queen cells, I have good luck with that.
If we come across swarm cells in a hive that has proven genetics and there are cells that can be cutout and moved to the castle - yep!
They work great.
Wish someone introduced these to us when we first started. Used those mini mating nucs for years..
Very good 👍🏼 clear & concise; albeit a bit long winded 😂 was always keen on running a Queen castle and i think your tutorial has convinced me to try this method thanks a lot 👍🏼🇬🇧
Did you end up trying this season?
Just found the podcast today, couldn’t stop listening at work. Thanks so much for the awesome content.
Thank you so much for listening and the kind words! Means a lot.
I like survivors with high mite counts. 🙂
Sucks for native bees.
@@mindyourhivesbeekeeping how so? Is there evidence of varroa mites on native bees?
@@Swarmstead Yo bud - I don't mind how you handle your bees...its your choice and all. But since you asked - based on the studies of disease in native bees the short answer is yes. The long answer is that there is a strong correlation between diseases found in honey bees that have high mite loads spreading disease to native pollinators as a whole. High mite loads weaken the immune system of honey bees therefore they can't fight disease themselves (literally varroa feeds on the fat bodies of bees which create vitellogenin that controls their immune system) and then they spread it. It sucks. Hence why we keep track of mite numbers and only breed from lines that do well to control the numbers themselves. Its all about the natives. If a honey bee can survive with a high mite load thats great for the honey bee...but they're a super spreader affecting the insects that matter most.
@@mindyourhivesbeekeeping it "sounds" good. A little rote though. And there's a saying about correlation. The subject of native bees is off track anyway. I don't remember it being mentioned in the video.
@@Swarmstead I suppose that makes sense although you're just taking a shot at me saying this is "rote"... The decision of how we keep bees is based on the knowledge we've picked up from studies read and presentations watched by other people much smarter than myself. We're not acting on an opinion or belief. I don't know what you mean about being off track...it's literally a video on how we test for mites, not why...or was i supposed to fall into a trap you set about native bees not having mites on them?? ha...nice try!
fabulous to see ! Really interesting.
Awesome and THANK YOU!!!
Nice catch. Love the flower pot traps!
You are the reason we do them! So thank YOU.
@@mindyourhivesbeekeeping I need to get out and check mine someday. They overwinter great in them if I get to them too late. 😄
good
I didn't know you had a channel.
Just launched it a week or 2 ago.