Beekeeping | August Is The Worst Month For Beekeeping

[@thomaskoppenhaver2758]

Your videos are great, thanks for producing and posting them David!

[@hannasbees]

Thanks for the video!! You always make great ones! Definitely enjoy watching and learning! 😊🐝

[@Michaels_Music]

I'm just a beginner in Utah. I loved your video.

[@lanettelawrence6308]

Enjoyed the winter lesson for beekeeping. I’m joining the local beekeeper association in my county. Thank you for all of your videos.

[@smellslikebeans]

I use a community feeder that was about 20 yards from the hive. When you said that I moved it to about 100 yards away. Good Tip.

[@SuperRobie691]

Goldenrod all August til frost in upstate NY. Squash pollen, too.

[@beek]

nice to know

[@durieandrews3255]

Great video and very timely ❤

[@christinad2896]

In Las Vegas we have lots of things still flowering. I have wooden boards on the top of our hives to help keep it a tiny cooler for them.

[@SMButler]

First time beek. Lost queens in both nucs and had to get a pair of mated queens from a local. Now triple digits during the day.

[@kylefrench7985]

Spot on tips David!!! Thanks we needed it. And appreciate you!!!

[@tjones2ful]

I put a piece of foam that covers 3" over the sides.

[@VSO_Gun_Channel]

I stepped on a queen the other day. I was in the process of requeening that hive so it wasn’t a big deal. However, it was definitely a mistake.

[@beek]

Curious how it got on the ground.

[@ridingvenus]

0:00 I’m a beekeeper and my 🐝’s do awesome in August!!! Im in the Grand Canyon high desert area….

[@michaelmorgan1055]

We have mass honey flow where i live in idaho right now :)

[@ernielightning3218]

Did community feeding one fall. Mob scene. The local hornets and yellow jackets approved. The “lifeguards” kept a lookout for anyone walking close by and bombed them. My poor wife had a couple bees lodge in her hair. She wasn’t pleased.

[@brendajenkins5264]

I so appreciate your KZbin videos...

[@Steele_Wings]

I had a swarm at sunset. I have never seen that. They were a small swarm. I treated for mites all july. 5 weeks of OA. Too hot Charlotte NC. 90's all August.

[@ruthisaac2390]

I appreciate your videos. 🐝

[@catbellinger5383]

I am seeing more ground wasps than ever before!! No Dearth in Sonoma California..

[@TerryWheelyabarrabackApiary]

I have a conundrum when it comes to using a queen excluder on bottom to stop swarming. Wouldn't the queen be skinny enough to get through the excluder after she had been starved and exercised before the swarm takes place ?

[@arecansawhillbille4463]

Should change name of channel to King Bee 🐝

[@577bluegrass]

Thank you David

[@HenryDiaz-g6f]

Hi Dave enjoying your videos ,thanks I’m doing a 20 day Formic pro treatment ,do you think I should check for swarm cells right after treatment?

[@gizzysgarden226]

I have located a hive in a barn wall and plan on removing it. I'm concerned about doing it this late in the year, since I dont plan on feeding. Should i wait until next spring? Central IL.

[@vernonhuffman2311]

First year Beek here. I'm hoping I make it through my first winter. Colony seems to be strong.

[@davidfranklin5270]

Love your channel!

[@TinyTrailFarm]

Love this!!

[@angelalott9370]

And Sunflowers we plant a lot

[@BeeDisasters-hz5ok]

I did one thing wrong and three things right. Wrong was trying to top hive feed too soon and started a robbing event. Things right, made a robber screen. Installed it overnight and then made a screen tunnel to relocated the entrance a second time. Did a quick inspection with pleanty of smoke on top and I still see a good amount of fresh nectar on the combs. Will inspect it in a couple of weeks to confirm. Also set up a bucket that day for distraction. Is that three good?

[@johnlawler3353]

We just really hit a dearth around us in Southeast Ohio

[@aarondlancaster]

Future video idea - will a newly mated queen lay bees of winter physiology? And how late in the season is too late to requeen?

[@beek]

Great idea and I'm making a video for tomorrow answering that question about when it's too late to requeen. Join me tonight at 7pm (Every Thur. Central Time) and I'll try and answer your questions. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live

[@bachmanmwb]

love your videos Dave! Can I ask why you rarely use queen excluders? Aren't you worried about her laying eggs up in the supers that you intend to harvest?

[@beek]

I taught on this in recent videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXmZhKp5pqiSpKs

[@bachmanmwb]

Thanks!

