My life is complete. Not only did I witness the world's largest swarm catch ever videoed, and hear the Dirt Rooster admit he lost in our swarm compitition, but in humility, bow to the victor. I may have won our little compitition, but you sir are bringing in the hoards of folks to keeping bees by the work you do with your videos. Keep on making the videos, and we will keep on watching. God's peace brother.
Jeff Horchoff Nice of you to give recognition to the Dirt Rooster.You guys are always good entertainment.I hope your really hungry when you go to taco bell.Peace.
My hats off to you Mr. Ed you beat the DirtRooster down this year. And I have been trying to corner him into putting 628 DirtRooster hats on his website, I also have been trying to get you to put out Mr. Ed hats. I follow the two of you like a pitbull on a ham sandwich. Keep on catching those swarms. I just found a place to put a swam trap beside a bee tree that has been producing swarms for at least 3 years. I am hoping for the best.
HOLY CRAP! That's a lot of bees!!! You and Mr. Ed are such a pair. Your playful rivalry and strong friendship are a joy to watch. Thank you for doing the work you do to foster the health and expansion of bee colonies. It is sacred work!
Now that! That is a whole of bees! I've never seen a swarm of bees before. I find that strange, that in all my 70+ years I've never encountered one. Thank you for sharing this, Dirt Rooster, it was really awe-inspiring.
I was going to ask how do all the lost bees come together like this. But when they're in the hives, they don't like strangers coming in. But then it dawned on me that it sems like bee's and people are the same in a disaster situation. If a bunch of people all lost their place to live, they'd all come together in harmony just like the bees. But separated out into individual factions, we don't like others to come on to our turf. Awesome video Randy.
While this is somewhat true, it's not the case for most bee swarms. Each bee hive will produce a swarm at least a couple times a year. When a new queen hatches, and the orginal queen doesnt kill her, about 30% off the bees will leave with the new queen and establish a new colony.
@@chronovore7234 I think you missed something, go read the information if you had not done so yet. This was likely foragers from about 1000 hives. Not every hive going through this yard leaves in the middle of the day while foragers are out. That said, and remembering that these are NOT swarms, they are clearly not all from one colony. So how do you compare this to a natural swarm? These bees were happy to be with other bees, they were clinging to each other. They had nothing to defend, no queen, no brood, no stores, no colony. So they were just clustered and waiting to die. They probably would go out and get some food to eat and come back to cluster and wait. Other than that, they had no future. This commercial beekeeper was happy to see them rescued by friends, and so he was there helping them. This is known as a win all around. thewoodshed had a good point. These bees were very much in the same situation as human survivors from a disaster, who in an emergency, will band together and help each other without regard for where the other survivors came from.
Man that’s amazing. I never get tired of watching you guys do this. You improve every year. Added the forklift and trailer this year. That worked out great. Maybe next year a giant sock on the forklift. lol. Thanks for taking the time and effort to take us along.
628DiryRooster you are the most loving, kind, and pure in heart person. It makes me happy to know there’s others out there that are just enjoying life! I love your videos, they bring peace to my days in a great way! Have a good one!
To everybody asking questions...read the description. He explains everything! Great vid!!! I loved last years and this was great too. Hope to see more vids soon! Edit: Also I’d like to add that I have never done any beekeeping or even seen somebody else do it in real life. However, I still love to watch ur vids dirtrooster. Please keep it up!
I never take chances with my bees, when I say my bees I mean your bees. Always watch in safety behind the I Phone, ensure vibrates turned off as I don't want a nasty scare half way through a video...people are careless and text me unawares... Love your videos!!!!
I’m so glad I took the time to read the description, which explained why you were putting queen cages in each box. Had I not read the description I would not have understood that there was no queens already in these swarms. Thanks for the explanation that these wee queen less, homeless bees.
Tyfs your knowledge and love for the bees. We can all be less afraid and more respectful for their place in this world. Very interesting, indeed. Thanks for sharing.
