First timer down by Preston. I was in your class at WindyWay. 8 Layens hives; foundation frames, open frames, pollen feeder and 1:1 feeder; 6 packages coming end of this week. Let the journey begin! Thanks for the quick review of installing.
This will be interesting! Love your feeding can. I was thinking about getting a 5 gallon bucket pump but your idea seems easier and no eclectic is needed. 😊 Do you use a GoPro? My Gopro (hero 8 black) has gone blurry a few times, came really close to seeing how far I could throw it a few times. lol So frustrating!
We recorded content but ended up not getting enough good enough to publish an official follow up. The colony with drawn comb did the best, followed with the one with frame of brood. The package only struggled late summer and we ended up requeening it along with the one with drawn comb. Ironically (or not the one we put brood in did well we didn’t requeen and that’s the one that tried to supercedure but too late and didn’t make it through winter.
Pro tip from someone thats not a pro, currently learning all this stuff myself. If the subject in the shot will be stationary ie. boxes that won't be moving, turn off Auto Focus. Waving hands, lower body movements and flying bees will mess with the AF as we can see in the video. Turn it back on when blogging and your face will be in the shot. Cameras Focus is designed to track faces not lower body. Don't hate the messenger, my intentions is only to help.
Great question Bruce. For this test I’m sure initially there may be some, but I don’t long term. I’ve been keeping many colonies bench style for years with no issue.
@@BohemiaBees yeah me too. Benches and pallets. I watched a recent video from Kamon where he discussed drift with new packages. I have never used packages so really don’t know much about how they act, but this will be an interesting experiment for sure. I should get a couple and install them just for fun but I almost have too many bees as it is haha! Thanks for sharing this video. I will be interested to see how each does.
