Checking My Hives to See How They Are Handling Dearth -- Bee Vlog#17, 2018

[@greenquartz]

The bird sounds in this video are amazing!!😄🐦🐝🌻

[@chellagirl3664]

I never thought bee keeping could be this interesting. I love how you explain what you are looking for.

[@emmat2844]

I love these vlogs so much! Makes me want my own hive of bees!

[@357lockdown]

Hi Emmy, Fellow Bee Keeper here from Tennessee, formerly from RI. I lived in Providence, Warwick, and Cranston. I love your Vlog.

[@theprayingdoula9604]

Love the bee vlogs! Can't wait for chicken vlogs!

[@puresugah]

It's remarkable to see the different bee behaviors throughout all your videos!

[@donbeissel2965]

Your bees are sooooooo chill. Moving as quick as you do and all the scrapping would set off a lot of bees.

[@natecorcky]

As a horticulture student I am so interested in keeping bees.. I really appreciate these videos Emmy!

[@emmymadeextras]

Thanks! ☺️

[@charlietran5676]

Always enjoy every bee vlog🐝💞

[@PoisonSpecs90]

Love learning about bee keeping! Hardcore bee watcher! :)

[@lewisdekryger1962]

If you haven't already done so, you should condense your large hive. There is too much empty space and empty frames, which will lead to hive beetles....

[@SherriJo]

This is so fascinating! I love your bee vlogs! Question if I may? Do you get stung often? I’m allergic to stings and I think that’s what draws me to beekeeping (though I never will, since I am so allergic). But the idea of looking that fear in the face is attractive to me. Thank you for sharing all you do... I love it! 🐝

[@chaielmaetheius7804]

Sometimes people are spraying insecticides in their yards and if your bees are gathering contaminated nectar and pollen it can also affect your queens... this can also affect your honey too See if your bee club has yard signs that will let neighbors to be aware that your yard is a GMO-free zone and any chemicals used within the bee traveling radius is prohibited.

[@oneoldcurmudgeon403]

The queen slows down during a dearth.

[@sarahelmiraroystershelton1888]

Oh you have bees?!! How lovely!

[@patf.3776]

That was just fascinating to watch. The bees seemed so calm around you.

[@Rowsdow3r]

You're like... a god to the bees.

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

just a quick note. You are adorable!

[@wmfayerweather4998]

you are an absolute genius in every regard. your man is blessed by god greatly.

[@ashrapieters2521]

Hardcore bee watcher here! And everything else you post haha. Love your videos!

[@parasshah945]

Hi Emmy, Have been enjoying your video's however been wondering why you have many boxes on a hive where it is not strong. Seems like too much space for a colony which appears not to be strong. Try and consider reducing them to 3 boxes.

[@ideasmatter4737]

Could the queen in the nuke be laying less because of the dearth?

[@Corkoth55]

i feel like such a dope i never even knew you had this channel! and i love the idea of beekeeping. i'd love to have my own property one day to try my hand at it.

[@uchu1700]

Hey Miss Emmy if you want to try something delicious then try this get some plain waffles and put some cinnamon on them and then add some honey.🥞😋 You can add anything to it if you want like fruit.

[@dlsgl407]

hardcore bee watcher here!

[@joepaul1814]

Love you Emmy

[@emmymadeextras]

😘

[@Greenfairy65]

Emmy, wondering if you have the same locally enforced rule as we do here in Waterloo Ontario..... we can only keep a hive if 30 feet away from neighbors? I feel so discouraged by having looked this up today, as I have thought about having a beehive for a few years and got inspired by your videos and a couple others enough to investigate further..... thinking of sponsoring a hive by local growers....but maybe you or others might have some ideas on how to have a hive .....

[@sfalconer]

Will be interesting to see how introducing a queen into a hive with an already active queen goes. (I'm guessing you have to try and find and remove the old queen?) Once again a great video! :D 🐝

[@sfalconer]

Ah, so that's how it's done. Beekeeping seems totally fascinating! Thanks :)

[@tiffanyharris-santos6408]

Hardcore bee watcher here:) love you emmy !!

