When to start new bee hive
Starting a New Bee Hive
what we're doing today is going to start
a brand new beehive this is a three
pound package of bees from California
and it's got about nine thousand bees in
there it's got one queen and we'll put
the Queen in first put the gun around
her so they do what they need to do and
in a couple months there'll be 60,000
bees inside the hive so this small
colony will grow to about 60,000 bees by
July or August the what you see on top
of the package is a can that's got sugar
water in it but that's what they eat
when they're being shipped from
California and the little tab has the
cage that the queen is going to be
sitting in and this is the base of the
hive this this is what it'll sit on and
gets it up off the ground make sure it
stays dry so it's actually two pieces to
this and the front part of this slope
gives a nice plane to land and walk into
the hive so I'm going to put all the
talent so you level these pallets yeah I
dug a hole they dug a hole and put the
pallets in and made them level that's
one that says
and this will be their the home for the
newbies this is their first five it's
going to go right on top and this is
what's inside of it so this is this is
the top cover it comes on these are the
frames that the bees will fill with
honeycomb and the honey and that's what
they eat in a weaver before I take off
is plastic you can also get a map made
out of beeswax but they're much more
fragile plastic is very durable and the
bees don't care so I just I just stay
with the places builder this will be
about a half side and on that side when
they've already built er get me wait to
put in these and a couple days I put
these back in the hive they're ready to
go so now we're getting ready to go into
the hive I'll put on my hood
seal it up put my gloves on Scott nice
soft leather gloves themselves so I can
really feel what I'm doing and work on
in that way this is the hive tool it's
one tool that used to do everything
probably the various frames apart you
can get in and do everything you need to
do with this one tool is called a hive
tool so what I'm going to do now is I'm
going to whack the hive or a package and
let the bees all fall to the bottom then
I'm going to pull the can out then I'll
pull the Queen container out picks that
up and put that in the hive
they don't like that the other thing
I'll do is spray a little sugar water on
them so it'll they'll be thinking about
eating instead of what's going on here
okay so here's the cage with the Queen
in it you can see seas inside there what
we're going to do is pull out the cork
and put a piece of candy over it these
will up through this candy lever out of
her cage in a couple day so I'm going to
put the Queen inside the hot
these are the high around her and the
ones that don't come out we'll just sit
through the high brow they'll come out
and they'll go right into the height you
can see there's a couple of these that
have landed on me but they're just
curious they're just trying to figure
out what's going on so now we put the
hive cover back on and we have a new
hive of bees this is where they come in
and out and when they're brand new
that's a lot of a lot area for them but
protects you can put on this entrance
reducer and put it right there
that means they only have to protect
that much instead of the whole thing
this makes it a little bit easier for
them in their brand new home this is the
sugar water that I'm going to let them
eat when you start a new hide you have
to give them some food since there's no
flowers out yet
okay so there's holes on the top of this
and when I turn it over a little bit of
the sugar water will leak out but
hopefully not very much and then they'll
find it and they'll come and start
eating there we go
the other thing to describe here in
Colorado we have a problem with bears so
I have an electric fence here that's
hooked to this charger that sends out a
zap of electricity and it keeps the
Bears away because they touch it with
their nose and they have soft feet that
are on the ground and they get zapped so
it keeps the Bears away and they come
out about this time of year this
actually puts out nine thousand volts
but it's a real short pulse width so it
doesn't doesn't hurt the bear doesn't
hurt children or pets or anything like
that so now that we're finished we can
turn it on safe from bears and it's
popping so we know it's working
what we're doing this morning like three
Queen this hive it's new hive and I
think the first queen didn't make him so
I got another queen put it in there
three days ago and I'm to get her
acclimated to the hive
I left the cork in her little container
shipping container I'm going to get in
there this morning pull the cork out let
her crawl out so the bees will be
acclimated to her because she's been
sitting in there for three days it'll be
a quick process here's the Queen cage
right here go do spread this apart a
little bit let's get at it actually
I'm going to take one out spread it out
even more what I don't want to do is
have have the Queen fly away we'll pull
out this frame right here while we're
sitting here before I do that those guys
have already made look at that eye on
there yep that's really good you're
looking good hello bees okay you're
gonna get a new queen now here we go
yeah she's in there okay we're just
hanging right back down in there she
could crawl out now she'll come out and
she'll be the mother to all the rest of
the bees in the hive she'll start laying
eggs
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