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Title: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on June 24, 2011, 10:21:34 pm

Here's a quick look at what the bees are working up here. This was shot more than a week ago just before the clover really opened up...the fields are a lot more yellow now!

SD intro.MPG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvksmhr4Jug#ws)

There's also a good bit of alfalfa blooming. Now if we can only convince the farmers not to mow too quick!

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: Larry Bees on June 24, 2011, 10:29:11 pm

It's about time that you posted a video. Good to hear from you. Larry

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: joebrown on June 25, 2011, 01:07:34 am

If we could all just have a nice crop like that to forage!

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: bud1 on June 25, 2011, 09:28:42 am

you better build up yo musels, you do know over that suckers honey supers are deeps

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: AllenF on June 25, 2011, 06:05:33 pm

Wow, no wonder they fatten up the supers so fast on all that up there.   

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: REDBEE on June 25, 2011, 08:18:42 pm

lot be more yellow now this could be the year ones talks about 

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on June 25, 2011, 09:06:00 pm

Bud, I ain't scared of deep supers...that's what I use mostly too. I'm just hoping that I don't come into this as the young, strong and incredibly handsome man that I am and leave all broken and crippled!  :-D

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on June 25, 2011, 09:07:58 pm

Oh, and like Bruce said, these fields are all yellow with clover right now. I'll try to get some better footage of it for ya'll.

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: VolunteerK9 on June 26, 2011, 04:12:10 pm

Quote from: hardwood on June 25, 2011, 09:06:00 pm

Bud, I ain't scared of deep supers...that's what I use mostly too. I'm just hoping that I don't come into this as the young, strong and incredibly handsome man that I am and leave all broken and crippled!  :-D

Scott

Broken, crippled and still handsome or just broke all to hell and looking like a pile of cat poo?

Good to hear from you and glad to see that Bruce hasnt killed ya...yet

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: Irwin on June 29, 2011, 01:39:41 am

Thank's for the video to let us know that your still alive. Hope your having a good time with Bruce. Be carefull he may try to feed you to much pie.

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on July 02, 2011, 10:09:55 pm

Here's a little better look at what the bees are working.

S.D honey 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQlnhOj7qU#ws)

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on July 02, 2011, 10:17:18 pm

One more and then I'll stop droning on about the clover :-D (I might start up about the alfalfa though :-D)

S.D honey 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyoqgcJqIw#ws)

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: Larry Bees on July 02, 2011, 10:28:09 pm

Hi Scott,

We're glad to see that you're still alive!   :-D  Enjoyed the videos!

I wish that we had all of that clover down here. The Cabbage Palms are just now starting to bloom.

Later, Larry

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: JP on July 02, 2011, 10:48:14 pm

Hey Scott, thanks for the videos!


...JP

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: hardwood on July 02, 2011, 11:11:13 pm

Thanks ya'll! I've got other videos "in the can" but I'm using a new computer up here and haven't gotten the hang of the new editing software yet. There's one that shows a cut out from a 5 frame nuc that a swarm moved in to while the bees were working the almonds. There were actually two different nucs that caught swarms. I showed Bryan (from the video above) how to cut out the first one and then he showed Zach how on the second.

Peggy and the Bminator (shortened from SHBminator...my son Ian) are doing removals in FL in my absence and I wish I had left the camera with them so that I could watch them...I'm just so proud!

Scott

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: AllenF on July 04, 2011, 06:42:14 pm

Goodness, miles and miles of that stuff all in bloom.   Sourwoods will be drying up soon and we will be dry until goldenrod.   No wonder yellow clover makes so much honey.

Title: Re: South Dakota honey
Post by: Bee Busters on January 18, 2012, 03:34:40 pm

last video I looked at you were in FL.  Do you move your hives during the year?