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Honey Bees and Beekeeping: Things are Buzzing

Last Updated: June 15, 2010

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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


  • Things are buzzin
  • The brood nest
  • Our growing hives
  • Migrating our hives

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In the Beginning: Section 3.1: Things are buzzin 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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In the Beginning: Section 3.2: The brood nest 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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In the Beginning: Section 3.3: Our growing hives 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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In the Beginning: Section 3.4: Migrating our hives 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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