A very nice video on Winter preparation. A Sunday morning is always more complete with something on the channels from you. Thanks for posting and smiles to you and yours.
The Gulf stream must pass by the west coast of Ireland otherwise they'd be frozen like Canada - I used to know all this but I've forgotten over time : )
Thank you so much for vlogging this. I hope to have a few hives in some years, and I still have so much to learn. And every experience I can learn about is always so good. I love your beekeeping videos! As always, great work, Tanya :)
I was told that when you feed winter bees honey that it’s harder on their digestive system and they need more cleansing flights and that’s ok until you get to cold climates where they can’t go on cleansing flights , so the clean white sugar is the way to go when it’s really cold where you are 🙂
@@Lovelygreens Fred Dunn has experimented with this extensively and it does make a difference but it’s never stopped me from giving them their own honey and my bees have done fine for over 50 years. Although it might be easier on their digestive system I think modern disease and pesticides are more of a danger than feeding honey back to the bees , when I started keeping bees the only pests we had were moths and ants , all this mite disease is new to me and it’s sporadic, I’ve had hardly a single mite all season and my last check I had half my colonies with a mite load so I had to treat last week, so with that said , I agree that honey is lesser of an evil than sugar now days :)
you know you can open feed in spring and try to capture swarming hives. put you swarm nuke right in the flight path of the bees travelling to the open feeder..( try to put the feeder AWAY from where your bees will feed on it. you want swarming hives not for your hives to swarm.). but sugar water is cheap and a good attractant for a wild hive. Sugar water is OK in a pinch but people hardly ever add mineral salts.
+Jay Robertson I’d only ever feed my bees back their own honey. Honey from other sources might contain diseases/pathogens that could make them sick. Or even kill a colony.
Yes. As long as you're sure that the colony is healthy. The honey I fed back to Bluebell was from her bees and those of Primrose. It was all older honey that I'd had for a while and wasn't good enough for people consumption. The bees are great at recycling old honey and making it useful again! Plus it saves them a lot of energy in actually producing the honey in the first place -- most of the work is already done.
Exactly -- so it's always going to be okay to give back to bees. The honey in question was thick and not great in flavour. I tried heating it to run it back into a liquid state but the flavour was still an issue. The bees like it just fine though :)
Very interesting - thank you. Does the Gulf Stream keep your winters mild? I am English but I've been gone a very long time and to be honest I don't know much about the I of M. Another question - bumble bees - do they produce honey? Well they must do but probably to feed themselves? We don't have bumblebees here in S Australia and I quite miss them : )
+Angela U Bumblebees - yes they make very small amounts of honey but nothing that could become a harvest for people. You have native bees in Australia that are quite interesting though! Have you noticed them buzzing around?
Lovely Greens • Garden Living & Making hey my uncle's used to kill off the bumblebees(it was a long time ago in the 1950s)with a switch and would then dig into the hive. They would harvest about a pint of honey. Extremely rich honey. But I digress I do not condone killing them to get their honey, and my living uncle says he would no longer do it because he has over time learned, they too are a pollinator.
+phillip hall Thanks Philip! No, I just have varroa floors in my National hives. They provide good air flow in the summer but need closing up in the winter.
Australia and a few other small islands are too. Each an oasis where beekeepers can keep bees in a natural way still. I feel very lucky to have started keeping bees here.
A very nice video on Winter preparation. A Sunday morning is always more complete with something on the channels from you. Thanks for posting and smiles to you and yours.
+overlycreative1 Appreciate the positive feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
You are amazing gardener and amazing beekeeper !!!
I have a hive named Blue Bell, it’s named after our 2020 queen who is blue
The Gulf stream must pass by the west coast of Ireland otherwise they'd be frozen like Canada - I used to know all this but I've forgotten over time : )
Thank you so much for vlogging this. I hope to have a few hives in some years, and I still have so much to learn. And every experience I can learn about is always so good. I love your beekeeping videos! As always, great work, Tanya :)
Hey there,
How can i correctly heat up old honey so it can be up to standard again??
