After determining the favored water source, we also did tests with salts and ultimately Sea Salts. th-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/w-d-xo.html This test is repeatable with the same results. Many have asked about evaporation, when left out where bees could not access the water, there were no measurable variations due to evaporation... the evaporation rate was the same for all sources/samples. The order of drinkers was also changed, results remained the same.
These results could still be due to random chance and pack influence. You can't draw conclusions from a single iteration. This test should have been run multiple times with different bees and in different locations to eliminate uncertainties and biases and see if a pattern is established with a larger data set.
Dear Jeremy, it's people like you that keep bees from reaching their full potential, you need to be more encouraging and the bees will realize the extent of their abilities. They not only read the signs, they are the ones that printed and afixed the labels.
If only you could make bees only get water from 1 place, that part being impossible unless you contain them but they roam up to 5 miles on average to get pollen.
I feel like the bees didn’t go for pond water is probably because it’s “smell” is associated with the fish that will come up to eat them if they drink there
We have a pond that has now 4" goldfish in it...we didn't have a wasp problem this year...they have been seen grabbing surface creatures regularly...used to not be able to sit next to it without tons of yellow jackets...not this year
You might be on to something , In the countryside we have a pond with fish next to a small stream . There are hundreds of bees around all the time but I've never seen one go drink from the pond
@@bikerbrandon1 Bikerbrandon1 Let me fix that, Biker Brandon 1 You need the caps at the beginning of a sentence then a cap at the first letter of your name,and you also forgot 3 spaces.Dont let it happen next time.
@@sincotrodium7385 You need a period after every sentence and also a space between a period and the capital letter of the next sentence. And a space after a comma. But I guess, you are a typical hypothetical grammar cop, just walking his beet.
I have recently become a beekeeper, and have two hives in suburban Melbourne, Australia. During my studies to become a beekeeper I had found instructions on the importance of providing a reliable supply of drinking water for the bees. It was considered important to provide good water relatively close to the hives, so that the bees did not get their water from less desirable sources, such as a neighbor's swimming pool, or a bird bath in a neighbor's garden. During our spring time of the last couple of months, we have had mild weather including good rain showers, and I had not seen any evidence of the bees drinking from the clean water I had provided for them. That mild weather ended abruptly yesterday when we had the hottest November day in Melbourne, for more than one hundred years. I was concerned for my bees, because they had been “bearding” on the outside of their hive boxes for several days. Even after I had provided additional hive-top ventilation they still continued this bearding, but not to the same extent. After I had watered my garden I found that a lot of bees (about 20) were congregated on a clump of quite wet composted material. I gently lifted some of this wet compost with a garden spade, together with a number of bees, and transferred it to my preferred bee drinking location. The happy result is that the bees continued to use the new location with its reliable water supply after the water had soaked away in the garden area, and they have continued drinking there in today’s milder weather. The thing that I have found most interesting in this observation is that the bees are drinking water from soaking-wet compost material, and not from the freshest part of the water container. Perhaps they prefer the taste of a “compost infused liquid”. We humans seem to like drinking infusions of various kinds of flavor such as tea, etc, and I wonder if bees actually prefer to have “flavored water”. I would invite other readers of this entry to respond with any of their observations which may add to our knowledge and understanding of this subject.
In my field, I use a silage tarp weighed down by logs. After the rain came, there were 3 water sources: 1) "clean" puddles, just water on top of tarp 2) puddles the log sat in and 3) water that had soaked up into the log. There were many more honey bees drinking water that had soaked into the log itself (not even the water the log sat in). I assumed it was for "safety" as I'd seen the occasional drowned bee as well, but perhaps the soaked log is also providing minerals?
I would test again but with the containers swapped around if they do enjoy one water over another the position should not effect the outcome. I would place the in a order that is opposite of their choices this time. But thank you for this work you do
The centers will evaporate slower duh and of course the different sources evaporate at different rates as well just as salt waterdoes not evaporate at the same rate as fresh salt and mineral free water.... this was not scientific in any way ....
@@jolllyroger1 i was wondering that myself, if the evaporation rates were different due to contaminants. Could eliminate that as the cause if he covered the entire set-up using netting that the bees could not enter, left it for a few days and then checked the water levels. If all the water levels remained consistent after several days, it would confirm the results of the previous tests.
