Beekeeping Tips For The Month Of November

Beekeeping in November can be iffy. I've compiled eight valuable tips to help guide you through your November beekeeping journey, helping you prepare your hives for the challenges ahead and ensuring your bees stay healthy and happy throughout the season.

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🌻FEED YOUR BEES:
Plan ahead for spring. Feed your bees in the spring by using my Feeding board known as the Burns Bees Feeder. Safely feed your bees from the top. Great way to help you build up your bees of winter physiology. Check it out:
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[EjkoBejkoTaralejko]

David, if the temp drops below freezing, isnt the Burn's feeding system in danger of freezing as well>

[sherryortiz]

Best hives for your back are long lang. Ive made one and spent the last 2 years with it. Love it, so easy. I have several top bar hives and lang hives 9 years. Cant beat the long lang. In the process of making 2 more now. And will continue til all my bees are in them. Even easy with my arthritis joints. A cooler on wheels to haul honey combs to the kitchen finishes it up.

[mathgasm]

I thought 1 to 1 was bad in the winter? I live in south Texas.

[davemeister]

I’m in Illinois also and only about 1hr north. Our lows are in the 30s or below most nights. How can you feed 1/1 without taking it off every evening? Also if they start laying a bunch of eggs and then the temp dives, which is highly likely, they have a ton of extra moisture in the hive. Do you not have trouble with this?

[lonnieh]

I just want to say thank you David for pushing mite treatment. I had more mites then expected.

[captbriansbees]

I don’t want to break the Propolis seals.

[chiromom]

Last year I built a wall with plastic sealed bales of wood chips. I alternated the directions in the row. They were quite heavy. So many things to fret about!

[brianbennett]

Always Enjoy your videos. Keep them coming. Thanks fir the tips 😊

[RodBodkin]

David, I tried your feeding mixture for the first time this August. I trickle feed for a month (1/3 gallon a week) using an in hive feeder. In October I feed a gallon of 2 to 1 syrup for weight. In one hive when I filled the feeder a few dead bees floated to the surface as expected but most surprising were 12 to 15 dead hive beetle larvae. It occurred to me that the Ultra Bee pollen sub attracted them. Therefore your feeding method could be another way of controlling beetles after the supers come off with in hive feeders.

[mattkrzan]

Black bear in NE PA got me this fall. Finally had 5/5 hives this far into the year. And one bear was determined enough to get through that fence. Learning opportunity. Juice that fence up some more, 2 or 3 more wraps for less gaps for a bear to stick its arm through and make that enclosure a little bigger… is what it is, move forward and kick more butt next year. It could’ve been worse.

[jobyevans]

Painter's tape works in the SE to "reseal" boxes. (Duct tape if you really want to be sure)

[chiromom]

Hi David, Wind Break: I picked up some 2x2s and a cheap roll of black fabric they use in construction from the tractor supply store. Cheap! Stapled the fabric to the 2x2s that I pounded into the ground. Working great!(and cheap). Thinking I can reuse next season. :) thanks for all you do.

[AbdulAziz-moql]

Thank you Mr.David for the tips.🇵🇰🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[laurahilger]

oh man... so sad I missed the 50% off sale !!!

[thomaskoppenhaver]

Great video David, you've been putting out great information and encouragement in rapid succession. Wow, how do you do that and still find it in you to be a beekeeper, businessman, mentor, speaker, columnist, and citizen scientist? Haha, just the videos would wear me out.

[Iluvchknz]

Illinois here. I built a wind break using 5 ft t-post and slid wood pallets over them. It cost me very little to do this.

[donjohnsen]

I would use hay bales or straw bales for a wind break cheap.

[jessicafairfax_Bens_Bees]

Love the monthly tip videos David 🐝👍💜 See you Thursday night.

[frogsurfer]

Wrapping a hive with a windproof material like tar paper (roofing felt) or house wrap (Tyvek, etc) is basically an individual windbreak for a hive, it helps to keep out the wind and rain. I've also used snow fencing as protection on the exposed side of a beeyard, and a low wall made of hay bales can also deflect wind up and over the hives. In my area folks buy hay/straw bales as part of their outdoor autumn/halloween decor and then don't know what to do with them afterwards. I'll collect them and make a free windbreak, and also works as mulch on garden beds. I also utilize wind guards on the hive entrances; allows light in and unrestricted air flow/bee egress.

[bradgoliphant]

David thank you. Truly great video and great pointers.
Yet may I point out for others to learn from, it’s not always high numbers of bees going into winter that wins. I stopped using Italian bees simply because they entered into winter with such huge numbers that they ate through all their reserves by January and would have starved had I not been on top of it.
It’s also noteworthy to mention, that queen species like Buckfast and Caucasians go into winter with much smaller clusters—this is a great trait to have being that they are frugal with reserves and come into spring with leftovers to help build them up.
This is why these to species are my preferred to keep. Grateful.