History that deserves to Bee remembered 😆

@navret1707

Жыл бұрын

Billy - I certainly BEElieve that.

@vytkoicaro

Жыл бұрын

🐝 Bee True To Oneself 🐝

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

Come on, surely you can do better than the most obvious pun imaginable.

@jppatterson7142

Жыл бұрын

But...that's what he always says, classic.

@nedludd7622

Жыл бұрын

​​​​@@jppatterson7142 This is a honey of a presentation of happy culture and we can apidae-t they are anthophilic creatures.

As an apiarist, I salute your efforts on behalf of our long and noble profession. Thank you!

@vytkoicaro

Жыл бұрын

🙏🐝☯️

@GeorgeCMcRae

Жыл бұрын

I'll second that!!! Northern Californian beekeeper for 13 years.

@cbbees1468

Жыл бұрын

​@@GeorgeCMcRae SoCal Beek - 4th year.

@eloiseharbeson2483

Жыл бұрын

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.

@eljefe62

Жыл бұрын

Southern Missouri and NW Arkansas 10 years. 👍

I've kept bees for fifty years. this is a brilliant and accurate video. Well done.

Stay busy as a bee and that will make you bee happy

The Langstroth hive was the first major modern advancement in beekeeping. The second was the centrifugal extractor.

My favorite Bee was Aunt Bee. She was the nicest old lady in Mayberry.

Here in Greece, our neighbourhood is full of bee trees! They never bother us, as they are busy bee's . 🐝

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!

@vytkoicaro

Жыл бұрын

🐝🐝🐝

@KAZVorpal

Жыл бұрын

He who would pun would pick a pocket.

@Commander-McBragg

Жыл бұрын

Buzz off!

@charlotteemerson5050

Жыл бұрын

And such sweet result for such a worker bee.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@charlotteemerson5050 The History Guy goes by the old saying, "never let 'em see you sweet"!😆

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.

@play-doughsrepublic5121

9 ай бұрын

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.

As Beekeepers ourselves this was quite interesting to watch. Thanks for putting this together!

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.

@play-doughsrepublic5121

9 ай бұрын

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. :)

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.

@drewharrison6433

Жыл бұрын

I came here to say this. Traditions like this baffle me. 😂

@richf5967

Жыл бұрын

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

@MiLittleCorner

Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-mv9tt4st9k

Жыл бұрын

​@@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. 🐝🐝

@gregsanderson2470

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

the keeper's quandry: to bee or not to bee.....

I was a beekeeper for five years. Fascinating but rather expensive hobby. I miss my thousands of fuzzy friends. 🐝🌼

What do bees chew? Bumble gum

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.

@play-doughsrepublic5121

9 ай бұрын

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.

Don't forget Xenophon's description of the use of "mad honey" as a weapon.

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.

@swunt10

Жыл бұрын

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.

Thanks for the inspiration... I'm gonna go out any work my neglected hives today...

"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.

"None of your Bee's Wax"!!!!! 🤣

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."

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.

What a great bit of history and entertainment. Thank you.

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.

Thanks THG for the historic buzz.

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

🐝 kind 🐝 loving 🐝 grateful

Thank you

"What's the buzz, tell me whats'a happenin'/ what's the buzz, tell me what'sa happenin'...."

@steveoh9025

Жыл бұрын

WHY should you wanna know

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

​@@steveoh9025 , you're probably too young to recognize the song....

@steveoh9025

Жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 nah that's the next line in the song ;)

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.

I love bees (I love honey, too). Bees polinate our fruit trees and flowers in our garden. A couple of seasons ago I was removing the last lemons from the blooming tree, and the tree blooms were full of bees. I was awed by how gentle the bees were, they went about their business while I removed lemons around them.

thanks

"None of your beeswax Nelly Olson!"

Have been fascinated by apiculture since I first started home brewing, mead is delicious

Hey a Bee🐝 day Reminds me of France 🇫🇷 Cest Le Vie

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.

@be6715

Жыл бұрын

Yes, mentioned this myself. Only omit I noticed. :)

thank you for sharing

the stingless bees of the mayans are also interesting.

@WilliamAshleyOnline

Жыл бұрын

it tastes great

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

Жыл бұрын

Beetles and mites are a scourge. A healthy hive can control beetles to an extent. Mites are a hives bane.

@edmartin875

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

I love all your videos, but this one was especially both broad and deep. You manage to put sooo much into just several minutes!

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.

Thanks bee's ❤

Must admit...I do like the effort you put into each intro. Thanks :)

This history lesson is the Bee's knees

Thank you 😊

Happy Bee Day!

I love bees ! The reveal the beauty of Nature working in HARMONY. The colony works as a TEAM. They are beautiful and purposeful creatures. As a child I was allergic to their stings. I'd run a fever. After graduating from College and desiring to escape the city and join a past navy friend in South Dakota to aid in his beekeeping tending, I spent the Fall in this very remote area. A soulful experience. He taught me much about bees. It started a respect and admiration for their TEAM purpose. We are ALL connected, respect NATURE. Bees are beautiful creatures. - sometimes a Mountain Man (sMM) Stephen Skinner

Thank you!

Hey J.H North Carolina's state insect is the honey bee!

I was recently thinking of studying beekeeping as a hobby, so the upload of this video is a very nice coincidence.

