YOUR FIRST MONTH AS A BEEKEEPER | Feeding, Transporting, & Caring for Your Bees

Your first month keeping bees is almost here! Are you ready? This is what you should do the week before your bees arrive, the day you pick up your bees and that first month including: how to make syrup, how to feed your bees, how to transport bees in a car, how to care for your bees when they first arrive, what to do about varroa mites that first month and what to learn so you are ready for summer beekeeping.
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01:00 Week before your bees arrive
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03:10 What to Use in your smoker
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08:17 transporting a package of bees in a car or truck
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[@dwren4554]

This lady is the real deal, a no nonsense experienced beekeeper and trainer

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

You are so sweet. Thanks for the comment. There are a lot of people making videos that are beginner beekeepers and their videos serve a purpose as well, but yeah I've been doing this awhile 😂

[@lisasipe5880]

I have taken an online beekeeping class and an in person class with my local beekeeping association. Neither provided the practical information that I needed to actually work with the bees. I was able to install my two NUCs this weekend, light and keep lit my smoker, and provide feed for the girls thanks to your detailed videos with clear, step-by-step explanations and visuals. Thanks for so generously sharing your knowledge. I wouldn’t have had the confidence I needed without your help.

[@stevenaamos]

If you are buying a good nuc, you better have more woodenware available within a month or they will be making a queen. Also you should feed a nuc right away too, 1 to 1 or 1 to 1.5. They are drawing frames of wax and put thin syrup to work. Also, if you get early nucs in a colder area, they could be confined for several days.

[@jimjohnson2881]

Thank you Laryssa , I needed this little pep talk going into next month. Glad you mentioned the mosquito net!

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robbierobinson9343]

great vid lots of valuable info for me a beginner. we live on a farm in rural San Diego and are prepers.Just got our 1st bee box and looking forward to raising bees. thanks for what your doing SHOOTS!

[@hillkid4mountains]

Good all around beginning video. Getting your first amount of honey bees is very exciting.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Thanks! It is an important time and there's a lot to do.

[@DonaldKreider-zf4do]

Thank You so much for inviting us to your live chat! I'm very excited to be part of beekeeping.

[@Honeybee-hs7xv]

Love your channel. Im in my 4th season of beekeeping in Canada and still learning. 300 bees to lose each month to check for mites is a lot of bees to lose. I remember the first couple years i never had more than 2 frames of brood at one time with many of my hives. I didnt know what a small hive was to look like compared to a large hive. I began to wonder if i was being sold the sellers' poorest queens. im tired of losing hives to poor queens and absconding due to yellowjackets. This year i will be on top of everything and know what to look for.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Wow! Well, if I were you, the first thing I'd do is move your bees somewhere else. Even just a mile down the road. Very cold climates tough. You need SUPER nectar flow so they build fast. Most of he Canadian beekeepers I've talked to with a lot is hives completely depend on the canola to feed their bees. You may have gotten a weak queen at some point but I doubt every queen was poorly mated unless you were buying from the same place every time. I don't highly recommend having a HI queen shipped to you, but even if you did they are decent and should lay pretty well. You can always feed them 1:1 ratio of syrup to simulate a nectar flow. If this helps get the bees to build comb and the queen to lay them you know its the location that's the problem.

[@galacticloveteam8813]

Get those bees some shungite!!

[@suebee1436]

@@galacticloveteam8813what does that do? And how would you use it please? Thank you!

[@Deardarla]

Thank you! this was very helpful and encouraging!

[@jessicafairfax_Bens_Bees]

Great timing for this video 👍😁🐝 getting 2 deep nucs in May and have a swarm trap set just in case. Thanks for all the great advice.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Good luck!

[@marissagrady987]

Thank you for this. Getting nucs next month.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Best of luck!

[@ronalynne1]

Thank you for another great video. You have taught me so much …thank you!

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

You're very welcome!

[@georaves2998]

I think this advices are perfect for me to start with ❤

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Thank you so much!! That is very generous of you. Good luck with your bees.

