Preparing Honey Bees for a Canadian Winter - 2019 Fall Video Compilation

a Canadian Beekeeper's Blog "2019 Fall Rewind" is a video edit of all my videos from when I pulled off the last of my honey boxes at the end of August to when I sorted the last of my honey bee hives into the winter shed in Mid November. The fall of 2019 was one of the most challenging years for our farm, here I provide a glimpse from the honey farm. A hot dry summer lead into 6 inches of rain throughout September which followed by over a foot of wet snow at the beginning of October. This weather not only shortened our opportunity to properly feed the bee hives up for winter but it also caused us terrible grief as we battled the mud and then frost as we tried to pick the hives up to move them in for winter. It was a fall that we never forget! Index: 0:00 Opening Title 0:11 - inserting escape board over the nucs 0:53 - pulling the last honey supers off the nucs 3:29 - the focus on bulk syrup feeding 11:25 - moving field edge yards closer to home 13:29 - fighting fall colony attrition 21:01 - the OCTOBER 1st feed deadline 22:48 - monitoring for mites 25:45 - treating with Apivar 27:15 - getting stuck 28:52 - weighing colonies for winter weight 30:50 - Apivar mite monitoring check back 35:44 - October 11th winter storm 38:22 - the wake of the winter storm, hive igloos 46:32 - treating hives with Oxalic Acid Vapour 48:49 - ProVap 110 55:02 - bee yard under water 57:22 - picking hives out of water with the Ezyloader 1:00:31 - pulling the bee truck out with two tractors! 1:07:48 - moving the first hives inside the winter shed 1:11:11 - prying hives off the frozen ground, moving hives inside for winter 1:14:35 - take your kid to work day, lesson #1 - honey in the morning coffee 1:21:51 - bee hive dumped onto the loading pad 1:31:20 - Oxalic Acid treatment efficacy and varroa mite drop 1:37:10 - Apivar strip removal before moving hives in for winter 1:39:30 - stacking honey bee hives inside the winter shed for winter 1:43:50 - the reason why I use pliable hive top inner covers (foamies) 1:52:17 - the last 4 hives inside, door closed, lights off, 1:54:21 - listening to the roar of 40-50 million bees inside