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Supering Bees Giving Them A Lifeline This Spring 

Gwenyn Gruffydd
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In this video we continue to add honey supers on to bees. But this time were not doing it as rocket fuel but as a lifeline to the bees!
The weather so far has been horrendous! Cold and wet...theres hardly any pollen coming in let alone nectar. Its hard out there and the bees are going backwards.
The hope with these honey supers in that the bees will eat the wet honey thats on the frames giving them some much needed stores and energy. In the hope that once they clear that the weather will improve!
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@_J.F_
@_J.F_ 5 месяцев назад
In over 10 years of beekeeping I have never had to feed as much as I have been doing these past 6 months. Thankfully we have had a few days with some sunshine recently but my colonies are all on the light side and quite behind when it comes to building up brood nests. There will not be any worth while spring honey this year and the only 'positive' is that I don't need to worry about swarming for quite a while. It is probably not how it works but I could certainly do with some of that global warming right now 😬
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
We could definitely do with some sun and heat!!
@dogblackprincehoney
@dogblackprincehoney 5 месяцев назад
I've watched some Ukrainian beekeepers and they have weather +23 C nearly all of April.
@gadgetmansbees
@gadgetmansbees 5 месяцев назад
How have you managed to keep your supers mould free? I kept mine in a shed over winter and had to get rid of loads of frames which has become excessively mouldy.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Either in a sealed building or wrapped up and stored outside
@DiverPeg
@DiverPeg 5 месяцев назад
I am putting on syrup feeders as soon as it stops raining. Colonies are small. Dumfries and Galloway
@philipbarker7672
@philipbarker7672 5 месяцев назад
Hoping from Wednesday we’ll get some warmth. South wales definitely needs it.
@Devonhoneyandcandles
@Devonhoneyandcandles 5 месяцев назад
it's been a terrible spring here in Mid Devon, most of the supers i have put on are empty , I'm now starting to panic as i'm running out of moves. We all need to start doing a sun dance and cross all our fingers.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
@aidan4158
@aidan4158 5 месяцев назад
I'm from West Sussex and I have had to split two of my colonies as they had 7 & 9 frames of brood with charged swarm cells, they already had 1 super with 3 - 5 frames full of nectar. I'm still having to watch the hives stores and one of my colony died due to the queen dying in winter and there were not many drone laying workers left. Hope your bees are doing well and this weather warms up 🐝
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
I'm going back to the south coast! 😂
@petervanstone4097
@petervanstone4097 5 месяцев назад
You are in the garden of England,l was told when a boy.l must come and join you,lts deadly here.
@Dan-wo4bx
@Dan-wo4bx 5 месяцев назад
Yeah i’m in W.Sussex i’ve got a super on and looks like plenty of activity! My first year of beekeeping so I’m flying blind at the moment had the bees for a month or so they haven’t died or buggered off so I’m taking that as a win 👍🏻
@Dan-wo4bx
@Dan-wo4bx 5 месяцев назад
@@petervanstone4097I think anyone from Kent might get the hump with you calling sussex the garden of England but i’ll take it !
@paulfairbrass4424
@paulfairbrass4424 5 месяцев назад
Same story over here in Ireland, our weather is your weather. Luckily i have wet Super's. But fingers and toes crossed, next weekend looks very hopeful.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
It’s definitely looking promising 🤞🏻
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
Inspected ours on Friday, lots of bees, v low on stores, crap weather ahead. Feeding time again!
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
🤞🏻 for some sun!
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
@@gwenyngruffydd Good today, crap forecast for us
@geraltofrivia8529
@geraltofrivia8529 5 месяцев назад
Got wasp traps out too in the apiarys, had close to 20 queens so 120,000 (?) wasp stress reduction this year so far. Waiting on hornet queens. I've got a commercial under a national brood with a very black queen with bees that mob my hand like those of yours, i'm breeding from her this year, great bees for cold flying, early buildup and securing property.
@bennybeekeeper
@bennybeekeeper 5 месяцев назад
I hope the weather improves for you soon 👍
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Thank you ☺️
@TheWindy45
@TheWindy45 5 месяцев назад
Hey Griff, how much do you think the geoengineering is having an effect. The govt spray operations hae been horrendous the last 6 months and they are clearly spraying and blocking our sun !!
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
I don’t know enough about it. I see more and more comments talking about it though.
@user-Sandgrounderhoney
@user-Sandgrounderhoney 5 месяцев назад
Fear not .... summer has arrived
@InTheHive-Beekeeping
@InTheHive-Beekeeping 5 месяцев назад
Great video, thanks for sharing the more difficult bits (shake out). I tried to requeen a drone layer, but they had become laying workers. Wasted a good queen trying to save them when i should have just cut my losses.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Thank you ☺️ It’s never easy. When they are at that stage they are dead. They just don’t know it.
@davidmaloney2724
@davidmaloney2724 5 месяцев назад
Perhaps you want to feed bud as that supper will last them two days. The small colonies usually have some stores but the big ones as you know may be dry. We are supposed to get two days of hot weather tomorrow but Wales is rainy on the best of days right just worried for you.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
It’s pretty rough here at the moment
@davidmaloney2724
@davidmaloney2724 5 месяцев назад
@@gwenyngruffydd yeah same wish you all the best.
@williamjordan1671
@williamjordan1671 5 месяцев назад
Thanks for all your help Griff
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
No problem 😊
@honeybeesforsale
@honeybeesforsale 5 месяцев назад
Excellent explanation of what to do with a colony headed by a drone laying queen
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Thank you ☺️
@hevchip741
@hevchip741 5 месяцев назад
Hit the like button guys
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
😊👍🏻
@DenbeeHoney
@DenbeeHoney 5 месяцев назад
Great video… tractor envy going on here Griff ❤
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Thank you! It’s not as nice as your Massey though!!
@DenbeeHoney
@DenbeeHoney 5 месяцев назад
@@gwenyngruffydd hahaha I’d have to agree 👍🏻
@Justin_P911
@Justin_P911 5 месяцев назад
Would requeen the brood layer not be an option? Or is it only worth a shake out?
@dogblackprincehoney
@dogblackprincehoney 5 месяцев назад
You mean drone layer? Not worth it. I did last year gave them a virgin queen and they killed her.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
The bees are too old to survive. And they will more than likely kill the queen. Better use of a new queen for her to be used in the creation of a new nuc.
@eggshoney7633
@eggshoney7633 5 месяцев назад
Thumbs up for saying "from America, not China"
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
I thought that was a bit odd tbh.
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
🇺🇸💪🏻
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
​@gwenyngruffydd Are you saying that China cannot make products of an equivalent quality to America? That is patently nonsense.
@zebrabing
@zebrabing 5 месяцев назад
@@redflag4781 I am saying that I have had very bad experiences (plural) buying high end goods. Very bad. Never again, and if you dont like it, you can get stuffed.
@redflag4781
@redflag4781 5 месяцев назад
@@zebrabing Errrr, did I mention you?
@davidmaloney2724
@davidmaloney2724 5 месяцев назад
Same problem here south of France. Temperature is to low for nectar been feeding one was almost dead if I had not caught it. Very unusual spring
@gwenyngruffydd
@gwenyngruffydd 5 месяцев назад
Hope it’s not more of what’s to come!
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