Comb replacement increases the immunity of your honey bee colony, by reducing treatment residues absorbed by beeswax, and reducing the risk of harboring viruses in aged equipment. This is our replacement strategy, what’s yours?
Read moreIn this video I check for successful mating on some new nucs, and prepare them for the canola flow. I describe what I am doing and why, feel free to ask any questions for future videos of our sideliner operation.
Read moreChecking on my 2 day old larva grafts for graft acceptance, and reintroducing the queen to finish the cells in a queen-right finisher.
Read moreI talk a short bit on the benefits to the beekeeper of a staggered planting of the canola crop in our area, and super up one of our bee yards.
Read moreHave you ever found a hive with 2 queens in it at once? I identified this colony about 5 weeks for queen replacement later in the season due to the age of the queen, she was still laying strong and […]
Read moreHoney Bee Nucs are made up in Spring or early summer to expand ones apiary. These are small nests, which will grow into full colonies throughout the season. This video describes how we put them together the way we would […]
Read moreHow can you even keep bees alive in Canada? How do they survive the cold Manitoba winters? These are questions I often receive on social media from our friends in warmer climates. It can get extremely cold here in Manitoba, […]
Read moreWe have been having issues with our internet connection here at the farm and it now seems to be up and running. Those of you who follow us on Facebook and Instagram, have been getting our updates. Over the past month, […]
Read moreA little later than I thought I would be getting around to posting this but here it is. After my last post, many folks have been asking about how I set up and manage my double nucs, for production. I […]
Read moreThis past Tuesday we ran into some problems with our first graft, we had an early hatch in the queen cell finisher and lost half of our queen cells. When a virgin queen hatches she goes around the hives and […]
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