Bee Keeping Frequently Asked Questions 20 Saskatraz Update Beginning with bees

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In this FAQ Video about backyard beekeeping, you can see the Saskatraz Honey Bee Update at 47:06
My Observation Hive Setup and Bee Install: • Observation Hive, Hone...
Topics included in this video are:
1) Saskatraz package install update after 29 days in their hives.
**What camera do you use for those closeup videos?**
2) Skunks in the bee yard, what do I do to prevent them?
3) Would a slanted inner cover prevent condensation from dripping down onto the bees? Why or why not?
4) I have a hot-hive with lots of varroa in it, I have honey coming in and don't want to ruin it! What's the best treatment?
5) You installed new Queens without waiting for the bees to go through the candy plug, how do you know when it's ok to use that method?
6) Can I separate the Queen from a swarm, or when doing a split? What's the best method? Shout out to Michael Palmer for suggesting a queen excluder.
7) What are honey bees mainly doing this time of year? What's their motivation?
8) How do you decide how large to make your entrance reducer opening? Do I need to have one when it's hot outside?
9) What's the purpose of burr comb and why do the bees construct it?
10) If Queen bee larvae are fed royal jelly, what are drones and workers fed?
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@Adam.Holmes. 3 года назад

1) Saskatraz package install update after 29 days in their hives. 47:06 2) Skunks in the bee yard, what do I do to prevent them? 5:17 3) Would a slanted inner cover prevent condensation from dripping down onto the bees? Why or why not? 7:26 4) I have a hot-hive with lots of varroa in it, I have honey coming in and don't want to ruin it! What's the best treatment? 10:21 5) You installed new Queens without waiting for the bees to go through the candy plug, how do you know when it's ok to use that method? 17:58 6) Can I separate the Queen from a swarm, or when doing a split? What's the best method? 21:00 7) What are honey bees mainly doing this time of year? What's their motivation? 28:16 8) How do you decide how large to make your entrance reducer opening? Do I need to have one when it's hot outside? 31:29 9) What's the purpose of burr comb and why do the bees construct it? 36:59 10) If Queen bee larvae are fed royal jelly, what are drones and workers fed? 41:00

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

47:06 Saskatraz bee update begins.

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

These are Canadian bees from Saskatchewan

@lenoretalon9958 4 года назад

I love my Saskatraz hives

@beefcurtains6691 5 лет назад

One of my favorite parts of Friday . Thank you again fred for taking the time to put out quality content you da man fred👍👍 I love that the warm weather is here and I can see some live action

@younginsong4355 5 лет назад

Fred, it is beautiful ~ the birth of a bee at intro ~ "Animal Planet!!!!" Wow ~ that's great ~

@thehiveandthehoneybee9547 5 лет назад

Mr Dunn this feels more like the AP beekeeping course than for beginners i learn something each and every time your work inside the hives is as smooth as glass! thank you and please never stop making videos

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Thank you so much! I will do my best to keep them coming!

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

The Hive and the Honey Bee I couldn’t agree more!!!

@judd_s5643 5 лет назад

Another excellent video. Very enjoyable presentation, you’re a very good teacher Mr. Dunn! Well done 👍

@stansmith4054 5 лет назад

This is my first year with Saski bees here in Michigan. And also my first year using a Lang hive. For the past three years I have had Italians in Warre hives. So this summer is an experiment. Findings thus far: The Saski bees are going crazy. I have had to add an additional deep and 2 weeks later they had that filled about 75% so I had to add a medium, as that is all I have right now. The mite numbers are almost non existant as opposed to my Italians in the Warre hive. The Saskis are just as docile as the Italians. So far they have a slight lead over my Italians and I hope they survive the winter better than Italians!

@rickl192 5 лет назад

Another great video. Watched it while sitting beside my hives with a morning coffee. Turned it up loud enough for the bees to listen too. 🐝

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Oh, I hope the bees brought out little cups of honey on the landing board and enjoy it ! Thanks Rick.

@k.rebeccagell8766 5 лет назад

Another great video; thanks Frederick, love the idea of sugar water over the smoke. That'll be a hard one to convince my lot at the club, but with time, I hope to change their thinking to the smart way not the hard way. thanks again look forward to the next!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

There are definitely times when smoking the bees would be a better move, but I am enjoying using the sugar water with essential oils, particularly on warm days :)

@GoneWildKennels 3 года назад

Great info. I look forward to watching this page. I'm new to bee keeping. 2021 will be great. Starting with a bee mentor , 10 hives. I have 1/2 section of alfalfa on one side with a private road and a lake on the other side. Hoping to have a great production year. We are west of Cochrane ,Alberta ,Canada

@robertmathurin2544 5 лет назад

Happy Friday to you too Mr Dunn..it's my birthday..😂... ready to learn..👍🇱🇨

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Happy Birthday Robert! Always nice to see your comments!

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Happy Birthday Robert!

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

Robert Mathurin Happy Birthday Sir!!!

@credecarter8429 5 лет назад

Yes these videos are so relaxing

@wpankey57 Год назад

Another great informative video. Thanks Fred.

@FrederickDunn Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it :)

@andrewbrown6938 5 лет назад

Thank you for always putting links to where you buy your equipment! One of many features I like on your channel!

@FrederickDunn 6 месяцев назад

Thank you :)

@RickeyMcDaniel 5 лет назад

Thank you, good content as always.

@kenblew2625 5 лет назад

Thank you Mr. Dunn, Great Video. I loved your comments about the "Hot-Hive". As like every Friday you got me thinking about our hives. We also got what I would consider a fairly aggressive colony this spring. We noticed it from the start (purchased a 8 frame colony from a local supplier, turns out the bees came from a commercial pollinator company, that sent them from California) but, we blew it off as the bees were hungry from the trip. We fed 1:1, installed the old 8 frames ( 6 were junk imo old black comb) + 2 new frames into a new box, added a second 10 frame deep (new frames) and treated OA. Since then we've kept them fed and opened the box to make sure the queen was laying but, it seems they are getting meaner. Even when we feed (rapid round feeder) from behind the hive we have a few bees wanting to buzz our face or if standing 20 feet away we'll have a few that want to buzz us (they hate a camera)(: . Sorry this is getting so long but, it got to the point where I ordered a new queen (will be here next Friday). What you got me to thinking about was that old junk frames and comb "how" and "when" do we get that out of the hive? I notices from the start the bees went to work on the new frames and the queen was laying in the new even before the comb was completely drawn. Sorry for the long post, thanks again for your time.

