Beekeeping | Feeding Your Bees In The Winter In 30 Seconds

Beekeeping in the winter means feeding your bees a candy board but is it too cold to open the hive? I'll show you how to feed your bees in 30 seconds. It's important to reduce moisture in the hive with a candy board in the winter. Today we'll experiment with feeding our bees and monitoring the moisture at the same time.

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[marcellapaull]

Thanks! David you are such a blessing. You have taught me so much about helping my bees thrive.

[lilbit]

I just got my winter boards today. Ty. Where I live it has been around 20 degrees the past couple of weeks. I am excited to use them.

[roymaher]

Great video…I enjoyed your comments about tinkering and backyard science. That’s a big part of my interest in beekeeping!

[dennisnieft]

Thanks David nice info on what's going on inside the hive.Time for a coffee time video to recap on all things in general.Great to hear that 100k is so close.Thanks so much for everything that you do to up us.

[mr.joshua]

Received and installed my winter bee kind yesterday! Thanks dave!!

[bryanbetournay]

I always love your videos David. In interested in your moisture level experiment. I too love my heated vest. Couldn't do the cold wet days outside without it. Keep up the great work.

[Dont]

Thanks so much very informative!😊 I have bees. This is our second year, but it’s the first year they have stayed in winter 😊

[phyllisflorian]

(Sheri is your busy bee in the shipping department. Way to go, Sheri!👏👏👏) Couple of questions: 1) Are you planning to wrap those hives that are close to the building? I wrapped my hives last week after a few really chilly nights, now we have snow. Next week, back into the 40's...??!! (Someone asked if you should bring the hives into the unheated garage over the winter....🧐???) Also, is it a big boo-boo to have left the 'fortified' sugar water feeders for a few more days while I wait for my Winter-Bee-Kind, or should I put some bee candy in there for now??? Thanks for any info from you, David, or from our wonderful subscribers. I'm so happy to bee a part of this adventure! 😊🐝💖

[richardsims]

looking forward to listening to you at the hive life conference

[MsQuantized]

Love these experiments been thinking of doing similar.

[WildwoodsBeekeeping]

Your almost to 100, 000 Subscribers! Very exciting! God bless

[adamboychuk]

It's awesome what you do and thank you keep it up love the videos

[off-trailseeking]

Thanks much David for you informative videos! I would be interested in seeing a dedicated video on the details of how you use the weather are good readings, how do the reading fluctuate, when are reading going bad for the bees and what action to take.

[Nucandcrannyfarms]

Very interesting David, i wonder how much thing's change between the wrapped hives vs the unwrapped. Cheers to a hundred grand !

[feliciachitwood]

Thanks for this video it definitely made me feel better about getting into my bees 🐝 when it’s around 30*

[itsokaytobeclownpilled]

Thank you! Awesome vid. I put wax paper on the frames, granulated sugar on the wax paper, a spacer and a moisture board on a hive/swarm that found my vacant hive this past September. It snowed this last weekend and I expected all of them to die. Much to my surprise, there was only a few dead bees at the entrance. Maybe a swarm after June isn't doomed.

When I first discovered these bees had taken up residence in a vacant hive, I went through the hive to look for wax moth damage and hive beetles. I didnt fool with the hive looking for brood or the queen. I am paranoid I will squish the queen.

[MrNeoflee]

Got my feeder yesterday! Thank you so much . Hoping it will be a game changer . Was hoping to also buy a winter feeding board but was “sold out “ so gonna have to go to a competitor 3:14 😢

[carlland]

As a beekeeper that has made hundreds of your type of candy boards. I wonder if the 20 degree temp rise is from the residual heat escaping the two hour poured candy in the drying process. It seems like it takes several hours of curing time to not feel the heat any longer after I pour the candy into the boards. Carl

[lou]

Both my winter b kind will b here tomorrow

[DooleyBFR]

You Like it Hot!!! LOL!!! Come down here in Hillbilly Coal Country! We Build a coal fire in the Buck stove strip down to our underware and open the windows n doors!! LMBO! Thats Hot Bubby!!! God Bless!!!