Beekeeping: What To Do When Your Luck Runs Out
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2024
- Beekeeping often boils down to sheer luck. But eventually our luck runs out and that's when we have to rely on our education and experience.
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We are in northern canada, been beekeeping over 10 years and never lost a hive - until this year. We lost all 26 in our one yard. I am so sad. 😭 They were full of stores and wrapped up warm with ventilation.
That is sad. Wonder what broke your 10 year record, what changed?
In the 80’s I had a hive for 8 years and I did absolutely nothing to the hive.
And then mites came to American later 😩
In the 80’s, mites weren’t as big a problem
I know I relied very heavily on luck my first year. I got my bees in July with no knowledge, no experience, and not knowing my local beekeeping community. Fortunately they made it through our first winter together in spite of my putting winter patties all over their hive and breaking up the cluster because I was clueless about what bees do in the winter. Devoted last year to learning and gaining experience, and we made it through a second winter this time with much better management. You have been a big part of that journey, David. Thank you for all the work you do to help us!
I gained experience today!!!! A hive that I split 2 weeks ago swarmed today! 😮 I gathered them off of a tree and put them in another deep. Shew!
Nice job, experience pocket is getting full.
I tell all my newbees to buy beekeeping for dummies
ive had horrible experiences w bee keeping.... 😢😢😢😢 but im not giving up just took a little break after 2 failed attempts😢😢😢😊
Yup gotta keep applying knowledge and experience and education.
David, the sun finally came out, bees out foraging, inspected the hive all the way down to the bottom screen board, it was a good 50% covered with dead bees and some food from the WBK boards. Clean it, put the hive back together noticing new eggs in all stages, did not see the queen but I know she is in there. I am lucky to have this hive make it through the winter. THANKS TO YOU AND SHARED KNOWLEDGE PLUS NEVER GIVING UP.
Awesome!
Thanks for this video. I like the idea of preplanning for problem scenarios. I think that will help a lot. Thanks!
David, I have spent many hours reviewing your videos and then taking your Ultimate Bee Course. Between both I have learned in a few months what might take a few years to experience. I now have the book knowledge to use where my experience is lacking. Over time the experience will prove your words of wisdom to be correct without question. Not everyone agrees with your ideas and wisdom but that's the beauty of diversity. Take something from everyone and build your own collection. Keep what works for my hives and discard that which doesn't. I like your live podcasts on Thursday nights and have been involved in a few of them as well. I am a paid subscriber and support your efforts financially. Keep up the good work David as I know it takes time and effort to produce such great videos for us all to learn from. Your efforts don't go unnoticed sir.
Wow, thank you for the support and kind words!! Well said.
David, you are my RUclips beekeeper celebrity! I am new and learning. I appreciate your knowledge and advice. I'm getting ready to start the Beginners Bee Bundle. Im so excited!!
Well, I'm humbled that I can be of assistance in your beekeeping journey.
I live in a condo so my bees live at my mom's and she has so much fun helping me the first year, she ordered herself some nucs the second year...
We had both hives die the first spring (they made it through the winter, but moisture issues got them in early spring), the next year we had 6 hives from 3 nucs, two weaker hives got robbed out in fall and 4 hives made it through till the next spring, we did some splits, got some queens in, caught 3 swarms, got up to 9 hives, and went into winter with 3 hives (2 rob-outs of failing hives, and a couple absconds and maybe we overtreated with apivar (I do wish they had instructions that applied to mediums as well as deeps), as we had more absconds and some severe declines in populations by the time we took the strips out), two of which were not looking good, small populations... and only one's still alive now... We DID test, we did treat... we had our biggest most productive hive swarm and successfully re-queen itself, we had some hives that just weren't very productive... but we're learning what we did wrong so hopefully we at least don't make the same mistakes again. We now know what to look for when we should be replacing queens (crappy brood patterns or not enough eggs but then we literally found the queen), and when we went in this spring to start cleaning the deadouts out for use this season, we found two hives where we could see that they'd just frozen to death, and in two cases we found the queen in the dead cluster not much bigger than a tennis ball... The rob-outs were the only ones with no honey, the absconds and freezes left plenty of honey so we're good for resources...
I think when we get our nucs in May, when we set them up in their new hives we're going to stick some leftover full honey frames in the middle where they're going to want to put brood so they use or at least relocate the honey so they can clean out the honey frames... we don' want to just spin out the honey because those frames have been treated with Apivar and I don't want that in my extractor and we don't know what to do with it otherwise. We also want to try making some resource hive nucleus colonies if things are going well.
We are slowly adding to our list of "if this, then that" as we make mistakes and learn from them, and get more equipment (bee vac and spare homes for swarms, and nucleus hives) ... not everything's come up in all the videos we've watched and a few mistakes we've had to make ourselves (ie, just because you see the queen doesn't mean your hive is queen-right).
