First time Checking out the honey bee hive, got it 5 weeks ago

About every week Mark and I would check out my bee hive, Mark is a bee keeper and has 140 hives he showed me how to take care of the hive, I'm on my own now, this is the first time I did this my self, very scary

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Education

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• Bees
• Honey
• checking
• out
• the
• hive
• Bee
• keeper

[potteryfish]

The ants try to set up house under the first cover, to discorage the ants I take the cover off on good days, after a few day I put the covers back on and the ants slowly come back, a never ending battle, we are going to harvest some honey in a week, update we now have 3 boxes on each hive, the top one is a queen excluder so the workers store only honey in the top, the queen can't get in to lay eggs, also this sping we made 3 splits from the 2 hives

[potteryfish]

The ants don't seem to bother the bees

[potteryfish]

Not fire ant but still bite th @#$% out of me and yes I have a damaged nervous system

[bdis89]

try vaseline on the side of the box, so that the ants cant climb up it. we used to do that with our tree.

[bmaxingout]

i like pouring diatomaceous earth around two inches high and two inches wide around the legs of my hive and i no longer have any ants and very few mites

nice video thank you

[Brian01331]

@gstonegraphix Either that or he drank too much coffee.

[dawg1157]

Don't all of those ants hurt the bees?

[todbst]

Nice job. I would suggust you keep all the brush cut back. Ants suck. Dont give them an easy way to access your world.

[bigbillyholmes]

great work..

[gstonegraphix]

He must have parkinsons or he's nervous as hell,shakin .