[@apatriot1762]

I wish you were in central Florida so I could get all that info

[@helenedooley2606]

When will the winter bee kinds be back in stock or the kits to make them at least? And your books are out of stock too😅

[@beek]

Amazing how in demand these items are! We should be getting another large shipment of our books any day now, but they are available on Amazon. We were floored how quickly the winter bee kinds with candy sold out but ones without candy are available and both include a recipe.

[@paulgroth5414]

Love these videos you make! Great information! Frame feeders vs hive top, for fall d Feeding what do you prefer?

[@danielcollins9628]

I just done my first walkaway split down here in sub tropical australia and im just worried i maybe gave to much to my new colony cause my original colony still looks small with barely any foragers. Its been almost 2 days and i dont see many foragers yet.when will they recover

[@ronxxf]

I had an OwlBox that became a Beebox. The Owlbox was removed but there is a pancake of bee's left that are homeless and queenless. I have been giving them water and alittle bit of honey everyday cause I feel bad for them. Is that ok? or should I leave the Bee's Be? Someone said I should pour Dawnwater on them, yicks. Lastly what would of happened if we just let them live in the Owlbox?

[@David-nf7mf]

How do I know which bees are mine and which are robbers?

[@ElizabethKrantz-uo7cy]

How much pollen do bee collect everyday.

[@arecansawhillbille4463]

I was wondering 🤔 at what temperature should I vent my hive , I have a screened bottom board I take out when the regular out side temp is 92 not sure if I should do feel like temperature or not do bees know ? ? 🤔 also when below that temp should I have vents open ? I have a top that has 4 little flaps I mostly just leave it open in day time and close at night , it has a inner cover on top and look through/top/ feeder with the vents , second bee hive , first bee hive lost last August to robbing and some might have left home before that , I've much learned alot since then , but any insight would be great And when should I shrink my bee hive hole / front entrance, thanks for all the tips

[@seanfitz2468]

Im first timer as well in south jersey . Bees did bad ass this yr italian honeys bees. I bought through tractor supply i did a early split. Now 2 hives. One w 2 deep boxes n ready to add the 2nd medium the other deep hive is ready for another deep.

[@seanfitz2468]

Jk. All the females came back w extra pollen above there upper lip hmms

[@angelalott9370]

We just planted fall winter

[@jerry4256]

Yellow jackets!

[@ronm50]

i been seeing DRAGONFLIES around my backyard are they eating my BEES they look like marine black hawk helicopters moving in what can i do to deter them.

[@beek]

Yea they eat bees

[@charliegioe3158]

David I have a question I have two brood boxes on several hives should I take the ones out of the bottom brood box that are completely filled and move them up to the second brood box so the bees don’t have that far to travel over the winter and what is your opinion on this the best way to put it thank you, Charlie PA

[@richardmadsen3149]

Great video

[@UTsnowsailor]

🙏

[@karlfowler3742]

How do you keep the ants out of the community feeder?

[@naturalwitchery]

You can put tangle foot on the feet at the base of the feeder

[@burnt_toast305]

Backyard beekeeper here in central Florida. In the month of August, I had not seen an issue like a lot of people would think. There are lots of wildflowers blooming, and hive beetles are still a concern because it is so humid down here. Resources are tight until mid November through early January, depending on how the weather will look like for this year. So far, my bees are very strong

[@leonunlimited7552]

I got no honey this year. 🐝

[@TinyTrailFarm]

Kevin

[@aandjwynn]

Hey speak for yourself my bees are bringing in some nectar!

[@gordonspond]

I agree. I lose on average more hives in August than I do in the winter...

[@anais7915]

In Northeast PA, the bees have been bringing in large quantities of pollen consistently since early July when I was expecting a dearth. I’m not sure what they are getting into, but it’s a flaky or chunky light yellow. Looks like they experienced a nectar dearth though with the only open nectar cells being their green dyed syrup.

[@justindavyduke4182]

From Athabasca Alberta. I did a harvest the other day. The next day i was not quite done with clean up and opened the door to the outside. My garage completely filled up with bees, if I had to guess there was 100,000 bees in there. FYI I have 20 healthy hives. The bees were robbing so bad from many hives that the bees were killing each other. Crazy never saw that before. Is that normal killing each other.

[@slava790]

Thanks Dave for an excellent and timely video. Should I put the robber screen on before or after robbing has started? Is it possible to put it on too early?

[@clarksbent9399]

Im a first year beek. I just made ALL the mistakes and my bees lit me up! I thought opening the hive at would be okay. Nope. I usually go out there with only a hood, but that was also a bad idea. I wish I would have seen these videos first. For now on, full battle gear for the month of August. Thanks for all of your insight.

[@marobroski2286]

Dziękujemy.

[@beek]

I appreciate it!