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50 Important Beekeeping Terms and Their Meanings - A Glossary for Beginners

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Learn essential beekeeping terminology through this 20-minute educational video that explains 50 important, confusing, and obscure phrases commonly used by beekeepers. Master key concepts like absconding, swarming, queen balling, waggle dance, and festooning through clear explanations accompanied by helpful photos. Explore various aspects of bee behavior, hive management, and honey production including topics such as laying workers, burr comb, drone congregation areas, flight paths, and cleansing flights. Gain understanding of critical beekeeping processes like requeening, grafting, and wax rendering, while learning about different hive types, bee diseases, and honey varieties. Discover the meanings behind specialized terms related to queen bee management, hive components, and honey production methods, making complex beekeeping concepts accessible for both novice and experienced beekeepers.

Syllabus

00:00 - Intro
00:19 what it means to abscond
00:32 What is a swarm
00:51 what is balling a queen bee
01:12 what is a waggle dance
01:33 a cluster of bees
01:43 laying worker bee
02:00 burr comb, cross comb
02:22 what is festooning
02:40 Drone congregating area
02:49 what is a flight path
03:21 cleansing flight
03:49 drifting
04:02 what is bee robbing
04:21 scout bee
04:29 queen bee superseder
04:40 what are strains of bees
05:05 pinching a queen bee
05:14 treating bees
05:30 cut-out
06:13 installing bees
06:37 bee space
06:56 requeen
07:05 grafting
07:33 rendering beeswax
07:56 feral bees
08:06 nectar flow or honey flow
08:18 chalk brood
08:46 foul brood
09:09 nosema
10:00 beehive parts
11:45 what is a flow hive
12:20 what is a top bar beehive
13:38 marked queen
13:55 queen less hive
13:58 queen cell
14:14 queen cup
14:41 queen bank
16:08 bee bread
16:29 comb honey, cut comb
16:41 wet frames with honey
17:21 raw honey
17:40 fermented honey
17:50 propolis
18:18 capped cell of honeycomb

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