A look inside a SUPER HIVE!

this uh is one of my saskatchewan's hives super well done brood chamber is oh i've forgotten now where the queen excluder is right now i think it's in these it's just here right below the piece so we've got one deep full of honey two deeps three mediums and i actually took a frame a super honey off here uh last week because i couldn't lift it up onto here because it's too heavy so i just put it on top of another hive it was still full of bees and these bees have been really calm they've been great to work with but they've been spectacular in terms of their honey production so it'd be quite nice to read from them now i may have put an empty suit on the top just to get them somewhat something to do [Applause] hmm [Music] so for earth here first of all is dismantle this and while we're here we might take a bit of honey off as well okay that one's only got about five pounds of honey yet but these if you have a look there's just lots of wax up here lots of bridging comb this one filled up with honey very nicely once again i'm my job i got the good job here i don't have to lift that's full that is they normally hold 35 pounds of honey that weighs considerably more than 35 pounds likewise this is full to the brim as well another medium absolutely stuffed with a honey easier with a little lower look at that now the fun bit deep absolutely stuck with honey sean i might ask you to help me with this one you take that time that side i'll take this side this time we'll just put it straight over there wow look at that ready [Music] what a great problem to have isn't it just a honey super that's too heavy and another one that's just stuffed with honey ready okay well we're at it uh you one thing at a time okay so now we're into the brood chamber here we go see plenty of brood in there just a matter of interest so i can see what the weight of this is that is light this is all brewed wow that's amazing i can see a bit of honey on the sides but relatively speaking this is nice and light plenty of honey on the edges brood and pollen it's predominantly all the brood because we've got quite a bit of a quite a large brood chamber to be amongst it just put it down here on the palette would be great [Music] my treatment is almost done with this mic treatment is that the hop guard yes it is it's the empty cells i don't see eggs in there yet maybe the queen is not going to choose to lay right next to the hot guard early on as it fades in strength then they will you see where the hop guard was how the yeah they cleared it out because it beat it the hot guard kills the bees underneath the hot guard the brood [Music] and considering we're in a death no jumping bees that's a thing these bees are as gentle as you can get them and we're deeply in the dirt right now look at that brood pattern the other side is beautiful and here's another reason why this queen is a good choice look at that strong gentle queen mm-hmm look at that beautiful beautiful these are queen cups and ice cream cells or some beautiful pollen in here the colors of that pollen in there so this says the mic treating the second round this is the first treatment i put in it's almost totally chewed up and been removed it's the second treatment that was put in last week nice load of young larvae here [Music] do i have some of their just the right age it would be on a frame that's got this on it now now i said that when we put the mic treatment on it killed the brood so it would have killed the older brood here but very shortly thereafter this is all full of young lobby same age as these ones and these ones here so they've really filled in it doesn't do a permanent damage to the frame it just killed the stuff initially and if this the queen has very quickly replaced all these larvae as i've said in other videos it seems that the bees bounce back from a mite treatment with a an extra surge of production of brood full of royal jelly lovely i wish my eyes were better we'll get one of those visors with the magnifying glass readers work well too but you just have to remember them as well here's our beautiful beautiful sasquatch queen it was done so well for us here look how calm these bees are got the characteristics i want the only thing that this hive is not tested is the overwintering because this is not an overwinted hive this was that this was a nuke first thing this spring um so it was a nuke i made in early may and it has grown and grown and grown and just look what a new can do if it's start off early and you've got a good genetics this colony has got 60 120 and another 70 190 pounds of honey there plus what's in here about ten so 200 pounds of honey and we're only at the first week of august we haven't even had the full flow yet wow so it's a nuke this year produced 200 pounds of honey not bad not bad at all don't you love those sasha trainers i love them they look they're not even following you amy they're not they're friendly i'm the test they me amy's a litmus test i am it probably helps that they're not at his place this is true okay um sean i've got some empty supers in the high in the truck i'd like to bring those across because i'm going to try and take some of the honey off these these boxes um at least one of them how we're going to do it they take you so well they're so high we're gonna put an empty on we know we've got a bit of honey in