Beekeeping Tips For These Weird Up & Down Winter Temps
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2023
- Beekeeping has been affected by these unusual up and down temperatures this winter. Today, I'll share tips on what you can do to save your bees.
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Hi David! Thank you so much for sharing our conversation here :) It was a pure pleasure meeting you in person at Hive Life :) I did a search on RUclips for you today and that Psychiatrist gets dibs in the search. Keep sharing what you know, I think we're doing some good. Thanks again! It was also nice to meet your wife, she did a great job behind the camera!
Thanks Frederick. Likewise it was a pleasure meeting you and what's very helpful for our viewers is to see both of us together, supporting each other. Hopefully we can send that message to all beekeepers to be supportive of each other. Thanks for the compliments on Sheri, she is a gem. It was nice meeting your wife as well.
Fred is one of my favorites on RUclips
cool
Got a weird noise thing going on about 3 minutes in, I can still hear it.
Yup I heard that too that came and went. I'll run it down and stop that for the future.
My two favorite Bee Gurus!!! I love you both. Thank you for continually imparting your wisdom upon us. You could team up & be called " The Answer Team".....
Awe thank you so much, you are very kind. Fred and I are happy we can help beekeepers!
Great interview with Frederick Dunn. I love the studio expansion you and Sheri are creating. I’ll try to create a video at some point. I hope that I’ll make it next year to Hive Live.
Thanks Christine!
David you and Fred are great. But I'd have to lose my glasses to mix yall up. Great video thanks. I found you frist then Fred then a whole lot more. Thank you for all you do
Awesome! Thank you!
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Wow Thanks Robert!
@@beek Most Welcome David,, and I have been a subscriber a long time,,😁,,and I also have 7 hives,,I only had 1..just as the pandemic started
Nice Expansion
In a word = brilliant..... fancy seeing you and Frederick together...... you are both such a vast wealth of info.... I have just assembled my third Flow hive for this coming Spring. I most definitely would not have started beekeeping if I had not seen Frederick by chance in 2020 presenting the 2015 Flow hive video.
I am indebted to you David also for your videos and especially seeing many of your 'set ups'.
Where would all us learners be without fantastic You Tube?
I'll keep an eye on the bees needs re resources. Thank you so much. Mick in Nottingham the UK
This goes against all that I’ve learned, protein in the winter causes bees to have to defecate !
If the temps stay cold they can’t get rid of protein, in winter they need carbohydrates not protein! Please explain
Like I mention in another comment, Often bee defecate when they take off from a flower, so if they aren't flying and consume large amounts of dry powder inside the hive would they not be able to clear their gut? I'm thinking that by feeding them outside the hive and away from the hive their flight will help clear their gut thus reducing the nosema concern.
@@beek this doesn’t make sense to me, I guess time will tell,I would assume they would mix with condensation or honey to consume.
I feed Dadant AP23 winter patties which are only 2.5% protein
Well, I was loosing hives in the winter until I started feeding them heavily during the winter and since then it is a remarkable difference.
I appreciate you and your wife putting yourselves out there to meet us. And as always Fred... Thank you... I mean David. 😂
Our pleasure, so fun meeting so many viewers.
OMWord..that tiny hive is sweet. Am an artist.....no, you do not look like Fred LOL
That is a cute little hive, good thing I have little bobble head David to work it. I'm buying more supers 😆
Great to see my two favourite RUclipsrs together. Thanks for sharing this conversation.
I am so in aw of both of you! Both of you, do keep on sharing your knowledge! Your work is so important. Both in beekeeping but also when it comes to spreading knowledge to everyday people
Two of my three favorite Bee Guys (Kamon... you're held in spirit). I love how you both have different methods and/or different thoughts about the beekeeping experience. The differences help flesh out my newbie questions when I need to don the suit and smoker and inspect the hive and encounter the unexpected.
It takes a massive amount of hard work to produce quality content and I cherish every video.
Great show Dave. Like others have said, good seeing you and Fred discuss and state so openly that you are not in competition. I follow you both. Both are great resources.
Good video with Fred. I follow all his videos. As I do yours. Both of you have taught me a great deal in this "Hobby". Who would have thought that the sky is the limit in what you can do with keeping some bugs in a box.😃
I think it is great to see and learn from great knowledgeable conversing. I visit organic farms and so on and learn so much when others talk with one another ... all I can do is ask questions to learn ... and don't have much to contribute other than growth of skill encouragement.
BTW David excellent documentation of hive life and new products!
