“pushing” (a.k.a. messing with…) your bees for …...•liquid honey production •comb honey...
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Seasonal Management II “Pushing” (a.k.a. messing with…)
Your Bees
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287 pound average
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• Bee “Pushing” Defined
• Why pushing is possible?
• Why Push?
• How to Push
• When to Push
• Pushing recipes: simple, moderate, complex
• The RIGHT ingredients
• Examples
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Opening…NOT Maple syrup producers …why they are NOT called
“TreeKeepers”... • Weather dependent…like most of us…
• Waiters…like us …see RTH migration map
• Wait and See…Get what you get…NOT like us…
– Limited “tree sucking” actions…
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PUSHING Defined
• True Beekeeping is pushing…
• Directed management…
• Proactive resource management…
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How is Pushing even possible
• Ancient, complex S/ R organism…behavioral psychology…
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Example
• Bee space…~ any time (pic)
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Why Push?
• You already are!
– Hiving….
– Transporting…migratory…
• For Hive Health…
• For Hive increased hive product(s)
• For Additional hive products…
• Because you can…
• Why not…opportunism…curiosity (radial hex jar)
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Hive Products to Push for…
• Bees…splits, pkgs, nucs, queens, fortifying frames…
• Honey
• Wax…general, drawn brood/super comb
• Propolis
• Royal Jelly
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How to push
• Depends on what pushing for…
• Pay attention to 1st Principles…
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When to push
• Better seasonal times to push
• There are wrong times…prime times
– Ex. Foundation…
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Lots of beekeeping “noise” out there…
Monitoring…simplify…”B”- Curves…
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Monitoring to simplify the clutter…
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Internal hive populations
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Apis Labs – Alex Zomchek
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Apis Labs – Alex Zomchek
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Apis Labs – Alex Zomchek
Nutritional Monitoring
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Once you understand “B” Curves
you can PUSH your Bees!
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Pushing is like cooking…need a recipe…but it is only a guideline
• Need tools
• Need ingredients
• …Hippopotamus Pie recipe…
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Caveat” Garbage in….garbage out…
• Need good ingredients to have good results
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Recipe for “Super charging colonies for honey production” (a.k.a. “Hippopotamus Pie”…)
• Caveat:
– recipe is a guideline
– tailor it to your tastes and environments
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Simple Recipe (Wait and See)
• Boxes
• Bees
• Forage
• Wait for it…
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Moderate Recipe
• More Boxes
• More Bees
• Better Forage
• Wait for it…
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Moderate +
• More…healthier bees
• More boxes…w/drawn comb…
• More flowers…better locations…
• Waiting Go for it…
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Advanced “Super Charged” Recipe
• 1. Lots of Honey production bees…
• 2. Lots of Healthy bees…
• 3. Lots of (1) and (2) at the right age…
• 4. Lots of (1, 2, 3) in the right place(s)...
• 5. Lots of (1,2,3,4) at the right time…
• 6. RM: Sufficient & Timely supering.
• **Sufficient and proper honey storage… be careful what you wish for…
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World distribution map of primary honey bee species (Apis genus)
Apis andreniformis
Apis cerana
Apis dorsata
Apis florea
Apis koschevnikovi
Apis nigrocincta
Apis mellifera
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• 8 species (apis melifera)of honey bees
• Within the species are races…
• Example: Apis mellifera ligustica “Italians”
• So much mixing…tough to keep a pure bred…
• Today, more interested in genetic diversity …which leads to “survivor” stock…”mutts”…
• Other race examples: – Apis mellifera caucasca - caucasian
– Apis mellifera carnica - carniolan
– Apis mellifera scutellata – Africanized
Crossing these races leads to hybrids...
Examples:
Cordovans, Buckfast, Russian, Starline, Minnesota Hygenic
Bee Vernacular…species, races, hybrids…
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Hive health…you know it
when you see it…
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Need lots of foragers to make
lots of honey
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Bees in right place…limit!
• 1 colony ~ 200 pounds of honey…100 for them and 100 for you.
• 1 pound of honey takes the nectar from 2,000,000 flowers.
• So, 200 lbs of honey takes 400,000,000 flowers.
• An apiary of 10 colonies: 4,000,000,000 flowers.
• Treasure map(s)…!
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Pushing Honey production…what type?
• Liquid honey production
• Comb honey production
• Hybrids…Ross Rounds, Box, Plastic, etc.
There are product/quantity tradeoffs
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Pushing on Steroids - I
• Strong bee stock…
• Strong over wintered colony…
• Stimulated early with carbs, protein, vits, mins…
• Hive management…box swaps…
• Great year….
• Supering…
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Pushing on Steroids - II
• Strong bee stock…
• Strong over wintered colony…
• Stimulated early with carbs, protein, vits, mins…
• Hive management…box swaps…
• 2 Queen Systems…
• Great year….
• Supering…
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Pushing on Steroids - III
• Good bee stock…
• Strong over wintered colony…OR
• Queen nucleus hive (QNH)…
• Produce multiple nucs from QNH…
• Stimulated with carbs, protein, vits, mins…
• Combine frames from multiple nucs …
• Hive management…box swaps…
• Great year….
• Supering…
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Plan for Success…”boomer”
colonies are made;
not waited for…
We are not treekeepers…
A little luck does not hurt!
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287 pound average
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“Your PUSHING journey can
starts with a single drop…
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Push it a little farther…
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Push to let your imagination
(and bees) fly!
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Contact Information:
Alexander Zomchek [email protected] 513.280.3476
…for there is a fresh wind blowing; we may yet again do things like mountains, and music and beekeeping because they are hard, and clean, and clear in the morning! - Philip Gillett
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman