Late season pulling honey - August 20,2020

[@wadebarnes6720]

It's nice to watch the kids work with their father

[@matthewsweeney2577]

You’ve got bees, awesome!

[@IFarmBugs]

I hope your kids get a nice reward for all that work, good to see the family together!

[@pnwRC.]

Room & board, with new clothes for school should be reward enough!

[@eduardotallowitz3736]

sou Brasileiro, moro no Rio Grande do Sul e gosto muito dos seus videos e do seu trabalho!

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

Glad to see you're feeling better and keeping the business going because the bees don't care if you feel bad. Great video!!!!!

[@rab2020]

Love to see the kids out there helping out. Solid.

[@dianeluke1746]

Ian, you’re doing it again..... New t-shirt slogan, “I have bees.” I think this one will go nicely with the, “Just playing with my bees!” slogan. 😊🐝🐝🐝😎

[@claudesully]

"I have bees with brilliance."

[@russellkoopman3004]

49.9k subscribers!! Man has this vid channel grown. Good Job Ian. You are looking better today. Have a good weekend.

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

Wow You have Tons of Bees. I could see them flying as you walked towards the Hives. Hives had lots of Bearding going on also. I Bee Man's Dream. Peace Be With You All

[@michelewalters9421]

Great generations of business knowledge and skills being passed on. The shot where you are walking through a mass of in flight bees really hitched my breath. It also made me wonder about how often do you and your crew get stung? I see you and your crew usually have full on suits but it still makes me wonder how often you get stung? Thank you Michele

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Hardly get stung

[@cowdudy]

That is an impressive nectar flow. Here in oregon it seems like we had a trickle for a couple months early in spring then a deluge when blackberries bloomed and two weeks later nothing.

[@StazarM]

What is the model and brand of manipulator that you use to unload and load bee houses?

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Very interesting how much less bees and bearding there is in just one week! Advanced timing isn't bad, depends on the bee yard cam. :)

[@ВиталийСавин-ц4р]

Ian, these covers are not blown away by the wind?

[@richardnoel3141]

You sure look an awful lot better! Great news!

[@markepping2307]

Hello Ian was wondering if u ever had colony's swarm after u push the bees down

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Never crosses my mind

[@wendyme4835]

I was wondering the same thing also. I’m in a completely different climate but here that kind of crowding would trigger swarming. Ian, do you get autumn swarms much?

[@jeffsea6490]

*Impressive work*

[@Rootana63]

Hello from Croatia. I think this will be the harvest of honey for this year . Bees are going to rest . Right?

[@sylvain-paulcote5470]

Looks like you and hopefully you family are feeling better! Great! Now, a question : I watch a lot of bee videos, hoping one day I'll have some and I'll "bee" ready :) and I know you like to "open" feed, which is a concern a few other beekeepers. They say open feeding might cause healthy bees to catch varroa or even nozema from unhealthy bees, maybe even wild bees not from your hives. Did you see any increase in illnesses in your bees after open feeding them?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

That is a risk

[@sylvain-paulcote5470]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thanks!

[@barbarahandsbury6822]

question when you feed is it always 2;1 ?

[@فاضلالشرقي-ر2ذ]

Abo Slman Sastam Good HAni

[@jamesdicken3442]

Why not keep some bee escapes, flip them upside down, and keep them on top of your stacks as you pull? Should make it harder for the robbers to get in right? And if they stick to the escape, you can just dump them out occasionally.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes, just the screens don’t help, it would need to be solid boards

[@nynotetis]

Hey, Ian. Enyoing watching Your videos, keep it up! A question - putting new suppers on top on the others is a much quicker operation (than lifting all of them and new one putting below others) but doesn't it effect honey crop? When you put 4th or 5th supper on top do bees easily carry all the nectar to the top? And what is the honey moisture for example beetween the 1st honey supper and the 5th (don't you have problem with that)? I have really similar beekeeping conditions (same geographical area, but Europe, similar flora and bloomin calendar). At the moment I am putting suppers below others and would really like to put them on top but maybe you have some tips (for example: you can't wait till 1st supper is almost full honey before adding second one?) because probably the whole operation has to be done a little bit different from the method when all honey suppers are lifted and new ones are put below others. Thanks. P.S. I apologised if you already mensioned this topic in one of your videos and i just missed it :)

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I can’t imagine trying to manage under supering. How to determine space requirements without lifting boxes? Also I don’t like the breakup of the cluster with an empty box. There are times I box ahead with space

[@nynotetis]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Yeah I understand, I am managing 300 bee hives (with a help of 1 full time worker and 2 part time for honey harvest and beehives transportation) and with top supering maybe I could manage more, but there are some details which need to be taken into account. Firstly in my place (Lithuania, Europe) I have 2 - 3 honey flows (from beggining of May till end of August so ~3,5 months with little gaps beetweens honeyflows depending on a year and the work you put) if we transport bee hives (most of the times in 30 - 40 km range max) so bottom supering lets us take full honey boxes on top and harvest it easily (even when the blooming haven't finished because frames are fully prepared for harvest) and that's let us take almost all honey boxes (leaving the bottom one) and move fast to other blooming field. For tracking the space (and nectar flow intensity) almost every "bigger" beekeeper (in our scale of course :) so from 150 bee hives or so) uses scales and receive sms messages every evening so you can know exactly when the nectar flow beggins and ends, perfectly manage your supers and frames (to get maximum results). But of course bottom supering does make some stress on the cluster (and have to be done correctly or you gonna make some problems for yourself) but in the first part of the summer it helps to control swarming mood when in my area we are having the biggest honey harvests (rapeseed blooming) and we have to keep really strong beehives for ~4 weeks at minimum. And as I understand in USA/Canada/Australia top supering is really common, in Europe the situasion is quite opposite - most of the beekeepers use bottom supering (as I see it). Thanks for the reply and help, next season I will experiment with top supering for sure!

[@harveygussow7913]

I Have A Question? If your feeding now what happens when you take them indoors?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

They stay motionless and quiet all winter

[@rodtorrence6139]

Ian, Is your syrup special made or a commercial mix and what do they use. I’m afraid with the COVID thing sugar is not going to be available in bulk as in the past. Thinking about going with prepared feed in bulk. Thoughts? Keep up the good vids and happy you and the family appear to be doing a lot better. My fav u tube channel..

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

We haul straight from Rodgers by the semi

[@antonmagnusson4545]

Do you have one or two broodboxes on summer?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

One

[@marcus7774]

Un po di saccheggio?

[@hn1296]

Hey Ian, where do you purchase your bee hive equipment (brood boxes, supers lids, inner covers, etc) from?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

www.lewisandsons.ca

[@hn1296]

a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog thank you! What is the metallic looking inner cover called and what’s it’s benefit vs a standard inner cover?

[@markspc1]

Hey Ian, II was wondering if you have considered installing the bee escape "upside down" on those exposed honey supers to prevent robbing ?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Ya, might work better without screens though

Süper.. 👏👏👏

[@rayjohnson8329]

Where do you get the bee escapes?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

www.lewisandsons.ca

[@rayjohnson8329]

Awesome thanks

[@adrianmcdaid5082]

hi kids

[@shrekpower]

7:08 OMG I laughed so hard!

[@miroslawlaska8885]

Super

[@pasieka.zawada]

Hi i am from polen

[@rokithrahul7485]

Rokith

[@downunderfulla6001]

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[@jakar1000]

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