📓 IAN STEPPLER TIP NUMBER 296: MAKE SURE PATTIES ARE OVER THE CLUSTER.. IN OTHER WORDS MATCH FUEL SOURCE LOCATIONS. ✅

@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork

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I'm honored to be pinned on your channel Ian! Thanks! 🙏

"I need to stop cracking hives." Cracks 15 more hives.

Only Ian would be out in the snow putting patties on the bees! Your my hero! 😮😮😮

IF i walked around cracking lids like that, my bees would be up on me something fierce! haha looking good, even in the cold.

Cracking hives at -1....... Going to have to get you signed up with Hive crackers anonymous to work on your addiction! LOL

Couldn't help yourself but crack more hives. Love it.

Will someone please give him a hug.....wow...the bees are not going to "dwindle" to death

You remind me of a kid walking through the toy isles the week before Christmas. You’re so anxious to get there. You love your job, Lucky man

Wow that sucks Ian! I could hear the BlueJays complaining about it too at the beginning of the video. Sending you warming/ sunny vibes and some good season prayers! Bees clinging on those buckets! The carburetor is pulling fuel... good sign!

It’s your own personal “Groundhog Day” but your on it!!!! 💪🏻🙌🐝🐝🐝

Greetings from down under. Last spring was an overcast affair with little sunlight, just dank overcast. There were heaps of blossoms on the trees, with little to no honey, the whole season continued the same way until mid summer when we got a few days of sunshine, but the damage was already done and the frames were devoid of any honey so this year was a summer of feeding 1/1 watered down old crystalline honey back to the bees, and not a single frame of honey for me. I hope that your season will be better than mine.............keep smiling

Everyone Pray For SUNSHINE for the Canadian Beekeeper !!!!

When you use the thermal checking for dead outs, you should thumbtack 📌 the dead ones with red and the big ones green and mediums yellow.

Ha I was listening to the video in truck. Something I rarely do and I kept looking around for the bee in my cab.

Hello from Greece. Here in Greece we say that GOD gives us so many as we can pull up. You can manage everything. Sorry for my English.

Leave this poor bees alone! 😂😂😂

Careful what you for. !! This spring for me has been a nectar nite mare! Unexpected flow backfilling nucs faster than I can get queens mated .10 days of pulling frames food just try see if have laying queen . Never thought I’d complain about nectar but I’m complaining!!

-10 lows fortunately is very minor compared to having +4 to -15 drop in less than 2 hours (lost 30% of my hives to flash chilling of the open cluster in my first year wintering my own hives.) Or as bad as sustained -10 to -20 for 3 weeks (last year). the weakest might fail the average will still thrive. I am always amazed how resilient and determined hives can be.

hope the weather turns to the better for you and you dont loose too many this year

Keep swinging and going forward and you will overcome the obstacles!!!!

My customers want to know why my honey is so expensive?

Real beekeepers do it in the snow lol

No snow accumulation here yet, just that incessant wind! Monday or Tuesday should allow me to get back to the bees with more patties. I'm not a die-hard to place patties in the snow!

Best wishes Ian 🐝👍

Crazy weather

Goodjob brother

Nice to see such fine spring moisture falling from the heavens to nourish the earth Ian! Hard to imagine growing too many crops without moisture tho, stunted growth, severely limited flowering, terribly low yields, not enough food supply for bee colonies, hardly enough grains to save for anything beyond retained seed stock, oh my oh my... but maybe there are those individuals out there looking to raise food deserts. -Bob...

I believe you are suppose to put the silver coating of the bubbly facing down so it reflects the heat back into the hive.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

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Ya but it sticks to the wax. It’s more so used to seal the lid

This bull***t weather is maddening already.

Those that survive, will hopefully thrive.

Darned snow.

Ian you better get Carrie a snow brush for her beekeeping toolbox

Have you ever considered mixing protein sub into your sugar syrup.

