This single video got me into beekeeping. I was 8 when I saw this now I’m 13, time flys

That was fun to watch. I liked the landing ramp and the temporary defense perimeter.

I chuckled when you said "they don't like that." Very interesting video.

Bees are so freaking amazing!!!!

@RaySarasin

4 жыл бұрын

I agree so I am building a fish tank onto a hive so I can watch them through the glass

Did you know that bee's don't like things that put out electricity near their hive? Turns out the negative charge that builds on the bee's fur (static electricity) when they fly is often countered by other electric fields. This means that they can't as easily collect pollen (which is positively charged, so is attracted to the bee's negative static charge) and will desert hives where this is a problem. Great video, it's very simple and easy to follow!

i am a bee keeper from uk . you did a good job, all the best. ignore the bad comments,,your doing a super job keep it up,

@lateefmir496

5 жыл бұрын

I also want to invest in this business and want to start...is this benificial plz answer

I have just purchased 45 acres and have always wanted to start up Bee keeping. Now that I am retired, I look forward to learning the art/joy of honey making. Thank you for the start up video. Cheers from the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, Canada

I'm glad this guy seems to like his bee farming. I'd have gone completely insane within half a week.

Excellent Video and great quality information. You have included many useful tips for the new beekeeper.

Thank you for nice video! Best greetings from Entomologist and Beekeeper in Ukraine! Looking forward for your new videos!

The bee amount, it's over 9000!

Digging the 70' s head band!

This is great when combined with the soccer view mode!

That's beyond awesome . Gonna do that this year.

Good job it is a number of years since I worked with 150 colonies up here in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada

That's a really interesting video. I loved the new honeycombs that were visible when Dan pulled out the shelf near the end of the video. Fascinating peek into a bee-keeper's life.

3:30 "They don't like that." LOL! Too funny. Great video and thanks for the info. Today I discovered a volunteer bee hive under the lid of a plastic compost bin in my backyard. I went away for 4 days and when I came back there they were! So, I am learning about bee hives and seeing if I might want to get into it with a set of wooden bee hive boxes and transfer these bees into it. Not sure what I will do, but I like bees (+honey!) and want to let them have some kind of place here if possible.

Thanks Dan, I'm also in Colorado and starting my first hive ever in the backyard today. I appreciate the quick review before it's game time in a few hours.

@harb9265

Жыл бұрын

Commented 12 years how does it feel to look back and did it work out?

@timeorspace

Жыл бұрын

@@harb9265 It certainly feels nostalgic, as I miss the free time I used to have. Moving and home owning were not good changes for my bee keeping hobby. Time or space-you got to choose. Yes, my bees mostly worked out. My only significant disappointment was ants finding a 4 gallon bucket of honey before it could be bottled….ants taste really bitter.

A queen gets an entire cage? Wow, what luxury :D

i did not know bees were so calm

Dan I have been bee keeping for a few years now and long ago have hung up the leather gloves in trade for nice strong surgical types of gloves. For bee keeping a lighter colored or white gloves are preferred but I use the real strong black ones that can be purchased from an automotive parts store, they sell them for parts washing or just general auto repair work and they do perform great because you have excellent touch and feel capabilities yet the bees do not even try to sting them or be interested in them like bare hands or even leather gloves which tend to make it difficult to work on hives without injuring or killing some bees and as soon as you do crush or kill a bee or two they tend to send out an alarm pheromone which makes them even more protective and agitated. I urge you to try using a pair of latex type of gloves, of course they do not breathe well and your hands may tend to start to get sweaty depending on how warm it is but I think it is well worth the benefit of having a great sense of touch and not injuring any worker bees. I am talking about the disposable thin gloves and not the big thick up to your elbow type.

Brilliant and interesting. Thank you for uploading and good luck with your beehives!

Always good to be 'Bear Smart'.

Also small tip. When extracting honey bees can cut through a screen door given their are enough bees.

I Started bee keeping this year and have 6 hives. Some of the Video Responses are my bees!!

Good video. I would put the sugar syrup feeder inverted of the hole in the inner cover, then put on an empty super and then the hive cover on top. You want the syrup to be inside the hive.

I'm allergic to bee-stings, but this was really awesome.

Going out to do this exact thing for five hives. Thanks for the visual information! Great job!

Thank you for interesting educational video. Best greetings from beekeepers in Kiev, Ukraine. :)

damn, there is detail in everything, even to get them to accept the queen. imagine you buy a queen and she runs away, or they dont accept her. its funny thinking that of bees, but quite an advanced social structure.

This was interesting, thanks from England.

We have a beehive, we also have "cellphones" (we call them "mobile phones" here), and we both do amateur radio - and our bees aren't dead yet! A lot of beehives are too stressed - they get moved around too much, or the commercial producers take too much honey from them. Our beehive hasn't moved since we put it where it is about 3.5 years ago. We take about four frames of honey twice a year - both during early to mid summer. Other times, we just check the hive to make sure all is well.

How informative! I like how you handled them, thanks for uploading this! I learned a lot.

This makes me want to have a bee farm.

Very nice video! Thanks.

