Working With the ORHBS Program

[@bradprather6749]

Paul, thank you for adding to your extensive tutorials. I've been able to learn so much from these. It's really cool that you're still doing them.

[@adkfoothills1973]

Great information for beginners, and for those that have been keeping bees for years. Thank you for doing these videos and for making them available to us. You are greatly appreciated.

[@UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre]

Thanks for you generous comments!

[@mark-wn5ek]

Ernesto reminds me of Robin Williams! I only wish I could have access to the material and information you have developed there at U of G. I am a new keeper of three years, probably close to Pauls age...so, I am a late entry! I missed your videos....don't know why there was a lapse, but glad you're back. Every presentation is professionally done and easy to understand. All my bees are Kentucky mutts...mostly from swarm capture. Some are exceptional, some are worse than disappointing! So, I am trying to graft queens from the better stock...but again, there are traits beyond my control because of genetic impurities. I'd like more info about the OHRBS program...don't know if I could ever get any queens due the border restrictions but the qualities you mention are enviable.

[@mmcharchuta]

Gosh! Me too! Would love their genetics but due to risk of transmitting diseases I'm afraid of importing bees from neighbouring Germany, not even talking an entire ocean away 😂

[@bigtsbees3722]

I'm glad you're back!

[@ArlktaBirGun]

Thanks for the videos Paul, I had missed to hear from you! There is something I wonder. You told about the importance of low defensive behaviour. How does it effect robbing behaviour, or resistance to robbing attempts? Thanks for all your efforts!

[@djg585]

I'd like to see research with using the dried berries of Staghorn Sumac and Smooth Sumac and Winged Sumac in the smoker. These berries reportedly have oxalic acid in/on them. Perhaps using the berries in a smoker (along with dried pine needles?) creates a tar that prolongs the effectiveness of the oxalic acid inside the hive.

[@michaelshelnutt3534]

I will ask a question again, how is this different from the other breeding programs- like the Saskatraz, the Pol-Line, the Purdue Ankle biters, and the general VSH breeding like from VSP Queens? Thank you.

[@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po]

Do you guys by chance have any online honeybee courses? That I can take ? I just got a major back surgery and would love to learn all I can while I am bed bound

[@mileawayhoney2802]

Do you have a video on using Probiotics save HONEY BEES from fungal disease? I see you did research on this but I don't know how do apply this.

[@cecildean3648]

Paul, In your area how much honey do you estimate a double landstrom hive needs going thru your normal winter?

[@UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre]

Hi Cecil We feed at least 4 gallons of 2/1 syrup to each colony. I'm less sure of how much they eat but it's somewhere between 30 and 40 lbs of stored feed. When we winter hives indoors at 5C they eat about 1/3 of what they eat outdoors.

[@mmcharchuta]

This video made me think if I could start an offshoot programme (or just, similar to yours) at my Uni in Poznań, Poland. 🤔 The thing is, I'm a biotech&bioinf student and aren't sure how I could contribute (my apiary's just 8 hives of the local A. mellifera mellifera). Any suggestions?

[@psilocybe4623]

Your voice spunds like bypassing bee, same frequence sound to me, could be important to understand them, how they feel abou you...keep the good spirit, i would like to introduce some of your genetics next spring...i totaly agree with your technic about breeding, selecting genetics and so on...🍄🙈🐞🐜🏔️🐾🧙🏞️🐝🐝🐝

[@bj8342]

Great to see Univ of Guelph posting again. Paul just wondering if you have seen the video from Etienne Tardif from the Yukon where he shows a visual representation of cluster location/size and temperature based on data from temperature sensors in the Hive. Would the Univ of Guelph and the Ontario Bee Keepers Association - Tech Transfer program have some thing like that or be interested in doing a similar project? Would be interesting to see the difference between 2 hives at the same location and hives stored indoors. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXa7iX-GZbOHepI

[@UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre]

Hi BJ As it happens I did a panel overwintering presentation for a beekeepers group recently and Etienne was also presenting. He has done some interesting work. Years ago Dr. Tibor Szabo did very similar work and was able to show three dimensional images based on his temperature recordings. Les Eccles of the OBA TTP has worked with infrared cameras to see how well they work at measuring cluster size and survival. One thing he learned was that our have to do this at night or you are also measuring solar radiation.

[@mhamedachour7026]

Merci vidoe