Blue Ridge Honey Company / Late June

Late June beekeeping odds & ends at Blue Ridge Honey Company.

[@chetcogold3185]

Thank you Bob. As always such good information.

[@yuriybliznyuk1985]

Hello. I love your channel. Thank you for your knowledge and it's way you articulate it so a common person can understand it it's a true help too many hobbyists start ups

[@watsonrk1]

Basswood trees line our street, and my honey is light and very floral because of it. I agree with you. Great tasting, honey! Last year, my bees made nearly a hundred pounds of it and walking past the trees when they are blooming, you can hear the trees humming from 25'.

[@dadu63]

Been dry here also in cleveland county. My bees will be bringing in some of that corn pollen soon. Thanks for sharing Bob!

[@markbooth8458]

Good morning Bob. I seen a little bit of Golden Rod blooming this morning. We finally got a shower of rain here this morning also.

[@bobbinnie9872]

That's early for Golden Rod. Even in your area.

[@caven930]

​​@@bobbinnie9872my wife pointed out some blooming aswell yesterday. I thought it was odd. Ours usually doesn't come in until the first week of August.

[@lenturtle7954]

And speaking of silver linings the cold wet weather has eliminated the grasshopper infestation we had last year so far . Canola around mr bison farm is just starting i we nt west 1/2 mile and 2 south i counted 12 quarter sections of canola .. If youre bees need work i found a huge honey crop for you to harvest .! Its wet and almost as hot as your weather in lakemont now

[@10cscharf]

I appreciate your informative videos. Only a beekeeper for 4 years. There is much to learn. Thanks.

[@stevenaamos]

Thanks Bob! Good info on the potential issues with corn and glad yall got a bit of rain. Its been awful dry here near Charlotte too after rain washed out the tulip poplar flow. Hope you have a good sourwood year!

[@bobbinnie9872]

Thanks.

[@researcherAmateur]

Yep. One more rain is all l need.. and then l watch it on the radar passing right there next to me. It happens like that almost every summer. Funny when you depend on one rain.. will there be a flow or not. I agree.. we make queens only when bees want to do it. I stopped forcing it. And I do my last to change the production hives queens by supercedure when I cage the old queens for brood break before dearth. So l can do it all at the same time. Treatment and queens. Than we whayt for September

[@CCCRApiary]

Good to see you Bob!. Hope your wife enjoys the spoon!

[@bobbinnie9872]

I'm sure she will. Very unique. Thanks.

[@bobbinnie9872]

She loves it as do I. Very thoughtful, thanks again.

[@richardkuhn4358]

Thank You

[@aaronparis4714]

Me too I make my nucs in July first week and that’s it I like to have big packed nucs for winter

[@lenturtle7954]

No cutting hay in central sask its been cold and wet . Bees built up slowly the silver lining is the crops are late as well !

[@altaylor293]

Morning Bob. Envious for the rain. We have had very little. Everything very dry.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Hi Al. We didn't get much but it's better than nothing.

[@tonyc44]

Hopefully the rain will help your sourwood flow.

[@chadfey2363]

Question: Why is sweet corn pollen no good for bees vs field corn?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Sweet corn is used as table corn like corn on the cob, canned corn, etc. and is often sprayed heavily for ear worms. Field corn is used for flour, animal feed and ethanol and is rarely sprayed.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Do you need to clean out debris from the bottom of that observation colony?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Generally no. If it dies out for some reason we clean house before repopulating. It's been two years since we opened it.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

@@bobbinnie9872 interesting

[@flowerstreetfarmbees]

I have a question about reading the nectar availability of a tree like the Basswood you examined. When the flowers are in bloom at the six foot level, easy for a person to observe, what does that say for the flowers at the top of the tree? Have they already bloomed? Do they bloom later? The same time?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Most of the trees I'm familiar with bloom from top to bottom at the same time.