That was us. This will be our 5th season. Started in 2020 and whether we built up from 4 to 10 hives going into winter, we did the same things and all but one died, so we bought new. That happened 3 years in a row. Now we’ve changed our game and are 6 of 8 this year also live in central Illinois.
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David. You are absolutely right! Luck will only get you so far in life and especially with beeping. I’ve always taught my kids to rely on education and experience. Another great video and life lesson.
Well said!
I’m waiting for my first two Nucs and appreciate your emphasis on educating yourself first 🤠
Two nucs, should be fun
Knowledge and experience comes at a cost. Whether it's playing golf, fishing, hunting, gardening, building...
Personally, locally raised queens and mite control is the biggest difference maker I've found for the best long term results. Location also helps along with learning from a good mentor which is why I follow sites like yours, David👍😊
Well said, and thank you for sharing.
Hi! Is it possible to raise honeybees in the middle of corn and soybean farmland. Wondering if we move out in the country, will our honeybees find enough pollinators where there are a lot of farms. Thanks!
I do and it has worked well for 2 decades.
Thanks David! Love this perspective!
Thanks!
Thanks for making videos. It’s gonna be my first year bee keeping and i’m STOKED! keep making videos ❤❤
Good for you, this is exciting.
I love beekeeping bobblehead David!!
Thanks!
My bees swarmed today while I was there getting ready to split it. It was the most amazing thing. I did end up getting them in a nuc.
In the nick of time.
Very true. We can't depend on luck!
Nope
The warm weather in February caused my bees to eat to much food and ran out 😢
Sorry to hear that. So common and I have to feed my bees until dandelions
Just installed multiple packages in my first bee hives. This helped me as I had to release a queen from a cage that the bees did not release after 7 days now I wait 7 more days to check on the hive.
My question is I released multiple hives at once and opening them up after 7 days I need to even out the rest of the hives as they all seemed to like the one queen I had to release manually any thoughts?
I got lucky last spring and caught my own swarm. This spring I did a split because I found a full queen cup
Nice job
David, you are so true about education, learning, and then apply it. I been working with bees 7 yrs now and there is something new every season. Well there is high cloud here, expecting 60 degrees today, so I'm going to take off the insulation, inspect the hive, possibly do a checker board and with LUCK everything will go well. ENJOY THE ECLIPSE 😎
Sounds like a plan
My philosophy is knowledge and experience and some luck.
Which is why I have been learning as much as I can before I got our bees, including classes. And have been making getting the proper equipment needed and making plans on what to do and when to do it. And plans for the the good and bad events that could happen. Making things for the amount of risk as possible.
We get our first two NUCs in a few weeks. I am excited!
I'm excited with you.
Unrelated to this video but I wanted to share this with you. The video you made about finding the queen in a defensive hive helped me greatly!! I took one deep away from the hive to find the queen. They were much calmer and I was able to find her. She has been removed and now I will attempt introducing a caged queen to see if this helps their defensiveness. Thank you for all your hard work and help!! 🙏🏼🙂
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful in your situation. Crazy how well it works.
Dave. After 3 yrs of beekeeping, I decided to learn one or two things new a year. Last year was feeding and treating. This year is swarm prevention and splitting. Next year is producing nucs/hives.
Thanks
David
I like your approach! 👍
My luck always runs out in February or March.
Exactly, feed feed!
If you rely on luck then you will need a third pocket. A pocket full of money.
Isn't that the truth.
That’s me.
Always great content. And helpful. Thx David.
I’m going to be catching my first swarm this year in over 30 years. I have a large tote bin with lid-some old wax, lemon grass oil, veils and gloves. Am I missing anything? And suggestion? (I don’t have a nuc to use-wish I did)
Hi Brad, in this video I went through the process so if you follow that it should go well.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Good one 👏👏
you need a shovel to dig a hole, you need a hook to catch a fish, and you better make sure you have a proper swarm box lol.
hey david, been watching a couple of your videos for a couple months now, and just caught my first swarms this year, one with the of my dad, the other 3 because i told my dad to split his hives which he refused to do and i caught his swarms.
i want to add as someone who is extremely passionate about ecology and replicating patterns i see in nature. just like how bees help plants Symbiotically, we as humans need to take on a new culture for the ecosystems we stewart. a basic hypothesis is if we help weed out invasive grasses, and propogate pollinator friendly species it is a basic function of more food for bees. im currently taking a break from a mass weeding on my property where im artificially sellecting all plant species to encourage an explosion of natural recources.
i dont stop there either david, as an individual i artificially predate on species even when im off of my property, helping lazy landscapers, with my botanical knowledge.
i would love to see a research video by you about flowers and just how important the ecology can BEE. if you follow through ill look forward to reading what you cite.
thanks.
Thanks for sharing
I have had an existing hive completely disappear. No bees, no dead, no wax, no wax moths. Just wood frames.
Sorry to hear that. What do you think may have happened?
I would rather be active than proactive! LOL
Exactly
Sorry but I don’t believe in luck
Me neither👍