Thank you for your lovely video 🎉
Simply put the jar into warm water on the stove. No high heat! Double boilers are great for this.
Great info thanks
was that a bee emerging from brood at 2.37 ? If so, that is AWESOME
Yes! Glad you enjoyed that :)
I was told that when you feed winter bees honey that it’s harder on their digestive system and they need more cleansing flights and that’s ok until you get to cold climates where they can’t go on cleansing flights , so the clean white sugar is the way to go when it’s really cold where you are 🙂
Since honey is what honeybees make to eat during the winter, I think this is not accurate.
@@Lovelygreens Fred Dunn has experimented with this extensively and it does make a difference but it’s never stopped me from giving them their own honey and my bees have done fine for over 50 years. Although it might be easier on their digestive system I think modern disease and pesticides are more of a danger than feeding honey back to the bees , when I started keeping bees the only pests we had were moths and ants , all this mite disease is new to me and it’s sporadic, I’ve had hardly a single mite all season and my last check I had half my colonies with a mite load so I had to treat last week, so with that said , I agree that honey is lesser of an evil than sugar now days :)
you know you can open feed in spring and try to capture swarming hives. put you swarm nuke right in the flight path of the bees travelling to the open feeder..( try to put the feeder AWAY from where your bees will feed on it. you want swarming hives not for your hives to swarm.). but sugar water is cheap and a good attractant for a wild hive. Sugar water is OK in a pinch but people hardly ever add mineral salts.
What about feeding a tiny bit of honey to 1 bee because he was being attacked by ants and couldn't fly? Will he die?
Lol, naming hives, 😋, love it, I do same thing 🤭🇭🇲🇭🇲
Bee queen
Your the first person I've heard of feeding bee's honey, that seems strange, more research needed, thanks for the video, ps love your ascent
+Jay Robertson I’d only ever feed my bees back their own honey. Honey from other sources might contain diseases/pathogens that could make them sick. Or even kill a colony.
Or another hive that I have right,
Yes. As long as you're sure that the colony is healthy. The honey I fed back to Bluebell was from her bees and those of Primrose. It was all older honey that I'd had for a while and wasn't good enough for people consumption. The bees are great at recycling old honey and making it useful again! Plus it saves them a lot of energy in actually producing the honey in the first place -- most of the work is already done.
But honey doesn't go bad from age, what gives ?
Exactly -- so it's always going to be okay to give back to bees. The honey in question was thick and not great in flavour. I tried heating it to run it back into a liquid state but the flavour was still an issue. The bees like it just fine though :)
Very interesting - thank you. Does the Gulf Stream keep your winters mild? I am English but I've been gone a very long time and to be honest I don't know much about the I of M. Another question - bumble bees - do they produce honey? Well they must do but probably to feed themselves? We don't have bumblebees here in S Australia and I quite miss them : )
+Angela U It does! Not quite the Caribbean but warm enough to keep some tender plants in situ. Honeybees have it a bit easier too.
+Angela U Bumblebees - yes they make very small amounts of honey but nothing that could become a harvest for people.
You have native bees in Australia that are quite interesting though! Have you noticed them buzzing around?
Lovely Greens • Garden Living & Making hey my uncle's used to kill off the bumblebees(it was a long time ago in the 1950s)with a switch and would then dig into the hive. They would harvest about a pint of honey. Extremely rich honey. But I digress I do not condone killing them to get their honey, and my living uncle says he would no longer do it because he has over time learned, they too are a pollinator.
Oh yes I do everything I can to keep them safe. Ever vigilant in summertime when they're drinking from the birdbath - don't want them to drown : )
Why put the varroa bord on damp kills bees not cold you need the sir flow through the hive
Nice video, thanks for posting. Has the Veroa mite infested your island now?
+phillip hall Thanks Philip! No, I just have varroa floors in my National hives. They provide good air flow in the summer but need closing up in the winter.
Lovely Greens • Garden Living & Making Good! Glad to know that there is a place on earth that is still varroa free!!
Australia and a few other small islands are too. Each an oasis where beekeepers can keep bees in a natural way still. I feel very lucky to have started keeping bees here.
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