Beekeeping: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Beekeeping seems simple until you start and then it seems complicated. Today, I'll share what beekeepers have told me they wish they knew before they started.
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Thank you so much for getting me into beekeeping and being the best teacher, educator and mentor. You are a legend. I love the hobby and learning and growing. The hard work, time and effort is so worth it. Bees are just beautiful creatures. 😌
That's so nice of you to say! I'll have to look up the definition of a legend to see if I fit the bill. 😃
I was a beekeeper before Varroa and Tracheal Mites(barely). They have made it so much harder to keep bees. My father and grandfather kept bees and the amount of labor they put into it was so much less than now. Now we have hive beetles and CCD. I barely consider beekeeping a hobby anymore. Thank you migratory beekeepers. Yes I'm grumpy about this.
I just realized that I spend more time thinking about bees than my business finances and budget so I have to combine some hives and have a few less after the spring flow and make sure all my frames and comb is perfect
New subscriber. Love your videos. Any thoughts on using Hive Alive as a supplement?
For over a decade I've made my own additives to feed to bees, and so since my bees love our mix, I really don't need to try anything else.
Thank you sir! I like your mixture so I will order some.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the amount of space the extra gear takes up, especially in the off season. Between the supers, spare frames, repairs going on, paraphernalia, extraction equipment, etc, you almost need a shed or honey house, even for just a few hives. Either that, or a very understanding partner. ;)
True
How much sugar you have to buy. Lol
So true
David, I had a split that I put one half of the split into those plastic EZ Nuc, and one half into a wooden nuc.... after a few days of watching it I noticed a lot of bee poop on the front of the plastic nuc and around the ground in front of the nuc... I opened them up and there were a lot of dead bees in there but the other half of the split that went to the wooden nuc were doing fine. So I recombined them and now they are fine..... QUESTION: Have you had any issues with bees overheating or having issues in the plastic nuc boxes?
Not sure. I have some swarms in those and they are doing good, even in the sun. But I haven't had really hot weather yet.
@@beek Thank you!
David, also Becky ( my future wife) agreed to go the beekeeping journey with me. I now purchase a lot of supplies from Bob Bennie. I have purchased 3 nucleus hives one single story deep from Mr. Bennie. He is so cordial to speak with. He also spoke at Smokey Mountain in Bryson City, N.C. this month. His teaching is very informative. I appreciate all that he had to say. He is a very kind, soft spoken man.
That said I do prefer your teaching style. I watch your videos every day. Thank you David and Sheri.
Thank you. Glad you enjoy my videos and Sheri thanks you as well.
I found it challenging with a full-time job
Indeed, it's more than just a hobby for sure.
I guess the one thing that was not emphasize enough, in all the learning I have done, is how easy it is to kill bees any time you open a hive.
As new beekeeper it's not the cost it's the worry none stop of viruses and the pests 🤦🏻♀️ worry worry for me 🤦🏻♀️
Thorough inspections will save the day and put your mind at ease.
Great meeting you yesterday David & Sheri
Look forward to learning more.
Yes JR it was great having you here and meeting you in person. Thank you so much!!
4 years ago told a friend my garden was failing. He said get bees. I asked where? He pointed to a friend of us both, said he has bees.
The next day i went on a swarm call. I now have 6 hives, last year i averaged 100lbs honey per hive.
Can I split them this fall and not lose them over winter? I'm in north Texas close to Oklahoma.
I like your videos except the really long ones; those i have to take multiple bites over a few days.
That's a great question for my livestream tonight, here's the link: ruclips.net/user/live1v9Ufo_uKBY
I found a box of Nukes someone lost out of there Vehicle in my yard a couple of days ago I like to be come a beekeeper but I still learning about bees and I don't know what to do with these nukes I don't have anything yet for these bees to put them in like a hive or anything?
David your instruction is worth taking to the bank. Thank you
Thank you!
Thanks for everything David
Thank you for watching!!
What hat n veil is that
It's a $20 hat/veil I bought from Amazon: amzn.to/3QXLnxA
Love this video! You have been so helpful to me as a beginner beekeeper! Thanks so much for all your videos! 🙂
So nice of you
Hi David! Adam from Adelaide is on the line. All of the above apply to me. Did trip over the beekeeping at the sweet age of 22. Accidentally. At 25 --- Master Beekeeper. Now retired and still up to my ears with my bees. Going 77 yo. and addicted to Love of My Bees. Something along Your lines? Physically going down, but my love does keep me going. Till the death makes as apart. May I mention, that I love Your channel too. Plus, so many others are like us? Greetings David! Adam. The Polish beekeeper. Bye.
Hi Adam! Thanks for watching my channel. Good for you in continuing to keep bees at 77!! Nice talking with you. I speak to many people in Poland on Ham radio. Do you live in Poland now?
@@beek --- no David! For my last 42 years of living, I am an Australian citizen now, and living in Adelaide. I did run away from Polish communism back in 1981 at the sweet age of 33. Do not regret my decisions then -- not for a moment. And it is the bees that I love all my life! Not the country of my birth. The time came and I had to be born! And there was only one way out! Lucky me it was Poland! It could have been Etiopia or something? My full admiration for what You are doing David. For You are doing it soooooooooooo well!!! I'm looking forward to enjoying Your productions in the future. Greetings from Adam , the Aussie beekeeper now. Bye.
