Backyard Beekeeping Questions and Answers Episode 128 with Frederick Dunn

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This is the audio track of today's Youtube presentation:  https://youtu.be/t6qkbZbgDx8

 

The following time codes are generously provided by 

Adam Holmes 

 

 

1:45 1)In the past you were treatment free, would you go over your reasons for changing? The good and the bad?

 

13:38 2)One of my queens fainted when I was marking her. The condition is in the book Queen Bee: Biology, Rearing and Breeding:

16:03

 

3)I didn't find my queen, lots of capped brood. No queen cells. So do I split this hive now if no queen? What is the best way to keep this hive from swarming?

18:42

 

4)I have a flow hive with the super full of honey. I put the flow-super above that and they are not filling it up. Should I move the super?

24:33

 

5)We have rapid round feeders in Norway. The quality is highly variable as you know. Does the sock really work to minimize drowning?

33:44

 

6)I live in Texas, what if anything should I be doing for my hive to insulate the hives or insure they have sufficient resources?

38:50

 

7)Just a quick update on my laying worker nucleus. What you recommended, worked.

40:15

 

8) After JC's Bees was hacked last week, watch for scams.

43:46

 

9) I have a question about the beesmart insulated inner covers. I put one on my 8-frame box, but can't put an 8-fram box on the cover. The intention was to have a feeder shim. 48:15

 

10) I have searched around the web attempting to get specific answers regarding proper filters for respirators/masks for Oxalic Acid Vaporization.

51:50

 

11) Can you go into a little more detail on how you use your resource hives to help build up weak hives? I'm primarily interested in how you introduce a frame of brood.

54:27

 

12) Why use 1:1 syrup at all if they don't have to dry out 2:1 syrup? Here it is fall and I have a couple of hives that need more capped honey.