Beekeeping: Stop Buying Bees Series Pt. 4

Welcome to part 4 of the series Stop Buying Bees. This series is designed to teach novice and experienced beekeeper how sideline and commercial beekeepers increase their number of colonies. This series will cover, splitting honey bee colonies, raising queen, feeding bees, treating for various parasites including the varroa destructor mite. It is also intended to teach you the applicable ways to manipulate deep and medium supers to achieve the desired results of growing an apiary. We will use many methods and use many of the common beekeeping tools to include queen excluders, double screen divider boards, queen grafting implements, hive tools, smokers, bee brushes, bee feeders and more. If you find yourself wanting to grow your beehives and expand your apiary this is a great series to watch. Be sure to follow along and catch up if you have missed any parts. This series is a how to guide to be successful beekeepers and become self sustainable. Beekeeping can be challenging, but buying bees is expensive. With this series on beekeeping and growing bees, you will become confident in making hive splits, rearing queens and masters at increasing your number of beehives. Thanks for watching and Happy Beekeeping. ‪@MikeBarryBees‬ ‪@brucesbees‬ ‪@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns‬ ‪@CastleHives‬ ‪@628DirtRooster‬ ‪@BeekeepingWithNatalee‬