Tag: colonies

Episode-179- Inspect Top Bar Hive For Queen, Larvae And Eggs

Tony Teolis May 20, 2013 0 Comments
This video shows how to inspect a top bar beehive for the queen, larvae and eggs. It also depicts my methods for feeding the colony and controlling pests. The video begins with a view from the plexiglass window and then how I replace the feeder which is located inside the hive but set outside one of the follower boards. I begin by sliding a follower board back to get some working space and then...

Episode-175- Build A Bee Bait Box For Swarms

Tony Teolis May 12, 2013 0 Comments
This has been a couple of months in the making but that is what good planning is all about. Getting the future to become what you imagine. That's been my way of life and no I cannot tell nature what to do but I can read the sun or clouds  for sign of what's coming next. It's an amazing world honey bees live in and right now I am reading Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen and it is such a fun...

Episode-167- Best Ways To Check For Queen Release

Tony Teolis April 29, 2013 0 Comments
I waited the appropriate five days before going to check on the queens for the Langstroth and top bar hives being released. The video show the Langstroth Hive C check first and there is a special surprise in the clip. A quick check revealed an empty queen cage so I took that out and started checking the frames. The bees were busy building comb and they have even took to building on the...

Episode-165- Install Bees To Langstroth and Top Bar Hives Part 2

Tony Teolis April 24, 2013 0 Comments
Here is Part 2 of installing the new packages of honey bees. In this video I show the preliminary steps for putting bees in the top bar hive. This is a first for me but I have been preparing for it since before the hive was built in January. These bees were dusted with powdered sugar in the screened box just like the first package and then dumped into the top bar hive. The Queen cage was placed...

Episode-164- Install Bees To Langstroth and Top Bar Hives Part 1

Tony Teolis April 23, 2013 0 Comments
Today is the day the bees came! Two packages of bees came in the mail and the post office called my home twice while I was at work to come get them. My wife graciously went and picked them up. She's amazing! She was a little freaked out because there were some stragglers outside the two cage contraption the bees came in. They weren't in the screened box but outside it. She tried to explain the...

How To Use Essential Oils For Mite Control

Tony Teolis March 10, 2013 0 Comments
This honey bee management tip will show how I use essential oils and honey b healthy to start the spring feeding and keep the Varroa destructor at bay. This should also help with tracheal mite control. I use 5 drops of lemongrass, 15 drops or spearmint and 20 drops of wintergreen. I also use 3 teaspoons of Honey B Healthy.        Honey B Healthy Don The Fat Bee Man Talking about all of it

Episode-150- How To Do A Winter Check Of Bee Hive-B 1-19-13

Tony Teolis February 18, 2013 0 Comments
This is an inspection of Honey Bee hive B conducted on January 19, 2013. The purpose of this brief inspection was to take advantage of the warm 49 degree weather and check the stores of the honey bee food supplies. Since the bees were active and the weather sunny I was able to get down to the first medium and add a patty of fondant on the top bars. I also dusted the three mediums with powdered...

Watching Honey Bees Buzz

Tony Teolis January 25, 2013 0 Comments
There was a lot of activity last Saturday the 19th of January 2013. I am sure it was because the honey bees in Hive B knew that a deep freeze with snow in tail was on it's way. The video depicts foragers going out for what be available on this unseasonably warm day. Most of the bees seen flying were probably just taking cleansing flights and there also appeared some new bees taking training...