VIDEOS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Working with Bees

• Hive Location and Setup
• Hive Equipment
• Protective Clothing
• Smoke Use
• Stinging
• Comb Building

• Opening Hives
• Colony Inspection
• Introducing a Nucleus Colony

Working with Queens

• Finding Queens
• Requeening
• Marking and Clipping Queens
• Why Buy Queens
• Caring for Caged Queens

Colony Management

• Supering Hives
• Swarm Control
• Splitting Hives
• Moving Hives
• Feeding Bees and Overwintering
• Dealing with Deadouts (Part 1)
• Dealing with Deadouts (Part 2)
• Managing Towards Gentle Behaviour

Abnormal Colony Conditions

• Abnormal Conditions Part 1 – Failed Queens and Chalk Brood
• Abnormal Conditions Part 2 – Wax Moth, Monitoring Mites, and Antibiotics
• Abnormal Conditions Part 3 – Laying Workers and Sacbrood
• Laying Worker

Pest Management

• Fumigating for Nosema
• Varroa Population Dynamics
• Varroa Sticky Boards
• Varroa Alcohol Wash

Double Nucleus Colonies

• Making Double Nucleus Colonies Part 1
• Making Double Nucleus Colonies Part 2
• Fixing Problem Double Nucleus Colonies
• Transferring Double Nucleus Colonies

Queen Rearing

• Grafting
• Cell Building – Part 1
• Cell Building – Part 2
• Making Mini Nucleus Colonies
• 4-Way Mating Nucleus Colonies
• Handling Queen Cells

Honey Harvesting and Processing

• Tipping Hives
• Honey Harvesting
• Honey Extracting
• Honey Moisture