I am a beginner beekeeper, and I am actually waiting on my 2 Nucs to be available now anytime here in May - beginning of June. My wife & I have taken beginner beekeeping classes and also joined a local Beekeeping Assoc. here in PA. No matter what I have learned so far - it never seems like it is enough & I really appreciate the time you are taking to break it all down & demonstrate exactly how things are done!

Mr. Burns your really good at explaining and showing what and how to work with the bees. I can tell you really love what you do and you love your audience. Thank you for what you do. It's done with love.

Another tip for those hot days. I fold up a small hand towel and put inside the front of my vail. To wipe the sweat off my face. Works great. wearing a head band over the eyebrows helps as well. If you are going to be inspecting several boxes in one area, take an electrical source and a fan but keep it a good distance away so the beez don’t get sucked into it. I use an air mover because it is smaller and provides a good air flow. Happy bee sleeping!!!

@beek

11 ай бұрын

Good idea. I almost suggest the battery powered fan but then thought about the bees flying into it.

That frame of solid capped brood is magnificent. You must be proud of that queen and her bloodline!

Putting the supers on early is great unless your bees have issues with moths or beetles. In a world without these pests invading their homes, you could leave the supers on all year around. In this reality .. it's a balancing act. Not giving the bees more space than they need so they don't have the burden of having to protect that extra space, but then giving them the space they do need to expand.

Loved seeing that worker go after that beetle!!!

My dad introduced me to bees in 1976. We were bee havers not bee keepers. We ran over 200 hives. Words can't describe how much I have learned from you. Thank you for all your videos.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm so glad I'm helping you and you have fond memories of your dad with bees!

Mr. Burns, I am a better Beekeeper because of your videos. There are 4 Beekeepers I follow and you are one of them. Thanks so much for presenting the information the way you do. They are entertaining, well thought out and just so helpful. Thanks. I’m also going to take your online class

David, thank you for ALL the hard work you put into doing these videos! I have a good idea of what's involved and I admire your dedication. I love this one....I really learned a lot about distinguishing a hive that "looks like it's thriving" but is actually not in that great of a shape.

I really enjoy your videos and love how you always throw in tips about taking care of yourself too! Thanks for all you offer.

I really like your drinking thru the veil tip! Thanks

Drinking through the veil! Genius! Thanks for this video. We get so focused on honey production that nutrition gets overlooked.

All your bee info plus the tip on drinking through the veil has been so helpful!!! Thank you! 🤩🐝 Love your bloopers! 😅

Thank you for the great video. Very informative. First year beekeeper in VA here. Your video makes me feel good about my hives. In the brood box they have brood in the middle, and honey and bread all around on almost every frame. Top brood box is the same in the center, and all resources on the sides. Unfortunately, I kept feeding into the spring, and lost 4 swarms, ugh! I didn't know better. Now I do. So they are recovering in numbers, but at least they have food!

You are a big help! This is my first year. My 2 hives are doing really great.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that Michael.

Great info for us brand new bee keepers

just getting started. i was going to order some queens..... my box is 12 frames up about 5 ft in a tree. i sprayed to draw them in. quite a new experience lol

Thank you I can’t wait getting too many options from the club

Absolutely hooked! Love the videos so much. I'm still learning as much as possible before I get my hives next year. Will be taking your courses soon. Love coffee time as well. The world needs more kind and thoughtful people like you!!

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

So excited about you starting next year and thank you for the kind comments.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

So excited about you starting bees next year and thank you for the kind comments

Great information. Thanks for your videos.

David's online courses are a great investment and I highly recommend them.

Love it. Great video. Thank you.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you to say. Thank you, I appreciate it.

Sound effects, works well it makes me look up at the video when I get distracted. I do usually play videos again just to make sure I'm getting the meat of it.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Looks like 41 minutes for flight! Amazing info. I had not idea it was that short. Gives them time for many daily flights.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for TEACHING us!!!

