This time of year is critical for the beehives – if they’ve survived winter they’re going to increase their activity and start producing brood, but until flowers start blooming they won’t have much nectar to support them. I inspected the hives to find their status coming out of winter, and to see if they have enough food to get into spring. The inspections were recorded, but the microphone was muted. So the video has taken a different “cinematic” turn. I hope you enjoy this “silent movie” version of the first hive inspections of the year.
Category: Beekeeping
Conversion Hive Construction
There is a series of videos on my YouTube channel about a nucleus colony of bees that I have migrated from Langstroth frames to Layens frames, in a hive that I built to be able to hang both frame sizes parallel to each other. Some had asked about plans for this hive. Although I don’t have documented plans, I did make this video to document and describe the construction of the hive:
Conversion Hive Construction Video Coming!
Since posting videos showing the use of my conversion hive to move bees from Langstroth to Layens frames, I’ve received several requests to share plans of that hive. I’m currently working on a video showing how that hive was built, but that project was done before I started making YouTube videos so I’m learning some new video editing skills to retroactively put the presentation together.
That build video should be posted soon but, in the meantime, here’s the video showing the setup of the conversion hive and addition of bees: