These videos are inspirational but really hard to watch for me. I'm fascinated by bees and the science of it all. But I've got medical conditions that have robbed me of my strength and my heat tolerance. If I had hives, they would probably look pretty much like these because I wouldn't be able to maintain them. At least I can live vicariously through beekeepers like you. Keep up the good work.
So interesting! Sorry your rescue hive isn’t thriving, we can all hope they last the winter. I think beekeepers do such an underrated job caring for the bees & harvesting honey. Lots of thought, planning, and tough decisions! I’d love to have my own hive one day… maybe once my children grow a bit more!
Really love the way you filmed that intro. Would like to see more of that. It was so beautifully done! Both the music portion and the slow video of their box and hive entrance.
Thank you. It means a lot. I enjoy making those intro. I just have to find a balance of “something for everyone” in my videos otherwise they would be all music and bees.
Thank you for all your comments while inspecting. I think I may have taken too many resources from a hive and your commentary helped me see that. We learn from each other.
Great video shame they’re not doing so well, but that’s beekeeping 😂. All the best let’s see how they go in a few months. Thanks again for sharing. Didn’t expect to see the wasp, gad I haven’t gotten any of them yet. TrickyTrev 👍🐝🍯
Love your videos great content as we don’t see much here in Aus. Should try to run a mat over the brood box to keep the warmth in with a gap so they can go up if needed I’m trying a plastic sheet on mine this year to see how they go. Cheers Marc
ACK! That's a rough find going into winter😬 hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 🥝 😄 ironically I'm waiting for the temperature to go UP to ten Celcius so I can check a hobbyists hives, one of which I'm buying because he only wants two hives. The hobbyist hadn't done anything with them since January, so, We had a warm spell ten days ago, decided to rush over and I got smartly stung in the eye on the first hive, yes, THE EYE 😫so that was the end of that, stuck excluder combined with a Bee veil malfunction I didn't notice until it was to late😂 hurt much, do not repeat. Now that's beekeeping 😂🐝😫🔥
Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it. I am just wondering, could you join the hives together with the hive with the queen? Given that they are rather small. I am an absolute noob when it comes to bee keeping and trying to learn as much as I can, so please go easy.
You have had a hard season this year, it has taken you a lot of work to get to this point. Sorry the out come of some hasn't been what you would have liked.
@@aussiebeekeeping i know nothing about beekeeping, only binge watched barnyard bees, i've watched him split and merge many hives, from what i've seen he ensures they have no queen and there's an ominous hum from the hive, he'll put the destination hive on the floor, and simply dump the bees out on the floor infront of the destination hive and they pick up the scent of the queen and begin tracking into the new hive, some squabbles happen between the two hives initially but they seem to accept eachother in the end ofcourse i'm absolutely certain it's more complex than this, but it just seems to me that this would be the best course of action, specially if you have some full honey frames etc to pass to the new hive, he also has these feeder lids on the hives if they are struggling so they can get food during winter i trust you will work something out
Maybe you could take a frame from a more well off Hive and transplant it to one that isn’t doing well just to get the hives that might not make it just over the line. Although this might not work unless you can confirm that both the troubled hives have queens and you don’t want to put a good hive into the same position as the others by taking too much so it can be a bit of a risk or if you think one hive isn’t likely to survive you could use the resources from that one to save the other in a triage type of situation where it’s not as tragic given your at least able to save a hive rather than loosing both.
I'm really confused about that lid that's full of honey that the bees could use. You put down a reflector sheet of insulation -- solid-- and a queen excluder and then the lid. How, exactly are the bees supposed to reclaim the contents of that lid if you've completely blocked their access?
@@aussiebeekeeping I'm confused, can you explain further? Why not clean the lid if you're not allowing access to the bees? How did the ants enter? Can the bees not defend? Why the excluder with the insulation?
Names: for the group, The Triplets; Triumphant Ones; Reclaimed Territory; Reconstruction Zone; the New Day Hive; Lost No More; The Thriving Three; Found Again [I have no idea what a hive name should be like, so please forgive if I’m way off base.] Names for the hives: Daystar 1, Daystar 2, Daystar 3 Sunlight, Moonlight, Starlight Bee (or Bees) Happy, Bee Healthy, Bee Just Fine
I have a dumb question if you have a queen in one hive which we saw would it be better to put all of the frames into one stack with the capped honey so that they can hopefully get through or will placing the other bees from the other hives mean that they would fight each other?
I’m disappointed because this video was filmed three or four weeks before winter so finding an open queen cell potentially means that the hive is queenless or are going to kill the queen and try to supersede her. Which would mean the hive would die over winter
I was surprised to hear you say the honey was bad. I thought it was one of those special foods that had huge shelf life. Or was it contaminated by what the bees had harvested.
Didn’t see any eggs , larvae or capped brood in the 3rd box , do you think she could be a virgin Queen ? Here in Florida even in our brief cooler weather it’s usually unlikely that queens get mated that late in the season. Your thoughts … Really enjoy your videos , well done !
Number one cause of colony death is varroa mites. Number two cause of colony death is the beekeeper. Doing nothing is often the best course of action. Good luck mate. Its winter, aka worry, season!
@@aussiebeekeeping…no I think you did ok inspecting them , you wouldn’t know what’s going on if you didn’t, I have lost colonies myself over winter etc , I now combine colonies that are week or queenless etc with other colonies, strong colonies over winter well for me , any weak colonies my opinion is to combine them with other colony’s to save them , split them in the spring if you want that hive to continue when the drones are out ,just a though . Each to their own though .
It's better to have one box in the winter if they fit in. They can manage the temp much better. They will save a lot of food if they don't have to warm another box.
I wish I could have a hive too in Wigan, but I don't have any land to have it and I don't think that my neighbours would love the idea to have it at my back yard.
Those hives were thriving till you started messing with them....Your attitude of 'I'm in charge of how and what they do' is what is killing those hives. You deliberately slaughtered several queens in your rampage through the inspections and management. Serves you right.
Thanks for watching. I tried to find your beekeeping videos but only found a video of a painted turtle. Shame on you. Feel free to link me your beekeeping prowess videos for critique
Did you followed his earlier videos about these hives you would know he rescued these hives off another beekeeper who had abandoned them. He is letting them settle down over our winter before reforming the bees in the spring.
These hives are not his. I think this is a Series. These hives have been abandoned with no care for over a year. It's been very interesting seeing all these!
These videos are inspirational but really hard to watch for me. I'm fascinated by bees and the science of it all. But I've got medical conditions that have robbed me of my strength and my heat tolerance. If I had hives, they would probably look pretty much like these because I wouldn't be able to maintain them. At least I can live vicariously through beekeepers like you. Keep up the good work.
I think I would have slipped a frame of capped food into that first one.
So interesting! Sorry your rescue hive isn’t thriving, we can all hope they last the winter. I think beekeepers do such an underrated job caring for the bees & harvesting honey. Lots of thought, planning, and tough decisions! I’d love to have my own hive one day… maybe once my children grow a bit more!
Great how you can get very good close-up shots of the brood and larvae. Fascinating to watch.
I don't know anything about beekeeping but ive been enjoying this series. Hope they do well over winter.
Thankyou. I hope the same.
That middle hive has lots of well laid eggs, I'd bet they do ok if fed heavily through winter
Really love the way you filmed that intro. Would like to see more of that. It was so beautifully done! Both the music portion and the slow video of their box and hive entrance.
Thank you. It means a lot. I enjoy making those intro. I just have to find a balance of “something for everyone” in my videos otherwise they would be all music and bees.
Thank you for all your comments while inspecting. I think I may have taken too many resources from a hive and your commentary helped me see that. We learn from each other.
Hope they made it through
Looks like all the hives survived.
Great video! Bringa me back to childhood my grand dad was a bee keeper up in the north of Sweden.
Great video shame they’re not doing so well, but that’s beekeeping 😂. All the best let’s see how they go in a few months. Thanks again for sharing. Didn’t expect to see the wasp, gad I haven’t gotten any of them yet. TrickyTrev 👍🐝🍯
Love your videos great content as we don’t see much here in Aus. Should try to run a mat over the brood box to keep the warmth in with a gap so they can go up if needed I’m trying a plastic sheet on mine this year to see how they go.
Cheers Marc
Great tip!
00:00:55 interesting way😂
00:13:28 Look at that pretty pattern on the tops of the frames 😮
00:17:08 Go! Go! Girls get that intruder!😊
ACK! That's a rough find going into winter😬 hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 🥝 😄 ironically I'm waiting for the temperature to go UP to ten Celcius so I can check a hobbyists hives, one of which I'm buying because he only wants two hives. The hobbyist hadn't done anything with them since January, so, We had a warm spell ten days ago, decided to rush over and I got smartly stung in the eye on the first hive, yes, THE EYE 😫so that was the end of that, stuck excluder combined with a Bee veil malfunction I didn't notice until it was to late😂 hurt much, do not repeat. Now that's beekeeping 😂🐝😫🔥
Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it. I am just wondering, could you join the hives together with the hive with the queen? Given that they are rather small. I am an absolute noob when it comes to bee keeping and trying to learn as much as I can, so please go easy.
Love the close-ups 😊 Eating bees are so cute!
You have had a hard season this year, it has taken you a lot of work to get to this point. Sorry the out come of some hasn't been what you would have liked.
Ah it’s all good.
There’s always next year. Hehe.
Thanks for your support.
Do all honey bee's collect honey?
would there be any hope to combine all the hives to the one functional queen and bolster their stores for the winter?
Potentially. I’m hopeful about saving all three.
@@aussiebeekeeping i know nothing about beekeeping, only binge watched barnyard bees, i've watched him split and merge many hives, from what i've seen he ensures they have no queen and there's an ominous hum from the hive, he'll put the destination hive on the floor, and simply dump the bees out on the floor infront of the destination hive and they pick up the scent of the queen and begin tracking into the new hive, some squabbles happen between the two hives initially but they seem to accept eachother in the end
ofcourse i'm absolutely certain it's more complex than this, but it just seems to me that this would be the best course of action, specially if you have some full honey frames etc to pass to the new hive, he also has these feeder lids on the hives if they are struggling so they can get food during winter
i trust you will work something out
Maybe you could take a frame from a more well off Hive and transplant it to one that isn’t doing well just to get the hives that might not make it just over the line. Although this might not work unless you can confirm that both the troubled hives have queens and you don’t want to put a good hive into the same position as the others by taking too much so it can be a bit of a risk or if you think one hive isn’t likely to survive you could use the resources from that one to save the other in a triage type of situation where it’s not as tragic given your at least able to save a hive rather than loosing both.
