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Forcing bees to live in tar paper shacks and wondering why so many die in the winter. It would be like opening all your windows in the middle of winter and wondering why your cold and your heating bill is high.

Can you but wood on top of queen excluder? Where it will cure faster?

Hey don't let your cows eat that because he will die

Good to find another channel with treatment free beekeeping. I like these hives and might try them eventually. My tree trunk colony does very well with zero intervention.

Following your point that varroa mites do not like CO2 ,I agree with you 100 % .I insulate my hives with natural wool .I leave no ventilation at all except rhe 1 in exit hole .Every year I find hundred and hundred of dead varroa mites at the box bottom ,and bee colonies continue to thrive ...

I am a new beekeeper. I have three hives. Before I got to be a beekeeper for 24 seven I was reading and studying about bees most books of biology from Russian scientists We had so much challenges and I work all by myself, and did excellent I am originally from Russia. I watch a lot of Russian people because they know so much. I almost stoped watching RUclips in English because it seems like not many people are doing something that will help Bees here so I decided to start watching Russians and Ukrainians guess what they are very successful with this type of hives I know somebody two brothers they have climate very similar to my climate where I live wet and cold, especially in the winter there is survival rate is 100% every year I will I will be considering to switch all my hives to this hives next year !!😊pm 2 Brothers from Russia do close hive bottoms for winter when brood is present and mite control plus with the mirror you can sneak under and monitor bees

Ever heard of Layens hives?

Aye, it's amazing how controversial insulating hives can get, here on Vancouver Island, Canada there are a bunch of people that have had excellent results but still the majority can't understand the basics of science or animal husbandry. Guess it says more about human behavior than bees. Thank you for an excellent video.

The idea of an insulated hive is lost with an open bottom. As you stated. The tree cavity is inclosed it doesn't have a wide open bottom. Get a closed bottom then you will be supporting the science

OK, I have studied insulation for a couple years and bought a knockoff Apimaye and an ANEL from Greece. Both are plastic injected with insulation as the POLY concerns me from animals chewing or tearing them apart as I saw on other videos. I also use some wraps of various materials and its my experience any type of insulation is a benefit as spring buildup can be crazy early without any feeding.. Bees plug up the Apimaye ventilation, back to the condensing hive style, I really don't like their boxes with air gaps on the corners and the outer rim exclusive to their base (Really Expensive).. The Anel matches up to any woodware pieces. I use my homemade top over their pieces.. I believe insulated hives are the future keeping bees and wood is just cheap.

From a Minnesota beekeeper. Hell yes. It amazes me when people argue this. Lol and folks that insulate the top but then put in a vented inner cover on? Thus loosing the heat dome. Nutty. Buy the way all of our hives are painted with Thermo Cell insulated paint too. Oh and don't think about the R- factor in trees. Realize the M factor. Mass stabilizing the temperature changes.

You did a really good video. Thanks - I’ve SUBSCRIBED!

Wow..waah

Thank you for an honest review on the benefit of insulated hives, I use FlowHives (wooden ware), Apimayes, and HiveIq hives. Honest facts, my honeybees completely propolize all Apimaye vents, but boy are they bearproof!! Have you used HiveIq's software? Jim - Florence, SC

Old mate here in Australia pulled 7 tons of honey in winter over 2 weeks in uninsulated plastic nuplas hives.. bees don't care what they are in a 40 gallon drum in 40 degree Australia heat in a paddock pulling in honey... all they need is resources...and it's you the beekeeper that's got to hunt down the resources. Dump beekeeping and rename ourself as a botanist with livestock that sting and stop kidding yourself with the technology. How much science and studies documentation as been overlooked for the past 100 years globally by the average beekeeper due to commercial interests... I know the hive iq story in detail... investors need to get paid.... just don't sell me bull dust... my bees don't care... they just want a warm dry place to thrive and resources...

Is ragweed good for bee stings?

Do you guys add any insulation around your Hive IQ hives for the winter? I live in west central wisconsin.

Smart hive tops! Love it!!

Hi - just subscribed.👍 You mentioned posting a link to a land use template, but I don't see it. Could you provide that and/or a little more info regarding siting hives under/around utility lines? Thanks!

Nice video ❤

I think the breeding yards the “big guys” use are lacking drone numbers for all amount of queens they are mass producing.Reaulting in weak queens. The weather doesn’t help but I am looking at AZ hives to combat that. I have the insulated barn just need to make the hives.

Here in the UP of Michigan was bad. Late frost and the weirdest lack of winter did something

Yep, wild bee balm...I put in an application for being your host a hive beekeeper earlier this year in Wisconsin. Hope it's going well

How's your goldenrod flow?

Excellent video , very informative 👍

Great quality video, was a joy to watch

I mean watch some nature documentaries about honey bees in tree hollows. They cluster. It’s a natural response that’s why they do it. They come from warmer climates in Southern Europe, Northern Africa and parts of Asia. Clustering is a defence mechanism against colder than normal temperatures for them our North American winters are unusual for them by their very nature. I understand you are a salesman everyone needs to make money I get that but atleast have a moral compass. I’d much rather buy a styrofoam hive if you’d be more honest about it and not spew cherry picked information from studies.

how are you supposed to grab her ny the wings or what? no one says

Her back is called the thorax. Very Respectfully

Why wouldn’t you put the solar panel inside the fence to protect it from damage as well

Man that Name needs a pro-nun-ciation guide. :)

Great Job! How did it turn out?

How do you secure the queen cage if you don't have a frame with comb already in it? (i.e.. it's a brand new frame)

love the intro music.

I did the queen marking activity today. I was so nervous. I got the mark all over her.

that was the most stressful thing I watched today

What about when it's dark?

That’s a good way to kill a Queen by not testing the marker first on a surface. A big glob of paint can come out and coat most of her body.

Where did you get the honeycomb stensil? I ordered some but they were too small.

I was reading the comments below an I saw where someone ask you about what kind of a hive you have . Well your answer was that it is a hive you are building an you said also it is patented pending . Well My question is how can you build these an patent them when there is someone else that has been building hives that what little I can see of yours looks like his an he has been building them for years and years an years ???. Also I bet you were glad the queen was not on those first frames because you rolled the crap out of those bees . 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

You talking about all this queen problem people are having. What state are you in where you are having all these problems .???

Very different leaves, also

Lol! Hang in there! Hope you got'm

Enjoyed the video. Thank you for the close ups of the frames. Just FYI though, 2 square inches means the opening would be 2 by 2. I don’t think you meant to say that.

thank u

lol new born are blond hahaha

What other plant species does honeybees target in Wisconsin during the summer? Nice song!

Im sorry, when i saw you rolling so many bees as you pulled out the frame with sliding the first frame over. Good luck to ya, please continue to work with bees and continue to always learn as you go.

Your camera work sucks. I can never see what is important.

How many days between install of package and this first inspection ? Also, location ? First year here and trying to learn. Thank you.