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Cotswold Bees
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Welcome to the Cotswold Bees Ltd TH-cam channel. These videos are based on our many years of experience teaching new and not so new beekeepers about the wonderful world of bees.
We are bee farmers based in the beautiful North Cotswolds in England and hope that you will find our videos both entertaining and fun.
We are bee farmers based in the beautiful North Cotswolds in England and hope that you will find our videos both entertaining and fun.
Waxing Lyrical - The Different Colours Of Beeswax
Everyone thinks beeswax is yellow but in this video we see another side to this amazing product.
If you want to know more about bees or beekeeping please have a look at our courses both face to face and online at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
If you want to know more about bees or beekeeping please have a look at our courses both face to face and online at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
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The Eye Of The Swarm - Catching Another Swarm
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In this video Chris & Carol are called out to a swarm in the local village. The video shows how to catch and re home the swarm and in Part 2 we see what to do next. Another swarm video using a different technique can be found at th-cam.com/video/t-QJigKPJx4/w-d-xo.html
Beekeeping Tip Of The Week No.5 Cleaning The Hive Tool
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In this video Chris shows how to thoroughly clean the hive tool ready for the next inspections. If you are interested in bees and beekeeping please have a look at our courses both face to face and online at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
Beekeeping Tip Of The Week No.4 How To Know When It’s Warm Enough To Inspect The Hive
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In the tip this week Chris looks at the signs as to whether it is ok to inspect a beehive or not. If you are interested in bees or beekeeping please have a look at our courses both online and face to face at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
Beekeeping Tip Of The Week No.3 How To Examine A Frame Of Bees
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In this video Chris takes us through the correct technique for examining a frame of bees. If you want to know more about bees and beekeeping please have a look at our courses both online and face to face at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
How & Why We Use A Smoker
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In this requested video Chris explains why we use smoke and how to use the smoker. If you are interested in knowing more about bees and beekeeping please have a look at our courses both face to face and online at www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
Beekeeping Tip Of The Week No.2 - Mixed Foundation
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In this video Chris gives us a great tip if we are producing liquid honey and cut comb. If you want to know more about bees and beekeeping please go to www.cotswoldbees.co.uk and have a look at our courses both online and face to face.
First Hive Inspection Of The New Season
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In this video Chris opens up a hive for the first time since last September. Other than for feeding this hive has been left alone during the winter and now it’s time to see how it is getting on. We deliberately chose an ok hive rather than a massive one as many new beekeepers can get disillusioned if they find their hive at anything less than full strength after the winter. If you want to know ...
Beekeeping Tip Of The Week No. 1 - Keeping The Smoker Clean
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In the first of these beekeeping tips Chris shows us how to keep the smoker clean. If you are interested in knowing more about bees and beekeeping please have a look at our courses, both online and face to face www.cotswoldbees.co.uk
Bee Bloopers. Just Having Some Fun.
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To celebrate two years of videos and hopefully have a bit of a laugh here are some of our less than perfect bits of filming!!! We really hope you enjoy them.
The Miracle Of The Dancing Bees - Let’s All Do The Waggle Dance
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One of the great miracles of nature is the way bees communicate by dance. In this video we see how the three main dances work and watch bees actually dancing. Take you partners for the waggle dance.
Beekeeping Tools - What’s In A Beekeeper’s Tool Box?
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In this video we look at the tools and bits of kit Chris carries on a day to day basis. Everything from a basic hive tool to queen rearing equipment. There’s lots of ideas for both new and more established beekeepers. As a real treat Carol makes an appearance with cake!!! If you are interested in finding out more about beekeeping please have a look at our courses both face to face and online at...
Organic Honey. Health Or Hype? You Decide
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Is organic honey better for you? Chris looks at certified organic honey and how it is produced. Is it really better for you and the environment? The rules discussed in this video are the UK Soil Association regulations as at 22nd February 2022 and may have changed by the time you watch this video so please check. Here is a link to the regulations www.soilassociation.org/media/15931/farming-and-...
Long Live The Queen - How bees make a new queen bee.
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In this video we see why the bees might need a new queen and how they actually make a new queen bee.
How Bees Make Honey
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Honey is one of the marvels of the natural world but how is it made? In this video we see how the bees collect nectar and turn it into delicious honey.
