That is interesting a out bees and phones . I seldom take my phone out into the garden.. last time I did a few bees needed a time out😅. I put my phone away and harmony came back..
Re-queen to fix the temperament of the hive. Here in Texas we re-queen every spring from breeders in the north where there aren't africanized genetics to keep our bees well bee-haved and gentle.
Make more content!!!!. I follow so many channels but the hype watching you is unrivaled. I appreciate the randomness and variety. I think myself and the rest of your followers love the angle you and you're dad take towards building a property. Keep it up man much love!!!!
#PermacultureConsultant Q&A Hi William, It has been a joy watching you branch out from your Mom & Pop and absolutely love your channel - GREAT WORK!!! Couple questions; What are your thoughts about bees under home power electric wires? On our SW Oregon farmstead we have a 1/2 ac multi species/varietal stone fruit orchard and use 5ft plastic tree tubes to protect from deer and small varment, growth seems slower than what I anticipated over the 3 1/2 years since bare root planted with cardboard and continuous heavy wood chip mulching - thoughts or ideas? A friend gave us ALOT of old worm leachate in plastic containers (supposedly vented for air) from last year, some mold seen growing in some of the containers, is this stuff still alive at all, any benefit to still using it or will we be introducing bacteria’s that we don’t want to to our gardens and orchard? Lastly we have an opportunity to get Heritage Gravenstein Apples from a 100 year tree orchard, would love to propagate on our farm, since I don’t have root stock to graft I was thinking of using a “Stefan Sobk” method of burying the apples …any idea? Thanx JB !
I remember hearing the same bee problems when traveling to Europe 15 years ago from farmers and beekeepers that the telecommunication lines were causing Bee death and confusion - and thereby less honey & pollination. Sounds feasible - all those internet / phone / radio waves has to negatively impact something
Yes, some bees are very angry. For them, it's protective. All those stingers pretty soon, you won't have any bees left. Smoke is a distraction they get ready to escape a forest fire. Try hanging some cloth so it flutters in the wind in front of the entrance to the hive. Ten or twenty feet away. It may get them accustomed to movement near the hive. Some bees get protective if you get in front of the entrance or your shadow crosses the open hive body. Some times a new queen will take care ot the problem in a few weeks. PS. Provide a water source near by for the bees if they don't have to go a long way for water they will have more time with the plants. Water helps them make honey and keep the hive cooler. Clean water with something they can land on in the shade. When you.move a hive it needs to be a two step process. First step move two miles away for several days then move back to the location you want them in. If you make one short jump your bees will get lost and try to go to their old location.
This is what the web has to say about the bees and microphone. Bluetooth microphones, specifically those using the 2.4 GHz frequency band, have been found to disrupt honeybee communication and behavior. Honeybees rely on complex communication methods, including: 1. Dance patterns 2. Pheromones (chemical signals) 3. Vibrations 4. Electromagnetic fields Research suggests that Bluetooth signals, which operate within the 2.4 GHz range, can interfere with honeybees' ability to communicate effectively. This interference may: 1. Disrupt navigation and orientation 2. Alter dance patterns 3. Impact pheromone release and detection 4. Affect colony coordination Studies have shown that exposure to Bluetooth signals can lead to: 1. Increased agitation and aggression 2. Disrupted hive activity 3. Reduced honey production 4. Impaired navigation and homing abilities It's essential to note that: 1. Not all Bluetooth devices affect honeybees equally. 2. The impact may vary depending on factors like signal strength, duration, and proximity. 3. More research is needed to fully understand the effects. To minimize potential disruptions, beekeepers and researchers recommend: 1. Keeping Bluetooth devices away from bee colonies 2. Using alternative frequencies (e.g., 5 GHz) 3. Implementing shielding or signal-blocking materials 4. Conducting further studies to better understand the effects Remember, honeybees play a vital role in our ecosystem, and understanding their behavior is crucial for their conservation and our environment! Thanks for sharing your observations with us.
