I don’t think that the bees in the hive in our garden are particularly domesticated At least not based on the way that they went after me when I got too close to them when cutting the grass!🐝
Copied from May 8th and pasted here and now for your approval (Mandella Efected to "approval) : -)How fitting that I should be compelled to write about the May bees on May 8th seeing 8 as the top view of a body of a bee. Now it may be a Mandella Efect, or the bees just adapted to the environment, but definitely the saying "took the piss from me" has received an epic redemption! I first learned of bees using piss to kill pathogens last year after seeing (for the first time ever!) bees gathering my piss while pissing on my outdoor piss spot. Today I witnessed it again, and that little honey bee was just barely perturbed by my fresh stream as it gathered the medicine for the hive's health. Holy golden showers! (If the bees die we all starve!)
Bees are such fascinating creatures. I read a book that likened the individual bees to the neurons of a human brain and showed how much discrimination swarming broods displayed as they looked for a new home.
The bees owned by Queen Elizabeth were told when she died. The beekeeper went to each hive and knocked on it and said, "The mistress is dead, but don't you go." If I recall correctly, black mourning ribbons were then tied around each hive.
A seemingly baffling tradition.. until you find yourself standing in the garden and talking to your bees (aka the girls) 😊 It’s nice to be part of something that has been around for so long
People talk to their cats, dog, birds,, plants, etc., why not bees? This was an interesting tradition and I'm glad to learn about it. It exemplifies respect for the bees and their work.
@@richf5967I talk to the bees when they visit my fruit trees and flowers. When my lemon tree blooms it is full of bees. Twice we have had a colony overnight in our elm tree, and our elm is over fifty years old and has a very large crown. Baffling, oh yes, the buzzing (a hum, really) is strangely calming. 🐝🐝
@@richf5967 Over the years I have detected what I call a bee language. Which is made up of different different vibrations . Some we can hear. Some transmitted through the comb. Seen as in dances. And smelt. We can use orders to attract swarms. Each hive has its own smell. When my daughter got married she went out and in her wedding and bare foot 'told the bees'. When a local keeper passed I had the honor of telling his bees.
Lance had to comb through a lot of history for this episode. He truly waxed poetically over this sticky subject. I'm glad no one told him to mind his own beeswax or he wouldn't have shared this video with us!
Carl Sagan: "If all insect life on earth were to end, in 75 years there would be no life on earth. If all human life on earth were to end, in 75 years life would flourish on earth."
@@stevedietrich8936 , You should ask your beekeeper friends if they have seen the movie " Ulee's Gold" with Peter Fonda as a beekeeper who gets sucked into a criminal conspiracy. It's a good un!
That is very true. My bees do the same thing. but you have to be close to their hives almost daily. They will recognize person. I've had bees land on my arm to lick off the sweat. They do recognize people.
I am a bee keeper, and have noticed that there are almost no honeybees in the city of Edmonton Alberta. I have ween watching the flowering trees and plants and have only seen bumblebees pollinating.
All the feral bees have been wiped out because of Varroa. If you do see honeybees, it's because there is a beekeeper nearby managing them. If you live in Edmonton, try working some Russian bees. I have them here in Minnesota and they do well in our cold temps. :)
As a beekeeper I really enjoyed this video. It fun to keep the traditions alive and pass your knowledge on to the next generation. Beekeeping is VERY addictive.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments. There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting. The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source. The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now. Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
Good job Guy! Diabetes ended my days of eating honey but I still enjoy the love of the girls being around. I provide them homes and watch over them to see that it's kept in proper working order. They do their thing, keep their honey and multiply in spring to populate the wild population. My biggest and strongest hive this season is one of those swarms that came back to me and took up shop in an empty hive behind my home. One of Gods amazing little creatures that have made my life better by being a part of it.
A bit off the topic, but wild bees deserve some love too! Although they don't produce honey for us, local native bee species are often vital and rapidly disappearing parts of ecosystems. For those that would like to support their local wild bees, consider growing plants that are native to your area in your garden. Wild bees (and other pollinators) are often better adapted to local plants, and these plants are well adapted to local conditions and need less care. If you're in Minnesota, check out the Lawns to Legumes program, which provides grants to residents to establish pollinator gardens and lawns.
