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The Beekeeper
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2013
The sweet but sticky world of New York City urban beekeeping is revealed in this documentary.
Apitherapy: Bee Stings for Your Health
Getting stung by a bee, even multiple times, is a relief rather than a concern for seekers of apitherapy, or bee venom therapy. Before cortisone was introduced commercially in 1949, some hospitals kept beehives on their rooftops to provide patients with anti-inflammatory bee venom therapy.
While the effectiveness of apitherapy has not been medically proven, some patients with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune diseases have found temporary relief in bee venom therapy.
While the effectiveness of apitherapy has not been medically proven, some patients with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune diseases have found temporary relief in bee venom therapy.
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New York City Urban Beekeeping Documentary: The Beekeeper
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The sweet but sticky world of New York City urban beekeeping is revealed in this documentary.
Prof Sealey may you share information on how to access your beekeeping videos and the price
Hello, I too am in NYC and have bees. I have a question about flows. When does our summer flow end? Is it around July 1st? I ask because I'm not certain whether or not to add a super to a new hive. They have about 75% of the hive built out but believe the flow is ending so not sure if I should add it this year. What are your thoughts? Thank you
All this amazing complex evolution and they won't pick varroa mites off each other.
Comparing the life of honey bees to humans is something I think about frequently. If we could only be more like the bees! I especially appreciate your idea of how each scout bee makes their own decision based on first-hand experience. Once a large enough quorum is obtained, the rest of the bees trust that decision and agree that it’s best for the survival of the colony. That is mind blowing efficiency! Now I’m convinced that I must buy your books that were discussed at our last monthly bee association meeting. Maybe some people scoff at the idea of trying to compare humans to bees, but I think in reality, they just can’t face their own deficiencies? Don’t get me wrong, I am glad I am a human. I just wish more humans could act more like bees. Just imagine how much more advanced we would be technologically, hell, emotionally!
Hi John, thanks for sharing the info. I’m really a lot nicer now than I was in orchestra! My full apologies. I get a lot of bumbler in my raspberry canes but want to learn to ID the wild ones to give them a leg up in the garden.
More like this, please.
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Have you heard of beehive theft in urban areas? Or is this mostly common for commercial beekeepers?
fascinating!
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More interesting and useful information about apitherapy can be found at: www.hl-healthylifestyle.com/apitherapy/
Do you know you killing the bees and it is not good For the bees
My opinion is :: The more people do bee venom therapy, the more people make their living from beekeeping, therefore the more bees are kept and protected by humans, which increases the population of bees. Actually those bees that are sacraificed through bee venom therapy are minimal compared to those killed by natural enemies like wasps and microorganisms.or viruses as well as by pollution. Bees would be much more likely to extinct, were it not for beekeeping. By thankfully using those bees, we humans are actually encouraging more people to engage in bee keeping which is practically bee protecting jobs. Bees and people are helping each other through bee venom therapy.
@@lettermines Very interesting! I know this video is from a year ago but I just had to comment, since I was recently stung by a bee on my ear. I have been feeding the bees and this was the first time one got me as I attempted to gently move him over. So I can assume that the bee died after stinging me? I have also thought of bee keeping, although not for venon therapy. I just want to help preserve our bee population.
@@sallyire1 Thank you for your comment! Bees are known to die soon after they sting, so it probably died in a few hours. Here in my country, Korea. people have been using bee venom therapy for such a long time. Where do you live in and where are you from? Do people use bee venom therapy a lot in your country? I used bee sting therapy for more than a decade, some of which were quite effective while some are not. I was very thankful to bees, but it made me think about ethical issues regarding sacrificing bees. Maybe the argument above is justified or is nothing but a self rationalizing.^^
@@lettermines I live in Ohio. I've never heard of bee venom therapy but it seems to be getting really popular for arthritis and all kinds of things. I've been feeding the bees for a while and one of them stung me yesterday. I was just attempting to move him on the saucer he was feeding from and he didn't like it. Ouch, he got me on the ear. I feel bad he died. I was just trying to help. Anyway, I looked up bee stings and that's when I saw the bee venom therapy. Until today I knew nothing about it. Looks like people swear it works. I have a little arthritis in my hands, so maybe it will help, lol.
@@sallyire1 Ohio is one of the places I wanted to visit when I lived in the states. I went to a university in Boulder Colorado^^ I am in my country, Korea though. I wonder if you have heard of Korea... When I lived in Colorado, I got tendinitis in my elbow. In one sunday afternoon, I wandered around Boulder and found a little bush and bees flying on it. I caught the bees and made them sting at my elbow. A middle aged gentle man came to me and asked what I was doing with bees. I answered I had a inflammation in my elbow and was treating it with bees... Can you guess how the gentleman responded? He kindly said "catch all the bees here and treat your elbow. And he walked away... In the afternoon I spent about 3 hours catching bees and letting them sting my elbow...I got more than 20 bee stings that afternoon... A few weeks later, the pain was gone^^ I appreciate the bees and the gentle man. Now I assume that the gentle man was a bee keeper or something in that area. If so, what I was doing that day could have been quite disturbing to him but he gently gave me nice words. I appreciate his philanthropic attitude. Recently I happened to find that Boulder is well know to be a hub of study on bee venom therapy and bee keeping. You may find some youtube videos taken in Boulder. Thank you for reading my lengthy comment.^^
Tom, I'd love to bring about Oahu or better yet North and South Kohala to 'see ' the bees in action. Here swarms have 'trade winds' to contend with and since the queen can't last long 'into the wind' , it my take days for the swarm to reach site chosen for their new hive. There is one area where the local fishermen have named, 'Honeybee' due to the swarms which are 'wind blown' swarms that have been 'blown' off shore and have splashed into the ocean causing the fish to come and 'chow down' on the doomed bees and queen.