here thank you grab another let's even the frames out a little bit empty there i'd help you peter but you know i'm running the camera yeah thanks you're welcome okay we'll put that down it's good a new glove thank you we'll put a fume board on there and we can try putting a fume board on this separate stack as well so we've got two more fume boards going so if people weren't watching fume board use yesterday you can watch what we're doing here right so fume boards if you haven't watched the other videos are a fast way of getting bees uh to leave a super so basically i've got boards with cloth on these are homemade versions and i've got the normal one has like a felt material in here and i'm spraying this this material called be quick it drives the bees away from the from the fume board can you show them what it is you're using got some of that in stock right now um this one's nearly empty fuller one i've got another one here there's one some stuff down in there sean i don't know mixing them up is probably i can actually tell you what i'll do see if there's anything left in here no oh here's this this is the stinky stuff i'm gonna get him on your nice new gloves peter yeah i tell you what i'm not even gonna fiddle about because i'll just uh so this is another type and this one stinks so the other one smells kind of like almonds this one kind of is a combination between fish and licorice the biggest difference between them is the temperatures in which they work for the bad smell of course that bigo is not a good smell but the other one does smell quite nice almondy but it also works at lower temperatures so fume boards work really well in temperatures of the 80s that's the thing once you get down to the 70s they work progressively slower and slower um when they're in the 60s you're wasting your time and the bees hate the smell so they're gonna start running downhill and when i can get at least one super honey off here we'll drive the bees down into the lower supers and uh then we can empty it out now the same thing when we drive them into a smaller super down here there's so there's no queen or anything in these bees to worry about the queen here we know his way down here so in the meantime we put our fume board onto two other hives over here which are also quite large they're actually starting to drive them right down to the entrance here um so you can if you leave it on for too long drive them right out of the hive but we've got the vast majority of the bees out of the super these supers did have a lot of bees on before so let's see what we've got now well that's 90 percent evident but these we've got a cluster of bees in the middle between those two frames we've got a funky cone and we'll put this back on here and see if we can drive them out of that super as well while we're here okay we'll put this in the truck this one's a little bit agitated let's do this right yeah now pinboard might have to take them okay we've got something to take off over here hopefully so that's 90 percent out you can see something there's a little cluster on the end it there you go are you sure knock knock i don't like that so much yep again the edges it works well down the middle usually the edges are still not quite the got all the bees out yet but trying a bit more look at them coming out oh yeah there's a lot of bees in the hive do this and then of course what we need to do is replace it but we'll see you have to make sure we leave some honey for them what i can always do is give them one of these there's that one would probably i doubt we're gonna get both of those off look that's already driven them almost all out you want to take this box on heavy huh just uh while we're taking these honey soup is off i just want to point out here's some honey that was long-term storage it's all capped honey here but then immediately going to torn up frames torn up cappings and dry cells this was a super just above the brood chamber and they've been taking coming up to the upper stores and taking it downstairs so they've actually been raiding the longer term large ladder up here and moving it down into the brood chamber so it's just a clear sign that the bees are currently using up their stores and uh if you want a lot of honey it's best to grab it now and feed them sugar syrup because sugar syrup is still a perfectly good feed for your bees but if you want to harvest honey and they produce a fair amount over the over the early summer get it off now because they're going to take it off and feed it to their lobby unless you replace it with something like sugar syrup so the fume boards work pretty well but there's some bees left in here so i'm shaking off what we have here so we can get away so peter when you say feeding them the sugar syrup one to one two to one one to one sugar syrup the later in the season you get the more towards two to one you'd probably go yeah so definitely in the fall feeding you're at the two to one yeah once we're into next month we'll definitely be feeding with just two to one right now repeating one to one maybe maybe one and a half to one yep i should have my b brush but i didn't come prepared with that all right hopefully for a second

Channel: Beekeeping with The Bee Whisperer

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Length: 20min 37sec (1237 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 05 2022