Stinging In The Rain - When Good Bees Go Bad
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Stinging In The Rain - When Good Bees Go Bad
How To Mark A Queen Bee & Clip Her Wings
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How To Mark A Queen Bee & Clip Her Wings
Making A Trap To Catch Honey Bee Swarms
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Making A Trap To Catch Honey Bee Swarms
First Bee Hive Inspection Of The Year With Cotswold Bees
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First Bee Hive Inspection Of The Year With Cotswold Bees
The Bee Vac - How To Make & Use A Bee Vac To Save Bees.
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The Bee Vac - How To Make & Use A Bee Vac To Save Bees.
Cotswold Bees Saving A Colony Of Bees With A Little Light Vacuuming
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Cotswold Bees Saving A Colony Of Bees With A Little Light Vacuuming
Swarm Management Part 2 With Cotswold Bees
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Swarm Management Part 2 With Cotswold Bees
Swarm Management - Part 1 With Cotswold Bees
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Swarm Management - Part 1 With Cotswold Bees
Do Bees Hibernate In Winter - With Cotswold Bees
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Do Bees Hibernate In Winter - With Cotswold Bees
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new learner here. hadn't seen this done this way before. Learn something new everyday.
That’s the great thing about beekeeping. No matter how long you have been doing it there is always something new to learn. After 30 years I am still learning.
Bit late to this thread but where do you get the ash can and filter etc
I bought it from Amazon.
@@cotswoldbees just found the same one on eBay around £20 thanks
@@seanloughranent great
Hey thank you for the Video, Can you guys supply me with beehives I'm in Lesotho. I have some bee colonies I kept them in the old wooden trunks. I really really need some beehives, please help.
Sorry we can’t supply.
Dude you have on super thin gloves😮
For most bees if you handle the bees correctly you don’t need thick gloves. Also swarms tend to be docile.
🇦🇺 ❤ that was great information. Just wondering why it's necessary to fill the smoker when only the tiniest puff of smoke is used?🤔🐝
@@gringo6797 it’s your gets out of jail free card. All animals can have a off day and bees are no exception. If ever they are in a defensive mood you can give them a bit of smoke as you are working them. Not too much though.
Brilliant... you have just saved me lots of money and hassle. Great and simple idea.
Glad to be able to help
Which should qualify as organic, I was under the impression that all bee honey was organic. They don't eat or pollinate fake flowers. This should be said all honey bees are organic. All natural.
Whilst I would agree with you but the fact is that to be described as organic it has to be certified by one of the organic certification organisations and they say you can’t produce organic honey in the UK.
I have my basic assessment tomorrow and your videos have been excellent for increasing my knowledge - a good balance alongside my bee-keeping club and mentors (I am currently on the New-bee course!). I also have to say - I am a baker and my name is Carol!!!! I am known in the club for my honey baking, cakes and biscuits galore! Happy days!
Good luck with the Basic. I think the BBKA should have a baking Module. An essential part of beekeeping!!!!
Thank you - I have dropped off my Gloucestershire honey hobnobs for the inspector (this may help!).
Great detail much appreciated as I have a swarm right now that I need to capture in my backyard. Funny thing is it’s under a box that was decimated last fall by yellow jackets. Therefore, God is putting back what he allowed to be taken last year.
How do they go right in if you don’t know where the queen is?
@@sheilamclaughlin5001 they naturally walk uphill until they find a suitable stopping place.
very informative, thank you!
@@cece8309 I’m glad you enjoyed it.
The is the first time I have seen this technique, I have always put them in a Langstrom or a NUC for small swarms, the old guy who taught me bee keeping used to spray them with sugar syrup, but I don't like this, I give them some feed about 7 days after they have moved into the hive, unless their fist honey store is extremely small
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A very good video, but can you tell me if a domestic Henry vac will do the job instead of a commercial one with only one speed?
The vac I’m using is a domestic one and has two speeds. I can’t comment on the one speed one as I’ve never used it. Sorry.
So great and good lesson I have learnt
I’m so pleased.
Full power? Really? Also pipe is ribbed. Should be smooth. Surprised you get any alive.
You would be surprised how little suction you get with the ash can in between the vacuum and the pipe. Using this method is always a last resort and only used where you can’t physically get your hands on the colony. You would be surprised how few casualties there are.
