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Post by jonsnowii on Oct 6, 2020 15:04:55 GMT -5
I subscribed. Not sure what name they think I am, but I did it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 10:11:41 GMT -5
Just uploaded a new video. Some super slow motion. Yes. I was in the middle of the bees flying around me and landing on me. The girls (female bees) didn't care I was there except being in their way. No drones (male bees) this time of year. Only worker winter girls and queen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDwf8ij9vQ&feature=youtu.be
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 9:03:19 GMT -5
Just received an email from from Barb Bloetsher the State Apiarist/Entomologist Ohio Department of Agriculture. On Wednesday she will be checking the hives for any issues. This way I can sell queens, bees, and honey. She is wonderful to work with. Cost per year is $5 per Apiary. Next year I will have two or three apiaries.
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Post by saltydog on Oct 22, 2020 5:05:59 GMT -5
Just received an email from from Barb Bloetsher the State Apiarist/Entomologist Ohio Department of Agriculture. On Wednesday she will be checking the hives for any issues. This way I can sell queens, bees, and honey. She is wonderful to work with. Cost per year is $5 per Apiary. Next year I will have two or three apiaries. Waynes. What does her inspection consist of ? Will you be doing a video ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2020 6:18:07 GMT -5
Just received an email from from Barb Bloetsher the State Apiarist/Entomologist Ohio Department of Agriculture. On Wednesday she will be checking the hives for any issues. This way I can sell queens, bees, and honey. She is wonderful to work with. Cost per year is $5 per Apiary. Next year I will have two or three apiaries. Waynes. What does her inspection consist of ? Will you be doing a video ? She cancelled since she checked my hive back in early March. She had 6 apiaries to check. So no video. She goes through a hive or two depending on how many you have. A spot check. A strong one, weak one etc.. She looks for disease issues and or concerns of the hive and apiary. She will be back next spring. She explains what she sees and what is best per what she finds. She doesn't tell you what to do etc. She is there ti verify your Apiary is good and disease free. See writes up a form that she gives you stating Apiary disease free and marks what you plan to sell, Queens, bees and honey. I had all three checked this past late winter check. If you asks she informs you of other good youtube beekeepers to follow, books to read etc.. She helped me with queen grafting this year. It is also good to watch someone else look at your bees and how she does it. The little details. One thing I now bring with me is a very good flashlight. Helps to see in the comb even on sunny days. How do the eggs look etc. A very positive conversation on bees well being. I'm sure some inspectors are better than others.
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Post by saltydog on Oct 26, 2020 7:45:14 GMT -5
Waynes..... Have you seen any hive beetles ? Are we to far north for them ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 11:43:10 GMT -5
Waynes..... Have you seen any hive beetles ? Are we to far north for them ? All of my stands are in the full sun so the SHB are minimal. I've only seen maybe 5 or 6 all together between the hives. If stands are away from woods then it's not an issue. Mine are about 10 to 20 yards away in a field that I cut about 6 times a year. I don't use anything in any hives to kill them. All seen them above the inner cover and I killed all of them with my hive tool.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 11:43:17 GMT -5
I got a little lucky yesterday. I ordered 4 3-4 foot American Basswood trees back in the spring. The trees arrived yesterday and was able to plant before this 3 plus inches of rain. Could not time it any better. Everyone fenced with two poles holding the fence. Two basswoods are equal to an acre of wild flowers, plus basswoods bloom in July which helps not having a dearth period of July and August. I pan to fertilize each year in the spring.
My wife informed me no more trees.
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Post by bullseye69 on Oct 29, 2020 11:51:35 GMT -5
I got a little lucky yesterday. I ordered 4 3-4 foot American Basswood trees back in the spring. The trees arrived yesterday and was able to plant before this 3 plus inches of rain. Could not time it any better. Everyone fenced with two poles holding the fence. Two basswoods are equal to an acre of wild flowers, plus basswoods bloom in July which helps not having a dearth period of July and August. I pan to fertilize each year in the spring. My wife informed me no more trees. So how many flowering bushes can you get?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 12:14:49 GMT -5
I got a little lucky yesterday. I ordered 4 3-4 foot American Basswood trees back in the spring. The trees arrived yesterday and was able to plant before this 3 plus inches of rain. Could not time it any better. Everyone fenced with two poles holding the fence. Two basswoods are equal to an acre of wild flowers, plus basswoods bloom in July which helps not having a dearth period of July and August. I pan to fertilize each year in the spring. My wife informed me no more trees. So how many flowering bushes can you get? Great question. If landscaping project maybe a couple. I've planted over 200 trees in 28 years on my little 3 acres. My guess I lost 40% of them mostly to deer. Wasn't smart enough at 1st to fence with two good posts.