I am a beekeeper and when I feed my bees, getting them prepared for winter, I feed them using jars inside the hives. I also leave out a birdbath filled with sugar water, for not just my bees, but all the other pollinators in the neighborhood. Everyone gets a free meal. :)
Ah beekeeping. Here is a true story. Back in the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton was on an around the world tour(without Bill BTW). Winding up the tour she stopped in New Zealand. At a meeting, she impressed the audience by admitting that she was named after New Zealand's favorite son,,,,Sir Edmund Hillary. The problem was,,,,Hillary was born in 1946 and Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest in 1953. In 1946, Sir Edmund Hillary was an obscure bee keeper in Auckland , N.Z. Then she made it to NYC to end the trip,,,,and this was another event in the life of Hillary. Hillary arrived in NYC and DEMANDED the PRESIDENTIAL suite at the Waldorf. She did not make reservations btw. She demanded that they put her in and kick out the person who reserved the room. The hotel called and asked the person if he would let Hillary have his room. His answer was,,,,,,"I earn my money, I work for a living." His name,,, Dale Earnhart #3. As a shear coincidence,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dale #3 is my 7th cousin.
"if sugar, was as sweet as you honey, sugar just couldn't be bought". A song by the band Rockpile. There must be hundreds of songs that reference "honey" in the lyrics, from Van Morrison" "she's as sweet as Tupelo honey" to " Honey pie "by The Beatles.
My birthday is May 20. I have always asked my wife for fried chicken for my present. She has always taken me to a chicken restaurant, where they serve honey with the meal. OH, did I mention I live in Kentucky? Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
Playlist inspired by this episode: Honey I Miss You Honey Don't A Taste Of Honey Honey Pie Wild Honey Pie Honeycomb Honey, Honey Honey Bee Honey Child I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Honey Hush (Albert Collins). Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison). King Bee (Slim Harpo). Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller). Money, Honey (Ry Cooder). House at Pooh Corner ( Loggins and Messina). Last but not least, BeesWing (Richard Thompson): "She was a rare thing/ as fine as a bee's wing/ so fine a breath of wind might blow her away/ she was a lost child/ she was just running wild/ she said 'as long as there's no price on love I'll stay/ and you wouldn't want me any other way'....."
'Winnie the Pooh' bear says: "Bears 🐻❤🍯.....So, PLEASE keep the bee's 🐝 knees's 🦵 a going n' a growing'......bee 🐝 cause its time for something sweet"‼️ 💟 🐝🍯🏳️😉❤️
There's also "House at Pooh Corner" by Loggins and Messina: " I've got to get back to Pooh Corner by one/ you'd be surprised, there's so much to be done/ count all the bees in the hive/ chase all the clouds from the sky..."
When my wife makes peanut butter balls, sort of a better version of Reese's peanut butter cups, she melts a little beeswax into the melted chocolate so that it will firm up and stay solid at room temperature without easily melting the second you touch it.
Loved it! Enjoyed the video, while partaking of my morning coffee with honey (as per usual). While not a beekeeper, I've taken an apiculture class, and would love to bee a beekeeper one day. For anyone interested, they might want to seek out the author Sue Hubbell and her books about beeing a beekeeper. Loved all the history - especially from other lands. Didn't know or remember about other removeable frames prior to Dr. Langstroth! One thing not mentioned is that honey should not be given to children less than one year old - generally this warning is on jars of honey. While I don't remember the details, I think it has to do with the infants' gut biome not being developed enough to handle honey. Also should mention, that I think honey is the only liquid sold as weight and not volume (at least in U.S.A., I don't know in other countries). It would be interesting to know how this came about.
Really nice summary! I’ve done so much reading during my own apicultural career, and I can’t think of anything significant that you left out! They’re truly amazing creatures
What, no mention of that hairdo sometimes referred to as the beehive? By the way, there is a bird in Africa that is reputed to lead people to wild beehives, and it reportedly eats the bee larvae after the hunter gatherers take the honey.
😄👍🏻. Right, the dome shape of those early pots and such. Funny how in cartoons that shape is still used. Boxes just won’t make good animation or hairdos. 🤷♂️😉
I am, I'm alone cause my jar of honey is from Pitcairn island and cost me $50! Lol It is nice tho. 😏👍 Said to be th best honey in th world due to having th least diseases for bee's in th world and my being a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian I felt it a family duty to try it. 😊
No one can argue that pigs have been domesticated, and yet they, too, can go feral in one generation. Bees, too! Horses, cows and dogs take a little longer, but in the end they don't need us. We need them! Our bees especially! The tragedy of this time in earth's history is the rate at which agri-farming practices are poisoning them, along with our planet. We can stop it, but everyone needs to be concerned and onboard.
