Relaxed Management Beekeeping - Solomon Parker - Alternative Beekeeping Conference 2019

[@thuffman44]

I dig these types of talks. Nicely done Solomon!! Appreciate you taking the time to upload/share. #HaveFunWithYourBees 🐝☮️☯️

[@wiredforstereo]

Thank you!

[@samsungpizza]

Nice to hear you say 2nd year beekeepers can graft. I got ridiculed for wanting to graft my second year, so I was determined. Now those folks are buying my queens.

[@lovefashion8941]

Thank you 😊!

[@jeanniehiebert3169]

Thank you.

[@natserog]

great video Solomon. when you are putting queen cells in a queen castle are you putting in a frame of CAPPED brood(no open brood) with bees that are on brood.

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

I *think* open brood is better, keeps the nurses happier. Actually, I prefer a mix, emerging brood that has been laid in.

[@Shukeroo]

Enjoyed hearing this perspective. Was that Sam Comfort that we heard just around 39:00?

[@SurvivorBees_DavidBlag100]

Hey Solomon I cut a little hole out from the foam board as a ventilation/top entrance, Just wondering if it is necessary?

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

Extra ventilation is not totally necessary, it can be helpful in some situations, but it is also really easy to overdo.

[@bradgoliphant]

you talk about always splitting hives? What about us that can't or don't want to expand our apiary?

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

You certainly don't have to keep more hives than you want, it's really easy to combine hives if you end up with too many, but it's much harder to come back from losing more than you want to. For success as I see it, you should always be gaining bees, even if at the end of the day, you just combine hives. It's a good way to practice culling the weak. If you have a weak hive, just remove the queen and combine it with another hive. No anxiety.

[@bradgoliphant]

@@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping with combining hives, would I use the paper method inbetween boxes? Don't different hive have to adjust for a couple day to one another?

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

@@bradgoliphant You can do that. The quickest and easiest way I have found is to dequeen the hive you want to combine and move both hives into new boxes at a neutral location. They will immediately notice they are no longer home and will have nothing to defend. The neutral location does not need to be away from the original hives, only in new boxes.

[@bradgoliphant]

@@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping Wow, great idea!! Hey, thanks for being a treatment free beekeeper--I am as well. I mean I have natural ways of HELPING rather than treating, but walked away from chemicals years ago. We are the leaders

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

@@bradgoliphant Happy to pass along my experience.

[@KatrinMelite]

interesting

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

Glad you enjoyed it, do you have any questions?

[@CrazyIvan865]

The woman arguing that it's the backyard beekeepers that are killing bees and where bees are dying. The man had a good point that most of the bought colonies ARE commercial bees. They're just the ones that have been exposed to enough antibiotics and insecticides to kill a horse. And the backyard beekeepers are following the methods and advice of the commercial beekeepers. If all the backyard beekeepers are doing everything the same as the commercial guys. And reporting honestly, of course the losses are going to be greater.

[@bradgoliphant]

Dead Queen tincture for swarm lure does not work!!!!

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

What do you mean "work?" What is the full setup of your swarm traps? There are many factors.

[@bradgoliphant]

@@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping I simply meant that myself and many others have tried the Dead Queen tincture as swarm lure. It does not work. Lemon grass is superior and words very well.

[@TreatmentFreeBeekeeping]

@@bradgoliphant To each their own. Others swear by them. I make no judgment.

[@farmer998]

instead of saying treat say miss treat

[@FlylightD]

It’s so hard to teach a Karen that already knows so much. When he says commercial be keepers losing bees, he’s talking about colony collapse disorder which by and large effect mono crop commercial bee keepers.