Beekeeping | Why Did My Beehive Fail? Hive Autopsy and Analysis

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David Burns

Күн бұрын

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@NKYHoneyBees 10 ай бұрын

*Great video, David. I like this review of other people's hives. Looking forward to seeing more of these.*

@thomaskoppenhaver2758 10 ай бұрын

Glad your shirts arrived! My daughter drew the bee for the logo. Thanks for another great video David!

@beek 10 ай бұрын

Thanks again Tom, Great looking for sure.

@paulschaefer5241 10 ай бұрын

We do have a member in our club who will tell you, if it fails before Xmas it's mites. There are some parts of the country where beatles kill more hives then mites. I think that the month with the highest failure rate is Feb.

@beek 10 ай бұрын

Beetles overwinter then explode in late winter.

@raymondbrown867 10 ай бұрын

The thinker the box ,warmer for bees.have boxes are made lite soyou can pick them up.most bees die from cold.in wild ,they find trees ,it is thinker and easier to manage for the for bees.increase thickness of boxes.

@MF9000 10 ай бұрын

What do you do to deal with small hive beetle, varroa, etc. in a Layens horizontal hive? I know the Langstroth hives are the primary types in use, but it would be useful to know what you do for horizontal hives. Thanks for any info.

@briandroneberger9881 10 ай бұрын

If you have to modify the hive to put screen bottoms with oil pans underneath, Beatle barns with murder sauce as bait, also I modified 8 frames by routing a 1/4 inch slot to each frame to accept oiltraps like langstroth frames

@MrM-wk9yf 10 ай бұрын

Pepper mints

@beek 10 ай бұрын

I use my same techniques such as oil traps and breaking the queen's brood cycle.

@illumi-Nate 10 ай бұрын

We had a bad round of hive beetles here in NE Ohio this year..was ridiculous

@beek 10 ай бұрын

Crazy!! So hard to stay on top of them as they multiply soooooooo fast.

@lizrd4me2 10 ай бұрын

I had the same issue but I'm fairly sure it was mite issues and they dwindled before i caught it.

@beek 10 ай бұрын

Happens to all of us. With day to day life, it's not always easy to stay on top of everything.

@madmikesgarage4861 10 ай бұрын

Hi David! I noticed yellow jackets flying in all three of my hives yesterday. It was in the upper 40s yesterday and the honey bees were all inside. Would you be worried? I have a bottle feeder away from the hives in front of my window so i can observe the bees feeding. I have noticed that yellow jackets come to the feeder at lower temperatures than honey bees. Once it warms up to around 50 the honey bees take over the feeder. I found the yellow jacket nest that was inside my house walls that was keeping them warm enough that the 20 degree nights haven't killed them off yet here in Pennsylvania. Update... It just reached 48 with a real feel of 46 and 2 honey bees just came to the sugar water feeder.

@Peter-od7op 10 ай бұрын

Already lost a week hive to yellow jackets and about to lose another

@Hillbillyhen313 10 ай бұрын

Well this is my 4th year trying and failed again - I’m beyond upset - got all the bee feeding stuff this year been feeding them my last check when I did mite treatment in sept they seemed doing well had honey which I didn’t touch last weekend went to feed them ( did each week) and all my bees were dead - honey gone - I’m finally giving up - I planted bee friendly plants had my hive in my garden did the mite treatments I’m just sick to my stomach I worked so hard only wanted one or two hives for my own honey and fail fail fail 😭

@stephenmahlstedt7276 10 ай бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that. This was only our first year with two hives, and we experienced the same thing with one of them. It was bustling and we were feeding them and did the mite treatments, and then one day all I saw going in and out were Yellowjackets and no bees up in the feeder. It felt like it was almost overnight. Our other hive is still going, but barely. I doubt they’ll make it through the winter.

@PutEmInTheBox 10 ай бұрын

September too late for mite treatment. In most parts of country your winter bees are emerging in September. You need healthy bees to raise the bees that will be raising winter bees. For your location move your treatment up at least 42 days.

@FshHnt192 10 ай бұрын

I've been at it for 5 years, do all the same things you mentioned and still haven't had a hive make it through the winter but I will keep trying as should you... good luck 🤞

@wpankey57 10 ай бұрын

Really sorry about all this.

@Peter-od7op 10 ай бұрын

Dont quit keep going

@whispershuman5742 10 ай бұрын

Thx for the video, David. I love these cause I try to diagnose myself during it and then I get to see if I was on the right track. 6 year beekeeper here. I nailed it :D Thankyou for all of your knowledge. You've helped me so much. not gonna lie, I missed the swarm cells but I knew the hive was weakened and got taken over by the evil shb.