Getting Started Beekeeping: Collecting Your First Beehives
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Hoocho takes us on and adventure while he Gets Started Beekeeping: Collecting His First Beehives
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Happy Hydroponicing!
Soo cool
This is perfect timing. I’m getting my first nuc-hive in November. Thanks from west-coast Tassie.
Yay Bees at the best~ confidence in getting booty.
Every property in Australia should have a bee hive.
Why don’t they teach this at school.
Are they gonna be hydroponic bees?
awesome!
You wait till your first extraction , the first thing your going to do is chomp on that honey comb its so nice i used to grab it when the oldman done his bees still had to flick bees off lol
Flow hive are good if you don’t want to get too involved with the bees, though now verroa is in OZ we’re going to have to look at the hives in more detail over time. They’re sold as good for beginners but in reality you are going to have to open up the brood box and inspect. The Flow hive will be good for extracting the honey with minimal effort as when they get going in good times you are going to have a load of honey to extract. I cheaped out and got an ebay 2 full frame extractor but its still a load of effort to extract and ended up with boxes of boxes of frames full of honey.
Wax moth and beetles are a pain, the wax moth destroys the frame and leaves it in a mess – I had a hive get abandoned by this, ended up leaving the frames on the ground for the ants and then cut the wax out and replaced with new sheets of foundation.
Well done, mate. Your journey begins in the world of beekeeping.
I got big hive from sunny coast the guy put a block of wood over the entrance and taped – said would be good to go, was a bit dubious, 60km out from home and got stung, then got stung again so luckily I took my bee suite and put it on for the last 40km (also put the A/C on in the car to try and slow them down a bit) got home and opened back door and had 20 odd bees looking at me from the hive!
Some hot tips in the first 3 mins – firstly you dont need $$ stands – standard CLS carcasing timber & 8 screws work well as a hive stand, secondly – when transporting your better off with flyscreen and and okkie strap that way you have airflow through the broodbox/hive during transport.
You are going to have a load of cane toads loafing about as they’re able to eat the bees the sting doesn’t seem to concern them! Also the eucalypts are flowering now – iron bark honey is delicious with depth compared to citrus which is just mostly sweet honey. Its kinda crazy to have all types of honey in a frame depending on where the bees grab the nectar from – my understanding is nectar collection and storing is a democratic process if its no good it wont get stored and a number of bees are testers on new honey found then you have the waggle dance where the bees will tell the hive where the new score of nectar was found. They can go about 9km out and originally though they might not do well in scrub country out past Gympie but they were powering pretty quick and filling hive up and was buying new frames to replace full ones weekly. When the iron bark flowers you are going to have loads of honey and will need to put new frames in to keep them busy as they can swarm quickly and have yet to notice them doing it – lost a few over the years. I would love to catch a swarm!
Fantastic! At some point I’ll try beekeeping, so I am fully pumped to see all your beekeeping content. Cheers.
So excited for you Mitch! Awesome to see you and the girls all looking so relaxed together and getting along so well. Looking forward to following along on all the bee adventures 😀
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