Hive Inspection Success/Problems with Mergers 

I'm new to beekeeping, but I really like your videos. You show the good, the bad and the down right ugly. You don't sugar coat anything, you say how it is. I look forward to many years of content to content to come. Thanks.

You are a commercial beekeeper yet you save one bee by putting her in the sun.... your a legend!😎👍🐝

Hello Ian, You were not sure why the bees had not gone through the newspaper. Two things I find helps, is making a number of holes the size you would have in your feeder buckets to get them started, also wet a small area of the newspaper with a little syrup. I have never known it to fail. Kind regards, Tony Marsh. UK.

Your passion to your craft is outstanding!! 👍

Always informative....thanks!!!

Next level beekeeping - drinking coffee through your veil

Had some nucs take a step back about the same time that first big hatch started .. figured the winter nest did its job gave everything it had then died ... their growing now but wish i had put feed on them cause they got dry quick .. got the buckets back on now .. next year ill do better .. its a whole different ball game managing over wintered colonys ..

I bet it would be quite interesting to be your step and fetchit guy for a couple of weeks. Your observations and techniques are quite interesting. Wish i was young enough to follow you around.

Maybe the newspaper was the politics page from the other party. I know I can't get through it either.

like your new camera much clearer great job

Your single late night bees camped out overnight! Great to see the sun warmed them up & they lived through it.

I did not know till now coffee goes through a veil!!

I just want to thank you for sharing this In my experience i don't merge queenlees hive with other i prefer to add a frame with fresh 1 day old eggs so the queenless hive can go ahead build new queen by their own The other method is to spray the queenless hive with non chemical Perfum and the other hive that has a queen with the same perfume so that both hives get the same smell and will be merged in just 15 minutes But if the queenless hive have a false queen if you understand what i mean i just get this hive away from the bees yard about 400 metres and drop the bees on a newspaper the working queen will be back to their hive and you should add new frame with fresh eggs 1day old and honey frame at the same place also you have to keep their own box so they start to build their own new virgin queen Wael Golan Heights

Haha nice Ian i normally drink beer through mine lol cheers Dan from Aussie land 🍻🍻

Starting to look like spring in that background finally! Could it be everything is starting slow (2 weeks behind) because of your weather this year?

I love watching your channel to hear your perspective. I know you know male from female, but I couldn't help notice you referred to the worker bee as, "this guy...he flew away."

How big do your nucs need to get to before you move them to a 10 frame box.

You did not drink that coffee through your veil!!!

great job 🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻

ML told me he doesn't use newspaper any longer, he uses a spritz of HBH to mask pheromone. That would speed up the mergers.

You can tray spraying the newspaper with water with sugar. That will speed up the process.

When merging colonies, does it matter if the queen is in the top box or bottom box?

What is the purpose of that material you are using under your cover?

There is a theory that field bees often sleep out of the hive. It has been found here that bees will fly to canola up to 6 km away. It seems that if they are still out at night fall, they will just "sleep" where they are and continue back to the hive the next day.

wow drinking coffee through the bee hood. who knew.

Does that top weaker box have its own entrance or must go through the paper and lower box? And what about if your just combining colonies, top entrance?

Maybe the return of that cold snap & snow forced them to huddle for warmth

Question for you if I may do u use 5 frame excluders for the queen and if so where do you by them please.

I tip syrop on the newspaper, they automatically cleaning's it and oops, they have chewed the newspaper!

Just like everything else in newbie bee-keeping. Observation, I can drink my pop, through my head screen!

I believe.....not knowing......that you could just smoke the bees really good in both boxes and combine them right away since all the bees would smell the same like smoke.

Bees working at their own pace.... Are those merging boxes each containing there own queen ?

What are those white strips you put into the nuc at 5:30?

Does the news paper have to have French or English print on it to make this work ? :)

They did not like reading that particular newspaper.

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😂bees no die just frozen .sunshine warmth they can fly

.....stop using the Saturday edition of the Globe & Mail ...their glossy paper is not edible....or they just don’t like the Editorials?...

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