Central Indiana Bee Stream /”.” /”.” 2022/6/18
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The channel hit 8000 view hours in Mid 2021!
Indiana DNR – Apiary News & Information:
https://www.in.gov/dnr/entomolo/2893.htm
“The Official Organization for All Indiana Beekeepers”:
https://indianabeekeeper.com/
Suburban back yard bee hives.
I love to sit and watch the bees. Tune in. Watch some older footage. Watch for critters and nefarious folk? Maybe catch a swarm on video.
Study on EMF and Honey Bees:
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/animals/animals-12-00855/article_deploy/animals-12-00855.pdf
There is a young red headed man named James —– Into nature he thought bees he tames —– Knowledge into the beehive —– Oh wow look at them thrive —– Central Indiana Bee Stream he claims.
*CIBS Vibe of the Hives*
Naming is a bit wonky. It’s more just tracking if there is a queen laying or not than accurate linage tracking at this point. Besides there is no way to know 100% if a returning queen is actually one of mine. 2-4 week log:
6/14/22 – Ran through all the hives except Woody in the back. The hives along the fence need a little help with drawn comb, bees, resources. 16 colonies around the state at the moment.
6/13/22 – Tossed a make shift mic contraption into the mix.
6/12/22 – Weekend inspections went well. Swapped a beehive into new boxes.
6/8/22 – Ongoing tree trimming line interruptions.
6/5/22 – Tracking 16 colonies with laying queens.
6/2/22 – Released virgin queen into Side Pocket stacked NUCs
5/31/22 – Hives at the creek in good shape. The Reef, TC1&2
5/31/22 – Installed a mated queen in a cage with fondant plug into DTNT. It’s little split did not get a queen back either.
5/31/22 – I was too aggressive and combined small colonies that were recently queen-right. Meaning some may have taken longer than expected. One was down to a handful of bees and a laying queen trying to cover a bitty patch of brood. I got a tip on how to handle that next time. Just add nurse bees and resources.
5/30/22 Happy Feet queen-right. Corner Pocket; removed queen cells. Pulled one open and caged the virgin. I THINK is saw an Italian Trait queen. I will try to get these virgins mated just in case.
5/24/22 – Half of the dual 2 frame Mating NUC was nearly honey/nectar bound. Moved to 5 frame Space Nuc Box for now. Other half is still only in two frame configuration. Still possible they could get queen laying. However, I did not see a queen in either. Will check again in 5-10 days.
5/22/22 – The Space NUC Queen made it back and was laying eggs! Transported hive and installed next to a horse pasture north of town. E1
5/21/22 – Looked into Corner Pocket. 6 frames of brood. Two supercedure cells left in hive. Swarm cell brood frame and a nectar frame taken to my yard. Installed into TCN2 (empty Tree City Nuc box). I didn’t see the queen after 30 minutes of hunting for her. They may have swarmed.
5/19/22 – One of the swarm cell/nectar frame splits left with the virgin queen! So far only only one queen has made it back from mating and is doing a great job. Reinforced a couple waiting mating colonies with capped brood frames. A couple are past due date so I will combine those.
5/17/22 – The Reef was in an odd state. Likely swarmed. Saw a queen briefly. Heard what sounded like another. No brood. Snagged a frame of capped brood from hive a few few away. Went ahead and put a third box on. Sorted a couple coated frames down and a couple frames getting capped up.
5/15/22 – I may have this backwards. Space Nuc Looked Queenright though I did not see queen. Gray looked queenless. Happy Feet is nectar bound nearly. Gave them another box and shuffled less full frames down. Swapped in a couple coated frames in each box. Total 5 boxes. Dunno if a queen is there or not. Many emerged cells. More than I remember leaving. Hive seems to have a lot of bees. Melting some wax to extreme coat a few frames to pop onto Woody and Stumpy.
5/13/22 – Caught a swarm out of The Mountain. +4 splits with queens/queen cells/nectar frames from The Mountain. Gave one of the emerged queens to WoodyII. Made up a split with other. The three other splits should have queens laying by the end of the month. Crazy. Space and Gray and Happy Feet should have queens laying tomorrow-next few days? Need to jet back to The Reef at the creek for inspections. Monday or Tuesday.
This naming thing may go away as it will get way more confusing lol.
5/11/22 – Hit near 90 degrees and the bees were bearding. Opened up the Nuc Box doors. The bees were happy and a bit confused. Running in circles lol.
5/10/22 – Corner Pocket – observed a few eggs in mostly nectar bound bottom deep. Then saw queen. Moved queen exluder to top of second deep. Super has a few heavy to coated foundation frames.
Check past videos for older updates. Hint: Warmer days have more activity.
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