Very Educational!! Enjoyed hearing the bees and the birds.
@fishingforbees
9 ай бұрын
Grateful to not have a SHB problem in my area
@kathyhathaway8823
9 ай бұрын
Just a side note the very first thing you do when building your hive stand is always make it so the water doesn’t run inside or make some shims to go underneath the back of the hive .
@observationistdave
9 ай бұрын
We get actual shims and wedge them under the back of the hive. Before fall i just take a level with me, lay it on the top, and make sure it isn't level.
@bradgoliphant
9 ай бұрын
Great video. Yet I see something you might want to think about. Bees have shown us over, and over, and over again that they do not care for anything more than a 2 to 3 inch entrance that’s 3/8 of an inch high. Your bees are demonstrating this on almost every one of your hives by working, extremely hard, waxing and propolizing everything else. so the question is, why are we just giving them what they want all year long from the get-go?
@thomasrape4616
9 ай бұрын
You don't have that entrance reducer on right, it should be pushed in flush with the side of the hive body.
@josephrawls
9 ай бұрын
Some of the swarms I caught this year didnt do so well. I wonder if some of the pollen my bees are bring in right now is really dust from someones deer corn.
@HaasBuzzHomestead9909
9 ай бұрын
That’s interesting..
@rtxhoneybees
9 ай бұрын
Varroa load?
@HaasBuzzHomestead9909
9 ай бұрын
Water and mold. The bottom board was a lake. We had some hard core rain and wind. Very few dead bees. So who knows. I’ve got them shimmed now.
@rstlr01
9 ай бұрын
Most likely, either Varroa failed queen. if it was moisture, you would had clumps of wet dead bees on the bottom board. Obviously because there wasn’t many bees of winter physiology in your hive. As they aged out the bees fly out of the hive and die to get any viruses and other pathogens out of the hive. Best of luck getting the rest of the girls through the winter.
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