Bee Lining! It's a treasure hunt for a bee tree!

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ธ.ค. 2024

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  • @rafadiezdom
    @rafadiezdom 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    amazing well done Juli

  • @matthewmyers4500
    @matthewmyers4500 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done and congratulations; I’m sure you will catch a swarm too! Good inspiration for the rest of us beekeepers.

    • @julibottjen9047
      @julibottjen9047  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @matthewmyers4500 sadly I checked the tree a couple of weeks ago and the entire hive either absconded or died. I noticed over several weeks the number of bees dwindling, so I wonder if it was a queenless swarm that had moved in this spring. Will never know, now. There are still plenty of bees around, so I plan to do some more lining. :)

  • @azartrus
    @azartrus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    very nicely done. Any updates on the swarm box? what did you use to help plot the lines?

    • @julibottjen9047
      @julibottjen9047  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @azartrus the swarm trap did not work this year- I took it down mid summer and then 3 weeks later went to see the bees and they were all gone :( Some suspect they were queenless, some suspect mite issues. Whatever happened to them, was sad not to see them there anymore.
      As far as plotting the lines, I took a visual bearing and also a photo of the direction they were going. Then I used Google earth to draw a straight line from the bee box to where I figured they were flying to, based on my photo and Google earth image.

  • @HassanJaffery-i7k
    @HassanJaffery-i7k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice video great recreation of the Bee box for Tom Seeley's design,however in my area I have been told that all honey bees were killed by varoa mites. Were u able to find honey bees where did u look?which flower?

    • @julibottjen9047
      @julibottjen9047  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I found them all over clover that had been planted in the fields - they are European honey bees, from what I could tell.

    • @Dimitri.Angelopoulos
      @Dimitri.Angelopoulos 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How did you mark the bees?
      Did you use one of the tubes that we use to mark queens?