What Does Native Bee Honey Taste Like?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I taste test native stingless bee honey and see how it compares to regular European bee honey.
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Hello, here in Brazil we have various stingless bee species, and I do have some beehives. They are lovely and the honey is really good. I hope more people know about them and how they are important for local ecosystem. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks for the extra information Marcus! 🙂👍
Interesting, didn't know they're were stringless bees out there! 😃
This video was sweet! I couldn't bee any happier you uploaded today
Best comment so far! Lol ;)
Iam an arborist and have saved about 28 hives I've got them on my property as well 🐝🐝👍👍👍
Where can I get more information
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That’s awesome!
I’ve wanted a beehive since I was a kid but I’ve always been afraid of killing the hive.
Since we’ve moved back to the family farm I may give it a try in the near future.
Never knew about this type of bee so interesting, thank you for sharing.
Love all your videos mate you do an absolutely spectacular job at what you do! Keep up the good work!!
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Good Morning Mark.
Can I just say? as someone who likes to watch cooking shows or any sort of culture show in which people try to describe taste and smell to the viewers, They could learn a lot from you! I just watched you taste honey for 5 minuets and with your use of word, emotion, facial expression and timed camera work I was left with the feeling I had tasted the honey for myself!
I love you videos mate and despite the fact I live in the UK so only 25% of your growing season matches mine ( Your winter vs our Summer) I still take great value from your show.
Regards
Mark UK
Only come across a few native bee hives in the bush in my time. I'm glad someone is helping the native bee out. Needs to be more of it. Thanks for sharing.
That was really interesting, I hadn't heard of those bees. Great that your uncle has worked towards maintaining and promoting the stingless bees, our insects need all the help they can get in the modern world.
i just looked up images of sugar bag bee's honey comb and was amazed to see that they form them in a Fibonacci Spiral..... Whoah.... :-o
@hudson spiral out keep going little bees
I had to look it up. So neat! Nature is truly amazing.
I gasped when I saw your garden. looks like paradise.
I love seeing the native bees in my garden, been trying for some time to encourage them back back with veggies that I'm growing!
Gday Mark your videos are so inspiring and outstanding and i think your garden is looking fantastic keep up the good work 😀
They are sooo tiny! I thought they would be bigger😕😂
A neighbour of our had a lot of hives, and I loved to watch his bees coming into our garden
to drink at our pond. Sometimes he'd give us a jar of honey. He wasn't allowed to sell it.
Then he had someone move in next door and complain that he was getting pollen on his
car from the bees. So he got rid of most of the hives. I don't think I would have done.
They might bee stingless, but they can sure give a nip! We've got a small hive on our mains water tap. Every time I need to do some plumbing tends to bee painful. 🐝
I love your channel, you are truly blessed.
Great job mate,,, I have native bees in my orchard in Silkwood, Qld. I don't havest the hones as I don't have hives, but I have drilled holes in my 8" hollow concrete block walls and this is where the bees have their nest. Cheers
Wow, I never heard of bees without sting! The world is full of wonders. Thank you for that information.❤️ Best whishes from the other end of the world! 😀
Thanks for the info mark we got rain on the range not much just a little blessing so happy got my seedling in and it rained
Love bees, GOOD JOB, GOD BLESS YOU 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝😍😍😍,love from New Jersey USA 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I wish I could have a honey bee hive here in Austin Texas! Great video as always Mark!
Did you just gain a hundred thousand subs? Great job mate you deserve it.
We have heaps of these cool little dudes visit our vegie patch, they especially loved when the Rocket & Spinach went to flower. We must have a hive close by, as there are 1000'z of them
Hey Mr Mark because of your videos and some other TH-camrs I just planted some carrots and red beats and I'm planning on planting some other stuff soon thanks for the videos 👍👍
That is so unique, and sounds absolutely amazing. I don’t know anything about keeping bees either lol
thanks for putting up you uncles details for the hives , called him today ,,,
Good stuff .mark.another great video.🍅🥑🥔🍓🥝
I've been doing a bit of research on the natives! Where I live in Sydney (not far from the blue mountains) I reckon it's too cold for them, but I've planted my bee/flower garden none the less and have a little bee hotel in case any type get stuck out in our random weather
Could you please make a video on how to grow a kumquat tree? Love your videos..they're so motivating❣
Hi Mark,
you said in the video that native honey easily runs... in this case it would be less**viscous, not more viscous.. you said - more viscous... 🙏
I love watching your videos Mark. you inspire me❤🌞
What a tremendous class of ecological education, many people don't even know there's bees without stings or that the honey bee is european (although is usually called european or africanized honey bee).
Here in Brazil we have many species os stingless bees, some closer to the dimensions of the european honey bee, like Uruçu (Melipona scutellaris).
Can’t say why but found this interesting!
That honey looks awesome.
Most informative.
Great video!
This is where TH-cam can only do so much. I miss out on so many incredible flavors and aromas! I guess I just need to visit Australia now. 😉
Hello from Japan! What a great video. 😂😂😂 I totally would have licked the bowl!!
