Why We Got Rid Of Our Bees? Honey Bee Crisis!
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- With the honey bee crisis continuing it's even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average property and in return for a safe home and some pollen, bees will enhance your garden 10 fold!
My Uncle sells Native Bee Hives his contact details are below:
Kevin Stiller, Brighton, QLD (in boxes)
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Hey Mark
Just want to say how inspiring you are my friend. I’m a yank who was in the marine corps. When I got out I couldn’t find my place in the world. You’ve been a huge motivator of me finding a piece of land and mini farming. I want to take on food deserts in the states. Keep doing what you’re doing! Cheers
I know this is an old comment but I struggled finding my place when I got out too (not USMC but the Royal Marines) it’s honestly shocking how therapeutic gardening has been for me
I remember seeing my father garden when I was a pup and I couldn’t work out why it meant so much to him, after experiencing and seeing some similar things to him, and I’m assuming yourself as well, I can honestly say gardening both for aesthetic reasons as well as food has rejuvenated me mentally
I do wish I could call in armour support for my stumps though, I’ve put them off for 3 years now pretending they are not there 😂
God: oh shit we went overboard with deadly things in Australia
*adds stingless bees, mark and Ann reardon*
Okay everything’s in balance now
Stingless bee?! That has gotta be the only native species on your continent that can't kill you lol....on another note....i would love stingless bees lol mine have got me a few times
LOL it's nice to find a creature here in Oz that isn't trying to hurt me... Cheers :)
Self Sufficient Me yah I will stick with non poisonous snakes and bugs and just stick with stinging bees lol....alsolook again into bee numbers.....many deaths I can contribute to multiple growers pumping out poor stock and many new people trying to raise bees with no knowledge what so ever....numbers of new bee colonies have reached ridiculous numbers....but as I say being produced from poor stock or having horribly uninformed people in charge of them have sqeuwed the numbers badly
Self Sufficient Me our scorpions are surprisingly low-toxicity compared to those in other parts of the world. I did a whole lot of reading up when my daughter found one on top of her wardrobe earlier this year - compared to the redbacks and brown snakes we also have on our property, the scorpions are a walk in the park.
Just because they don't sting doesn't mean they don't have giant pointy teeth. Straya :P
Native bees can still bite... but it’s just a little nip
G'day Mark! Most American Honey bees are of Itallian decent..imported. Our native bees, Mason bees, Orchard bees, jewel bees, bumble bees, are on the increase as a result of declines in the Itallians...the over use of Round-Up, and the escape of the B.T. Corn has had a negitive impacted American agriculture. Brazil is now starting to experience the very same problems for the same reasons...all more important we all have a garden, homestead, or farm. God bless.
Linda Hipple I’m from the US living in Australia and I see Round-Up related products here owned by the same company with a different name sometimes and it makes me sad since Aus has a really high integrity on its agriculture.
G'day Linda! I'd say you're right... I read online that Florida alone has over 300 different species of native bees - how amazing. At least we can control what goes (or more importantly what doesn't go) into our own home gardens so at least we'll have some safe habitats around for bees to live. God Bless you too :)
Just knew American bees were Mafia...
I've decided this year to set up Native Bee houses in my garden area. I'm very excited for the prospect of not only having bees gardening right alongside me, but of being a part of encouraging our local, natural species.
It's said that there are over 4,000 different species in existence. My three grandnieces, are going love learning about this with me.
@@chachadodds5860 excellent! You'll reap many blessings. I've been using native bees and pollinators with great success,
One of my favourite things is watching you work in real time so people can really get a sense of the seriousness and determination to do the right thing. Mahalo for that.
Thank you :)
Is mahalo Hindi?
I just recently subscribed after deciding to live a bit more eco-friendly and grow my own food. Your videos are such a nice balance of information, inspiration, and humor. Keep up the amazing work, and hello from Ireland!
Hi Cat and thanks for subscribing! We made it to Scotland last year (for a friend's wedding) but unfortunately never had time to get to Ireland - it's on my bucket list :)
I would like a contact to buy some native bees . I keep honey bees. I had natives before but ants got em
Hopefully your native bees produce more queens so you can create more hives.
