OH THE SNOW, October 10 2019

00:00 - so Kari and I are pulling hives out from 00:03 - the wet yards of the apiary the summer 00:07 - has been so hot and dry I guess I just a 00:12 - little nonchalant about recognizing I 00:15 - gotta get these wet yards out and good 00:17 - time and fall just in case it gets wet 00:19 - and I can't access them and sure enough 00:23 - here we are having trouble accessing 00:26 - some of these yards because in the last 00:28 - three weeks we've had a tremendous 00:30 - amount of rain and we're looking ahead 00:33 - and if I take the worst forecast it 00:36 - looks like we might be getting a foot 00:37 - and a half of snow so if we get a foot 00:39 - and a half of snow there's no way I'm 00:40 - gonna be walking in Angelov frost to 00:42 - pick these up with a bee truck tried 00:44 - coming into this yard yesterday and I 00:48 - made it about a mile and the front end 00:51 - was starting to disappear on me so I got 00:52 - out just got out but I'm able to walk in 00:55 - here with the half-ton we kind of 4x4 00:58 - kind of float over top of the mud so 01:01 - three miles down on a dirt really we 01:04 - called gumbo down a gumbo dirt back road 01:08 - and we poked into the yard and we're 01:11 - just hand bobbing these hives onto the 01:12 - truck so nothing like good old back work 01:17 - hives are in good shape we're gonna have 01:20 - a nice flight day today but it looks of 01:22 - it the a pre is kind of perked up and 01:25 - they're actively flying and they're 01:28 - bringing it loads of pullin so we still 01:30 - have clovers we still have a lot of 01:31 - wildflowers go with goldenrod and just a 01:33 - smattering of plants around these bees 01:36 - are collecting which is really positive 01:38 - so I'm afraid that we didn't get the 01:41 - work done quick enough this morning 01:43 - these guys have perked up we're gonna 01:44 - have to set down a couple catch nukes I 01:49 - think we'll come back here and pick them 01:51 - up tonight just to show our due respect 01:54 - to the bees and gather up all the 01:56 - stragglers that I've been out foraging 01:57 - this morning 02:12 - every opportunity 02:29 - and their full box of bees a lot of solo 02:33 - date looks good let's do the one beside 02:36 - it 02:51 - every box I see through the screen here 02:54 - yeah that looks good that's another 02:55 - eight beauty these are all nukes 02:59 - these are nukes I made up to fill in 03:01 - dead spots which I haven't got around to 03:04 - filling in some dead spots yet so if we 03:07 - get some nice weather next couple weeks 03:09 - this yard will be sorted into empty 03:12 - spots through the rest of the aviary 03:15 - let's try that blue one there 03:37 - box of these 03:39 - there's a 10 03:43 - and so we had extra pails to put on them 03:48 - we're gonna be putting pails on the rest 03:49 - of the yard today just the ball come up 03:53 - one more let's do this 03:55 - very one here that's great 04:14 - here's another box of these these nukes 04:18 - are doing fantastic 04:19 - I should be washing some lights on them 04:22 - - well we tip back like this so well 04:25 - okay puts me in a good mood time for 04:37 - lunch 05:12 - so this is the yard that we had to true 05:14 - to that for because there was a higher 05:18 - might count in this yard it's one of the 05:19 - yards on the outside of my apiary 05:21 - probably close to a neighbor or 05:23 - something I've been doing washes over 05:26 - the whole day today and yesterday just 05:29 - to double-check triple-check on the 05:32 - might loads as this winter nasty emerges 05:35 - and I'm not finding anything this yard 05:39 - we treated that before and I just want 05:41 - to see if it's helped 06:10 - finding any I'll just shake it for a bit 06:12 - longer you know remember when we put the 06:16 - app of our in when was that that's 06:19 - before all the weather right so it's 06:22 - been at least three weeks 06:28 - - two weeks help - check back 06:45 - because I'm not finding any 06:54 - which has to mean it works it works 06:56 - right 06:59 - they go from shaking eight mics to 07:02 - shaking no mics that means it's working 07:04 - you hear that or it took my sampling 07:06 - wrong 07:17 - here I'm gonna pull one from her don't 07:28 - have my smoker going but we will just 07:31 - I'm gonna dig in here 07:37 - see what's going on 08:08 - full syrup a little bit of bird hatching 08:12 - out 08:16 - it's the bet 08:21 - so I don't have a tub to kind of shake 08:22 - this into I'm just taking a look for the 08:24 - Queen 08:29 - queen 09:28 - 09:34 - that's just a little bit off-centered 09:38 - now nears big pull to bees right from 09:44 - where the center of the nest is here's 09:47 - the three 09:49 - just finishing emerging 10:00 - you may exert but they're not really 10:01 - going anywhere so here is a century of 10:05 - the bird nest 10:07 - you don't see the Queen 10:29 - you guys are off to the one side 10:38 - do that 11:41 - so there's no mites so there's this trip 11:43 - of arts treatments been in here for two 11:46 - and a half maybe three weeks I'll have 11:49 - to look back at my records and we put 11:53 - the treatment in and there was there was 11:55 - like for sure over five percent mite 11:58 - infestation slapped of our work pretty 12:02 - quick for me probably because there 12:04 - isn't a whole lot of brood inside and 12:06 - the nests are sharing it gets smaller so 12:08 - the mites really have no place to hide 12:18 - I'm doing here today we're just dropping 12:21 - a little bit of syrup I want to show you 12:23 - why we're taking a little bit extra 12:25 - syrup on these colonies they're pretty 12:29 - much the wage right now check it here 12:32 - the wind is just brutal feels like snow 12:36 - and I think that's coming these are 12:54 - feeding on the surface degrees so we're 13:08 - just about through the apron I'll just 13:10 - you know satisfying them whatever they 13:13 - need Assembly's making use of the day 13:59 - and you wouldn't want to be standing in 14:00 - there 14:07 - [Music] 14:13 - [Music] 14:23 - [Music] 15:32 - see