To each his own as far as how you keep your bees. I’ve had dozens and dozens of hives over a lot of years. I never went into a hive without smoking them. If you consider every bee that stings something dies so you actually are loosing bees with each sting. The smoke will calm them down and you will loose less bees each time you go into a hive. They will also lack much to eat during the dearth (from mid July to Fall Goldenrod bloom). So yes they will eat their honey at this time. But they’ll build it back up with fall pollen flow. Why don’t you do an experiment video and smoke them vs no smoke and show the results? This would be interesting. Suggestion: Rather than move your hives just install a shade tarp over them with a few metal T posts and give them some shade. Maybe raise them up too so the skunks won’t eat them too. Get the boxes off the ground. Just sit them up on a couple cinder blocks. Love your videos! Keep posting please.
Thanks for the advice buddy! I definitely want to get them up off the ground. I'm not opposed to smoking them, I just haven't seen much of a difference in the past. It seemed like it would work on some hive and then just make other hives mad. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
@@ThePermacultureConsultant If you decided to try smoking, get you a decent smoker and I also use a small hand held propane torch for keeping my fire going. (it comes in handy lol). Anyway, if you try it, really smoke the entrance heavy at first, then just wait a couple of minutes, then open the box. Give the smoke time to work and calm them down. As you gently open the box, hit them a few more times with the smoke. And as you work them, hit them with several puffs of smoke really good every 10 minutes or so. You should see a big difference. Just don't rush into it. Go slow. Hope this helps! Appreciate you sharing your vast knowlege of permaculture!!!!!! You (and your dad) are the absolute best on TH-cam! I want to meet you someday lol! All the best!
Brooo, that totally makes sense, I got lit up at work by a bunch of bees and it just dawned on me that I was wearing my Bluetooth earphones. It also could have been because I was a two feet away from their hive but still. Great video and great harvest 💪🏾😁🤙🏾🤜🏾💥🤛🏾🦬🙏🏾🇺🇸
We have an opportunity to have someone bring his bees over to our property and he’ll take care of them and he’ll give us honey. I’m all for that. Hopefully they are friendly bees.
Sorry had missed if you explained why you didn't smoke your bees. I'm not a Bee Keeper but have followed some cousins that did. Generally they visited the hives in the cool of the mornings. They had hives up here in Ohio and would move south in the winter, do recall they took some to Florida. Of course they did not have cell phones or such back in the 70s/90s before they retired. Too I never recalled them taking their spinner and supplies back to the yard as you have shown. Will follow up with a cousin now running the business to get some inside from him. They family was started by their Grandfather originally, now ran by 3rd generation 100years later.
When checking the hive or collecting honey do it early in the morning or late at night when it's cool. That might help. 🤷♂️ When i had bee's it didn't matter same with smoking them.
I've just had mixed results before. Some hives seem to respond well and others seem to get more irritated. I might be doing it wrong, but I just stopped fooling with it after a while.
Doug from Doug & Stacy has a few videos on EMF and the dangers of it. Your claims are valid from what he talks about. There’s definitely something to it.
Man, you need a Honey Bee Consultant! Far as the mic goes, it's black and furry. Like a Bear. Bees and Bears are natural enemies. I do believe the Bees don't like the stuff bluetooth and any electronic equipment puts off. Another thought, You may have been a bit hyped and anxious doing the video. That and the electronics were maybe a double whammy on their attitude. Yes, you should have smoked them lightly or sprayed with a water/sugar solution. Would have helped. And yup move those Bees into a dappled sun area. Helps to keep the hive and their temperament cooler. Don't go full shade or the hive beetles will take over the hive. Like anything keeping Bees is a learned thing. Stay with it and you'll get it.