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

If there are valuable resources in the old comb and it is still good but wanting to get rid of it, eg came with a nuc or frames you do not like...Just put those frames on the bottom brood box and as winter progresses and the brood nest moves up those frames will be empty come next Spring. If you want to get rid of it now, let the brood hatch then put the honey and nectar frames out for the hives to rob out and take back to good frames within,

@krixig 5 лет назад

For the slanted hive cover question; incorporate a quilt box from the warre philosophy. Take a spare medium langstroth box, staple #8 hardware cloth to the bottom and fill it with wood shavings. Keeps moisture under control and acts like an attic during the winter. Have one on all my hives all year round, I just dump the shavings out come middle of spring.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing!

@stansmith4054 5 лет назад

I have been using Warre hives for a few years now. This is my first year with a Lang hive and I have made a quilt box for it out of a medium. I hope it works, too far from winter (thank god) to tell yet.

@krixig 5 лет назад

@@stansmith4054 Warre hives were actually the first I wanted to try, but Langs were just what was available prior to having the tools to make my own equipment so I just incorporated some of the warre aspects. Actually building what they call a "long lang" at the moment and going to give that a try... but with quilt boxes haha.

@davidhanowski7338 5 лет назад

Hi Mr. Dunn! In case you didn't see this question on your swarm video, I'm posting it here as well: It's my first year, and I am worried that one of my two hives has swarmed already. I'm getting in there every week, and I find a dozen queen cups every time I go in. In the past couple of weeks, they've even been loading these up with eggs, turning them into swarm cells. Last week I found my queen, culled all of the cells, and added a honey super. Yesterday (A week later) I found and removed 2 capped queen cells (I must have missed them), and a 3rd that might have been a supercedure cell. I didn't see the queen, but I did see _some_ eggs (Not as many as I'm used to seeing). Plenty of capped resources. I culled all of the cells again, and will go back in to look for the queen this afternoon. How soon before a new queen hatches, does the old one swarm?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

FAQ 21 coming out today... we'll talk about this a little!

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Hello Fred! So you're a professional photographer, that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking you were a wildlife biologist, Lol! I started learning about bees in 2017, I just thought it was common knowledge that every caste of bee was fed royal jelly, I didn't realize it was new information. It's also fascinating to know that every female larva has the DNA to become a queen if triggered by the right amount of amino acids. You would think the trigger would be a specific combination of amino acids and not the amount. Bees are fascinating! The natural frames look really good! It seems like the bees really like the acorn frames. Your Flow hives are very nice! The Saskatraz seem to be very gentle. I've started wearing nitrile gloves too, they are so much more comfortable! Thank you! I do get slightly nervous when they crawl on my hands though, but it's dissipating, when I focus on the bees, I forget all about it. Thanks for the videos Fred, I really enjoy them!

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

Remember only the queen is fed royal jelly the rest are switched to bee bread, if a hive is queen less add a frame from another hive with eggs are the best. The hive will make a queen for them selves with this frame.

@ronadelman1312 5 лет назад

Hi Fred, your bee husbandry is commendable and you provide us newbies with very sound and experienced advice...Thank you. I'm in the St. Louis area, first few months, two Flow Hives, VHS locally raised nucs installed, second boxes added after a month and now a month has passed. Lots of activity. I am feeding sugar water, nearly a quart per day per hive! Have left bees alone btw, and don't expect to add honey supers this year. I noticed a few hive beetles on the install, and last week two scattered in the corner of my lid when I propped it for ventilation. One hive has been bearding bees out front at the end of a couple of hot days, and the other there are are a dozen or so bees dead on the ground over the course of a week for the last month. According to local bee club we are experiencing hive beetle issues, and a Master local bee keeper, (manages Missouri Botanical Gardens' hives), is recommending the use of nematodes in the soil below hives. In addition we had a guest speaker at out club last month, Illinois bee inspector across the river form here stating nearly all hives in her area experience European foulbrood. I'm not a worry wort, just your thoughts and experience dealing with either in a if your time permits. Thanks! Ron Adelman

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Hi Ron! I'm originally from Kirkwood :) Regarding the SHB presence, I wouldn't personally wait for the nematodes and would install Beetle Jail units asap :) I miss St. Louis! I was a member of the St. Louis Herpetological Society and did lots of work at the zoo... GREAT place. Enjoy your weekend!

@wadebarnes6720 3 года назад

I can answer the question about vaporizing the bees and within three days like a new beehive all the bees are cool and they work a whole lot harder never would have believed it if I didn't see it

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Great video Fred. You are right. I read recently that it is not all about royal jelly, and its more about the pollen proteins that change a worker to a queen. That protein might be in royal jelly sure but its about something about the pollen proteins.

@1docg 5 лет назад

We really appreciate all your efforts on our behalf Fred. I always look forward to Friday when you post the new Q&A video. I have a bit of feedback. The toothpaste idea for controlling ants submitted by another viewer only works if you WANT ants to visit your hives. We put it on our four 3/4" pipes that support our stands and within hours the ants arrived on mass ate all the toothpaste then marched directly up the legs to the hive stand. They loved the peppermint toothpaste.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

FAQ 21 TODAY.... hmmmmm.... toothpaste eating ants! dannnnngit....

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

Good day Sir! Thanks for another amazing video! You are absolutely correct about harassing the bees! As a new beekeeper in my first year, it is extremely difficult to stay out of my hives... That being said, I have been pretty good about staying out and only getting into the hive once a week while feeding and every two weeks or so once the feeders came off. Which has been amazing for my hive 1... My hive 2 came as a nucleus hive in 10 frame mediums and I transferred them to 8 frame deeps in the first three days... This has in my opinion stunted the hive so far. They are hanging out but barely growing. Whereas the hive 1 was a package and they are booming... Great to see the differences in the two hives. But worried I may have messed up Hive 2 by messing around in it too soon and too often.

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

Fred, Ha!!! I say all off this and then get into the hives today... Fred, hive 1 is a rock star! It’s my Flow boxes and I added the flow super because they are bringing in the nectar. Hive 2 has no eggs no brood, no new drawn comb and apparently no queen... bees are still coming and going but they are just filling the existing drawn comb with nectar but not drawing anything new... Should I think about consolidating them with the strong hive? Or attempt another queen?

@billbaskin4631 5 лет назад

Sir, I started beekeeping April 13th with three Saskatraz NUCS. I am pulling a half gallon per frame from all hives and they are refilling the cells. I am having good success with them.

