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why paint it black if you're concerned with heat?

Natural pollen is the best choice for those new queen cells. I believe you'd have been better served to leave that pollen and move capped brood with that queen. What you are trying is a fly back split. I did this once but with a large hive. It was amazing how quickly the original colony drew out the comb but I was really disappointed in the quality of the emergency cells. I went back to moving the queen and letting the original colony raise the cells. Good luck to you. I hope you have better results.

What are you spraying them with and why?

This was excellent - thank you!

There are very few videos on pollen trapping. Probably less than a dozen.

It would not be Newfoundland without a bunch or rain , drizzle and fog. Maybe a warm day soon so the bees can get to any surviving flowers.....we hope....

Why feed them with a super on them?

Why are comments disabled eventually? 00:15:15 I've tried using chicken water heater in the bottom all winter

Did they dye?

Bloody good job fellow Canadian

Oh my goodness what a load of slugs! Nasty!

Would you ever think to rewax them? Maybe paint on another layer with a brush?

Absolutely beautiful 😍

Slugs cannot cross copper

Because it's close to the ground? Does that help?

My strong hive got weak... Three swarms😮

I have never mowed before they turn to fluff. As you noted, there are many opinions on bee need or no bee need. We do know that the bees are taking a beating in the U.S. I have watched a bee keeper in the Southern U.S. that has, with other bee keepers, transported the bees to California to polinate the almond trees. (Sorry about my spelling). If the bees were not taking a beating, they would not need to be sent here, or there to get the flowers polinated.

An apis mellifera fossil was found in 2017. In a dry salt lake bed in the Nevada desert in North America. The researchers said it appeared to be exactly the same as a modern day Apis Mellifera Mellifera black honeybee found in the isles of the Gulf stream and in northern Europe. They named this find apis mellifera neoartica. I have found evidence they are indiginous to North America.

My community fines me if they get over 10" tall😢

Hi, even an hour before it starts raining, I see slugs nearning the entrance of my hives. They feed on dead bees. They know in advance that there will be dead bees dropped out by the cleaning bees. I have never seen slugs inside my hives (most are styrofoam). About mice: I leave on purpose a small empty styrofoam box (Apidea, mating nuc) on the ground, free for any mice that would seek shelter. I give them a dry and warm place to build a nest and they do not bother the hives, that my experience. I have checked in winter and there is usually 2 to 4 mice living in there. They build the nest with leaves and other materials. My entrances are 3D printed with PLA, in winter I keep a very small entrance, height is like only 7 mm. No mice ever got in. About condensation water: I tilt my hives forward 1.5 to 2.5 degrees to help water to evacuate, and help the removal of dead bees. Good luck and cheers.

Now you've introduced artifical sugar, and ruined the honey.. The health benifits stem from honey derived from natural sources.. Ie nectar.

You say in the vid that it's too cold for them to fly right now, a bee climbs out when you open the top, and instead of opening the top to put them back - you fling them away. Ffs.

What does the anise in the syrup do ?

So sorry this happened to you and your bees 😢

What do you use the dead queen for? If you hadn’t been sick, what would you feed them? Some pollen? Where would you get it?

Mold has antibiotic properties and they'll clean it up

Often my frames and entrance reducers are a tiny bit too long so I keep some rough sandpaper near the hives to sand off the edges. It takes surprisingly few swipes to make them fit. Sometimes it's just propolis on the ends.

I recently found out that bees become very cold they climb into cells and that is how they warm the area inside. They each vibrate inside the cell. A small colony cannot warm the hive enough and freezes to death. Up until last year I thought dead bees inside cells upside down meant starvation and I thought that for decades. Maybe it froze to death. Maybe not.

Why do you freeze the dead queen?

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How did you make that? I bought ultrabee for over a hundred a bag and it looks like your recipe is just as delicious. They put a little essential oil of lemongrass and some tumeric in theirs and say it's over 50% protein so I assume it's hemp seed flour. I don't know and they don't state the ingredients anywhere that I can find.

That's great news reporting... thank you 😊

One of my colonies actually turned every bit of it into real honey combs IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER in that feeder space! By the way , how do you propagate your queens?

Wow those are some unique colored crocus flowers. 😊

Good luck with your bees

Do You eat them

Awesome video

This is an EXCELLENT video production!

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It's sure nice to see bees on a beautiful island where you have kept varroa destructor mites and African Small hive beetles away.

Why didnt you feed them ? If you have any animal you are responsible. Poor things withoit them the world will die too.

So sad 😞

I had that happen in mid March last year. They grew so quickly they ate through a few frames of honey in a couple weeks and then starved due to no incoming nectar. It happened so fast.

How does this happen? So so sad.

I don't understand how a top entrance would have helped since the colony was under the snow, which would have included the top entrance if you had one. Colonies completely buried under snow, without top entrances, survive all the time. Maybe a snow fence would help.

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Yip bees hate duct tape 😂

LOL ! " They guy got to name a pheromone after himself". I am literally laughing out loud!

Bees love salted water and it doesn't freeze as much so maybe a shallow salted water bowl on top of hive? But with my luck it would attract some kind of varmint