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    Duration: 09:15:00
    Capturing double bees ball of Japanese honeybees
    During springtime Japanese bees start swarming for different reasons like the colony has grown too big for the space they are occupying or to reproduce to keep the bee population going. The bees are captured in the spring or early summer months. To reunite the primary and the cast swarm first plot the queen, it’s […]
    Duration: 15:24:00
    How to Make Your Own Honey Bee Feeder Shim Hive Top Feeder Basics
    Building Ensure that you have every resource available and have a deciding factor of the measurements on the shim you want to make. Cut the box into the right dimensions and smooth down the cut pieces a little bit. Put nice edges along a piece of wood at 90 degrees to help square your measurements. […]
    Duration: 06:50:00
    FREE Bees! How to capture and hive a swarm of honey bees
    We need a hive box, a pruning snip, a pruning saw, and a sugar syrup that is 50% sugar and 50% water. Spray the syrup on the bees. The sugar water cools them down gives them some nourishment as well as makes them heavier. This makes them fall easily when we shake the branch. Spray […]
    Duration: 16:03:00
    Rendering Beeswax from honeycomb
    Take your honeycombs and crush them using your hands to release the honey from the cells and sieve the honey using the sieve device, to separate the honey from the honeycomb. This honey is not good for human consumption since it has been in the hive for long. it’s left so that bees can take […]
    Duration: 13:53:00
    Wire Your Own BeeHive Frames for Bettercomb or wax foundation, complete Unassembled kit by betterbee
    Synthetic pre-drawn beeswax comb frames are sold while pre-wired so while holding your frames together, glue them or nail them depending on the choice of your attaching method. Use an embedding machine and needle-nose pliers to grip and tighten the wire. Method There is no big difference between the frames that get glued and those […]
    Duration: 09:33:00
    Heavy Nectar Plant for Honey Bees, Anise Hyssop Agastache, one of the BEST pollinator plants!
    Varieties Lavender-looking hyssop is also known as Agrasachi or the blue fortune. When looking for these plants at your garden center, be aware of these names to avoid the chances of confusion. Also, ensure that as you get them from the garden center or nurseries, they are not treated with pesticides or insecticides. The little […]
    Duration: 09:17:00
    How do honey bees collect pollen and Sunflower Pollen Medicinal Effects Nosema ceranae
    Method Honey bees collect pollen on their hind legs at a very high speed that is not visible to the naked eye. There are a lot of different sunflower varieties from which honeybees collect pollen. So long as the varieties are from the same species, the pollen collected by the bees will be similar. The […]
    Duration: 18:07:00
    »Hive beetle management«
    »Hive beetle management« Hive beetles are one of the problems associated with bee keeping and these affect the productivity of the bee hives if not managed. Hive beetles are attracted to the bee hives due to the smell of honey pollen and the brood in the hive. The beetles can fly a distance of 9 […]
    Duration: 07:45:00
    Flow Hive honey harvesting
    To harvest honey using a flow hive you need a jar, tube, a flow key and a bee veil or a bee suit if you are new to honey harvesting until you are comfortable around your bee hive. Accessing the Hive Access the flow frames and make sure the frames are mostly kept or fully […]
    Duration: 09:13:00
    »Top 10 tips for catching honeybees«
    Many farmers find challenges in trapping swarms due to lack of the technical know how of how the process is done. When catching honey bees, use the right size swarm traps ie most successful traps should be between 35 and 60 litres in volume, should prevent entry of rain and sunshine and the entrance should […]
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