@vytkoicaro

Жыл бұрын

🐝🎨🐝

@davidparrish1133

Жыл бұрын

The Hive and the Honey Bee is a good book on bees.

@johnopalko5223

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@swunt10

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER

Жыл бұрын

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.

Didn’t know my job as Hunny-Hunter-Gatherer is pretty old. 🍯

Thank you for turning down the outro volume!

"I'm just a little black raincloud...."

Happy Bee Day everyone! Thanks for another great episode with a fascinating topic.

Utah's has a State insect - the honey bee.

To use a historical comparison, 618M pounds of honey is just over ten Edmund Fitzgerald loads...

Great video, Bee Keeping has been my most rewarding hobby.

Thanks for this video.

It’s a great day of saving the beeeez -Erika Thompson, Texas Beeworks

I will Bee🐝 lieve it when I See 👀 it!

This is why I so enjoy The History Guy. Something that is always around and always been around but you just don't think about. A history that is not forgotten or ignored but, just not thought about or remembered

@aimeepotts2137

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea how much history you can learn when studying simple everyday things until I discovered this channel.

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.

World bee day is on May 20th because that's Anton Janša's birth date (the same one mentioned in the video).

Backyard Beekeeping Nuevo approves the content of this video.😊

My wife’s grandfather kept bees. When he got old he would hold a few and make them string his hands help his arthritis. Not sure how well it worked but he swore by it.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

Anecdotal evidence by people who were stung by scorpions and found that chronic back pain was reduced has led to research into using venom for this type of medical purpose.

@eloiseharbeson2483

Жыл бұрын

I have heard of that. Never knew anyone who did it. Not sure I could do it even though I'm not very sensitive to bee stings.

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

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

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

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..."

“To Bee or Not to Bee.”

I'll bee keenly waiting for the next episode of the The History Guy. Sorry.

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.

Thank You for covering the topic of "Honeybees"! I kept bees in my youth and it was always enjoyable as well as intellectually stimulating!!!

@edmartin875

2 ай бұрын

Me too. Well actually the bees were my dads. I was just a worker bee.

Good evening

Interesting summary of bee keeping.

I know two people who are hobby apiarists. Both are going to get an email with a video link.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

In other words, you are going to make them tap into the hive mind!

@stevedietrich8936

Жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 You are aptly named.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedietrich8936 , As I keep telling my wife, but she doesn't bee-lieve me!😁

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

A great tribute to and historical accout of the HONEYBEE. Ah, creamed honey. Stored properly, it will never spoil and "never" crystallize beyond the micro-crystallization process that is "creamed honey". There is no "cream" involved. It may be used the same as liquid (runny) honey (baking, cereal, tea, etc.) but is spreadable at room temperature. I buy honey in bulk, cream it and gift it. It's always appreciated. I don't have the facilities for beekeeping but I greatly appreciate and support the apiarists.

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)

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

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'....."

Bees also appear on British Sanitary wear. It was the logo on Napoleon. So during the Napolieonic wars, sanitary wear with a Bee emblem was introduced and you were invitide to take 'Apis' on Napoleon.

When I was in high school one of our janitors was a beekeeper and one day showed us how he extracted the honey from the frames.

7:25 why did that artist add that elephant there 😂😂

Ancient History 🐝🍯

I love the cartoonesk bee-men with ancient Egyptian headdresses

I am an amature apiarist and I am gonna go tell my girls about this video!

Check out the Kirkhoff Hive. I have a few. They are museum pieces. The are more efficient then Langstroth hive, but more expensive to build then the Langstroth hive.

'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"‼️ 💟 🐝🍯🏳️😉❤️

My apartment designation is BEE.

Hexagon is the Bestagon.

Having lived my whole life in an agricultural area, it's just taken as a given that if an orchard is in bloom, there are going to be beehives by the side of the road. The beekeeper brings them in and when they're done pollinating that orchard they move them to the next one.

@edmartin875

2 ай бұрын

My dad lined the roads on his farm with all sorts of fruit trees. After a few years he got his first hive. The bees pollinated the trees, the garden, and the pastures. Their money crop was a pecan orchard. Don't know if bees pollinated Pecan trees or not.

Oh, please do a story on Cassius Clay. The abolishonist?

Sweet video! Thank you for waxing on this subject!

I wonder which animal species is actually busier, beavers or bee-vers....

Have been a beekeeper for almost five years. The research that is needed is substantial. THG you did a great job putting this together. 👏 👍 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝

After I combed through all the comments, it's sweet to see that they are all abuzz about this episode. 😉

Who remembers The Bee Gee's

I knew this video would BEE! great to watch and interesting, How ever you might need a part two for this one hahaha I think you totally missed out the most knowledgable bee keepers of Ancient times? The Vikings where the first to be able to harvest honey with out killing the bees and invented the cloth method to filter the honey to make Mead. and the Celts and Bee Lore

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.

@tomtheplummer7322

Жыл бұрын

😄👍🏻. 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. 🤷‍♂️😉

@catatonicbug7522

Жыл бұрын

The bee eater birds are gorgeous creatures! Amazing to watch too.

we have no mow may here in buffalo to help the bees

May is Dont Mow Your Lawn Month. It's better for all pollinators, bees included.

Funny, isn't it, how many of us refer to our significant other as a one-word substitute for "bee barf"!

@tomtheplummer7322

Жыл бұрын

It isn’t actually barf. They have two “stomachs”. Only one digests 😏