@@SergeantExtreme I never claimed otherwise. That wasn't the point. The point is that if the evaporation remained constant, as in all jars showed approximately the same amount of evaporation after some given time, regardless of how long, it would confirm his findings. If, however, the evaporation rates were different it would show evaporation was a factor, even if only slightly. Its a proper control, one he didn't actually do. Science is accomplished by eliminating variables in your experiments, even the ones you are confident are irrelevant.
Frederick Dunn Not only the taste but the chemicals from the plastic that leach into the water. (I refrain from drinking out of plastic myself.) Glass or pottery could be a good test. 🙂
Joeaarsen0 Yes, but they have a preference for syrup from the glass vs syrup from the plastic feeder, as I clarified. That is the first one to be emptied, no matter where I move them in the yard.
These are some of the fanciest bees ever. They definitely request Fiji water at any restaurant. *Thanks for being active with this video after two years!
0:53 I flinched so much when the buzzing happened - I moved my head left and looked to the right expecting to see a bee next to me and I was so weirded out, until I thought 'What if it was in the video?' and I played it back and it was in fact in the video. I have never been so caught off guard by a random sound in a video before...
Hi again Craig.... if I may ask, what do you think of my narration quality here? Is it worth constructing a sound-booth to improve? Or is this close enough? I'd like to improve my presentation quality wherever possible :)
Hi, Frederick. Without hearing the audio "dry," it's hard to tell if there's much background noise. There certainly isn't much reverb or echo, so your recording space seems pretty dead. Since you're mixing in the nats of the bees, it seems to cover any background noise that may be present in your recording room. It sounds like you're very close to your mike. Be sure to side-address the mike, instead of speaking straight into it. That will reduce plosives (p-popping) and may also reduce some mouth noise. I use a Sennheiser 421MkII for much of what I do, and side-addressing reduces or eliminates all those problems. Overall, I'd say if you kept doing things the way you're doing, you'd be fine. I especially like that you pause frequently, instead of filling every second. I don't recall hearing a lot of "uhms" and "uhs," which is what people do when they're trying to fill the silence. I appreciate that you embrace the silence and let us watch the bees from time to time. For TH-cam, it certainly isn't worth constructing a booth, IMO. Better to spend your time doing more videos! :) Hope this helps.
I feel like evaporation plays a factor in this as well. I know chlorine evaporates faster than water so I would imagine minerals, contaminates, etc. in water would play in to factor too.
That was actually a big deal this summer in the southwest. Thousands of bees were mobbing compressors and condensate drains. They really do need plenty of water. Thanks for commenting!
The honey bees around where I live really like my little koi pond to drink but that is probably because I have a lot of water lily pads for them to rest on while they drink.
3:52 "Don't worry about those bees; they're gonna get out just fine" 3:58 *bee disappears beneath the surface* Edit: Looks like it fell off the edge instead. My brain didn't recognize that as a gap between fountains xD
We have a major creek with fish right at our house and a Koi pond. It's a flowing creek but has deep areas where the fish are. No bees with any sort of fish smells. Our hose area, yes, dishes we put out for them, Yes. We give them Brita filtered water.
I reckon these water containers were located too close to one-another and the bees cofused them. If these water containers had a bit more space between them perhaps we would have a more clear result about which one the bees preferred the most. Great video idea though!👍👍
You can change the order of the water each day. You'll see them sensing the water with their antennae and then move to their favorite source. These tests and observations are very easy to repeat. I invite home schoolers to use tests like this for backyard science.
OMG! I love you Bee paradise! It looks so amazing. I also enjoyed watching your water test research. Since childhood, I've been wanting to have my own Bee paradise like yours.
Depends where. Vancouver has _wonderful_ tap water. They have three reservoirs in the hills and they don't treat the water except for filtering large particles, so you get all the living stuff and fish pee and whatnot. If one of the reservoirs gets infected with something like cryptosporidium, they just switch to a different reservoir until a natural balance returns and clears the infection out. As a result, the water tastes delicious. When I was in Vancouver, I never drank pop or tea; the tap water was tasty all on its own.
Great, great video, thanks. I hope you can repeat the experiment to see if you get the same results. But maybe switch the position of each jar to rule out factors such as distance from the hives or flight paths, solar loading, etc.
Spoiler alert, the current test is with all four drinkers filled with the purified water to see if that does indeed rule out location. The drinker on the left did get early morning sun better, while the drinker all the way to the right received the setting sun which is normally when the bees are more active as compared with sunrise activity.
