Bushveld Bees with QueenBeeSA Aka Kristie Paine in South Africa originally started with the intent to use bees to rehabilitate Game reserves in Kwa-zulu Natal, soon found it'self selling an good number of swarms to farmers in desperate need of bees on time for the pollination season. Kristie aka Queen Bee, spends a lot of teaching new beekeepers the art of the industry. She currently manages over 1000 hives over KZN. Please subscribe to keep informed of useful information. You can also like our Facebook page to stay in touch. Enjoy the video! Kristie's number is. 0825336099
I live opposite that site and would instantly say the wind blew them over. It howls across springrove sometimes and they are right in the line of fire.
@franciscaantwiwa-gyasi497 we don't think that will have the same affect unfortunately... Can you not perhaps modify it slightly just while you have the banana inside?
@bernicemanuel1524 it's the full banana with peel cut length ways in half placed with the cut side down. Hope this helps 🙏 ☺️ thank you for Watching 👀 😉
@Nombuh that's great 😃👍🐝 in the mtuba area we get about 25kg per hive on average 😀 Contact Kristie to book a 1 day beekeeping level 1 course. 082 533 6099 In the meantime you can watch more of our videos for extra information. Don't hesitate to comment on a video if you have a question. 😅👌🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯
So there would have been a cell with pollen otherwise the moth has nowhere to lay her eggs. The eggs must hatch in pollen to get them started. A way to store a frame of comb is to remove any cell with pollen.
@eddylear5084 from what we've experienced... there are two cases that waxmoth move into a hive... 1. The hive is not a thriving colony (small, or honey bound or very cold, etc etc) and then the WM move in while they are struggling to cover all bases. 2. The bees no longer occupy the wax comb and then it's easy pickings for the WM. So the WM is simply an indication that the swarm was weak or there wasn't a swarm there at the time they moved in. WM don't simply move into a hive where the colony was strong. In the case on the video... there were no bees alive or even dead at the bottom, no brood left in the comb. So it is safe to assume that the queen stopped laying ( possibly no queen) and the colony hatched out the last brood and moved out. Judging by the amount of new comb it was a strong colony with a lot of bees. When the colony abscond, there's a scramble for the remaining resources. The "robber" bees and WM move in at a similar time thus the availability of resources for the WM to use for their life cycle.
Feral hive in my pine tree seems to have die off. Cells are dry . I think they were robbed as the combs were under a branch and must have not been able to protect their hive. They has started new combs that are empty. Don't know if I should break into the hive to trap them and where the queen is. About 8 foot above the ground and on a steep slope. So sad to see this new and recently thriving hive die off seemingly overnight. Winter in a few months which is wet and chilly in southern California. So they wont be able to keep warm. I'm not a bee keeper just happy to try and help these ladies who swarmed and settled here at the start of spring. My yard was bursting with flowers then after a wet wet winter but summer has been hot and dry.
You guys really use very little smoke, i use a big pot filed with smoking coconut husk. This to really calm them down and minimize stinging wich then minimizes deaths
Hello I'm a beekeeper from suriname, i also do this but i think I'm missing a few steps or so, cause i do boil my old pieces of comb , but after cooling it turns into wax. So what step am i missing or doing wrong
Hi... thank you for Watching 😅🎉❤ It sounds like you are just cooking the wax out of it.... Maybe try cooking it for slightly longer and at a higher temperature... Old brood comb is better than super comb and the older black comb is better than the new yellow or white comb... you can also check out this older video of ours, it might give a better idea... Let us know how it turns out.😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0afQNP5Xa0Y.htmlsi=YV4OMi4ZYIv3jHGP
The method that suits me best: top bar hive but with Langstroff frames. The hives are in my yard and are not meant to be moved. I built them from thick wood [3 cm] which allows the bees better insulation. Advantages: 1. I don't have to bend over. 2. When I open the hive not all the frames are exposed and the bees remain relatively calm. 3. As you said, you can add or subtract frames - I can take out 2 frames with honey and just reduce the space. The known disadvantage - apparently the bees produce less honey in these hives. Since I only want honey for home consumption - 2 hives give me a sufficient amount for eating and making mead.
