Hot Hives

Anybrew · February 21, 2011, 05:59:41 PM

Fantastic! CB

Cheers
Steve

schawee · February 21, 2011, 08:56:18 PM

countryboy ,had a hive like that last year.it was a lil scary to have thousands of bees on you at one time.killed the queen and everything went back to normal after a few months. ...schawee

Countryboy · February 21, 2011, 09:07:55 PM

Where do you live, Countryboy? I may have to come visit you and your bees. I'm just north of Cincinnati.

I'm in Knox County - better plan on driving a while.

I was hoping you would have had the part where you actually find the queen on the frame and how you got a hold of her with those big gloves.

You mean where I go through the box, and find her on the last frame...and then she jumps off the frame I am holding back into the box...and I have to go through the box again, frame by frame, looking for her? I grabbed her really quick when I got the chance. Even though I have caught several queens, I am surprised I didn't hurt her when I grabbed her.

To me finding the queen would be the hard part with all those angry bees after you.

Which is why I set the box with the queen off to one side and came back another day to look for her. Many of the mad bees had returned to the parent hive by that time.

backyard warrior · February 21, 2011, 10:18:06 PM

Thats not exactly what i had in mind for relaxing beekeeping :whip:

KD4MOJ · February 22, 2011, 09:27:34 AM

WOW! And I thought I had a hot hive! Nothing like that. thanks for sharing that great video CB!

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

Acebird · February 22, 2011, 09:44:48 AM

QuoteYou mean where I go through the box, and find her on the last frame...and then she jumps off the frame I am holding back into the box...and I have to go through the box again, frame by frame, looking for her? I grabbed her really quick when I got the chance. Even though I have caught several queens, I am surprised I didn't hurt her when I grabbed her.

Yes, exactly, most videos skip the most difficult part. I think newbees need to see those parts so they have an idea when they try to do it that it isn't as easy as it looks on the vids. Half of the problem of being a new beek is not knowing what to expect.

Countryboy · February 22, 2011, 11:09:22 PM

But if you put all the intangibles on the video, beginners would expect that to happen. Then when it doesn't happen that way, they'd wonder what they did wrong. The experienced beekeepers would call shenanigans for putting unlikely, unrealistic stuff in the video.

That was the first time I have had a queen jump off a frame and back down into the hive. I have found many queens on frames, and they stayed on the frame the whole time. I've leaned the frame against the hive for a few minutes, and the queen still stayed put. (other than going to the shadow side of the frame.)

Half of the problem of being a new beek is not knowing what to expect.

And the other half is thinking that it will happen the way you think it should, just because you read or saw it somewhere? (Even if it is completely wrong...)

Acebird · February 23, 2011, 10:23:23 AM

QuoteAnd the other half is thinking that it will happen the way you think it should, just because you read or saw it somewhere? (Even if it is completely wrong...)

Complete wrong? :?

I believe 25% or what I read and 50% of what I see. Your ratios may be different but I would think you would believe at least some of what you see.

Countryboy · February 23, 2011, 10:33:50 PM

The words gullible and naive come to mind.

I can show you how to pull the honey from 20 hives in 10 minutes on video. What you don't see is allt he prep work ahead of time.

I can show you how to harvest 500 pounds of honey from a few hives - if I don't show you me stacking all the boxes in a yard on a couple hives.

Folks should be wise enough to take stuff with a grain of salt. For some reason, folks like to embellish or exaggerate things sometimes, giving unrealistic expectations. Don't believe everything you read or see. Actually try doing things similarly, and see how close to reality they were. (or how far from reality)

T Beek · February 25, 2011, 11:39:25 AM

Thanks for the vid Countryboy, very cool, "very" instructional. I'm gonna see if I can find more on U tube right now.

thomas