Harvesting Honey

Paul Kelly, research and apiary manager, shows how to harvest honey from a beehive.

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We would like to thank Québec beekeepers Marie-Hélène Majeau and Susan Kennerknecht for translating our videos into French. We are very grateful for their help with this project. (To view translation, click on settings then subtitles)

Nous aimerions remercier deux apicultrices du Québec, Marie-Hélène Majeau et Susan Kennerknecht pour la traduction de ces vidéos en français. Nous leur en sommes très reconnaissants. (Pour accéder à la traduction française, sélectionnez paramètres et ensuite sous-titres)

[torontek]

Thank you Paul Kelly for making all this amazing videos and sharing it to public. So much learning form all these contents

[thatoneidiotnamedme]

For a beginner beekeeper, like me, Watching your videos are great!
This years been hard! My bees are not doing as good as they should!
They have only built enough wax for 1 brood chamber!
I have two on it! They have just started on the top!
I also just added a super! Which they haven’t started on either!
I live in the middle of PA, and we have just had no ran for a month!
I think that had a big part in the problem!
I would love to be a full time beekeeper!
It’s pouring rain right now! So the golden rod should help them too!
Thanks

[lintonmacnamara]

Great to watch you at work Paul. A real Pro....

[beekeeper]

I think this is the first and only video to show using the leaf blower to remove your bees

[hachimitsu]

@6:58 "Blast the Bees out" LOL, just sounds funny to hear it that way!

[poodidi]

you must have quiet bees, how they don't sting you after using the blower is amazing

[trebronmeheszet]

I have the most powerful still blower and I don't have to take out any of those small frames If the box not so heavy it could be blow the whole box so I also grab it with my left hand, other thing is that u have to take the box out of that place when blowing otherwise the bees flying back continuously into the box. Good luck

[beekeeper]

You have some good natured bee's mate👌🏻

[wmrogerware]

Will buckfast bees do well in the southeastern United States 🇺🇸? You are a talented beekeeper, I appreciate your practical topics.

[johnbruney]

I am new to bees and will be starting with two packages in March 2017. I have been very impressed with your videos and feel that I have gleaned a lot of great information!! I do have two questions I hope you can/will answer... I am intrigued by your use of canvas inner covers. I have never seen them until now. I am in Tennessee and wonder how they would offer the same ventilation a "regular" inner cover would for our summer heat? And, I have yet to see any videos by you on mite and beetle control. Is this not a problem for you?

[johnw]

Great videos. Thank you so much for making them. Do you always use foundation and extract honey? Ever make comb honey or go foundation-less. You really do have nice gentle bees and you are a real pro.

[iitkxqd]

My dear brother, how are your bees fed and do you use candy dough and how is it prepared?

[denysantonenko]

I have a wild swarm of bees living in my chimney for three years already that I want to capture next spring to put them in a hive... around the beginning of April. They’ve swarmed this passed May. I was wondering what should I do in this situation? Wait for them to swarm and then catch them and transfer them to the hive or catch them in April before they swarm and then divide the two colonies into two hives? Can you please help me? I have no idea what to do. Thanks for the video! It was very very helpful!!!

[goawayify]

Do you ever get a nasty hive that "really" don't want you to get their honey
Great videos....thank you

[RoughAndWretchedRAW]

I harvest as it comes in and is ready. our honey is very light, not too sweet, very floral and even when it crystallizes is fine to the point of almost being creamed but naturally. I;m talking even late season our honey is light. I big time love the bee escape method. No hassle and very little intrusion. it's just a me thing and I don't care how others do it. I personally consider fume boards or brushing or blowing or shaking unnecessary for me. There are two operations involved in using escape board but I just figure it's the least I can do for the bees to harvest their and my labor with the least stress to us both. I'm not forcing them out but instead giving them a new and equivalent area to work and just preventing them from re entering the old. It never takes two days here. The next day I go back quickly grab the supers and load them and I'm gone before they know it.

[suzannewatson]

Wondering Paul what you are using as the hive tops. What type of material is that ?

[PaulDrummer]

Thanks for very good video. Would you recommend keeping the capped supers from the start of the season till the end and harvest once a year. Or remove the spring honey supers and add new for the summer honey?

[sakhmy]

hello sir and thank you very much for this fantastic videos it helps me a lot in beginning my Hobby i so you in this video at the time point 5:06 used a bee escape and i want to ask how it been made please

[lwride]

What happens to the bees in fall when you don’t put the supers back on? There wouldn’t be room in the brood chambers so do they just fly off and die?

[framcesmoore]

ha I am watching them all over again they are so great. Did u modify the blower to use it on the bees thanks