Beekeeping: Safeguarding Your Bees from July's Challenges

[@aaronlalgie1138]

Hey Mr David am from the Caribbean and I would like to know what's the best sites to order equipments from plz

[@frankslaman3950]

Caught a big swarm last week, lots of white clover and the sourwood is starting to bloom.

[@apatriot1762]

You would think that bees would be extinct if not for humans? I think not

[@bc58]

I keep hearing that some people won’t go into a hive to do an inspection because they are too aggressive in the summertime. Don’t people own bee suits ?? I’m in Arizona and have to deal with Africanized honey bees. I don’t have a problem. Trust your bee suit people.

[@coldcountryhomesteaders]

Good short video packed with info!

[@mikehowman8519]

Hi Dave , could you please advise , my behive is being rob from wasps. .i have reduced the hive entrance but the wasps are still goi.g into the hive . What options do i have . Am think i might have to relocate the hive to protect it . ? I would be very grateful for your advise thank you Mike England 🇬🇧

[@bryanbetournay5557]

Thanks for your time David. An other great video. I had the Ontario Bee Inspectors over yesterday. Thanks for helping me with me bees. (0 mite on the six hives they checked)

[@ctrclegg1]

When do you start feeding for winterphysology?

[@jeffperry9900]

Thanks for another awesome video. Its getting hot here in northwest florida. I built a shallow super with holes to vent off heat above medium supers. At 95 degrees and 80 percent humidity my bees have greatly reduced the bearding. Thanks for all you do to help us newbie beekeepers

[@trulylynn9941]

I have an ice pack vest to use during the heat here in Florida and it's way cheaper than those other cooling suits. Just saying staying cool keeps me checking my girls!

[@beek]

Great tip!

[@adamsoutdoors]

Smoke em til there eyes water. Smokers is your friend these months. Keeps them at bay to get your work done.

[@beek]

That is so true!!!!!!!

[@ralphdeshon9710]

My bees are located in Port Orange Florida. No problems until this morning,mass die off.I suspect pesticides.

[@scotthenderson4376]

I'm in the process of making 3 splits just for queen issues. Hopefully I haven't killed what I have and at the same time removing brood and waiting on queens to come online the mites are slowing. With all this hive commotion I'm not checking for mites till 3rd week of the month.

[@raysizemore5426]

New to beekeeping Looking for a comprehensive bee dictionary app I can put on my iPhone Have looked at several but they were not too good Ray

[@Joe-l1c4v]

Ouch! I just heard about your 4th of July sale today, on July 5th. I was busy at the BBQ yesterday. 🙃

[@jefferyevans7299]

Thanks for the video. I'll be in Petersburg, Il for our class reunion on the 22nd. Are you close by?

[@brendawydeven2934]

Did check today. Saw queens and tons of brood in my second year top bar hives. I cut out most of drone brood. Saw honey and pollen stores on top of larva. Added more bars. Only thing Is I thought I would see more bars with just honey. I saw 2 at beginning of hive by entrance and a couple t other end not fully capped yet. Im in Wisconsin. Am I looking at fall harvest?

[@KevinR-n6e]

Love you videos David. Great information. I have a question about mite treatments. If I take honey frames in July and I think the hives need mite treatments, should I treat the hive before I put the wet frames back or should I have them finish the nectar flow and then treat at that time? Thanks Kevin

[@pattivance5943]

Thank you so much. I am in Arizona and my husband made some solar fans for our hives to help cool down the hives. Our temps exceed 111 degrees here. We also have a wishing well water feature that the bees are hanging out at All day.

[@jayhillrubis]

I always place my hives where they get morning sun but semi-shaded in the afternoon. The series of flowers throughout the spring - summer, blackthorn, borage, elderflower, fuschia, globe artichoke, etc - ivy is the last, keeps them fat & happy and after a heatwave we now are looking at weeks of periodical rain, which is ok. Typical weather extreames. Great tip on the mites. So obvious this is their breding time. As a new keeper I might harvest the supers, (I never take everything), and then pop in some Apiguard paste, one per hive, it seems to work over the last two years for my agressive hatd working little black bees. Later I introduce some sugar paties/surup, which they rarely finish by next spring. Love & hugs to you and yours. Tipperary Mtns ☘ 💖🙏💫

[@thomaskoppenhaver2758]

Thanks for the video David! You are a great resource for the beekeeping world.

[@wpankey57]

Great information. I always look to you for great tips and advice. Thanks, David

[@floydlenz2280]

My NUC startups I rehived into a 10 frame deep and then added another hive body in early June has swarmed .. I checked and all the frames are drawn out but not full.. So I added honey supers to what was left.. The hive that swarmed still seemed to have plenty of bees .. I didn't check for a queen though..

[@yureopaquito2093]

Month of July is where the varroa mite's are strong specially this coming storm Eason here in the Philippines that's why I've just started mite treatment this july after full feeding them this month of june since i can't feed them for at least two week's after using some anti varroa strip's specially also Asian strips has quite strong smell

[@Pumpkins_lil_farm]

I haven't seen any honey 🐝 sence April and today I seen 1 lonely honey 🐝 and all it wanted was liquid from a salsa cup that was dropped out in my back yard I put honey water out there and it kept going for the salsa strage .

[@sigurjonhelgason8943]

Have queen less hive but didn't have maided queen to put in there so i decided to drop virgin in there had mite count of 2/100 have been freezing green drone frames this summer. Hope you and Sherry are ok

[@PatriciaSchaefer-r6c]

Thank you SO MUCH! I’ve taken a bee keeping course bit your videos are so helpful for us “visual learners”. 🐝❤️

[@wesleyhorton3530]

In Louisiana robbing starts in JULY with the dearth.

[@ScottNichols-w2l]

I'm having issues getting swarm out of the tree into hive.

[@Loneclimber]

Excellent...thank you.

[@cassandrahuskey8866]

I have not collected honey yet... am I too late?

[@dawnpowless]

Did you lose any colonies during the storms/derecho? I’m in Springfield, IL and 1st thing check when it was safe to come up from the basement was the backyard to see how the hives fared. They were perfectly fine thank goodness.

[@beek]

All my hives were untouched by the storm. Glad yours were too.

[@jillmondt5398]

I heard that having enough room at the bottom of your er hives for a “forest floor” complete with moss, leaf litter, and mite eating earwigs is a great way to keep mites in check. I don’t keep bees so I am asking if this is a real thing.

[@beek]

Yikes! It would become a breeding ground for small hive beetles to pupate and mites live within colony. Only the few that fell off would go down there and climb back up.

[@richmiller6284]

Rain, rain, and more rain all week here.

[@stephenluna7932]

Is using green drone comb and breaking the queens cycle sufficient for mite control or do you need to use chemicals?

[@beek]

Good question and so test, treat test will give you the answer.

[@DaydreamDayz]

If bees are going through a dearth and getting into their winter stores early, why is that when many beekeepers start taking their honey?

[@beek]

Exactly!!

[@patrickbourgeois7215]

Just lost my hive to hive beetles

[@Hiwirefox]

No, you were losing the hive and the hive beetles were able to take advantage of the weakness. Hive beetles wont kill a strong hive but a dieing hive can be taken over by them

[@TabithaRJohnson]

Do you use a queen excluder?

[@beek]

Only if I have too. Here my video I made answering the questions on queen excluders: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGHRmZ9phKh8d6s

[@royschrader8003]

I did an inspection just 20 minutes ago. Queen issues on one hive. You hit the nail on the head. Had a virgin queen two cells destroyed 5 not touched yet. I took unmarked queen out split and left the others do what they will.