Ep 4. HOW To Grow Your Beehive + Moving a Nuc Into A 5 Frame / Beekeeping 101 #beekeeping

Woot woot! Time to movies these babies into a 10 frame just in time for the winter build up! We are going to follow these 4 hives and see how they do going into winter and coming out of winter. Right now I’m looking at overwintering these girls as singles, but we will see how well they build up!

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[smallguy]

Marla Spivak @ U of Minnisota has researched propolis extensively. She found the major source of propolis in her area was actually secretions from cottonwood tree leaves.

[michigancarp]

Always find your videos interesting, bee keeper from dearborn hts here, so not to far away and mine are still on a flow from something right now.
Just making my last split of the year, mostly because I got my hands on a pol-line queen.

Winters coming :(

[scottsbees]

I use a queen excluder on entrance when I have cells getting finished off

[FishingPhoFun]

Where do the queens sleep if they are gone for 4 days???

[illumi-Nate]

Good old fashioned mouse traps with sunflower seeds work best.. i trap ALOT of mice on my land, especially by my hives. ..fyi 1 female mouse can turn into 1000 in a year.

[apatriot]

Ain’t no way you snapped a hive tool in half

[Swarmstead]

It's too late in the season for all this weird shit you all are doing with all those dinks. Just gonna end up feeding tons of sugar and buying more bees in the spring.

[peteGbee]

you select for the trait of mating flights?? I'm curious how that is done, what's your statistics for queens that "don't do mating flights you like?" compared to correct mating flights? and how you select for that, then how prominent is that trait? or how you know it's not enviroment and not
genetics at all? and what does it matter and how it correlated to survival?
As a small TF queen producer I very rigorously test and select for traits I've seen over 6 years., and know that most traits don't get passed on most important, I would never claim any fact over small traits I select for in my very distinct climate and enviroment. I'm curious how you've decided and met this goal over a few years and are so absolute about it you stated it as fact over a you tube video to thousands of people. if you have distinct stats and evidence of these points and most importantly how it correlates to survival please I would love a video of this info and other traits you Breed for and test and have evidence for! I would hope you don't just spew random opinions without any evidence or correlation over a how to you tube channel on beekeeping.