VIDEOS

This short video explains the simple process of building a highly functional and yet extremely inexpensive hive stand for you bee hives. For less than $30 and 15 minutes time, you will get a hive stand to be proud of!

Are you curious if you might have wax moths in your bee hive? Are you curious what it looks like? This video discussed how one of my hives was destroyed by this serious pest, and what to look for, and what can be done to deal with the problem.

This is a modification of a hive top feeder that I saw recently, which allows for feeding of the hive internally, and avoids the issues of “robbing” and other issues with feeding your bees sugar syrup throughout the year. Super easy to make, and super effective!

When keeping honeybees, it sometimes becomes necessary to combine hives for various reasons. The issue of the bees adapting to each other and joining together without fighting or killing each other can often be resolved by combining them with the newspaper to gradually allow them to merge. This video demonstrates this process.

This video describes what bee keepers call a “Queen Castle” used to raise queen bees or even do splits to create whole new hives. Good explanation if you have never seen or used one!

This video shows the same queen castle from the previous video after 5 days, and the progress made by the bees to create queen cells. You will see several queen cells if you have never seen them, and what they look like.

This video shows how to do what most bee keepers call a “Walk-Away Split” where you take several frames of bees, capped brood, eggs/larvae and resources (honey/pollen) to a new brood box or NUC box (5 frame) and create a whole new colony. There are several methods of splitting bees, most commonly in the spring of the year, this method involves leaving the queen intact in her original hive, and having this new hive produce their own queen.