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Post by greghopper on Nov 1, 2020 20:43:23 GMT -5
Bottles are labeled. Giving away first 22 and selling 12. To mason jars keeping. I love honey!!! Let me know what you think of the label. So how’s the Honey taste? Anyone get their order yet?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 7:21:21 GMT -5
Bottles are labeled. Giving away first 22 and selling 12. To mason jars keeping. I love honey!!! Let me know what you think of the label. So how’s the Honey taste? Anyone get their order yet? I shipped out two bottles to I-H members. I'm already sold out. Sold out in a week. Hoping 2021 is a honey golden year!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 11:19:38 GMT -5
Feeding 13 hives. 100 pounds of sugar at 2-1 ratio and pollen feeder. A little slow motion. Filming the sugar water feeder I had about a dozen bees land on me. The sugar water is under the pine needles. This reduces the number of bees drowning. Bees can drown with just a drop or two of water. The bees climb down the needles to the sugar water. When feeding sometimes the bees land nearby to clean up before flying back to the hive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hjrCHFMxokwww.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2MIa87FKIwww.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIwNV7uQs8
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Post by treetop on Nov 19, 2020 16:15:57 GMT -5
Sir keep forgetting to thank you for the honey very good indeed
When do you think your be selling full time
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Post by treetop on Nov 19, 2020 16:18:23 GMT -5
Bottles are labeled. Giving away first 22 and selling 12. To mason jars keeping. I love honey!!! Let me know what you think of the label. So how’s the Honey taste? Anyone get their order yet? Very good is how it taste
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Post by treetop on Nov 19, 2020 16:25:33 GMT -5
Sir keep forgetting to thank you for the honey very good indeed When do you think your be selling full time Or but me down for a preorder
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 7:09:13 GMT -5
Sir keep forgetting to thank you for the honey very good indeed When do you think your be selling full time Or but me down for a preorder I will be full time 2021. After this strange year with that very late freeze. I just bought 20 more medium honey boxes, but still need to order 190 frames for them. That will give me 35 medium honey boxes with frames. Each box is around 50 pounds of honey when full. I will be dedicating around 9 hives just for honey. The others 4 will be for splits and expanding from 13 hive to around 25. It all depends on how many swarms I catch. I have 4 large swarm boxes finished and plan to build 4 more. 25 hives will be my goal each year. I also bought 200 more brood frames. Gearing up for next year. I have you down for next year. How much do you think you want?
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Post by treetop on Nov 20, 2020 7:52:57 GMT -5
How about 4 but if you run out I can take less so you can build your customer list up
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 18:29:55 GMT -5
Or but me down for a preorder I will be full time 2021. After this strange year with that very late freeze. I just bought 20 more medium honey boxes, but still need to order 190 frames for them. That will give me 35 medium honey boxes with frames. Each box is around 50 pounds of honey when full. I will be dedicating around 9 hives just for honey. The others 4 will be for splits and expanding from 13 hive to around 25. It all depends on how many swarms I catch. I have 4 large swarm boxes finished and plan to build 4 more. 25 hives will be my goal each year. I also bought 200 more brood frames. Gearing up for next year. I have you down for next year. How much do you think you want? Congratulations on being ready to go full time!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 9:31:34 GMT -5
December updates. The amazing Mother Nature.
Back from September to November the queen and worker bees changed the food a little and this change created a forth type honeybee called a winter bee.
Queen (female) Worker bee (female) Drone (male) Winter bee (female)
The winter bees are a little bigger and fatter than a worker honeybee. A typical worker honeybee emerges on the 21st day after the queen lays the egg. 1st three weeks the honeybee spends her life as a nurse worker bee and takes care of the eggs, larvae and queen. Bee does not leave the hive. After 3 weeks the worker bee becomes a forager worker bee. She flies out for the 1st time to gather supplies for the hive. She will collect nectar, pollen, sap, water and other stuff. This will happen for about 2-3 weeks. At the end of the life they become guard bees to protect the hive. So the life after emerging is 6 weeks.
Back to the winter bee. This female bee only job is being a nurse bee. It will not transform to a forager bee. The bee stores food for the winter from the hive in their bodies. The winter bee can live up to 6 months. In the hive the winter bees will unhinged their wings and use their wing muscles to create heat. The bees cluster into a ball where the queen is in the middle. The middle of the cluster will be 85 degrees and outer in the low to mid 60's. The hive can go down to 75 center to 50 outer. If much lower the hive will die. The bees rotate from inner to outer to warm back up. During this time since about mid-November the queen stopped laying. So today the hive is around 85 degrees and is brood less. No eggs or larva.
Late January to mid-February the queen will start laying worker bees again for the arrival of spring. Since it takes 21 days to go from egg to larva to emerge and 3 weeks for a bee to be a forager the queen starts 6 to 8 weeks before weather gets better for flowers and resources. When the queen starts laying the hive ramps up the temperature to 93 degrees. So in late January to February the hive box inside is 93 degrees. You thought the sun created this spring heat, but it’s the bees. (LOL) This is brood temperature of a hive and will remain this temperature until mid-fall and the process repeats for winter.
Some new information that we are learning is the change in the air in the hive. The bees will increase the CO2 content of the air in winter and almost go into a coma stage. Maybe this is why the winter bee can live for 6 months. We are just now learning about this. Also, now they think this same increase of CO2 in late spring causes the bees to swarm. The queen can lay up to 1500 eggs a day. So by May the hive numbers goes off the roof and the CO2 increases in the hive. If this can be proven it’s a game changer. One of our big issues is when the queen and 50-70% plus leave the hive to find a new home. Once the queen and bees leave your property they are no longer your bees (livestock and investment). We also use this and can take the queen and half the bees and move them to a new location which fakes them and they think they swarmed. I’m planning 20-25 hives, so once I get there I don’t want my bee to swarm every spring or fall. It’s a game we play with the queen and bees.
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