Mr. Burns I got introduced to beekeeping by accident I rescued a swarm at work last July a friend of mine had an 8 frame box she let me have so far so good they're going strong thank you for your videos that been very informative learning on the Fly pun intended

@kumalisakel

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you became a beekeeper the hard way! It must be your destiny 🐝

Sir David I really enjoy this package 100% keep up the excellent work. Love from Ja family 🇯🇲

@robertmathurin739

3 жыл бұрын

🇱🇨👊🏿🇯🇲👍🏿♥️

Thanks Dave I enjoy the videos and that you don't act like it is my way or the highway.

I needed this info. Thanks!

Those bloopers! We create KZread content as well and the bloopers made me feel better about that fact that everyone must have things like that to edit out 🤣🤣

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

I know, the more content you create without scripts, there's just gonna be bloopers.

If you don't want to get your veil messy, get a camel pack and fill that with your hydration drink. I used to use my camel pack a lot, building fences on the farm. Just remember to clean it out properly after every use because hydration drinks are full of all the things pathogenic bacteria need to really go wild.

Thanks for all the videos I'm a 5year old bee keeper

Ha Great video Thanks hope u have a blessed weekend

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Love your videos- but adding the OUTTAKES? Oh my gosh- super cute! Thank you David for Beeking it Reel! 🎬 (My husband just told me not to quit my day job haha)

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you got a kick out of them. Beekeeping IS my day job and over all it's not bad, but on other days it ain't pretty 😂

🧡🐝🧡 love your videos!

Great video and informative

Thanks David, very helpful. Best wishes from your supporters here in the UK. Peter

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter!

Love your teaching . Just singed up for bee team 6 on Wednesday but haven’t heard back yet

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'll check with my staff but I do not it can take a couple days. I look forward to working without.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

I meant to say, working with you.

Good job

Thanks for the explanation

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped. Thank you for watching.

We actually use drip drop in the military as well! Found that amusing.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting 🤔

Thanks!

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Nice of you Danny, thank you so much!!

Feeding additives link is "Not Found" Loved your videos. I've subbed and hit the bell. I like the way you deliver the message. You keep it interesting! I've learned a lot from this one, can't wait to go and watch all your others. Thanks

I just caught a wild swarm and never messed with bees. I’ve got a lot to learn.

Great intro!

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a subscriber for 7 years!!

Awesome.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you for all your videos. Basically harvest the super, leave the rest 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Good explanation

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Glad it was helpful Dan

Yeah, I am so contemplating honey bee raising.. but I just don't have enough information to begin, yet. I am just now starting to give bees what they need to survive outside - like bee happy flowers and fruit trees in my yard. I am also staying away from all pesticides and only using Nematodes in my yard to kill bugs and beetles. I do not know enough about controlling small hive beetles, but I am learning.

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Our book would be so helpful for you: www.honeybeesonline.com/signed-by-the-authors-order-our-new-book-now-backyard-beekeeping-by-david-and-sheri-burns-rockridge-press-2020-note-this-item-takes-3-weeks-for-delivery/

Hi David .. Intro taking a Drink ! Through the Bee Veil... Genius ! I'm borrowing that. 👍 Maybe not with Earl Grey !?! (Unless I could line up the Tea Pot Spout at the x3 way Zipper, and slurp).... Not ! 🤣 Happy Beekeeping 2021 from Scotland. 😉 I don't even need to take my Bees to the Heather.... 👀 Because it's up the Hill, on the local Moor, about 5 Miles away.... 🥳 (Other Beeks, transport their hives in up there on Trucks.) Too much hassel for me, Girls : Go Commute to the Office, and do your thing. 👍 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

David, just watched the Video to the end. If you can Drink, Smoke, why not eat ? 😆 Shall I prep (press) Cream Cheese, Tomato Sauce, Garlic Butter, and maybe, some Chianti, through that Mesh. And afters could be some Ice-cream through your Veil ? With a drizzle of Honey on top.... Bon Appetit !?! 🤭 Off for a nightcap ... 🥃? Nope, Earl Grey Tea, even though it's 11pm here... Ecosse time (!) Nice subject material, and wow to the Graphics Dept. They are really Buzzing ! 🤭 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Good points!! Too funny!!

You can't smoke thru these new veils with plastic mesh. It will actually melt holes in the veil. Holes which are big enough for bees to enter!!! Don't ask! LOL

I had never seen water going through the veil 😁

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Such a great tip isn't it!

