Beekeeping: How To Manage Your Bees In June

Beekeeping management in the month of June is crucial and by simply avoiding common mistakes your bees can be set up for a success year and winter.
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[@scottreese5492]

Best method ive found (most effective) for SHB control: peppermint oil/water in spray bottle, sprayed on and around hives weekly. Aprox 1oz peppermint essential oil emulsified (blended with water in blender) then add to gallon of water and put in sprayer. Shake and spray. 8+years of struggling with controlling them, tried every prevention available.....Praise Jesus, easiest and cheapest method works amazingly. The beetles hate peppermint, bees dont mind it. I've even started spraying inside top cover, use to see 100's SHB every inspection, now maybe 3 seen checking 14 hives. All GLORY to JESUS! Another answered prayer!

[@digitalgerry4463]

SHB???

[@BraceFamAdventures]

A lot of the bee supplements like Honey be healthy have peppermint/spearmint oil in them 👏

[@honeybees1970]

@@digitalgerry4463small hive beetles I put peppermint candy on the top boards

[@willkirkland4515]

@@digitalgerry4463small hive beetle

[@guillermog5272]

@@digitalgerry4463 short for “Small Hive Beetle”. :) This sounds interesting. 🤔 I’ll give it a shot!! 😃

[@7xaround]

New beekeeper here. I'm at latitude 43 and a pretty high altitude. They had our apple tree blossoms, tulips, daffodils and dandelions to pull from until now, and have been all over them... but resources are just starting to really become available. I did my weekly check and swarm cells were on the bottoms of two frames, but I found the queen. I decided to split rather than cut the queen cells, and now I'm worrying that I made the wrong choice, second guessing, all of that. The hive seems strong and lived through really cold temperatures when it was installed in early May. My second, weaker hive didn't. Temperatures are warm for here now, 50's at night, 75-80 during the day. I decided to give sugar again, just in case. Pray for me everyone, haha. The stress of a new beekeeper is real, I feel so inept as I'm learning! Your videos are helping me tremendously. Thank you!

[@user-ik7ky1hj3y]

David sir I have learned more from you than I’ve ever learned on my own. Thank you for your amazing videos!!!

[@stevenbell1888]

Meadmaker here. it will DEFINITELY blow a jar up.

[@framcesmoore]

I did the dameree on all my production hives Pulling the honey today and the rest of this week. It is only me When I extract I will let you know how They did. I got 25 gal last year I am hoping for a lot more this year. The internet says that a 5 gal bucket is 60 lbs. so I got 300 lbs. Hope you and Sheri have a blessed week.

[@stephenwillard8895]

I’m trying demaree method on one this year just to see how they do. So far there is a lot of nectar

[@ianwade4695]

@@stephenwillard8895 what is the demaree method? What are the benefits? And negatives?

[@devinahudson]

Howdy. Do you redo the dameree brood moving every week? How often do you take the open brood and move up top?

[@framcesmoore]

@@ianwade4695 it is a method of swarm pervention that you do to your hives it makes them think they have swarmed and you get a lot of honey it makes your hives strong because you do not split them. If you want to see the how to Check out the beekeeping with the bee whisperer peter gives a excellent talk on it and he did several videos as well. u can also check out David Burns videos. I seen no negitives it is a lot of work but It was worth the work to get all the honey and we had crappy weather to boot. I also mad several extra queens to make resource hive with the extra q cells as well. I also Let a couple of the cells emerge and mate I had 2 queen hives the excluder kept the queens apart you talk about a massive hive it was great. so I seen no negitive to doing this. I really liked it

[@framcesmoore]

@@devinahudson every 7-10 days u have to go back and check and move brood up and in my case nector and destroy q cells

[@jimmcgee8725]

Thanks for the reminders. I appreciate that. Thank you again.

[@scottreese5492]

Refractometer definitely helped, I checked ½capped ½open a few days ago....open cells where 17%....capped 17.5....I've heard people say don't extract open comb, but I've proven capped honey is sometimes higher moisture than some of the open. Theory i use is try to shake honey out, if none comes out I test with Refractometer. Important note to pay attention to with the $25 Refractometers, every 5° temp change they have to be recalculated. Room temp change will change as much as 1.5% on scale.

