Thank you bee man I love your videos. They're very helpful for a beekeeper just starting off like me. Thanks for all the great videos and tips. The majority of beekeepers at the club I'm in ,now use natural treatments and essential oils due to that scientists are more discovering the effects that the chemicals have on the bees .
I took a a bee keeping class last fall and they only covered chemical treatments for mites and other pests/diseases. So glad to see this video showing an alternative. Four coworkers keep bees and I'll make sure to tell them about your videos. Excellent!
Thanks.. that looks like a very good natural treatment.. I'm new at bee keeping, but knew there had to be a natural way to keep my bees.. you are appreciated.
Hi Don! has your formula changed through the years, or is it remaining the same? Would love knowing if you are using a different formula today. How do you determine that this essential oil is making a difference in the colonies? Are you guessing? What does it help? Thanks for all you do!
Very Wonderful! I am just a beginner and this is so helpful. I think I may need a written recipe... Because I am not confident that I have it right. So here goes...I would appreciate it if you would correct me if I am wrong before I do this and hurt my ladies
Hi I live in Zimbabwe and the last couple of days am enjoying your videos. Have always attracted bees hives to my place so have but out a box 6 years ago and started to learn about bees since than lately am becoming more active in my beekeeping and am enjoying your videos to learn more especially to keep hives happy with essential oils. Can't follow everything you say as the African bees a bit different and one can only work in the hives at night. Thanks for all the info I can pick up and can't wait to do a tea tree treatment for them I don't really need to feed in our winter as we still have things blooming. I just thought you will love the idea that even some on in Zimbabwe is watching your clippings bye for now Sonja
and someone just read your comment from Hungary :) Ive read it on a comment that mites cant survive +40C and if the hive is heated to 40 C the mites die while the bees can stand that temperature, do u know about this?
Darrin Roe My mom has bees and im looking into this for her as well. even in my yard where i have so many come over. ive had to be super careful with what i use ive went all natural. i use doterra brand essential oils though
Thanks for the videos. I am a new bee keeper in isolated northern california. I love the organic way to keep bees, I am going to go organic or get the strains of bees that will survive with organic treatment. I have no one in the area to learn from. through your videos and the videos of a few others I am slowly learning. 4 hives looking to split a few times next year. Thanks again............
Can I use spearmint oil instead of wintergreen? Only because I have the spearmint oil. I’ll buy wintergreen if I can’t use the spearmint. Thank you for all your knowledge. I’m hooked on you RUclips videos. Keep em coming!
Hello from upstate New York I want to make 55 gallon drum of sugar syrup how much tea tree oil how much wintergreen oil and how much lemongrass oil for 55 gallon Thank you
This is awesome! I'm wanting to do Organic honey because my children have allergies to so many food additives. Thank you for the information! Keep making more organic videos please.
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I am looking forward to the information on using essential oils to treat for mites. We are also VERY happy with the Mite Vaporizer that we recently ordered from you.
Could you use these measurements of essential oils to a lower amount of water(1/4 c), emulsify, then soak pine needles in this to take up all moisture. This could then, naturally dry? Maybe use it to put small amount of it in smoker while working with the bees? Could this work as well?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others,it is so greatly appreciated.New to be keeping and looking for natural non chemical ways.So glad to find your videos.I've been told to crush up menthol cough drops,place in hive for pest control,what are your thoughts on that?Thanks for your time.
Hello Don, thank you so much for the videos. We have throughly enjoyed the info you have shared. You say to use one cup of the essential oil mixture to 1:1 sugar water but could you please tell me if the mixture is mixed in a gallon of sugar syrup? Thank you in advance for your much awaited response. Cindy
Thank you for your time and help.My hive has all naturally drawn comb(in super-4 cells to the inch)So this is a small cell colony?Not able to check brood box(cross combing)Plans on fixing that next year.Thanks again :)
Hey Fat Bee man, thanks for all the great videos. Just wanted to ask you is your mixing container hold 4 cups as it appears when you show the lines as half gallon would hold 8 cups so I am thinking it may be a 1 litre (4 cup) Mason jar? Could be just me not being able to see it in the video but thought I would verify to get my recipe the same. Thanks!
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this and for all the videos that you have shared with us. I have seen on a few other videos people making their own wax foundation from a handmade press with silicone mold that they pour wax on. I was wondering where they got them or if they copied them from plastic foundations and if so how did they get the two sides to line up with one another. And thanks once more.
