How to Collect Honey from a Stingless Bee Hive - Sugarbag Native Bees
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2017
- In this video, we demonstrate how to collect honey from Australian native bees using a honey super. How to remove a honey super from a native beehive and also how to add a honey super to an existing hive. On our property, we have 18 native stingless beehives which are owned and maintained by my uncle and in return, the bees pollinate our fruit and vegetables - it's a win-win and what's more, they don't sting! Cheers :)
Native bee products on eBay AU: bit.ly/2zoC6sh
Shop gardening on Amazon: bit.ly/2xB63Ef
Blog: www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on certain subjects)
Forum: www.selfsufficientculture.com
Facebook: / selfsufficie. .
Twitter: / sufficientme
Subscribe to my channel: goo.gl/cpbojR
Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started SSM in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :) - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Stingless bees! This channel is really changing what I know about Australian wildlife (we mostly get the impression most things in Australia kill you). XD
Most things in Australia can kill you lol... but these bees are pretty harmless :)
@@Selfsufficientme That's the only living thing (aside from humans) that I love in Australia.
Found a nest in my esky when I had decided to go camping. Didn't know what they were at first and thought they might be dangerous until someone suggested they were native bees. Have checked out a few videos and loved yours. Now I can do something good for our environment and get my esky back so I can go camping and they can go about making honey and pollinating my garden.. Cheers one happy camper IM
This is fascinating. I guess we don't have anything like this in the USA. I wonder why not? It sounds like a win-win to have your uncle caring for the bees. You get to visit with your family and get your garden pollinated!
Do you have any other links?
Because, unfortunately, stingless bees (meliponula) are not native to North America!
You’d be surprised! Lots of bumblebees actually make similar nests to this with the honeypots in the ground 😀
The USA has its own native bees and while they are totally different to this, you can learn more about them and it's fascinating
I found this channel because I started looking up keeping bees. I'm in the US and I'm starting with Buckfast and Italian bees.. most sources won't even tell you about Australian Stingless bees as a honey bee. This was awesome to see and watch.
I'm planning to start my own bee farm too.
@@osamabinladen824 you know, most people think you're dead; really should use an alias
Wow I didn’t know there was honey like that! I didn’t know you could have native hives. Learn something new every day 😊
Mark, this method is massively ingenius. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Another thing I've never heard of - Tiny stingless bees. Who'd of thought. Cheers.
They are very popular here in Asia.
This is really interesting compared to bee keeping here in the U.S.
Your hives are so much different than ours.
Thank you for showing these videos.
Now that I know about alternative bees, I'll be doing some research on other bees here in the U.S.
They are more nutritious and carry more antioxidants but they don't produce a lot of honey.
Fantastic video. I'm a new native bee owner and this video was very informative. Thank you!
Awesome to learn more about our native stingless bees and what honey they produce!
Thank you for this video. We've had a hive in an old log in the yard for years but have only just got a box which we've attached and they are building in their new home. Can't wait til we have some honey to harvest.
Obviously been keeping natives for a long time. Excellent.
I'm so jealous of your property.... beautiful
Same
A very good video, I had no idea of any of this, good job!
I keep european bees. I love discovering something completely new! Really interesting video.
Dat's a good info.
Where im learnt how to harvest the stingless bee..
Thanx for the video.
Johore,Malaysia..
This is so amazing for sure, Congrats very much, i would try this in our African native bees
I enjoy all the videos, but I Really enjoyed watching this.
I learned something today! Thanks, Mark. I wish I knew what that honey tasted like too!
The nature is beautiful
Big thumbs up for your Big efforts
Great video! Now I understand how you get the honey. Was thinking of getting native bees but couldn't work it out.
They are little guys, aren't they? I never knew they existed, sting-less bees that is. Thanks Mark, I always look forward to your videos.
Yes they're tiny smaller than an average house fly. Thank you :)
th-cam.com/video/KjwQNvQJarI/w-d-xo.html
Very interesting video. Thank you.
Awesome, Xmas Eve at a mates place and he showed me his 2x small hives with native bees. Beautiful honey was tasted straight from the hives and well pollinated fruit trees in his yard. Going to get me a few myself for my place. Boy do they get stuck everywhere on your body when disturbing the hive.
Thanks for the video wow, stingless bees that sounds hastle free! Haha my aunt and uncle have a bee keeper keep about 5 big hives on their property don here in Florida
They may be stingless but they are sticky! Good on your uncle and aunt! Cheers :)
Nice Stingless Bee hive... 👍👍👍
We have these bees a lot in Kerala, India. In fact, there are more stingless bees than the big ones. They are now making a big hive in my old study table. Can't wait to harvest ☺.
