Hey! Thanks a ton for the honey you sent my way. Tasted fantastic. I've actually never really liked honey related products, however I can say with confidence that this is some amazing honey. Me and my wife were genuinely shocked by just how fresh it tasted!!
I’m a bit South of you. 3 Colonies of bees that are doing amazing this year, what a difference a year makes. Unfortunately, the mosquitoes are also doing extremely well this year! Not really worried about them and the bees, but it’s been hard to tend to my hives like I’d like to, even mid day. Any tips/advice?
Awesome 👍👋 it's mid winter here in central Otago southern New Zealand but ironically I actually got too pull a finished full depth super off a hobbyists dead out today. 25 kg or 55 american pounds of thyme honey capped in that super. It's very odd pulling a honey super in mid winter but we've had three days of unusual and exceptionally warm weather due to a very rare strong wind coming from central Australia and directly across the Tasman sea (2500 miles) tonight it ends with a Antarctic storm pushing in from the south and snow warnings for my area😂 shame about the hobbyists dead colony but fun to pull a full honey super like you guys are doing. Well raise a split for him in the spring to repopulate his dead colony with. 👍👋 Great video 👍
They drew out the wax way past the frame since I am running 9frames in my supers. I run plastic foundation so I cut the wax off both sides and put them into an extractor. The cut off wax and honey is also processed in my cappings tank.
I run two deep brood boxes, if the queen had packed both with brood I may consider splitting, if the two brood boxes are full and there is a nectar flow and there are no signs of swarming I put on honey supers. This is what I choose to do, there are a lot of people running single deep colonies
Nice video guy. Simple, yet mildly entertaining. I think my favorite thing in the entire video is your "cannabis themed decor" that you have under the hive there. Good deal. Looking good. Most of our cannabis here in Arizona usually looks like this ------>> 🌵. . .😕 Hails from Arizona, U.S.A. 😈
Correct, they are coming back after a day of looking for a queen to mate with. Drones will make a bunch of flights in hopes of finding a queen that will essentially end his life
I am working on a project for Cook County looking as suburban food production and food access. Is there a chance we can talk about your hard work supporting bees and pollinators? I wasn't sure the best way to reach out.
If there is a queen cell, does that mean the hive is sensing they need a new queen? Is it fairly common for them to raise queens and you have to stop it?
I think this is a very good possibility, I did requeen one of my hives using a queen cell. I haven’t been going into the hive to allow for time to go on mating flight and lay.
I like to treat when getting a nuc since they are likely to have significant mite exposure in the large bee yards. I pull well before adding any honey supers and treat OA vapor in fall 3-4 times. I was able to get mites loads below 1% and had 4 out of 4 hives survive a Wisconsin winter.
