Mike Palmer, "A Year in French Hill Apiaries" a NY Bee Wellness webinar

Questions (start at 54:33 minutes into the video): Pollen patties; reversing before dandelions; quilt boxes; queen excluders with supers; upper entrances for honey supers; bottom entrance reducers; feeding in dearths; screened bottom boards; checking for varroa mites and treatment; harvest yields; queen laying; queen cell cups, grafting; small hive beetles; absconding; ventilation in summer supers; requeening for disease; length of queen rearing season; robbing, yellow jackets; overwintering in single vs double deeps; overwintering nucs in 2 deep boxes; ?


00:00 Start
00:57 Mike begins
02:10 Winter
02:51 Early Spring
09:45 Checking Overwintered Nucleus Colonies
11:11 Unwrapping
12:08 First round of supering
13:03 Transferring nucleus colonies
13:50 First Major Flow
14:35 Swarming, population management. Spring splits
15:35 Reversing and equalizing
20:40 2nd round of supering
21:24 Evaluating the queen
24:06 Disease check
25:55 Setting up cell builders
27:5 grafting
28:09 Setting up mating nucs
30:33 First Queens
31:25 Starting nucleus colonies for over wintering
34:20 Supering for comb honey
35:20 Mid-summer re-queening
40:20 Hard to find queens
41:30 Harvest
42:36 Varroa
45:11 Winter Preparations
49:04 Wrapping
54:33 Questions: Pollen patties; reversing before dandelions; quilt boxes; queen excluders with supers; upper entrances for honey supers; bottom entrance reducers; feeding in dearths; screened bottom boards; checking for varroa mites and treatment; harvest yields; queen laying; queen cell cups, grafting; small hive beetles; absconding; ventilation in summer supers; requeening for disease; length of queen rearing season; robbing, yellow jackets; overwintering in single vs double deeps; overwintering nucs in 2 deep boxes; ?