@@goodun2974 The honeybee must be one of those 8 because their stinger can't be withdrawn from your flesh by the bee. When they sting and fly away she leaves her guts behind, connected to the stinger.
Quite familiar with bees. At one time, my father had as many as thirty hives. In the 90s, the last hive died out from mites. Since there's no row cropping in my area, only cattle grazing and pine forests, pesticides are an unlikely cause. A super (a shallow upper box used to collect honey) has ten frames that can have two to four pounds on wax and honey each. A hive may have as many as four supers or more. Multiply that by thirty hives. The three of us worked up a LOT of honey.
@@tomtheplummer7322 Tossing waste wax on the ground near hives is said to draw Small Hive Beetles. Better to collect it in a bucket and render it down like any other wax.
We will die without bees! Butterflies as well. They fertilize everything we grow. Maybe Texas pulled these books out of libraries. They will never learn what bees are for.
Please do not confuse helpful bees with the similar-looking yellowjacket wasps. For the most part, if you leave bees alone, they will leave you alone. Yellowjacket wasps are not so polite.
Most bees can only sting you once and then their stinger, with venom gland attached, rips out of their abdomen, stays attached to you while continuing to pump the venom into your body, while the bee eventually dies. Yellow jackets, however, can sting repeatedly without dying. (they're actually wasps, not bees; but anyway, baldfaced hornets are even worse).
Yellowjackets can sting you more than once. I had one get under my shirt one time. Had 7 stings on my belly. I was weed-wacking some rough ground and disturbed their hidden nest. They came boiling out of the ground to show their disapproval. They chased me almost a hundred yards.
"She was a rare thing/ as fine as a BeesWing/ so fine a breath of air might blow her away..." from BeesWing by Richard Thompson, a song about the Big Love that got away, and sung in Richard's *mellifluous* baritone. ( I could have simply written "first", as some people do, but that's for lazy people; and there are better ways to stoke the algorithm in THG's favor).
@@eloiseharbeson2483 , for the others here who aren't familiar with it, the song you reference is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning": a motorcycle, an outlaw, and a red-headed girl, the most dangerous combination imaginable! Another favorite of mine from Thompson's back catalog is "Al Bowlly's in Heaven (and I'm in Limbo now)". And then there's the insane electric-guitar freakout of "Shoot Out the Lights"......
@@davidparrish1133 _The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture_ is another good one. The two leading beekeeping magazines (in the U.S.) are "American Bee Journal," published by Dadant and Sons and "Bee Culture," published by A. I. Root.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments. There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting. The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source. The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now. Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
History that deserves to Bee remembered 😆
Billy - I certainly BEElieve that.
🐝 Bee True To Oneself 🐝
Come on, surely you can do better than the most obvious pun imaginable.
But...that's what he always says, classic.
@@jppatterson7142 This is a honey of a presentation of happy culture and we can apidae-t they are anthophilic creatures.
thank you for sharing
Thank you 😊
Have been a beekeeper for almost five years. The research that is needed is substantial. THG you did a great job putting this together. 👏 👍 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
Another great vid. Many thanks.
A mention of Deseret, the Beehive State, and it's people would have been nice. 🐝
Oh bother
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝...Thank THG🎀 👍
I don’t think that the bees in the hive in our garden are particularly domesticated
At least not based on the way that they went after me when I got too close to them when cutting the grass!🐝
Copied from May 8th and pasted here and now for your approval (Mandella Efected to "approval) : -)How fitting that I should be compelled to write about the May bees on May 8th seeing 8 as the top view of a body of a bee. Now it may be a Mandella Efect, or the bees just adapted to the environment, but definitely the saying "took the piss from me" has received an epic redemption! I first learned of bees using piss to kill pathogens last year after seeing (for the first time ever!) bees gathering my piss while pissing on my outdoor piss spot. Today I witnessed it again, and that little honey bee was just barely perturbed by my fresh stream as it gathered the medicine for the hive's health. Holy golden showers! (If the bees die we all starve!)
Vice President Pence kept bees at the VP residence in DC.
Not quite long enough.
What do bees chew? Bumble gum
As an apiarist, I salute your efforts on behalf of our long and noble profession. Thank you!
🙏🐝☯️
I'll second that!!! Northern Californian beekeeper for 13 years.
@@GeorgeCMcRae SoCal Beek - 4th year.
Bees are such fascinating creatures. I read a book that likened the individual bees to the neurons of a human brain and showed how much discrimination swarming broods displayed as they looked for a new home.
Southern Missouri and NW Arkansas 10 years. 👍
I've kept bees for fifty years. this is a brilliant and accurate video. Well done.
The bees owned by Queen Elizabeth were told when she died. The beekeeper went to each hive and knocked on it and said, "The mistress is dead, but don't you go." If I recall correctly, black mourning ribbons were then tied around each hive.
I came here to say this. Traditions like this baffle me. 😂
A seemingly baffling tradition.. until you find yourself standing in the garden and talking to your bees (aka the girls)
😊
It’s nice to be part of something that has been around for so long
People talk to their cats, dog, birds,, plants, etc., why not bees? This was an interesting tradition and I'm glad to learn about it. It exemplifies respect for the bees and their work.
@@richf5967I talk to the bees when they visit my fruit trees and flowers. When my lemon tree blooms it is full of bees. Twice we have had a colony overnight in our elm tree, and our elm is over fifty years old and has a very large crown. Baffling, oh yes, the buzzing (a hum, really) is strangely calming. 🐝🐝
@@richf5967 Over the years I have detected what I call a bee language. Which is made up of different different vibrations . Some we can hear. Some transmitted through the comb. Seen as in dances. And smelt. We can use orders to attract swarms. Each hive has its own smell.
When my daughter got married she went out and in her wedding and bare foot 'told the bees'. When a local keeper passed I had the honor of telling his bees.
Lance had to comb through a lot of history for this episode. He truly waxed poetically over this sticky subject. I'm glad no one told him to mind his own beeswax or he wouldn't have shared this video with us!
🐝🐝🐝
He who would pun would pick a pocket.
Buzz off!
And such sweet result for such a worker bee.
@@charlotteemerson5050 The History Guy goes by the old saying, "never let 'em see you sweet"!😆
Carl Sagan: "If all insect life on earth were to end, in 75 years there would be no life on earth. If all human life on earth were to end, in 75 years life would flourish on earth."
the keeper's quandry: to bee or not to bee.....
I know two people who are hobby apiarists. Both are going to get an email with a video link.
In other words, you are going to make them tap into the hive mind!
@@goodun2974 You are aptly named.
@@stevedietrich8936 , As I keep telling my wife, but she doesn't bee-lieve me!😁
@@stevedietrich8936 , You should ask your beekeeper friends if they have seen the movie " Ulee's Gold" with Peter Fonda as a beekeeper who gets sucked into a criminal conspiracy. It's a good un!
The Langstroth hive was the first major modern advancement in beekeeping. The second was the centrifugal extractor.
My grand father raised bee's he could go out with no protection and the bees wouldn't bother him much because he said they would get to know him.
That is very true. My bees do the same thing. but you have to be close to their hives almost daily. They will recognize person. I've had bees land on my arm to lick off the sweat. They do recognize people.
As Beekeepers ourselves this was quite interesting to watch. Thanks for putting this together!
Noah's Ark Noah after the deluge he planted the workds first Vinyard they had access to their own honey! 🍯🌈🌈🌈🌠 The More You Know!
Here in Greece, our neighbourhood is full of bee trees! They never bother us, as they are busy bee's . 🐝
"None of your Bee's Wax"!!!!! 🤣
I am a bee keeper, and have noticed that there are almost no honeybees in the city of Edmonton Alberta. I have ween watching the flowering trees and plants and have only seen bumblebees pollinating.
All the feral bees have been wiped out because of Varroa. If you do see honeybees, it's because there is a beekeeper nearby managing them. If you live in Edmonton, try working some Russian bees. I have them here in Minnesota and they do well in our cold temps. :)
Stay busy as a bee and that will make you bee happy
thanks
As a beekeeper I really enjoyed this video. It fun to keep the traditions alive and pass your knowledge on to the next generation. Beekeeping is VERY addictive.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments.
There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting.
The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source.
The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now.
Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
To use a historical comparison, 618M pounds of honey is just over ten Edmund Fitzgerald loads...
Good job Guy!
