Central Indiana Bee Stream - Live Bee Hive Video Exterior Winter Views

Central Indiana Bee Stream - Started 1/30/20 ~ 7.06a
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Added automated day/night switch by schedule. By available light is really twitchy. Manually was poorly timed often.

I really appreciate everyone who takes the time to view some footage. Some of the buzzy bee day videos are great to just let play to glance at and listen to while completing other tasks. Warmer days. Somehow it makes me feel warmer.

I love to sit and watch the bees. Help review the results of my efforts, good or bad, ~24/7/365. I scan and try to lift some highlights. That's where YOU come in. Tune in. Watch some older footage. Comment below those videos with observations, timestamps!

Winter Time - 3 inch R foam board. No harsh condensate line up top. No dripping in the middle of the cluster. Results may vary for you as always.

None of new hives made it. Mites, late intervention, resulting lack of numbers. I took a town job so timing should be less of an issue. Hives can seem fine one day but oops missed something and 7-10 days would be too long. Schedule conflicts prevented queen raising.

I have disassembled the failed hives. Each has had it's own sub issues beyond the mites. Granite seemed to have way more wet frames than I thought. I could have swapped those frames out with capped syrup I pulled at the beginning of last spring. I could have also slid in capped honey from other hives that rolled over prior. The dead bees in the bottom were soggy. Not sopping but plenty wet. I was just waiting for a warm day to slide frames in and out if necessary. I think keeping a journal or even just writing with a sharpie on the lid is going to be necessary. No guessing. Sadly there just wasn't enough bees left to keep the new brood and queen warm. That is the bottom line in all the losses. Not enough bees. It gets down to they can't/won't move to do anything but try to stay warm in place.

Limestone was very odd. Across the two deeps they had brood in front, pollen in back, honey on top. In a cool swirl. Occupying the middle 16 frames. Looks like queen was lost late fall. (I suspect I crushed her and it was way too late for them to raise another.) Some uncapped syrup but just lack of bees in there at all. Or did they move out?

2020 is going to be the bust out year. Better routines. Alternative hive setups. Queen production and splits. Drone frames and captive queen brood breaks. Natural oils and herbs. Pest deterrent plantings among key hives. Limited products. Club participation and volunteering with local operations.

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Suburban back yard bee hives. Part of the purpose here is to demonstrate that a person with time management issues in the suburbs can still pull this off. However, purpose focused tasks must be completed for success. Once in a while I post highlights. You might even catch me trying to give live off the cuff commentary while interacting with the hives. Occasionally I even produce an edited video.

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