Don, I was wondering if you have used or heard about using 50ml lemon juice dribble (cirtus acid) in a mix of 1:1 syrup + 50% lemon juice? It is one method that I have added to my arsenal to keep the mites off balance. Great work you are doing - keep it up, Volker
Good day sir I'm a new keeper and bought some winter green at the pharmacy but on the bottle say, methyl salicylate . Is it OK that I use in my hive ? Also say on the bottle, for relief of pain due to arthritis.
This is very interesting, Can this method be used as a treatment if the hives are already suffering from chalk-brood? The Reason I ask is a beekeeper sometimes if falls to you to rescue some seriously neglected hives.
Hi, Totty from Dorset ,England, I follow your videos and find them a great help, I have been keeping bees for about 6 years and would say you are the source of most interesting facts. I keep being told , do this and that with chemicals by our so called experts ,only to find out they don't do it themselves ! ( because it no longer works) .i like you would rather leave the chemicals out as I feel it will only lesson the bees ability to defend its self.how else do we resistance to the worlds nasties ,mites , and fungi spores etc.
thanks for the reply. I am sure if you look there are many beekeepers close to you to learn from. the old beekeepers are some times little slow to give up there secrets. Don
Thanks Don, No you can't read my mind. This video really helped me with Spring and Fall nutrition, but I'm curious about Summer nutrition. I see Honey Bee Healthy, and am curious if I can make that stuff myself. If I can, your just they guy who can help me. If I make it myself, how should I use it? Should I just add it to my sugar water every day? If so, how much should I add? I currently use a boardman front feeder with a 50%/50% sugar/water mixture. Do you have any suggestions that might help me? I was referred to your videos by my mentor (who I think you may know). His name is Gary Anthony. We both live in Knoxville, TN.
Hey Don...how often is the wintergreen/tea tree treatment to be used? I tried this for the first time, and when I put it in my open top feeders, all the bees IMMEDIATELY vacated the caged ladder down into it...they flat out ran. It is late..I am in middle TN...they still had a few mites after sugar/garlic treatments. Do they need it 10 days apart when there is time? Thanks
Hi there thank you for shearing the video .i have one question my first year of the beekeeping and I would like to youse this stuff can you please sand me some information about what's the company you buy the oil from thank you
New bee keeper here I watch alot of videos about everything but never seen one on when a hive gets nosema and it has alot of honey left in it what do you do with the honey look forward to hearing from you thanks
Thanks Don,(great video) i am in Ireland and cannot find wintergreen oil, can you suggest a alternative oil to mix with the lemon grass and tea tree oil. thanks Paul
Hi Don, I'm a first year beekeeper, i got my bees from the Seaborns because you were out. I would like to know what i can feed my bees during the summers dearth. thanks.
we have been fogging our need from your recipe and we are astonished by the amount of need flying. we are in northeast oklahoma. we have heard that lavender works on wax moths we have lost 5 to wax moths. what have you heard?
Is English your second language? or is it just the typing? ( the autocorrect on my phone is irritating and often wrong and changes the intent of the message!!) I'd like to know more about the Lavender usage, I just don't understand what ""been fogging our need" or "the amount of need flying" mean? Could you interpret, please.. Thank you/
I am new to beekeeping and want to do all natural with my bees I dont know what chalkbrood is and many other problems with bees i would not know how to recognize Problems. Other than the few things ive seen on you tube. I need all the help I can get! I inherited 6 hives and Im up to 9 at this time I do not want to Lose them!
my question is this complete mixture is 1qt to oils then added another quart. Then 1 cup per how much sugar water? I have 2 gal sugar container inside hive so how many (cps) per two gals?
Thank you bee man I love your videos. They're very helpful for a beekeeper just starting off like me. Thanks for all the great videos and tips. The majority of beekeepers at the club I'm in ,now use natural treatments and essential oils due to that
scientists are more discovering the effects that the chemicals have on the bees .
I took a a bee keeping class last fall and they only covered chemical treatments for mites and other pests/diseases. So glad to see this video showing an alternative. Four coworkers keep bees and I'll make sure to tell them about your videos. Excellent!
Please keep up with the natural mite treatment videos. My wife and I appreciate the information.
