Central Beekeepers Alliance

Animated Life of Bees

School kids are given a quick introduction to the life cycle of the honey bee in this charming animated video from Australia.

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What Would Your Garden Look Like Without Bees?

While researchers are looking for the causes, honey bee populations around the world continue to decline at alarming rates. Given that more than a third of our food supply is dependent on pollination by honey bees, it is not an exaggeration to say that we have the potential for a major agricultural disaster. That’s the [...]

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How to Keep Bees Like a 5 Year Old Kid

Five-year-old Daniel helped his Uncle Don Miksha with the beekeeping chores at Summit Gardens Honey Farms near Calgary, Alberta in May 2008. We’re not sure who shot the video (Daniel’s father, maybe?), but it’s good fun to watch!

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Starting a New Bee Hive

In this video, Colorado beekeeper Dan explains how he installs a 3-lb package of bees with queen into their new hive, showing the protective clothing, tools and equipment that he uses. He places his hives on a hivestand (base) with a sloped landing deck on the front, set up on wooden pallets levelled into the [...]

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Automatic Beekeeping?

“Automatic hive – no beekeeper needed!” That’s what the man says, and offers an online manual with “detailed instructions for constructing and operating fully automatic hives, for which no bee knowledge is required of any kind, since only open to harvest.”

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