High Humidity in the Bee Shed
Back into the bee shed today to sweep up some bees, some things are not quite right, and it is my own fault as I had planned to remedy them last year but didn’t get around to it. The Canadian […]
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Winter Honey Bee Attrition
Swept out the bee shed today. Weighed and calculated the honey bee attrition rate to date. Wondering what is normal. What are you seeing?
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A tour of our small scale wintering shed
Read moreMoving Bees Indoors for Winter
The forecast looks like winter, time to move the bees inside. Kayla and I moved the bees into the wintering shed.
Read moreDealing With a Failed production Double Nuc
In this video I identify a double nuc where one queen has failed, and show/discuss how we deal with the remaining colony. We run our double nucs through the honey season to maximize growth and honey production in our beekeeping […]
Read moreHoney Comb Replacement for Healthier Hives
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 moreChecking for Queen Mating Success
In 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 Graft Acceptance and Setting up Queen Right Cell Finisher
Checking on my 2 day old larva grafts for graft acceptance, and reintroducing the queen to finish the cells in a queen-right finisher.
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