You lucky bastards
Great video again, thank you 🙏
MANY THANKS FOR SHARING MARK
Very interesting. I just started raising stingless bees in Brazil and find the similarities/difference quite interesting. If anybody reading this can point me at online (pdf?) manuals for Australian stingless bee keeping, or perhaps provide some info on marketing of native bee products happens in Australia, I'd be delighted to know more. I'm new to this and once I have better familiarity I promise to do a short video in English on Brazilian bees.
th-cam.com/video/KjwQNvQJarI/w-d-xo.html look at this
I will like to purchase some bee from anyone willing to sell it to me, I am located in the US.
Very cool, here in Brazil has this type of bee also and is native to some regions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, but very difficult to remove honey without killing the hive, but with this method boxes can be easier
great video mark !!
That was very interesting, thanks.
So interesting my favourite channel!
"Without any further ado" (intro immediately begins)
Lol. only takin' the piss mate, sry. Good video. I want to try my hand this also.
Awesome! what an envy!
I have never seen hives like that. I think I probably like the standard hives with the frames, I think they look better and more manageable, I don't know know they are for a fact because the only type hives I ever used were the ones with the frames. I might like to have some of the honey to taste though and maybe some of the stingless bees. Thanks for sharing
Well good to watch your valuable informative video about string less bee.i have few questions.1.please described the bee hive full measurements.
2.how did you increase this colony.
3.how to catch those bee from nature.
4.what is the challenge to keep them healthy.
good idea
I know this is an old video, but when you say honey port is like a mead? Like we get in the UK. I'm thinking about having a hive or two eventually. One native the other European honey bee.
this is the first video I have watched from you i am wondering if you know what the seperater was called as i whould like to start my own honey hive youre videos are amazing
Hi Mark, wanted know if you have any plans for Crayfish farming?
When i had cold, my mum used to mix stingless bee honey and turmeric and make me eat. I used to hate it, but my cold used to magically cure within a couple of days. The honey bought from local market was adulterated and hence our neighbour suggested us to buy from natureloc.
I have been keeping honey bees in the States for 3 years now so this video is fascinating to me. I am curious though why your uncle is wearing a bee suit if the bees can't sting? You obviously didn't need one. I'd love to try some of that honey to compare to my own! BTW: I love your channel! Thank you so much for taking the time to help those of us (speaking of myself) that need all the help we can get in the garden!
they can still bite, and the bite actually packs quite a punch
A lifesaver for many a soul lost in the bush who knows about them.
Hello Mark , Thanx for the vid. could you tell me what the size of the excluder hole is? have a good one. :)
Mantap..salam kenal dari Indonesia
Hey Mark, This is a interesting bee box.. i'm from india and recently started keeping the stingless bees and have been trying out different box designs out of wood and PVC pipes for these bees but what you have here is really very good.. can you please give me the specification of the box (the height and width of the box and thickness of the wood used) so that i can make a similar box for my bees?
Godd job .. I like to know more about australian stingless bees , when you have holiday to Bali let’ s come to our farm , Thank’s
greetings from Indonesia, I am a trigona lover and breeder in my area, ... I live on the island of Java ... and now the trigon yasa has the type of heterogina itama ..
Hello Suntoro! I didn't realise there were the same bees over in Indonesia - cool :)
This is different. Thanku
Love your videos - am just starting in Zimbabwe. What do you do with the wax from harvest?
Well you can do a number of things but i like to melt it down and make candles and/or lip balm
Great
Great video! Thanks! I have a question - what do you do with the pods after the honey has fallen out?
The wax that makes the pods used to be used by the indigenous australians to line the mouth of a didgeridoo to make it easier to play but essentially it's disgarded usually. The box/super can be placed back onto the hive for more honey to be made. Cheers :)
Very interesting to see your videos. For how much did you buy your 3 acres of property?
I'm going to research but thought I might ask. How did indigenous Australians collect the honey from native bees? I have a 100 plus year old pine tree that is to all appearances dead except for when you look way up high. I call it my Whomping willow. Native bees have made a home in it's base for the past 11 years. I've seen wasps and birds all try to feast on them but they continue to thrive. I don't want the honey as I'm too scared to upset the natural balance. The fact I wake up each day in Kangaroo Point, inner city Brisbane and can view these beauties amazes me.
Mantap mister
Hi Mark, Here from sunny SoCal, was wondering where I could purchase some that delicious looking honey? Thanks Mate!
Is your hive box concrete? How did you make it?
Great video, it look like your uncle had a bee suite on , why if the bees dont sting ?