Diabetes ended my days of eating honey but I still enjoy the love of the girls being around. I provide them homes and watch over them to see that it's kept in proper working order. They do their thing, keep their honey and multiply in spring to populate the wild population. My biggest and strongest hive this season is one of those swarms that came back to me and took up shop in an empty hive behind my home. One of Gods amazing little creatures that have made my life better by being a part of it.
A bit off the topic, but wild bees deserve some love too! Although they don't produce honey for us, local native bee species are often vital and rapidly disappearing parts of ecosystems. For those that would like to support their local wild bees, consider growing plants that are native to your area in your garden. Wild bees (and other pollinators) are often better adapted to local plants, and these plants are well adapted to local conditions and need less care. If you're in Minnesota, check out the Lawns to Legumes program, which provides grants to residents to establish pollinator gardens and lawns.
I am a beekeeper and when I feed my bees, getting them prepared for winter, I feed them using jars inside the hives. I also leave out a birdbath filled with sugar water, for not just my bees, but all the other pollinators in the neighborhood. Everyone gets a free meal. :)
Obey the bees. Brew more mead.
As an amateur meadmaker I fully appreciate the hard work our little black and yellow friends perform.
Hey a Bee🐝 day Reminds me of France 🇫🇷 Cest Le Vie
Don't forget Xenophon's description of the use of "mad honey" as a weapon.
My favorite Bee was Aunt Bee. She was the nicest old lady in Mayberry.
Ah beekeeping.
Here is a true story. Back in the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton was on an around the world tour(without Bill BTW). Winding up the tour she stopped in New Zealand. At a meeting, she impressed the audience by admitting that she was named after New Zealand's favorite son,,,,Sir Edmund Hillary. The problem was,,,,Hillary was born in 1946 and Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest in 1953.
In 1946, Sir Edmund Hillary was an obscure bee keeper in Auckland , N.Z. Then she made it to NYC to end the trip,,,,and this was another event in the life of Hillary.
Hillary arrived in NYC and DEMANDED the PRESIDENTIAL suite at the Waldorf. She did not make reservations btw. She demanded that they put her in and kick out the person who reserved the room. The hotel called and asked the person if he would let Hillary have his room.
His answer was,,,,,,"I earn my money, I work for a living."
His name,,,
Dale Earnhart #3.
As a shear coincidence,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dale #3 is my 7th cousin.
Worth noting that infants under the age of a year and a half or so, as I recall, are not supposed to ever be given honey.
Yes, mentioned this myself. Only omit I noticed. :)
"if sugar, was as sweet as you honey, sugar just couldn't be bought". A song by the band Rockpile. There must be hundreds of songs that reference "honey" in the lyrics, from Van Morrison" "she's as sweet as Tupelo honey" to " Honey pie "by The Beatles.
My birthday is May 20. I have always asked my wife for fried chicken for my present. She has always taken me to a chicken restaurant, where they serve honey with the meal. OH, did I mention I live in Kentucky? Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
African have been using honey 🍯 for over 130,000yr...😆 🤣 so it's the thing of the new race yea African been using it for medical use an all that.
Playlist inspired by this episode:
Honey I Miss You
Honey Don't
A Taste Of Honey
Honey Pie
Wild Honey Pie
Honeycomb
Honey, Honey
Honey Bee
Honey Child
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Honey Hush (Albert Collins). Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison). King Bee (Slim Harpo). Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller). Money, Honey (Ry Cooder). House at Pooh Corner ( Loggins and Messina). Last but not least, BeesWing (Richard Thompson): "She was a rare thing/ as fine as a bee's wing/ so fine a breath of wind might blow her away/ she was a lost child/ she was just running wild/ she said 'as long as there's no price on love I'll stay/ and you wouldn't want me any other way'....."
'Winnie the Pooh' bear says: "Bears 🐻❤🍯.....So, PLEASE keep the bee's 🐝 knees's 🦵 a going n' a growing'......bee 🐝 cause its time for something sweet"‼️ 💟 🐝🍯🏳️😉❤️
Thank you for turning down the outro volume!
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Hovering under the honey-tree.
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Pay no attention to me...
Winnie the Pooh
There's also "House at Pooh Corner" by Loggins and Messina: " I've got to get back to Pooh Corner by one/ you'd be surprised, there's so much to be done/ count all the bees in the hive/ chase all the clouds from the sky..."
Thanks for the inspiration... I'm gonna go out any work my neglected hives today...
