1- Draught. Zero rain here in sw. everything is bone dry. 2 house building. All the citrus orchards and agricultural are turning into houses. I used to have miles of alfalfa fields surrounding me , now I have miles of houses.
I missed the live video but my colony count more than doubled this year. I surrered a recent 3 month drought and had such issues. That said, i had queens both old and young and even with old queen failure/bee keeper neglect i stand at 2x my speing count. So.e of my success is due to your content. Ty! I agree with you on SMB, to aome effect. I think your undervalued the threat of SHB and the speed at which bees will abscond.
Had one hive die in Oct. It was absolutely my failure. Wrongly decided they were superceding and I believe they actually swarmed. Then, the queen failed to mate. I failed to take all the actions needed until it was to late. Failure provides opportunity to learn because it's only a failure if one doesn't learn.
Dave I am here in San Antonio 22nd of November the days highs are getting in the mid 70’s my bees are still pulling in pollen. I am amazed at this but will they continue this thru the rest of the year? I don’t know what kind of pollen they are bringing in.
Wasp-apocalypse happened in a lot fo north and north-western states. Abnormal summer conditions created higher than normal populations and bird migrations were delayed meaning that wasps that were kicked out (when the queens went into hibernation) had fewer birds to pick them off. I was emptying 2 gallons of dead wasps per day at the height of it, I was still seeing ocassional wasps as late as last week. I've been paranoid, looking for them every day. They killed two very strong hives with hive gates for me this year. Multiple hives lost in my area by BEEKs reporting the same abnormally high wasp activity.
For me this year? Yellow jackets robbed my hives and I failed to see the lack of pollen and the hive beetle took over. It was a mess. My health wasn’t great and I barely was in the hives in the late summer. Been too broke to feed the hives a lot of them absconded from the hive beetle infestation. Bees will make you broke in a heartbeat lol. Is there a really good way of notating what you do in hives that’s organized? Especially if you have a lot of colonies.
wax moth were bad this year, weaker colonies didn't make it. My OG colony with the beast queen did phenomenal. Surprisingly did not see ONE SHB this year, Im in West Texas. Not saying they weren't there, just didn't see any and didn't see any damage in my hives. I think I know what happened to me weaker colonies tho, the OG colony is VERY well stocked and I think they robbed out the smaller colonies/hives. the og hive is beast of a colony. I can guarantee Ill need to split them come spring time.
1- Draught. Zero rain here in sw. everything is bone dry. 2 house building. All the citrus orchards and agricultural are turning into houses. I used to have miles of alfalfa fields surrounding me , now I have miles of houses.
I missed the live video but my colony count more than doubled this year. I surrered a recent 3 month drought and had such issues. That said, i had queens both old and young and even with old queen failure/bee keeper neglect i stand at 2x my speing count.
So.e of my success is due to your content. Ty!
I agree with you on SMB, to aome effect. I think your undervalued the threat of SHB and the speed at which bees will abscond.
Had one hive die in Oct. It was absolutely my failure. Wrongly decided they were superceding and I believe they actually swarmed. Then, the queen failed to mate. I failed to take all the actions needed until it was to late. Failure provides opportunity to learn because it's only a failure if one doesn't learn.
Dave I am here in San Antonio 22nd of November the days highs are getting in the mid 70’s my bees are still pulling in pollen. I am amazed at this but will they continue this thru the rest of the year? I don’t know what kind of pollen they are bringing in.
Wasp-apocalypse happened in a lot fo north and north-western states. Abnormal summer conditions created higher than normal populations and bird migrations were delayed meaning that wasps that were kicked out (when the queens went into hibernation) had fewer birds to pick them off. I was emptying 2 gallons of dead wasps per day at the height of it, I was still seeing ocassional wasps as late as last week. I've been paranoid, looking for them every day. They killed two very strong hives with hive gates for me this year. Multiple hives lost in my area by BEEKs reporting the same abnormally high wasp activity.
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For me this year? Yellow jackets robbed my hives and I failed to see the lack of pollen and the hive beetle took over. It was a mess. My health wasn’t great and I barely was in the hives in the late summer. Been too broke to feed the hives a lot of them absconded from the hive beetle infestation. Bees will make you broke in a heartbeat lol. Is there a really good way of notating what you do in hives that’s organized? Especially if you have a lot of colonies.
wax moth were bad this year, weaker colonies didn't make it. My OG colony with the beast queen did phenomenal. Surprisingly did not see ONE SHB this year, Im in West Texas. Not saying they weren't there, just didn't see any and didn't see any damage in my hives. I think I know what happened to me weaker colonies tho, the OG colony is VERY well stocked and I think they robbed out the smaller colonies/hives. the og hive is beast of a colony. I can guarantee Ill need to split them come spring time.
No I think mites are become resistance to all treatments besides OA
Mites, mites, mites. Treat every hive no matter what. Feed. Put fondant on top of the frames in the winter
For the most part I agree with you