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Opening Hive and Discovering Brood

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WE MESSED UP BIG TIME! WATCH TILL THE END FOR HONEY BEE EDUCATION!

What happens here

With Mrs. Stoney Ridge Farmer assisting (also in a full bee suit), the beekeeper removes the outer and inner covers of one of the beehives. He notices the hive is extremely full of bees and appears to be using a top feeder. He applies smoke to the hive and uses a hive tool to carefully pry up a frame from the honey super. Upon inspection, he discovers a significant amount of brood (larvae and eggs) mixed with honey, which is problematic for honey harvesting. He also identifies Varroa mites on the bees. He realizes that this super is not suitable for honey collection due to the presence of brood.

Goal: Access the honey super, but encounter unexpected brood and mites.

Tools and materials

  • Bee Smoker — Calming bees during inspection
  • Beehive — The structure being inspected for honey
  • Beekeeping Suit Triad Bee Supply — Protection from bee stings
  • Hive Tool — Prying open hive parts and frames

What they say

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fun all right so we smoked the front of the hive now we're going to crack the top here this thing is busting with bees insane holy crap I got to grab the camera and bring it over here look at all these bees this is a hive top feeder put sugar water in there look at all the bees this Hive is just busting wide open with bees it's crazy so we should have plenty of honey in here to harvest hi there hi this is Mrs Stony Ridge she's going to help so we should have plenty of Honey to harvest out of here guys we going to smoke them down a little bit we'll go ahead and preliminarily smoke the other Hive okay these hives are so full of bees I'm not sure how good this is going to work we may have to come back another time so we're going to crack this Hive open guys smoke these guys down a little bit this Hive should be very propolis in other words it should have a lot of propolis which is the bees the honey bees glue okay that's how they goo The Hive together here so far the demeanor of the bees is pretty good it beekeeper so that's in the bottom in the top top of the hive here okay got some honey right in there too pretty awesome so odds are this super is completely full of honey all right guys so the process here is we're going to smoke our bees down which The Hive is so full it doesn't even matter if we smoke them down we may may have to put a super in between our honey supers in order to get the bees out um and actually we've got rude in our honey super so we've got to pay attention to what we're doing here okay first thing we're going to do we're going to set this guy to the side you see what I mean there's honey on the outside but there's brood and eggs on the inside there did not anticipate this guys I did not anticipate uh brood being in the food area so there's honey up here here there's also brood right here um this Hive is just busting at the seam so I mean you see all these bees right here um it's just busting at the seams so we're going to have to rethink and come up with a little bit of a contingency plan you know when you're farming you got to think about that kind of stuff and uh we'll come up with a new plan here see what we've this is what we want guys this is what we're looking for this is capped honey delicious capped honey and this is what we want so we'll Harvest on the outside edges here all the capped honey and we'll go down to the next Super and see if there's any honey in it and this is delicious honey too this is popler honey it's a nice…

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