@teenprepper96 Check with your state or local beekeepers' association, all offer mentoring programs and some offer scholarships which provide most everything you need to get started. Welcome to the Bee Borg!
@teenprepper96 HEY,KID!THATS IT,YOU DO THAT!ITS UP TO YOUR GENERATION TO FIX THE DISASTERS OF THE PAST! now go forth helping the earth and yourself to sustain life on our planet! (raising cray fish and bullfrogs is pretty cool,too!) then you have EARNED your right to party!!!! we,your parents generation(us electric youth of the eighties) had to fight for it against a system that could care less about nature,and more about profit.now your generation can discover nature IS profitable.GO FOR IT!!!
We get lots of comments about going suitless. Charlie Mraz would even go shirtless. I have done it, but recommend removing chest hair. I talk about the mindset in working a hive in Videopole's "Garden of Beeden, part 1. But I also adapt to the bees on the issue, they are most tolerant between mid morning and midafternoon, with calm to gentle winds, sunny, temps between 55 and 80F, and with a good nectar flow in progress. Busy hands are happy hands.
1st you gotta have another empty hive with all frames with wax, then you put this empty hive at the side of the old hive (that has the bees). Than you change 5 empty frames to the old hive and select 5 frames from the old one to the new one just make sure this frames have the larvae and then you change the places of the hives, putting the new one in the place of the Old one and when the bees that are flying come back and realize they dont have a queen they'll
green2lean - The sellers of queens want you to believe that home raised queens are inferior. If by chance the hive is queenless and raises an emergency queen, they will choose a new larvae and give it royal jelly for all five days of development. The hives senses that it is queenless in 30 minutes by the diminution of queen pheromone. One hopes that the queen laid eggs up to the time of her disappearance. A brood frame has 7200 cells and can carry a pound of bees on the surface - 3000+
rule of thumb, if you do this April 15 it takes 3 frames of brood, April 22 - 4, May 1 - 5, May 15,-6. Be sure you have frames with eggs or very small larvae. 5 days to hatching, five as larvae, and only six as pupae for a queen. But move as many nurse bees on the frame as you can.
Split question: I want to do a split but I can't get my mind around how this can be successful.
It takes between 3 and 4 weeks for the new hives to make a queen. Then it takes another 3 weeks before new worker bees hatch. If a bee lives only 6 weeks, the entire original population should be dead before the new bees hatch and that's if they were all newborns to begin with.
@green2lean I can field this question for you, or others who are now reading it. When you split from a strong hive, the frames you pull will have brood and food in them already. I personally look for hives that are producing queen cells and possibly getting ready to swarm. The brood will hatch in the new location (no long wait), the new queen will emerge and fly out to mate within 15 days avg. So within 3 weeks, strength is building. My splits make it 2 out of 3 times.
My left ear enjoyed the voice. My right ear enjoyed the song.
joshlete 1 week ago
@teenprepper96 Check with your state or local beekeepers' association, all offer mentoring programs and some offer scholarships which provide most everything you need to get started. Welcome to the Bee Borg!
aitchapiary 3 months ago
YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!
irishbreakfast 3 months ago
I have been bitten and I am only 15, I dont have a hive yet but I am addicted, its too late in the year now but next spring i am getting some hives
teenprepper96 3 months ago
@teenprepper96 HEY,KID!THATS IT,YOU DO THAT!ITS UP TO YOUR GENERATION TO FIX THE DISASTERS OF THE PAST! now go forth helping the earth and yourself to sustain life on our planet! (raising cray fish and bullfrogs is pretty cool,too!) then you have EARNED your right to party!!!! we,your parents generation(us electric youth of the eighties) had to fight for it against a system that could care less about nature,and more about profit.now your generation can discover nature IS profitable.GO FOR IT!!!
irishbreakfast 3 months ago
@irishbreakfast thanks, we have an orchard on property, that is where I will keep the hives, mostly TBH's
teenprepper96 3 months ago
We get lots of comments about going suitless. Charlie Mraz would even go shirtless. I have done it, but recommend removing chest hair. I talk about the mindset in working a hive in Videopole's "Garden of Beeden, part 1. But I also adapt to the bees on the issue, they are most tolerant between mid morning and midafternoon, with calm to gentle winds, sunny, temps between 55 and 80F, and with a good nectar flow in progress. Busy hands are happy hands.
aitchapiary 7 months ago
The Thing about the Sound is that the Music is right and Speaker on left.
Great Video.
Love them little fellas!
forearth 7 months ago
Great Video. Lots of info and a good/funny narrator. Pretty brave for not wearing a suit!
fbforlife90 9 months ago
feed all the larvaes with royal jelly than they will become queens. The 1st one that hatches will kill all the others.
I hope I have helped you. I did this with all my 100 hives and now i have 200 here in Brazil
seawolfsp 11 months ago
1st you gotta have another empty hive with all frames with wax, then you put this empty hive at the side of the old hive (that has the bees). Than you change 5 empty frames to the old hive and select 5 frames from the old one to the new one just make sure this frames have the larvae and then you change the places of the hives, putting the new one in the place of the Old one and when the bees that are flying come back and realize they dont have a queen they'll
seawolfsp 11 months ago
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
joby613 1 year ago
green2lean - The sellers of queens want you to believe that home raised queens are inferior. If by chance the hive is queenless and raises an emergency queen, they will choose a new larvae and give it royal jelly for all five days of development. The hives senses that it is queenless in 30 minutes by the diminution of queen pheromone. One hopes that the queen laid eggs up to the time of her disappearance. A brood frame has 7200 cells and can carry a pound of bees on the surface - 3000+
aitchapiary 1 year ago
rule of thumb, if you do this April 15 it takes 3 frames of brood, April 22 - 4, May 1 - 5, May 15,-6. Be sure you have frames with eggs or very small larvae. 5 days to hatching, five as larvae, and only six as pupae for a queen. But move as many nurse bees on the frame as you can.
aitchapiary 1 year ago
Split question: I want to do a split but I can't get my mind around how this can be successful.
It takes between 3 and 4 weeks for the new hives to make a queen. Then it takes another 3 weeks before new worker bees hatch. If a bee lives only 6 weeks, the entire original population should be dead before the new bees hatch and that's if they were all newborns to begin with.
I guess a few hatch from the brood you include?
Is it true emergency queens are not as good?
green2lean 1 year ago
@green2lean I have forwardwed yopur question to our bee keeper friend and he weill try to answer..thanks
Videopole 1 year ago
@green2lean I can field this question for you, or others who are now reading it. When you split from a strong hive, the frames you pull will have brood and food in them already. I personally look for hives that are producing queen cells and possibly getting ready to swarm. The brood will hatch in the new location (no long wait), the new queen will emerge and fly out to mate within 15 days avg. So within 3 weeks, strength is building. My splits make it 2 out of 3 times.
HTCSWEOD 1 day ago
great video....no problem with sound here......
bigbillyholmes 1 year ago
dont know why you are having this problem..the audio is fine on my computer
Videopole 1 year ago
great music but not content. no voice at all
OutOfaBlueSky 1 year ago