[@goddessmother]

Last year, I had 28 mites/300 bees. I took a class in mite control and used Formic Pro. I followed the instructions faithfully. By 3 weeks, all my bees were dead. I cleaned them out of the bottom of the hive and put the brood comb back in. The next crop of hatchlings made their own queen. Six weeks later, I tested them and found NO MITES! Now that weak colony is thriving. I haven't tested for mites yet this year. My other hive is also abundantly thriving from a swarm I caught last autumn. They are filling the green frame with honey and laying the drone comb on some other frame. I have been removing frames of drone comb all winter and freezing it for 48 hours, then returning it to the hive. Hopefully, that made a difference. I have an empty hive in the next town north. I have swarm traps up in trees, but no luck lately. I would like to take frames from my successful hives and move them in a nuc to my empty hive in the north. Can I use some frames with nurse bees from 2 different hives to unite together in a new hive? Or must the split all come from the same hive? The bees have not touched the honey supers in one hive, and they are slightly drawing out comb in the honey super of the other hive (above a queen excluder). The top deeps weigh about 60lbs from all the honey in them. Why are my bees ignoring the honey supers?

[@lindasheppard860]

Great show. Ready for June!

[@beek]

Thanks

[@garnetralph962]

Love your show very interesting and informative

[@beek]

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[@moniquelynwone8228]

Great video I learned a lot Thanks 😊💥

[@beek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jasonseaward8506]

June is different for everyone depending on their latitude. Some people's flows are just ending and they are harvesting 😊 and some people have flows that are just beginning 👌😎

[@emilandrusko8597]

couldn't attend the live stream so I just watched it. Thanks for the June tips.

[@beek]

Thanks for watching

[@kracey7143]

Thanks!

[@beek]

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[@yonasberhanu4334]

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[@beek]

Thanks for watching. I cannot make out the flag since it's so small, but looks like Ethiopia maybe?

[@framcesmoore]

Good video, I remove my honey and treat for mites and start feeding my flow is over now. this is june till I put them to bed in the winter. Have a good week.

[@scottreese5492]

Question: I'm in taft tn, our main nectar flow slowed down, had a few supers that where 80% full a week ago, been dry and bees flying very strong. White clover plentiful and also carolina buckthorn coming in, but yesterday the boxes where about dry..... your opinion? Did they move honey or just eat it? These two where 1 ½ brood hives , two supers with partial comb and then comb super on top. The comb box on top is now dry and there is partial honey stored in bottom 2. I regret not pulling them:(

[@wboodock3115]

David love the videos, but have you ever thought about making these videos into a audio podcast? It would be helpful to be able to listen to these longer one's on Spotify. Please don't stop content 🙏

[@beek]

Yes, I've had that for quite some time. It's a playlist here on KZbin. Here's the link: kzbin.info/aero/PL9ntik9Ac6jySCgmfaM2wV6XMCs47HeJD

[@bear9116]

Just a shoutout, it's bear from Reno

[@kellymoore4517]

The lady meant a push in queen isolation cage for a brood break a couple of times in a season in addition to the medium green drone frame in a deep box.

[@beek]

Makes sense now 🙂

[@triggerwarning2439]

I had a queen disappear on me and another hive die but I saved the queen and moved her over to the queenless hive. The brood break convinced me to just do brood breaks. They over wintered very strong and probably could have gotten 4 splits off that hive this year, I did 2 big splits and shared brood frames with some nucs for a boost. The colonies are all thriving and they wouldn't be hindered at all by another brood break already.

[@VidKatMA1]

On that note.. will the Bees move nectar Up from the brood box after I harvest?

[@VidKatMA1]

Wasn't the Flow Hive Honey Capped?

[@TheFamilyFunnyFarm]

We’re about to harvest for the first time, any advice please?

[@BHOLT08]

So I just added the 2nd hive box on(6/2). Brand new. Should I be feeding sugar syrup until they draw 80% of that box out? Package installed April 21-22. Northeastern CT.

[@stevenhale7521]

I robbed several supers of honey and I put the supers back on for them to clean up. I’m in NE Alabama. Should I leave them on or remove them when they clean up

[@lmorris4228]

I’m just south of St. Louis and have had supers on for two weeks and so far nothing. But I am still hopeful

[@bradgoliphant]

Hello David! Always great being here. I need your help. Question. Two of my hives are getting very packed with bees and don't want to add another super (already have two on) my question: Could I kill my queens, which would for one keep them from swarming, and two, it would give them a 5-6 week brood break; that is by the time they produce a new queen and she starts laying. Is this a good idea!?

[@audreydelese2521]

Help I am new to bee keeping and today I opened the hive to check them and I don't know what I am looking at the best way I can describe it is white wormlike or slug like looking things Are these possinbly wax moths? should I destroy the hive? I have a picture but dont know how or if I can send it

[@beek]

Where are these worm like things located in the hive??

[@sharonc.2207]

Could be hive beetle larva.

