Educational and Product Demonstration Videos

Here at Betterbee we believe a better understanding leads to better beekeeping. Learn about bees and beekeeping, or watch a product demonstration video to better grasp how it works. With an ever-growing catalog, it is our goal to help answer your questions. If there is something you would like to see us film, please let us know by emailing us at support@betterbee.com. To watch a video, click on the link with the title that interests you. You will be directed to YouTube where the video will begin. To view our YouTube channel where you can subscribe, please visit: Betterbee YouTube Channel.

 

Start With the Essentials:

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #1: The Hive, Inside and Out

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #2: Choosing Boxes, Bottom Boards, and Outer Covers

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #3: Frames and Foundation

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #4: Honey Supers and Queen Excluders

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #5: Gear for Feeding and Gear for You

 

Instruction: Beekeeping

Controlling Wax Moths with Crystals or Larvicide

Deadout Post-Mortem Check: Why Did Your Bees Die?

How to Install a Nuc Colony of Bees 

How to Install a Package of Bees

Finding and Marking Queen Bees

Velcro Test: Will the Bees Accept a New Queen?

How to Light and Keep Your Bee Hive Smoker Lit

Making Sugar Bricks for Feeding Bees

What to Do When a Bee Gets in Your Veil

How to Feed Honey Bees in Fall and Winter

Emergency Winter Feeding for Honey Bees Using Fondant

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #1: The Hive, Inside and Out

Essential Beekeeping Equipment #2: Choosing Boxes, Bottom Boards, and Outer Covers

Inspecting and Transferring 5 Frame Nucs from Wooden to Pro Nuc Boxes

Installing Queens in Various Queen Cages in a Hive

It's Time to Feed Your Bees!

Handling Foundationless Frames

Origin, Biology, and Treatment for Varroa Destructor

Oxalic Vaporization Treatment for Honey Bees Using Varrox and ProVap Systems

Using the Sugar Shake Method to Monitor Hives for Varroa Destructor

Queens & Splits

Tips for Winterizing Your Hives

Recognizing a Virgin Queen Bee in a Hive

Save New Queen Honey Bees Using Virgin Queen Cages

How to Move a Hive Alone

What You Can Expect to Find on a Honey Bee Brood Frame

How to Use Formic Pro to Fight Varroa Mites in Honey Bees

 

Instruction: Products & Equipment

Inspecting Hives: Trying Out 3 Different Hive Tools

Choosing a Beekeeping Jacket, Suit, or Veil

Comparing Honey Bee Hive Feeders

How to Use Mouse Guards and Entrance Reducers

Wiring a Frame

How to Assemble BeeMax Hive Boxes

Oxalic Vaporization Treatment for Honey Bees Using Varrox and ProVap Systems

Betterbee Hive Assembly

Frame Assembly with FAJ20

Frame Assembly Jig

Feeding Bees with Feeder Pail

How to Do a Cut-Out

Make Your Own Foundation Using this Silicone Foundation Mold

How to Assemble and Use a Betterbee Shim

Slatted Rack: How and Why You Might Use One

Unboxing, Assembling, and Using the 4 Frame Lyson Extractor

How to Choose Hive Insulation and Insulating Wraps

 

Interest: Bees 

Are My Bees Swarming or Orienting?

Kutik's Queens: A Visit to the Kutik's Operation in South Carolina

Kutik's Nucs: How They Grow Great Nucleus Colonies

Bees Feeding and Eating: How Do They Do It?

Bees Excavating a Winter Patty 

Beespace

Bees Grooming

Bees Fanning Hive Entrance to Cool it Down

How Betterbee Overwintered Nucs are Made

Varroa on Lyson Monitoring Tray

Varroa Mites on Young Bee

Queen Laying

Drone Hatching with Varroa

The Collapse of a High Mite Hive

 

Interest: Products of the Hive

Making Beeswax Candles Using Polyurethane Candle Molds

Making Beeswax Candles Using a Lyson Candle Mold

Making Your Own Beeswax Tealight Candles

Make Your Own Foundation Using this Silicone Foundation Mold

How to Produce Cut Comb, with Lloyd Spear