Beekeeping Secret: How to Raise Bees To Flourish in Winter

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Beekeeping Secret: How to Raise Bees To Flourish in Winter

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Beekeeping becomes interesting in late summer and fall. Beekeepers need to manage their colonies to help their bees prepare for winter. Today, I'll share about bees of winter physiology and the role they play in helping bees survive a long winter.
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@davethekiwibloke Жыл бұрын

As a farm boy, what we are always doing is planning our activities and resources 2 seasons ahead, this is exactly what you are describing with the bee winter prep. Beekeeping is, ultimately, just another type of farming and many similar principles apply. Thanks for a great vid making this very clear.

@WillieSams Жыл бұрын

I want that sugar board for winter

@adkfoothills1973 10 ай бұрын

Another great video that's loaded with good information. You have helped thousands of beekeepers, both new and old and I "Thank You". 😊

@beek 10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! You are very inspiring.

@annaseregina1107 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for thorough explanations!!! 5th year beekeeper, learning a lot from you!

@timblatt4851 3 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tips

@beek 3 күн бұрын

You bet

@paulgroth5414 Жыл бұрын

I think your spot on , I have also had bees since the 90s, I never treated in late July early August until the last few years. Gonna be feeding my colonies, stripping honey and adding mite treatment now! Love your videos and have learned so much!

@kylefrench7985 Жыл бұрын

Thank you David. Excellent video great tips for us to help our bees to survive winter.

@patrickclvn Ай бұрын

Mid Minnesota.. been to u of m classes.. and learned they essentially run a chemical free, resources rich, hippy/spoiled version of bee keeping class. This year I’ve been struggling with constant rain & extremely limited resources! (Still feeding with your suggested ingredients due to two neighboring farmer changing from alfalfa, clover, and soy bean field turned into possible new properties) As you called it a nectar dearth has been all spring long.. Mite tested with really limited to zero mites. But still have treated with oxi acid vapor strictly due to claims (such as yourself) its still necessary. Bees seem to be eating last years honey of which I provided with last years frames that I kept in freezer. Lost one outa 7 hives of which I combined successfully with another hive. Now at this point all hives seem to be just barely surviving & definitely not thriving! Meaning all hives have only one box of brood that seems to be recycling. Not one frame of brood in 5 outa 7 hives. I have a second deep box on any & all boxes.. no boxes are near each other.. we have 20 acres with 3 hives & 4 on another property/mother in laws property. But all all hives are reacting similar. Any/all suggestions appreciated!

@sigurjonhelgason8943 Жыл бұрын

It's all the time something new I learn from your video's

@beek Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that Sigurjon

@user-bj3gc4ti2t Жыл бұрын

This is a big help for beginners. I just started back in May.

@johnjuzbasich6115 Жыл бұрын

Feeding is key, sugar water. On Xmas is give them a candy box-16 pounds if sugar. They enjoy the holidays until spring!!!

@jeffperry9900 Жыл бұрын

Thanks again David. Great video to help us at being better beekeepers.

@lindasullivan77 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great information! This gives me great information on how to help my bees.

@cindydivorne5447 Жыл бұрын

Thank you David Burn. I love your educational videos!!!!

@dinobernardi170 5 ай бұрын

Thank you David makes all the sense in the world. Question...when do mite treatments stop for winter or do they not. If so when do we restart. Thank you again for all you sharing!!

@patriciadavis7444 Жыл бұрын

GREAT INFORMATION,,, MANY BLESSINGS ❤❤❤❤

@lt35phila 11 ай бұрын

Japanese knotweed is blooming now. Honey is nutritionally abundant and Japanese knotweed honey is no exception. Japanese knotweed honey has already been extremely popular in its native Japan for generations and has more recently been used all over the world. With a dark rich colour, antioxidant content is exceptionally high in Japanese knotweed honey.

@deanreichert6535 Жыл бұрын

Love your content, long time fan. First time hearing of a dearth pause. Feeding now to assist with building comb on new frames. Will this prevent the trigger to winter physiology if i keep feeding thru the start of the dearth. Also around 1 Aug here in Idaho.

@weirhauch1002 4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot sir for your sincere efforts

@journeytheoutdoorshuntinfi4155 Жыл бұрын

Just lost a double deep brood box to swarming. Im in Indiana, found 7 or 8 emerged queen cells. Yes emerged, not killed by another queen. On the brightside they left me the honey in the honey super. I was not watching the brood box. Just the honey super. Lesson learned!! Question: how do you build up hives right now???!!!

@JR-kk6ce 11 ай бұрын

I'm new to bee keeping, S. Florida, and I have been following your advice with success so far. I have been mixing commercialy sold bee pollen with 1 to 1 sugar water. About once a month I add home made bee be healthy mix. Is the pollen I mix in with the sugar water sufficient for the bees? Each hive consumes two quarts of the sugar water, pollen mix a day.

@whachamacollit Жыл бұрын

Hello David, thanks for this video I do exactly the same in my apiary with very good results. I live in the netherlands and a lot of our beekeepers lost their hives last winter and i think because they did exactly what is written in the old beekeeper books that are 40 or 50 years old. The world isn’t the same anymore… what do you feed in winter? Just syrup and protein patty’s? Thanks again for your great video’s!

@aggreyshakespeare Жыл бұрын

Great video David ❤❤❤

@johnhenderson253 2 ай бұрын

I am worthy Master! You are a genius

@naturalwitchery Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤ another great vodeo!