COOL !!! I like bees and such. Had a job in sand county. There was a beehive on the property. They would be swarmed on our rolls of fabric dewy mornings. I can only assume there to drink. Beekeeper said "they don't do that" and yet there they are.
Thanks for another excellent and informative video, Frederick. Some years ago (actually, in 1984) I was in Tucson, AZ visiting a friend/colleague (Justin Schmidt, who came out with the sting pain scale a few years ago), and we went to a place called Pima Canyon in which some puddles attracted wasps. One thing that caught my attention was that the lowest puddle (everything below it had already dried) seemed to attract the most wasps. I wondered if it was simply the first one they encountered when flying up the canyon or if they actually preferred it (perhaps it had a higher mineral content or other difference).
Chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) will decompose into regular table salt in sunlight. After a day or so, your pool water should have become mostly regular salty water. Chlorine has a very overpowering smell even in small amounts though, so it may be difficult to tell.
In the case of Calcium Chloride, it decomposes into calcium ions, which binds to and reacts with a variety of things in the water, making hard water. Either way harmless, and the resulting hypochlorites to chlorine gas don't stick around for long.
I'm just wondering if the water would evaporate more or less depending on what it has dissolved in it? Maybe you could test this somehow to see if it effected the results if at all?
It'd be interesting to do this experiment again with the types of water in a different order. This would confirm the conclusion. As it is, the seeming preference for filtered water might be a result of randomness.
NASA spends 52 million a day and I learn more about our world here watching your videos. This is real science. Thanks for what you do and reminding us of the beauty of nature all around us that we should stop and enjoy.
Thorough work. I would like to see the same test with the jars spaced apart more than an inch; maybe 2 feet. This may help eliminate any “aroma drift” of the water sources. This is just a hunch. Thank you for your dedication and research
With the drinker order re-arranged with the same configuration/spacing, the results were repeated, I don't think that spacing them out would result in a different outcome.
@Stock Name I don't mean the "pumping", they do that to breath. You can actually see their butt grow way bigger when it fills up with water. Just skip back and forth a few seconds to a part of a bee/wasp drinking, 1:26 for example.
I love bees they’re not even like normal bugs to me. I love their bright yellow color and stripes. We depend on them so much more than we think. They are beautiful creatures.
Throughout the video it looked like they were all completely avoiding the well water. Interesting to see what the results actually were compared to what we were saying.
Mr Dunn fyi my sister says she wants to marry you just so she can listen to your voice all day long "until she goes to sleep" apparently your voice is magical GREAT VIDEO!
Fred. This was again another outstanding vlog for sure. Its amazing how smart bees are. And i did not know they had that long of a tongue. And Thank you. Just a remarkably great vlog.
dyscea , they store the honey in there 'hairy legs' or something like that. It's very unbalancing for humans even to dip there lips into water down low. And a difficulty for many animals. So one slips, trips and flips, don't have opposable thumbs to grab onto a branch. Maybe bees are more designed to drink dew off leaves rather than dip down for water. But not much of that around on hot days. Something like this I am sure.
Electron density is preferred, that is why bees prefer water that has flowed through mycelium. Bees love wine caps, and stamets shows bees are healthier.
actually, if you check the beginning of the video, you come to the conclusion that they drank as much from the pond water as the well water. they weren't equally filled from the start. chlorinated water was drunk the least. i know i'm pretty late to this video, but still needed to point this out.
I keep a very shallow "dish" that I keep out for what ever animals that need water they can have water. Rabbits skunks.. Cats.. I saw a yellow jacket land right on the water all four legs out stretched landed right on top of the water get his drink then fly off
After determining the favored water source, we also did tests with salts and ultimately Sea Salts. th-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/w-d-xo.html This test is repeatable with the same results. Many have asked about evaporation, when left out where bees could not access the water, there were no measurable variations due to evaporation... the evaporation rate was the same for all sources/samples. The order of drinkers was also changed, results remained the same.
I was just going to ask if you tried rearranging the drinkers. :)
What was the position of the containers? I ask as I think maybe the location in relation to sun or maybe temperature has an impact on the choice made.
These results could still be due to random chance and pack influence. You can't draw conclusions from a single iteration. This test should have been run multiple times with different bees and in different locations to eliminate uncertainties and biases and see if a pattern is established with a larger data set.
@@archael18 To this day, I still do water tests. If the results differ, then there will be an update link in this video description.