Take all or leave it in the good with good prospects take the lot if things are going bad leave alone.

Enjoying your vids! Just starting this year in 2022. Gathering supplies and info. This is a great tutorial on evaluating the hive. Do you ever feed pollen to help at this stage? Or is one of the products you mentioned better than the dry pollen feed? Maybe you answer this in another video so I'll keep watching, too. Thank you for your time and effort!

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Diane, which is better aside, adding protein powder to sugar water is so much easier.

@dianneiverglynne

2 жыл бұрын

@@beek Good to know, then! Again, thank you! Will say e me the trouble! 😄 I'm retired disabled and less is more!

Another great video. When you say you leave the supers on all year, do you leave the queen excluder on all year also? I know the most time you do not have excluders but I think I seen one in this video. Also I remember the little wax cola's that came with sugar liquid inside that you talked about in one of your other videos. That's when you could sell the glass cola bottles back to the stores for 2 cents a piece. Thanks

I enjoy all of your videos and just watched this on on calculating how much honey and nectar resources are available in each hive. I am a little confused because you say to never continue to feed your bees once you have added honey supers. But in this video you say if the colony is lacking in enough resources in the deep boxes that you should should feed them more protein and nutrition even if you have already added a honey super. Could you please explain that further? Thank you!

That was a great experiment and video. This will be my first time harvesting honey, is it safe to assume that capped honey has the correct moisture content? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all!

@hectorcerda5247

3 жыл бұрын

yes capped honey is honey that is very close or exactly at 18% moisture

Could you define: bee bread, nectar, honey, pollen, and the different components of the apiary as well as the hive itself? Your site is fascinating and so interesting. Also, how expensive is it to get a starting hive? Does a bee keeper have to start with more than one hive? A lot of questions but it would probably help a lot of us novices. Thanks.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, I'm filming that video daily. Should be my next video

@waynegilchrist1596

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek Thanks sir, I am looking forward to it and will anticipate the episode.

So Dave can I feed my bees pollen Patty's after the honey flow ,I think our honey flow will end alot sooner this year since we are having really hot weather right now and the clover is starting to dry up ,clover is our main flow after that it starts to get alot skimpyer around here in Northern British Columbia, is also my first time with horizontal hives.i did enjoy your video and found it very informative, hope to see some more coffee time in the future, always get a lot out of it

Wow, You got alot of free time on your hands.....

Time stamp 7:26 loos like Brood above your Queen Exclude r

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Yuppers, that hive has a very prolific queen.

Thats good electrolytes. Was awesome during covid.

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I don't use inner covers

Could not find the link to the inspection guide. Enjoyed this video!!

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Here you go: www.honeybeesonline.com/beekeeping-inspection-guide-downloadable-item/

Hi, I’m new to beekeeping, love your videos. Have you ever done a video on ants in the hive?

@beek

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I can't remember. Good idea though

What to do with bee Hive in Alaska end of nectar flow is August and how to get the most Honey out of the Hive, 3 hives and 750.00$ for the bees.

Actually i have 6 hives and have caught two swarm in this year in Turkey. Each of them i m waiting 20 kg honey. And i stopped feeding them on 20 June. Good luck everyone.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

Dave, when best time to give bees, bee pollen. during june-sept or early spring or both, I tend to give bees pollen through a big PVC pipe tub

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Bees need extra protein late winter and fall.

@stevenmartin4111

2 жыл бұрын

@@beek thanks

This is a good video. I've never fed pollen patties in the fall before but what do you think about it?

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

I used to always use pollen patties. Now, with small hive beetles being attracted to it and sometimes laying eggs in them, I prefer to place additives in my sugar water. Additives in sugar water is how bees consume food anyway.

Thank you for your time and videos. Would you please tell me how to download your inspection sheets.please and Thank you

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Go to our website at honeybeesonline.com . After your purchase, you receive a download link in your email. Thank you!