Your family (brother, grandfather, uncle, you, and more I'm sure) all seem to do so much to help out the planet and agriculture. It's very inspiring. I really enjoy your channel and learn a lot. I'm looking forward to getting started.
Wow. I’m over in Perth and I’ve never seen these at all. I have seen other native bees in my garden which are small but have the black & pale yellow stripes. We also just had a huge swarm of hoverflies last Sunday in my garden & all over Perth so it makes me happy to see any kind of pollinators in the garden. 🐝
A lot of folks are setting up huts for solitary stingless bees. Based on what I've read, native bees have a significantly better chance of pollination than commercial species. Who wouldn't prefer a 95% chance over a 40% to 60% chance? They just need a habitable spot for nesting.
Keiko Mushi That might be true but the numbers are far less for solitary bees right?
I would love to get into raising bee's, I really admire you guys for keeping them alive.
That's really cool. We have native Bees in our area, they love the herbs when they are in flower,and come in flocks at times. I have seen local school with Native Bee hives,,be nice to have one as well in our backyard to help pollinate the plants and watch them do what they do best.
Thanks for the video
Marty
Cheers Marty! It's great to hear that schools are keeping them :)
Thank you so much for making this and promoting native bees!
Now those are some interesting beehives. I've not seen the boxes that size and style before. Thanks for sharing.
oh i was thinking thats so sad losing your Bees, glad you still have a hive. Your really lucky having Bess and even more so Native Bees. Wish I had a hive. Thanks for the video Mark, Great Work ;)
Thanks David :)
I got my bee's from Kevin last Saturday by courier and they are settling in just fine ,Thanks for posting his info on your youtube xxxxx
We have around 1600 species of native bees here in Australia, there are so many fascinating types! For those of us who don't want to invest in a hive of stingless bees, we can still encourage our wonderful native pollinators to visit us by making sure we've got suitable habitats in our gardens for carpenter, burrowing or mason bees!
I love bees so much, such hard little workers they are. Started a couple of hives a few months ago 😊🐝
Very interesting video thank you, those are some great little bees I've never known about them until now.
Thank you for your videos and the much needed dose of education. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Earl! :)
Aussie Aussie Aussie.... buzz buzz buzz :) Australian Native Bees are great always love to see them around. Every Aussie backyard should Bee proud to have a hive and more seriously should be planting more flowering natives and other flowering plants to give the little buzzers a fair go :) I reckon the Seven network should put these little guys on Better Homes to encourage and educate more people to take care of our natives. Great video mate.
LOL Thanks mate! Cheers :)
Honeybees aren't native to the U.S. - sounds like they're not native to Australia either. There were plenty of pollinators and plenty of pollinated plants before the Europeans brought them over. I mean, I don't want to see the honeybees in trouble for compassionate reasons, but they HAVE displaced a LOT of native pollinators ... personally, I'm hoping we see an upswing in the numbers of those insects, including LOTS of NATIVE bees. (More to the point: Really love your videos - so enjoyable! And like pretty much all Americans, I love that accent! :) )
You do have a good point there about honey bees not being native and I do believe the science that says honey bees have displaced many natives due to their aggressive foraging behavior. Could part of the problem with honey bees dying back be the natives fighting back? It's possible... Combine that with pesticides and loss of natural bushland it all contributes. Thank you :)
The usual commercial honey bee is an Italian variety! It's amazing how much of the world they now populate considering their relatively small native homeland.
Because different bees prefer so many different plants, research suggests that they actually don't compete that terribly with our natives - several species of bee can often be seen in the same areas, all doing fine. Evidence would suggest that as long as we stop poisoning everything and maybe add some variety to our areas of huge monoculture, all the bees in the world can live together in harmony.
Here in Japan I've seen up to 6 or more different species of bees working the same patch of flowers - Apis cerana, Apis mellifera, at least two or three types of solitary mason bees, some large furry orange bees, possibly Anthophora plumipes, and some really huge black and yellow bumblebees!
