Beekeeping : How To Make A Spring Split Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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I bought a package from you last year and used your winter bee kind this winter, and I had to do a split last night because there were so many bees. I will definitely advise others to use your winter bee kinds and bees!
Crazy isn't it Bryan, coming out of winter with such a strong hive!!
Your comments are so informative. I need to watch the rest of your vids to learn about how you vent the well insulated hives in the winter and what your winter bee kind consists of. Thanks David!
Awesome! It's no secret. I have an eBook on Amazon about overwintering hives, and I teach overwintering classes.
Great winter protection. So glad to see you do not follow the “cold does not kill” myth.
Nice video, have subscribed
WOW! Very impressive and the bees seem really gentle.
im starting bee keeping next year :D cant wait haha
I just got bit on the ear bees in my suit, and bit on the leg am bit over it these bees are so nasty...lol
Great video as usual! I deal with the enigmatic capensis but still love your vids. Your manner and obvious relationship with the bees is so nice to see.,
Hi mate. Is there a product you can put on the comb dase to encourage a swarm queen to naturally relocate into a new hive? I've heard you can spray the entrance also. Many thanks for an informative thread.
Your April is our may
Hi David, can you please share how you make your winter bee kind? I'm starting beekeeping and would like to know your trick. Amazing bees you have got. What breed of beed do you have with such beautiful laying patterns?
Hi David, What is you climate like in your location? Here in CT my 4 hives did not make it through the winter.
That’s a lot of bees wow! Neat video
How do I buy your honey bee kind, for the winter.
They go on sale Aug 1 and ship to you in December. Here’s the link www.honeybeesonline.com/feeders/
Do you publish your recipe for," winterbee kind," or sell it in the U.K. ? Thanks for the video
I had a double with a super on top. They came through winter, weak, with all the bees in the super. Since all the brood was in a super I was confused as to what to do.
Hello David. I have listened to your podcast and followed your videos, and have heard you mentioned the winter bee kinds, but have never heard you mention when you put on it on the hive. Before you wrap them up for winter, in January February? Thank you.
Hey David, do you only keep top entrances open during the winter? Is yes, then why?
I don't believe I've ever seen a full colony inspection started with the middle frame. I always thought it is safer to start w/ the outermost frames with the fewest bees to decrease the chance of rolling the queen.
or walking around with a frame of bees not knowing where the queen is, could drop off anywhere..
Should be titled, “Hunting for the queen “.
Sto im ne kupis sporet na drva ???
Why is drone brood usually on the bottoms of frames?
Is there a queen excluder on there
Can't remember but I usually do not use them.
Hello, where did you get your master beekeeping certificate from?Is it university courses? How long it takes to be master? Thanks in advance.
He will not tel-write you answers on your questions because he is one bee master wanna be.
Can I get your formula for bee bread and also your bee health recipe ? Thanks!
Hello
Hello, will you give your recipe for the Winter feed?
David I am fairly new to beekeeping but when you wrap the hive up like that how does it ventilate? I elected not to wrap mine and still had a little mildew on my top cover.
My winter-bee-kinds are ventilated on top. And the WBK keeps moisture from building up being absorbed in the food. Likewise I use screen bottom boards on a stand that is about 12" off the ground so they have good ventilation.
I am a beginner. Here in South Africa they lay a queen separator between the brood box and the super. I see you have actually a queen laying eggs in the super, isn't the super supposed to be the area where you harvest the honey from? and therefore a queen no go area?
Do you use queen clip
How do you know when to go into your hive in the spring
Is there a reason you don't use a queen restrictor so you would know where she is?
How cold do recommend before insulting the hives? Thanks
Fantastic queen what is she & where did you get her? I love the video, Thank You
Mutt :) There really aren't any tight genetics when it comes to queen, like to say you have a pure Italian...uh no. I believe genetic diversity is the answer, so I like to graft out of the strongest colonies that survive winter and make lots of honey.
Is that fiberglass wrap? Is that bad for bees?
Why do you want the queen to lay in the super ?
I don't but it happens
please tell me thats not fiberglass around the hive???
Hi David nice video! I'm also a beekeeper in Connecticut and I will be starting my Master Beekeeper program at Cornell Univ. next September. I really enjoy your videos! Do you get stung a lot with a t-shirt on? I wish I could do it.. Subd..