I second that! I am just a beginner this year and it’s hard to find enough believers willing to help you.
i want natural ways to treat, so please keep the videos coming!!! Thank you
Thanks.. that looks like a very good natural treatment.. I'm new at bee keeping, but knew there had to be a natural way to keep my bees.. you are appreciated.
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Hi Don! has your formula changed through the years, or is it remaining the same? Would love knowing if you are using a different formula today. How do you determine that this essential oil is making a difference in the colonies? Are you guessing? What does it help? Thanks for all you do!
Love your videos...Just getting back into beekeeping after 7 years. Love that you use all natural approach...Den
Very Wonderful! I am just a beginner and this is so helpful. I think I may need a written recipe... Because I am not confident that I have it right. So here goes...I would appreciate it if you would correct me if I am wrong before I do this and hurt my ladies
Thanks for the video! Just wondering how much sugar/water do you mix one cup of your essential oil mix with?
I really like your natural beekeeping methods, thank you🐝
Hi I live in Zimbabwe and the last couple of days am enjoying your videos. Have always attracted bees hives to my place so have but out a box 6 years ago and started to learn about bees since than lately am becoming more active in my beekeeping and am enjoying your videos to learn more especially to keep hives happy with essential oils. Can't follow everything you say as the African bees a bit different and one can only work in the hives at night. Thanks for all the info I can pick up and can't wait to do a tea tree treatment for them I don't really need to feed in our winter as we still have things blooming. I just thought you will love the idea that even some on in Zimbabwe is watching your clippings bye for now Sonja
and someone just read your comment from Hungary :)
Ive read it on a comment that mites cant survive +40C and if the hive is heated to 40 C the mites die while the bees can stand that temperature, do u know about this?
Thanks for the information on the use of oils instead of chemicals. I plan on using this with my hives.
Darrin Roe My mom has bees and im looking into this for her as well. even in my yard where i have so many come over. ive had to be super careful with what i use ive went all natural. i use doterra brand essential oils though
You are great! Look forward to your future organic hive management videos. 💞
Thanks for the videos. I am a new bee keeper in isolated northern california. I love the organic way to keep bees, I am going to go organic or get the strains of bees that will survive with organic treatment. I have no one in the area to learn from. through your videos and the videos of a few others I am slowly learning. 4 hives looking to split a few times next year. Thanks again............
Can I use spearmint oil instead of wintergreen? Only because I have the spearmint oil. I’ll buy wintergreen if I can’t use the spearmint. Thank you for all your knowledge. I’m hooked on you RUclips videos. Keep em coming!
love this! thank you for making these videos. Minnesota Beekeeper!
glad you enjoy them
Hello from upstate New York
I want to make 55 gallon drum of sugar syrup how much tea tree oil how much wintergreen oil and how much lemongrass oil for 55 gallon
Thank you
Just what I was looking for. More natural treatments please, and thank you!
This is awesome! I'm wanting to do Organic honey because my children have allergies to so many food additives. Thank you for the information! Keep making more organic videos please.
soon as I get caught up its been busy here and videos takes time but will get back to them.
Don
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I am looking forward to the information on using essential oils to treat for mites. We are also VERY happy with the Mite Vaporizer that we recently ordered from you.
Hey don I’m a beginner bee keeper and there’s a few hive bettles in my hive is there a natural way to detour them or get rid of them ?
Love your videos, any knowledge on organic bee keeping is great!
Thanks Don! I don't like to use chemicals either. Thank you for making everything so simple!
Don,
i'm sorry i couldn't listen carefully , 1 cup of that mixture with how much syrup?? is it 1:1 or 2:1 sugar syrup?
regards
omar
Thanks very much for this!! I am excited to learn about organic ways to take care of my bees.
Could you use these measurements of essential oils to a lower amount of water(1/4 c), emulsify, then soak pine needles in this to take up all moisture. This could then, naturally dry? Maybe use it to put small amount of it in smoker while working with the bees? Could this work as well?
I have tried your tips and love all of them. I would love to see more on essential oil treatments.
I have listened to the podcast you did w/ SOMD. and there I learned about Tea Tree oil. I am using it his tx for the 1st time is fall. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others,it is so greatly appreciated.New to be keeping and looking for natural non chemical ways.So glad to find your videos.I've been told to crush up menthol cough drops,place in hive for pest control,what are your thoughts on that?Thanks for your time.
hello
I am glad your very happy with it. you will find that its very easy to use.