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

I split this way - I shake 5 frames into there box moving the frames to the new box, then I add 5 new frames to it (checker boarding them) now add the queen excluded to the box. Next step is add the new hive to the old one overnight, allowing the nurse bees to return to the 5 frames you added. In 24 hours you can remove the box and put it in its new home. In the new box add 3 new frames then the 5 frames then 2 new frames keep the 5 frames together in this box in the middle. After 24 hours take the new hive and put it in its new spot and add the queen cage to it, now close it up. As Fred said watch the bees reaction to this new queen usually its good wella your new hive is born good luck with it

@ragnarzetterberg9032 5 лет назад

I liked this video alot. Especially what you said about swarming, not harassing the bees whith frequent interventions and keeping the hives high over ground (and separated) 👍 What I did'nt like were the manmade plastic frames, so unnatural and also reduces their ability of communication. 👎

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

I am using mostly triple wax acorn frames Fred. Again because of you. The bees just love them. Never have any problem with the bees drawing them out. Thanks for trying the Mann lake ones, it is good to see that comparison. I talked to a Virginia supplier of bee stuff recently and they say to be careful with the Acorn Frames as they have those little black spaces on the shoulders of the frames on the edge and hive beetles can get in there. He said he had seen a hive beetle infestation when hive beetles get in those spots and bees cannot get to them. So I got a flash light and checked and I had nothing. But mostly my bees seem to fill those spots with wax and comb or propolis. But those little nooks on the sides of the frame are for the benefit of the frame. It actually makes the frame stronger with those divisions in them. But again just be wary that hive beetles can make a living in there because the bees apparently cannot get at them.

@Psyche8D 5 лет назад

Carlos Murphy Ceracell makes some plastic frames with hex holes to combat hive beetles. I’m currently running wood, but these look interesting. I’m in an area where hive beetles are a problem.

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@Psyche8D Use beneficial nematodes. A nematode treatment will be good for the year and it breaks the life cycle of the beetle larvae.

@Psyche8D 5 лет назад

Carlos Murphy I did some looking for them. They don’t seem to be available in Australia. I like the thought for an alternative method for control though. Thanks!

@Likenewfloors 3 года назад

Where can we get Saskatraz bees next spring? Thank you for all the very helpful information your videos provide.

@FrederickDunn 3 года назад

You can get them through Mann Lake... they are authorized by the Olivarez breeders. I'm not sure they have opened them up for purchase orders yet.

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

My rule of thumb is max 10 minutes in the hive I found any longer they get pissy. Usually they will worn you first head that warning. Some times I walk away for a bit to let them calm down some lol

@carolynfranke6690 5 лет назад

Keep 'em coming, I always learn something and enjoy the beeyard visits a lot. I have 2 questions, but first some background: I am not getting my 2 nucs until next week sometime. I elected to wait for a locally (southern Ontario) bred 2019 queen. The queens were grafted by the beekeeper at the end of May during 1 warm day LOL, and presumably will go on their virgin flight sometime soon. My understanding is once the queens have proven they are now fertile and laying, I can pick up the 2 nucs. Question: how much is the colony set back, if at all, if starting out as a 4 frame nuc including 2 frames of brood and nurse bees, a frame of resources, hopefully also covered in bees and a frame of comb, or something like that. I will offer 1:1 sugar syrup until they no longer take it. My feeling is it is okay to obtain a nuc this far into the season because the population will rise rapidly with emerging brood and the queen will have proven herself to be laying and with enough population and enough room to expand in the hive, the nectar will start to be stored. I will take no honey this year. My second question is how do you process all the beeswax you must inevitably accumulate from old frames, cappings, etc.? Do you have a video on a solar wax melter? Finally, it would be awesome to see the observation hive in action, once the glass situation is remedied. We will be able to see the bees in action without cracking open hives! Many thanks for continuing the FAQs! Also I look forward to more info on the Saskatraz bees as you get to know them. Did you try them due to genes for winter hardiness or other traits? Ha! That's a lot more than 2 questions.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

FAQ21 coming out TODAY :)

@grounded7362 Год назад

I had a skunk hit my electric fence once and it sprayed so bad it turned everything yellow and stunk for a couple weeks. Never had a skunk try the fence again.

@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 5 лет назад

Excited for another FAQ From Fred! Thanks for telling us about your camera! I'll have to go back and see your frog video, I missed that and always enjoy all your nature vids. I'm adjusting my Electric Fence line this year to encompass the new apiary. I found a hole about 100 yards away and thought it was woodchuck... until a skunk peeked out at me. It made me glad my hives were at the right height. I'd so rather have a skunk than a woodchuck! In plant management, we NEVER take clones or make plant copies on sick plants. We must always address health issues first, then make copies. It makes sense to apply this to bees and anything else we are propagating. I'm not sure I've caught this, so I'll ask... When you order a queen, are they virgin or mated already? From what you're saying here, it sounds like she has already been mated. Yes, this year has been excellent for flowers and bees... Mine have been ROCKIN since it got warm enough to fly. The one hive swarmed, and a week later you'd never notice a difference in population from observation. Haha!... My bees love me too.. When I stay out of their home! Thanks for the explanation of Royal Jelly... Yes, ALL plants, animals, and humans development is GREATLY affected by the quality of the food they receive. Another excellent video Fred! I really like the bee yard time at the end... it's good visual experience for us new beekeepers... makes it much easier to relate to your excellent detailed descriptions. A good mix of class time and field time.. :) cheers!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Thank you! It's always great to see your comments and I'm glad things are going well for you and your bees!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Oops... sorry, the Queens I buy in are already mated and ready to lay!

@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 5 лет назад

Hehe.. no worries! OK.. I thought so and in thinking about it more, that would yield more control over genetics. Thanks for the great info as always!

@gregoryircink8797 5 лет назад

This was a downer, not the generous gift of Fred's time and expertise, of course - 20 episodes? Priceless gift - but someone gave a thumbs down? My continued faith in humanity requires that I believe it was a mistake and they thought it was a thumbs up.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

HI Gregory, thanks so much! BUT, the actual good news, even with a Thumbs Down, is that engagement up or down still increases a video's rankings - odd, I know. I also know that not everyone is happy with the presentation, the presenter, or subject matter. If a video title has "Flow Hive" in it, there will be a magic thumbs down before anyone has had time to watch it. I'm just glad you're here and enjoying what I'm producing and sharing :) So, if someone really didn't like a video, not giving a UP or DOWN, is the best way to reduce its popularity. :) true story...

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

My Beeweaver queen replacement comes today. I am excited and almost want to try a direct release of her if they treat her cage well. They have been queenless a few days so should love her.

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Awesome! Is she a replacement for the overly aggressive hive?

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@danskisbees7348 Yes.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@weasleoop Keep us posted! And thank you so much for fielding so many questions here in the comments section! :)

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

@@weasleoop Good deal, they have excellent customer service!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Even after seeing no aggression toward the queen cage when I first placed it. EG they were trying to feed her and easily brushed off. The aggressive hive chewed through the candy plug and crawled into the cage and stung her and her 5 attendants to death. It was just a ball of dead bees in the cage. Super depressed. I am going to add more brood and maybe let them make their own queen.

@user-es5ip6nu5x 2 года назад

Es veri gut👍

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

Interesting stuff, Fred! Hope you find that paper on Royal Jelly. 👍

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Citations von Planta, A. (1888). Ueber den Futtersaft der Bienen. Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, 12(4), 327-354. Wang, Y., Ma, L., Zhang, W., Cui, X., Wang, H., & Xu, B. (2016). Comparison of the nutrient composition of royal jelly and worker jelly of honey bees (Apis mellifera). Apidologie, 47(1), 48-56.

