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Backyard Beekeeping Part 18: Heat Wave
The Chicagoland area has had three consecutive days at or above 100 degrees, hasn’t happened here in 65 years … since 1947. The bees are busy trying to keep cool day and night. Some nighttime activity is shown.
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Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, carniolan, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, feral cat, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 18: Heat Wave
The Chicagoland area has had three consecutive days at or above 100 degrees, hasn’t happened here in 65 years … since 1947. The bees are busy trying to keep cool day and night. Some nighttime activity is shown.
Posted in Beekeeping Video
Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, carniolan, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, feral cat, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 17: Pekoe
New bees are emerging and it’s getting hot. Time to expand the hives, add the upper deeps and remove the entrance reducers. Pekoe helps out.
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Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, carniolan, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, feral cat, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 17: Pekoe
New bees are emerging and it’s getting hot. Time to expand the hives, add the upper deeps and remove the entrance reducers. Pekoe helps out.
Posted in Beekeeping Video
Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, carniolan, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 16: 2nd Season, Hiving 2 Packages of Bees
Starting the second season with 2 hives, Ursula helps out.
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Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 15: Building a Two Hive Stand
An inexpensive but sturdy and attractive 2 hive stand all in 4 minutes!
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Tagged apiary, Apicoltore, beehive stand, Beekeeping, bees, bottling bucket, bumblebee, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, epipen, hive, hive stand, hodowcy pszczół, honey, honey bee, honey gate, imker, killer bee, Langstroth, nectar, Pawlus, pollen, pszczelarz, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, radial extractor, tangential extractor, uncapping bucket, uncapping fork, uncapping knife, uncapping tool, ventilation rim, Züchter von Bienen, заводчик, пчел
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 10: Supering the Hive
It’s the eigth week and the bees have drawn out a majority of the upper deep. It’s time to super the hive and put the girls to work gathering honey for me!
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Tagged apiary, Bee howto, Beekeeping, bees, bumblebee, drone, entrance reducer, environment, epipen, fanning, gardening, hive, honey, honey bee, killer bee, Langstroth, Lincolnshire, nectar, outdoors, Pawlus, pollen, queen bee, ventilation rim
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 14: Honey Harvest
It all comes down to honey. Time to bottle my first harvest.
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 3: Hive-Top Feeder
A peek at the workings of the hive-top feeder.
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Tagged apiary, Bee howto, Beekeeping, bees, bumblebee, drone, environment, epipen, fanning, gardening, hive, honey, honey bee, killer bee, Lincolnshire, nectar, outdoors, Pawlus, pollen, queen bee
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Backyard Beekeeping Part 12: Honeybee Drinking Nectar From Purple Coneflower
One of my honeybees drinking nectar from a purple coneflower. Thanks to Master Gardener MaryLVictoria for plant species identification.
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Tagged apiary, Bee howto, Beekeeping, bees, bumblebee, drone, Echinacea Purpurea, entrance reducer, environment, epipen, fanning, gardening, hive, honey, honey bee, killer bee, Langstroth, Lincolnshire, nectar, outdoors, Pawlus, pollen, Purple Coneflower, queen bee, ventilation rim
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