Hi David, I'd love to have your Guide! Can you post the link again? I also have a couple questions. We have a colony in our basement rafters, and I have purchased a hive and gear (which I'm not sure exactly what everything does). I'm prepping my bee vacuum, and will have everything set up to rescue them by Thursday/Friday this week coming. I have a couple short videos on my page with questions in them. Not sure if you have time to watch, but I'll ask some here also. 1. In your video here, would they have placed more honey cells in the lower boxes had the super been off? 2. Is it a "good time of year" for rescuing? 3. Will the rescue (during this time) fatally disrupt their viability for winter? 4. Would a cut out be preferred over a trap-out? What if I can't find the queen? ...with brood, will they make a new queen? 5. Do the black foundations go in the first or second box? 6. What is used to mark a bee? That's it for now, I'm sure I'll have more!! I plan to post videos of this whole process for my grandkids!

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Julie, wow, you have undertaken a huge and very complex project! I mean this is very ambitious. You need to take my online basic course, if you haven't, as a crash course/boot camp to help get your ready for your rescue. The queen excluder goes above the larger brood boxes and under the honey supers. To answer your questions above, you'll always get more honey with more supers on the hive. It is a good time to rescue the bees. Trap outs have never worked for me. The queen is very unlikely to leave the area in a trap out attempt. This "rescue" could disrupt their ability to overwinter. You will HAVE TO find the queen no matter what! If you transferred eggs, they would try to raise a new queen if you lost the original. I have no idea about your black foundation or which box they go in. Usually the color doesn't make any difference, just the size. Large foundation goes in the brood boxes and smaller in the honey super boxes. Queen marking pens are used to mark queens. If you are not currently a beekeeper, I strongly recommend you ask one or two additional, very experienced beekeepers to assist you in removing the colony from your home and placing them into your hive. It would be better to place them in your hive and move them 3 or 4 miles away for 3 weeks, the place the hive back in your yard because THE BIGGEST ISSUE is going to be keeping the bees from going back to their spot in your house. Since you are placing them so close, they will all try to re-gather at the entrance on your house they are using now.

@julstube

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek thank you so so much! I will take a look at the course, for certain. I’m nervous but so excited!

@julstube

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek could we spray the extracted area with something they hate the smell of? Like peppermint oil or???

Having issues with crop dusters spraying too close to my farm. Have lost two hives because of it. Any advice?

David do you have any advice for beginner semi commercial bee keeping in south Texas. We plan on purchasing 200 nucs to add to our existing 80 hives.

I’ve noticed that some of my foragers are flying up to a half mile from the hive (near my garden which is 1/2 mile from my apiary) how do you account for the distance variable? (Or is there a mathematical average flight that is used as a base?) sorry-retired physicist/ now shepherd, beekeeper, rabbit and egg producer…inquiring minds and all that…. BTW-I made a newbie mistake that you mentioned after my hives were established…I put two deeps (deep +honey super) together for my new package of bees (x2) with a queen excluder between them. I thought since it was just about into the flow (which just started in earnest) and I am feeding them to help them get started, that they would need the room. My hope is that they will fill it out before June 15th and I will be able to make splits before Fall for Winter if they make queen cells. Am I getting ahead of the game? We have another 3 months of flow as I planted 3 seasons of blooms and our climate is lush and heavy growing like Spring growth through mid August. We’re in bit of a Goldilocks zone.

David- Perhaps I missed something but the frame at 7:25 shows capped brood correct?- how did the queen get into the honey super with the queen excluder on?

@Heir03

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't have the excluder on initially after putting the super on. Sounds like the queen got up there and laid some eggs before he put the excluder on.

I enjoy the videos! However, did I somehow miss you covering the title of the video? How to know how much honey to take?

What is bee bread ? I trying to learn brood, nectar and pollen. How to distinguish them

I'm curious how David Burns would bee as a gardener ;)

Hi David, is queen excloder emportant to use or not

Can you point me to a video that shows the difference between pollen and bee bread. I’m not sure of how the different forms of pollen look as well as how they differ in their purpose and usage

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

I'll make that video in the next few days and post it early next week. Thanks.

followed on instagram, all about making the grand kids happy!

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Nice, Lara will be so happy. I'll see her on Sunday at our family party, can't wait for all of you to really surprise her.

