Trap hives for stingless Bees 🐝
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2018
- A quick tutorial on making trap hives for stingless bees.
Four types of resins dissolved in alcohol will be tested here and in future I will post what type of bees move into what size hive.
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Hi Nick,
Since A bit of time has passed since you set up the traps. Have you got and positive findings yet?
Keen for a quick video regarding this. Love your videos very educational for me as only been into this for a few months and so keen to learn👍 thank you
Bamboo must be harvest in the correct dates. First a month without the letter "R" (May to August). Second waning Moon is the best. Then you will have the least amount of sap in the bamboo wood. Then we need to wait for one year with the bamboo pieces lying in a shadowed and dry place. Then one can use it as wood.
great work my friend. well done. Q: if you don't have resin from other hives, what else can you use? is there anything natural you could use or plant alternatives? some honey from a honey bee perhaps?
I love your video, but May i ask how many resin to put??? And where i will put the resin???🤔🤔🤔 And what kind of resin that we will need???🤔🤔🤔
I wanted to share some observations about stingless bees that are in Nicaragua. Maybe some of you can use these observations...
I live under a mango tree, and there are many stingless bees. In the front of the house there are a lot of basil plants, which always have smaller stingless bee species there, particularly in the morning and early afternoon.
In the back of the house, under the mango tree, there is a large black stingless bee. These larger black stingless bees are high in number relative to the smaller bees in the front.
It looks like their foraging behavior changes. When I first noticed the stingless bees it was because I saw them on a very ripe mango that had split open. I made a lure by cutting open 5 ripe mangos and left them out under the mango tree. One of the mangos was covered with 30+ stingless bees.... the other mangos were covered by flies. The stingless bees seemed to have some kind of repelling effect on the flies...
However, when the mango season started the next year, the stingless bees did not care about mango... this year, all they want is chicken poop and water! I have left mangos out for days with no luck at all... meanwhile, if I smear some chicken poop on some dirt, a stingless bee comes down and starts eating it...
The bees also drink water directly out of our bird's water dishes... They are there drinking water in small numbers almost every day
It may sound weird, but maybe somebody should try to use chicken poop as a lure? The bees seem to like it if it is a clay-like consistency... My sculptor friend said that the bees took 4 kg of wet clay from him last year... Maybe wet clay can also play a role?
Good luck 🤞🏼🤞🏼and great step by step on how to make it 👍🏼
Hey no worries man!! Thanks for the positive feedback. 👍🏻
I need some help from you bro. Recently, i trapped a colony and divided the stingless bee hive into two. Unfortunately, one of the splited hive now doesn't have a queen and even the queen egg cell is no more in it. But i can see a lot of activity in the queenless hive bees. My question is, will they have their own queen or they will swarm somewhere else.
Hey Nick any luck with the Bamboo traps. It's been three years now.
in brazil the attraction is made with wax and propolis diluted in alcohol.
Hey there Nick. How's the trap hives going?
Did it work?
Please sir In which distence between one hive to another hive stingless bee
Hi Nick how did your test work ?
Interesting method. Have you had any success yet?
Hey there Nick. Hows the update on the trap hives.
Pls post a link for the update. Thanks. Luv ur vid.
Hahahah. It was posted aug 26/18.
Hello what is the update?
Do you have any information of how this trial worked, please?
Elaine Bates Explore. Fish. Cook yep I do have an update. Wood borers love the bamboo! I caught some but not in these as yet. More testing is being carried out. I have made new design and I am waiting to test.
Some success has been reported with pine boxes containing compost type materials inside, terra-cotta pots upside down and coated inside with resin.
Super interesting, thank you Nick!! I'll have to try this out sometime soon. I havn't seen any bamboo that big, but I suppose I could just make boxes with similar dimensions? Thanks again for the awesome video :)
Yeah it was big bamboo I think the one stalk was over 70kg when it fell. Bamboo grown slow in the shade is the stuff with thick walls. Yeah certainly try some trap hives and let us know what you find out. 👍🏻 Try 3 litres and above for carbonaria I reckon.
Try the PET bottle, using trhee layers of journal and a black plastic bag to avoid light to enter and some atractive solved in alcohol, in Brazil it's like this.
Try to search in TH-cam: " isca pet para abelhas nativas" there are a lot of tutorials and you canal learn a lot by the images
Amazing work
Always knew those scrap ply rounds would be of use somewhere sometime...I have an ever growing pile of them!
Haha I know right! I still got a bucket. I think I’ll donate some to some schools for projects.
What is that liquid you put in your hive please share 🙏🙏🙏🙏
cool thanks for sharing the video
How do you keep your bamboo and wooden hives from termites?
Termites don't like being out in the light, so as long as the hives aren't sitting straight on the soil, you shouldn't have a problem with them. Also, hives are usually made from wood that termites don't like.
