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!
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.
Emeğe saygı adına teşekkür ediyorum dilinizi anlamıyorum ama görerek bile olsa çok başarılı bir çalışma. arı refahı sizin gibi araştırmacıların vermiş olduğu katkılar ile gelecekte iyi bir hal alacak umarım.sağlıklı mutlu bir yaşantı ve başarılı çalışmalar dilerim .selam ile
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.
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.'
@@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.
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!
More like this, please.
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.
Prof Sealey may you share information on how to access your beekeeping videos and the price
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Emeğe saygı adına teşekkür ediyorum dilinizi anlamıyorum ama görerek bile olsa çok başarılı bir çalışma. arı refahı sizin gibi araştırmacıların vermiş olduğu katkılar ile gelecekte iyi bir hal alacak umarım.sağlıklı mutlu bir yaşantı ve başarılı çalışmalar dilerim .selam ile
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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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fascinating!
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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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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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I wonder if we are related. Same exact last name. Most of my family is from upstate NY
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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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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.
All this amazing complex evolution and they won't pick varroa mites off each other.
Freanking bees invented democracy!
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I dont believe in wagle dance...its is wrong!
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