As My Bees Gently Weep,

[@mikeries8549]

Appreciate the honesty. I know beekeepers that " never lose one" because they lie and you'll never see inside one of their hives. Me? About half die every winter. Rebuild then do it again. What a ride

[@davidryle1164]

You know Ian, it's moments like this when you start thinking why didn't I become a merchant banker, or a Lion tamer, or any bloody thing else lol.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Lol

[@frogsurfer4403]

Oh man got me right in the feels with the Mary Ellen Carter ❤ Stan would approve. With a little (ok maybe a lot) help from you guys the bees will indeed rise again! Come on spring.

[@cordovanbee]

Your hard work early in the season will pay benefits later!! That’s a “Bee Keeper “ !!!!

[@ladybeekeeper7777]

I am forever amazed you manage to keep bees in these weather conditions and do it so successfully. As a full time beekeeper yours is the only channel I follow regularly and seem to always be waiting for that next video to see how you pull off this one, in yet again trying weather conditions.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

This is quite the business. It’s hard. One problem ti the next

[@K-reative-Nails]

Interesting to see this! Hard work to keep em buzzing in the cold weather. I subscribed. I recently got into bees, wild bees and other flying insects to learn more about them. By coincidence I found your channel! Gonna be fun to see the upcoming season. What a massive bee hives in terms of numbers. Even tho its winter there are still a lot of bees in those hives. Doing a great job! I am sure once it warms up they are gonna thrive!

[@quarantene3072]

Well im kinda surprised to see you have snow this late in the season to be honest we had our first 95f degree day here in arizona today 4/23/2023 .. I really hope you get a little bit of this warmth soon ! Your bees need it more than I do.

[@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924]

It has been a rough long winter for the bees. mine came back from CA hungry and weak. they are eating pollen like mad, and trying to grow. its just hard to see them struggle, and all I can do is feed and wait. glad your not under water, or putting them back in the shed

[@robert12345678912312]

Great work, Ian! Setting the bees up for a new generation of busy bees to collect pollen.

[@ОлегЧернявский-ц7л]

На моём опыты за 20 лет в России,когда весна поздняя , всегда хороший урожай мёда.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes, the crop will be seeded late

[@HAMDIAspo]

Jag hoppas att allt kommer bli bra och du får mycket honung. Hälsningar fr Sweden

[@NavyShooter3]

I did a deep dive on my hive this afternoon (I only have one!) and was very pleased to see how the girls have pulled through the winter. I moved the mostly empty lower brood chamber deep up to the top, and laid out some extra pollen patty for them. We'll see how they do! The good news was that in the upper deep, there were 3+ full frames of capped brood, so in the next week or two, we'll see a big boost in hive population!

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

You really have to work your bees for sure... love work as my Mom used to say

[@cabanaapicolabolivia.santa3747]

Hola saludos de bolivia santa cruz amigo

[@julieenslow5915]

That little three framer will definitely make you money$$

[@boboften9952]

Thank you Ian Keep Smiling Keep Going

[@SukruKoca-ny7tr]

Merhabalar Zor şartlarda arıcılık yapıyorsunuz. Ancak çok başarılısınız. Kolaylıklar dilerim. Türkiye'den selamlar

[@forest6227]

April 24, woke to snow on ground NE Ontario, I am tired of snow TOO

[@TylerJSpry]

Double foamy! And you put it back! lol 😂

[@cabanaapicolabolivia.santa3747]

Como me gustaria ir a canada a trabajar con muchas abejas

[@russellkoopman3004]

Ian, you need a sled to pull those patties around. LOL I put another patty on mine today also.

[@nancynolton6079]

Was thinking a plastic sled would be easier to slide around the apiary than that wheeled wagon! Can remember one year having to use the sled to walk to the store and bring back the groceries when we had a huge snowstorm and walking was difficult.

[@pat2526]

Appreciate the consistent videos Ian!

[@MyALevelMathsTutor]

i can't watch these for more than a few moments as the suffering is intense...fighting nature...good luck...If you could move where you liked where would you go...Georgia sounds a nice place to me...maybe you could relocate?

