Part two of my recent presentation to Penquis beekeepers. I talk about single, double deep and double nuc brood chamber colonies and how I prepare them for winter.
Looks good but if you take all the honey and give them syrup in the fall how can you be sure you don't get left over syrup in your spring honey? Remove the supers that had winter stores when the spring flow starts?
I hope u see this and answer my question I asked it on pt 1 of this series. you have been a bee keeper for a long time my question is can u look at the entrance of a hive and tell they are going to swarm just by looking at the entrance, also I use 8 frame boxes will the single box brood chamber work with 8 frames.. Please answer this and thanks for the video u did a good job
Personally I would not be able to say I could look at the entrance of the hive and say this hive will swarm, I believe there are some subtle differences in activity and I could narrow down hives that don't look right and maybe have a look. As for 8 frame, I think you could do the same yes. But I would say swarming risk is higher.
@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer Thank you for your honesty I really enjoy the videos I have 46 hives a full time job plus cut grass on the side 9 yards a week and I am a care giver I go in my hives on the weekends every week so I was asking trying to lesson the load I am 62 and I am tired, I use apivar for this last mite treatment, going to use formic acid next I have it as I am writing to u my hives are doing so good right now do u think I will hurt my hives to put it in at the end of this month I like it because it is a quick kill plus it kills under the capped brood, but I am afraid of it for queen kill ect. this late in the season they can not make queens. I can not find queens either, I fine a queen once in a while I have real bad eyes I cant read street signs so there is no way I can tell if they are queen right I use a flash light and a magnifier glass to find the smallest larva I can see. I feed and treat and when winter comes I give them a candy board wrap them and pray they are ok true the winter your videos are great hope u keep doing them, God Bless and have a Great week
Usually it is enough but you do need to keep an eye on all hives in the Spring as some winters they use more honey than normal. Smaller hives tend to have smaller clusters but it is fair to say that singles are more vulnerable to running out.
I've been wondering... for the bees is overwintering learned or part of their genetic instinct? And by wondering this, there was this other part I was thinking about... in theory a queen could produce at least 2 or 3 generations of queens within a year. And so I wasn't sure if they have the mother's instincts already about wintering, or if its learned... and then if that queen is from another area, do they not get the new areas instincts of local flora? Or does it not change until that parent queen is acclimated themselves? This could mean an F1 daughter, or the next generation after that, I'm not sure how soon their instincts are acclimated to a local environment. Well this is interesting to think about. But sorry I asked something odd and partly difficult.
@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer True plus it my give you more options for nucs next spring. I really appreciate your advice and videos. They have helped more than I can tell you.
Do you use formic pro Sept 1-14? Am I in trouble because I took my supers off now I'm using formic pro Sept 19- Oct 3? The calendar I was going by said to take my supers off before mite treatment then feed by the end of the month, but the formic pro says no internal feeders so I took my top feeder off. Should I set up a community feeder? Thank you so I know for next year.