I am not sure if you realize this, but most of the foods we grow are also not native to the US and so a more aggressive forager, that pretty much evolved with those plants is a better bet.
Please note, the most prolific of the natives foods we grow self pollinates (corn).
La Bella it makes sense that European food plants do best with European pollinators. There are very few native Australian food plants worth cultivating commercially.
I had some native bees set up shop under an upturned plastic rubbish bin, it is three years old now and thriving. I also have blue banded bees.... my favorite.
I love seeing the blue banded bees in the garden! :)
True! Bless you.
Wasps are common where I live and will often build their mud nests under the eaves of my house. One day, a pest control salesman knocked on my door offering to exterminate the obvious wasp "problem" he could see around my house. I said, "What are you crazy? Wasps are important pollinators. Leave my wasps alone!" LOL And even though I hate mosquitoes, I know they are important pollinators as well.
Having a bumble bee hive would greatly diversify your bee collection also if you don't mind having them on your property and the hives are tiny in comparison to a full bee hive (honeybee hive that is). If you live with a small patio balcony garden or in an apartment they are a great alternative if you see them around as they will simply nest in a comfortable wooley substrate placed in a hive on the ground and then can be relocated and will happily pollinate your garden
Thanks for the information Marshall and for sharing your experience! :)
We can't keep bumblebees here on mainland Australia. They are in Tasmania and are regarded as "feral bees", if seen on mainland they have to be caught and reported to authorities.
things are a bit more positive here in rural Colorado. honeybees are abundant in my area and we purchase honey from the Larkspur Colorado farms. it is truly awesome tasting due to the large wildflower and Lavender fields in the region. another great video Mark. cheers.
Wonderful video thank you
Here in Vancouver island BC, Canada there are solitary Mason bees, bumble bees and other native bees that thrive in my garden. Good to know about aussie bees!
Did not know stingless bees existed! Learning something new every day!
Lovely to see, my kids called them 'sweat bees', they knew they didnt bite and were friendly. They were also suicidal for basil flowers, they would not leave them alone. This was in northern australia, lotsa bees there.... If we needed any 'bees' we planted basil.... they would come....Cheers
They do love herb flowers! Cheers :)
Good info.
Thanks Mark
Love it Mark 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝native bees are awesome. Saved my mums bees and I’m working on making 2 hives from one. Thanks for sharing Tricky Trev
Great vlog as usual.
Awesome info will share
Hey that was so interesting wow , bye bees to uncles but good you kept yours . , look like a good new spot . ,, will you make more hives as you did have a lot more f uncles and will just one hive be enough as your land quite huge . Good video well done , o just love all videos , keep them coming ❤️
Hi, Thank you for an interesting video and same to the rest of the viewers for their comments here.
Well here in England, we personally have been concerned regards to the bee population as a few years
back we saw far less of them.
We have a number of very large grown bushes in our back garden that normally move with vibration from the
bees and was less vibrating for a number of years,, although still could see bees the number had dropped greatly
that the vibrations were a great deal less distinct at that time and we also have whats known as a butterfly bushes
which we have in our garden in great numbers (my husband likes to grow them) and although they are as name
suggests attractive to butterflies, they also attract bees in large numbers.
In spring of 2017 we experienced a great colony/swarm of bees had housed themselves in a flat roof of our garage
and although we were pleased to see them back, we were far from pleased at where they had taken up their new home!
We think that the cause of their disorientation was because of a huge new homes building development taking
place immediately in the area and the possibility of these bees loosing their habitat.
This year we lost our spring season and with any sunny days we see an increase of bees, now we wait to see if
that is because they are on the increase generally or if we have had them in greater number because of migrating
even further from the building developers, we wait to see if all turns out to be sweet as honey for us.
Thanks for the video and beeing prepared for the thumbs up.
Learn lots from you. Always save your videos, I learned lot from you. The you get pleasure with what you are doing. It is a joy just to hear and watch you doing it.
Thank you very much :)
Thanks for doing your bit for our tiniest natives. As a beek myself I run a small operation of 170 hives and I am super keen to transition into more native species. I would love to get in contact with your friend that sells the native stingless bee. I am interested in buying a couple off him if he is willing to sell.