@user-tp6zo3zk3e 12 күн бұрын

Hi David hope you read this I have watched and enjoy your videos and I have learnt so much thank you. I am in the Uk I use thyme and coconut oils to treat my bees. I also feed sugar water in the hard times of summer and add thyme oil and lemongrass in very small amount oils to the mix. both these at least for my bees anyway has been good in keeping mites to less than 3% I am planing to coat plastic frames with melted wax with thyme oil mixed in as veroa defiantly hate thyme doing this in the brood box frames only would this be away for reducing veroa stopping them going into the cells as my bees don’t seem to have any issues with the oils in the sugar water or treating the hive with it. So thought it may stop them from the outset. May be well off the mark with this. But be great just to get your view on this. Many blessing to your family John

@beek 12 күн бұрын

Hi John from the UK, thanks for watching!

@brucecummings3238 3 ай бұрын

Great information

@beek 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@stephaniewarren9285 Жыл бұрын

Hey Dave forgive me if I missed it in the description, where do you get the Queen (mite) boxes you showed in the video? Also, all my hives are hanging outside the boxes at night, does that indicate too full or too hot, or both generally speaking? Thank you! I know that's what Thursday is for. I fear it may be too late if I wait. Thanks for any help!

@teresacooper2158 Жыл бұрын

We are having trouble with European hornets. Killing our bees! Do you have suggestions for how to get rid of the hornets? We live in the country, lots of woods around, and have no idea where the nest(s) are.

@vytbbb7146 Жыл бұрын

My bee traffic is reduced for a few weeks now. I wonder what all those foragers do in the hive then?

@donjohnsen6052 11 ай бұрын

I have a question do honey bee queens mate with Bees of different species like wasps?

@CelticMountainDigs 11 ай бұрын

Won’t the bees get food from the stores in the hive to feed the larvae after the nectar flow stops ?

@willardtrafton2804 Жыл бұрын

...Hibernating ... too funny !...

@RF33MUSIC Жыл бұрын

Hey David Have you ever used a Fogger with OA For Mite Eradication in the fall?

@paulgroth5414 Жыл бұрын

Well David I think a climate controlled room may be the way to keep the bees under 40 , I am considering this ,I am on southeast Michigan and have several hundred colonies and have been making more , I think the controlled environment will allow 5 frame nucs to survive with less stress...your thoughts?

@bobbybraddock7530 Жыл бұрын

We have mite Beatles and colony calapse all year long here! I know there is an answer because beekeepers around here grow their hive population every year, BUT THEY WONT TELL YOU THE SECRET!! If you want to ask me about plants around here, I can coach you, bees, Im struggling!! Also, they are drinking sugar water like crazy right now!! Didn't take any honey from them either!! They seem to be packed in the hive!!

@lynelledehlbom9542 Жыл бұрын

How about using colloidal silver in the syrup to combat viruses?

@diannemiller4754 Жыл бұрын

When should I treat my hive after a robbing within the past two weeks? I put the robber screen on as soon as it arrived. The robbing finally stopped.

@angelalott9370 Жыл бұрын

I am leaving a lot of my honey for then our coldest is usually 20 degrees we may have 2 week during winter that it's below 0 that is off and on. I usually fee inside the interest gaurd but it will freeze during winter won't it?

@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po Жыл бұрын

David I live in a terrible winter location(Ely Nevada 6500’elivation ) .. I got 80 hives this spring and I’m terrified for how there going to survive the upcoming winter

@bryanvyse3333 Жыл бұрын

Winter b kind still wont be available to ship to Ontario Canada again this year?

@robertvanderhoof6082 Жыл бұрын

My bees have been split and swarmed throughout the spring. I’ve been treating with oxalic acid since July 1 and I’m getting a little to no mic drop. What do you think about that?

@sharonc.2207 Жыл бұрын

David do you harvest honey in July and start feeding in August in Illinois?

@robertreynolds2524 Жыл бұрын

Why do bees washboard?

@beek Жыл бұрын

There no certain answer just speculation that they are crowded and hot.

@bobbybraddock7530 Жыл бұрын

What if you live in a climate where it doesn't really have 4 seasons? What I'm asking is this, we have heat and cold all year around, just like today, it only got to 75 degrees, and tomorrow may be 100 or higher, how do you predict what the bees are going to do? It may freeze in November or may not, it may not freeze until late January, or may freeze in early November or December and be 90 degrees the next day or so??? I'm so confused, my bees beard all year long from day to day!!! Come and see this for yourself!! The weather around here is so bad, it tricks the blueberry bushes and every other bush that only flowers once a year, I know this because I have 250 acres of blueberries, and thousands of acres of gallberry bushes around my farm!! It's very tricky around here, I would love to have you here for a different approach to bees!!

@rmore935 7 ай бұрын

You make good sense but you said some things that didn't make sense. First, you said feed them during the last 2 to 3 weeks into nectar flow then you have to take your honey supers off. Because that's not honey if they are feeding sugar water. Then you talk about feeding and razing bees clear into November and December. We get to the teens and single digits by November, so they can barely move. So do you think that works here? I can't imagine it even works there? Please explain.

@beek 7 ай бұрын

No you mis-heard me. Wait two to three weeks after the nectar flow. Remove your supers, then feed. I do to, but I feed hard candy not liquid once it's below 50ish.

@rmore935 7 ай бұрын

Oh yes you are right. We always feed 2 to 1 not 1to 1. Why do you prefer 1 to 1? Thanks for answering. You have great information. @@beek

@beek 7 ай бұрын

Most of us agree that a thinner syrup will cause the queen to lay more.

@rmore935 7 ай бұрын

Take a look at your video and just after 19:30 it sure seems like you say 2 to 3 weeks after the nectar flow starts feed 1 to 1. Thanks for getting back with me.

@beek 7 ай бұрын

I don't try and go back, nothing I can do. But if I have been known not to say exactly what I meant. 😀