[@filipvernica258]

How many times I should treat with acid oxalic on this time one or more?I don’t check for mites

[@bobbinnie9872]

Oxalic acid vaporization only kills the mites on the bees and not the ones in sealed brood so there must be many treatments only four days apart to be affective this time of year.

[@kellymoore4517]

I have two supers full of honey but they are not capped over, does that mean it's not ready for harvest or to much work for the bees to cap in this heat?

[@bobbinnie9872]

The only way to know for sure is to do a test with a refractometer. It can go either way depending on conditions. . It doesn't matter for us because we put our supers in a drying room for a few days before extracting.

[@beebob1279]

Making queens in July!! How about being near sunflowers? Have you experienced sunflowers with your bees?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Sunflowers can be a problem too. Some get sprayed and some don't.

[@robertdemers5125]

Good Morning Bob !

[@bobbinnie9872]

Good morning sir!

[@aileensmith3062]

Looks like it is going to be another tough year for us and maybe getting any honey. Tomorrow will be July 1st and we still have not received two inches of moisture this year!

[@bobbinnie9872]

Ouch.😳

[@jtlearn1]

Been very dry in NW NJ TOO

[@soupvis2616]

Is it possible to make a walk away split with a frame of eggs ?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Yes. When the eggs hatch they will build queen cells.

[@soupvis2616]

@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you

[@user-pz1or4xc6g]

Hello, please tell me where I can buy high-quality bee houses.

[@bobbinnie9872]

I don't know. We built this one ourselves.

[@user-pz1or4xc6g]

@@bobbinnie9872 thank you, can you sell me 10 houses, I recently arrived from Ukraine

[@aaronparis4714]

Do you feed pollen Pattie’s or sub after you flow or only in spring ?

[@bobbinnie9872]

I shy away from pollen patties because of the issues with hive beetles.

[@aaronparis4714]

@@bobbinnie9872 ok but now if you never had that issue would you feed ?

[@aaronparis4714]

In Nova Scotia Canada they have not made it here yet!! Just the mites is a issue here and if a colony is weak wax mouth

[@bobbinnie9872]

@@aaronparis4714 I would in a bad year.

[@timfeckley1689]

I will gladly trade you a lot of rain for some dry I have hay that’s approaching 4’ with more rain in the forecast,there’s crop fields that have not been touched yet

[@Pasika-v_Ukrayini]

Доброго дня, чи можна використовувати ваші відео для свого ютуб канала ? Я буду вказувати що це ваші відео і залишати в описі посилання на ваш ютуб канал

[@timlewis9873]

Good morning BRHC.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Good morning!

[@glennsnaturalhoney4571]

If you could convince the organic cult to let them put Bt in sweet corn they wouldn't have to do all that spraying.

[@beckibeesapiary]

Was that Seth out front waiving? 😆

[@bobbinnie9872]

Could be. 😊

[@taddrienstra7247]

What's the difference between field corn and sweet corn?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Sweet corn is generally grown for kitchen table consumption like canned corn or corn on the cob. Field corn is most commonly grown for animal feed, corn flower or used to make renewable fuels like ethanol.

[@JamesFrankenfield-l2q]

But why is the sweet corn pollen toxic and the Field corn pollen is not? Is the sweet corn BT corn?

[@bobbinnie9872]

@@JamesFrankenfield-l2q Field corn is generally not sprayed for bugs. The sweet corn is sprayed to kill the ear worms at the same time the bees are gathering pollen from it.

[@bobbinnie9872]

​@@JamesFrankenfield-l2q The sweet corn is generally sprayed to eliminate the ear worms a the same time the bees are gathering pollen from it. Field corn is generally not sprayed.

[@taddrienstra7247]

​@@bobbinnie9872Thanks King Bob!

[@tarheelbeekeeper3971]

Been dry in buncombe co. As well sourwood is blooming here 2250 ft elevation

[@bobbinnie9872]

I hope you do well.