You should try different store bought water. Like disoni, Aquafina, ice mountain, and so on. Would be cool
Bee: *falls in water* HELP!! I'M DROWNING IN POND WATER!!
Narrator: he'll be fine.
If it was pure unfiltered water he was drowning in he'd have no reason to complain
Miles and how do you know
lost in the sauce
@Miles daddy satan took my virginity in the night
He'll bee fine
this is FAKE....NO WAY can them bees read those signs
Dear Jeremy, it's people like you that keep bees from reaching their full potential, you need to be more encouraging and the bees will realize the extent of their abilities. They not only read the signs, they are the ones that printed and afixed the labels.
Frederick Dunn Fred, Freddy,... Are bees holding you hostage? You can tell us. We are here to save you.
The bees are better smelling than dogs
@@AcuaDi And they have a better sense of smell too.
😂😂Jeremy! Really dude. Sadhu
Me at 3AM:
TH-cam: you wanna watch some bees drink water?
Me: we both know the answer to that question is yes
I wish I could convey just how much I enjoy your comment. I literally have tears running down my cheeks. You've perfectly summed up my life.
Same but it’s 7am 😖
Dam im reading this at 2.55 am
4:30am baby, or you could say ... 🐝🐝
How did you know it was 3am?
NEXT LEVEL: Expert level taste testing comparing water sources for honey production and taste sensation.
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If only you could make bees only get water from 1 place, that part being impossible unless you contain them but they roam up to 5 miles on average to get pollen.
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I feel like the bees didn’t go for pond water is probably because it’s “smell” is associated with the fish that will come up to eat them if they drink there
Interesting hypothesis...
We have a pond that has now 4" goldfish in it...we didn't have a wasp problem this year...they have been seen grabbing surface creatures regularly...used to not be able to sit next to it without tons of yellow jackets...not this year
Yep same with mosquito wont lay egg if there still a scent of amonia from fish
You might be on to something , In the countryside we have a pond with fish next to a small stream . There are hundreds of bees around all the time but I've never seen one go drink from the pond
@@Lucifer-qt9gh i always get " confused with feet and thought that was bad ass that you had 4 feet long goldfish
"Dont worry they will get out fine"
Bee just disappeared into the abyss. Lmao took me a minute to realize he fell off the side and was fine
i was looking at that on 0.25 speed for a good minute or so trying to figure it out, i didn't realise he went into the side abyss.
Bee: *Drinks*
Bee's butt: *Wiggle wiggle wiggle*
Yea take the labels off and see if they know the differance you labeld them and they knew the best one hahahahahaha
I knew I'd forgotten something (';')
So at picnics & such it seems they always want to get into your can of soda or beer... curious if they can get drunk?
You know, if there is a difference after you remove the label, that'd be a real discovery ^^'
TH-cam: you want bee's drinking water
Me: n-no-
TH-cam: You. Want. Bee's. Drinking. W a t e r.
H A Y A T O
I want people to stop putting apostrophes in non-possessive plurals.
I’m not going to question why this is in my recommendation
I’m questioning why did I click it...
@@odilebartlett8191 But it's not possessive, drinking in this case is a verb, not an adjective.
@@nathangamble125 Never bothered me 🤷♀️
Hornets : Water is water.👇🏻
No it's not, do even a little research and learn something
bikerbrandon1 it was a joke, lmfao chill
@@bikerbrandon1 you see that ? its a joke but it have fly right over your head
@@bikerbrandon1 Bikerbrandon1
Let me fix that, Biker Brandon 1
You need the caps at the beginning of a sentence then a cap at the first letter of your name,and you also forgot 3 spaces.Dont let it happen next time.
@@sincotrodium7385 You need a period after every sentence and also a space between a period and the capital letter of the next sentence. And a space after a comma.
But I guess, you are a typical hypothetical grammar cop, just walking his beet.
Moral of story: Honey bees are smarter than chickens.
Makes sense. Chickens are morons.
A stick is smarter than a chicken.
Untrue.
In some cases, honey bees are smarter than humans!
I have recently become a beekeeper, and have two hives in suburban Melbourne, Australia.
During my studies to become a beekeeper I had found instructions on the importance of providing a reliable supply of drinking water for the bees. It was considered important to provide good water relatively close to the hives, so that the bees did not get their water from less desirable sources, such as a neighbor's swimming pool, or a bird bath in a neighbor's garden.
During our spring time of the last couple of months, we have had mild weather including good rain showers, and I had not seen any evidence of the bees drinking from the clean water I had provided for them.
