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Honey is twice as sweet as sugar so you only need to use half what you would of sugar, and it is lower glycemic index.... so it is actually way better for diabetics. It is lower, and you use far less of it.
Gee, folks, I wish you would get hip to using dry horse manure ( road apples) in your bee smokers. It burns cooler than cardboard or grass and typically contains no chemicals. Are there no horses anywhere near where y'all live ??
Looks like you have some Aster(maybe) blooming right next to them. That'll help them put up extra Fall stores. They got that one filled up, many people don't realize we feed when they don't have enough, it's not that we want to feed. It's all about the Bees, Good stuff Emily.
Feed the bees, feed the bees, feed the bees, it all becomes about math come Winter. I haven't seen drones for a month or more. Be careful what material you use putting something between the boxes you don't want to trap wet back there and make ice. I like to keep the driving rain off my boxes, the boxes can absorb a lot of moisture over the Winter. Feed the bees😮💨I am beginning to look forward to Winter.😂Blessed Days Emily...
You can always feed with buckets and they'd be sealed up, but for us northerners feeding late means the bees may not have enough time to dry and cure that syrup. This can be disastrous for the bees as the moisture form the uncured feed could kill them over the winter.
Even with my hives being full of stores right now, as warm as it’s been I worry that they will eat it all by November or something lol 🤷🏻♀️ it’s so hard to decide to stop feeding. But the weather is getting cooler this week and I will have to stop and wait until fondant time if they need it.
This is not a bad thing, they will have extra stores for winter. I plan on doing this on purpose but with a thicker top board so they will have more honey stored for our long Canadian winters. I think this is a better plan than sugar boards. Don't forget, the honey acts as an insulator too so you can put the blue insulation on top for extra protection.
Moisture doesn't collect on insulated tops. Stop saying that.. it's the warmest part of the hive. Moisture collects on the sides of the box where the air starts to get cold. What honey is good for diabetics ? I produce only one type of honey that is sold in an Australian retirement home after they do all their tests on it. Listening to you.. you're far away from it
the reason why bees stop making brood is to stop the spread of mites, human for yet again intervention purposes to profits from them uses all kind of method to stop the mites. this leads to increase immunity in the mites community. if you do treat, try naturally, a slow down or a weird behavior while observing closely the hive is a way to become pro active and inform.
I was pulling some honey and a piece of comb broke off so I decided to have a bite not realizing there was a bee rolled up in the bite that i took and got stung right in the tongue
I would scrap it out and get double bubble and put that on and put the insulation on top then lid. Keep the double bubble on and they won’t do that again.
I'd clean them up out by your car they will clean it up.. needs some inter covers . Anything will work feed sack plastic.. I like the foamys but anyway will work.. Richard uses plastic over in Europe like most do .
Yeah in Europe most of us are using plastic.. but it's just to protect the foam from the bees. What some of us started to do since is not that cold every day.. when it gets colder and robbing isn't a problem anymore.. we started to put brood on top (I'm doing it over 5 years now) and honey down (8 frames or the end ones have to be completely capped for humidity to slide down). But this way they are immediately in the warmest, driest part of the hive. They have no problem bringing food up in the warm days.. they doing it in Germany on cold mountains. It's stuff to try and see... if you ask me it makes more sense than to wait and watch them warming all that honey above every day and spend time under it. You just need to learn how to govern the end frames humidity in the lower box. It's done without top ventilation.. insulation inside on the plastic and cover. They make passages under the plastic when you use it like us all the time. That's the all philosophy of keeping them always in warm.. conserving energy used to heat the hives
I'm happy to see your both pressing on. Your skill set is with the bees is proven. Thank you for sharing bee dilemmas and giving the rest of us something to get in front of.
Beginner beekeeper here, but looks like enough resources on the frames, I would scrape off the top and insulate. The little bit that’s on the top isn’t enough to make me risk not insulating the hive properly. Just my opinion and thought process.
Insulation on the outside will have the same effect as inside. You'll just need to weigh it down so it doesn't blow away and the UV may start breaking it down a bit. Your call really but options seem viable.
Obviously you haven't been in that hive lately to just now see that. Generally the best thing to do is clean the frame tops and the inner lid. Some bees are really big on creating (wacky comb) on inner lids etc.and some not so much but its up to you to decide when to clean it (either now or next spring). Allowing Wacky Comb to exist bees will often make more, remove it and they will often get the hint unless they are doing that because there is no other place left to put the nectar.
@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 - If you have a nectar flow going on even in the fall it shouldn't be a big problem looking into hives during the day as the forage bees will be busy. If its dry and no nectar (dirth) or the fall flow has ended is the worse time to open hives as bees will go to robbing each other and bees get even more defensive.
@Bowhunters6go8xz6x i can agree with that but ive learned the genetics in these hives over the years enough to trust them to handle business the more hives we grow up to the less time we have for each hive so trusting them to do their thing has become very important
I used to not wear a suit but I've heard stories of people getting sudden allergies and not being able to keep bees after the fact so im a little more about precautions to not let that happen to me now i cant lose beekeeping id lose my mind
New Zealand, where are starting the honey flow, 1st October, have 3 brood boxes on to stop swarming, on 1st October, ruduce to one brood box,, and 3 empty comb supers, have a 60 mm spacer with 9 mesh 3mm vent 22mm holes, have on all year, same on the bottom floor, summer venting only,
you need feed bag between foam and bees, or silver reflectex, i use both they both work, never put foam directly on bees, theyll chew it. migratory lids need some type of barrier between the bees. That's why you get moisture. You need the reflectex or feed bag.
As a totally new bee keeper, I think I would put feeder shims on top of the lids that have comb and capped honey on them. And drop your insulation into that feeder shim and give them a second lid.
Polystyrene on top oversized and down the sides to seal with top. What is your location?? Maybe insulate the sides and overlap the top edge down like a regular top
I put a plastic queen excluder under that lid. This reduces them from this issue. I would just put the foam on the top and put a rock on it. Make the foam oversized. cut it up with a table saw from a large one.
If you have telescoping covers just cut the foam to enter in it and stay there. Always make it to be level with the top of the hive.. don't push it in the cover if its crooked
They know better than us “always” my opinion is to leave that alone and let them finish putting propolis around the lid Great videos and like watching your content
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