Where can I get the guide is it available at your store

I have a question...we got our honey bees in the end of May, and beginning of June. We put on the supper box for the one hive and they are putting wax, and pollin on it. I took one frame from the bottom two boxes that are full of honey. I have a bunch of anxiety and wonder if that was okay or wrong.... could you give us some advice? I've been feeding them sugar water, I just want them to have enough space to put in eggs and pollen....any ideas?

If you overwintered this hive, do you leave both brood boxes and the entire honey super?

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Correct, here in Illinois

16:10 the bees were saying buzz off (I'll see myself out)

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Yuppers

It’s been about two weeks since I’ve added a new super to my hive and the bees still haven’t drawn out comb on any of the frames. There’s plenty of resources in the 2nd and 1st deep boxes, though to the extent that I’m concerned that the queen is out of room to lay. I spotted very few eggs and larvae during my last inspection. Is this a real issue?

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Try adding melted wax, brushing it on to the frames.

Hi Dave, what month should I order bees for next year? I'm in Illinois

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Our packages go on sale around Jan. 1 each year for a late April pickup.

This 2nd spring with bees. I cant tell you how many things have gone wrong. Never thought be this hard to raise bees.

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Peter, bees are like other pets or hobbies. Sometimes, little to no effort is needed. But other times, everything goes wrong and it is so difficult. I totally get it. Sometimes I can make a video without any effort. Other times, I struggle for days and days and nothing works out.

@Peter-od7op

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek ty your classes really help. Got laying this spring. Got un mated queens in 2 hives. Caught one soon enough other not. Then had to combine 2 hives. Only had 3.

Just curious what your thoughts on natural beekeeping and long hives is

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

If you mean not using chemicals to treat for mites...IF you can keep your levels down without chemicals that is best. But if you cannot, chemicals (acids) are needed, just like with blood pressure. If you cannot keep your blood pressure down through diet and exercise, medicines are needed. I'm cool with different types of hives as long as you can manage them the same.

@sparky28806

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek thanks for the input I recently built a long langstroth hive with the thought of transitioning to those or layens type hives. The higher hive body has helped with skunks and critters

Do you ever have bees get stuck in the queen excluder. I found two dead in mine so I just took it out. I’m not sure what was going on there

@beek

Жыл бұрын

Drones always get stuck Chris. Be sure and join me on Thursday nights at 7pm for my lifestreams where you can ask a question or hear answers I give to other people's questions. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live/

I just started bee Keeping do I need to feed bees all year long even when they have all the fields filled with flowers.

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, I highly suggest you take a beekeeping course that always answers these types of very basic questions. I'll answer this, but sounds like you need to know a bunch more too. I do not feed after dandelions.

My 15 acre "prairie" will be filled with golden rod soon. Will that be an acceptable pollen?

@beek

3 жыл бұрын

Good question. It always appears like alot, but I've never seen it supplement what my bees and we have massive amounts. Feed! Feed! Feed!

@theohiohousewife

3 жыл бұрын

@@beek yes sir 🙂

How much bee bread do you want to go into winter with? That's a lot of space being used that could be food for overwintering.

@beek

2 жыл бұрын

That is debatable. But seeing a frame or two makes me feel better. But I do not have to worry about this because in the winter, I feed them my Winter-Bee-Kinds. Take a look at them: www.honeybeesonline.com/10-frame-winter-bee-kind-with-candy-ships-around-early-december-do-not-place-other-items-in-your-cart-with-winter-bee-kinds/

@torreymn

2 жыл бұрын

@@beek interesting...how does that work in extremely cold climates like here in MN? By the time you are shopping it's likely too cold here to open the hive to place this on. Lol

I have a cuestión. On my street it's a big tree and the bees lives there but the neighbor close the hole. I don't know why. They are in, please help me. What can I do?

@beek

3 ай бұрын

Yikes, unless they find another opening, they will die of starvation.

Hi David, I couldn’t find you on instagram…

In my case everything as my deeps aren't even full much less my honey supers

How do you tell the difference between capped over brood and capped over honey?

@beek

Жыл бұрын

Great question. Thursday I'm spending the whole hour answer these types of questions. Can you join us and ask it then? Thursday, 7pm central time, here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live