[@audreydelese2521]

@@beek they are on the frames in cells and in extended comb I did ask my local bee chapter and sent a photo to them they informed me that it is bee pupae and that the bees were making drones and because I waited before checking the hive the comb broke off the frame they actually look like white slug.. thanks

[@jessesfieros]

Probably too late for a question. But… 1st year keeper. May 2nd I put a 5 frame NUC in a 10 frame brood box. They completed building the frames out in 6 days. I added a flowhive honey super. It’s not 100% full yet but I also did a Formic pro preventative treatment on May 29th. My queen is super active and a good egg layer. It seems like I’m fighting swarm cells every inspection. With the honey super 60% full and my brood box busting at the seams… what should I do next? Add a second brood box? I’m in Iowa

[@beek]

Yes add another brood box

[@randydueck6870]

Im in DFW area of Texas, wondering about what caused you to give up on raising queens reaiatant to mites? Im using VSH queens from a local breeder, plus caught swarms. Seems very promising and mite treatment is just a pain.

[@beek]

I raise queens from my hives that have low mite counts and other characteristic I like.

[@jennifervoneiff8340]

We have to spray for mosquitos and ticks...the professional has told me that cedar oil and garlic oil are fine for. the bees but I wanted to double check with someone who has more beee experience. what do you think?

[@beek]

Sorry I really do not have experience testing cedar oil and garlic oil and the impact on honey bees.

[@margaretdenny3507]

Hi David, thanks for the great show tonight! I just wanted to say I loved the (new?) intro countdown screen showing bees watching television - and being shown on their tv were bees playing in pollen. The music was really nice too!!

[@beek]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@aaronparis4714]

I have 5 months no brood as my Winters that’s a pretty Long brake then I treat in August after I pull honey and now you can use oxalic acid with honey supers on well hear in Canada we can

[@user-id9uc4gd3x]

David what do I do about ants that have moved in one of my hives?

[@rogerkjellman7985]

If the bees themselves can handle the ant infestation you can put the legs of your hive stand in water to create a moat. Ants also hate oil, you can put axel grease on the hive stand legs or soak rags in old motor oil and tie them to the hive stand legs. Make sure to clear all weed around and under the hive or they will just climb that instead to reach the hive.

[@tugumejoran449]

How do I boost my bees immune system, thanks

[@amypulley240]

Honey B Helthy and amino B booster can help when feeding your bees sugar water

[@anthonypeterson3112]

Had 2 virgin swarms this year.

[@garnetralph962]

Good night I have a hive that is very aggressive how do I deal with a hive like that

[@beek]

This video could be helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHOXmYiop6ihZ6csi=8FuRIsHkmURFBEV6

[@bobyoung803]

Can I treat my bee with my honey super on

[@bobyoung803]

Can I feed my honey to my bee

[@beek]

Many people do, and it's usually fine. There's the possibility that spores of brood diseases could be transferred in the honey, but if you didn't see any brood disease it should be fine. We often will transfer honey frames between hives and it's fine.

[@prospectingwithdisabilitie8288]

Hi David I know I missed the stream tonight but I have a question, if I put on a second brood box can I put on an empty super or is that too much space? Thank you for the stream the information is priceless.

[@beek]

To me, it's too much space. I like to wait until 5-7 frames are drawn out in each box before adding another box.

[@prospectingwithdisabilitie8288]

Ok that's what I thought, thank you for taking time out to respond I appreciate it

[@digitalgerry4463]

Dave i’m new and just found this and it’s a gem! I’m getting 1 nuc and I overwintered hive. i’ve been given local instructions but it’ll come with 5/6 frames and advises to leave for 20 days and just give a sugar block Should I add the super immediately or wait until I inspect in July. I’m in France and we’re having poor wet weather this year

[@anthonypeterson3112]

Live audience on a Saturday? Reserve 2 places for the Petersons

[@beek]

Thanks! We should have a date and tickets available next week, so keep watching.

[@mikemcgilvray8558]

Put wood ash around your hive to keep out ants

[@alyb731]

I’m going to try that, I have a bucket of wood ash left from wood burner 👍🇬🇧

[@royandrews7423]

I heard somewhere that you should face your colony to the East ? Any comments ?

[@beek]

There's a lot to be heard about bees. Direction really doesn't play much of a role as other more important aspects.

[@kellymoore4517]

South is ideal.

[@aaronparis4714]

I’m glade we don’t have them beetles I’m in Canada

[@beek]

Why not? Where do you live?

[@aaronparis4714]

@@beek I live in Nova Scotia Canada you even have Canadians watching you 😂

[@aaronparis4714]

I’m from Nova Scotia Canada

[@animeniac978]

There are waterproof notebooks; I keep a tiny one in my pocket. It'll survive dropping out into a puddle.

[@beek]

😃 Apparently that's what I need.