How a colony survives cold winters Randy Oliver

[@sallythorpe9138]

I have learnt so much from this! Thank you! I am still amazed at what these little creatures accomplish, working singularly and as a whole community with one purpose. Excellent info'! 👏

[@felipegomez5084]

I was lucky to met Randy some years ago and I can say that he is a real master beekeeper …….and a great person too. I really enjoy listen him.

[@curtisbarnhart6055]

Beekeeping for 50 plus years, I'm always learning a lot new things . If you love Honey Bees donate a little for his research. I do. Thanks Randy

[@jtlearn1]

The sugar/carbohydrate is actually carbon removed from the CO2 molecule that the plant separates from the air during respiration. The sun is necessary for photosynthesis.

[@emindeboer5280]

it is actually more subtle: the high sun ray energy in plants is used to separate O² from carbohydrate molecle (that gains ist enegry by electrons) -- than in our body we bring O² with carbohydrate together again and besides life we radiate energy on a lower frequency (in to space towards the edge of the universe) :) in short life transforms high entropy high electromagnetic energy into lower entropy lower em-energy (besides gains from earth's heat from nuclear radiation and reduction/oxidation energy from various mater)

[@robfirkin1521]

😂 what he said👆

[@michaowepszczoy7918]

Lots of interesting, credible knowledge. Except for this early varroa part.

[@forgivenson6482]

Selective learning

[@dougstucki8253]

He is describing what is now known as a condensing hive. I switched to this design last year, and not only did I overwinter 100%, but I came out of winter with way more stores than I have in previous winters. Hive Hugger is a condensing hive setup. I bought the crown boards there (R32) and then just made my own side insulation.

[@smitt76]

Thanks for the great information Randy!

[@jkd0114]

The expert from California lol

[@alecjaquez9194]

Randy always amazes me with his information.. it makes more sense why winters 🐝 last longer…. Now have you ever seen a honey bee fly to a light they almost die instantly minutes or hrs.. I don’t know if that happened to all bees.. I was on a cabin on the woods.. the light at night was turn on the bees started coming a few minutes later they’re crawling on the floor and dying.. I trap and painted a few turn them loose and lasted like 45min.. flying around, getting burned with the light 💡 I don’t know, but all die… I mark 22 bees all deaths on the ground… the next morning

[@IDVDalot]

Thank you.

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

2 blocks or rocks will keep the frost from crawling into the hive. It makes a capillary break. Old timers did this to keep chickens feet from freezing to the coup. Insulation from the frozen ground is important. I use Lazutin horizontal hives with nail boards as bear armor. More insulation and larger frames. No frame breaks so bees have no trouble moving up too large honey stores. Ever see bees die with honey above them? Plus I insulate under them. Anybody that has ever iced fished in a shanty knows. Or out hunting. Contact with cold ground makes your feet colder. Same with bee hives. Distance to frozen ground matters because it's colder. Drainage of condensation matters. So it don't freeze or chill on the bottom of a hive. Leave the snow under the hive. Frozen ground is colder than snow. Frozen ground radiates cold like a frozen lake. My bees use a floor entrance all year, but it gets cold even in summer 40's-50's. Was got down to 30's at night in July. Floor entrance was a weep hole for condensation originally. I leave around 80 lbs of honey.

[@JustBees]