I have kept these beautiful bees for more than twenty years and have tried all sorts of ways to get them to move into a nest box on there own accord but have failed like everybody else and have come to a conclusion that we are all going about this the wrong way. I have watched many native bee swarms and have noticed a smaller cast of bee in these swarms and i believe it's this smaller bee that's the key , this is only my theory, and there is one other thing i do know, that when these bees are locking for a new nest site they travel far beyond there foraging range in a nut shell this smaller cast of bee is sent out to found a new colony( and anybody who has ever found these bees in the wiled knows they are always associated with termites in fact there have been bee colonies found in termite nests from time to time and we all know that they work by smell and pheromones so I believe that this small cast of bee is keyed to a type of fungi that brakes down termite nest that have been vacated by there inhabitants so if we can find a substance that mimics that type of fungi that we can spray into a nest box like bee keepers spray lemon grass oil to trap honey bee swarms ....
dennis richards what a great comment!! I love this! John Klumpp has had success using broken down termite stuff. I wonder sometimes if the bees actually use mycelium to help digest and break down pollen spores. What’s your thoughts on this?
@@australiannativebee3662 I'm glad you liked my comment and i think your vids are the best on the net , I don't know if that's how they break up the pollen but then there so much we don't know about these amazing little insects like today i had one of my colonies taken over by another nest in the area but here's the thing they only started the take over not even two hours be for sunset and by nightfall there was about 500 or so bees still trying to force there way into my hive , most of bees will be dead tomorrow in the box the invaders have set it up for the main swarm witch will arrive as soon as the sun is up and it's to bad really because the queen in that hive was a good young layer its a shame they did not take over one of my weaker colonies and another thing i have found that these bees look for nests most of the year , in Sydney i have see a takeovers in late may . The bees i have up here in Hervey Bay are T, hocks...
dennis richards oooh! I think maybe you have a hive kicking out drones? I have a few here doing that too. I have been swapping hives for weaker ones but then I noticed all the floaty bees in the nearby trees. Do you have this as well?
@@australiannativebee3662 No mate it's definitely a savage takeover , you should see the carnage in the nest box and as i said in the last post the main swarm came at first light this morning well there's one thing i'm sure of, I have double the amount of bees i had yesterday morning , I lost a good queen but gain some bees . I have always had a few colonies and you know i very rarely have one of my own colonies try to take over another one of mine so i always have a good gene pool , Have you had any luck with your traps ? let us know...
dennis richards I love savage swarms. Sounds like you will get a very strong colony from it.
Regarding the traps. Well I haven’t been up to check em but last time I did some wood borers would having a party. I’ll making a new design for that area as we speak. 😃
essa também e uma boa ideia , parabéns
I'm a beekeeper (with apiculture) and I find meliponiculture really interesting but I live in Canada (Calgary). No stingless bees live in Canada. ☹️
Wesley Smith yeah I’m not sure. If your climate is below 18 degrees it might be to cold for them. Would be pretty cool to the be the first there.
They will die there. They can only survive in tropical climate. I'm glad I live near the equator!
I think you should demonstrate how you make those resins
Roneil Catalo good idea!! Next swarm video I will do. Thx for commenting 👍🏻
Thanks and God bless you!
Hi Nick, How'd you go with the Trap hives?
phana0071 I’ll be publishing the results in a long while. In the mean time I have caught lots of swarms using old hives that have previously had bees in them. Give that a try if your keen to catch some free bees :) 👍
Good job amazing
How did you go with the traps, any updates?
Explore. Fish. Cook yep I do have an update. Wood borers love the bamboo! I caught some but not in these as yet. More testing is being carried out. I have made new design and I am waiting to test.
Some success has been reported with pine boxes containing compost type materials inside, terra-cotta pots upside down and coated inside with resin.
Nice idea thanks, coconut shell is best
In which season hive should be put in our home
Spring! Ready for the flowers.
Hey there Nick. Any update on the hive traps?
Steve Mose yes!! They have got some solitary bees nesting in them and borer worms. Going to try a few other things. 👍🏻
@@nativebeenick8646 I was thinking that you might have to add an entrance to the hive trap.
Steve Mose like an extra entrance? They have 1 12mm hole.
Nice
it only took 2 weeks for the bees to move in to their new home. it works!
after 10 months, i split the hive. now i have two colonies
👌👌👌 super good message 👍👍👍
You could had cracked the bamboo in half, so when you make the transference to a hive, it's easier
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Cool
super...
For good, I like.
Hai friend, i like your video, so exciting, and very good sharing knowledge. Im also used bamboo for bee trap. In Malaysia 🇲🇾 there r many stingless bee species.
Rohaya78 Musa have you caught a lot of bees?
@@australiannativebee3662 i put a trap at many place in my farm, it just a few week ago, i never check yet. I'll share with you freind once i got one. Keep it up bro.
Rohaya78 Musa please do.
@@australiannativebee3662 gday mate.
Im on gold coast.
What you need to do is get some propolis and wax and honey and some dead bees and burn it all in a trap hive and i guarantee bees will turn up.
I have done this and it worked.
Actually its now my strongest hive, very active and its now full after 1 year
vwbus guy great feedback!! Posting up what has worked! Thx mate!!
Bamboo..👍
any luck
Did you know how to spot an wild stingless bees?
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