I never realized there were native bees vs honeybees. I found out Florida has over 300 native bee varieties. By city code, I can’t have honeybees, but with the right selection of plants, the native bees can live here naturally. Looking for stingless ones : )
Exactly! You certainly do not need to keep hives or colonies of bees to have them frequent your property because they will come if you provide the right environment anyway. :)
Look into native bee houses, or hotels. There are yt videos available, and websites that sell them. (See link below.)
They're very simple to make, and encourage solitary native bees, to make your property their home, since they maintain a territory within the radius of 300yds.
With 4,000 species in North America alone, and 90% of those being solitary in nature, wild, or native bees boast a pollination success rate of 95%, compared to the 5% of honey bees. Good for your garden, good for you, good for the bees, good for the environment.
Happy gardening.
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Stingless bees that’s awesome, never heard of them, something new every day
I looked into keeping bees but decided against it. I have loads of bumblebees. I have wild places in my garden where wild species can find enough space to live. I build underground bumblebee nests. I have several species of bumblebees, wasp, bees and lots of other pollinators. This year I'll grow exra flowers.
Great Work
Hi..... Self Sufficient Me, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
Wow those Australian bees are tiny. Fascinating
Hover flies also serve the same purpose! At the same time, they take care of aphids!
Make me want to have my own bee hive if I can! Thanks!
Fantastic bees. Cheers
Fun fact. Australia is the only country that's honey Bee population has not been significantly effected by the Bee crisis. WA being best best of all with scientists around the globe coming here to see what a healthy honey Bee hive is like.
Honey bees are introduced and are more correctly called the "European honey Bee". Though their introduction has been largely positive, they do compete with our native species and the competition has resulted in some native populations experiencing a drop.
Though introduced honey bees have had a negative impact on our natives, they are still our friend!!! If you have an unwanted hive on your property, look into human removal and relocation first and foremost please!
If you want to help native bees, it's really simple. Plant lots of native plants. Cultivate a natural environment including leaving old logs around. Make insect hotel's and keep them all over at different heights with different light and moisture to maximise what species can benefit, and if you have the money look at buying live hives of bees native to your local region. You probably won't get much honey, but mother nature will thankyou.
We're looking into making insect hotels since there's a few different native bees in the area, primarily the wood burrowing ones that don't really hive up.
I'm wanting to bring in some hives as we are meant to have some of those in the region too, but they've been driven out by the honey bees. Since honey bees aren't actually native to Australia... I won't feel bad bringing in natives and helping them restablish their dominance here. Sadly none of the local native bees are much good for honey but we don't care much.
That is so cool!!!!! I'm still afraid of bees but try and feed them with flowers and trying to teach the little one how to bee around them. I wish we had those bees!!!!!!!! Wouldn't have to 🐝 afraid of them, but they probably wouldn't survive or coffee north american winters :(
Nice !
So cool
Stingless. Amazing. I'm sold.
I like most of your less viewed videos, keep it up!
I love all bees 🐝
That’s sooo cool
Excellent video as usual! What would you recommend to attract bees to the garden, aside from flowers? I've heard lemongrass is quite a good attractant
You can make those solitary bee houses or just provide a good habitat that isn't disturbed too often so that bees can feel safe around your garden. Thank you :)
Wish we could have these in Melbourne :(
I’ll have to talk to my mr about stingless bees for the garden!
That, is true, the honey bee are disappearing. Here in Seattle we don't see to many honey bee. The native bumblebees have exploded.
Very interesting Yack - this seems to be a common theme people are saying in this thread that whilst honey bees are declining they're seeing more native bees! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme Ever since starting my garden I have seen at least 7 different bee varieties.
They like the vegetable flowers most! Especially like mustard how you shown.