😮 vocês têm a vespa asiática aí? 🇧🇷
I'm really confused about that lid that's full of honey that the bees could use. You put down a reflector sheet of insulation -- solid-- and a queen excluder and then the lid.
How, exactly are the bees supposed to reclaim the contents of that lid if you've completely blocked their access?
They aren’t. The ants are
@@aussiebeekeeping I'm confused, can you explain further? Why not clean the lid if you're not allowing access to the bees? How did the ants enter? Can the bees not defend? Why the excluder with the insulation?
Names: for the group, The Triplets; Triumphant Ones; Reclaimed Territory; Reconstruction Zone; the New Day Hive; Lost No More; The Thriving Three; Found Again
[I have no idea what a hive name should be like, so please forgive if I’m way off base.]
Names for the hives:
Daystar 1, Daystar 2, Daystar 3
Sunlight, Moonlight, Starlight
Bee (or Bees) Happy, Bee Healthy, Bee Just Fine
I have a dumb question if you have a queen in one hive which we saw would it be better to put all of the frames into one stack with the capped honey so that they can hopefully get through or will placing the other bees from the other hives mean that they would fight each other?
Can someone explain why he seemed disappointed when he saw an open queen call in the first hive?
I’m disappointed because this video was filmed three or four weeks before winter so finding an open queen cell potentially means that the hive is queenless or are going to kill the queen and try to supersede her. Which would mean the hive would die over winter
@aussiebeekeeping thank you so much! Keep up the great work! They are very lucky to have ended up with you :)
I was surprised to hear you say the honey was bad. I thought it was one of those special foods that had huge shelf life. Or was it contaminated by what the bees had harvested.
Didn’t see any eggs , larvae or capped brood in the 3rd box , do you think she could be a virgin Queen ? Here in Florida even in our brief cooler weather it’s usually unlikely that queens get mated that late in the season.
Your thoughts …
Really enjoy your videos , well done !
5:55 Please define 'it'. I still don't know what this is talking about
Queen cell
Why not combine the two weak hives?
Will you feed them?
Probably not.
Number one cause of colony death is varroa mites. Number two cause of colony death is the beekeeper. Doing nothing is often the best course of action. Good luck mate. Its winter, aka worry, season!
I agree. Shouldn’t have touched them until spring.
@@aussiebeekeeping…no I think you did ok inspecting them , you wouldn’t know what’s going on if you didn’t, I have lost colonies myself over winter etc , I now combine colonies that are week or queenless etc with other colonies, strong colonies over winter well for me , any weak colonies my opinion is to combine them with other colony’s to save them , split them in the spring if you want that hive to continue when the drones are out ,just a though . Each to their own though .
Doesnt the first hive need a box on top ? There seems to be a lot of bees in just one box. I thought that when you rescued them.
It's better to have one box in the winter if they fit in. They can manage the temp much better. They will save a lot of food if they don't have to warm another box.
@@chrishar110 Never thought of it that way. I would love to have a bee hive in my garden. But they are so dear to buy used here in hte UK
I wish I could have a hive too in Wigan, but I don't have any land to have it and I don't think that my neighbours would love the idea to have it at my back yard.
@@chrishar110 I would have one in my back garden. :)
European honey bees an Invasive species we can't live without.
Have you been doing this as long as Jeff 'Mr. Ed.' Horchoff?"
That’s the oldest question I’ve ever had on the channel
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How are they abandoned hives
abandoned
adjective
1.
having been deserted or left.
"an abandoned car"
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@@aussiebeekeeping
I know the definition of the word. You’re taking care of them so how are they abandoned?
@@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653 it’s a series on the abandoned hives.
@@aussiebeekeeping
Oh so you rescue and care for abandoned hives? That’s nice
2:20 remember to lick the lid
Those hives were thriving till you started messing with them....Your attitude of 'I'm in charge of how and what they do' is what is killing those hives. You deliberately slaughtered several queens in your rampage through the inspections and management. Serves you right.
Thanks for watching. I tried to find your beekeeping videos but only found a video of a painted turtle. Shame on you.
Feel free to link me your beekeeping prowess videos for critique
😊 IIII -》IV 😊
Ok
no queen, why wouldnt you just combine 2 hives rather thatn letting these guys die?
you could split them again come spring
Because he's an idiot
shame on you for having broken frames you need to keep your hives in order no wonder the bees are leaving
Did you followed his earlier videos about these hives you would know he rescued these hives off another beekeeper who had abandoned them. He is letting them settle down over our winter before reforming the bees in the spring.
These hives are not his. I think this is a Series. These hives have been abandoned with no care for over a year. It's been very interesting seeing all these!