Beautiful dark permaculture honey!!! Verse 68: And your Lord inspired the bee [saying]: ‘Make your home in the mountains, and on the trees and the trellises that they erect. Verse 69: Then eat from every [kind of] fruit and follow meekly the ways of your Lord.’ There issues from its belly a juice of diverse hues, in which there is a cure for the people. There is indeed a sign in that for a people who reflect. The Messenger of God said: “By the One in whose hand is my soul, the believer is like a bee which eats that which is pure and wholesome and lays that which is pure and wholesome. When it lands on something it does not break or ruin it.
I don't remember her name but they are TH-camrs and have a lot of bees and do all kind of herbal tinctures and such. They have an apothecary course. I'm sure you know who they are. She said if your bees are angry, to contact a company out of Texas that sells queen bees and when you change the queen out. The bees will calm the F down.
Pasture Raised PIMP, Great video as always, like your father you can dance with the best of them and stay focused and shift topics on the run. LOL I was thinking that you may have used too much Sharp Dressed Man that morning, and your Bees are gay and looking for a new queen/king but that might offend the purple haired trans testicle polar bears out there out there. I too have seen that Bees do not like Tech, so I would mitigate your involvement with them while having tech on. Dam did I just use my outside voice. Just my 2 cents. Can't wait for the Jamboree and seeing you and the family. God Bless from TN
Next time just go without the microphone. You could even record it from a camera that is not connected to the internet and use a wired microphone or do a voiceover afterwards.
#PermacultureConsultant Q&A Hi William, It has been a joy watching you branch out from your Mom & Pop and absolutely love your channel - GREAT WORK!!! Couple questions; What are your thoughts about bees under home power electric wires? On our SW Oregon farmstead we have a 1/2 ac multi species/varietal stone fruit orchard and use 5ft plastic tree tubes to protect from deer and small varment, growth seems slower than what I anticipated over the 3 1/2 years since bare root planted with cardboard and continuous heavy wood chip mulching - thoughts or ideas? A friend gave us ALOT of old worm leachate in plastic containers (supposedly vented for air) from last year, some mold seen growing in some of the containers, is this stuff still alive at all, any benefit to still using it or will we be introducing bacteria’s that we don’t want to to our gardens and orchard? Lastly we have an opportunity to get Heritage Gravenstein Apples from a 100 year tree orchard, would love to propagate on our farm, since I don’t have root stock to graft I was thinking of using a “Stefan Sobk” method of burying the apples …any idea? Thanx JB !
There are people who are sympathetic enough with bees that they can do everything without anything naked...
After you 😂
@@ThePermacultureConsultant
people believe the brain is the mind.... but it is actually our senses....
That is interesting a out bees and phones . I seldom take my phone out into the garden.. last time I did a few bees needed a time out😅. I put my phone away and harmony came back..
Re-queen to fix the temperament of the hive. Here in Texas we re-queen every spring from breeders in the north where there aren't africanized genetics to keep our bees well bee-haved and gentle.
Mine go crazy over a phone..very calm when I don't have it on me
Make more content!!!!. I follow so many channels but the hype watching you is unrivaled. I appreciate the randomness and variety. I think myself and the rest of your followers love the angle you and you're dad take towards building a property. Keep it up man much love!!!!
The Bond clan are great educators who entertain while teaching!
Haha thank you so much man! I'll keep making videos, if you keep watching!
I love ALL The Permaculture Consultant videos!
Thanks buddy!
Beautiful daughter William! Always learn a lot from your videos.
#PermacultureConsultant Q&A
Hi William, It has been a joy watching you branch out from your Mom & Pop and absolutely love your channel - GREAT WORK!!!
Couple questions;
What are your thoughts about bees under home power electric wires?
On our SW Oregon farmstead we have a 1/2 ac multi species/varietal stone fruit orchard and use 5ft plastic tree tubes to protect from deer and small varment, growth seems slower than what I anticipated over the 3 1/2 years since bare root planted with cardboard and continuous heavy wood chip mulching - thoughts or ideas?