[@vwbusguy]

If the patties were cut as a disk not a rectangle they could be placed directly under the pale/bucket ontop of the hive cover between them and you wouldnt have to open the hive

[@medowuha]

Жена- настоящая боевая подруга!!

[@kentoyama7284]

Thank you very much for your video. Have you ever try adding any real pollen into your pollen sub patty? If so, what was your percentage?

[@wranther]

Your new patties seem so simple to deploy Ian. Also, the bees seem rather contented with these new patties. Considering the materials and equipment, along with the time invested your own patty operation, do these new style patties effectively free up your time for other tasks, as well as lessen the expense of the prior patty making process? -Bob...

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Time savings Is the benefit, also, not having to source product is nice. But I’ll probably go back to mixing once I get a normal spring

[@wranther]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Ahhh, those wonderful memories of a spring that was once normal! I wonder how long the current cycle of unusual weather seasons will continue? With "unusual" from the perspective of people who have lived many decades, and notice some of these cyclic changes through time...

[@AmbrosianBeeCo]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog is spring ever normal?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

More so typical Seeding by last week of April is pretty routine around here. Last 2 years it’s going to be mid May Not a shift, just a cycle

[@wranther]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog There are a few grain farmers running some fertilizer in the ground down around these parts, however there are also shelter belts holding 12'+ snowdrifts.

[@thomaskoppenhaver2758]

I had a couple toddies and a fine cigar with the hounds on the floor, fire in the box, bee vides on the jukebox, and a snow storm outside the other night. It was actually kind of pleasant to give up for a night. I didn't dare blade or blow the snow the next morning, the ground is too soft. Our weather person referred to the season as 'a dishonest spring' this morning, I had to agree. Before you know it, we'll be cursing the heat and will have forgotten all about this crappy weather. Maybe.

[@johnoliver9885]

Hopefully Canadian ‘Ice Honey’ can be sold at a premium.

[@hnorton8298]

Hi Ian, Great video as usual. What type of reflectix do you use? Does it have bubble wrap between the layers? Thanks. H.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

The cheapest they sell. One layer bubble

[@danielweston9188]

Fighting early season heat here. A week of 90f (33c) in April is going to halt a lot the flow.

[@peterzineksimon]

Regards, I would like to ask you what kind of material you have on top of bee frames. It looks like somthing silver. Thanks.

[@breckdemers]

Enough snow that you could have done bee work with a skidoo.

[@dianetaylor6751]

Crazy weather for sure. Pelted yesterday with ice while working on fence. February was nicer! Curses to the Grand Solar Minimum. Curses to the tonga eruption.

[@woodlandharvesthoneycompanyllc]

I bet you will reap the reward from putting those pollen patties on and making sure the bees stay fed despite all the dang snow. I'm sure it will pay off.

[@rodolflinner4201]

Oh Ian i remember ita last year when hives droop on the water

[@weshawkins7165]

I had 11 hives, last winter I did not lose a hive. This year I lost 9, I did nothing different, the only thing different here in the northern Sierra Nevada’s this winter was it was colder and a lot more snow. I noticed in your video you were using two foamies in some. Any particular reason?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Might as well use the extras to insulate

[@jtlearn1]

"As my mentor vainly whines." 😅 I'm pulling frames of brood with queen cells in NJ because half of my Oliverez California queens for nucs were delayed 2 weeks. Be thankful, we deserve worse!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Lol😂

[@mikeries8549]

You paid on time...weeks or months in advance to insure delivery on time and they simply go oops sorry. They're only bugs,why you getting upset over bugs? 😂

[@jtlearn1]

@@mikeries8549 the delay was due to the poor weather in California. I have nothing bad to say about Oliverez.

[@jtlearn1]

@@mikeries8549 those "bugs" account for Billions of Dollars in food, wages, profits, livelihoods, flavors, investment, man hours, energy etc. It's not "just bugs" that is so easy to get upset over when setbacks occur. The consolation is that even setbacks caused by weather is not random , but controlled by a very wise God whose grand designs and purposes are being accomplished.

