Beekeeping Change That Could Totally Improve Beekeeping

Beekeeping can be greatly improved by this one single tool that beekeepers can add to their tool box. Beekeepers are chasing the wrong solution.

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[brianhoffman]

Thank you David for another great video. I am excited to take this journey as you produce more videos. Does it make sense to combine queen rearing with splitting? Rear new queens in a new hive, but instead of removing her after she has mated, keep her with the new hive. This will essentially speed up establishing a nucleus.

[Peter-odop]

Lost 2 hives this summer to hive beetles

[ScottPickettUT]

I needed this info this last fall. One of my 3 hives was struggling. Queen stopped laying after mite treatment and took weeks to recover. I should have re-queened right then. This hive went into winter weaker than I would have wanted. If they survive winter they will need a new queen immediately. Wont be surprised if they fail. I hesitated in June to start a 5 frame NUC from my big hive. Had I done just that one thing I would have had a queen and, if necessary, some frames of bees I could have combined in to strengthen the weak hive. That's my year 2 lesson learned. I will always have at least two NUCs as resource hives from now on.

[garyRtBees]

Superior queens, good nutrition, and dead mites! You have all 3 of these and the hive will take care of the rest.

[studygodsword]

the Queen wasn't the problem, it was the major highway ! constant shortage of worker bees !

[princenephron]

This is kind of a minor issue. The typical difference between an aging queen and a healthy queen is pretty negligible... Mites and healthy keeping a steady, healthy flow of resources coming in are farrrr bigger factors.

[brucesbees]

Queenkeeper. I love it! Might have to start using that phrase. Great stuff as always David!

[greensmash]

I agree, however it totally sucks tearing the hive apart all the time and trying to find the Queen.

[TNWhiskey]

Another GREAT video my brother David! I truly believe the Queen makes or breaks the colony whether it be thru egg laying, temperament or mite or disease resistance. Having a healthy Queen that checks off those boxes is what I will always strive for. Thank you for helping us on what is probably the #1 most important part of our colonies as she is what determines so many aspects that make our colonies strong or weak. Thrive or die.

[lisacarol]

😆 you always speak to my fears and obstacles to being a bee keeper.

[wesleybryant]

Excellent. We need more of this content. Thankyou.

[charleswrinkle]

Randy Wrinkle from Kriegerkeep Bees here. In Texas we have started using peppermint either crushed or whole in our hives to help control the numbers of small hive beetles. This was my first year to use it and it was a tremendous difference. Most hives had no SHB and if I found some it was 1 or 2 max. I will know the truth of the process in a couple of years if this trend continues. You might give it a try to see if it helps. Personally I drop 1 Peppermint disk in each corner and the same on the queen excluder of the second box. I only run 1 deep brood chamber. Then the same number on every super I put on. I lay these on the top bars. I add more as needed each inspection. Good luck!

[markcross]

David this is powerful and what is needed to be successful in bee keeping.

[maple-and-bees-hobby]

THANKS for the download "FREE Downloadable "Raising Quality Queen Bees" and I did subscribe again and will follow this series.

[michaelmartin]

Great knowledge in this video. When you open a hive, you see a lot of propolis on the top of the top bars and caged bettles. You know you have hive bettles. Your bees are caging them up, so they don't eat your eggs.

[heavymechanic]

Interesting David, this week I was assembling a Queen Castle and ordered two more NUC boxes, and double screen boards in preparation to rear Queens in April. Last spring I went from six colonies to twenty by grafting and now have the assets to to build NUCs for sale.. There is so much information out there and it all says about the same regarding the timeline from egg to capped cell. Like you said, its not hard but you must be committed to the timeline.

[anthonymauceri]

That was great thanks, I can wait until spring to start

[phyllisflorian]

You asked about small hive beetle problems. Here in Michigan, they were plentiful last year. 😒 I have yet to identify an unmarked queen - - IF I can ever get better at this skill, I'll definitely feel more confident about becoming a queenkeeper some day.

[skooterbumm]

great perspective. I think your correct on all of this

[darenguckert]

Thou u could leave the grafts in the starter longer until capped right , or put them in a hive above the brood and queen excluder for finishing