[@dywanecox4880]

I'm starting my beekeeping journey. Thanks for the information.

[@meadowmade]

Thank you so much.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

You're welcome!

[@DonnaLeRowKy]

You have the best tips!!

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Oh thank you!

[@raybaker8726]

Its been a week since I got bees. Today I added the second box. Smoke didnt do anything but they didnt seem to be bothered with me. The bees have been busy. Refed them to help them get a good start. Found out they are building some hives from roof!

[@user-cp2sx8gp2z]

For fule i use anything cotton , worn out bluejeans good with mixed hay.

[@donnaspitzer3528]

Thanks!

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Thank you!

[@donnaspitzer3528]

Your Welcome. You and David Burns at Long Lane Honey Bee Farms are my favorite beekeeping teaching people! Thanks for all your hard work. @@BeekeepingMadeSimple

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

@@donnaspitzer3528 You're welcome!

[@suebee1436]

Watched twice. Ty

[@robinsonaenasi9800]

Good video, iam ready to transport to another place 8 hours across the sea by boat.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Hope you're not transporting bees with you on that boat. It took people over 100 years, I was told, before they were able to successfully transport bees to Hawaii by boat. It was quite the ordeal packing them in ice so they stayed clustered up only for them to die once they reached warmer waters.

[@georaves2998]

Just subbed to your channel... I'm very interested to get into bees ❤

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Awesome! Thank you! I hope the videos help you on your journey to becoming a beekeeper.

Great video, but the audio is a little weird - sound only comes out of the left channel.

[@jeffpostlewaite7767]

Trying to figure out where to start with equipment. Opinions on painted vs wax coated hives?

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

I have a playlist all about beekeeping equipment primarily for Langstroth equipment here - kzbin.info/aero/PL0nT3Jw0GdhudkqgNfiR5VANcmpWvNUyg I've been using painted boxes for the last 12 years and they work well and last long. The boxes I made 8 years ago are still on my hives. I found that the finger joints don't last as long as the boxes I made myself with rabbit joints. I recently was given some beeswax coated hives. They are only a year old and still doing well. It is a lot less work not having to paint the boxes and it looks nicer with the beeswax coating. The commercial apiary I worked for used to melt a large vat of wax and dip their boxes in it so they lasted longer. As a hobby beekeeper, it's not necessary to buy beeswax coated equipment. Your boxes will last 5+ years with just paint. What's more important is that you go with a stronger wood than pine if you can. If you live in a cold climate, you might want to go with an insulated hive. Galena Farms has a good deal on beeswax coated equipment. Their hive kits are very reasonable and don't come with all the extras you don't need and they're beeswax coated. Don't worry too much about what to buy. They all work just fine and will last a long while. Just don't buy the cheapest beehive from amazon from a no-name retailer! I've received some really poorly made equipment.

[@galacticloveteam8813]

So nervous getting my Nuc tomorrow! Thank you for your video. I need to go buy 10 lbs of sugar?? How long do I feed them this sugar water?? The patties are a great tip but I had no idea and now I’m nervous about their tummies. I feel like a nesting Mother who has run out of time! I spent a week painting my Flow Hive and oil protecting it and it has a huge crack on the super this morning - I wood glued it- nothing else I could do. :(. I don’t know why my beekeeping place didn’t tell me about that extra food. I hope I can get some to feed with the sugar water!

[@terriwhite6273]

This year I am trying a small shallow plastic container filled with marbles. Them N add sugar water to that. It prevents them from drowning.

[@terriwhite6273]

I just toss a sheet over the package while transporting.

[@thecraportheoreos7834]

Just to make sure I’m understanding this, if I boil 5 quarts of water I add 5 quarts of sugar to it ? Your videos are so helpful, this spring will be my first year of having bees. 🐝 Thank You 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

That is correct. You could put a little less sugar if you like. You just don't want more than 50% sugar.

