Learning the Basics of Beekeeping - Roger Patterson

Roger Patterson goes through some of the basics of managing your own honeybees which will go a long way to helping you solve many of the common issues that you will experience. You may then be able to solve problems yourself, or at least have a little knowledge so you can understand what the advice you are given is trying to achieve.

0:00 Introduction
0:21 What are the "Basics"
2:03 Why do you need to know them?
4:53 Honey Bee Life Cycles
8:26 Some relevance
12:18 Age of worker brood
17:01 Pupal stage
17:12 Pink/red eye stage
18:25 Nutrition
23:20 Queen cells
25:02 Remove queen - emergency cells built
28:13 Recognise good healthy bees and brood
30:27 Check for healthy brood
32:30 Look closely
33:27 Drones in worker cells
35:02 Parasitic mite syndrome (PMS)
35:32 Adult bees
37:59 Closer look
38:18 Shiny bees
38:57 Deformed wing virus (DWV)
39:57 Old foraging bee
43:51 AFB scales
44:57 American Foul Brood
46:54 European Foul Brood
50:15 Varroa destructor
52:04 Varroa life cycle
54:57 Queens
57:02 Pheromones
59:09 Nasanov glands

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