Hi David, had a little hiatus from watching videos. So glad to be back and see the new set - love the calming colors - perfect for coffee time, in my opinion. Thanks for your wonderful videos!
Welcome back! Thank you for the kind comments
Great seeing you at Hive Life.
Nice seeing you Maggie.
Enjoy and learn from all your videos. Thank you! Question, I went to my two hives to give them some protein pattys and noticed that the foragers were bringing tons of pale whitish pollen. What is blooming in mid January in West TN this time of year?
When I see bees hitting the bird feeder, I know they are foraging pollen and need some dry feed. Fred once told me to never add pollen powder to sugar bricks, I believe he misunderstand a small amount was used to balance out the feed supplement comparable to winter patty or a candy board. Its true, there are lots of people who do not welcome newcomers and are stuck in their old ways of doing things.
The new set looks great!
Thanks Nancy
Great video and interview ✅️👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
There’s a dynamic duo! Way to bee Fred and good going David!
Hey, my nephew Greg 😃
@@beek Your the coolest uncle I never had! 😎
Is it true, are David and Greg related...the mystery continues.
Here in London there are many beekeepers, we keep 30 hives in south London, our weather is pretty similar to yours but here there are many garden centers and places selling flowers, so we had 12 Celsius days and I saw bees bringing pollen and some cheery trees are in full bloom mid winter really weird
Wow, I've heard the same reports here as well.
Glad to have met you at Hive Life and participating to your silver award!
I'm convinced now that I need to grow a beard to be a better beekeeper.
Like Ian said most of us just are too busy to shave.
My two favorite you tube bee guys along with Cayman Reynolds
Hey david, i see that telescope back there! Ive been into astronomy for years and started doing astrophotography about 3 years ago. Maybe i can image something for you one day as a gift to show my appreciation for all the beekeeping info youve taught me. What are some of your fav deep sky objects?
My girls are flying & eating like crazy! The weather here has shifted (including wind chill) over 100 degrees between just the end of December through the early part of January. The Winter Bee Kind Boards (and recipe) have been a great safety net!! And a NO on the Fred Dunn twin (not The Patty Duke Show, sorry, not even "cousins"... lol).
Hey getting to talk to Fred Dunn, that's very cool. And he's a genuinely cool guy.
I thought so too
Digging the new scene!
Thank you Jessica
David you are so right about the roller-coaster of Temps. I'm in SE Virginia and my bees are returning to the hive with large yellow/orange food. It's crazy because it's January.
Steve
Maybe they sound another beekeeper feeding their bees
@@beek there is another bee keeper about 4 miles away.
@@beek when do you suggest the earliest mite treatment come Spring?
When temps are above 65 so you can inspect and take a mite count first.
My girls ARE finding pollen in January. I guess the zip down to Florida in the jet stream or something.
i recall asking fred where QMP, comes from AND royal jelly....he said oh...thats a involved answer ...in the glands in a bees head,and other anatomy parts,...so cool
Yup, Queen Mandibular Pheromones mostly come from the mandibular glands and are made up of 9-oxo-(E)-2-decenoic acid, (+)- and (−)-9-hydroxy (E)-2-decenoic acid, methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, and 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylethanol.
@@beek sounds like a answer from a master beekeeper,went right iver my head,but hugs to you n sherry,freds right it isnt a competition, but a community fellowship,all under the big master beekeeper, and science has its place
I just know where to find the answers 😃
Love it
Thank you Tracey
Dziękujemy.
Thank you so much Maro
Hi David, one of my hives has been robbed dry and all the bees have died, funny thing is the Queen is still in the hive but there are no bees to help her out, so should I take brood and bees from my other hive to help her out?
Good stuff David. Two icons here!
Thank you but we are just ordinary as the day is long.
@@beek that’s what makes you great is that you are very approachable. But there is nothing ordinary about what you have accomplished and the influence you have in the industry.
Thank you Bruce, I need reminded of that today!
I’m afraid bees are going to start brooding more, witch will make mite count go up. Glad I got the Instant Vap. Mite Treatment tomorrow!
When I go to refill my winter be kind boards, how much bee protein powder should I add to each one?
Hi Brian, when it is mostly consumed and you can add about a teaspoon of protein powder per board.
What about yeast in place of protein? I have read about using brewer's yeast specifically, is this true? Thanks for your advice.
Sorry, I have not experimented with brewer's yeast. I think most commonly it is sold as dead yeast but can be purchased as live yeast, so that would change how adding to protein could cause nor not cause it to ferment. Since bee protein powder has bee tested with bees it's easier for me to go with the science.
