Good Beekeeping YouTube Channels?

[NoelH]

Hi, does anybody know of anyone posting decent youtube videos covering different aspects of beekeeping. There are plenty of people who do one or two videos but I was hoping of coming across a person or group who have a channel that can be subscribed to that cover a/s, queen rearing, queen clipping etc. Ive read a stack of books in anticipation of my nucs arriving but things start to make more sense when its observed. My local association is not carrying out any demonstrations this year due to the poor wintering of their colonies so the interweb will have to do instead. Thanks, Noel

 

[BeeJayBee]

Try looking for 'the new fatbeeman'.

 

[Winker]

http://www.youtube.com/user/pxsloot07?feature=watch

 

[Rob55]

JP The Bee Man is an absolute must!!

 

[beekeeping4you]

Hi Noel,
Beware of 'YouTube Channels', some owners are 'monetarizing' their videos, that means they get paid per click for the advertisements attached to their vids, the higher the views and the number of videos the more pocket money for them. The quality of the videos does not count much in some of this cases.
The extremely popular 'FatBeeman' is a good example, someone on this forum called his stuff 'Red Neck beekeeping' and imho nothing of it is of much use over here in Ireland.
Nevertheless, still lots of useful information available:

Regards
Reiner
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTvp1lupHY[/ame]

 

[NoelH]

Thanks for the replies. Reiner do you think that you will post anymore videos yourself. I like videos that are relatively local

 

[Little John]

I couldn't disagree more with Reiner - I have found, and continue to find - the FatBeeMan's videos to be consistently useful to watch, especially those which are concerned with aspects of queen-rearing.
In fact so useful, that I can't think of a single example off-hand which could be described as completely irrelevant - even those concerned with the applications of FGMO and thymol (neither of which I use, or plan to use).

A link to those videos which Reiner has made would be appreciated.

LJ

 

[Willie Bee]

[ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrdwXXEtLo&feature=plpp"]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrdwXXEtLo&feature=plpp[/ame]

Look at the link

A chap called Keith Delaplane has a good series of videos.

I hope the link worked, not too sure how to use my daughter's iPad.

 

[beekeeping4you]

Thanks for the replies. Reiner do you think that you will post anymore videos yourself. I like videos that are relatively local

Hi Noel,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...73842973&set=o.415017501867052&type=3&theater
This is the latest from Tipperary, hope this link works...

Regards
Reiner

 

[scuttlefish]

Hi Noel,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...73842973&set=o.415017501867052&type=3&theater
This is the latest from Tipperary, hope this link works...

Regards
Reiner

Thanks Reiner, that's a good FB group to know about.

 

[psafloyd]

Hi Noel,
Beware of 'YouTube Channels', some owners are 'monetarizing' their videos, that means they get paid per click for the advertisements attached to their vids, the higher the views and the number of videos the more pocket money for them. The quality of the videos does not count much in some of this cases.
The extremely popular 'FatBeeman' is a good example, someone on this forum called his stuff 'Red Neck beekeeping' and imho nothing of it is of much use over here in Ireland.
Nevertheless, still lots of useful information available:

Regards
Reiner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTvp1lupHY

No reason to 'beware' people's YT channels. If they are able to derive revenue (I hate the word monetise as it is being used incorrectly) for their videos, fair play. After all, it takes time to make them and the better they are, the longer it takes.

A fair exchange is no robbery and it is the advertisers who pay for it.

 

[beekeeping4you]

I couldn't disagree more with Reiner - I have found, and continue to find - the FatBeeMan's videos to be consistently useful to watch, especially those which are concerned with aspects of queen-rearing.
In fact so useful, that I can't think of a single example off-hand which could be described as completely irrelevant - even those concerned with the applications of FGMO and thymol (neither of which I use, or plan to use).

Hi Little John,
Here's the completely irrelevant one, while I was trying to find the link I came across two of his 'checkerboarding' videos - they are not only irrelevent - they are really... dangerous!!
(Next post: 'A link to those videos which Reiner has made would be appreciated.')

Regards
Reiner
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqCaxr83C4U[/ame]

 

[beekeeping4you]

...A link to those videos which Reiner has made would be appreciated.LJ

>This channel is using the new YouTube One Channel. Learn more about the new design.<

(I know nothing about the new design, they updated the channel with my old design only 48 hours ago, that's why I have a channel with no design now!)
Please note that my videos do not aim at a wider public, in particular not at beginners.
http://www.youtube.com/user/beekeeping4you/videos

Regards
Reiner

 

[NoelH]

Thanks all

 

[Little John]

Hi Little John,
Here's the completely irrelevant one, while I was trying to find the link I came across two of his 'checkerboarding' videos - they are not only irrelevent - they are really... dangerous!!
(Next post: 'A link to those videos which Reiner has made would be appreciated.')

Regards
Reiner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqCaxr83C4U

Hello Reiner
again, I don't agree with you. To be sure, this 'microscope video' is of no particular interest to myself, but to describe it as irrelevant is, I feel, rather harsh as there may be many people 'out there' who actually enjoy peering down optics - there's even a microscopy sub-forum on this site ...

I've just checked my beekeeping library, and I have 45 FatBeeMan videos stashed away there, covering many aspects of beekeeping - of which maybe 10 or so are of no interest to me - but I still wouldn't describe them as 'irrelevant', as in a sense they represent 50 years of someone's accumulated empirical knowledge.

Thanks for the link to your videos.

LJ

 

[beezers]

I enjoy the fatbeeman. They use the fineshooter name now not fatbeeman. Like most things, some are informative some are just entertainment. If it takes 10 videos for me to pick up a acorn,then it's worth it. All my cock-ups have been my own stupidity.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl_3Ah8Eca0[/ame]

 

[Phil Spillane]

The first thing any budding microscopist learns is that you will need two microscopes.
A low power stereo (which has a good depth of field) for disecting bees, looking for acarine (tracheal mites)
and a high powered one (with a narrow depth of field) for examing slides ( such as nosema detection, pollen slides etc).

He is claiming he has done both jobs with one student level machine which I find v surprising.

 

[Excession]

There are some YouTube videos that are excellent learning tools.

I especially like the homemade newbie ones, where you can play spot the mistake!

Simple stuff like checking the underside of the crown board or QE before putting on the floor!

I keep a count of how many times they could loose or squish the queen! Great fun.

 

[yeogi75]

all are relevant in bee keeping some where, as renire says some are not , Irish rose box no good to Nat owners , Nat owners no good to top bar etc etc, but its a case of watching and retaining the snippets that relate to your type of husbandry of beekeeping

 

[Little John]

There are some YouTube videos that are excellent learning tools.

I especially like the homemade newbie ones, where you can play spot the mistake!

The ones I get a little bit cross with are those where someone (usually a first year beek) demonstrates a modification of a hive, nuc box, or feeder etc, expounding at length of how useful and clever their creation is - only to reveal towards the end of the video that they've not actually subjected it to 'the bee test' yet ...

LJ