This history lesson is the Bee's knees
Didn’t know my job as Hunny-Hunter-Gatherer is pretty old.
🍯
I'll bee keenly waiting for the next episode of the The History Guy. Sorry.
I wonder which animal species is actually busier, beavers or bee-vers....
🐝 kind 🐝 loving 🐝 grateful
World bee day is on May 20th because that's Anton Janša's birth date (the same one mentioned in the video).
the stingless bees of the mayans are also interesting.
it tastes great
I'm dubious, Langstroth used the metric system?
When my wife makes peanut butter balls, sort of a better version of Reese's peanut butter cups, she melts a little beeswax into the melted chocolate so that it will firm up and stay solid at room temperature without easily melting the second you touch it.
Utah's has a State insect - the honey bee.
Are you my brothers beekeeper?
Hey J.H
North Carolina's state insect is the honey bee!
I was a beekeeper for five years. Fascinating but rather expensive hobby. I miss my thousands of fuzzy friends. 🐝🌼
What a great bit of history and entertainment. Thank you.
Loved it! Enjoyed the video, while partaking of my morning coffee with honey (as per usual). While not a beekeeper, I've taken an apiculture class, and would love to bee a beekeeper one day. For anyone interested, they might want to seek out the author Sue Hubbell and her books about beeing a beekeeper. Loved all the history - especially from other lands. Didn't know or remember about other removeable frames prior to Dr. Langstroth! One thing not mentioned is that honey should not be given to children less than one year old - generally this warning is on jars of honey. While I don't remember the details, I think it has to do with the infants' gut biome not being developed enough to handle honey. Also should mention, that I think honey is the only liquid sold as weight and not volume (at least in U.S.A., I don't know in other countries). It would be interesting to know how this came about.
Good evening
"What's the buzz, tell me whats'a happenin'/ what's the buzz, tell me what'sa happenin'...."
WHY should you wanna know
@@steveoh9025 , you're probably too young to recognize the song....
@@goodun2974 nah that's the next line in the song ;)
"None of your beeswax Nelly Olson!"
Really nice summary! I’ve done so much reading during my own apicultural career, and I can’t think of anything significant that you left out! They’re truly amazing creatures
I will Bee🐝 lieve it when I See 👀 it!
Allergies From Honey Home Remedy..
Gone Out Of Circulation from Influx On Culinary..
What, no mention of that hairdo sometimes referred to as the beehive? By the way, there is a bird in Africa that is reputed to lead people to wild beehives, and it reportedly eats the bee larvae after the hunter gatherers take the honey.
😄👍🏻. Right, the dome shape of those early pots and such. Funny how in cartoons that shape is still used. Boxes just won’t make good animation or hairdos. 🤷♂️😉
The bee eater birds are gorgeous creatures! Amazing to watch too.
Thank you
After I combed through all the comments, it's sweet to see that they are all abuzz about this episode. 😉
May is Dont Mow Your Lawn Month. It's better for all pollinators, bees included.
Ancient History 🐝🍯
I am, I'm alone cause my jar of honey is from Pitcairn island and cost me $50! Lol
It is nice tho. 😏👍
Said to be th best honey in th world due to having th least diseases for bee's in th world and my being a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian I felt it a family duty to try it. 😊
"Honey" without any qualification in the Bible generally refers to date honey, not bee honey. I'm not sure in modern Hebrew if that's the case.
No one can argue that pigs have been domesticated, and yet they, too, can go feral in one generation. Bees, too! Horses, cows and dogs take a little longer, but in the end they don't need us. We need them! Our bees especially! The tragedy of this time in earth's history is the rate at which agri-farming practices are poisoning them, along with our planet. We can stop it, but everyone needs to be concerned and onboard.
My bees didn't make it through winter this year. I didn't get more. Maybe take a break for a year.
Concentrate on my grapevines instead.
"I'm just a little black raincloud...."
A bee accused of stinging a person said "I didn't do it, I was framed!" Wrongfully convicted, they took him *away* from his cell...
...her away from her cell...
Can't be true, a bee cannot live once it stings you, it dies.
@@pankajmakwana2300 , I looked this up, and only 8 out of 21,000 bee species worldwide actually die after stinging.
@@goodun2974 The honeybee must be one of those 8 because their stinger can't be withdrawn from your flesh by the bee. When they sting and fly away she leaves her guts behind, connected to the stinger.
Thanks THG for the historic buzz.
