Michael Bush presents 'Why go Foundationless' (natural cell) to Indiana Beekeepers
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2013
- Michael Bush makes the case for Natural Cell (foundationless) Beekeeping to Indiana Beekeepers at Clifty Falls State Park and Nature Preserve at the IBA Fall Conference. He lays out his experience with natural cell and chemical-free beekeeping and shows how mites have been the least of his problems. At the end, he shows inspection reports showing no varroa in his colonies. It's worth a watch!
Michael led a total of 4 discussions on a variety of topics that day. Be sure to check them all out. For more information on Michael Bush, visit www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm - For more information on Southeastern Indiana Beekeepers Association, visit www.indianahoney.org 
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Wirth how important Michael's work is, it's too bad that beekeeping groups can't seem to get a semi decent presentation of his. A mic is like 10 bucks.
Well said... so glad Michael is out there still preaching chemical free management... we're all in trouble with our bees... it's time for change... I hope more will get onboard with natural practices... thanks for sharing Jason!
My pleasure Frederick. Nice to connect. I have enjoyed a number of your videos... with the recent one being the one where you go over all your chicken coops. Since watching that, I went and bought me some fake eggs :) My chickens were switching nesting boxes from me taking all the eggs just like you said they would :) Great tip. I built a coop last spring that can be found on my website allmorgan.com
Problem is no one wants to keep buying bees. If you get sick do you go to the Doctor and get meds or do you take your chances and tough it out? Treat your bees the way you would yourself. If you DIE from the flu are you going to replace yourself? lol Take care of your bees. Varroa will be removed when people finally get the hint that their wallet is hurting enough. Do your Bees a favor, Next time you get sick just tough it out. if you die, you die. if not you will be stronger against the issue you were up against.
@@Warren76317 You are humanizing a wild animal. If they die, as sad as it is, it is survival of the fittest. If they die due to our mistake that is just shameful. We interrupt and try to control the life of the bee way too much. There are MANY ways to collect bees without purchasing them too.
@@annlight1894 So is catching them and putting them in a box in your apiary. If you aren't going to help them out when you can leave them in the wild. Like you said " We are Interrupting them". I guess you don't take any of your animals to the Vet when they get sick either. And my Bees are still alive, Healthy and bug free.
@@Warren76317 Ha ha. We have a vet in the family! No, I was giving you an answer to the idea that people poison their bees because they don't want to keep buying more each year! If you allow bees to find your provided hive and leave them to do their thing, not expose their larva to bright sunlight ever couple of weeks and not treat your colony (statistically) has a better chance of survival AND being healthy. If your bees are from your area they also are acclimated to that climate. The idea is that you let the bees care for their health. You are then much less likely to need to "treat" for anything if everything has been done correctly to begin with. Basically providing as perfect home for bees as you can and letting them take it over. Disturb them very little when you peak in the hive and little adjustments. It can be done, there is a lot of documentation out there on RUclips and some fantastic books too.
Great information. Thank you for sharing.
Y'all need to quit complaining about the audio quality of this video. I've listened to this presentation in headphones about 10 different times, and I have no complaints. Just be thankful it's even available!
Mara A - it ain't like he's rich and can have all these audio people come in and do it correctly. Also, someone bootlegged this. It ain't Michael Bush's official video.
I could only understand 10% ,that was said.
It is like having a car in the driveway and it has only 1 wheel on it and the other 3 are missing.
I wanted to know about this subject, but since I could not hear what he was saying I stopped the video after a few minutes.
Patrick,
I am glad that you have a headphones. Not everyone got one.
Audio quality is as important as is the quality of an video, they just go hand in hand, especially if the preacher is teaching about a subject.
A slide show is not the same as someone explaining it in their own words. But the words got to be heard.
Thank you for video!
thanks for posting this video. been considering foundation less
is it problem to extract honey if they have wires i think is ok
Thank you for this fantastic video. It is the best I have seen and now I feel very prepared to go foundationless. I don't want ANY plastic in my hives and I only just learned to wax foundation contains all the toxins used to treat bees.
I use just a straight sheet of wax with no comb indentations.It helps the bees a lot and they can build whatever size of cells they want.Im preparing to make an experiment using foundations for apis cerana (smaller cells) to apis melifera.The logic says the smaller they get the more varroa resitant they are but they are off course separate species.
May I ask where you source your straight sheets of wax. Are at all cheaper than foundation sheets?
so can you also change the size of the queens, by making the grafted queen cups bigger, I have also seen on videos that large bees are getting stuck in the queen excluders
Informative talk. I just have one question: if foundation-less comb more or less requires a starter of some type to help the bees build comb in the right direction, could one put a line of beeswax on the inside of all four walls of the foundation frame, and this would encourage them to fill in that frame, and they would then build the other frames parallel to this one? This sounds logical to me but as I've never worked with bees I am not sure... I'm wondering because when I eventually begin my own beekeeping adventure I would like to start it without the use of pre-made foundation and obviously would not already possess pre-made comb. Thanks in advance. :-)
+Karen Salmonsen There are a few methods. Since you presumably do not have any frames of natural foundation to "checkerboard" in, I have heard of people using foundation frames just until they get the natural ones drawn out. Ultimately, they pull the foundation frames (that would be drawn and have brood in it by then too) These would just be put above a queen excluder until that brood emerges... then removed. Once you have frames of natural cell, then you'd just put those in between the undrawn foundation. You can also just let the bees do what they do... and get in now and then and cut out comb that is built in the wrong place. That's more of a chore. In any case... adding the line of beeswax along to top bar of each frame is highly recommended. Hope this help.
I'm sure this was very informative FOR THE PEOPLE THERE... Unfortunately the sound is so bad that at least for me it was not understandable. At least the screen pictures told some of the story.
11 people love perpetuating large-cell mite bombs.
Make that 12,I DO NOT believe small cell does squat for controlling Varroa,at least not at my house, I also don't have to worry about so many mite bomb drone Combs,or broken Combs laying in bottom of the extractor ,if your bees not drawing foundation as fast - then you need to re wax them or there's not a flow..besides who has time to wax wedges,shoot em in,run wire or fishing line...if you don't they break off on fall flow or sooner...Not me, I think their garbage all way around,where's the foundation at
He made a brilliant point. Kill off all the natural predators, what do you get? #prairiedogs