That mild weather ended abruptly yesterday when we had the hottest November day in Melbourne, for more than one hundred years. I was concerned for my bees, because they had been “bearding” on the outside of their hive boxes for several days. Even after I had provided additional hive-top ventilation they still continued this bearding, but not to the same extent.
After I had watered my garden I found that a lot of bees (about 20) were congregated on a clump of quite wet composted material. I gently lifted some of this wet compost with a garden spade, together with a number of bees, and transferred it to my preferred bee drinking location. The happy result is that the bees continued to use the new location with its reliable water supply after the water had soaked away in the garden area, and they have continued drinking there in today’s milder weather.
The thing that I have found most interesting in this observation is that the bees are drinking water from soaking-wet compost material, and not from the freshest part of the water container. Perhaps they prefer the taste of a “compost infused liquid”. We humans seem to like drinking infusions of various kinds of flavor such as tea, etc, and I wonder if bees actually prefer to have “flavored water”.
I would invite other readers of this entry to respond with any of their observations which may add to our knowledge and understanding of this subject.
Hi Wilfred! Yes, they definitely go after the high mineral content sources: th-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/w-d-xo.html
It seems that bees are very adaptable and thank goodness for that....we need them!
In my field, I use a silage tarp weighed down by logs. After the rain came, there were 3 water sources: 1) "clean" puddles, just water on top of tarp 2) puddles the log sat in and 3) water that had soaked up into the log. There were many more honey bees drinking water that had soaked into the log itself (not even the water the log sat in). I assumed it was for "safety" as I'd seen the occasional drowned bee as well, but perhaps the soaked log is also providing minerals?
At 0:53 did anyone instinctively move their heads when they heard that buzz sound?😂😂
Oh, to be a Bee in the summertime, thirsty, and twerking.
I would test again but with the containers swapped around if they do enjoy one water over another the position should not effect the outcome. I would place the in a order that is opposite of their choices this time. But thank you for this work you do
The results have been consistent even when the order has been changed. Easy and repeatable.
The centers will evaporate slower duh and of course the different sources evaporate at different rates as well just as salt waterdoes not evaporate at the same rate as fresh salt and mineral free water.... this was not scientific in any way ....
@@jolllyroger1 i was wondering that myself, if the evaporation rates were different due to contaminants. Could eliminate that as the cause if he covered the entire set-up using netting that the bees could not enter, left it for a few days and then checked the water levels. If all the water levels remained consistent after several days, it would confirm the results of the previous tests.
@@ixamraxi LOL, not even close. Those things would have to sit there for DAYS in order for evaporation to actually affect the outcome.
@@SergeantExtreme I never claimed otherwise. That wasn't the point. The point is that if the evaporation remained constant, as in all jars showed approximately the same amount of evaporation after some given time, regardless of how long, it would confirm his findings. If, however, the evaporation rates were different it would show evaporation was a factor, even if only slightly.
Its a proper control, one he didn't actually do. Science is accomplished by eliminating variables in your experiments, even the ones you are confident are irrelevant.
I’m curious if you’d also notice a preference for glass vs. plastic containers. Our glass hummingbird feeder is always first to be consumed.
That's an interesting idea... I think I actually should shift to glass as it may impact the taste to the bees. Much appreciated!
Love it please do this
Frederick Dunn Not only the taste but the chemicals from the plastic that leach into the water. (I refrain from drinking out of plastic myself.) Glass or pottery could be a good test. 🙂
Your glass hummingbird feeder is sweetened watered. Of course they love it!
Joeaarsen0 Yes, but they have a preference for syrup from the glass vs syrup from the plastic feeder, as I clarified. That is the first one to be emptied, no matter where I move them in the yard.
These are some of the fanciest bees ever. They definitely request Fiji water at any restaurant. *Thanks for being active with this video after two years!
0:53 I flinched so much when the buzzing happened - I moved my head left and looked to the right expecting to see a bee next to me and I was so weirded out, until I thought 'What if it was in the video?' and I played it back and it was in fact in the video. I have never been so caught off guard by a random sound in a video before...
I've seen bees my entire life......and had no clue they were all flying around with Gene Simmons tongues.
Its more of a big spike with a Gene Simmons tongue inside
I never knew bees drinking could be so cute. Glad you're keeping those girls hydrated.. for science.
