If I paint a hive red, will my bees able to find it?

I have a red bulb on my back porch. It may not attract all the bees but some ( usually a half a cup or so that flock to the light.

What am I missing? The only time this might be handy is if I open a hive at night. Do people do this? Why? I will admit that I treat with OA vapor at night when they are all home, but I block the entrance before doing anything else. Why do you want to bathe the hive in red light?

The key is red "ultraviolet" lights. We had to change our flood light bulbs due to my wife developing an allergy to bee stings. We enjoy sitting on the porch at night but don't won't the bees on the porch with us, due to her now developing an allergy. We bought a flood light that has multicolor settings with red as one setting and thought that would remedy the issue but they still are drawn to the standard LED red. Then done some research stating it had to be ultraviolet to remedy the issue. Great insight on your video! Many folks don't think to publish these types of videos on Beekeeping.

Anyone experiment with a light in the hive that would make the mites visible to the bees?

Dude I love you channel! Tech/data and bees!!!

Love the vids, truly dispise the term Beeks.

Would LOVE to see you do this with a esp8266CAM or a D1 mini.... MUCH cheaper and easier to make enclosures...

I use a green light

I always use a .062 dia drill for holes.

nice video content. Very helpfull and usefull for all us beeks

inside the hive, its pitch dark. what difference does it make what color the mites are?

I really enjoyed watching this video! I’ve even saved it on my KZbin account. Thanks for sharing what you’ve done. I’m looking forward for more of your bee tech savvy skills! Also, do you mind if I copy your link and post it on my bee club’s group facebook page? Thank you.

ok, being I am in tech I have 100 questions now lol I think we could be best friends. I am all about tech and beekeeping. I hope you can stop by this week.

Great video, very indpeth... One thing, the audio is a bit low in general, but especially low when you get to around 32:20. Not sure what editing software you use, but a great FREE editing software is Davinci Resolve (so glad I move to it, saves so much time in editing).... but it has a feature called "Normalize Sound" and you can set all audio to be normalized where peaks are at a specific db such ad -6db and it will make the sound quality so much better. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

Very interesting video!! I don't know much about bees and beekeeping but enjoyed learning. Thank you for sharing!!

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Great video. I was just wondering about hole size. I do like to put bee pollen substitute in the syrup containing HBH and ABB supplements, so when I made the thumbtack or small nail sized holes, it seemed the pollen sub stayed in the jar. Now I know I can go to a larger size before running into dripping issues. Thanks.

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The bigger holes that at first did not leak, would they spring a leak when the bees started to feed from the jar? Any difference which direction that you drive the holes through the lid?

Then you come out in a week and they haven't been able to pull it out of the holes so they haven't drawn any comb or grown in any way. I've had too many failures playing around with this. Frame feeder or top feeder. Can't miss. However... thank you for the effort.

I sat next to you in the weird multi-monitor classroom on the honeybee dance. I thought your name tag said Kurt. I found the conference was a little boring. I would rather be outside with my bees.

This is a great video. Would have been good to include jar size and feed volume to see if that had any affect

It's actually a really good idea to put coloring in your feed for the bees. It allows you to see WHERE they are storing the feed. If any of the red liquid ends up in your supers (even if you stopped feeding previously) then you know you don't have pure honey.

I hope you don't catch anything either!

Ha good job but I do think like u said u need some kind of cover for the traps. I ordered some to and have yet to recieve them maybe soon. Have a blessed day, oh yea if the baite works please let us know I am trying to buy baite and that will save a lot of money. Thanks

Great content.... watched several of your videos in a row and you are on your way! Not only are you focusing on a much needed niche (science based beekeeping principles), but also have done your homework on scripting and editing your videos to grow your audience! Great work.

Great review!

The amount of airspace helps to determine how good of a vacuum you get. the more full the jar, the less leakage you will get. Good video and experiment!

Also on your test you have to remember you are using water . Remember syrup is a lot thicker . Also the bees will pull out what they want . So like I suggested keep holes small .

There is no correct size of hole . The amount of syrup is determined by the amount of syrup you want to come out because of how you want to feed . You always use a very small hole but you may just use three holes or you may go with ten or twelve holes . If you just want to stimulate the bees use less amount of holes then if you want to put weight in the hive for say winter you put a lot of holes . Believe it or not but even in steel lids the holes will get bigger the more they are used . Also that gets into something else to what thickness of syrup you are wanting to feed . There are three different mixtures I use these are water & sugar the first is a say 1-1/4 to 1 this one is thinner than a 1 to 1 because this one is a lot closer to nectar. Then the middle one is a 1 to 1 then the last one is a 1 to 2 this one is the thickest mixture. This is used to put a lot of weight on fast to fill the box so the bees will have a lot of food for the winter . Do see there is really no correct size or amount of holes it is just something you learn with years under your belt an learn what each thing does . I do not remember off the top of my head what size holes it is but a tooth pick will just barely fit in the hole to clean the holes out but guessing I would say a 1/16” or or a 1/8” just stay small . On the leakage even with small they will not leak a lot but when the temperature changes it will burp an you will get some leakage . Always fill your jar up full . If you start getting a lot of leakage then your jar is probably getting low an will not hold a vacuum an or you are having a lot of temperature changes from night time to middle of the day. This is hard to put on paper what to do but I hope this helps out .

Thank you for attending so many conferences! I attended the SBGMI virtual conference. It was beyond awesome.

I've used swarm commander and its awesome. Setting some up in a preserve nearby hoping for some survivor genetics!

You have some awesome videos so far! Keep it up! Regarding the Tropi mite, it seems like areas without brood seem to fair a lot better than tropics. Also, VSH behaviors often called SMR (Suppressed mite reproduction) in the papers about tropi seem to be effective and might be the reason beeks in places like China and Thailand continue to keep. It has kept me up many nights and I continue to listen to the experts but also still worry if it ever arrives in the US.

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Thanks for this I have been trying to find traps and bait for a while now Have a Blessed week