Central Beekeepers Alliance

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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Video: Honey Bees Fighting Varroa Mites and Bee Louse

This video, Bees fighting varroa and braula coeca, was made by Ivan Brndušic, an electronics technician (from a long line of beekeepers on his mother’s side) who lives, works, and watches honey bees in the town of Bor, Serbia. When you see the bees’ attempts to remove the pests, it makes it very clear why [...]

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Dennis vanEngelsdorp Video: Where have the bees gone?

In this video, Dennis van Englesdorp delivers a lively talk at the Taste 3 food and wine conference on honeybees, beekeeping, and colony collapse disorder. We only wish that all speakers were as entertaining!

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