Why are insects drinking water so cute
Not only a great test, but beautifully shot-and-edited video!
Thank you so much Craig, such a great compliment!
Hi again Craig! It's not every day that I receive a comment from a celebrity :) I wish I did some voice-work, you are the man!!! Thanks again!
Thank you, Frederick...you're too kind. :)
Hi again Craig.... if I may ask, what do you think of my narration quality here? Is it worth constructing a sound-booth to improve? Or is this close enough? I'd like to improve my presentation quality wherever possible :)
Hi, Frederick. Without hearing the audio "dry," it's hard to tell if there's much background noise. There certainly isn't much reverb or echo, so your recording space seems pretty dead. Since you're mixing in the nats of the bees, it seems to cover any background noise that may be present in your recording room.
It sounds like you're very close to your mike. Be sure to side-address the mike, instead of speaking straight into it. That will reduce plosives (p-popping) and may also reduce some mouth noise. I use a Sennheiser 421MkII for much of what I do, and side-addressing reduces or eliminates all those problems.
Overall, I'd say if you kept doing things the way you're doing, you'd be fine. I especially like that you pause frequently, instead of filling every second. I don't recall hearing a lot of "uhms" and "uhs," which is what people do when they're trying to fill the silence. I appreciate that you embrace the silence and let us watch the bees from time to time.
For TH-cam, it certainly isn't worth constructing a booth, IMO. Better to spend your time doing more videos! :)
Hope this helps.
I feel like evaporation plays a factor in this as well. I know chlorine evaporates faster than water so I would imagine minerals, contaminates, etc. in water would play in to factor too.
Chlorine is only active for a short time when exposed to open air and light! Less than 12 hours.
But the flavor remains...
Chloramine, however, is active until you remove it chemically. It is cheaper than chlorine and many cities use it instead.
0:53 hell, that freaked me out. Thought a bee was in my ear
Plot twist: the bees on their backs in the water are just rebels going for a swim.
“They happily share watering holes.” The bee that came in hot at 4:34 : Are you sure about that?
No kidding! That wasp was stealing the good water! That wasn't pond water it was drinking.
That's because wasps are pricks, plain and simple
Man! Your voice is very calming and comforting. 😌
Very interesting 🙌🙌
Thanks for watching
This is as relaxing as watching fish in a tank or birds at a food station.
You could do a control experiment by putting out 4 PUR Waters
Damn good idea!
I was thinking of adding the PUR water to the other 3, but your idea is much better.
My ears were tingling the entire video hearing all those buzzing
3:40
everybody drinking water normally:
that one bee:
I found that bees really like the water that drips from an AC, so I made a landing board for them. Drives my wife nuts how much bee's like me.
That was actually a big deal this summer in the southwest. Thousands of bees were mobbing compressors and condensate drains. They really do need plenty of water. Thanks for commenting!
What a lovely and heart fulfilled video.
It's nice to see there are more out there protecting the bees.
The honey bees around where I live really like my little koi pond to drink but that is probably because I have a lot of water lily pads for them to rest on while they drink.
0:53 RIP headphone users, I freaked out cause I thought one was buzzing close to my ear
3:52 "Don't worry about those bees; they're gonna get out just fine"
3:58 *bee disappears beneath the surface*
Edit: Looks like it fell off the edge instead. My brain didn't recognize that as a gap between fountains xD
a disappearing "act" as it went between the drinkers...
Omg I'm wearing headphones and that bee sound scared me so bad
0:53 this jumpscared me as a headphone user xD
I don’t know why, but this video is very satisfying.
We have a major creek with fish right at our house and a Koi pond. It's a flowing creek but has deep areas where the fish are. No bees with any sort of fish smells. Our hose area, yes, dishes we put out for them, Yes. We give them Brita filtered water.
chlorine is a very important in the building and groth of many organic compounds..... maybe the bees know this.... i doubt they dont
4:23 That bee sure is enjoying that pool water
Listening to this on headphones, at 0:54 I think there's a bee behind me 😂
At first I thought the bee just drowned but the realized he actually fell off the edge of the pool LOL
I reckon these water containers were located too close to one-another and the bees cofused them.
If these water containers had a bit more space between them perhaps we would have a more clear result about which one the bees preferred the most.
Great video idea though!👍👍
You can change the order of the water each day. You'll see them sensing the water with their antennae and then move to their favorite source. These tests and observations are very easy to repeat. I invite home schoolers to use tests like this for backyard science.