Only if I don't see a bee and squeeze one like in one of my recent videos. Congrats on your pursuit of MB. EAS Certification originated from Dr. Moorse From Cornell.
Thank you!
Hi David, I just started watching your video's and I learn so much! But I wonder, don't bees need a winter brood stop to prevent an increase in varroa mites? Don't you get more problems with varroa by isolating your hives?
Good point but since I live in the north where it gets really cold, I have to continue to produce lots of bees for heat. I can deal with mites when it warms up. But beekeepers who glory in strong colonies but do nothing for mites are defeating their efforts by raising tons of mites.
Do you have a video in which you explain your mite control program? I live in Belgium and we also have cold winters but we especially use this period without brood to treat with oxalic acid which cannot pennetrate into closed cells but kills all the mites that live on the bees. Winter bees live long enough to pass this winter period. When it warms up mite control is not possible without contaminating the honey in my opnion but if you have a good method I am realy curious!
What part of the country are you located?
If there are no queen cells yet ,
can we split the hive by placing two boxes and taking the original queen away so that they are made queenless and can raise their queen cells in the two boxes?
Sorry I don't totally understand your question. You said make a split by "placing two boxes"???
I mean to say that I want to split a hive from 1 box to 3, I need to put 2 nuc box in place of original hive by putting 3 , 3 frames in these two new boxes from the original box and take away the original box with queen away from these two boxes with queen.
Now my question is that the two new boxes don't contain any queen cell yet will the bees be able to make queen cells for these two queenless colonies ?
Well, whenever you are hoping to make splits, just remember that you must have eggs on frames in each new box so they can raise a queen when the egg molts to the larva stage on day 3.
David, how can you tell it's a heavy nectar day just by looking at the hive?
Yup, hundreds of bees flying in and out in 60 seconds
Did that have Hive have swarm cells in that deep below that Medium?
I'm confused....on your website you say you don't wrap your beehives but this one is double wrapped. I live a few miles south of you and wonder if I need to wrap my hives.
I noticed drone cells on the bottom of the third frame you pulled. Do you ever remove it?
Sometimes I place a super frame in a deep box to raise drones. You can use this method to raise queens (drones mate with virgin queens) or to do mite control. No, I just leave it.
Thnx for the videos!
Hi David, I live in tropical Indonesia. I have a question: I bought 1 colony of mellifera (european honey bee) in a langstroth box, about 7 frames full of bees, from an apiary 40 kilometers away. In my home area there are no mellifera colony, as locally we only have apis cerana. When the time comes for a split, how much are the chances of my colony splitting successfully, as the only drones here are from this same colony only? Should I buy 1 more colony, or 2? Thank you for any thoughts.
Or 3! Or move em closer to someone who has European bees when mating queen.
Maybe buy a new queen every yr. Take eggs from that queen you bought.
Segami 2 thank you for your great thoughts!
Can I tell the difference between a queen and a drone? Yes. Can I pick her out in a lineup of 30,000 bees in constant movement? Not even close.
What's your recipe for Winter Bee Kind?
Hi Tim, we've always had it online on our website for years. Just look it up under Feeders, then Winter-Bee-Kinds, and it is at the bottom of the description of the product. www.honeybeesonline.com/feeders
@@beek Thank you.
Captions please
Doesn't spring splits hamper your honey production?
No, it just prevents swarms
This working the bees without protection makes me itch.
Would you please share what "Winter B Kind" is!
View my youtube video: ruclips.net/video/7sDXqd4DcKc/видео.html
8 minutes 8 seconds. You mean the queen was laying 7-8 days ago?
Great video Thank you. I am second year beek. Should I add a honey super now? I'm in Zone 5B -Northern IL. Do you ever feed syrup in spring to an established hive?
Sorry. Just saw your previous video on Spring feeding.
Hi John, YES, add supers!!! Don't feed if supers are on. I only will feed syrup to a brand new split or nuc or package IF, it looks to be rainy longer than a week.
dumb using fiberglass installation
Don't believe the one who starts with self praise. 😒
Doesn’t that insulation make them itch?
yes but after hot showers all the bees better
I don't mean to be rude but I don't like the fiberglass very much because it gets stuck on things like the entrance reducer. just one more thing to worry about getting stuck in your honey.. but otherwise goodjob. ( I do some beekeeping too)
Assalamu aleykum
Strange
....big deal the split ....the problem-GREEK-word is the varroa...all over the world.....
"Master Beekeeper..."??