Beekeeping: Robbing the Bees.
I’m showing my method of robbing the bees. I don’t use a bee brush. I have some fairly impressive full frames of honey to show. I ended up with 14 boxes in t…
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Hi & thanks, all these hives have queen excluders, the queen is below that, that also explains why there’s no brood on the honey frames. However, if the queen does get above the queen excluder, you can quickly tell by the presence of brood on the honey frames, in that case you have to be careful you don’t kill her or misplace her….cheers
mugsyjeff
July 18, 2013 at 10:23 pm
When you shake them what happens to the Queens? does she find her way back to her own hive?
IrishKitty1024
July 18, 2013 at 11:05 pm
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ali özdemir
July 18, 2013 at 11:21 pm
Very sorry, I do not understand the question. however, the mat on top of the frames is to stop the bees from building honeycomb up into the lid, I hope this helps, cheers:)
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 12:18 am
disculpa que viene ciendo lo amarillo papel o que cosa es disculpa lo usan como entretapa o para que?????????
R3JDRM
July 19, 2013 at 1:14 am
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kyasoorathai
July 19, 2013 at 2:09 am
Thanks Chandra,actually we’re Australians:) I’ll have to look again but the bees always use the bottom entrance near the brood,I have one top box with a bottom entrance that shouldn’t be there,I should fill it in 1 day.The lids have round holes on the ends, normally with mesh inside primarily for shifting bees to give them air, I don’t shift mine so I don’t use the holes as you’ll see on most of my lids.We’re 100k’s N.of Brisbane which is sub-tropical,we don’t need to feed our bees.good luck,bye
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 2:50 am
Execellent video,I have a question if I may I saw holes on top entrance is this for bee entrance ,so as the foragers go straight up and unload the nectar.Next question I am a new beekeeper here in Florida USA,if I may ask what part on England are your bees.Last question most part of England it rains does this mean you feed the sugar syrup since bees would not get enough nectar.Much obliged thank you.
chandra dasa
July 19, 2013 at 3:15 am
Thanks, I have one hive at my home. It’s up around 60 hives altogether that I’m looking after.
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 4:04 am
so much honey whether much extractors how many hives you home
toothfule1000
July 19, 2013 at 4:19 am
those hiveslook like they are at the capacity to swarm
thecoud
July 19, 2013 at 4:33 am
Thanks:):)
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 5:07 am
I love to rob the bees.
lucazadeable
July 19, 2013 at 6:00 am
G’day Dave, I’ve been keeping bees for about 25 yrs. now. It’s always been a commercial sideline for me to keep me busy during the rough weather. From the boxes I took on this load there should have been around 325 kilos. I had another 14 boxes besides this 14 boxes for a total of 650 kilos. One of my better robbings, I might add. Only 250 kilos a couple of weeks ago.
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 6:50 am
Hi Jeff, if you don’t mind sharing, what weight of honey comes that many boxes? How long have you been Bee Keeping?
M.D Trees
July 19, 2013 at 7:21 am
Your welcome Tim & thank YOU, you’ll find my explanation to the mat in my reply to Vicki Steele a bit further down, cheers:)
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 8:16 am
Thanks Jeff, what is the purpose of mats that you place on top of your frames? Thank you for all the videos!
Tim Waz
July 19, 2013 at 8:50 am
Hi Blake, it sounds like the harsh winter took it’s toll on the native species but they’ll bounce back. Nature’s incredible like that. Seeing a bumble bee nest & a single bee is a good sign. I hope you see many more in the coming months, cheers
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 9:32 am
Yeah, I found it right after I posted. Felt like a fool of course haha. This winter was pretty hard, havent seen any wasps, though did find a bumblebee nest. Usually this time we would see bees all over as we have lots of dandelions and flowers in the area. We go outside and play for hours every other day or so, and have only seen one actual honey bee. We had freezes here all the way into april so I’m sure it was very hard on them. Nearest Bee Farm is about 10 miles, too far from here! lol
Blake Davis
July 19, 2013 at 10:08 am
G’day Blake,I have a few videos of extracting the honey,will be easy to find.There’s a lot of concern about a shortage of bees,but if there’s no beekeepers in your area & there’s no wild European Honeybees nearby, you probably wont see any, don’t look for European Honeybees, instead look for native bees & wasps that would be native to your area. This is what I tell people where I live when they have concerns about a bee shortage.A lack of native bush is probably more of a concern, ok, bye4now…
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 10:33 am
Nice video, I was hoping to see one showing the actual harvest of the honey off of the frames! Also, do you know how to judge the population of bees in the area. This winter was particularly harsh on bees and its been nice a couple weeks but I haven’t really seen many bee’s out. Plenty of flowers, very few bees. So I’m a bit worried the bee population in my area is suffering.
Blake Davis
July 19, 2013 at 10:54 am
Thanks Tom, I like these kind of messes :):)
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 11:35 am
WHAT A MESS
Tom Gray
July 19, 2013 at 12:21 pm
WOW, thanks Vicki, I guess you could call it an inner cover but the bees have access all around to occupy the space in the raised lid.It stops the bees building comb from the top of the frames to the top of the lid plus the bees can corral the beetle into the gap between the top of the frames & the sheet I peeled off. Also the gap in the lid is a good indicator if the bees are thinking about swarming,there’ll be a heap of bees up there doing absolutely nothing,waiting for the time to go,ok bye:)
mugsyjeff
July 19, 2013 at 1:03 pm