This was recommended to me, I did not search for it. But TH-cam somehow knew I would find this endlessly fascinating... Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
The bees 🐝 at 3:39 " jump in guys the waters just right" 😂
At 0:52 I instinctively turned my head since actually thought there was some insect flying near my ear.
Imagine spending 5 minutes and 51 seconds just watching bees during water
... because I didn't, yeah I totally didn't...
OMG! I love you Bee paradise! It looks so amazing. I also enjoyed watching your water test research. Since childhood, I've been wanting to have my own Bee paradise like yours.
I tend to agree with the bees. Tap water is gross.
I guess you live in a city.
And bottled water is even worse
Chemicals from plastic be making the water taste like sanitizer and I've tried a lot of bottled waters...
Depends where. Vancouver has _wonderful_ tap water. They have three reservoirs in the hills and they don't treat the water except for filtering large particles, so you get all the living stuff and fish pee and whatnot. If one of the reservoirs gets infected with something like cryptosporidium, they just switch to a different reservoir until a natural balance returns and clears the infection out. As a result, the water tastes delicious. When I was in Vancouver, I never drank pop or tea; the tap water was tasty all on its own.
But tap water is filtered so your point makes no sense.
Plus water doesn't exactly taste of much unless it's pool water
Your voice is soothing as heck
I love your experiments. I learn so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing. Best to you.
Thank you so much Colleen!
I never thought I'd ever see bees drinking water!
Great, great video, thanks. I hope you can repeat the experiment to see if you get the same results. But maybe switch the position of each jar to rule out factors such as distance from the hives or flight paths, solar loading, etc.
Spoiler alert, the current test is with all four drinkers filled with the purified water to see if that does indeed rule out location. The drinker on the left did get early morning sun better, while the drinker all the way to the right received the setting sun which is normally when the bees are more active as compared with sunrise activity.
You should also test water with/without salt - that's a big debate on the West Coast (like you need the work)
COOL !!! I like bees and such.
Had a job in sand county. There was a beehive on the property. They would be swarmed on our rolls of fabric dewy mornings. I can only assume there to drink. Beekeeper said "they don't do that" and yet there they are.
Bees will often travel miles for the right moisture! Even compressors for a/c get visited by bees in many cases.
Very interesting test. I was surprised at the results. Nice work, Frederick.
Thanks Jason, always something new :) thanks for commenting!
Thanks for another excellent and informative video, Frederick. Some years ago (actually, in 1984) I was in Tucson, AZ visiting a friend/colleague (Justin Schmidt, who came out with the sting pain scale a few years ago), and we went to a place called Pima Canyon in which some puddles attracted wasps. One thing that caught my attention was that the lowest puddle (everything below it had already dried) seemed to attract the most wasps. I wondered if it was simply the first one they encountered when flying up the canyon or if they actually preferred it (perhaps it had a higher mineral content or other difference).
Chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) will decompose into regular table salt in sunlight.
After a day or so, your pool water should have become mostly regular salty water.
Chlorine has a very overpowering smell even in small amounts though, so it may be difficult to tell.
Chlorine is also highly water soluble.
In the case of Calcium Chloride, it decomposes into calcium ions, which binds to and reacts with a variety of things in the water, making hard water.
Either way harmless, and the resulting hypochlorites to chlorine gas don't stick around for long.
0:53 Watching this with my airbuds on i thought a bee flew past my right ear
0:53 Oh my god, that was way too real.
right? I had earbuds on
I love this. And I love how thorough you are with repeating the experiment in different orders as well. Follow your passions, I support you 🐝
Thank you so much!
I'm just wondering if the water would evaporate more or less depending on what it has dissolved in it? Maybe you could test this somehow to see if it effected the results if at all?
It'd be interesting to do this experiment again with the types of water in a different order. This would confirm the conclusion. As it is, the seeming preference for filtered water might be a result of randomness.
Please read the pinned comment, thanks :)
NASA spends 52 million a day and I learn more about our world here watching your videos. This is real science. Thanks for what you do and reminding us of the beauty of nature all around us that we should stop and enjoy.
Thank you so much notchbak, always nice to read your comments!
I completely agree! Keep it up and keep them coming Mr Dunn!
I can't tell you just how correct you are!
Where did you get the 52 Million a day number?
Excellent info . And such a calming voice. Thanks
I love the ones swimming around all like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- it's ok I'm OK I'm out it's cool" **Wingfans Activate**
i guessed completely wrong. i thought pond water was gonna be by far their favourite.
Humans: this pond water from spring is best
Bees: im about to ruin naturist entire lifestyle.
us: surely bees will like pond water it's natural
bees: actually we prefer chlorinated
I keep coming back to watch bees drink water
0:53 I tried to swat it..
God it scared the crap out of me... LMAO
HAHA oh god so true xD
I’m wearing earphones, so I was ready to hit the deck at that point.
Ah yes
Angering the bee
first time i've seen a bee's mouth tongue appendage thing, looks kinda neat
This is like Edge of your Seat Science right here.
Thorough work. I would like to see the same test with the jars spaced apart more than an inch; maybe 2 feet. This may help eliminate any “aroma drift” of the water sources. This is just a hunch. Thank you for your dedication and research
Thanks Dyllon, much appreciated!
With the drinker order re-arranged with the same configuration/spacing, the results were repeated, I don't think that spacing them out would result in a different outcome.
You can actually see that their rear grows quite large while drinking.
@Stock Name I don't mean the "pumping", they do that to breath. You can actually see their butt grow way bigger when it fills up with water. Just skip back and forth a few seconds to a part of a bee/wasp drinking, 1:26 for example.
I love bees they’re not even like normal bugs to me. I love their bright yellow color and stripes. We depend on them so much more than we think. They are beautiful creatures.
TLDR: They preferred the Pure Filtered Water
Thanks. That was boring.
Throughout the video it looked like they were all completely avoiding the well water. Interesting to see what the results actually were compared to what we were saying.
It is interesting what their preferences are, and those change through the seasons. They also go for salts and minerals at varying seasonal intervals.
Mr Dunn fyi my sister says she wants to marry you just so she can listen to your voice all day long "until she goes to sleep" apparently your voice is magical GREAT VIDEO!
Thanks for the compliment, at least I think it's a compliment?
Great experiment and I agree with Master Beekeeper. I always thinking Mr. Dunn's voice and his love of the bees is the Bob Ross of the bee world🐝👍
Fred. This was again another outstanding vlog for sure. Its amazing how smart bees are. And i did not know they had that long of a tongue. And Thank you. Just a remarkably great vlog.
How do they “flip” into the water? Did they trip? Did they lean in too far? Did they clip their landing? I need to know.
awkward honey bees
Frederick Dunn 🤦♀️
dyscea , they store the honey in there 'hairy legs' or something like that. It's very unbalancing for humans even to dip there lips into water down low. And a difficulty for many animals. So one slips, trips and flips, don't have opposable thumbs to grab onto a branch. Maybe bees are more designed to drink dew off leaves rather than dip down for water. But not much of that around on hot days. Something like this I am sure.
Cate7451 thx! It was just annoying seeing them in the water 🤣
dyscea , yes it bugged me too. Good little honey bees. Made me want to buy one of those things. Help them out a little.
Electron density is preferred, that is why bees prefer water that has flowed through mycelium. Bees love wine caps, and stamets shows bees are healthier.
Absolutely fascinating!
Thank you Mary, honey bees are indeed fascinating. It's a joy to observe them..
Interesting that in most shots it looked like the pond water was the most crowded, but the PUR was the lowest level at the end.
Should do another test or 2 with water types in different orders
Please read the pinned comment, thanks Travis.
Keep making videos. It's very obvious you take pride in what you do.
Thank you so much Krystle, it's a joy to make videos and share, I'll be doing that for many years to come. Thank you for such a nice comment!
interesting experiment indeed
Thanks
actually, if you check the beginning of the video, you come to the conclusion that they drank as much from the pond water as the well water. they weren't equally filled from the start. chlorinated water was drunk the least. i know i'm pretty late to this video, but still needed to point this out.
3:30 "Goddammit, Barry! Stop drinking that fermented honey!"
I didn’t realize their butts twitch when they drink XD
Thank you TH-cam recommendations, see you all in 5 years
Apparently they love my dogs bowl of water
I keep a very shallow "dish" that I keep out for what ever animals that need water they can have water. Rabbits skunks.. Cats.. I saw a yellow jacket land right on the water all four legs out stretched landed right on top of the water get his drink then fly off
Food critics: needs more salt
Bees: needs to bee more wet
Zero clue why YT suggested this, but now I know something new. Thanks!
I'm like the bees. I drink Pur water.
I love their tongues. So cute! 😍