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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => TOP BAR HIVES - WARRE HIVES - LONG HIVES => Topic started by: Hoosier on April 10, 2012, 02:58:30 pm
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Here's my new feeder. You'll quickly surmise that it's my first time using my new camcorder. :)
http://youtu.be/o6XeEuxamKY (http://youtu.be/o6XeEuxamKY)
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Good video. If you are worried about the shaky cam, they have lots of video stabilization programs out there to smooth it out. I really like the way you set up the feeders on the TB hives. I do not us those feeders any more because I have sugar ants real bad here and they were getting most of the feed. I also had lots of SHB hiding around in them. But they are easy to use feeders. Good set up there.
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Here's my new feeder. You'll quickly surmise that it's my first time using my new camcorder. :)
http://youtu.be/o6XeEuxamKY (http://youtu.be/o6XeEuxamKY)
"The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry."
I installed the two 3# packages of bees two days ago. I checked both feeders yesterday; there were over one hundred drowned and/or half dead bees floating in the sugar water. The bees were able to get under the white covers some way. I removed the white covers and put a handful of straw into the sugar water. I looked this morning, and there were still a few drowned bees, but only a few; others were walking on the straw and taking sugar water. After things settle down in a couple of days, I'm going to remove the straw and put in wooden sticks instead or with some straw. It's working now, but I sure hated losing those first bees just to learn what not to do.
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I deleted the video from YouTube. I'll make another one later.