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HIVE MIND? Scary idea if that's what you mean when saying that human interests align with bees
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Really interesting, thanks! Glad there are so many native bee species.
This is animal cruelty. You people are disgusting.
Hello! I live on the southern tip of Staten Island and am curious about something that usually flies around in a sunny grassy area of my backyard. They don’t seem too aggressive as they seem to let me mow the grass but they are huge! I try to give them free range when they are flying. When they fly, they look like the Megachile Pluto, and sound just like it too. NOT JOKING EITHER! Does anyone know what they are? I haven’t been able to locate their nest but I think I know where it can be found. I haven’t seen them yet but am on the lookout as I have high anxiety not knowing what I am dealing with. Thank you for any help!
I wonder if we are related. Same exact last name. Most of my family is from upstate NY
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Tom Seeley says: The surviving bees evolved to be smaller, suggesting these bees might require less time to develop. Since the mites infest nursery cells in hives, the shorter development time may allow young bees to develop into adulthood before the mites can finish their development. Mite-resistant honeybees in Africa are also small and have short development times, Seeley said. -- so what Ed and Dee Lusby always claimed that small cell bees is a requirement for Varroa and disease resistance is true: resistantbees.com/blog/?page_id=3569
Varroa resistance has absolutely nothing to do with the bee size, hahahahaha its just hilarious how little most people, or even scientist that study the "problems" with honey bees. Im going to tell you right now, a strong hive, with a healthy population, a healthy strong queen, will be motivated and have strong moral. They will pick the mites off and kill them, you will find virtual no mites or not enough to matter, in a strong moral hive. the problem is OVERPOPULATION on a scale that is truly hard to comphrend . It is common knowledge that you can not own bees now without feeding them sugar water and fake pollen. Just a harsh reality, when you have most commercial keepers with 1000x more hives than their area can support , this makes LOTS of weaker hives, and in reality its natures way of correcting it. Weakness will unfortunately always be corrected by nature. The harsh reality is most areas cant support even 1 colony yet you see hundreds if not thousands crammed into one yard.
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Very Interesting. It seems they don't mind having their vote overridden when you catch a swarm in a tree and put them in a box.
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@@ahmedainou6379 Hello Ahmed it's always nice to hear from fellow beekeepers from around the world. Dr. Seeley will be giving a lecture to our club next month via Zoom.
I dont believe in wagle dance...its is wrong!
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Thank you for interesting - amazing story!
wee have sell pure honey from nepa ..
I played in Prospect Park when visiting my grandmother in Brooklyn but they were not growing native wildflowers back in the 1950's. The flower with the long corolla (1:47) is a native beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) and looks like the more popular cultivar sold as Husker Red (leavea, not flowers are reddish).
I absolutely LOVE you guys as you already know! Where can we see the entire documentary? :)
Can a colony 'send out' scout bee's from their current home or do they only 'send out' scouts whilst they have already vacated and swarmed?
My understanding is both, but there is nothing to stop bees swarming out of their current hive straight to a new home.
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Wow !! Mr Seely!! Your the man!! Love your work!! From www.gardenersbeehive.com
Ok....gonna sound really dumb here but I am interested. What makes a bee's venom better for this than a wasp or a yellow jacket or a hornet? Just wondering since this kills bees where the others can sting a lot.
My opinion is :: The more people do bee venom therapy, the more people make their living from beekeeping, therefore the more bees are kept and protected by humans, which increases the population of bees. Actually those bees that are sacraificed through bee venom therapy are minimal compared to those killed by natural enemies like wasps and microorganisms.or viruses as well as by pollution. Bees would be much more likely to extinct, were it not for beekeeping. By thankfully using those bees, we humans are actually encouraging more people to engage in bee keeping which is practically bee protecting jobs. Bees and people are helping each other through bee venom therapy.
Bees have vitamins. They are B vitamins.
@@bradleydavidgoodmelitin is a powerful antiinflammatory that is supposed to help heal the body. The Bee Lady used melitin therapy to cure herself of multiple sclerosis
holy f#ckin shit
Freanking bees invented democracy!
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Hi there my name is Darren from the BBC Natural History unit in the UK. We recently filmed Bees in New York with Andrew Cote for a children's wildlife TV show. We are looking for footage of bee's swarming in New York to go into our piece, and your documentary has some great stuff that we would love to licence to use in our show.We are only looking for about 10-20 seconds worth of swarms in the city. Please get in touch if this is something we can discuss. Best wishes, Darren
Hi my name is Darren from the BBC in the UK. We are filming Bee's in New York for a children wildlife program featuring Andrew Coté We would love to use your footage in this clip if you could give grant us permission. Many Thanks, Darren
Darren Williams BBC Hi, Just following up on my last message. If you're happy for us to use the clip it would be great to here from you. Fantastic footage! Thanks, Darren
So at what point does the entire colony go to the site?
Once enough of them have agreed upon a site, they heat up the swarm with "piping" and "buzzrunning" so they are all warm enough to fly to their new site. You can read about this more in depth in Thomas D. Seeley's book 'Honeybee Democracy.'
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Do you have any idea what these new bees are in Staten Island, they kinda look like dragonflies. They're black and silent. Someone told me they are African Bees, what are your thoughts on this?
The best way to get an ID for them would be to send a sample to the USDA bee labs. If it doesn't buzz, it could be a bee mimic, and not a bee at all. Here's a good link to start with: beespotter.mste.illinois.edu/topics/mimics/
You have to go through all of that to take a swarm down? Glad I live in MI.