Beekeeping Questions and Answers Episode 95 are you ready for spring? Get your watering stations ready to go!

This is the audio track from The Way To Bee on YouTube

Backyard Beekeeping Questions Episode 95 you can view the entire episode here: https://youtu.be/txkVNKiqI4k

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Time stamps generously provided by Adam Holmes

 

1) Could you place drone combs to hyper produce them and mate with Saskatraz queens as they make new ones? 1:34

 

2) Does the variety of honey bee change the flavor of the honey they produce? 11:28

 

3) How important is the space you leave above the frames and below the cover boards or inner cover? 18:13

 

4) How do you keep a queen bee alive when you remove her from the hive and want to replace her? 26:58

 

5) When is a good time to replace a deep with a medium super, and also replace the spacer boards with frames? 29:58

 

6) When you catch a queen from the swarm, can that queen bee worked in the same bee yard? 35:02

 

7) I live in South Australia and our summers are hot, suggestions for what I can do to help my bees with watering? 38:10

 

8) What's your opinion on feeding Direct Feed Microbials (DFM)? when do you feed it? 46:40