To Harvest Honey, Or Not To Harvest | Variables in Beekeeping

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Well folks, the main nectar flow has, for all intents and purposes, ended, and it's time for the bees to slow down and cure the honey. But what about the honey already cured and the little bit of nectar coming in here and there? Also, how about a super busy schedule for the beekeeper in July when normally it would be an all out harvest of all supers? These questions have all collided in my thought process and I need to come up with a plan to get ahead so that I will be able to meet all of my commitmetns in July. So come along and go with me in my thought process in the bee yard as I figure out the path going forward.
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@brucesbees 12 дней назад

Some days in the bees can simply be enjoyable. Sounds like you had one of those days! Good stuff Mike. As always.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Yea, it was nice to be done before the major heat and still have the day to do other things.

@adamsoutdoors 12 дней назад

Little tidbit about the beetle larva at the end I did not know. 55%, put that in the memory bank. Thanks Mike, God bless!!

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

When I learned that, it changed a lot on how I harvest. It allows me to spread out my time for sure.

@adamsoutdoors 7 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees that makes a huge difference in how I will be doing it from now on. I have a small walk in cooler I built in my shop for deer season. It will be perfect for warming and drying.

@donbearden1953 9 дней назад

Good video Mike. It’s so much easier and cooler to do a little at a time. You’re not getting as hot and it’s easier to stay hydrated to work a few at the time. Hopefully you break your previous record.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Thanks Don. Going to have to wrap up soon so I can stay out of the heat.

@kathyhathaway8823 12 дней назад

Hello Mike enjoy seeing everyone working in the Bee yard because that is a sign of things happening or happened . I worked one yard today an did not even light my smoker ( that is a first) . Have a good week. Thanks

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Yea, I think everyone is running crazy right now. We're close to winding down and moving into winter prep phase...but first...vacation!!

@KajunHomestead 12 дней назад

You got the right Idea, I've made two pulls so far on my big hives and been putting the suppers back on so they can clean up and have some space with all this heat. I find it easier to pull small amounts than all at once, Its just too much work when doing it by yourself. Great video Mike God Bless

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

It’s working nice so far, but I am getting to a point that I need to go out and just get the rest at once. Did another dozen today.

@ThatBeeMan 12 дней назад

I believe I can hear the fatigue in your voice, Mike. Be sure to take care of yourself!

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Yea Brad, I’m finally figuring out it’s time to retire and open up my schedule and re-budget my time.

@russellkoopman3004 12 дней назад

Mike, it is nice to have some of that honey pulled and extracted. That is the way I harvest also. I date my pails and taste sample the different dates and pick the best tasting for runny honey and the rest goes into creamed honey. It was nice to have you in the chat with Gunline tonight. Have a good week.

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

That's what I do too. I always tag the lids with the date of the harvest. This season it's weekly of course, but nice to have them separated. Plan to make some creamed honey from the light spring batch. Enjoyed that stream very much. It's about the only evening all week that I'm free before dark.

@GunRunnerGundogsGamebirds 12 дней назад

Great video as always Mike!!

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!!

@tarheelbeekeeper3971 12 дней назад

Good stuff Mike, I get the getting older slowing down stuff i feel every day. work smarter not harder

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Yep, and it’s when we don’t realize it that it bites us. I figured it out years back.

@tarheelbeekeeper3971 6 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees so true

@strugglingbeekeepermarkcot9642 11 дней назад

Good deal buddy I enjoyed your video. Stay safe in that heat. It’s been pretty hot up here in West Virginia.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed it Mark. Stay cool best you can brother.

@researcherAmateur 11 дней назад

Yep, one day l simply realized that the days when I'm running around all day and doing a lot of work are gone and done. Now we work with a steady Tempo and getting things done as we can in time

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Yep, 100% agree on that my friend!!

@michaelhansen6481 10 дней назад

👍

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Thanks!!

@SylantBill 12 дней назад

I had to pull honey already. Girls filled all my supers, built 4 more supers and they filled those. Extracted 11 8 frame supers and put wet boxes back on and they are filling those again. First pull was 320 lbs, a new record for me.

@apatriot1762 11 дней назад

Where though?

@SylantBill 11 дней назад

@@apatriot1762 central eastern Alabama 25 Miles from GA border. 45 miles north of brucesbees.

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Awesome!! Hope your next harvest is a good one!!

@ThatBeeMan 12 дней назад

LOL "Usta-could!" Love it!

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Some of that southern dialect😁😁

@eddybarker5072 12 дней назад

Looks like you’ve had a blessed year Mike and the bees have done their job. I’m up North of Dallas and our nectar was negatively affected this year with all the rain we had so honey production was very low. Did take advantage of a few splits. Love your channel and your super positive personality. You’re one of my favorites👍👍

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

So glad for your support and that you enjoy the channel. I’ve see on the Texas Friendly page that people were seeing a reduced year due to rain. Hate to hear that and I hope y’all get a nice fall flow.

@johniac7078 12 дней назад

Beautiful frames of honey!!! This year so far has been a MONSTER year in Massachusetts. They are filling with nectar and pollen like mad. Thank you Mother Nature! My Dad used to say "sweating' bullets!" LOL. Love your vids Mike, thank you.

