What Is A Hive?

Inner Cover

Hive Height

What Do Bees Eat

Bees Communicate Through Pheromones

Feeding System

Honeygate

Where To Get Bees

Wrap Up

Conclusion

Intro

Step 1 - Learn Bee Biology

The role of the queen bee

The role of the worker bee

The role of the drone

Why bees make honey

Step 2 - Allergy to bee stings

Step 3 - Finding a location for your beehive

Step 4 - Beehive equipment, hive set-up

Step 5 - Shadow a beekeeper

Step 6 - How to buy bees

When to order your bees

How many colonies to start beekeeping with

Step 7 - Order beekeeping equipment

Step 8 - The role of the beekeeper

Step 9 - Paint and assemble beehive

Production of honey from bottle to bottle - Non-contact beekeeping - Video credit: Advoko MAKES

I'll let you in on a secret. Why produce your own honey instead of buying it from a store?

View of a bottle hive holding device installed on a tree

The second half of the problem with store-bought honey

Advantages of crushed honey compared to honey obtained with an extractor

Presentation of a sterile queen

View of bees inside a bottle hive

Cutting the pieces to put in the bottles from a plate of honeycomb wax.

How to populate the bottle?

A few words on apitherapy

Hanging the bottles on a tree with rigid fixation with boards

View of the isolation of the bottles

Where to start?

How to divide a colony in two with a non-contact method?

Making a side hole in the bottle. Hot glued pouring hole

Insulation with self-adhesive foam

Preparing the stopper with its grid

Fixing the configuration on a tree with boards and self-tapping screws

Beekeeping on the roof of the Sofitel Hotel in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Bee Company

Benefits of keeping bees in an urban setting

Bees at Schoen Confectionery

What to do if a bee stings you

Growing movement of urban beekeepers

Splitting Bees

Removing Frames

Can You Look In Cells?

Splitting

Typical Brood Nest

Inspecting The Hive

Filling Empty Cells

Phoenix Queen Exclusion

Removing The Lid

Pushing Brood To Center

Why keep honey bees?

Brief history of beekeeping

Ancient beekeeping

Medieval beekeeping

Honey Bees in the New World

The Importance of “Bee Space”

the Modern Moveable Frame Hive

Intro

Conclusion

Getting Started

Intro

Bottom Box & Queen

How does the double screen board work?

Queen Pheromones

What happens if the Queen doesn't come back?

Queen Cell Removal

Benefits for Professional Beekeepers

The Mite Window

Anchoring the Queen

Putting the frames on a pallet

Intro

What you need to harvest honey

Opening a beehive

Inspecting honey frames

Opening the second hive

Covering the frame

Conclusion

Extracting honey

Cleaning the extractor

Outtro

How Do You Start Beekeeping

Winter Arctic Blast

Equipment

Different Materials

An Experienced Beekeeper

How To Start Beekeeping

Intro

Why I keep bees

What is this series about?

Early Beekeeping

Beekeeping in the Middle Ages

Langstroth Hive

Establishing an Apiary

Keep your beehives discreet

Anchoring Hives

Types of Beehives

Welcome

How the concept works

Use a strong colony of bees

How the bees use this setup

A few days later

A week later

Harvesting our jar comb

Filling the jars

Outro

Intro

Jennifer King: Hobbyist - Gulfport MS

Cory Stevens: Stevens Bee Co. - Bloomfield, MO

Jason Hough: Wood Camp farms - Mount Airy, MD

Ian Steppler: Steppler Farms - Manitoba, Canada

Travis Ulbrich “Yappy Beeman”: Alabama Bee rescue – Gadsden, AL

Brett Kozma: B &K Bees - Baraga, MI

Cricket Aldridge: Garden Variety Life – Phoenix, AR

Randy McCaffrey “DirtRooster” : 628DirtRooster – Gulfport, MS

Summary / Outtro

Building a smoker

How bees make honey

How to collect honey

Pollination

Credits