Randy,, bees recycle everything they can, transfer what they need, and invest heavily in what they want to use in the future. Drones are a savings account for bees. It’s not just flying sperm packets. Young drones are fat & moist and continue to be fed moist milk until they are weaned. The weaning causes them to mature. So they aren’t producing heat in the young age. They are regulated by workers who are using them to produce an output. That feedback loop. So when you want a bee to mature to produce heat from flying, they are fed differently. Just like the queen is lightened up to prepare for swarming. She can’t fly for long because she doesn’t have built up flight muscles. Drones spend time “orienting “ for a period of time in groups to build their muscles. What causes them to start advancing out the hive.. they are weaned. They now burn lots of carbs and are hot from these short flights. They come back thirsty and they need help being cooled down the cooler bees use the drones heat output to transfer energy into the brood area. The absorb the heat from drones. Feeding them liquid from a cooler bee or honey from a cooler section of wax will cool them. Their breath and thermal signature heat the brood area. A queen will be drawn to their heat. I ran an older established laying worker colony laying drones with a screen separated brood area of a mated queen. She consistently played in the comb directly above the frames where the drones congregated below. If I put her brood area right up to the screen above the drone brood area, she would stay right on the screenby the frames where drones congregated below. Workers regulate the drones maturation to regulate moisture and heat in hive. Drones are out of hive when it’s hot. The workers can delegate a purpose to the drones, allowing workers to focus on something else. If the hive doesn’t have to assign bees to the task of heating to keep wax comb a certain temp, then the other bees can just draw heat off drone. Drones aren’t energy efficient when hive needs to “pause”. They are both maintained by bees because they serve no purpose. A bee/ drone running to hot will just be a liability when everyone is focused on rolling the heat from one be to another. Best to just let them die of dehydration. That’s what bees do. A bee that’s too hot takes time to cool down slowly on their own. And a hot worker might bob small bits of cooler water from a spot in hive where it accumulates. But if it gets too cold, it’s not got the fat content the “ambient “ cool bees had. It can’t absorb heat like the ambient bees can. Body fat is gone. So yeah… bees will refuse another bee a resource if they think it is a liability… ambient temp hive workers with fat bodies are running the colony output/ foraging.. until they can’t rely on their own body fat (varoa/sickness/starvation).. then they switch to carb burning bees and try to remedy their itch as a forager. Once they find relief (hydration), then they reassess priorities. If there is nothing to do, they vegetate. They don’t lose moral. Vegetation is them conserving a resource. Like POLLEN.. pests cant take pollen in your body. It’s guarded. The bees use each others bodies to store/ remove things. Drones are a source of nutrients passed to the queen during mating. B vitamins. Healthy nutrient loaded Drone sprm loads are full of nutrients. The queen is getting her b vitamins in the air. That’s why she’s getting mated. She comes back and the bees lick the nutrients off her. They aren’t cleaning her like a wet wipe after a gang bang. They are recycling the nutrients from drone bunk. The queen will continue to fly on mating flights until her nutrient thresholds are met and she’s blinded by the niacin (b vitamins) in the drone bunk. She will then obviously be grounded in the hive. The rapid influx of nutrients in her from drone deposits superspeed the reproduction element. She fattens up with eggs rapidly. By the time she’s not as blind, she’s too egg loaded to fly. Nurses maintain her nutrition from there. So drones are savings accounts. Flinstone vitamins for a virgin queen.

[@BeesNTrees47]

I'm a simple man, when Randy speaks I listen.

[@michaowepszczoy7918]

@ChiChi-r4o :) Why?

[@richardrbrynerjr.7912]

Thank you Jesus, for your mead recipe!

[@beebob1279]

How much the management of bees has changed in the twenty five years I’ve kept them Never did I keep overwintering in single boxes. I can Never overwinter in nucs. I now do successfully in single four frame boxes. Never close the lid. The bees will die. This one I do keep because of condensation issues where I live. But others don’t have to.

[@donyork8641]

Excellent presentation! I always learn from Randy Oliver's presentations. Thank you!!

[@johngardner1898]

I admire how Randy relentlessly relies on science and facts to improve his skills. This is superb advice for keeping your colonies alive over winter. I went to University at an Ivy League school. This man, with his jeans and t-shirt, could walk in and teach right now.

[@bickelsbienen]

thank you very much! In germany we have one million of frame sizes. The information that a higher frame is better than a flat frame is very good! Greetings from germany :)

[@marekbily8677]

Randy ist ein Genie :)

[@usert0736]

Very interesting information thanks you Randy again

[@jtlearn1]

The dissolving cat was a great analogy!!! God is the only reasonable explanation. Ty for the info Randy!

[@danielholtxxl4936]

After keeping bees for 4 years and listening to so many experienced keepers talk about how honeybees evolved - I'm stunned that they actually think evolution is true. Every element of a colony has to exist at once for the hive to survive. Take away any single element and the hive dies within a short time - certainly less time than evolution could solve. Sure, I believe that there is some evolution - more accurately, adaptation - built into creation. But without creation there would certainly be no honeybees.

[@sharonc.2207]

​I completely agree, evidence only of God.

[@mikerevendale4810]

​@@danielholtxxl4936Yes, indeed. Thank you for your comment, and well said! After keeping bees forty years now I truly don't understand how so many cannot see the intelligent design of the honeybee.

[@researcherAmateur]

Randy thank you for explaining why I cage my queens before the summer dearth. It's so the bees can store a lot of bee bread.. and the 10 frames of brood, when they emerge they gorge on it and can live all summer without feeding nobody.. until l release the queens 50 days before the fall flow so the cycle starts again now with bees cleaned of varroa and disease that will raise healthy bees able to work the flow until new year

[@altaylor293]

Fascinating information that you rarely hear or read. Thanks

[@reneefarber7806]

Randy is always good - always :)

[@brianbennett4374]

Good video great info Thanks 😊

[@alaettinkahraman6888]

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