Thanks bee's ❤
1444 years ago bees are mentioned in the holy Quran and named in one chapter.
Just to remind you
You forgot to mention that John the Baptist lived in the desert and ate locusts and hone, according to the Bible..
IF WE DONT HAVE THEM THEN WE DONT EAT , REALLY SIMPLE ISENT IT 😢 .
@billyrussell, you'd better bee-hive yourself!
Oh, please do a story on Cassius Clay. The abolishonist?
Quite familiar with bees. At one time, my father had as many as thirty hives. In the 90s, the last hive died out from mites. Since there's no row cropping in my area, only cattle grazing and pine forests, pesticides are an unlikely cause.
A super (a shallow upper box used to collect honey) has ten frames that can have two to four pounds on wax and honey each. A hive may have as many as four supers or more. Multiply that by thirty hives. The three of us worked up a LOT of honey.
Beetles and mites are a scourge. A healthy hive can control beetles to an extent. Mites are a hives bane.
@@tomtheplummer7322 Tossing waste wax on the ground near hives is said to draw Small Hive Beetles. Better to collect it in a bucket and render it down like any other wax.
What’s the buzz? Tell me what’s a happenin!
There is a law in Texas now that you will be fined or arrested if found harvesting honey and farming bees. Crazy!!🐝🐝🐝
I was born and have lived Over fifty years in Texas and know of Several Bee Keepers and we have Never heard of such a law!! 🤨
We will die without bees! Butterflies as well. They fertilize everything we grow. Maybe Texas pulled these books out of libraries. They will never learn what bees are for.
I can believe that for Arizona because all honeybees in that state are considered Africanized.
Please do not confuse helpful bees with the similar-looking yellowjacket wasps. For the most part, if you leave bees alone, they will leave you alone. Yellowjacket wasps are not so polite.
Most bees can only sting you once and then their stinger, with venom gland attached, rips out of their abdomen, stays attached to you while continuing to pump the venom into your body, while the bee eventually dies. Yellow jackets, however, can sting repeatedly without dying. (they're actually wasps, not bees; but anyway, baldfaced hornets are even worse).
I bet yellow jackets have ruined far more picnics than ants have. Unless perhaps you're in the deep South where they have fire ants...
Yellowjackets can sting you more than once. I had one get under my shirt one time. Had 7 stings on my belly. I was weed-wacking some rough ground and disturbed their hidden nest. They came boiling out of the ground to show their disapproval. They chased me almost a hundred yards.
My apartment designation is BEE.
Have been fascinated by apiculture since I first started home brewing, mead is delicious
Very interesting but could you speak slower for non native speaker, thank you. French listener
You can slow down the entire video using the settings symbol (a cog) at the bottom right-hand side of the screen.
I love all your videos, but this one was especially both broad and deep. You manage to put sooo much into just several minutes!
Must admit...I do like the effort you put into each intro. Thanks :)
Just harvested 2 gallons of honey lol
"She was a rare thing/ as fine as a BeesWing/ so fine a breath of air might blow her away..." from BeesWing by Richard Thompson, a song about the Big Love that got away, and sung in Richard's *mellifluous* baritone. ( I could have simply written "first", as some people do, but that's for lazy people; and there are better ways to stoke the algorithm in THG's favor).
That song always brings tears to my eyes. "52 Vincent" will always be my favorite RT song, but that one's number two.
@@eloiseharbeson2483 , for the others here who aren't familiar with it, the song you reference is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning": a motorcycle, an outlaw, and a red-headed girl, the most dangerous combination imaginable! Another favorite of mine from Thompson's back catalog is "Al Bowlly's in Heaven (and I'm in Limbo now)". And then there's the insane electric-guitar freakout of "Shoot Out the Lights"......
we have no mow may here in buffalo to help the bees
Thanks for this video.
I was recently thinking of studying beekeeping as a hobby, so the upload of this video is a very nice coincidence.
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The Hive and the Honey Bee is a good book on bees.
@@davidparrish1133 _The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture_ is another good one.
The two leading beekeeping magazines (in the U.S.) are "American Bee Journal," published by Dadant and Sons and "Bee Culture," published by A. I. Root.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments.
There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting.
The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source.
The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now.
Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
do it..... now the time to buy bees if any local bee keepers still have them for sale. I got some new colonies last week.
To whomever first braved a beehive to “See if that stuff is edible”, we salute you 🏃♂️💨 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