Honey Bees and Bee Keeping. I sell honey bees I have five frame nucs available from April to Sept. I try to do learning videos for the beginner to the expert. In bee keeping you never stop learning when you think you have them figured out they will show you different. As a commercial bee keep I am in the bees every day I can pick up small things that a hobbyist bee keeper never pick up. I try to pass this knowledge on in my videos. Little Bits Honey Bees is located in south central Indiana (Bloomington) Thank You for watching. Skinny Bee Man
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemay so if I wanted to keep the bees, I'd need some frames with the potential to make a new queen? My DIL probably has some. my son died last april (lost a 5year battle with cancer) , and he left behind a wife, 3 kids and 2 very active hives. 2 hours from me. She is struggling to figure out how to take care of them and not getting much help from the local bee club he belonged. to. we had beens here, but ours swarmed. if he were still here, he'd figure it out. he loved his bees and often caught swarms. the bees have a special place in my heart.
Thank you. I will be trying this. Also, just read on Wikipedia that it was first used as a pesticide in 1948 and fire ants were one of the insects it was used for.
I've been using a plastic queen excluder cut to fit (cause it floats) tote and as long as thin syrup hasn't been a problem, but I bet those noodles float better , I'm gonna try that, thanks
I have been trying to raise a few queen this year but I have had no luck I put the hold frames in with nurse bees on them and all sizes of brood from eggs to capped but can't get any of them to make a queen cells but they kicked the drones out in early June can you what may be the problem never had this problem before.
When feeding this time of the year are you using a 1 to 1 ratio? I'm glad you get the mean hive fixed. I hate that. I had one hive the last two years where I had to requeen them. They seem to just pop up.
I don't know how many hives you have but if you don't have too many and you're just feeding 15 gallon bucket I would suggest using one gallon pails gives them more room to feed and not fight as bad
Question, you mentioned "mated queen, how you know she's mated? I caught one that size on tree limb a few days ago and put in nuc. Saw queen today and she was small and running fast around frame. Was wondering if she already mated. Thanks for any help
The orange cleaner is good for cleaning propolis off anything. I use it to clean hive tools and then I put the hive tool in the dishwasher to sanitize it. Works great.
Joe on the long term method would you want to cycle the frames through the freezer before loading them in the boxes to make sure any eggs or large killed?
I don't do any of the above right now freezing is a good idea but I use BT like you spray organic in your garden on my frames and just stick them in any extra box out there and wax moths and small hive beetles won't bother it; Frames with honey in them still need to freeze
