They sold me BEES in this?? Picking up bees for our new Flow Hives 

Hello 👋 L How are you doing today

Thank you, Julianne

I did my first harvest in late June last year, hoping to do another around that time this year.

Thank you, Lisa

@@whitehouseonthehill the only reason why you lose bee hives is the fact you have no knowledge about beekeeping,you are doing everything wrong starting from hives if you have dead hive remove all comb and put new wax and then instal bees,second don't use plastic foundations because i see in videos that they make half frame wax and on the corners nothing,next thing don't paint inside hive,don't buy bee queens which have paint all over their body because there is big chanse she will die,don't open very bees often,don't add second box if there is no at least 5 frames of brood and by that i mean more than half of frame,do treatment for varroa mite,bees can die even if they have honey in hive because if it is cold they can't move towards honey and they eventually die to help them put brood in centre and around honey frames,and during winter add sugar patty it will be like bridge for them to honey frames and it will keep bee cluster thight,in october add paper or any material that keep warmth,expand brood by adding empty frame to brood frame in the end of march and im may you can put frame in centre of brood the reason you do this is that in spring qeens lay a lot of eggs and you make space for her to lay more brood you repeat this as soon as queen lay entire frame,in may you will have strong hives and lot of swarms, i recommend you to use lr hive because it's the best hive for beekeeping,make swarms as soon as you have queen cells take 2 frames of brood and queen and 1 frame of honey and put that in new box,in the hive you take that from leave queen cells and they will make new queen very fast ,in august give them sugar water in ratio 1:1 ,this will stimulate queen to lay more winter bees and with a lot of bees they will easier survive,give them 1 liter every 2 days for 2 weeks, another mistake is bees can't always make their own queen it depends from season it takes 1 month for queen to start laying and sometimes it is to long because hive gets weaker,if you don't apply this advices and if you don't find good beekeper to teach you,you will always lose hives and they will always die,don't understand this as hate thought i tell you this to improve your skills about bees and to stop buying every year swarms but you will be able to sell them greetings from Europe

Thank you!

Yep, I love having their help at the hives 😊

If they fill they hive they will eventually do a split. If we can avoid that, we can grow a larger, stronger hive.

check out kamon reynolds if you are interested in honeybees and their hierarchy. Him or Bob Binney are by far the best honey bee educations channels out there! i have learned so much from them an attribute my success with my bees to them

Thanks!

I agree

Fun with nature 😋

Oh, she runs from the hives when she realizes we are heading out to them.

Any reused honeycomb goes into our deep freeze to kill the pests that are still lingering.

If a queen dies, they make a new queen. A queen wouldn’t leave a hive, she would have no chance to survive without the rest of the bees.

@@whitehouseonthehill thanks for the reply, I was really curious as alot of people say that it’s a disaster if the queen dies.

We got ours from Flow Hive

@@whitehouseonthehill ok I checked there site but they don't ship in India.😔

What’s the most expensive chicken in the world?

Yes, I showed the box we used in this video. But we have old videos of catching bees in our homemade swarm traps.

We sure do

@@whitehouseonthehill I follow you

or something shorter like "grass" because it would be easier to paint on the box

@@nyotauhura7412 but grass isn’t a flower, and they can just right it small.

I love this

@@gwennnnnnn *write

@@urndjek prob ato-correct

How are you enjoying your hives?

you should grow pourge for the bees

Year round flowers would be lovely! And you can use a grass seed spreader to toss them everywhere. You'd need some from each season. Though I think their winters are too cold for any real flowers besides mistletoe and it might be a bit dangerous, since they're poisonous. There's so many different wildflowers that grow in the states too. If they plant more fruit trees, by the time the boys are in their teens, the bees will be helping pollinate those too. You can scatter the windfall and bug eaten fruits either with the pigs or in the treeline to help bolster them too and give seedlings a head start. Wildlife would then be prompted to visit those "wild windfall" trees at later dates, and leave the crop trees alone.

Hard to grow anything in - degrees

Look likes an astronaut

That little bee suit is the cutest thing ever

Relevance? Are they not still edible?

@@obezyanka0976 Yes the strawberries are still edible at lower levels of boron deficienty but as it gets worse, they become a lot of outer skin and seeds; still edible but pretty crunchy with minimal juicy berry. The plants themselves will not be as healthy nor hardy; and they will have decreased yields. Some would argue that the berries themselves will not be as nutritious because they aren't able to draw as many goodies from the soil.

Nature gift

@Mathew Uskoski is that enough for all year?

Unless your in the middle of the Sahara desert. I highly doubt you don’t have the pollen in your area to support a couple colonies.

@@rstlr01 not the Sahara but it is the desert. Sure would be be nice to give it a try.

Hello 👋 How are you doing today

I second this emotion!

He does, but we are working on the aviary so they will have more space this summer.

Hello 👋 Jessica How are you doing today

Yes... and bees are able to regulate the temperature in hives. They've been doing really well. The brood box is almost full.

Thanks, Jo Jo!

Thanks, Kevin!

Thank you