Do yu only stack on honey super or can you put another one on top?
My grandpa keeps these bees
I would have thought they are giant ants rather than bees, amazing!
Sorry if you've already covered this but is there wax able to be rendered?
Question. Once he put the super in the ice cream container what did he do? Did he just leave it to drain into the container?
How big should the whole be between the brood and super ( through the queen excluded)?
I'm madly researching the bees at the moment. About to split my hive.
Good luck with the split Andy!
Hi!!
please tell me, how often you need to collect honey?
In the video it says they harvest every 12 months.
If they cant sting, how do they protect their nest?
they yell
I think that is why they prefer to have really small holes into their nest. Larger wasps can't invade. He mentioned that if the hole is too big then the bees will make it smaller with their wax anyway.
carollol...I have three of these Australian native stingless bee hives in my back yard. Even though they don't sting, if a human disturbs their hive, they will swarm all over you and are really annoying. They also have a very tiny nip (bite) that you can hardly feel, but when you have 100 little bees crawling over your face and some of the nipping you, you just want to get out of there.
@@6364ize thanks for explaining :) !
Never seen anything like this.I have bees in West Virginia in the US
mantap
How is honey extracted from these, are they squeezed or centrifuged?
Mark what is this white fungus thing on my lemon pot?it keeps on growing and I keep on removing it.
I can't really say without seeing it but generally, fungus is not bad as long as it's not sitting on the stem it shouldn't do much harm. :)
It would be interesting to see a queen bee. These bees look easy to keep as long as predators don’t get a look in.
Predators can be a problem - the mimic fly and spiders are the worst. :)
Hi I’ve got some wild honey beehives on my property, now should I find out the species type 1st, so as I make a correct sized bee box?
I'm not an expert in that area but I can say we have several different varieties of native bees in our 18 hives and they're all the same size.
I wonder if the hole on the side of the box would work for traditional bees ?
yes again first!!!
👍👍👍👍
What material is your bee hive made of?
I am grateful for this video. Educating people about native pollinators is what it is going to take to get control and destruction of the Africanized honey bee. Good God we have to find a way. The Africanized bee is a danger to all native pollinator the world over.
I would like to keep bees in the Philippines. I bought the pawn on some 4880 square meters. My live in farmer lady has a young son of ten that will collect fallen coconuts to sell in the market. Being the industrious fellow that he is, keeping native bees may be a way for him to thrive independently.
oh man first view too!! mark pls make a video about your citrus plants,mine is just a baby lemon =( but still I'm gonna follow your tips,cheers mark! :)
unreal!
How do you begin such a project. I'm from the Caribbean. Trinidad and Tobago
S W E E T !!!
I would love to start raising some of these bees but i live in canada and for 3-4 months of the year its -20c will they die?
I'm in Sydney (Australia) which is about as far south as these bees can survive. In the winter I keep my hive insulated. They would die at -20C, but people do keep them, and warm them, in colder climates.
Is your hive made of cement or wood?
โอ้โฮ..หรรอยนะ
This is how many peaple are great full for bees👇
How does this honey compare to the normal honey from regular bees ?
It's more runny and tastes a bit like a thick sweet port... Nice over ice-cream 👍
Salam satu hobi, saya dari indonesia🥰🥰🥰😍
Hi how much honey does 1 hive give you each year?
interesting, I'd like to do honey bees here
😱 OMG! Seeing this in person would tweak my tripophobia in the absolute worst way🤢
Is your uncle in WitSec?
I love how TH-cam is trying to gaslight me into believing these existed 5 years ago.
Clearly I would have heard about these bees in the 30 years I've been alive and it's clear these just dropped with the newest patch this year.
I just started beekeeping, so it's interesting to see the differences. There definitely seems to be a big difference in the capacity for mass production between the two.
I am curious why the boxes are so thick? I could see if it was for cold insulation, but seems pretty warm where those bees live.
hey mate, wondering where you/ your uncle sourced your brood stock for these honeypot bees from? have found other people with European species for sale but no native species. located in Australia
I'm not too sure where he origionally got his stock from but he has been bee keeping for decades. His number is in this post on our forum if you'd like to chat to him bit.ly/2z4PH4P
There are a few people that sell them online, mostly around South-east Queensland and Northern NSW though, which is where they thrive. Look up Sugarbag Bees, that's where we got our first hive.
Do you sell the honey? I would like some..
Not bad but he didn't go into the harvesting as he didn't talk about polen separation and honeynfron the pots for the uninformed.
This is the part I’m trying to get around. The honey is great when it dribbles fresh from the super, but the pollen gets in and sours it.