Wow. I'd absolutely love to get a big crop of hives and watch the honey collect all year
Wow, superb, if only to provide shelters 4 our natives
I really hope your uncle can ship to Cairns, I would love some in my garden! Great video Mark, thank you.
Check around. There are a few people here already that can set you up.
@@bman8054 thanks. I will do. I appreciate your advice.
I had a couple of African Tulip trees on my property which I removed as soon as I found out they were toxic to native bees.
excited to see the kaola finding this little guys
Ty
Amazing!
Mark, great video as always, Just to be sure tho, is that contact information from your uncle's company or his personal details. I mean, not to offend or anything, it would just be a shame if his personal details got spammed by some malicious person you know...
Keep up the work, really love it!
Wow thanks Ive never heard or sting less bees
You probably have 50 different wild bees in your area that don't have stingers.
Nice Mark 👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝 Tricky Trev just like mine.
Hmmm... been waiting two weeks and still no new videos. What’s up Mark? Sure miss them!
Wow i love honey so much
Sent me some too the Netherlands i like too try something new😉 intresting video.
I wish there were stingless bee in Europe.
I'd have put couple of hives on my balcony.
The runny stuff could have been bees force fed sugar syrup, which is what we do in the UK in preparation for winter and after we take all the honey off. We take care not to claim sugar syrup as honey
Wife brought some sting less bee honey home from Mexico. It's thin but tastes good.
I've always wanted to raise bees for pollination, but since I'm allergic to them I've always had some pretty complicated plans for keeping them away from my house and my animals when the time comes to bring in the hives. I can't believe in all my research about Australian gardening and plant husbandry this is my first time learning that the native bees literally can't sting me. Looks like I'll be saving a bit of money on patio and chicken coop netting lol.
Got plenty of the buggers floating around the property, but have yet to find the hives. Might do a bit of looking in Spring and see if I can coax some into one of my own hives.
@@davidsmith9189 First I've heard, from what I can gather though, you wait until they swarm and then kidnap em and bung them in your own hive.
david smith
Gandalf is wise in the ways off corruption and the political travesty of the world, Mark is wise in the thing that keeps you from going insane.
@@davidsmith9189 Always wanted to knock up my own, some of those topbars seem easy to manage. Got a bee keeping store about 5 minutes from home too. Hive, gear and starter colony for $800 I believe was the quote. European bees though.
@@davidsmith9189 Yeah, I know all about em. Tiny little things but they seem to do a lot of work around the yard. My motivator for keeping natives is to let em flourish and help the garden. Where as the Euro bees would be my honey makers.
I love your videos Mark, love your humour. The taste test...ah! 😆😆😆
Would Australian native bees cope in Victoria? Are they found all over Oz?
Hi Ali. Australian Native bees tend to be Illawarra and above on the east coast up to FNQ and the NT. I don't think they would cope too well in the Victorian winter.
Hi Mark great video! Would it be possible to do a beginners guide to set up a native bee hive? Also What would happen if the hive wasn’t “split” ?
Most hives would split in their own. Honey bees will do this too. Splitting them you would control where they go.
Experienced this today in my parents garden. Found a hive accidentally under a rock and just dabbed my finger in the honey. It really was amazing. Left it at that tho. Hopefully we didn’t disturb them too much
I don't remember if I talk to you about it but in Colombia South America they have green bees little green ones I don't know if they sting you... but I remember seeing a little bee hive that they have them in .... they are bright green bees. we have a few varieties of this cross the country here in the USA...
yum
dont mess with a bear and his honey.😆 cheers
Lol 🙂👍
Didn't know New Zealand had grizzlies 😮
Since native bee honey is thinner, can it be reduced over heat (like is done with sap to make syrup) to make it thicker and intensify the flavor? Also, as someone else asked, what is the wax like compared to honey bee wax? Thank you so much for what you do!
I haven't tried reducing it but that's an interesting thought! The wax from these bees is more like a resin - our indigenous people used it in tool and spear making 🙂👍
When you heat honey you destroy the medicinal properties, if you add it to a hot cup of tea it's only to sweeten it. I guess you shouldn't heat it above the temperature of a hot summer's day.
Never heard of these little wonders, very cool! Tel us what a kilo costs? I used to raise normal honey bees and the cost to do so and the work involved is enormous no doubt if these bees only produce 1 kg it better be expensive!
My grandma used to raise bees
Have you ever thought of planting some Manuka bushes ?
I've seen on other videos you mention about having gulf gold plums, did you need another variety to cross pollinate and how do you find they go where you live?
I live a few hours North of you and am considering trying to grow plums but I'm worried about the chill hours?
Any advice would be appreciated :)
You meant fructose.. they add high fructose corn syrup in most honey here in north america but it could be cane or beet sugar..however theyre pure sucrose(glucose fructose).
Exactly! Although he mentioned this was local or something.