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

Frederick Dunn ... many thanks.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@johnmcneill923 or course! :)

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

Frederick Dunn ... interesting read. Not quite 4 ft over my head but close! 🤔😉

@georgegarcia5052 5 лет назад

Thanks for pointing out that you alternate foundation-less frames with frames with foundation. I started my new hive in April using only foundation-less and the bees drew the comb out crooked, messing up some 10 frames of brood frame. To try to fix the situation I installed Acorn frames to the side of the brood area, which the bees totally ignored to the point that I thought they were going to become honey-bound and swarm. Last week I saw another RU-vid video and the person described the alternating technique that you too mention; where once the bees ignored the Acorn frames, they are starting to build on it. This is definitely a beginners mistake and, if you have time, I was hoping to hear your thoughts on fixing the problem. My hive is a horizontal Langstroff hive, and in the spring I was thinking of changing the entrance to the opposite side of the hive, perhaps forcing them to change the brood area ... this would avoid the risk of killing thousands of bees, perhaps including the queen. Thanks for another great video!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

So first off, you need to make sure your hive is level side to side. Bees will draw out frames if you break up the brood nest usually. They do not like having empty space in the brood nest. Last week my bees had not drawn out 4 acorn waxed frames all the way. So I checkerboarded them into the brood nest. EG. Honey..empty frame, brood, empty frame, brood, empty frame, pollen, honey, Those empty frames all were drawn out a week later and the ones between brood frames had brood in them. So once you get the cross comb or bad comb issue fixed you should have no problems. But really need to figure out what caused the problem.

@wadebarnes6720 3 года назад

You give me a hard time about my swarming yours is swarming too. Lol

@FrederickDunn 3 года назад

Swarms happen Wade ;)

@ghost1179 3 года назад

Fred, in response to Amy’s problem with “hot” bees and vorra. Could you not move the honey super on top of another hive and treat them x3 and then replace the supers? It seems like making a split if they are truly “hot” would only compound the issue and make it harder to assess.

@FrederickDunn 3 года назад

I would not put the super on another hive, but nothing wrong with removing it in order to treat, or, opt for Formic Pro as a treatment which would allow the honey super to remain and treats through the pupae cappings.

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

I like your approach to the action. A lesson for others. Hope she does the oxalic acid treatment on both hives. Would be interesting to note any changes when she split. I think she just doubled her troubles. 😢

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Definitly, but now she has a double case study, lol. Like Fred said, she has to go through a process of elimination, one thing at a time. Now on both hives. I agree, I hope she treats with oxalic acid. She might think she doesn't need to because she probably got a drop in mite count when she split her hives, it's only a matter of time.

@SquirrelsForAll 5 лет назад

I purchased two packages of Saskatraz. One queen failed entirely, had to replace her with an Italian and the second hive is up and working, but their production is horrifically slow. They're wonderfully behaved and appear hygienic, but very slow growing.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Thanks for that update, I'm still evaluating them.

@mrcreditunion1 5 лет назад

Hi Fred, I tried the spearmint and peppermint toothpaste idea to deter ants, didn't work. Also tried vinegar around the base, still nothing. What has worked is plastic sandwich container bottoms with food-grade mineral oil. So far so good, only 5-6 bees in a week stuck in oil.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Those are some persistent ants! Thanks for sharing your fix!

@t.vineis5825 4 года назад

Hi Mr. Dunn what bees are your favorite? The Saskatraz or the Weaver Bees? Also what Weaver Bees do you own the Buckfast bees? Thanks!

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

I own the BeeWeaver Line... and Saskatraz and I have to say I do like the survivor stock from the Weaver family, but I am astonished at the honey production in the Saskatraz hives! I haven't selected a favorite between them and may simply continue with both.

@barrysbees8637 5 лет назад

Great videos! Makes learning about bees a lot easier when you see it instead of reading about it. The thing I found most confusing my first year was what to do with the frames that still have honey in them that was only partially capped in the fall. Do you extract it out and feed back to bees? Freeze? Or store somewhere? Will it ferment during to winter when left inside basement? I watched a video where you test different areas of the frame for concentration levels and total together to figure out how the batch will come out. It ended up at 17.5-18%. Tasted fine but I worried it would ferment if not consumed fast. Any suggestion?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I leave them on the hive and don't remove any surplus from standard frames until spring as leftover resources.

@aberlend 5 лет назад

Thanks again for another great video! So i'm gathering that you only open a hive if you see an issue on the landing board. How often should a beekeeper observe landing board activity to catch issues early?

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Not always the case. Main rule to take is only open a hive if it is for a specific purpose. Do not open it just to open it. Have a rule before you go in. I want to see if my queen is laying? Open and as soon as you see eggs or young larvae you know she has laid within the past 3 days. Close hive back up. Or like Fred does. Combine things. Say putting more feed up top. May as well pop open the top and see if your queen is laying if that is what you need to find out.

@aberlend 5 лет назад

How often should you check to see if a queen is laying? How soon would you see on the landing board if she is not?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I observe landing board activity daily and you will soon notice changes in colony behavior which may result in further inspection. You'll know that laying is going on and larva are developing when pollen is being brought in etc. Sunrise landing board observations will show if they are removing lots of dead bees, or even discarding developing larva if they are varroa resistant, etc. No pollen coming in, a more defensive colony, lots of guards, then an investigation is warranted.

@hugabee2580 5 лет назад

Thanks for your time and effort. Q. Why bee's fly all crazy in front of hive? Is it normal? My beezzz are new package 40 day old. Thanks

@davidhanowski7338 5 лет назад

It's my first year so please feel free to correct me! My two hives both have what I call a "bee party" mid afternoon, which is essentially my way of describing increased bee traffic around the hives. I imagine this is the next set of guard bees doing their orientation flights, or maybe these are cleansing flights? I see it every day between 2 and 4 PM, so as far as I am concerned its normal. Cheers!

@ewhite5879 5 лет назад

Thank you for another interesting video. A question: do you know whether a "starter" bead of beeswax placed along the inner surface of a top bar by the beekeeper subsequently adheres as well as comb attached to bare wood by bees themselves?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

THAT is a great question and I'm going to talk about that in FAQ 21.... regarding the strength of adhesion, it doesn't matter at all, the bees attach comb to the full width of the top-bar underside and the wax provided by the beekeeper just serves to get them "started". I'll try to show some examples of how that progresses. Thank you so much!

@ewhite5879 5 лет назад

Thank you! I will watch with great interest.

@ewhite5879 5 лет назад

And you have already clarified something for me.

