Bees
72 videos • 3,365 views • by Sakima's Ridge Homestead
Along with tending our hives, we also offer swarm removal and established hive removal services. Videos in this playlist will document those activities.
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Checking the bees on a warm January day
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A peek at the hives
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Easter morning bee watch
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BEES EVERYWHERE!! First hive inspection of 2017
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FEEDING FRENZY......... bees aren't stupid!
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Trap out in not ideal weather for a trap out.
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SWARM!! My bees decided to swarm this morning.
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Cutout 18' up in a porch column
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trapout followup
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Post-Swarm hive inspection. Is there a new Queen?
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Followup to the column cut out.
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12
Swarm trap seems to be working
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13
Paula's solo swarm capture
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MORE SWARMS!! When will they stop?
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Last minute swarm capture before work.
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16
Hive inspection, move and a swarm combine.
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Inspection and moving the hive to a new stand.
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18
RELEASE THE QUEEN! From the Memorial Day swarm.
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Transferring from the Nuc to a hive body.
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Another before work swarm. Fast queen find!
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Queen release (from the "wrong" swarm)
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5 hive inspection, looking for queens
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23
Ron's swarm
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This is NOT how it's supposed to work! Ron's swarm recapture.
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25
Cat house full of hot girls!!
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Cat house bees, Now that's a problem.................
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Ron's queen release and cat house check.
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Cat house bees, the final solution!
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Cat house bees, queen release
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Post swarm trap out at Gilford Lake.
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31
New boxes for the Nucs. Top entrances and adding feeders
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"Swarm in July, let it fly"......Not on my watch!!
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33
Dearth is here - open feeding
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34
Building hive stands and medium boxes
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35
New stand and using new medium boxes
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36
Used equipment (some neat stuff)
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37
2017 eclipse and the bees
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38
Installing the new hive stands
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39
Quick update on the hives, early September.
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40
Gathering from the fall flow
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41
Homestead tour
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Inspecting a dead-out. We lost a hive!
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43
Building winter feeding frames.
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Winter sugar cakes for the bees.
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Adding the winter feeding frames, sugar blocks, and pollen patties.
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46
January 10th 2018 hive check
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47
Beehive check 02/15/2018 heavy losses!!
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48
Heavy hive losses : revisited
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April 1st 2018, checking bees at 45 degrees.
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50
Building a NUC that can be used as a swarm trap
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51
First inspection 2018, marking the Queen, and making a split.
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Checking the split for queen cells
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Removing small early queen cells from a split
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54
Hanging swarm traps around the pasture/homestead.
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55
Checking the split hive for a queen.
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56
Picking up our NUC from JC's Bees.
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57
Transferring our JC's Bees NUC into a 10 frame hive and adding supers to the other hives
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58
Splitting the angry hives, why would we want more of these bees???
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59
Checking the swarm traps, SUCCESS!!
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60
Moving the swarm trap into the bee yard.
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61
Moving the swarm trap AGAIN.
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62
Last warm day of 2018 bee check and feeding
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63
Bee hive check after the polar vortex
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Extracting honey from our lost hives.
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65
Observing the bees, warm morning in March.
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First hive inspection of 2019 April 18th
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Preparing and placing our swarm traps.
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68
Bad storm we almost lost a hive
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Transferring the NUCs into hive boxes.
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Lost three hives, too much honey !?!?!
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Cold weather bee package installation in a Flow Hive.
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Surprise first swarm, and it's HUGE!
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