Sunday, July 12, 2009

Bee Videos

Kerry Cox and I made some bee videos yesterday.

First we learn how to light a bee smoker:


What good is learning how to light the bee smoker unless you know how to smoke the bee hives?  Here Kerry teaches us how to smoke hives:

Two videos show how he gives a powdered sugar mite treatment:

A natural way to control varroa mite population within a beehive is to combine a screened bottom board a periodic Powdered Sugar treatments.  This is completely benign for the bees, in fact, they LOVE licking the sugar off each other!

Next, we take a look at Brace and Burr Comb on a beehive:

Now we look at some hive maintenance and a quick sugar shake for mites:

Finally, we see two videos on how to feed bees:


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