I became a bee keeper by accident . I bought a home with two out buildings and one had bee's in one side wall . The mild winter here was great for the bee's and the first part of May they swarmed 4 different times and I caught 3 of these swarms and was lucky enough to know someone who had some hives so now I have 3 hives plus the ones in the side of the building which I want to hive as well . What I wanted to add to your video tonight was I wish someone would have told me to never let a bee sting me on the tip of the nose . I had water pouring out of my eyes and nose for a good half hour and the pain extended into my jaws which lasted about 6 hours . I believe I was stung total 6 times and I still believe it was worth the trouble . Northern Indiana here David and love watching your videos .
Thanks for watching my videos. Nose stings are the worst!!
I have purchased your winter -b-kinds and your liquid top feeder boards. I use your feed recipe for sugar water.
Wonderful!
Thank you David for all videos and your advice s, iam from Morocco, i love your great works and ideas,
Hello From Morocco! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos!
Excuse me, my English is little I still learn it
Make sure you wax your frames. Melt wax and apply. Wonky comb stinks
So true
David, you looked relaxed today. Finally a nice day here, 75 degrees and sunny. Forecast next 4 days to be the same. Wonderful for the bees! Hopefully I can pull a super full of honey by the end of May. HAVE A GREAT DAY 👍
Thanks for watching. From Jan through May I have to deal with selling packages and nucs to customers. Almost through all of that, then I can finally breathe and relax.
Great points
Thanks
I wish someone would have told me to ALWAYS have an extra empty hive or nuk available
Yes!
David, thank you for everything you, Sheri, and your whole team do. This is another excellent video.
I have been looking high and low for a similar veil to the one you had in your lap during this video. Can you post a link, please?
Yes, I bought it off Amazon: amzn.to/3K7RWJZ
Great vid, David.
Thanks!
NE Texas a lot of people local raising bee's this year. Had 1 person thinking buying a queen and drone would fill a box. I put him under my wing and have been giving him lessons with reading material.
Yes, years ago a customer drove 3 hours to buy a queen to start a hive. He actually thought he needed just a queen and the been would eventually fill the box. 😳
I wish someone told me to completely do all the landscaping/brush cutting/mulching/graveling around your bee area FAR in advance. Now I have to do all the rest of that with a bee suit on in 80 degree weather!
Me too!!
I'm new to bee keeping and don't know I should wax the new foundation now I have wacky cone on the first 5 foundation before my wax came in. I waxed the other 5 and there drawing out those fine, should I scrape off the wacky come the queen has brood in them now or should I wait till they fill out 2 brood box the other option is wait till nectar flow next year. I would love your feed back I really don't know what to do. Thanks
Pull those frames out. Put on a excluder and add another box with those frames. Fill that box up completely . When brood hatches, pull them out, scrape, and rewax. Shake the bees off unless you know where the queen is before you add the excluder. After the brood hatches, you can put the hive back like it was unless the bees have made a lot of comb in the second box.
@chrislangley9242 * I cut the Wonky comb off and frame it up. Rubber bands can hold it temporarily in a frame that you pull out the plastic foundation.
Why are companies not adding more wax and causing such problems for beekeepers. We should complaining more to these companies. We shouldn’t have to do what they should have done and what we pay so much for!
David question, I don't understand what happens when you Graff your own queens where do you put them so they go out on their maiden flight and where do they fly back to. How do you control all that.
I place each queen in a small queen less mating nuc.
Can Master Beekeeping Certificate be achieved through online classes or has to be in person?
I am certified as a master beekeeper through the Eastern Apicultural Society and you are required to take the test onsite. easternapiculture.org/programs/master-beekeepers/
@@beek I am a member of that site, I learned about it from the ultimate online classes that you provided. I was trying to find out if there is another alternative like eCornell, Thank you so much, I learned a lot from your classes online and bought your book as well
Glad you liked the comment. Just finished trimming around the bee hives this morning, grass was getting knee high. HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Thanks! Yes, I need to trim my grass again.
6:24pm Saturday wish I could have seen what pollen, honey, nectar, and all other things on all frames really looks like. Took 3 classes and 100s of hours of videos along with a ton of books. . Very few really true to life frame info videos are out there. A lot of what my expert calls “magic/wishful beekeeping”.
Here's a livestream where I taught how to read your frames, knowing the difference between pollen, honey, nectar and brood on a frame: ruclips.net/user/livefI_qVqcF0BI
I wish I had bought a 4 frame extractor instead of a two frame one, for slight difference in cost,it would be a great time saver.
I just gave a friend who helped me get started 10 frames of hot bees, his apiary is out away from people. All his were killed by pesticide in the fall.
Tell him to invest in two smokers to run at the same time. Lots of smoke
Im a drug addiction of beekeeping
I wish I knew how painfully difficult it is to see eggs and young larvae. I'm legally blind and it gets frustrating not being able to look at a frame and read the whole thing in a few seconds.