@billbaskin4631 5 лет назад

Mr. Dunn, off subject here but important. After nectar flow and extracting...and prepping for Fall. I understand Flow Frames should be removed during dearth and cleaned in preparation for use for Fall honey period. Is this correct? You have stated you let bees clean the frames. Please explain the process used to do this. Thank you.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

HI Bill, I leave them all year long until the final nectar flow of the season. I don't remove them between spring and fall as they would continue to work the frames. After the final draw off, that's when I remove the entire Flow-Super and set the box to the west of my apiary where the bees clean them out - then it goes directly to winter storage in a protected unit until reinstalled the following spring. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you take it off during summer dearth for example. I just put them on the strongest colonies in spring, remove in fall.

@Vladviking 4 года назад

LOL Yea I'm a Nikon buff,,,,,,,,,,Nikon Coolpix .. Pics seem just as good as any pro stuff.

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

In the right hands, almost any equipment will produce nice results.

@jarnold8803 5 лет назад

I started my bee hives 4/30/18. I don't know if I have a big problem or not. Here is my situation, they swarmed several weeks ago and I don't have any eggs or brood and I have a double brood box with 1 super packed with honey and a 2ed honey super that they are working on. The problem I see is that both brood boxes are packed with nectar. What do I need to do

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

You need to buy in a fertile/mated queen asap... and install her.

@stansmith4054 5 лет назад

I have been a beek for only 3 years. These critters fascinate me. I still go out daily and sit by my hives for hours (so much so that my wife complains because nothing else gets done). You have been a beek for a long time, does it ever get old? After so many years do you have less interest in the bees? Just wondering. Signed, Bee Landlord from Michigan

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

It never gets old for me, I still go out to "check on something" and get stuck for hours at a time. I often fall to sleep in front of my observation hive just listening to the sounds. :)

@cynthiajohnson4185 2 года назад

Why did you decide not to use smoke? I've noticed or new Saskatraz do not respond to smoke at all.

@FrederickDunn 2 года назад

If the bees respond favorably to sugar syrup with HBH in it, then no reason to smoke them. Particularly on those hot days. If the colony remains unreasonable, then I always have smokers handy :)

@cutterleaf576 5 лет назад

So what happens if drone larva are give more food then needed? Do you get an ultra king bee?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

beeinformed.org/2019/06/05/honey-bee-caste-systems-part-2-how-genetics-and-the-environment-shape-honey-bee-workers-and-queens/

@shanewinstead6776 4 года назад

Fred who did you order you package of Saskatraz bee's from if you don't mind me asking im thinking of trying the next spring

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

Mann Lake...

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Fred I dunno if you can give me an answer. But on my beeweaver hives. They kind of boil out of the box. So it is very difficult to get the hive back together without crushing a few bees on the wooden area where they stack. Brushing makes them take to the air. Smoke works only temporarily but I hate having to smoke so much. They have room, its just they love to beard on the top and sides when I open the colony up. I mean I try to place boxes slowly and move them across to their final position but still crush a few. I wish they would just stay on the frames instead of everywhere. I am trying to not split first year nucs. But these nucs are crazy. It is so many bees I have to shake bees off frames to even look at comb. I have never seen one build up so fast. I am going to email you a picture hang on.,

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I have a method for keeping the bees off of the box edges so you can close them up without smushing anyone :) FAQ 21 :)

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn Oh thank goodness. I cannot wait for that video.

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Also Fred I don't know if you have these. I have seen these new this year around my property. The four toothed mason wasp. It is black and white. Beautiful. Also do not think I did not catch that about you having shots included in an animal planet or documentary. Fred is there anything you cannot do?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I'm not familiar with that wasp, sounds interesting! The Animal Planet series will be using documentary video sequences of honey bee behavior, I'll post a link in future videos once the episode releases. :)

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn The wasp is an East Coast wasp. It has been seen in Pennsylvania before. I had never seen one before and they are beautiful. The black and white contrasts so nicely. I have seen males and females both. Males have a dot on their face like carpenter bees. They were even feeding off the same sugar syrup feeder as the bees. They usually go after caterpillars though.

@arogue469 5 лет назад

I've seen your chickens - it was probably a poultry-geist!

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Lol!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Hardy Harr Harrr.... (';')( ';')...

@jlm22mlj 5 лет назад

I don’t have medium super frames that are drawn out as this is my first year with hives large enough to produce. Will colonies readily draw out frames during a strong flow? I don’t see many bees hanging out in the supers. They mostly occupy the deep/deeps.

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

You need a few requirements for a bee to draw out a frame. A nectar flow is one of those requirements whether artificial (feeding) or natural . If they need pantry room to store the stuff they will build comb to store the stuff. Do not fret.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

They will draw out comb on the frames very fast as the nectar flow gets into full swing. Queens will even lay eggs in cells while the bees are still drawing them out! It can happen amazingly fast and this is the reason I demonstrated the Saskatraz package install as if someone has no prior resources. Great responses Carlos!

@jlm22mlj 5 лет назад

Frederick Dunn Well, I’ve seen them do it very fast in the deeps, but what was concerning me is that they just aren’t hanging around in those supers. I’ll just have to be patient, I guess! :) Great videos!

@sojourner57 5 лет назад

Royal jelly subject was fascinating. Thank you for helping to debunk the "myth-attribution" (misattribution) of incomplete science based on assumption. Every organism can be affected by quantity and quality of food. Baby boomer generation humans having large quantities of milk, resulting in a slightly taller population than previous generations is a corollary...

@sonosunbeam3206 5 лет назад

I noticed one Canadian bee keeper builds and sells his langstroth hives with the frames running parallel with the entrance. Do you think there are any advantages or disadvantages of having the frames run parallel or run perpendicular to the hive entrance? Keep up making great videos!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I can't run my frames parallel to the front entrance because they are too long. The only way to run Langstroth boxes with frames is to have them perpendicular to the entrance. IF someone makes a square box - 20 x 20", then it would be possible to run the frames either way :)

@sonosunbeam3206 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn It's not a matter of changing the frame size. Everything remains the same except for the bottom board. The bottom board needs to be constructed so that the entrance is parallel to the frames, after all the bottom board is the entrance.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@sonosunbeam3206 I don't see any benefit to changing the alignment of the frames to the entrance. But it's an interesting topic.

@TheTrooperGirl 5 лет назад

What would you do in my scenario? May 4th installed package with mated queen. After 3.5 weeks no eggs no nothing. I re-queened. Queen #2 laid only a hand full of eggs about 15 of them. 2 queen cups present. A week later my queen was outside the hive dead. Re-queened again. About 2-4 day queen #3 released. The queen cups have been removed, queen #3 is laying but now my bees are about 6-7weeks old. There were about 9 queen supercedure cells capped. Removed about 8 of them. No new younger nurse bees for the current eggs. It is my understanding that nurse bees that produce royal jelly to feed new larvae are between the ages approximately 3-11days old.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

In the abesnce of nurse bees, other workers often have the ability to revert back to producing bee bread and nourishing open brood. If you have other colonies, you may consider dropping in some brood comb to boost the colony, but they seem weak. I wish I could tell you more...