Don
thank you for natural treatments!!
Hello Don, thank you so much for the videos. We have throughly enjoyed the info you have shared. You say to use one cup of the essential oil mixture to 1:1 sugar water but could you please tell me if the mixture is mixed in a gallon of sugar syrup? Thank you in advance for your much awaited response. Cindy
Nevermind comment have found the answer in earlier comments....Thanks
cinlynn66 And the answer is????
Keith Kanyeshna one cup to a gallon of syrup. I had to look down the comments to find it.
Thank you for your time and help.My hive has all naturally drawn comb(in super-4 cells to the inch)So this is a small cell colony?Not able to check brood box(cross combing)Plans on fixing that next year.Thanks again :)
I am doing any many as I can,hope they help.
Don
Can I use apiguard for mites in February. Thanks, love all your youtube videos.
Hey Fat Bee man, thanks for all the great videos. Just wanted to ask you is your mixing container hold 4 cups as it appears when you show the lines as half gallon would hold 8 cups so I am thinking it may be a 1 litre (4 cup) Mason jar? Could be just me not being able to see it in the video but thought I would verify to get my recipe the same.
Thanks!
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this and for all the videos that you have shared with us. I have seen on a few other videos people making their own wax foundation from a handmade press with silicone mold that they pour wax on. I was wondering where they got them or if they copied them from plastic foundations and if so how did they get the two sides to line up with one another. And thanks once more.
Don, I was wondering if you have used or heard about using 50ml lemon juice dribble (cirtus acid) in a mix of 1:1 syrup + 50% lemon juice? It is one method that I have added to my arsenal to keep the mites off balance.
Great work you are doing - keep it up,
Volker
Don ...I just switched over to oils and they are working great. I wish I changed over sooner. How can I see all the videos you have out there on oils?
Good day sir I'm a new keeper and bought some winter green at the pharmacy but on the bottle say, methyl salicylate . Is it OK that I use in my hive ? Also say on the bottle, for relief of pain due to arthritis.
I need these recipes thank you for sharing
This is very interesting, Can this method be used as a treatment if the hives are already suffering from chalk-brood? The Reason I ask is a beekeeper sometimes if falls to you to rescue some seriously neglected hives.
Do you find by following this treatment that the honey picks up on the he winter changing the natural taste?
more videos like this please!!!
thank you, your always informative!!!!
Thanks Don. Newbie here looking to keep my treatments as natural as possible.
Hi, Totty from Dorset ,England, I follow your videos and find them a great help, I have been keeping bees for about 6 years and would say you are the source of most interesting facts. I keep being told , do this and that with chemicals by our so called experts ,only to find out they don't do it themselves ! ( because it no longer works) .i like you would rather leave the chemicals out as I feel it will only lesson the bees ability to defend its self.how else do we resistance to the worlds nasties ,mites , and fungi spores etc.
thanks for the reply. I am sure if you look there are many beekeepers close to you to learn from. the old beekeepers are some times little slow to give up there secrets.
Don
Thanks Don,
No you can't read my mind. This video really helped me with Spring and Fall nutrition, but I'm curious about Summer nutrition. I see Honey Bee Healthy, and am curious if I can make that stuff myself. If I can, your just they guy who can help me. If I make it myself, how should I use it? Should I just add it to my sugar water every day? If so, how much should I add? I currently use a boardman front feeder with a 50%/50% sugar/water mixture. Do you have any suggestions that might help me?
I was referred to your videos by my mentor (who I think you may know). His name is Gary Anthony. We both live in Knoxville, TN.
How often do you treat? And how often in spring and in fall? Also how often do you use the vaporizer with wintergreen?
it can be feed all winter as long as bees are flying.
Don
How much sugar water to the one cup mix?
i love your videos ur the greatest it really shows u what to do
Still sharing this video Don, good info, thank you.
Thank you for sharing your recipe. I'm a first year bee keeper and I like to prevent diseases without chemicals if at all possible.
hope you like the organic ways
Is the oils you use food safe, or just Pharmaceutical grade?
that's a very important question, hope that there will be a reply
no haven't heard that one I might try in spring thanks.
Don
How do we keep ants out of our hive?
thymol crystals do work. I like the OA in a vaporizer best
Don
Hey Don...how often is the wintergreen/tea tree treatment to be used? I tried this for the first time, and when I put it in my open top feeders, all the bees IMMEDIATELY vacated the caged ladder down into it...they flat out ran. It is late..I am in middle TN...they still had a few mites after sugar/garlic treatments.