[@Mr3Trois3]

Well anyway maybe it's better they get a queen back on their own :) And at least it makes for some interesting development lol Keep up the good work, hardcore Emmy watcher here! 😘

[@greenquartz]

Hardcore bee watcher here! Do beekeepers plant gardens for their bees or just leave it to them to find what's available? If so you might be able to find some late blooming plants to help in this dearth season. I live in Florida so I may just be thinking like a warm weather creature and this might not make sense for your more northern planting region. Lolol

[@alexreith4877]

greenquartz I am further north from Emmy and my friend has zinnias that are still going strong. If I had bees I would plant for as long a season as possible. Next year I'll plant more for the wild bees anyway.

[@greenquartz]

Thanks for the reply! 😊 I've been researching about natural pollinators lately. I dont have much of a green thumb, but I'm going to try for a small flower garden next spring for the wild bees and such also.

[@debg1810]

hardcore bee watcher here! 🐝

[@carriehenson259]

This has totally made me interested in some beekeeping classes

[@emmymadeextras]

Go for it! Winter is usually a good time for classes.

[@arachnidangelina]

bee mom!!!

[@funwithfriends634]

Curious to know how many times you have been stung since you started beekeeping? I'm highly allergic so this is the only safe way for me to learn about beekeeping haha....

[@auntied4950]

Love these vlogs :)

[@joelthompson6131]

Hello, Emmy!!

[@emmymadeextras]

Hi!

[@joelthompson6131]

Thinking Of Making Any More Crystal Videos?

[@indigenouspotliquor3546]

I don't know anything about beekeeping. But can't you take that wonderful hive Queen that's blue and put her in the big hive in the future? I know you can't right now but that's what I would try to do if It would work out. She is a amazing Queen.

[@bradgoliphant]

Could you please share the top signs of a dearth. I'm confused about this and what to look for.

[@kristenhartmann7807]

Hardcore bee watcher here!

[@gia_94]

Hardcore bee watcher here! 🐝

[@cherrycola3525]

6th comment Love you Emmy ❤️💖💗

[@VickiB585]

It's a fascinating hobby, bee keeping- honey bees are wonderfu! l but just curious did you ever get stung while managing the hive, I notice you are not wearing gloves?

[@emmymadeextras]

I do!

[@randawilson6916]

hardcore of bee watcher!

[@JackW42]

“hardcore bee watcher here!” :P

[@tonyj9091]

Ill stick to you eating🏃🐝

[@mariaraynor]

“Hardcore bee watcher here!” :). X

[@shohoku10]

If you try a new queen, just hold the cage in the hive. You'll see almost immediately if they'll accept or trying to kill her

[@alyssamckay7809]

Do your hands get stung?

[@LeeLee86]

You have so many empty frames on your 1st big hive, shouldn't you remove one of those supers so they don't have so much room to work? Also I don't understand why you feel you have to button up so fast while you're inspecting. If it's a nice warm day I can stay in mine for a long time, especially when I am looking for my queen. ♥️

[@samanthaevans4231]

I know nothing about bees. but it seems as if they have swarmed again. population in the big hive seems very low.

[@donbeissel2965]

What happened to all the nectar that you spun out earlier? I thought that was to feed in the dearth.

[@emmymadeextras]

Yes, I’ve been feeding it back to them.

[@donbeissel2965]

I am still not sure why you stole their food only to feed it back to them later. I know you said someone in your bee club said to do this, but did they offer a rational? It seems like you interrupt the honey making process and risk introducing bacteria and fungus into the nectar that you feed back. I was thinking that if you need room for the queen to lay you would do 1 of 2 things. Either split the hive (and the resources), or add another box and move the nectar up and replace the nectar frames with empty frames in the lower box. Lastly, isn't that "puff of smoke to let them know your are coming" actually meant to hide that you are coming by masking any alert pheromones in the hive?

[@rinabeans]

Don Beissel she did it to create room for the queen bees to lay eggs so she wouldn’t get the feeling to swarm off and start a different hive somewhere else.

[@mexicanmuslim]

Your a beautiful woman

[@jmcosmos]

I've frequently wondered: have you ever had the misfortune to _drop_ a frame of bees and had to run?

[@emmymadeextras]

Hahaha. Sounds like something out of a cartoon. No! 🙏

[@Pippa1272]

Reduce your supers down... the hive will be happier.

[@ohyeabananas]

i cant be the only one who read "how the bees are handling death" ._.

[@lunajayde_xx]

Why are these vlogs so far behind tho?

[@Bingo2501]

Not the bees!!!!!!!!!!!! Waaah, argh!!!!!

[@SuperBuickregal]

Down size the hive, a lot of empty space.