A friend gave us ALOT of old worm leachate in plastic containers (supposedly vented for air) from last year, some mold seen growing in some of the containers, is this stuff still alive at all, any benefit to still using it or will we be introducing bacteria’s that we don’t want to to our gardens and orchard?
Lastly we have an opportunity to get Heritage Gravenstein Apples from a 100 year tree orchard, would love to propagate on our farm, since I don’t have root stock to graft I was thinking of using a “Stefan Sobk” method of burying the apples …any idea?
Thanx JB !
Thx William! 😊
June is so adorable. I love your outlook on the bees. Bees can be your friend, that’s what I tell my kids so they don’t freak out. The hit on you, 😂
Haha thank you! They'll light you up! 😂
The microphone looks like a little fuzzy creature.
I remember hearing the same bee problems when traveling to Europe 15 years ago from farmers and beekeepers that the telecommunication lines were causing Bee death and confusion - and thereby less honey & pollination. Sounds feasible - all those internet / phone / radio waves has to negatively impact something
Yes, some bees are very angry. For them, it's protective. All those stingers pretty soon, you won't have any bees left.
Smoke is a distraction they get ready to escape a forest fire. Try hanging some cloth so it flutters in the wind in front of the entrance to the hive. Ten or twenty feet away. It may get them accustomed to movement near the hive. Some bees get protective if you get in front of the entrance or your shadow crosses the open hive body. Some times a new queen will take care ot the problem in a few weeks.
PS. Provide a water source near by for the bees if they don't have to go a long way for water they will have more time with the plants. Water helps them make honey and keep the hive cooler. Clean water with something they can land on in the shade. When you.move a hive it needs to be a two step process. First step move two miles away for several days then move back to the location you want them in. If you make one short jump your bees will get lost and try to go to their old location.
This is what the web has to say about the bees and microphone.
Bluetooth microphones, specifically those using the 2.4 GHz frequency band, have been found to disrupt honeybee communication and behavior.
Honeybees rely on complex communication methods, including:
1. Dance patterns
2. Pheromones (chemical signals)
3. Vibrations
4. Electromagnetic fields
Research suggests that Bluetooth signals, which operate within the 2.4 GHz range, can interfere with honeybees' ability to communicate effectively. This interference may:
1. Disrupt navigation and orientation
2. Alter dance patterns
3. Impact pheromone release and detection
4. Affect colony coordination
Studies have shown that exposure to Bluetooth signals can lead to:
1. Increased agitation and aggression
2. Disrupted hive activity
3. Reduced honey production
4. Impaired navigation and homing abilities
It's essential to note that:
1. Not all Bluetooth devices affect honeybees equally.
2. The impact may vary depending on factors like signal strength, duration, and proximity.
3. More research is needed to fully understand the effects.
To minimize potential disruptions, beekeepers and researchers recommend:
1. Keeping Bluetooth devices away from bee colonies
2. Using alternative frequencies (e.g., 5 GHz)
3. Implementing shielding or signal-blocking materials
4. Conducting further studies to better understand the effects
Remember, honeybees play a vital role in our ecosystem, and understanding their behavior is crucial for their conservation and our environment!
Thanks for sharing your observations with us.
Hey, we got to see June...sorry, but she stole the show! That honey looks nice!! thanks again William 🙏🙏🙏
Separating honey in the dining room? Brave man.
Good old 4-60 AC! 😂
To each his own as far as how you keep your bees.
I’ve had dozens and dozens of hives over a lot of years. I never went into a hive without smoking them. If you consider every bee that stings something dies so you actually are loosing bees with each sting. The smoke will calm them down and you will loose less bees each time you go into a hive.
They will also lack much to eat during the dearth (from mid July to Fall Goldenrod bloom). So yes they will eat their honey at this time. But they’ll build it back up with fall pollen flow.
Why don’t you do an experiment video and smoke them vs no smoke and show the results? This would be interesting.
Suggestion: Rather than move your hives just install a shade tarp over them with a few metal T posts and give them some shade. Maybe raise them up too so the skunks won’t eat them too. Get the boxes off the ground. Just sit them up on a couple cinder blocks.