@framcesmoore 5 лет назад

Ha there thanks for the video. u always do such a wonderful job. My bee weaver bees are a flop I am very disapointed in mine I have tha Saskatraz queens coming from queen right colonies on the 25 I hope they do good for me. I do not think the bee weaver queens were mated good I have 2 out of 5 that are doing half way good. if they do not do better they will not live thew the winter. where did u get your Saskatraz queen bees from. And when do u think it is the best time to buy mated queens. and to do splits. I did some in April and may, I am breaking down the production hives after I remove the honey that is what the saskatraz queens are for. I am doing that in 2 weeks... I seen a bee weaver queen in the hive she was on a frame al by her self not one bee was around her she was doing nothing but walking around they are marked she not very big either,. When do u but your queens from the beeweaver farm. Thanks for all the bee wisdom u share here on youtube, Have a great day

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Hi Frances, that's bad news about your Weaver Queens. Any chance they were possibly over heated in transit? That can sterilize a fertile/mated queen. At any rate, I got the Saskatraz Queens/packages through Mann Lake, but they were shipped direct from the breeder in California. This year I'm not buying in Weaver Queens, I'm making my own that will be cross-mated with local drones. With the workers ignoring that Queen, it sounds like she may not have been successfully mated. Orrrrr.... overheated.

@framcesmoore 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn Wow I did not know they could be hurt that way by heat, It was in the 80 there when they shipped them I want more of the weaver queens but I am afraid to buy them now that was over 200 for those queens. I cant afford to pay that amout and they are not any good. when do u buy your weaver queens. If they were over heated will they fix them selves over time or is it over for them if it is over I need to remove them and replace them so I do not loose the hole nuc thanks

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@framcesmoore I always order them the prior year for April delivery. I always do that so I can immediately replace lost queens in my colonies and the rest I do from splits. If a Queen in transit gets sterilized by overheating she will not recover. In some cases, the result is just very low laying rate, in others it's a sterile non-laying queen. Did you buy Nucleus colonies, or just mated queens? I think I only pay $30-35 each for the Weaver Line. They ship right away if I need one. I would replace that queen.

@framcesmoore 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn Ha I got mine in may they had a hard time sending the weather was bad I just got queens I went on and combined the colonies they were just so weak it was a hole lot worse then the package that u showed in the video. Next time I will order for April The price is the same for me the mailing over night make the cost so bad I am in virginia. where did u get the Saska queens from I am getting mine from Queen right colonies in ohio , It is very surprising to me how u can do a real nice split and it is a big on and how if the queen fails, how just a month can do them in. thanks have a great day

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@framcesmoore I bought the Saskatraz packages through Mann Lake - very expensive and they actually came directly from the breeder in California, so Mann Lake was just acting as a Queen Broker. The breeder information is Olivarez in California... all of the queens are actually coming from them.

@craig6903 5 лет назад

Hi Mr. Dunn, question how do you calculate bee speed and distance? I’m trying to find a wild hive. I have marked bees making return trips on average of 8mins. 8 mins from when they leave and when I see that same bee again. How far would that indicate the hive is? Thank you for help

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Depending on the bee and head winds etc... they are doing 15 to 20 mph... if they depart and have returned in 8 minutes, they aren't too far away. Consider that she would be transferring her nectar or dropping off pollen also during that trip which takes five minutes (average) at the parent hive. So... guestimate a 1.5 to 2 minute flight time at 20 mph.... The parent hive is less than a mile away! Do you have a trap-feeder? That would allow you to catch the foragers on each return trip, rap them while feeding sugar syrup/honey - whatever... walk in the direction they returned from.... release again and wait for the return... each return cycle will get shorter... repeat... have fun and keep us posted!!!

@craig6903 5 лет назад

Frederick Dunn that is awesome thanks for the help. I don’t have a trap feeder, I need to get one. I have been using my Ceracell hive top feeder as a bait station. I have set near two of my swarm traps. So far those girls have drank up nearly five gallons of sugar water in just a week. I hope that if I fill up their hive with sugar, they will swarm and move into my box.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@craig6903 That's an interesting tactic Craig.... let us know how that works out :)

@johnnyjones9782 5 лет назад

Hello, I have assembled a Flow Hive 2 in cedar and I need to put either tung oil or water based varnish on it. I prefer the water based varnish idea because it lasts longer. Do you have any recommendations? I'm in Sydney, Australia.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I use MinWax Helmsman's Exterior - it comes in an oil base or water base - with two coats, it allows some mold to develop. If you do three or more coats and include the top and bottom edges of the hive boxes it's holding up very well. I am continuing my testing of exterior finishes on hive systems, but that's my favorite finish which also shows the excellent wood grain. Wishing you all the best Johnny!

@johnnyjones9782 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn Thank you. I will look for that one. I did a search about it. Vino Farm uses Vermont Natural Coatings polywhey exterior penetrating wood stain. I will see what is available in our hardware store then think about shipping from your part of the world. vermontnaturalcoatings.com/product/polywhey-exterior-penetrating-wood-stain/

@johnnyjones9782 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn This looks interesting too, using hot parraffin wax to preserve hive boxes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RwjSmZimelQ.html

@coziii.1829 5 лет назад

Hey I’m new here My question is why aren’t there more videos or information for horizontal hives. I’m starting to build 3 . I never done bees but I like honey , I make mead. But videos I see about horizontal hives are pretty good and for a hobbyist bee keeper should be fine but all the forums and such barely talk of them . Plus I am making them to be in my shed for the heat and winter is that ok . Or will that be a bit to much. Do you have a video about this ? Also any other information . Thanks.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

In my neck of the woods, horizontal hives, including the top-bar hives have not done well. I would present more about them, but I don't have a single beekeeper friend who has had success going horizontal. I would never heat a hive, or put a hive in a heated shed as they need to respond to the weather cycles and conditions in the region where they will be kept. Shielding from winds and drafts is a great idea, but heating a hive seems to fail at every turn.

@stgermain1074 5 лет назад

1 - Why don't you want your burr comb on the ground? 2 - I've been feeding my package bees since I got them, two months ago. First because they were weak colonies, and now we're entering dearth in TN. They have lots of stored, capped resources - I'd bet a lot of it is syrup, but we had a strong Spring, so there's honey in there as well. Should I keep feeding through the dearth? Thanks!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

It all depends on what you want to do. Some people feed packages for the first month. Some all season to build them super strong, to some only a few feedings to get them built up for a nectar flow. I would go with what people do down in TN locally as my standard. If you are taking no resources from them this year and you can afford it, and want to do it, feeding does not hurt all season. However be mindful if you are open feeding do it at least 140 to 300 feet away from your hives if you can and if you are feeding inside the hive during a nectar dearth make sure you watch for robbing on weak colonies. They will smell that stuff in there and can rob out a weak hive.

