Randy Oliver of scientificbeekeeping.com. NY Bee Wellness Workshop, August 7, 2016. Good for beginning beekeepers. Basic management of bees, disease identification. Take notes, pause, playback, watch over.
Over 12 years I have learned that this class has a very lot of useful info.I only wish I had of watched it way back when I first started. Learning how to interact around your bees will save you a lot of grief and make it a thing of joy.
I always wear a veil. Always have 1 or 2 guard bees that go for my face. I'm really liking the Buckfast bees I got, very nice to work. My other colonies are Carniolans and very docile also. I have 1 Buckfast colony and 4 Carniolans. This is my 2nd year of beekeeping and you are 100% right; the bees are great teachers,
Almost 3 years old now, still super relevant! We're getting bees this spring and we're members of our local beekeeping association but all of this info is SUPER helpful. Thanks!
As a fairly new beekeeper, this is a must-watch video. Great stuff on behaving around your bees, on how to identify good things / bad things without ever opening hive, how to manage frames during inspection, how to inspect, and then the scary how to identify various problems with brood and overall hive health. Thank you for your great work!
WOW~ This is one of the most needed and excellent and useful presentations for beekeepers i have ever seen! Superb because i learned so many useful skills to work bees. I have been a beekeeper for 12 years and worked with commercial guys for 5 and i learned several very useful things, and brushed up on many things i had forgotten. This work should be shown at every bee club. Thanks to Mr. Oliver for giving this out for free. A truly truly helpful wonderful work. Thank you Mr. Oliver!!! Just truly wonderful and NEEDED working knowledges given here!
Thank you, Brian! We are grateful for Mr. Oliver's participation in our workshop. These videos are made possible by DONATIONS to NY Bee Wellness, Inc. The goal of NY Bee Wellness is to make available the quality presentations at our train the trainer workshops to beekeepers who do not have the time or money to attend.
Feb 2020 I need to watch this the day before I do a hive inspection, every time. a/ understand the colony and the bee b/ understand the colony and the bee c/ understand the colony and the bee Thanks so much for this timeless video. Melbourne. Australia
WOW - I'm new to Beekeeping -I have been trying to learn on my own for 3 years .I have only been stung about 10 times . Now I see why , I respect them . I only have 2 hives right now . But have had up to 6 at one time . It has been a slow learning curve . I caught my first wild colony , and keep it going ! I will be rewatching this a few more times!
I am new, too. I will be watching this again and again, too. Thank you so very much. By the way, the story with getting stung in the mouth is true, it happened in Romania, too. But not to a beekeeper, to a person who was having a drink outside, that had a bee in it. The man died fast, before help could be given. Nobody knew to do emergency tracheotomy.
Great information! I only wish the questions from the group were audible, because I think hearing others questions, and the answers, are usually very helpful as well.
I don't keep bees but these lovely little creatures fascinate me. What an interesting video this is. I have learned things today I didn't know about bees. There are beekeepers courses run not too far from where I live, one is a 2 day course to learn the basics. I might book into that next year even though the chances of me actually keeping bees is remote.
Excellent presentation. Lots of great info. Only problem is you can't hear the questions asked. Which is sad because a lot are from newer beekeepers and would be the ones almost every new beekeeper would ask. Should repeat the question when recording. Again, great presentation and very useful info, for the newbie as well as some more experienced beekeeper.
New keeper here,picked up 5 frame nuc,installed june 10,performed full inspection this morning...only hit twice.....little swelling and itching.At the moment have 2 10 frame deeps,great video.
We don't have a mentor . We bought our first hive Sept.1 st 2017. The local beekeeper is in his 20's and doesn't have time to help and the 1 or 2 other beekeepers (that I know of) are fairly new themselves. Did our first cut out in November and 2 days ago brought home a log with a hive inside and yesterday , with the log still in the back of our truck, we moved them into a deep hive box (I am editing that video today). We still have a lot to learn but aren't doing too bad in spite of our ignorance. But it would be so nice to have someone standing next to us during an inspection to point things out that we wouldn't otherwise notice.
Hunters use a detergent that eliminates clothing odor and any other type of odor..they also have soap for your body and spray for your clothing..you can find these products at you local Walmart in the hunting/sporting section.
From now on every time i see a beekeeper put his smoker on top of the nuke I will think about this video. I have learned a lot. Thank you. (and i'm not even a beekeeper).
OMG it only took him a minute to slam on bee havers. Also brought up how easy it was back in 1975 to be a bee haver. I was a 17 year old bee haver once. If you've never done a split, don't own a queen castle, nucs, or duplex hives then you're missing all the fun. Please...raising your own bees is so rewarding. Before you even consider keeping bees PLEASE educate yourself on splits and queen rearing. It's so much fun. Please I'm begging y'all to at least try.
Ha ha you wont work with capensis like that....same rules apply though..to not get them agitated and loose a lot of bees from stinging...whole different ball game in Africa
I wanted to start a beehive, but after watching this, it looks way too hard. There seem to be so many things to worry about, to look out for and then the bees can just take off and swarm and never see them again. Then there are all the diseases. i thought it was supposed to be enjoyable and rewarding. not from what I have seen. So I will keep chickens instead. Thank you for scaring me off.
The Man from Epsilon Crucis Don’t let this scare you away from having bees. In each state there are bee associations here in CT my dues are $20/year, your hives must be registered with the state and they inspect your hives on a regular basis, and other beekeepers, all of these people are here to help you. The biggest problem with new beekeepers is that they see themselves with numerous hives. They start out with 2 hives the first year then increase it to 10 hives the second year and looking forward to increasing the hive number the third year. At that point beekeeping becomes a business or to put it another way one more thing that has to be done before the end of your work day. Many proponents say you should be in your hives every 7-10 days. That is not true. Bees want to be left ALONE. In reality there are only 4-5 times a year you should be in your hives (plus the state inspections). Reach out and talk to members of the bee keeping community, you will find a wealth of support.
There is a lot to learn to keep chickens healthy, as well. Any hobby requires interest and determination. Obviously, you don't have much of either for this project.
