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Honey Bees and Beekeeping: A Year in the Life of an Apiary

Last Updated: October 04, 2010

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Image:Delaplanefeature.jpgThis online video walks you through one year of managing honey bee colonies.



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Part I

1. Introduction:

  • A Brief History
  • Building Supers and Frames
  • Preparing Food Supplements and Medications

2. In the Beginning

  • Receiving and Installing Bees
  • Medication
  • Releasing Queens

3. Things are Buzzing

  • Our Maturing Hives
  • Migrating Our Hives

4. A Mid-season Break

  • Some Housekeeping
  • Packaged Bees and Queens
  • Bee Associations
  • Books and Periodicals

Part II

5. Diseases and Pests

6. Its Harvest Time

  • Harvesting and Processing
  • Packaging and Selling

7. Rounding Out the Year

  • Overwintering Our Hives
  • Second Spring Management

8. The Year in Review

  • The Ten Commandments of Beekeeping
  • Africanized bees


Introduction

  • A Brief History
  • Building Supers and Frames
  • Preparing Food Supplements and Medications

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Introduction: Section 1.1: Presented with permission of the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education. To purchase the complete "Honey Bees and Beekeeping" television series on DVD or accompanying book, please call 1-800-359-4040


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Introduction: Section 1.3: Presented with permission of the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education. To purchase the complete "Honey Bees and Beekeeping" television series on DVD or accompanying book, please call 1-800-359-4040

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