I have become addicted to this channel. These dudes are AMAZING! I would be dead by now I'm highly allergic to everything especially 🐝. Keep up the good work guys. So entertaining.
It's not honeybees that you have to worry about. They're the good guys... uh... girls. Mind you, if you were to go headlong into troublemaker mode, the honeybees would defend themselves. Even bumblebees are relatively easy-going unless they perceive you as a direct danger to their hive. All bees are simply trying to do their work of gathering pollens, and nectars as their food source, and raising their young to keep the population up. They have to exist in the same space as we do. Since honeybees only get one shot at stinging (due to the barbed stinger), they only sting as a last resort, because, well, it's the last thing they'll do. They die when the stinger stays in the target and pulls their abdomen apart when the bee tries to leave. Hornets and wasps, on the other hand, are more easily agitated, especially the bald-faced hornet variety. You don't mess with those guys. But bees aren't interested in bothering people, they have busy schedules.
Awhhh darlin you seem like your just a good ole boy. I'm Lilah new to your channel. Good lord son, you've got to have your head on right to do what you do. I admire you for that, wow. I will be back for sure. Take care.👍🇺🇸🖐️
It doesn’t help. The back wheel falls off after a couple hundred feet. No joke. Local bike shop freshened it up for me and put the wrong clamps on the rear. I didn’t try it out until many months after I got it back. I need to take it back for the right parts.
18:48 “there’s a hole in that there trailer!” Hahahah you guys are a bundle of fun. I love how there’s jokes aplenty and laughs all around the entire time. Would love to join y’all lol
I just read the Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley. He is why we know about swarm behavior and how to catch them, very interesting read for the long winter.
What a monster!! I couldn't even imagine walking up on something like this. You'd still see me running down the road, flapping my arms and screaming. You guys are superheros. 🐝🐝
I LOVE your videos....I get mesmerized by the bees.....they are amazing creatures. I've been wanting a beehive for years but I am so afraid I wouldn't know enough to keep them healthy.
I don't care who won, I can't get enough of these videos ya all are great at Hobbie Beekeeping., a little southern drawl from an upstater here in N.Y. keep them comming
Dirt rooster at least we know the bees are safe now and will be well taken care of thank you for being a great beekeeper and save in the environment and the bees thank you.
i wish i could shake your hand sir i have really enjoyed your videos and that southern hospitality.please keep up the nice work and maybe one day our paths shall cross.
You both are awesome bee keepers and I love your shows. I've been watching for a year now and stopped at the beekeeping booth at the fair and they were amazed at how much I knew not being a beekeeper myself. Lol
Good NIGHT, Randy! Mr. Ed might've got you on numbers but you busted him ROYALLY on Tonnage! I am hooked on you two and yall know why! Brethren! And the Taco Bell video will be very interesting and GOOD to see Pop and Bro. Tommy out and about. Success to yall on the studio and the bacon will fuel you up in time of need! Wild time and THANKS for it, Pal!
"Rehab" - cool - am renovating my entire home and patio - loving the work and the results, small and large. Good luck with your rehab: do it in a way that makes it last and last. In other words, do the right thing even it it's hard to do and especially if it is the loooong answer to the job at hand ! ... you won't regret it. Have a nice and thank you very much for this video.
Thank you for explaining why they were in the trees. i thought it was swarms, but i was confused because i thought swarms had a queen. great job yall did
I love honey. I want to have them when I was young. Then got scared of being stung, i have allergies to wasps. Was afraid I'd start have reaction to bees too.
I hope that Tropical Storm Gordon doesn't develop into a major hurricane and beat the stuffing out of Mississippi. May you and yours (and your little ladies) stay safe.
I used to watch your channel a whole lot and then I just stopped idk why but I have been looking for a month or so and I finally found it, this channel is the shit
WOW!! This was a fantastic video!! Are they sure the honey bee is disappearing?? You guys seem to wind up with LOTS of bees!! Thanks for your time in saving these girls and sharing this with us!