[@spiritoftoad]

All that white stuff, I thought you were at a party at Tony Montana's house. We felt like this in Feb. Gonna be around 30°C this week (88F?). We can barely keep up!

[@ЮрийЖуков-ш9г]

Have you seen how bees are kept in Dadan boxes in Europe? Write your opinion?

[@philbeeman]

should be using a sled instead of that cart.

[@jimbonevideo6941]

Why not paint the hive lids? Seems like it would help with preserving them and if different colors might help prevent drift in the snow. And you paint the rest of your equipment.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

It’s dipped

[@jpinier]

Hey Ian - if you are using the single-sided reflectix as inner covers why don’t you put the reflective side down to reflect that radiant heat back onto your clusters? Less work for the bees to stay warm. The reflective side up doesn’t provide you any benefit…unless I’m missing something!

[@ke6gwf]

It may not condense as much moisture that way? Just thinking lol

[@jpinier]

@@ke6gwf if anything, the reflective side down would help with condensation bc the R value of the reflective side is higher than that of the white side. I have double-sided reflectix so it’s never been a question I’ve had to ask myself…

[@ke6gwf]

@@jpinier my thought is that since the reflective side is more insulating, if it is up, then the air in the bubbles will absorb more heat, thus reducing the temperature differential with the air in the hive, and thus reducing condensation. If the foil is down, then the trapped air will be colder since it's exposed to the outside temperature, and the surface MAY be colder, since the foil reflects heat away, while the bubbles would absorb it. Again, just thinking out loud, I could be totally wrong, but explaining my thought process lol

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

The reflective side peels off into the hive, thats the big reason we have it flipped over

[@jpinier]

@@carriemartindale-wetherup5243 ah gotcha! Makes sense, thanks for the response. And great work out there, hope the snow goes away soon for you guys!

[@zerocool89BIH]

In your case real beekeeper do it on the snow. Not on the rain. 😁😁😁

[@khatpaufridaytalks2670]

Tq

[@ОлегЧернявский-ц7л]

Ваши пирожки нужно класть без бумаги на пластиковую сетку 5-5мм, я думаю пчелы будут брать её активнее.

[@colingunn4822]

Dam weather... New Zealand bees tomorrow

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

It will be good weather to minimize drift . Warm enough so the bees can break cluster but cool enough to stick them from drifting around 👍

[@BYBstockdogs]

Bees look good

[@kat2641]

Ian? Not to complain but! I am thinking your using the wrong buggy to pull that pollen patties around. Them wheels pull harder than wide snow, skis . 😊 better yet a toboggan an? Gee all we are missing is a pony hitched to it.. lol yea I am being a smart butt😂 but seriously I am shocked on how much they have ate since you put them on 👀 . But I am glad that is all you got in snow coz it really sucks taking a snow shovel an shoveling all the hives out😢 but other the Mother Nature not kicking old man winter in the butt an sending him packing Once spring hit your girls are going to be super charged an ready to get down to business.. impressive

[@michaelconley2793]

Hey Ian, I've got a docking timeout error on my ezloader. Nothing in the manual about it, no help from the dashes at all. Ever encountered that?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

You must have a newer one. Not sure that that means

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Send me more info , I can help if I can

[@wadeturner2665]

Ian, where did that copper smoker come from?

[@ke6gwf]

I want one too! Lol

[@drjmarkrodgers1428]

Did you get thru them all?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes

[@ЮрийЖуков-ш9г]

Hello Jan, I am writing to you from Ukraine, why did you choose to keep the nest in one building, because many keep the queen nest in two buildings?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Efficiency

[@sokolbega4331]

Nuk e di kush eshte me shume puntor ti apo bletet e tua

[@blackcreekorganicfarm296]

Crazy fucked up weather

[@gilsonleandro8532]

Beyrefor

[@XAH-ug3vm8qz4c]

😕