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Burr comb attracts robbers, including wasps and ants. It usually has nectar in it.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@danskisbees7348 Great answer!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Since we know the work it takes to build comb, we use all the burr comb and stuff to melt down into bees wax for just our use age.

@danskisbees7348 5 лет назад

Thanks Fred!

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

I would be interested in your opion of single hive management??????

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

Do you mean single box? I'm not certain I understand the question?

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

@@FrederickDunn Yes brood only one box single hive then queen excluder. With this system 2 boxes are used during the flow then reduced down again to one box

@RaySarasin 4 года назад

Can you watch this video please ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-386qWGnt_CU.html

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

@@RaySarasin That configuration doesn't work for me here... I need more than two boxes for the bees to get through winter and have something to take off during the strong nectar flows. Or, they just turn into swarm machines.

@goodnighthoneyapiary 5 лет назад

What do you do to the ends on your boxes to make them black?

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

Richie Coffey are you referring to the finger joint ends? Those on the Flow Hive boxes are laser cut and come that way.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@LarryLeesBees Spot on Larry, they are laser cut and that seers the edges.

@andred7606 4 года назад

Hi Fred. Would you consider weaver bees for a beginner in Southern Orange County California?

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

Absolutely! :)

@andred7606 4 года назад

Thanks. How many packages should I start out with? All equipment is brand new without any drawn out comb

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

Thank you very much for the amazing video my friend Can you please make a revew for Veto-Pharma Varroa EasyCheck I hop you can get it before next Friday it will be amazing

@dixie0721 5 лет назад

Have you ever had a mouse problem getting into the hive?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Once... one hive and I trapped them out.

@benjamindejonge3624 6 месяцев назад

I prefer that a specific brand of bees designed or typical regional stays in their atmosphere like dogs. I mean a Mexican mini dog don’t like Alaska and a husky doesn’t like Mexico so much

@FrederickDunn 6 месяцев назад

Interesting philosophy, and locally adapted bees do have a clear advantage.

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

Dear Mr Fred can you please recommend a Honey Refractometer for us ??????

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

I believe Fred uses this one. goo.gl/iuUk6V or this one. goo.gl/KsHpDz

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

@@weasleoop Thank you very much my friend

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

I would like to know if we can use sugar in Veto-Pharma Varroa EasyCheck instead of alcohol

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I will be demonstrating a sugar roll varroa count method this summer, probably won't get to it this week though. I don't use the alcohol systems, though they do get a better mite count.

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn OK Great but I was wondering if Veto-Pharma Varroa EasyCheck could use sugar power instead or may be sugar syrup instead of alcohol?????

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Yes, you could substitute sugar instead of the alcahol.

@mohammadsalah3319 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn Great news I will by this product then but should I use it as a powder or as a 1:1 syrup ????? Sorry for being so annoying :) :) :)

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@mohammadsalah3319 powder :)

@wendybachman6224 5 лет назад

I have been told by my local mentor to do a full inspection each week on my Caucasian hive, to make sure nothing "funny" is going on. In your opinion, is this too often to be pulling all the frames and looking at each one?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Hi Wendy.... I'm not advising you to argue with your mentor. BUT, for me, that's a great way to destabilize your colony when they are trying to get on your feet. When the landing board activity is going well and looks right, I cannot think of a reason for doing a frame by frame inspection weekly. I think you know that my philosophy is to get in and out with minimal damage and a very short working time. If I have a hive top feeder on my started colonies, I can get to that and swap it out without the bees in the colony being disturbed. Have a purpose for going in the hive, find out what you need to know and close it up. Just me personally. Remember, you are intruding on their natural order and rhythm every time you pull frames. People who smoke their bees too much or too often can also slow or stop production for many hours after the inspection. All food for thought.

@dixie0721 5 лет назад

If a mouse can get into the hive shouldn’t the landing place be smaller?

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

It is not really the landing board, its more of the nooks and crevices and the mouse wanting a nice warm place, like a 90 degree plus bee hive in the winter.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

It's only a problem in winter and I haven't had a mouse problem for years. During warm weather, the bees will zap that mouse! In winter, they try to get in the most accessible hives but I've only had a mouse get into one hive. I used mouse traps to remove them when they were outside on the landing board.

@chriselliott1702 5 лет назад

Where is the link to the observation hive?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Oops... I'll put that up asap :) Thanks Chris!

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jZsvDvO-BKA.html

@58Kym 5 лет назад

i heard a queen piping in the intro video clip! I am also amused by people who think their ‘pets’ ie. their spiders etc or their reptiles and things like that ‘like’ them or ‘like’ the interaction with them. No, to my mind, at the very most they may tolerate it without noticeable aggression. It is stressing the animal even though the owner may not recognize it. It may thrive inspite of the stress, not because of the stress. Social animals of certain intelligence do like interaction, animals like dogs and cats or larger herbivores that are commonly kept by humans. I couldn’t even say that snakes for example, recognize an owner for sure. I do believe goannas recognize familiar people scents though as they are fairly intelligent even for a reptile but even they don’t like being handled. I always think that attitude about pets is more about the owners psychological needs than about reality.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

You absolutely nailed it Kym! Herpetology was my thing for many many years until I realized that I'd be poor forever. I can't tell you how many people owned snakes that they felt some deep spiritual connection with and carried their snakes around like a puppy. It was impossible to impress upon those owners, that the snake is merely tolerating being handled. A losing battle for sure. Show me a baby sleeping with a python and I'll show you an owner who is borderline insane. The highest intelligence I've ever witnessed in a snake was with a spectacled cobra (we won't even talk about King Cobras) - it seemed to anticipate my moves and was not easily fooled - I can tell you that it was not at all interested in being "hugged". Even Steve Erwin loved reptiles yet completely understood that they are not going to be "cozy" with owners.