Mark! Gotta be those bees up
I wish I could keep them here in Yanchep, but it's not the right climate 🥺
Awesome Video, gotta love the bees. Have you ever heard of Dioscorea Hastifolia? It has creamy yellow flowers and them awesome stingless bees love them. Its an awesome root vegetable aswell. Native to Australia but not many people grow them for some reason. Tastes like a cross between a sweet chestnut and a potato when cooked. The flowers smell awesome! When you said spy bees made me laugh haha One of my uncles calls them scoutyspies haha Keep the awesome work up. Loving your vids. This is one of my new faves
Bush tucker hey! Dioscorea Hastifolia sounds lovely but no I hadn't heard of it until now. Thank you :)
Self Sufficient Me potential for a future vid?
If you have enough wood chips available then you can fix that swampy area of your backyard. That's how I fixed mine, and the tree services were happy to unload them in my property.
Nice idea! Cheers :)
Self Sufficient Me if its swampy, that's a drainage issue. You'd have to drain it somehow - or plant stuff that likes wet feet.
What is also alarming, I did not see any butterflies here in N.E. Ohio, USA last summer.
We have a N American native digger bee in my yard. First year we were here, there little piles of sand all around the less lush parts of the back lawn and a bunch of bees hovering at knee height and we were worried about the damage.
Well it turns out they do that for only about a month every spring for their mating season, and meanwhile they are out pollinating the early-season flowers, and the grass grows back after that, so I leave em... bee. 😁
They do have a string but only use it if threatened, and it's pretty mild. I know this from the time one flew up my pants while I was weeding around the garlic. Well when I did up I felt the sting and knew what happened, and there was still a bee in my pants of course so I'm there yelping and twitching and get stung a second time and finally rip off my pants, revealing my purple granny panties before God the neighbors and everybody, holleering at my husband to bring me his shirt so I can wrap myself up til I finally run in the house.
And yes I could laugh about it. I'm still cool with the bees, but I so tuck my garden pants into my socks during digger bee mating season.
🌹❤🌹👍👍👍.... Perfect
Well I'll bee! That was a beehemth workout 😓 Just like Kokoda 😂 It must bee bee-r oclock & time for some 🎶bee gees🎵👋 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Peter Buka Tuhinga cute lol
That comment deserves a bee plus!
OMG guys! Your dad jokes ROCK! :)
I wonder if we have anything like that in the US. We have honey bees and carpenter bees, but I know very little about bees. I see carpenter bees, mostly, in my garden and occasionally a bumble bee.
They say if you suffer from hay fever if you take a teaspoon a day of honey local to you, your body will slowly over time build up an immunity to the pollen etc. and help cure you of your symptoms. Another interesting watch 👍
Have you kept honey bees before? Would love to see you get a hive!
Wow thank you!
Awesome. Do they produce any honey?
Beautiful! I have my doubts the US Govt would let me import a non-native species of insect, I still dream of someday having some type of pollinator insect on the property.
Thanks Kate! Yeah, I doubt any government would allow these kinds of imports but you will probably find plenty of native bees in your area so it's a matter of finding out what they like and then encouraging them to your property. All the best :)
Kate Wizer you can research the type of housing the native bees like as well as fav food sources..thats' what I did, I used to have the Honey bee and they became increasely difficukt for me to maintain..so I decided to incorporate the native bees..so glad I did. God bless.
Kate Wizer mason bees are great. Doug & Stacey have a great vid on how to build your own mason bee hotel as well as showing a fancy version.
Research native plant species, especially those who attract bees, and plant some of those around your property. :)
Bee likely a sweet outcome is on the cards.
There our over 147 pollinators other the bees here in zone 9
I live in Southern California, and my Macadamia Nut Tree is like a Bee Hive!
Each day thousands of bees are clustered on the flowers.
Sometimes I actually stay clear of it, imagining that I may trigger an African Bee attack.
I wish we had stingerless bees
I guarantee you will have Bees, if you plant a mac tree.
Besides Bees, Ants, Wasps, Hornets, Moths, Hummingbirds and Flies, also pollinate my flowers.
Yeah, bees absolutely go "nuts" over macadamia flowers and the native bees here are a natural pollinator for that tree - I see them swarming all over ours when in flower. Cheers :)
Stinging or not, I just can't get into the bugs everywhere climbing on my hands thing... We do love honey though.
