youre quickly becoming my new favorite youtube beekeeper. im learning a little something with every video.
@BeekeepingMadeSimple Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Dustin!
@rozenwynsee2521 Жыл бұрын
This video is great info. I checked out MSU. Thank you both corroborating my suspicions and help me grow in saving bees. NB: My bees died of months of wet followed by a cold snap, aided by a beginning bee keeper.
@BeekeepingMadeSimple10 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear that. I hope this year, your bees do better over the winter.
@geraltofrivia85298 ай бұрын
Parts of cannibalised brood on the floor of the hive is a good sign of VSH when giving it a spring clean.
@BeekeepingMadeSimple8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comment. I did not know that.
@sethb95459 ай бұрын
I had might that ape sugar brick plus honey bee bar and kuzzy bee rap. But did have trouble early with a robbing attempted . But put a robbing screen on hive. Checked hive Feb 2024 in Iowa after finding a lot of dead bees outside hive. So inspected it and could hive dead.
@dirtlamp3603 Жыл бұрын
2 brood boxes 2 queens 2 queen excluder 1 super. What r ur thoughts on this set up?
@BeekeepingMadeSimple10 ай бұрын
I've never tried it. It sounds heavy and tall :p Where do the other honey supers go? I had read the tallest beehive ever recorded had 2 or more queens in it. I know it can be done, but I just don't see the benefit. Does it help the bees in some way?
@amysullivan74310 ай бұрын
Thanks for all your information, really interesting
@Fred-ff6bv Жыл бұрын
my losses this winter is literally because they froze. the clusters were to small. there was a drought last summer and the clusters didn’t get large enough.
@BeekeepingMadeSimple Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear that. Do you think the drought caused a lack of food and this prevented the hive from growing large enough in population? Was the cluster small all summer long?
@charliegioe3158 Жыл бұрын
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple it was a 5frame nuke, but I put it in an eight frame deep
@charliegioe3158 Жыл бұрын
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple I don’t know what the case is with it and I do have a field that has golden rod. I just think maybe the cluster was too small. The only thing I could think of thank you again Charlie PA I belong to Bee club here in PA, so I’m going to try another three nukes this spring lol you’ll be hearing a lot from me. Thank you again.
@Fred-ff6bv Жыл бұрын
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple yes, i couldn’t get enough food into the hives for them to grow sufficiently. i am taking steps to prevent that from happening again.
@charliegioe3158 Жыл бұрын
The two hives that I lost they seem to be clustered right around the pollen paddy. Would that mean starvation because I did put the dry sugar and a big piece of Pollen Patty but I did lose two hives. Thank you Charlie PA.
@BeekeepingMadeSimple Жыл бұрын
Sorry you lost your hives. Both hives had a dead cluster around the pollen? Did the hives die early on in the winter or later on? Was there a way for the cluster to get past the pollen to the sugar? Was there honey still in the hive? It doesn't sound like they starved. Did you see moisture in the hive? i would look at other signs of the hive's collapse other than where the cluster was. The fact that both hives collapsed often is a sign of a varroa infestation or nosema if you were swapping frames between hives.
@charliegioe3158 Жыл бұрын
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple thank you for the respond after watching your video I went back outside and started going through the frames. It seems to me very little honey very little nectar. I do not see any capped brood at all It seems like construction stopped when I closed up the hive for the winter more empty cone I do appreciate your input and I’m not gonna give up. I started late in the season lost a couple of queens. I’m just hoping to start an early spring this time. I did not swap out frames between the hives. There was very little honey from what I said before I did treat for mites in the middle of the summer. They did eat half of the sugar that I put up there, which was probably about 3 pounds and thank you again Charlie PA I would definitely appreciate your feedback