YouTube tuition videos?

[Father Fox]

Would anybody recommend any particular beekeeping tuition vids from YouTube? I'm trying to sieve out those that are not good.

 

[johnnie1uk]

I have been looking at a lot of them lately, there are so many different opinions and methods, there are generally comments on the videos so you can check for yourself whether they are rated as usefull or not. It is certainly helpful to have an idea of different ways of doing things and find the way that works best for yourself.
Watching You tube has certainly made things easier for me to understand.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Would anybody recommend any particular beekeeping tuition vids from YouTube? I'm trying to sieve out those that are not good.

Some are useful but the majority by far make me cringe. Especially the home made "this is me with my bees" variety which are made by new keepers with little or no knowledge of either bees or how to string together a few coherent sentences of accurate content.
I did find JP the beemans swarm collection series useful in how to collect and handle swarms or perform cut-outs as long as you allow for social and climate differences.

 

[oliver90owner]

Try 'bees rob' or roblynmouth on u-toob. Then come back and tell us what you think of them.

 

[Little John]

I've actually come across some (American mostly) where the guy waxes lyrically about his newly built or purchased hives, and what goes where, and what happens when, etc. - only to discover towards the end of the video that the guy is still waiting for his first package of bees to arrive - like - he's never kept a bee in his life !

You could do a lot worse than check out the FatBeeMan's videos - not everybody likes his style (so what's new ?) - but he's a plain speaker, and not into b/s.

LJ

 

[oliver90owner]

Agreed re Fatbeeman, but as a beginner one would not easily discern the differences between keeping bees on the north american continent and here.

 

[johnnie1uk]

So, what are the differences in beekeeping between, the North American continent and Lincolnshire apart from climate, which has to be very much taken into account.
Starting beekeeping in Spain is a real minefield, most of the beeks round my neck of the woods, only have hives to pollinate the fruit crops they just leave them to get on with it, so local advice is either in incomprehensible Spanish or nada. My reckoning is to get as much info from here and other forums, websites and books, and sifting out the general consensus of opinions and information from Youtube!

 

[ugcheleuce]

Would anybody recommend any particular beekeeping tuition vids from YouTube? I'm trying to sieve out those that are not good.

To me the value of Youtube videos is to see bees in other people's hives. There is a lot of "wisdom" on Youtube that is dodgy, but even so, you can look at the bloke's bees and even get a few ideas about things to try or to consider. For example, much of what Cody Reeder says is not relevant to me, but he does have over 50 videos and he shows a lot of bees in them.

The majority of good videos are lectures from the United States, so much of what they're saying don't even apply to the UK or EU. Examples include Knox Lincoln County Beekeepers's 6 hour-long classes and the 11 hour-long classes form "Ashland, Virginia". Or, you can search for the names of well-known bee people e.g. Michael Bush, Mike Palmer, Keith Delaplaine, and Thomas Seeley, to find lectures or web casts by them (usually with PowerPoint slides).

A useful trick is to download the videos to your hard drive, so that you can more easily fast-forward over the bits that seem uninteresting. For some lectures, if the audio is of good quality, I watch it in 1.5 speed using e.g. VLC Player, which means I get the same amount of information in less time.

Someone mentioned FatBeeMan, but he has only 6 videos, and none of them more than 10 minutes long. Unless I'm looking for something very specific which can be explained in under 5 minutes, I tend to limit my searches to videos of 20 minutes or longer.

You can also search other video services... e.g. on Vimeo are a few lectures that aren't available on Youtube.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Someone mentioned FatBeeMan, but he has only 6 videos,

That's his old channel. Try this one
http://www.youtube.com/user/fineshooter/videos

 

[hedgerow pete]

oh, how quickly one is forgotten, lol

 

[oliver90owner]

Well, Pete, I would not put you on a par with beesrob. Rest assured of that! Yours are good and so very handy being accessible on the forum site. Perhaps nobody has thought of looking through the site video section. A good idea! So simple!