I have access to used buckets of frosting from local grocery store. Content has suger veg oil high fructose corn syrup corn starch etc.in ingredients. No matter what flavor the bees will not touch it any time of year . I open feed suger water with no problem but the buckets with frosting I have no luck. Any idea?
This time of year or so hard on colonies. NE Ohio with these roller coaster temps gives me grey hair. I would rather have a consistent cold through Winter. Good info David. . I see the Hive, so awesome. . Thanks for the shoutout. Lol, Fred had to call 911. I am currently studying for my Master Beekeeper. Enjoyed the video.
Where are you being certified for your Master Beekeeper Certification?
@@beek University of Florida. I’ve completed the Apprentice level and will have my Advanced done this year.
Hi Brian! You know we're friends, so a little teasing is required :) It was great to see you there also!
I am pushing 70 year old and I remember my first bee sting, where I was, what I was doing and why I got stung. For sure it was likely early 1960s. Oh, I had no idea they stung.
70 is young David!
Thinking 🤔 maybe I should put out some feeders just in case? ... ok back to the show.
I use Durant Pollen
Looks great! I have been wanting more information on OA treatments personally.
Hi Marina, I'm working on OA videos that will be published sometime in late Feb or more likely in March.
@@beek you are the literal best!! Both my hives are alive still because of your information. Thank you so much really looking forward to the OA information.
I think this is the first winter I can think of where there have been more warm days than cold days in kentucky (last winter was unusually warm until the middle of december, normally bees stop flying mid-november here) .... they are flying every day except for an oddball day here and there ... I just checked my hives, january 17th, and its almost 60 degrees outside. There has only been maybe 2 days below 50 degrees all month. I did a video ... not sure what I should do because I know its bad to break a hive but at the same time I think the hives that had "just enough" to get them through winter may be in trouble. Most of my hives went into winter with an excess of honey because we had a great fall honey flow and post-cancer I have had trouble keeping up with the apiary .... so I left the honey on them. Intuition or just good luck for once?
Love the new scene background!
Thank you
Great Tips David, your spot on! I've talked about the same thing before, that is why I Feed, even though I'm down here in AL and we have Pollen all winter Usually, Depends, I still give them something Just in Case they run out, and Like you said about these temps going up and down, here it was 70f a few Days ago and now it's 45f for our High, it's good to be prepared then rather be not Prepared. Great Job David with the Tips! Take Care!
Thanks for sharing
And Bob Binnie
Who is Cayman?
Lost my hive. Seems like I loose my hive every 2 - 3 Years. 😢
Oh, so sorry. What was your approach to mites regarding treatments, then I would consider any queen issues during the season.
I add dry pollen right in with the sugar
Timely video Dave. My bees are getting into bird feeders with cracked corn. As a newbee it is very concerning. Started feeding Ultra Bee 58% protein powder. Have candy boards in top super. So worried. Thanks for your videos!
Hi Barbara, it’s challenging not to worry. However, it’s a good practice to just say you’re doing all you can and it’s up to nature now. And enjoy the process of bees attempting to survive. Enjoy the journey.
Omg!! You so not look like Mr.Dunn 🤣
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Why do you put the pollen out away from hives and not in the hive , similar to fondant. ?
Often bee defecate when they take off from a flower, so if they aren't flying and consume large amounts of dry powder inside the hive would they not be able to clear their gut? I'm thinking that by feeding them outside the hive and away from the hive their flight will help clear their gut thus reducing the nosema concern.
Thank you David for your reply. Kathy in Maryland .
Feed them Sugar water pollen patties
Hi Kenneth, I have not had good experience with sugar water in winter. The need to defecate is increase and one year small hive beetles overwintered on my pollen patties and laid eggs in them so I can't do that where I live.
Y'all do look similar.
David; you much better. His videos are too long.
I’ve got some long ones too. Nice thing about RUclips videos there’s always the pause button for a bathroom break 😀
Lol. I don't think I could have confused the 2 of you. Totally different people and totally different formats. I would guess you put a lot more time in editing.
I was editing 8mm film as a kid with a splicer and glue. I made movies back then, so I love editing.
I prefer your videos in bright daylight than the dark mood lighting setup. It’s pretty, but it’s not you. Love your content either way, but I am more likely to watch when you keep it real. Frederick Dunn uses the dark studio for reading Q&A, and that’s fine. I watch way more of your outdoor videos than his inside sessions. No offense to either style, just my preference.
Yes well here in Illinois it’s not much brighter outside in the winter.