Love your videos! Keep posting please.
Thanks for the advice buddy! I definitely want to get them up off the ground.
I'm not opposed to smoking them, I just haven't seen much of a difference in the past. It seemed like it would work on some hive and then just make other hives mad. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
@@ThePermacultureConsultant If you decided to try smoking, get you a decent smoker and I also use a small hand held propane torch for keeping my fire going. (it comes in handy lol). Anyway, if you try it, really smoke the entrance heavy at first, then just wait a couple of minutes, then open the box. Give the smoke time to work and calm them down. As you gently open the box, hit them a few more times with the smoke. And as you work them, hit them with several puffs of smoke really good every 10 minutes or so. You should see a big difference. Just don't rush into it. Go slow. Hope this helps! Appreciate you sharing your vast knowlege of permaculture!!!!!! You (and your dad) are the absolute best on TH-cam! I want to meet you someday lol! All the best!
Brooo, that totally makes sense, I got lit up at work by a bunch of bees and it just dawned on me that I was wearing my Bluetooth earphones. It also could have been because I was a two feet away from their hive but still. Great video and great harvest
💪🏾😁🤙🏾🤜🏾💥🤛🏾🦬🙏🏾🇺🇸
I'm telling y'all there's something to it! The always attack the electronics!
We have an opportunity to have someone bring his bees over to our property and he’ll take care of them and he’ll give us honey. I’m all for that. Hopefully they are friendly bees.
They eventually get use to you. I just don't spend much time with these guys. They can actually recognize faces.
@@ThePermacultureConsultant I did not know that. Thanks for the info. I’ve never been stung in my greenhouse so that maybe the reason why.
Also if this is your first year of bees.... Leave the honey. If they are opening them that probably means they are in a dearth. Probably
Sorry had missed if you explained why you didn't smoke your bees. I'm not a Bee Keeper but have followed some cousins that did. Generally they visited the hives in the cool of the mornings. They had hives up here in Ohio and would move south in the winter, do recall they took some to Florida. Of course they did not have cell phones or such back in the 70s/90s before they retired. Too I never recalled them taking their spinner and supplies back to the yard as you have shown. Will follow up with a cousin now running the business to get some inside from him. They family was started by their Grandfather originally, now ran by 3rd generation 100years later.
When checking the hive or collecting honey do it early in the morning or late at night when it's cool. That might help. 🤷♂️
When i had bee's it didn't matter same with smoking them.
Could it have been the heat and direct sunlight that caused the caps to melt? Other people have said it helps to put them in the shade.... 🐝🍯🐝
Did you ever say why you don't smoke them? You were about to say why not and got interrupted by bees.
I've just had mixed results before. Some hives seem to respond well and others seem to get more irritated. I might be doing it wrong, but I just stopped fooling with it after a while.
@@ThePermacultureConsultant Thanks. I asked the same question before seeing that you already posted this.
Last time I helped robbed the honey from my friends hives .., they were real pissed off at me
I wonder, if the microphone looks like a big wasp or similar predator to them. Or maybe it gives off a buzzing sound they don't like?
I have no idea. When they attack the camera, they usually go after the lens.
@@ThePermacultureConsultant interesting.
They say that your bees know you but they were pissed off at me
That’s awesome
Thank u for telling us that they don’t like cell phones
I probably had my cell phone in my back pocket
Maybe you could set the microphone off to the side to attract the angry bees while you work the hive?
Doug from Doug & Stacy has a few videos on EMF and the dangers of it. Your claims are valid from what he talks about. There’s definitely something to it.
William, you should switch to the Horizontal Hive. That is much more in line with
Permaculture.
