02 Apr

HOT honey bees MASSIVE bearding in an Australian heatwave – 40+ Celsius …

Our BOILING hot honey bees are experiencing a heatwave in Australia. Over 56 degrees Celsius in the sun, 40 degrees in the shade. No surprise, our MahakoBees are boiling, and are doing what they do best to cool down. They hang outside the hive and display a behavior that often surprises many beekeepers and that is “bearding“. This is often confused with a swarming or the preparation for a swarm by novice beekeepers. We continually clear our hive ventilation holes, but the bees immediately propilize them right back immediately. So, we leave them as is and simply provide plenty of water for them to cool the hive with. Thank you for watching, please subscribe and like the video, and if you have a spare moment, leave a comment. We love to hear your feedback. Thank you. MahakoBees.

PS: apologies for the poor quality of the video. We had to use an old camera on the day.



Music composed, performed and provided by Groovey – Adam Kubát a Pavel Křivák

You can visit their website on: http://www.groovey.cz/



A big thank you also goes to Kevin MacLeod for his Roalty free provided music: “At the shore”

02 Apr

Beekeeping How To instructional videos (playlist)

Our second fantastic PLAYLIST – Beekeeping How To instructional videos


Dear Readers,

This is another great video playlist consisting of all sorts of interesting beekeeping HOW TO videos. Mainly aimed at novice, small scale homesteading beekeepers, but there is good value for experienced and well seasoned beekeepers as well. Its not all just beekeeping 101. Lots of tips, tricks, and recommendations about honey, beekeeping tools, and simple honey extraction processes.


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Beekeeping BEGINNER TIP – How to light a BEE SMOKER quickly that smolders for hours. Mahako Bees



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Beeswax Processing Part 1 – simple cleaning, filtering, melting and rendering wax cappings at home Mahako Bees



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Beeswax Processing Part 2 – simple cleaning, filtering, melting and rendering wax cappings at home Mahako Bees



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Homemade Whipped or Creamed RAW Honey. Cinnamon Infused honey – part 1 Mahako Bees



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Homemade Whipped or Creamed RAW Honey. Cinnamon Infused honey – part 2 Mahako Bees



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KILL Wax Moth with a heat gun. Quick, easy and cheap. Mahako Bees



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beginners beekeeping essentials – how to tell if you have a well lit COLD SMOKE bee smoker Mahako Bees



 12:55
timber HONEY FRAME assembly – part 1 Mahako Bees



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timber HONEY FRAME assembly for your beehive – part 2 – insert EYELETS Mahako Bees



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timber HONEY FRAME assembly for your beehive – part 3 – Wood Frame Assembly

Hope you enjoy this play list and get some value out of it. We invite you to subscribe to our Youtube video channel MAHAKOBEES, comment and share with others. Your input is much appreciated. Especially the thumbs up if you feel we deserve it.


We look forward to seeing you on our blog, website and Youtube channel more often, so have a great day and visit us again soon.


MAHAKOBEES

31 Mar

EXTRACTED vs FULLY CAPPED raw honey frame weights review

Dear viewers,



Thank you for visiting. We did a little honey production/extraction experiment in this video and wanted to share it with you. It is suitable mostly for new hobby farm or city backyard beekeepers, but it may also be useful to the experienced and well seasoned beekeeping networks. 



Its all about yield when dealing with honey production, and selecting the most suitable frames and hive setup is very important. Many factors need to be considered: Your hive yard apiary location, your type of bees, your health and ability to carry the heavy honey supers, your capacity to extract and process large or small quantities of fresh honey and residual wax cappings, your extraction equipment, what product you are aiming to produce, and the list goes on. So, there is no “right” or “wrong” way do be a beekeeper and everyone has different views, needs and experience. The best you can hope for, is to implement the most optimal setup and environment for your circumstance and hope that remains constant for you as long as possible. But even then things will ultimately change as time goes by, as your hive numbers fluctuate, weather patterns change, and your circumstances change as a whole. So please, take all of our videos with a grain of salt, as nothing is set in stone. If you see a better way or have experience with similar situations, we encourage you to drop us a line in the comments below and share with the beekeeping community at large. This is fantastic hobby, and the bees need our assistance more than ever, so let’s aim to get as many people involved as possible and assist them along the way. 



So, back to the video:

We took two raw honey frame types, 

1) the “ideal” which is a two thirds in size when compared to a full deep honey frames, and

2) the full deep frames of raw honey that most professional and or commercial beekeepers use. 

We had one extracted and not extracted of each, and weighed them on our very accurate postage digital scales. Interesting outcomes. Plenty to discuss and debate in the comments below, so we invite anyone to add their experience, feedback or elaborate on this topic. It would be interesting to see what other beekeepers think and what their experience is with both frame styles and their honey harvests from each. 



If you are enjoying our beekeeping videos, we invite you to support us by subscribing and sharing with others. It helps us greatly to grow this channel.



Have a fantastic day

Mahakobees

http://www.mahakobees.com