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

That's great!! Love those years when it just keeps on coming. Thanks for your continued support and glad you enjoy the videos!!

@jimmylott9677 12 дней назад

A fellow bee keeper has still have his inner cover on ,your view on this

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Well, if you run in we covers, then they should stay on all the time. The keep that cushion of air and also they keep the telescoping lid from being hard to pry off. The only thing that I’ve always been told is that they need to flipped so that the access notch is down in the summer. Other than that, they normally stay on all year.

@dcrosco1458 12 дней назад

Well it comes down to this mike what is more important

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Yep and as I get older, I think a lot differently on that.

@tomkingsley4398 11 дней назад

Good video Mike, I don't know how you cope with that heat and humidity. I am impressed with your swine knowledge 😅

@MikeBarryBees 10 дней назад

I’m a beekeeper and I know things Tom😂😂

@tomkingsley4398 10 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees I was a Hog farmer before I was a beekeeper

@Steele_Wings 12 дней назад

Need to get a cool vest. Those ice packs hold for at least 3 hrs. Life saver in this heat.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

I’ve thought about one many times, just never really followed thru. I just try to limit my time and plan my day around the mornings.

@lambbrookfarm4528 12 дней назад

Howdy Mike, been raining here since temps dropped out of the mid 90's this past week, and humidity, well we got it here as well. We get a dearth mid-summer in my location. Sorry I didn't post my early honey harvest, it was just 3 Layens frames from a live hive and 3 partial frames from a dead out, a little over 20#. The Layens honey is the clearest I have seen. A couple friends commented the same thing, 'looks like grade A fancy maple syrup'... ya I know, but we do sugarin' up here in New Hampshire. Been humid and raining now since Thursday. Weather looks good Tuesday. Hoping to pull honey then. Oh, and I'm with you on the older and getting less done thing. Thanks for sharing, take care, Brice

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Glad you got the harvest done and I understand not getting it on video. I sometimes just get focused on what I'm needing to get done and I just get moving and leave the camera on the table. We could use some rain. We had some steady rain events for a while, but we're drying out now. My issue is letting my mind tell me I can keep on working when my body is saying no....Just have to use wisdom I suppose. Have a great week Brice!!

@TomStogner 12 дней назад

I live about 30 miles east of you. I took the same Virgin VSH queen challenge and ended up getting 3 of 6 mated (maybe). She’s got a good pattern going but…looks like they want to replace her already before any of the brood is capped.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

It’s just got to be done earlier Tom. I knew it going in and now I m is it even more. Only mated queens for me starting mid May.

@redfish440 12 дней назад

Thanks Mike, lots of good information, I appreciate it, God Bless !

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Thanks you and God’s blessing to you as well brother!

@poseidonam 12 дней назад

I have a massive patch of Japanese knotweed. That will bloom in late Aug. I will be ready this year with drawn empty supers.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

I’ve heard a lot about knotweed and how the bees love it. Don’t have it around my house.

@tommychew6544 12 дней назад

Great episode Mike. I have to put on my calculating mind of things for my area, like I have to with all you guys down south that far south. From the time I joined the Corps in 85 to the time I came back in 89 the insect load around streetlights was 1/4 what it was before I left, likely lower by the poison they were spraying here in SW Missouri. My entire intention is just to seed them back into the area. If it's the last thing I do, I will have done my job. Honeybees are few and far between in my immediate area. I don't subscribe to that they are non-native narrative; without them we would not have the pollinator's needed for all of our crops, I saw that firsthand. I think the whole Africanized bee's movies of the 70's is still in their minds. It's like the movie Jaws and the killing of sharks that came afterwards. Thanks for the video!

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

We all do our part and in the end, it culminates into the one goal. I didn't really pay much mind since I was always on the move in the Navy. Now I see so much more by being a beekeeper. We are doing very well down here with the honeybees, but elsewhere it's zilch. I has some mason bees move into some holes in some wood last week. Very cool. Thinking about getting some tube houses for them.

@honeyandthecoop803 12 дней назад

I'm with you on the sweating part Mr.Mike.......sweating like a government mule up here in South Carolina.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

It’s just brutal and it makes me miserable some days. But, it’s all part of living I. The south I suppose….😁

@illumi-Nate 12 дней назад

Looks like u got a nice harvest coming!

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

I sure hope so. Going well so far.

@628DirtRooster 12 дней назад

You gonna let Mr. Ed use your lift trailer this year?

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Oh man!! Did you hear what happened? I talked to Charlie this evening. It was good while it lasted.

@628DirtRooster 9 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees Jeff called and told me. Yikes $$$

@edwardjacob5674 12 дней назад

Hoping to get to mine in next week or so. Remember if you need help just let me know. Always interested in getting into hive’s

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

I might have to take you up on that if I don’t get all of them by the 6th.

@rodneymiddleton9624 12 дней назад

Heck of a nice job Mike!

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Thanks Rodney!

@johnn1a2 12 дней назад

Hi Mike

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Hello!!

@3Beehivesto300 12 дней назад

You need to make a video of how to go pee when you need to go bad and the bees are mad…. lol

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Not sure RU-vid would like that….

@rodkirt9273 12 дней назад

Why don’t you park your trailer closer to the hives so you don’t have to walk back and forth 60 feet to load the boxes ? 🤷‍♂️

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

It’s about 15 to 20 feet. And I don’t park it close or it would be right in front of the stand and I’d rather not have honey boxes right at the entrances. I try to park it between two or three stands.

@doctortcbkk2027 12 дней назад

It’s such a tough time….I hate to do too much reconfiguring as it starts the robbing

@edmartin875 11 дней назад

Doesn't anyone use an entrance reducer these days ? We used to do that to control robbing.

@doctortcbkk2027 11 дней назад

@@edmartin875 yes and robbing screens

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Yea, definitely have to move fast as summer is upon us. I grab and go and limit inspections.

@WildwoodsBeekeeping 12 дней назад

Hey Mike!! Hope to extract some honey here around July 4th, been pushing it back just to let the bees cap and finish the nectar that they haven’t capped yet. Have 2 deeps full of honey, and 4 supers full of honey. Will give them 1 more week and should be ready. We will see!! Hope all is well!! Have a great day Mike :)

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

Good deal Grayson!! Hope you get it off and in the buckets soon. It's always a relief for me when I get it all done and all I have to do is care for the bees and their health for the rest of the seaon. Inspections and treatments....

@wadebarnes6720 12 дней назад

If you can send some rain it 🔥 and the clover and the grass is all is dying I want to replant some clover but it's too dry I got 50 lb of seed

@MikeBarryBees 6 дней назад

That’s was us last year. Drought hurt us pretty bad. Wish I could send you some rain Wade.

@wadebarnes6720 6 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees we had a little rain storm come through blue down some limbs and made a mess of the yard positive part we did get a little bit of water but I hate when I see damage to the old trees nearest pecan trees around my house is 4 ft at the base are bigger there are not many Big trees left

@time2fly2124 12 дней назад

hey i'm just curious how you deal with your cappings from using the knife? do you have a wax spinner tucked away we havent seen before? i'm going to be pulling about 50 supers this summer also, and haven't ever needed to deal with that much wax, but my maxant cappings basket fills up afer about 8-10 supers, and takes a while to drain out.

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

I empty the basket and keep on going. I store them in a tote. I try to drain them for about two days, but if I’m doing more than 12 to 15, I have to pull them wet and let the drain in my old uncapping tank. I wish I had a wax spinner. Hoping to get one in the next couple of years. At the end of the season, I melt them in a Maxant wax melter.

@SmokyMountainLashBees 11 дней назад

My battle is while I’d love to pull in increments too I can’t leave mine sitting even to dry out (I have to just feed it back if it’s not the right moisture content). I battle ants. 😭 If I even leave it more then a couple hours and definitely not over night the ants swarm it. Those annoying tiny “sugar” ants. 🥺

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

I truly dislike ants. They can be so destructive and until you’ve had them, people don’t understand. I hate that you have them so badly.

@kenhawkins 8 дней назад

I did the 1/2 tsp of bleach when I did my sugar water.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Should keep it from molding a while longer that way.

@timmorris7022 12 дней назад

What size honey house do you have?

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

It’s 12’ X 30’. It should really be wider though. At least 14’ wide in my opinion.

@mikejohnson3375 5 дней назад

What make and model is your blower?

@GunRunnerGundogsGamebirds 9 дней назад

Mike: Do you mind sharing, where your banner came from and how much it cost? I’m talking about the banner you use on your market table. Thank You Sir!

@MikeBarryBees 8 дней назад

We got it on Amazon. It was recommended to me by a viewer actually. It’s a really good ‘attention getter’ and we’ve had people riding by that saw it and stopped.

@DonaldFarmHoney 12 дней назад

Hey Mike, In your opinion what is the best thing to use on fume boards. I used some home made stuff earlier this year and it worked ok I guess but don't have anything to compare it to.

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

I honestly believe that honey bandit has worked the best. I really am not impressed with the honey-b-gone. I’ve used the honey robber with Mr Ed one time and I’ll never use that again. WOW!! It’s so awful smelling!! But honey bandit has worked the best for me. I’m going to get a gallon of it at the expo this year.

@davidkoch733 12 дней назад

Do you think you get more honey using 9 frames vs 10 frames?

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Yes. I have a video clip I’ll show soon about the weight difference between them. I’ve used mine frames for about 8 years now and really like it.

@SylantBill 12 дней назад

Do you reduce the hive entrance and if so when do you do it?

@MikeBarryBees 9 дней назад

Yes, I usually put them in the weaker hives after harvest in mid-July. For the strong colonies I will put them in around September when it’s not as hot.

@SylantBill 9 дней назад

@@MikeBarryBees Thank you

@WillyPete_ 12 дней назад

Box Fans and low humidity kills beetle eggs.. GOLDEN INFO Make sure to repeat that fact from time to time, this is my 1st time hearing this in 7 years.

@MikeBarryBees 7 дней назад

Yea, when I learned it a few years ago, it changed how I harvest and allowed me more time to get the job done right.