@mihaiilie8808 5 лет назад

I had a verry intelligent clownfish .Now lives in a museum aquarium but i miss my pet and could travel 400 km to visit him.Now he doesnt recognizes me from houndreds of people he sees every day but when i kept it at my home it shocked me how inteligent it can be.At times was jealous because i tooke more care on a new coral so he took bits of sand in its mouth to try to bury the coral.Such crazy fish was sleeping on one side like a human in bed wich looks like a dead fish. This is the fish sleeping mimicking death to draw my atention. i.postimg.cc/mD8cK5SN/07092014048.jpg

@58Kym 5 лет назад

yes, I bred lots of geckoes, monitors/goanna of different sizes and snakes over the 30 yrs of keeping them and they definitely will keep you poor! I think you need to be prepared to work a lot harder and take a lot less personal interest in your animals and their welfare to make money at it or even break even. Not so much a hobby as a lifestyle. I gave it all up when I realised I was working full time just to keep that hobby going. I am pretty happy just with one small puppy now. I only had one pair of hot snakes (death adders) so I didn’t have that type of problem. Dealing with fast snakes like taipans and brown snakes was way beyond my acceptable stress levels. If you race cars eventually you crash, if you keep hot snakes eventually you get a bite.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@58Kym We eventually had a small serpentarium and you're right, very expensive to operate. One way we not only controlled the food for your reptiles was that we also had a rat and mouse breeding program so we supplied all of the area pet shops as well as fed our own herps. It allowed us to break even in that area. I originally designed my home to have a center nature space with a series of skylights and the rest of the house formed a square around it.... well, my wife didn't act so enthused about that idea and we no longer keep reptiles :( Sounds like you've had some wonderful experiences and are in the know!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

Opened one of my hives yesterday Fred. Found a large bumblebee they had killed that got in there. I have also seen bumblebees landing right on the landing board and get covered in bees. Like calm down bumble you do not live here.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

Bumble Bees are often making landing board entry runs and it's a puzzle because I've never seen them succeed. It's fun to video!

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn This one succeeded. Lol. She had 3 bees hanging off her when I pulled a frame up. I guess she was too heavy to move out, I mean if it takes 2 bees to move a drone out, what would something that size take to move out. I also had a dead miner bee on the landing board on one hive, and I have found multiple dead carpenter and bumbles stung out on the ground. I guess they can smell the resources in there, but there are flowers to go on, why even try to go in here. I have had. (red wasps, Hornets, miner, bumble, and carpenter bees all test the landing board and get stung a lot.. The other day I dunno if the bumble picked it up or the bee stung to her, but it looked like the bumble flew off with a honey bee.) Everything except Yellow Jackets. I still do not know why there are none out here but I am glad.

@mihaiilie8808 5 лет назад

There are somme parasitic species of bumblebees called cuckoo bumblebees that can live in a beehive with the bees.Id let them live with the bees if id had them and i dont consider them a pest.Normally the cuckoo bumblebees lay theyr eggs in otther bumblebees colonyes but some chose honey bees.

@sonosunbeam3206 5 лет назад

A few hours ago I had a question about hive entrances relative to the frames and I need to clear something up before people start thinking I'm an idiot and making stuff up......Mr. Dunn's hives has entrances that are perpendicular to the hive frames. Mr. Scott Hendriks (another one of my favorite bee keeper....link to his channel ru-vid.com/show-UCiA38zEnFZW7SmcI0ogQGgQvideos ) has entrances that run parallel with his frames. Both use standard langstroth hive bodies and standard langstroth hive frames. The difference is in the bottom board. Generally speaking hive bodies do not have entrances , unless one drills a hole in a super as a secondary entrance but that's beside the point. The entrance to a hive is located on the bottom board. Therefore, one can if they wished put four entrances for all for sides of a hive on a bottom board or three entrances for three sides or two entrances for two adjacent sides or two for opposite sides or .....wait for it.... one on a side parallel to the frames. Of course the most common are the manufactured ones with the perpendicular to frame entrances. I'll have to ask Mr. Hendriks if there are any advantages or any disadvantages to his parallel entrance preference. I know from watching his videos that he builds and sells a ton of his bottom boards :)

@dannyflores2308 4 года назад

Is Kelly beekeeping selling saskatraz bees?

@FrederickDunn 4 года назад

They might, I've noticed several companies claiming to have them now.

@aaronluecking3597 5 лет назад

Another fine instructional video Mr Dunn. Had another series of questions for you ,perhaps to be discussed in your upcoming FAQ. I was watching a previous video you had made entitled “First Flow Hive Extraction cycle how to remove honey without filtering frame by frame”. You made a statement , when you are filming your bees in at 3:15 in the morning(minute marker 28:17), that “ bees don’t sleep they work 24/7”. Is that true? www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160621-do-bees-dream If so ,and there are resources available at night time, do they forage at night? If not why not? Are they able to see in the dark? What are your observations? As always look forward to your logical insight.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

HI Aaron, this is already my first question I'll be answering for FAQ 21 - it's like showing an overview of New York City at 2:00 am... still a bustling city with lots of activity... we may say it's a "City that never sleeps" yet, we certainly know that individuals sleep as is the case with honeybees. They sleep in shifts and as individuals, while the hive continues to function and is a flurry of activity. I'll talk more about this... thanks for watching and commenting! :)

@aaronluecking3597 5 лет назад

I was hoping that would be the case. The comment you made could be taken out of context if we did not think of the entire hive as a living organism. So in that context I agree , it never sleeps. Thanks for the clarification and I’ll look forward to your upcoming videos.

@helmuthoess3737 5 лет назад

Do Bees sleep?

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

I will add this question to my next FAQ 21 on Friday. Honey Bees are always doing something inside the hive, there is always activity and the "colony" never sleeps... However, individual honey bees can be found sleeping off and on throughout the day and night. They do sleep, and older bees sleep more often and for longer periods, while younger workers sleep less frequently and for shorter periods of time. Lots of "resting" bees can be seen inside the hive and often on plants.

@weasleoop 5 лет назад

@@FrederickDunn There have been studies that bees learn while they sleep, which means they may actually *dream*. That is so cool. Bees are so intelligent and amazing.

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@@weasleoop I have a friend who is a Dr. of Bio-Psychology... she's done great work in the brain function of many animal species while they sleep... Bees though... I have no idea how anyone can link to a bee brain and see "sleep pattern" activity? Post that study, I need to know more!!!! :) She claims that insect brains are not accessible for that kind of study/observation.

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

I guess those without a technical background don’t appreciate scientific analysis 101... or common sense is not common! ☹️

@FrederickDunn 5 лет назад

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

John Mcneill I’m guessing you are referring to folks thinking (in error) that only queens get royal jelly?

@johnmcneill923 5 лет назад

Larry Lee ... actually it was the lady that doubled her troubles! 😢

@LarryLeesBees 5 лет назад

Ah!!! Gotcha! I hope it works out for her, but I’m afraid you are probably correct... Doubles the trouble that she already had.

@gregwaskom552 10 месяцев назад

This guy has never had real carniolan bees. Carnys are more gentle and display less robbing then Italians. Carnies have smaller clusters then Italian. They shut down brood production when natural stores slow down. Your just putting out a lot of misinformation

@FrederickDunn 10 месяцев назад

Hi Greg, you'll have to help me with a time-stamp on this video where I discuss Carniolan Honey Bees? Everything you said about them is true, and I do have them. Where is the misinformation you're referring to? I'm always open to discussion and am happy to correct something I've said in error. My Carniolans came from Olivarez Honey Bees, are they not producing/selling "real Carniolan bees". I look forward to more information from you, thanks.,