Harvesting Honey, Part 2 - Getting Set

Installing escape board to clear bees out of honey boxes, hive inspection.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• bees
• queen
• honey
• beehive
• propolis
• hive
• wax
• comb
• foundation
• insect

[Mosesgotskillz]

Do the bees die in the removal process of the "hive"? just curious.

[newpotatohead]

@Mosesgotskillz - some do, no matter how careful you are. but most find their way out of harm's way back to the brood nest.

[Lenniemather]

Great video, where do you live that you can keep your bees in a building??

[newpotatohead]

@Lenniemather - thanks! I live in an urban area, so the beehive was placed there to keep it out of view. It's just a little garden shed in my backyard. If I lived further away from my neighbors, I would keep the bees more out in the open...

[kingrapid]

Hey bro...I've been watching ure vidz ALL THE WAY from the UK..and i think they're VERY VERY INFORMATIVE..so we appreciate that...just one question though:

In YOUR OWN opinion/experience, How long do u USUALLY think it takes from the time u have the Hive up and running... until the time of Harvest???? (for eg on a typical season.)

[newpotatohead]

@kingrapid - howdy from North America! In my experience, my best answer would be "It depends". If you have a healthy colony, and you have a good "honey flow" (bees bringing in a good supply of nectar from the local flowers and making honey from it), you should be able to remove a box or two in July, then again in August. It is important to leave a box or two of honey for the colony to overwinter, so you do not want to remove too much.

[hollybear61]

@ 6:24 aw, a bunch of bees that were ontop of the honey super got squished when the next was placed on top. :-(

[Stephychan0]

i just watched some guy do this in a tshirt n jeans with a feather....

[benno89er]

if you want to draw those frames out really nice put a frame feeder in and give them a feed of sugar syrup 1:1 they will draw that box in about 3 days nice white combs good for honey or breeding

[Skirowa]

my mouth is watering i want some honey

[popawg123]

what happen to the queen bee when the queen excluder is removed and the supers is place on top of brood hive and what happens to the queen when you stack the supers on top of each other ? W.G.

[MaterialSociety]

I wonder if Bee Keepers started off as Pro Gardeners that kept getting their harvest's ripped off or looted by random people or animals, and this is their Payback. Bee's have no idea they are gonna get their Honey/Home stolen by these people overdosing them with smoke,usually tobacco.But if you take a good look at these Bee Keeper video's(plural*) they all have one characteristic trait, High Cholesterol; but i guess that come's with the territory when benefiting off of others hard work...

[BudgetPhoenix]

lmao when he drops them all