[@rinakok5036]

Thank you for this video , very clear and good advice. I really liked the tip of using a mosquito net when transporting. One of my fellow beekeeping students had bees from his hive flying in his car on his backwindow You definitely do not want that

[@mikeb1956]

Same amount by weight….water is about 8lbs/gallon 5 quarts of water needs about 10 pounds of sugar. 1 qt water weighs 2 lb.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

​@@rinakok5036 LOL I've experienced that. It's not ideal for a beginner. Once they're 5 years into beekeeping, it'll be no big deal 😂😂

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

​@@mikeb1956thank you for the information. I don't believe it matters if you go by weight or volume in that the bees will consume it either way and neither is harmful to the bees, but good to know!

[@shelnsville]

When you say we only need one box to start, do you mean one brood box?

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Kind of. It doesn't really matter what size the box is. Some people use all medium depth boxes. Some use deep boxes. Either way, it will technically be a brood box because the queen will fill it mostly with brood.

[@sharlenehocutt488]

The bees made a hive in my hollow tree

[@dannycox3049]

I just installed anew package two hours ago. I have sugar syrup on inner cover inside an empty deep box so bees would be able to crawl up and feed with top outer cover over that. In the last hour I’ve seen a few hundred bees flying around entrances. It’s looks like the videos I’ve seen about robbing. I taped the inner cover hole but they seem to want to enter small hole at entrance. The queen is still in her little capsule, I’m thinking the neighborhood bees smelled that syrup immediately. Not sure where to go from here. Thanks

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

I would leave the bees alone for now. What makes you think they're robber bees and not the bees from the hive?

[@dannycox3049]

The activity, meaning the way those bees were flying around wasn’t just coming in and out. It was more like an unorganized bumpimg into each other while flying around the hive itself. Since the queen is still caged and no nectar and brood has been created, I just assumed they were the neighborhood bees trying to get to the syrup., I’m probably being a little too protective at this point. Thanks for replying to my concerns.

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

When the bees are new to the hive, they can be a little clumsy coming and going. As long as the entrance is reduced, they should be fine.

[@dannycox3049]

After three days I removed the empty package and queen capsule. Went back today after a total of ten days to inspect and see how they’re doing. I noticed on several frames they have started building cone not uniformed but in several small raised sections. I’m thinking the spacing was to wide. I’d notice several larvae in capsules on frames. Should I scrape the wonky comb off so they can start building uniformly. I have black plastic frames. Thank for responding

[@user-cp2sx8gp2z]

I've never had yellowjacks to be that much of a problem ? But im in Texas and my bees will attack a yellow jacket.

[@temijinkahn511]

Don't feed them "golden" sugar either. It has molasses in it which the bees cannot digest. When using pollen paties, I remver the paper as hive beetle large can get under the paper where the bees can't get at them and you can't see them. I cut the patties into 1 inch wide by 4 inch long. Patties are a supplement to the bees pollen gathering effort not a replacement. I put a new one in each inspection (2 weeks) until They are not using it all up. If the bees are not using the patty, remove what's left and stop using the patty. Patty's are the number one cause of hive Beatles overrunning your hive.

[@sharlenehocutt488]

I have a full wall of honey suckle with lot of bees

[@lillyhilarious]

Feeding the bees: Pollen patties, white sugar bee supplements

[@AQuickBreath]

This only has audio out of the left side.

[@sharlenehocutt488]

If I just put my box out side and let bees come naturally

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Bees will not leave the hive they created in the tree and move into the box outside. You would have to do something to either prevent them from getting back into the tree, manually remove the bees or annoy them enough that they choose to leave.

[@lisadavy1314]

About those mistakes🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@NolaSpiersMitchell-gu5iu]

Sorry no volume

[@ThomasDickHouse]

Thank you for the shout out to @just_alex! You two are the best. Very grateful for the guidance as we get started on our first hive. 💛🖤💛🖤💛

[@Katana622]

the audio is only on the left side

[@BeekeepingMadeSimple]

Thank you for letting me know. Unfortunately, I can't change it once it's been posted, but I will make sure that doesn't happen in future videos.