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Episode-157 – Make Fresh Pollen Patties For The Honey Bees

Tony Teolis March 27, 2013 0 Comments
In this episode I show you how to make fresh pollen patties for your honey bees. This nutritious mixture of fresh pollen, Ener-G-Plus Bee Diet, Honey B Healthy, pure cane sugar and water helps to keep honey bees fed and encourage brood rearing. The difficulty is that if I give too much then I risk having a big box of bees during a cold month of March and there will be too many bees and not...

Episode-156- Make Grease Patties For Bees In Winter

Tony Teolis March 25, 2013 0 Comments
Watch and learn how to make grease patties for honey bees. These patties can be used all year round, not just in the winter. The grease will help keep Varroa off the bees and tracheal mites out of the bees. The wintergreen and salt add nutrients and beneficial smells that also play a role in keeping pests at bay. Resources How To Use Essential Oils For Mite Control  Episode-150- How To Do A...

Feed Bees In Winter Quick And Easy

Tony Teolis March 20, 2013 0 Comments
  I want to share with you this easy method for feeding honey bees in an emergency that I came up with the other day. The weather was warm on March 9 and seemed to be trending that way as it did last year. The winter storess seemed light with respect to the number of bees that were being formed and working in and out of the hive. Thus I started to provided small pollen patties, grease...

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-153- Make Foundationless Frames

Tony Teolis March 4, 2013 0 Comments
This spring I will have honey bees living in two Langstroth hives and one Kenyan style top bar hive. So far for the second Langstroth I have a stand, screened bottom board, 1 medium super, inner hive cover and outer hive cover. To make this hive complete I need to build a second and third medium super now and a fourth one by next spring. At the same time I want to make all of the hives...

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...

Diagnose Honey Bee Disease

Tony Teolis January 25, 2013 0 Comments
The report is in from the USDA Beltsville bee research lab. Honey Bee Hive - A was apparently over run by the Varroa Destructor. I thought I had this parasite under control but I did not treat the hive with chemicals. I only did some occasional dusitng with powdered sugar. Obviously I was not doing it right or often enough. Especially as fall was turning into winter. I will review my videos...

Test For American Foulbrood

Tony Teolis January 6, 2013 0 Comments
Dead Bee hive 12-28-12 I have to test to see how honey bee colony A died. Look at the past few posts and you will learn how I have reacted to the colony dying. The ropey test, smell test and Holts milk test for American Foulbrood were all negative. To be sure I sent larvae and adult honey bee samples away to the USDA in Beltsville, MD. At the same time I sent away for two American foulbrood...