Do they need it 10 days apart when there is time? Thanks
As always love your video Don.. Still waiting to how you make foundation. As I really want to do that myself.
Hi there thank you for shearing the video .i have one question my first year of the beekeeping and I would like to youse this stuff can you please sand me some information about what's the company you buy the oil from thank you
Please tell me the scientific name of tea tree which is written on the packaging
melaluca
Do you still use this treatment for the mites, or do you fog them with natural oils as well?
Using your treatment for mites. What is this treatment for? Any natural treatment for wax moths?
can you mix the essences with non-hydrogenated melted coconut oil instead of water?
New bee keeper here I watch alot of videos about everything but never seen one on when a hive gets nosema and it has alot of honey left in it what do you do with the honey look forward to hearing from you thanks
How much does 1 cup mixture go with?
Adding the essential oil of Thyme for the mites?
Thanks Don,(great video) i am in Ireland and cannot find wintergreen oil, can you suggest a alternative oil to mix with the lemon grass and tea tree oil. thanks Paul
spearmint will do
Spearmint oil - can i use food grade or essential oil (essential oil does not mention suitable for food) thanks Don
Hi, usually I make the tea for my bees and they love it I use Chamomile Tea but my wife used Black Tea this time, would this do damage to the bees?
Thanks Don. Fumagelin is no longer an option. Good to gave the oils.
Hi i followed your videos fed my bees with the oils but they wouldn't go anywhere near it the only thing feeding on it was black ants ?
Don -great video can you tell me the oils used again -so i can find in ireland ,thanks
Morning Don just started using your essential oil treatment I'm in Northern Illinois how many treatments would you say 4 gallon per hive
I am going to make many more.
Don
What is the total amount of water used to make one batch? Thanks
Tanks for your efforts. Keep'm comming
Can I use this for a summer treatment and put it into a fogger?
Hi Don, I'm a first year beekeeper, i got my bees from the Seaborns because you were out. I would like to know what i can feed my bees during the summers dearth. thanks.
I think it's 1 cup of the oil tincture mixed into a quart (1L) of sugar water.
you can use to prevent it but its hard to treat,but if feed regularly it would clear it up.
Don
I struggle to find food grading oil!! Mostly are aromatherapy grade. Also most essential oils are for external use
1 cup of this mixture to how much sugar syrup?
could you kindly give where you buy your food grade oils.Thank you serve.
What kind of oil for mites
You are my new guru great advice to every one who watches Order from Don the Fat Bee Man
more and more people find me and trying the organic ways to treat bees.
Don
I have that video up it is wax #5 a pay per view
Don
P.S. that's why I like the donations to keep it all free==========lol
what are the oils, please?
I think he was asking how many gallons of sugar syrup to a cup of oils you mixed. at least i am curious thanks
Do you people have some essential oil recipe for varroa?
Could you share your source please Don? Those are nice big bottles, and I havnt found sizes like that. You da man
What's the best treatment for ants, varroa and wax moth ? Thanks
yes 1 cup to a gal.
D0n
Don how about a lesson on building bottom boards. I want to see the real juice. On how to make your bottom boards!🙃
we have been fogging our need from your recipe and we are astonished by the amount of need flying. we are in northeast oklahoma. we have heard that lavender works on wax moths we have lost 5 to wax moths. what have you heard?
wax mothes only because of weak hives
Is English your second language? or is it just the typing? ( the autocorrect on my phone is irritating and often wrong and changes the intent of the message!!) I'd like to know more about the Lavender usage, I just don't understand what ""been fogging our need" or "the amount of need flying" mean? Could you interpret, please.. Thank you/
this stuff is really interesting.
I am new to beekeeping and want to do all natural with my bees I dont know what chalkbrood is and many other problems with bees i would not know how to recognize Problems. Other than the few things ive seen on you tube. I need all the help I can get!
I inherited 6 hives and Im up to 9 at this time I do not want to Lose them!
all in good time=lol just so many hrs in a day. I do the videos between teaching .
Don
my question is this complete mixture is 1qt to oils then added another quart. Then 1 cup per how much sugar water? I have 2 gal sugar container inside hive so how many (cps) per two gals?
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