Do THIS - Your Bees Will Thank You!

Do THIS - Your Bees Will Thank You!

We are passionate about beekeeping and really enjoy helping beekeepers through our YouTube channel.

On our channel you can find information on making splits with swarm cells, making increase with queen cells, grafting larvae, foulbrood and disease inspection, honey extraction and machinery, top tips for beginners, products reviews, instructions and guidance plus much more.

#NONONSENSEBEEKEEPING is a UK based beekeeping channel, designed to keep beekeeping as simple and enjoyable as possible. There are no overly complicated techniques or intricate pieces of equipment.

We cover all beekeeping topics ranging from queen rearing, disease recognition/control, honey extraction, swarm management/collection, how to make splits and much more!

My personal favourite aspects of beekeeping are selecting queens for rearing, rearing queens for mating, making up nucs for overwintering and collecting swarms.

We aim to bridge the gap between commercial and hobbyist beekeepers and cater for beekeepers of all experience levels.

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[paulheinrich]

Excellent, well-informed, and entertaining content to guide the millions of backyard beekeeping enthusiasts towards a more healthy and productive environment for us all. Thanks for your effort.

[nickyaw]

It’s great to see how much you care about your customers. You are relentlessly building the highest quality product you can. I hope to encourage you in your videos. The things you love the most are the most fun to watch! If you hate something it’s also fun to know the struggle. Keeping it real is refreshing. Thank you

[AnnCowern]

We bought bee's from an aging bee keeper like this, black and mouldy. Shocked when we opened up the hive. It stank.
Really agree with Laurence about new frames. We recycle each frame after two seasons.

[aanadyia]

I’m going into my third year and plan on doing this!! Thank you for the tips on it, great reminder of what else to look for this upcoming season!

[markwilkins]

I remove my old frames after doing a demeree, this way they are empty and you don’t lose any eggs or larvae. I find this is the best for me.

[DenbeeHoney]

I agree with you Laurence 💯
Have you done a video on how to do a shook swarm? I can’t seem to find it.
Many thanks Denbee Honey

[BountifulBees]

What do you actually do with the old frames? Melt down the old wax (what method / equipment do you recommend for this that is cost and time efficient) and for the wooden frames, do they just get binned or is there a good way of putting new foundation in?

[TRguy]

My family was acquainted with a lovely Welsh gent and his young family who immigrated to western Canada in the 1980's. Stan asked to place hives upon several sites of our very large grain farm. One day, he pulled up with hives stacked on the flatbed, he opened one and I almost gagged, the cones were blackened and of nauseating cheesy odor, I asked him about it and he said "The bees do all the cleaning!" ... but, Stan really was the worst for maintaining hygienic hives, heck even his processed honey contained bee wings and parts floating on top, lol. Whatever, I did not judge the guy, he was the most interesting and engaging happy fellas, I just was not overly eager to receive his honey, lol. We lost our friend Stan and his young son in law in a vehicle accident as they hauled his daughter's belongings to a distant drug rehab location, the daughter I'm sure has forever carried the burden of their needless loss. Much loved in the community, at least 400 had attended the funeral, I cried my heart as I gave my condolences to his grief stricken wife and her young widowed daughter 😥

[TheBurntSportsman]

My bees are new to their hive. Plan to melt down the foundation and reuse the wax to coat the plastic frames. Now can I boil plastic frames to get the wax off or use the hive tool and scrape it off into a pot and melt it down that way?

[MrStreetninja]

As an American beekeeper I can say that yes there is a huge difference between Disease Control from the UK and America

[nenadd.]

The norm in my country is roughly 30% new frames every year. I'm not saying everyone is doing it but that's the teaching and anyone serious about beekeeping replaces a few frames per hive every year.

[simong-uk]

Couldn't agree more . . . Bees do so much better on fresh comb, the better performance pays for the frame and foundation. I did a Pagden artificial swarm in May and gave the new hive a Broodbox of foundation to use as a super. They drew it out and filled it . . . now I have a full box of brood frames fully drawn to replace manky comb as and when needed.

[benjamindejonge]

Mine are maximum 2 years old to be honest except one that I use for collecting swarms

[aidan]

I have a couple of frames I want to replace but I didn't have any frames to replace them. I placed the frames on the outside of the beehive to replace them next year.
When would be a good time of year to replace the frames?

[לירן-זל]

Is it okay to upload the old frames in the first stage using the Demaree method?

[malcolmleith]

Sorry but I’ve tried to get those stands, but need to get them from your provider. Can you help please

[zephxdyt]

Great video I was wondering if you needed thumbnail designer, I've sent you an email.