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The link below is to a NCSU Entomology class entitled An introduction to the Honey Bee and Beekeeping instructor John Ambrose. This link was picked up from the wake county beekeeping site so not sure about the proprietary right to pass it along but here it is anyway.
This is NOT a beekeeping class but may be interesting, I have not made it all the way through the 8 lectures yet.
The first lecture is some history and an overview of the class.
Post some comments of the class if you view any of the lectures.





With the passing of Dr. Ambrose this link is no longer working.

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Ken
I appreciate your interest in Dr. Ambrose’s ENT 203 course lectures. However, I do not have or never have had any control over those, as John posted them as an emeritus of our program and not part of it. With his passing, NCSU will no longer be offering ENT 203 as DE and that’s likely why DELTA (our distance ed division) likely took the links down. I will let them know, however, that they will be fondly missed.
Sincerely, David Tarpy

There is some good information in the lectures. I have gone through some of the lectures and noted some of the information I thought would be useful to a beekeeper. Feel free to change my notes or notate other lectures. I hope to cover all 28 eventually.


Lecture 2
Video –
Hive, queen and body parts, eggs,
Drone
Good picture of eggs in cells, Bee emerging from cell, Wax glands, Queens court, Hive temp.
Plumose
How common insect names apply
Parts of a honey bee
Characteristics of social insects
2 castes

Lecture 3
14:00 –
Explains – Drones bees do not have a father but they do have a grand father
Haplo – diploid
Life cycle
Queens –
Piping, Quacking, Stingers, mating flights, DCA’s, The sign
How a queen decides to lay a drone or worker egg.
36:15 – Life of a drone
Massacre of the drones
Workers –
Life cycle and tasks of house bee and beyond
Honey Stomach
Spiracles

Lecture 4
15:00 – Hearing
24:00 – b-calm
36:15 – Drumming
37:50 – Vision, navigation, nectar guides, drifting

Lecture 5
Vision & Drifting
20:40 – Touch
2047 – Taste
42:20 – sucrose, glucose, fructose
45:40 – taste with tongue and feet
46:15 – smell
55: - Pheromones

Lecture 6
7:30 - Alarm pheromone lasts 7 seconds
18:39 - Some people odor advice when working bees
25:12 - Alarm pheromone
38:42 - Things to avoid to avoid being stung

Lecture 7
00:00 - A list of things to reduce being stung while working bees
19:00 - Stingless bees
29:00 - Round Dance
28:00 - Dance - Waggle dance, wag-tail, sun dance

Lecture 8
14:00 - Dialects & Races of bees
19:00 Species of bees (Apis Mellifera etc.)

Lecture 9
00:00 - Ancient drawings
19:00 - Tanging
36:30 - White Mans Fly
47:47 - Review questions

Lecture 10
Review of test
8:20 - Things that bees collect - Water, Propolis, Pollen, Nectar
Water - collecting and using
29:50 - Propolis, Bee space
52:00 - Pollen

Lecture 11
Collecting continued - Nectar
Sucrose, glucose, fructose
22:40 - Granulated honey, creamed/crystallized honey
32:53 - Different honeys

Lecture 12
5:30 - Honey instead of Sugar
12:40 - Natural vs pure
14:49 - Organic
21:54 - Honey Labels - Requirements, raw, pure, organic
31:29 - Heating Honey
Various Label Wordings

Lecture 13
Student Presentations
52:50 - Vitamins in Honey
54:05 - Bees Wax

Lecture 14
6:10 - Pollen
27:00 - Propolis

Lecture 15
2:46 - Royal Jelly
9:44 - Bee venom
33:30 - Bee Colony terms - Hive, colony, swarm, gum, skep
44:50 - Wine Terms - mead, metheglin, melomel

Lecture 16
Making mead (Honey Wine)
28:12 - swarms (this is a good one)
44:30 - Primary and After Swarms

For those of you who have 20+ hours of time with nothing better to do, I highly recommend this lecture.
I was originally taught by Dr. Ambrose when I first started beekeeping. His techniques and building blocks for understanding bees and beekeeping are quite impressive. I even found him to be right most of the time during his lecture.

Lecture 17
3 flowers- attractive to bee?
6:57 - Swarming - Pictures of swarms
24:16 - Things that may be done to reduce swarming. Not all of them good. Cutting out queen cells, clipping the queen, requeening and box rotation.
44:20 - Film - Destroying africanized honey bee swarms in Arizona.

Lecture 18
AHB

Lecture 19
Group Presentations
- Bee products in the health food industry
- Buzz words
- Use of Honey on food labels
- Use of honey to influence human taste sensation

Lecture 20
9:30 - Enemies of Bees - Roaches, Spiders, Assassin Bugs, Bee Louse, Ants, Hornets, Wax Moth, Skank, Bee Eater Bird, Indicator, Indicator (bird), Blue Jay, Mice, Skunk, Bear.
Tracheal Mites, Varroa Mites, SHB.

Lecture 21
17:30 - Pesticides

Lecture 22
Honey Bee Swarm Demonstration

Lecture 23
Diseases, Poisonous Blooms
33:50 - Pollination (neat video of orchid pollination)

Lecture 24
6:07 - Pollination (another neat video of orchid pollination)
Interesting analysis of apple pollination. Hives/bees/acreage,when, how long, arrangement of hives.

Lecture 25
2007 dated talk by Dr. David Tarpy on CCD
26:20 - Pollination - Apple Review
29:35 - Pollination - Cucumbers - Hives/Bees/Acre, when, How Long, Arrangement of hives, bee visits per bloom

Lecture 26
Cucumber
Pollination Chart - Value & Hives/acre/crop
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/apiculture/
then Extension, notes

Beekeepers - commercial, Sideline, Hobby
Top Honey States
Types of pollen - Entomophilous & Anemophilous

Lecture 27
Student presentations of a flower that attracts:
snails, cats, male college students, female college students
23:40 - Review for final exam.

Number 28
Videos: 1992-1993 Time frame.
-Africanized Bees:
-------- Learning To Live With Them
20:43 - Destroying AHB Colonies

36:14 - How To Get Started
- Bees from a Building

53:56 - The Sting
- Ground Nesting Yellow Jackets
- The Hornets Highrise Hive

Number 29
Video:
Homeowners Guide To Safe Honey Bee Swarm Control (Destroying Swarms)