Explaining Hive Components and Entrance Management

in place when you put it in your honey extractor and it spins really really fast it would sling this apart and it would just fly all the pieces inside your honey extractor so eight of these are inside this hive basically at the front entrance of the hive when a hive is small and not very strong you can't leave that entire entrance open so this little block is in place so we'll shrink it down to this small small space for a brand new hive then for a older hive we'll rotate it to that size block and then as they get older and older we'll just take it all away so you've got a couple different options brand new hive a little bit stronger hive and then all the way away for a really really strong hive that hive is really really strong so we took the entrance reducer away pretty cool now on the bottom of the hive we're going to show you that this is called a screened bottom board the screen bottom board allows that varroa mite and any kind of invasive species such as high moss or high beetle larva or something like that it could fall right through the wire and get back into the hive and it helps ventilate the hive and keep it cool in the winter time flip it over there's a little slot right here and you slide a piece of corrugated plastic in here and basically that seals them off for the winter time you can see it's like a little drawer I guess pretty cool my plan is for our next honeybee video to show you how pollen traps work so we have some cool pollen traps we're going to put on three hives out here and we'll show you how pollen traps work we can actually harvest bee pollen from the bees they don't need a hundred percent of the honey they use or a hundred percent of the pollen they use so we can utilize that for us for our family and we can sell it awesome so let's get in this little hive it's a little bit different than the one we just got in so we're basically working off the same principle that we did before I'm gonna actually set this hive right here out of the way and we're gonna pop a cover off of this little guy right here and it's a tiny hive I'm gonna bring the camera in and let you see it real quick we'll pop the cover off of that it has five frames in there we'll just slip them right into the new hive and we'll have it done very very simple I have not checked these bees to see if they're laying eggs yet so this is going to be a discovery for me here's what the little hive looks like and this is a hive that I made for myself so this is bee jail right…