Hell.. I was waitin for this guy to start singing 'it's a beautiful in the neighborhood.'.

this is bee one million, tower, do i have landing clearence? roger be one million, landing pad is clear lol, love the landing pad joke btw, watching someone shake the bee hive is alot scarier than the guys who cover themselves in the bees

Hi from England, thank you, very informative, good luck with the bear's

You're very brave filming this during a hurricane.

excellent, and no smoke too.

Fascinating. Thankyou.

great video. thanks

This is great... Every block should have one or two.

The way i do it is: Make the brood chamber 2 supers, then later on, come back and split the 2 supers and put the top brood chamber on a separate pallet. Then come back in more than 4 days and whatever hive doesnt have eggs in it is the hive that doesnt have a queen, so then introduce that hive to a queen, or queen cell and then you have two hives

Great video, and very informative!

This was very enjoyable to watch! Excellent video and captivating footage. :D

good luck Dan, I have few hives with caucasian bees

Precious video, i learned a lot

Recent research found out that bees are doing much better in cities then in rural areas. And that the bees in cities are healthier and have bigger colonies. The reason is agriculture. In rural areas there are a lot of monoculture crops. The bees honey has more or less pollen from 20 species in cities it's 200 species. More diversity is better health. Plus people don't use pesticides in cities or at least a lot less.

HI! Old beekeeper hear. I am in Tucson AZ. How to guard against thieves? All my hives were stolen. I had the hive changed locken down on a cement block. I have other secure ways, but the hive was pushed over, the bottom board was screwed from inside to a 2x4 one front one back. this has a drilled hole on the bottom. I drive rebar into the ground. the 2x4 is hammered down and scared through the 2x4 and locks in the hive..into the rebar. They left the bottom box. But took every thing else..

Great video, nice informative graphics throughout.

the bee that flew in front of the screen at 5:50 scared the shit outta me

If you just set the package of bees inside remove the can and place the queen cage inside a near by frame no shaking is required. In two days all the bees will have left the package along with the freeing of the queen.

Great video, thanks

Goatman, what DON'T you do????????? ;-) Thanks for raising bees. We sure need them.

Close to the house is ok but you will have some bees visiting you when you step outside or sit on your patio. Wear light colors, avoid black (like a bear) and they well leave you alone. Put out a dish of sugar water for them and they will be distracted to this treat and pay you no attention.

LOL @ the bee sound at 5:52!

nice you should keep doing updates on this video

Great Video!!!

thank you

@BotanyVideo yeah we got to take care and learn to respect all kinds of bees

wow amazing keep up the good work your just earned a subscriber!

Thanks for posting this! I got a small orchard and am really wanting to start a hive for pollination. They had bees here years ago in Western Kansas but there is a lot of irrigated corn and I fear their pesticides will get them. I may try though, I have wanted to since high school.

Very interesting...used to keep bees when I was a kid. Next time, make sure you put a muffler on your camcorder's mic to reduce wind noise.

Thanks for posting. Starting a couple hobby hives this spring. Any tips?

I Didn't see him use smoke, and you want to spray the bees with sugar water before you bang them to the bottom of the package, and you need a wind break somewhere around your hives.

That was pretty cool

Enjoy health, eat your honey! ;) That wind noise is driving me insane though.

i was hiking and found a bee hive and smoked it out was best honey ive ever had

very educational. i feel like i want to start a bee hive.

Me and my dad used to keep bees. Nowadays we are not able to keep a hive alive longer for a year. The one time we did it was eaten by a bear.

thats a whole lot of bees!

Thank you guys. I approve.

The dude recording has balls of steel

nice video man thanks.

@BotanyVideo yeah we got to take care and learn to respect all bees

lol 4:02 pouring a stream of bees into the box

neat video man!

ty this was interesting!

all i really heard was *CRACKLE CRACKLE CREACKLE*

Hive Tool does it all

i really want to start bee keeping i think it would be super fun!

Wow thanks so much for sharing! This is exactly what I was looking for! :) Would you be able to share where did you get your hives and where you got those bees? Thank you so much!

lol the bee at 5:50, thought it was a fart

that was really interesting =D

i'm afraid of bees but i like them when i'm protected :D

Hello Dan! please tell us if you use only new frames with just bare foundation when you start a new one, or do you help them with some frames with combs? Thank you!

Also its not Drones in the cage with the queen. It is other female worker bees called attendants. They take care of the queen while she is in the cage. Feed and clean her.

What company did you buy the bees from?

2:30.... sounds like he's an extra for resident evil :P

@xXDominoXx I think you are right, if everyone would have a hive or two in their back yard. Then we would have no problem with pollination. It is important though I think as you said, to really learn about handling bees, before you buy some bees. Otherwise you will be disappointed, if things go bad for your bees.

those hives look nice and new! I like the idea of the pallets. How do you store them in the winter?

If I saw that I would scream like a little girl and run so fast! haha

i found this very interesting

I just got 2 warre hibves today.........they don't have the pre made combs, pretty sure they naturally can build them themsleves

Epic bee music at first

how soon do you change the entrance reducer.? how crucial is the levelling of the hive support?

Please make a follow up video for the bee's, thanks

I think my neighbors would hate me if I started a hive colony. There is a hive somewhere around here because my tree has flowers and the bees are always in there collecting nectar. Then the flowers will die and fall off. Next thing you know I am raking up dead flowers.

well done, sherlock holmes want a cookie?