@@donkey7921 Doesn't stop them from adding sugar, refined syrups/powders are so widespread. people do that with maple syrup here too :$
@@CharleGodin yeah, well I'm guessing I know what he is doing, tho he did describe not pure honey, so...
No, pretty sure it's pure honey, just with a different sugar (more glucose) profile. Honey sold here by law actually has to be honey, nothing added.
@charlegodin did you know that north america and australia are different places
Do u extract the honey like u do for european bees ??
Checked the price - eek! I would love to try some as my sweet tooth is never satisfied.
Compared to leatherwood honey, how strong is the flavour?
Is that kilo of honey an indication of only one hive? In any case, I'd love to provide a nearby nest for pollinators as they tend to have a small range.
We have the blue banded native bees in my garden in Canberra, but you can’t take honey from any of the native bees because it’s too cold and they won’t make it through the winter.
Awesome!!! I’m from the United States and i live in zone 6. Would they survive here?
*I'll have to get my Australian son-in-laws to bring me some next time they're*
*in Australia! 🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝*
Delicious honey
Hey!! Save some for us! 😆
What microphone gear do you use Mark?
I’d love to have native bees in my back yard 🥰, iam in NSW any chance he’d like to come to the central coast NSW Lisarow 🥰🥰🥰
The sugar bag honey is actually less viscous. I’m sure it was just a brain typo.
David W
Great video
Will he do set up for me live 10 minutes away from you
What's the native wax like compared to traditional European bees wax Mark? Going by the honey I imagine it's a gooey consistency as well.
They don't make wax, only propolis.
@@NoShitMr Well not quite. Propolis comes from plants and all bees bring this to the hive. On research I found the Aussie ones produce a brown wax which is a mixture of propolis and beeswax, seems to be a good wax but quite soft compared to 'regular' wax. Just looking into it as I use bees wax in my woodturning and haven't tried our native variety. cheers
The viscosity of honey depends on which types of flowers were pollinated by the bee so for example acacia honey is different then linden honey no matter what type of bee made the honey.
Doka Bae linden honey is really good.
UnBEElivable!!!!
Are the bee hives inside styrofoam boxes?
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Reminds me of maple syrup consistency, noice m8
Would be good for mead
I can't get over how mean it is to steal their honey
Bees normally make much more honey than the hive needs, like an insurance policy should something go wrong the following season. As long as the beekeepers are responsible and knowledgeable then the hives will thrive and quite often excel themselves with the management.
@Oshe Shango You know that's the pimp reasoning? mafia reasoning? ... etc
How do I get this set up with these specific bees in Perth?
while you are eating, i wanna yell ^where are the pancakes???^
-saliva drolling 😀
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I'm Australian and i didn't know. Are they all states or NSW thing?
Hi Mark I have a question for you. Maybe it could lead to a new video. The topic is reusing soil. I have spent alot on dirt this year and many gardeners say to not reuse it. Especially tomatoes. Could I sterilize the soil at the end of season with peroxide mix? If you have any advice or ideas let me know. As a kid we always reused the dirt, and fertilized it with fish heads but now I'm using raised beds and purchasing food soil mix. Take care.
The main reason not to reuse it is if it's had diseased plants, destructive insects in the soil etc. But particularly tomatoes which can get root knot nematodes, which will still be in the soil. You can tell by looking at the tomato roots. They won't be smooth, but have lumps all along the roots. There are a lot of videos about people who reuse potting mix/soil. Google it for better information.
I'll stick with regular honey bees once I start my own.
Honey bees are better for honey production but the stingless and other solitary bees are much better pollinators, so if you're growing plants that need flowers pollinated you can get better yields by having some of the other bee varieties near your garden. This is why they're so popular despite the lower honey production. (Not that you have to choose, you can still have both!)
I'm wondering if your reference to wine or port is that it tastes a bit fermented? I'm a honey beekeeper in Ontario Canada. We can often have honey with too much moisture and if that happens it too can taste a bit like a wine or port from fermentation. If you add honey to water and yeast you get Mead = honey wine.
Exactly what I was thinking too. Honey bees lower the water content in honey before capping the cells off, to prevent fermentation. He mentioned that the native bee honey is less viscous, so I'm thinking it has more water and is more likely to ferment.
Would this work with American stingless bees?
What is the health effect and the difference from regular sting bee honey?
To be honest, I haven't researched the health effects/benefits compared to honey bee honey but I'll no doubt look it up and do another video in the future 🙂👍
That's what I would suspect...
Doesn’t it depend on what the bees get for nectar?
Yeah for normal honey atleast that is a huge factor, very easy to distinguish honey from different flowers, generic honey is just random flowers in nearby vicinity so bit of a lottery.
kind of apis florea?
in jogjakarta we have the beekeepers of it, we call it "lebah kanjeng"
u could find them in gunungkidul area
@Alvin Asmi yup, lebah klanceng atau lanceng ya
ternyata bikin penasaran byk orang ya
semoga peternak lebah indonesia tetap semangat
@Alvin Asmi baiklah, thank you
Mine had a lemon taste in mine I’m looking to buy boxes.