Native bee hives and how to split them | Beneficial animals and insects | Gardening Australia
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- Meet Australia's native stingless bee, learn how to split their hive in two and how to extract the honey.
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Jerry Coleby-Williams is a keen amateur bee keeper, with 10 hives of stingless native bees in his garden in Brisbane. He used to have traditional honey bees, but after losing two lots to various problems decided to stick with native bees, which produce a lot less honey but are hardier for Jerry up in Queensland.
His friend and entomologist Dr Tim Heard has come to help him divide the hive and collect some honey. You can tell if the hive is ready by its weight. In this case, the hive weighs 8.2kg, and so subtracting the weight of the empty box they know that there is about 3kg there.
The hive box itself has three levels. To separate the brood, they divide the sections. This bee is Tetragonula carbonaria, which produces flat sheets of comb. The bottom of the box is given a new top and middle, and the top and middle sections of the old hive are given a new bottom. These new hives are vulnerable to pests and should be held together with strapping or rope until the bees can join them back together with their propolis, which is a mix of beeswax and resin that bees use like glue.
With Tetragonula hockingsi the top section of the hive is removed. This is called the honey ‘super’. You can only harvest honey in warm climates, as further south in cooler areas the bees need the honey to survive the winter. To remove the honey, it’s strained through a sieve. The sieve is then rinsed so that any bees stuck there are cleaned off and, once dry, they return to their hive. The honey is quite runny and watery but has a strong flavour with a real bite to it.
Please note:
Stingless bees are tropical / subtropical insects. It is best not to disturb them in winter especially south of Brisbane. Split hives and extract honey in warm weather. They need all their honey to survive winter in cooler climates. Only harvest honey if you live in a frost free area north of Sydney and only from September until March.
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Got a hive for my birthday, managed to successfully split it a year afterwards, now that it's warming up all signs seem to indicate that both hives have a queen, that the colony has survived the winter months and that in spite of the presence of European honey bees there's still food around for both hives and the European bees, seen the workers returning to the hive with legs loaded with pollen by the busload.
I absolutely love watching our Aussie bees collecting pollen in the garden. So small but so mighty. It's a bonus that they don't sting but they're such a chill little hard worker.
Dont worry, they bite!
I might get some native bees for my garden after watching this
Amazing, what a fantastic way to get your honey. No protection v from suits, no worries about getting stung hanging out the washing and all your plants get looked after by thousands of little Aussies. You are a lucky man Jerry. Once things get rolling for me I want to put some little beer motel's around for our friends. The kids next door can still play in the yard.
As we are entering Fall here in Canada 🇨🇦 I will be so “free” to enjoy and watch you in your garden...it must be an exciting time for you as you enter spring & summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Thank you for sharing & Happy gardening! 🙏❤️🇨🇦
The wonderful yet beautiful life of native Australian bees 🐝
Aussie honey is like no other! True bush food :)
Excellent! Never knew that sting less bees too can be kept in boxes. I notice that the boxes are extra thick as compared to the Langstroth hive box. Perhaps this is to provide extra insulation from heat and cold. I also like the idea of having two sections of the brood chamber and the method of splitting the hive into two colonies. Great!
Thank you for such a lovely video. And thank you very, very much for rinsing those bees so could get back to, like, being alive. :-)
One day I would love to have the privilege of hosting these stunningly beautiful creatures in me garden.
Reviving the TCs was something I'd never seen. Thank you so much! We call it "fruit salad honey" because... well.. that's what it tastes like.
Where can I buy those empty hives? I have four hives of Carbonari that are just the bottom two brood boxes. I would like to be able to harvest some honey in the future.
Super video. Congratulations from Chile
Nice tutorial my friend. Stay conected Acob6
Thanks for share this tutorial...
Have a nice day, i from Viet Nam, verry lovely video, thanks so much
*amazing*
thanks for the knowledge 👍
I enjoy so much thank you
Interesting that on opening the hive @ 2.02, the bees are so subdued. I've never seen this before.
Yes, I want to know how Tim Heard achieved that. Was it the time of day? Maybe they were all out foraging.
Can you please make a clip on what native plants/Scrubs/trees attract our stingless native bees in coastal Far North / North Queensland 😊
Cool bees
always check for a queen or queen eggs during a split
Im on the gold coast.
I make hives.
I have 25
They are swarming all over right now.
Have spare empty boxes ready.
Try doing eduction instead of splitting
Nice video
今天是世界蜜蜂日。20-5-2021. World bees day.大家要愛護蜜蜂。
Parece a Iraí do Brasil
Great hives, how big are they? And how tick is your wood?
What can I do for native Bees in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria? Even if I dont harvest honey, how do I make them hives?
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yummmmm!! where do you buy this h😃ney?
where do we buy these hives in AUSTRALIA ?
Google Dr Tim Heard
the tetragonula hockingsi bee was Malaysia's native bee called 'kelulut'
Boi really :0
How do i find native bees in malaysia i wonder
These box are design in Brazil.
Caixa INPA.
Цікаво, ці бджоли в Україні зможуть вижити. У нас доволі довга зима
But the honey no good?
Estos millonarios de Australia ni una gota de de idea de meliponas