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Bee Videos:
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Beekeeper career clip
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Here are a few links to some excellent beekeeping videos
made by:
IWF Knowledge and Media
Please note that when you click on the links below you would be taken to IWF
web site in a new window. There you can select the english version of the
video material and your connection speed.
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Selection of Honey Bees - Honey Yield and Behaviour
The keeping of gentle,
resistant and productive honey bees requires intensive selective
breeding. A short description concerning the biology of the honey
bee is followed by the explanation of genetic ... |
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Selection of Honey Bees - Aiming for Vitality
In beekeeping the varroa
mite continues to be the most significant problem. Selection for
resistant bees today is thus the greatest challenge in bee breeding.
After a brief introduction into the sympt... |
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Uniting of young and old colonies
At the end of the summer the
old honey-bee colonies -the bee colonies which did not originate
from shook swarm formation in the course of the current year - are
split, and shook swarms are formed from... |
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Making nuclei with combs of emerging brood
A variant of shook swarm
formation for the formation of young bee colonies is young colony
formation from a collected brood nucleus. In this clip a woman
beekeeper demonstrates how new bee colonies (y... |
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Checking the acceptance of the queen
In the clip a woman
beekeeper demonstrates the measures that are necessary (or could be
required) after bee colonies, which have just been established, have
already spent a week at their new site. The... |
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First examination of a bee colony in spring
This clip documents a
beekeeper''s work in the first comprehensive spring inspection as
well as in a basic one: removal and inspection of a number of
honeycombs from the hive as well as - in the basic... |
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Willows as a source of pollen for bees
It is crucial that sources
of pollen, e.g. willow-catkin, is available near the bee hives in
the first few days in which the bees leave the hive in the spring.
This clips shows bees collecting pollen ... |
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Good winter cluster of a bee colony
This clip shows a beekeeper
monitoring an apiary during the winter resting period and informs
the viewer about the characteristics that bee hives should exhibit
in order to enable the bees to overwint... |
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Rearing of Queen Bees
Queen rearing is one of the
most important aspects of beekeeping. After a short explanation of
the aims of selective breeding, the film shows the three most
popular methods of rearing queens (complete... |
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Test your beekeeping
knowledge A fun test to check your
understanding of beekeeping.
(when you go to this web site, scroll down and click on
the link to take the test. Sometimes when you try to first load the test you
get an error message. Simply click the "Back" button on your browser and then
reload the page again. It should work then. Oooh, did I mention the test is
very good!)
New Brunswick beekeepers
are reminded to register all colonies with the Province by 31 May 2007.
An Application to Keep Bees
can be downloaded from the
NBDAA
website.
There is no fee charged, but registration is required by Law.
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