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I have a question: If I were to put a full frame of honey out in the open in front of a hive, the bees will plunder the honey and store it for them self. My question is: Will they altso take the wax to make new comb?
No. Sometimes bees will re-purpose wax in there own hive, but when bees are robbing honey, they are only worried about getting it out quickly and moving on.
Thx. So this makes beeswax valuable to the bees, because they HAVE to produce all of the wax them selves. If they need a lot of it, they don't go next door to the weaker dying hive and steal it. I wonder, is it a ferromone thing?
Mike palmer is my idol when it comes too beekeeping... Although one thing I don't understand is why anyone would take off honey and feed back sugar syrup. Because if you think about it, the bees made the honey, it was free to the beekeeper except the caring for the bees. So now you got to spend more money for the sugar syrup. If you leave them the honey you don't have to buy sugar syrup. And the honey is way more beneficial to the bees. So if u want honey, instead of taking it from your bees and buying sugar syrup, let the bees keep it and go buy honey!!! And like Mike said, now all the water is in the hive.... I don't take any honey from my bees, they're storing it for a reason, that's so they can take a break or survive winter or have larger numbers in the winter!!!! Maybe its gonna be a long winter or a cold winter so they're preparing. Like doing a reverse split a month before cold sets in, and the box they move to the bottom was capped brood. well in 2 weeks that's all gonna hatch and now the bees can move up but now that u reversed it now she has to lay in the upper box and when win'ter comes in 2 or 3 weeks they cant cluster in the upper box cause its all capped. so the capped brood u moved down is where they cluster because it all hatched and they're away from their stores. The point is when you do splits and reverse splits you mess up their rhythm and their planning. Splitting for swarms is understandable, but preparing them for winter is comical. If bees need prepared for winter them aren't genetics I want! Just saying the bees know what they're doing. We need to look at what they're doing and how they are timing things. Give them space and let bees be bees. They have survived a very long time, the more we get involved the more they fail!!!!!!!!
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A huge thank you for going to all the trouble of editing and sharing these brilliant videos. 5⭐
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A most informative presentation, thankyou Mike and HCB's for putting this up. I look forward to hearing the other presentation he references.
This was great I have never seen a video from Mike on his production hives thank u so much for having him is there a 2nd session
Not yet!
Great talk.
I'd love to see the videos of his other talks................🐝🐝🐝
Thank you
Without winter, the flat-landers would stay. Blessed bee the winter!
Are there any links to session 2 yet? Thanks.
I have a question: If I were to put a full frame of honey out in the open in front of a hive, the bees will plunder the honey and store it for them self. My question is: Will they altso take the wax to make new comb?
No. Sometimes bees will re-purpose wax in there own hive, but when bees are robbing honey, they are only worried about getting it out quickly and moving on.
Thx. So this makes beeswax valuable to the bees, because they HAVE to produce all of the wax them selves. If they need a lot of it, they don't go next door to the weaker dying hive and steal it. I wonder, is it a ferromone thing?
Do you use a screen bottom?
Thank you for putting this video up for those of us who missed MP in person! Any chance you might post the other sessions?
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Do you have to move the hive 2 or 3 miles when you perform a split? I think the jury is out on this.
no ive watched a few videos where people gave a swarm to their neighbors and the swarm stayed and did well
Mike palmer is my idol when it comes too beekeeping... Although one thing I don't understand is why anyone would take off honey and feed back sugar syrup. Because if you think about it, the bees made the honey, it was free to the beekeeper except the caring for the bees. So now you got to spend more money for the sugar syrup. If you leave them the honey you don't have to buy sugar syrup. And the honey is way more beneficial to the bees. So if u want honey, instead of taking it from your bees and buying sugar syrup, let the bees keep it and go buy honey!!! And like Mike said, now all the water is in the hive.... I don't take any honey from my bees, they're storing it for a reason, that's so they can take a break or survive winter or have larger numbers in the winter!!!! Maybe its gonna be a long winter or a cold winter so they're preparing. Like doing a reverse split a month before cold sets in, and the box they move to the bottom was capped brood. well in 2 weeks that's all gonna hatch and now the bees can move up but now that u reversed it now she has to lay in the upper box and when win'ter comes in 2 or 3 weeks they cant cluster in the upper box cause its all capped. so the capped brood u moved down is where they cluster because it all hatched and they're away from their stores. The point is when you do splits and reverse splits you mess up their rhythm and their planning. Splitting for swarms is understandable, but preparing them for winter is comical. If bees need prepared for winter them aren't genetics I want! Just saying the bees know what they're doing. We need to look at what they're doing and how they are timing things. Give them space and let bees be bees. They have survived a very long time, the more we get involved the more they fail!!!!!!!!
lots of reasons, not all honey is as useable as inverted refined sugar syrup.. and what's the price of honey per lb vs honey???
Is there a link to Session 2?
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Awesome! Looking forward to the Session 2 lecture. Thanks for posting these!
I have it uploaded and am trying to get it to publish now. I'm running into a few difficulties
Hopefully it will appear soon.
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Sorry, but what is that 'Purple ...' flower?
Nvm. found it. 'purple loosestrife'
What state is this, Tn, NC etc? Thanks
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North Carolina
133 you said it
Poor cameraman, wait he gets better.