Thank you
Thank you. Brilliant, simple and above all clear.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the video... As they say, one learns something new every day! I've kept bees for over 20 years now (still a beginner though 😂) and have caught swarms in the past. However, I've never thought of using the queen excluder either of the ways you've demonstrated here. I wish I'd seen this video about 6 weeks ago when one of my hives was swarming left right and centre - I managed to catch two but after I left them alone they absconded in very short order! I now know what to do to keep them in my apiary next time! Thank you!
That’s the great thing about beekeeping. We are all learning from each other all the time.
Did not see how you got the queen into the hive first. I'm assuming that was necessary in order to get the others to go into the hive.
No need to put the queen in first. Just dump all the bees onto the ramp and she will walk in with the rest.
I assume that will work with a top bar hive as well?
@@ewegot9000 I’m sure it would work with a top bar. Bees will always walk uphill given the opportunity.
Really great video!! I hope you are still checking your comments. Your video is the only one I found that described everything so clearly. Thanks
Still checking and really glad you enjoyed the video.
I'm attending TH-cam University on Bees tonight because I've just received delivery of a beehive and I didn't have any sort of plan there's a swarm in the Mesquite tree near my truck so the plan was to get the Swarm into the Beehive but I didn't have any idea how to do it and I liked your tutorial quite a bit. Appreciate it. Subscribed
Reading the voice text captions, as the bees were walking into the hive, I think I heard and read that “ your queens are marked and clipped”….does this mean that you clip the wings of your queens?
Yes, it’s a form of swarm management. For the majority of her life she is too heavy to fly and there are no nerves in the wings so it doesn’t affect her in any way. All it means is that if the beekeeper misses the signs of swarming she can’t go off with a swarm and the bees return to the hive. The beekeeper can then carry out proper swarm management thus saving the swarm from possible starvation or destruction by someone who doesn’t want them. If you want to know more please have a look at my swarm management videos.
could you make a video of actually making the bee vac, where and how you cut holes, how you control the suction, did the ash can come with that filter. Thankyou.
Great vid 🎉
Thank you
It is best to transfer bees at night. During the day some of the bees out of home will lose their way to your home
Agreed and I say that during the video. We moved these late evening when they had all come back so that we still had some light for filming.
I recently discovered your videos and subscribed straight away - you have a wonderful empathy with the Bees, calm, relaxed and extremely informative especially as I am a new Bee Keeper - thank you
I’m glad you enjoy them.
This is the video i want to watch to transfer colony of bees in the backyard to start my bee keeping😊
Great. Good luck
Thank you for sharing my wife was absolutely amazed watching this 🍻
I’m so pleased. More to come soon.
What miraculous creatures! 😮
Thank you. Some nice extra tips from your experience. Much appreciated.
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love to watch each and every bee is collected.
We do our best.
We always do our best to make sure we don’t leave any behind
Terrific video :) Thank you.
Goodday sir. We have spoken a while back and I must thank you for you're response. Looking at this clip again I wonder instead off using the whole queen excluder. Wouldn't you have the same success by putting a small peace off excluder in front off the hive entrance. The bees work through it but she still can't get out. Have a safe day,Cobus🐳
Hi .you can send to united States?
Very interesting!
I hope you post a new video soon.
New videos starting next week.
Thank for your videos! Very helpful. Dog is cute.
Excellent work
Great video I’m a new bee keeper 1 year and today one of my 9 hives swarmed….. I get them but did not k own about putting the Queen excluder on the bottom to keep I. Til she lays some eggs….. great info thank you for sharing ….. I’m learning every day. By mid April I will 15’hives strong….. love My bees!
That’s the trouble with bees. Before you know it the number of hives are doubling every time you look!!
Man, I hope I saw this yesterday! I caught my first swarm. Moved it to a deep box. When I check the next day, they were gone. I look around and found them but they are really hight, can't get to them. Place the swarm catcher bucket back down, expecting for them to get back in any moment but now I know to place the queen excluter at the bottom.😊 thank you for this information.
Glad it helped. We’ve all had it happen. I lost several until I discovered the excluder trick.
Hi, are these likely to be Apis mellifera mellifera, or a hybrid?
I guess APIs melifera melifera as they are likely to have come from a local colony.
Ah okay, thanks for your response!
They’re the worst. I hate wax moths.