I don't envy you in the least, my Canadian bee friend, I got to taste pure canola honey for the first time April 5,,nice almost clear with just tiny tinge of mint flavor, it was in full bloom here in mid GA, kinda weird to think , your waiting waiting on the ground to thaw there to plant, and here the canola flow is winding down. I was just thinking, if you placed black plastic 5 gal. buckets over your smaller white ones to absorb the solar heat rays and help insulate smaller buckets would it be cost effective over time for the bees build up, naturally you probably need weight of sorts to keep them from blowing off, just a thought from someone that only sees snow around every 15 - 20 years.

IAN - Are you concerned about having syrup on the colonies with the cold temps you are about the have? Will the moisture cause issues with those cold temps or will they be fine?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

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It’s heavy syrup. They will be fine. They need the freshness and wetness of incoming feed

Just when you think you got it figured out, eh. I used the global wide patties. They are 1.5 lbs each. I fed 4.5lbs from March 13 to April 13. Every night went below freezing. Only a few colonies ended up with spotted brood from chilling. I put one round of patties on in a hail storm that might have had something to do with it.

this is exactly why artificially feeding to encourage early brood rearing can be detrimental in Northern climates. almost like bees know what they are doing. I hope everything works out!

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

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Except, if we don’t, the bees simply time out

What thickness syrup can you feed in those temperatures? Will they take 1:1 or is it more like prosweet (honey thickness)

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

I feed the heavy syrup

Just a observation from 1.000 miles away looks like they did better on your recipe vs the store bought sub .

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Ya nothing beats home made supper

And here we are pushing ninety fahrenheit (45 days early)

Gonna hit 55 degrees today here. Finally a little warmth….

24 april andddd spring

While watching I'm checking weather reports and they moved the warm up back another day and my thermometer dropped one degree

Perhaps … and you probably already considered ; if you have already tagged or flagged the small ones, it may be prudent to go round with the sky hook to pick those up and put them inside for a week. That would be what, maybe 10-15% of the apiary? and lotsa room for that inside with little to no stacking. - 5 puts a dent in the nest, -10 kills the small ones

SUNSHINE NO MORE SNOW !!!

Ian. As a Floridian I was shuddering at the snow. And then you were checking the buckets - and I went for a wrap to warm me up. Doesn't that allow a draft to stream from the entance through the box to the bucket opening? Stop freezing your babies! If I am off base on my assumptions then I offer my sincere apologies. Although you did prove the variation in bees working on the bucket's food which proves your point on the "dwindle" problem. If they had no bees taking in syrup, does that mean they are already dead or just won't break cluster for the food, which may rush the dwindle for them? Oh dear. Now you are opening boxes! I wish I could send you some warmth!!

@russellkoopman3004

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I think Ian does it over and over is to prove to himself where the apiary is as a whole. To me it looked like most hives had enough protein for 2 or 3 more days while some had plenty and some were out.

@julieenslow5915

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@@russellkoopman3004 OK I get that. His apiary is huge so a few bees are worth it for that knowledge so he can decide what to do and how (given the upcoming weather). I was too focused on individual colonies perhaps. Thank you.

Even the dog is tired of your snow, sorry Ian hopefully this will be the last of it.

I know the feeling as a Canadian beekeeper, sittin on your damn hands is the worst part of the “Mother Nature ride” But don’t sell yourself short Ian, you have boxes of bees ready to explode the moment Mother Nature gives you an ounce of pollen. What’s another Colorado low really gonna do to your bees when they have you watching over them!

Ian says that he shouldn't do it, and goes on to crack open half the yard. Classic do as I say not as I do lesson here.

I just got back to stonewall from Vancouver. This is just silly.

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Woke up to snow again...still say longest winter ever🤔🤔🤓

Hopefully you will get the snow. That will act as an insulator.

I am sorry but I tend to disagree with you. I do not feel you made any mistake by pulling the out of the shed. An that gulf push from the south seams to be stronger than they thought. I don’t think the Canadian cold will hold an with the feed? It will help them with energy. I’m thinking the girls will do fine

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I cant imagine living there. I dont like the cold, so would not unless I had to.