Curious what was going on with the mulch piles around some of the trees. Near the beginning of the video
Oh Beehave, just a thought on bees, Bees are big business here in the states. Queens are bought sold reproduced as business. This industrialization of bees could be part of their downfall. Keep being great.
Another very interesting point! Yes, perhaps nature is rebelling... Cheers :)
It is a lot to do with newer chemicals. I know a guy in Florida who owns orange groves and has had beehives for years. He said that he started having dramatic issues.
So he did know how his bees were doing well for years. He knew how his orange groves were doing also.
You don't go from really good to consistently bad, when you know what you are doing.
this was like a very short Bee Move E
I'd like to learn more regarding bees in general. I see very few in my area, just the occasional bumble bee (which I like, they aren't aggressive). I'd like to encourage more bumbles to my garden in the meantime until I learn enough to perhaps get into beekeeping. Any idea how to attract them naturally? I'm terrified of wasps though, which i see more of. I don't want to encourage those little sh*ts...
Do the native Aus bees produce a different tasting honey?
How do you keep the poorest away without hurting the pollinators? You did make a video on organic ways to keep them away but will that work for a terrace food garden?
Sad... No stingless bees in Canada
Hi Mark. Would you consider making a video about growing peppers from seed? I have been trying to grow peppers (sweet bell, cayenne, jalapeño, etc.) from seed without any success. I cannot get the seeds to sprout. I have tried soil, moist paper towels, etc. ...
nothing seems to work. HELP!
Yes Angela, I'm working towards making a "how to grow a ton of..." video specifically for sweet peppers (capsicum here in Oz) and including Jalapeno because they are thicker than most other chilies so even though spicy I still include them in this general group. It will be several months before I will likely get this video out but I think the best tip I can give (right now) is "timing" - these fruiting plants need to be started at the right temperature otherwise germination is always dodgy. You want a consistant temp of around 18C (64F) for the seeds to germinate and then grow well. I live in a warm climate and even here peppers don't grow well in winter... Fresh seed is also recommended. Watch this space for the video in the future! All the best :)
Angela Pattatucci Aragón I have had great success growing peppers from seed. I found out peppers (all varieties) like to sprout between 70 f -80 f. Once 1st real leaves sprout put a grow light or sunshine for 12 hrs..I do both bc I have cold winters..the peppers are slow growers when they've trippled in height prune the very top leaves off so your plants bush out..make more peppers. Good luck! As always use fresh seed, or save seed from fresh peppers (ripe) and replant them, that works great too!
We only have native bumblebees. Friendly lil fuzz balls though they don't make honey
There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. The Honeybee is not the only pollinator out there
Wouldn't be without mine.
Jolly jumping beans you got alota hives what did that run ya
Must see Paul Stamets on bees.
So, leaving some plant to to grow old to make seeds will help the bees make bee pollen ?? Is that right ?
John Smith
Letting them flower at least.
Yes John that's what I meant exactly. All the best mate :)
G'day Mark, We have euro wasps in my area (central Victoria). Do you know how well native bees handle them?
G'day Bob, I'm not sure... but I have seen them smother predators quite effectively if they invade or stalk the nest so I assume a wasp would get the same treatment if they weren't careful! Cheers :)
We don't have beans in our garden, we have big puffy bumblin' bumblebees
Seems there’s much more to know than that
I’ve always actively destroyed feral honey bee nests because they competed with my local native blue banded bees. The feral European bees also dominated tree hollows denying parrots nesting sites. The blue banded bees were far better at pollinating tomatoes with their buzz pollination technique. Commercial tomato growers are having success switching to native blue banded bees for their greenhouse crops.
If ALL farmers and people would stop using chemicals, period once and forever we might be able to still help the bees
Did loose any hive or observed bees going back to the original position after moving them?
I've been checking on them daily and they're still swarming in and out looking very active! It seems the move was a complete success and because they're so close to our vegetable garden I'm even able to track some of them from the bok choy flowers back to the hive... 👍🙂
If I had a dollar for every 'LOL...' I've seen from Mark I'd have enough to save the bees!
Do you have to register your hives?