Man, you need a Honey Bee Consultant! Far as the mic goes, it's black and furry. Like a Bear. Bees and Bears are natural enemies. I do believe the Bees don't like the stuff bluetooth and any electronic equipment puts off. Another thought, You may have been a bit hyped and anxious doing the video. That and the electronics were maybe a double whammy on their attitude. Yes, you should have smoked them lightly or sprayed with a water/sugar solution. Would have helped. And yup move those Bees into a dappled sun area. Helps to keep the hive and their temperament cooler. Don't go full shade or the hive beetles will take over the hive. Like anything keeping Bees is a learned thing. Stay with it and you'll get it.
Bee carful William😊
They have electric knives to hel0 take the cap off and keep comb more in tact
That’s a nice amount of honey for the few frames you took out.
Is September too late to remove honey frames?
I noticed your spinner was Vevor.
Beautiful dark permaculture honey!!!
Verse 68:
And your Lord inspired the bee [saying]: ‘Make your home in the mountains, and on the trees and the trellises that they erect.
Verse 69:
Then eat from every [kind of] fruit and follow meekly the ways of your Lord.’ There issues from its belly a juice of diverse hues, in which there is a cure for the people. There is indeed a sign in that for a people who reflect.
The Messenger of God said: “By the One in whose hand is my soul, the believer is like a bee which eats that which is pure and wholesome and lays that which is pure and wholesome. When it lands on something it does not break or ruin it.
Based on how the bees act around EMFs, do you think that shielding or grounding the hive box itself would have any effect on their behavior?
I don't remember her name but they are TH-camrs and have a lot of bees and do all kind of herbal tinctures and such. They have an apothecary course. I'm sure you know who they are. She said if your bees are angry, to contact a company out of Texas that sells queen bees and when you change the queen out. The bees will calm the F down.
Do the bees that leave the truck have the ability to find their way back home or do they have to find a new hive?
Depends on how far. Bees can roam in a 5 mile radius. And yes will attempt to go back to hive unless a bird, spider web, dragonfly get them
Could be they are getting ready to swarm and taking resources. Or dearth and need food
Pasture Raised PIMP, Great video as always, like your father you can dance with the best of them and stay focused and shift topics on the run. LOL I was thinking that you may have used too much Sharp Dressed Man that morning, and your Bees are gay and looking for a new queen/king but that might offend the purple haired trans testicle polar bears out there out there. I too have seen that Bees do not like Tech, so I would mitigate your involvement with them while having tech on. Dam did I just use my outside voice. Just my 2 cents. Can't wait for the Jamboree and seeing you and the family. God Bless from TN
Yep
I didn’t know that they didn’t like cell phones
They are already pissed off
They are after you
They aren’t gonna calm down
When they stink .. the will die
What's the hairs on your mic made of?
😵
William why don't smock the bees before you work with them.
Why not use smoke to pacify them?
Did someone steel your honey?
Next time just go without the microphone. You could even record it from a camera that is not connected to the internet and use a wired microphone or do a voiceover afterwards.
First question... What are your gloves you are using made of? Get yourself some hive tools already... Killing me man
#PermacultureConsultant Q&A
Hi William, It has been a joy watching you branch out from your Mom & Pop and absolutely love your channel - GREAT WORK!!!
Couple questions;
What are your thoughts about bees under home power electric wires?
On our SW Oregon farmstead we have a 1/2 ac multi species/varietal stone fruit orchard and use 5ft plastic tree tubes to protect from deer and small varment, growth seems slower than what I anticipated over the 3 1/2 years since bare root planted with cardboard and continuous heavy wood chip mulching - thoughts or ideas?
A friend gave us ALOT of old worm leachate in plastic containers (supposedly vented for air) from last year, some mold seen growing in some of the containers, is this stuff still alive at all, any benefit to still using it or will we be introducing bacteria’s that we don’t want to to our gardens and orchard?
Lastly we have an opportunity to get Heritage Gravenstein Apples from a 100 year tree orchard, would love to propagate on our farm, since I don’t have root stock to graft I was thinking of using a “Stefan Sobk” method of burying the apples …any idea?
Thanx JB !