Bees for beginners part 3

part 3 of 4 of our beekeeping series!

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• survival
• homesteading
• farming
• Wilderness
• beekeeping
• Bee's
• fruit
• fish
• cooking
• camping
• preparedness

[MyAnimationNation]

where do you buy the bees? I'm trying to make some hives, but I can't find anything.

[delta69alpha]

@MyAnimationNation I have purchased stuff from brushy mountain before and had great service. I know SR use's them and maybe one other company D69.

[kingrapid]

I didnt understand the SUGAR SYRUP part???

Wasnt the whole idea NOT to put sugar in? like...doesn't it affect the honey cos (technically) its putting artificial stuff in... does that make sense?

In other words its not natural?

[delta69alpha]

where does sugar come from? ;)

[glovnhand]

T.V and beer make humans docile and sticky? lol

[junito1957]

dude your video is good until you got to the part of putting the bees on the hive , i bet those bees felt like pow when they first capture they hoers them down and get there head knock around just remove two more frame and remove the queen first then put the whole box in the hive with the top open that all , like the video from the fruitguys the way they did it is less stressful on the bees

[TheGreatTamara]

Would it make more sense to spray your hive with sugar water rather than smoke 'em when entering the hive? Would it make them more docile?

[browntran]

@delta69alpha From sugar cane grown in the Everglades, not from honey bees.

[browntran]

@kingrapid If you start a new bee hive by splitting a hive (by taking full frames and placing them into a new hive) the frames will have honey in them, and it may not be necessary to otherwise feed the new colony. If you buy bees and they are shipped to you, when you put them in the new hive the colony will not have any food, so they are fed with some sugar water. It's not natural---bees like to eat honey not refined cane sugar dissolved in water, but sometimes it is necessary.

[Koiboy70]

I'm sure that it boils down to personal preference, but one tip that most bee keepers concur with is that, when installing packages is the one and only time to NOT use smoke.... the bees need to be able to track the location of the queen in her cage as well as smell the wax coated foundation, and smoke interfers with that.

Love the beer and TV analogy, though... THanks for posting!

[harryjameslll]

@kingrapid what if its organic sugar o

[waterwart]

another way to have got the bees into the hive would have been to just set another super on top, then set the whole box the bees werein inside the super. They would climb out eventually and found their way around.

[MrMfloor]

THIS IS CANDY......WE'RE HAVING FUN LOL!!!

[infobasedchoices]

haha love all of it! esp the commentary about the spray. you're funny!

[huntingsurvival]

lol love the humor :D