I loved this video. I have never seen that many bees in one place. But at the end besides the bees and the beautiful scenery you showed a big reason I wish I lived in Louisiana. The cheese grits, crab cakes, and bacon!!!! You guys have the best food out there. If I could I leave California and move there for the food alone. Lol
That was really cool to see! But I’m a little confused about something....did you get to keep all the lost bees that you wrangled? Why didn’t the commercial bee yard people want to keep those bees?
now that is what i call bee wrangling-- i was hooked witht he first record breaking bee swam video-- this one just confirms you are the BEE GURU--- i sure wish one of these days you drag Jeff along on one of these Bee Collecting videos-- id pay money to see that-lol-- much love and keep the BEES Buzzing- blessings Glo
I have had only 4 personal experiences with bee swarms. 1st was in 3rd grade at school, and I sat on a vacant bench seat during morning break eating my snack bar. I was called by a teacher to get away, right below me under the seat hung a large bee cluster. They did not bother me up to then. Yes a few beers flew around but none landed on me. I reluctantly moved away and the teacher reprimanded me for going there, but I had not noticed the swarm until called away. Another time I stopped at a red light with open drivers window. Then lots of bees flew in and onto the windscreen. I rapidly wound up the window with about a dozen bees in the vehicle. As I waited for green light, a large clump dropped onto the hood from overhead power cables and lots more bees got into flight. As I drove off a number of pedestrians were running. I soon had only the bees in the vehicle, and I pulled up parked and opened 4 windows. In minutes no more bees. No stings at all. Another instance I was in the country camping. On return from a little local 4WD exploring, I had a large swarm covering the mesh front of my tent. With a long branch I disturbed the swarm, that initially resisted moving on, but soon most were on the ground or flying around and I had to back off after a number landed on my T shirt. Got 1 sting cad but about an hour later the bees had moved off. Got 1 more sting in the tent by a bee tucked into my sleeping bag. The last was at home in the garden where we had an old washing machine drum with tin lid covering the top opening. I had many bees in the garden and realised a swarm had made residence in that drum using various holes in it for entry/exit. Without any protectionist lifted the top metal lid covering the drum and a small comb was being constructed. I left the lid off and within the next day the bees moved on. Again no stings. In fact of over 15 stings I can recall all but a couple were bees that I tried to rescue from falling into water. The first one I picked up from a puddle when I was around 4 yrs old. The rest into my teens. I do not like being stung but also do not fear them. I do admire the ease you all manage to handle the bees though. Yellow jacket, called European Wap here, have been a serious issue in Australia since accidentally introduced via imports. I have cleared something over 8 nests over the last 15 years. Normally wearing a jumper, leather gloves, a broad run hat with mosquito mesh around my head and gave them a dose of extermination powder into the nest. Sadly that powder is no restricted to professional exterminators. At work I once located a Yellow Jacket nest in our lab brick wall. Due to missing half brick outside they entered the double brick wall and a significant gap in the brick wall inside they were flying around inside. While awaiting the exterminators, I proceeded in the lab to shoot down wasps by spraying flying wasps with clear lacquer spray and stepping on them as they fell to the floor. My work colleagues were amazed that I could do so without getting stung. In all those clearing nests I have 0 stings so far. Just lucky I guess.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time, I've watched it a number of times. But today I couldnt help but laugh. Loudly. I'd never noticed - Rooster getting up at 4:30 something - ridiculous hour - putting on his T-shirt, then his hat. His hat. In the house (which was dark) and walking outside (in the dark) to get in a car (which was dark). Like he needed the hat before the sun was up! LOL Oh, i get it. Easier to wear it than carry it in his back pocket. Or was it? LOL Still laughing!
Amy Krell When you say fight - I am not sure if you mean 1. fight each other, or 2. sting people. If it was 1: They only fight each other in defense of a hive or queen. If bees try to rob another hive's resources or honey, the defenders will fight. If they try to take over the hive they will defend the queen. The bees in this video had no hive or queen to defend, so they would have no reason to fight. If it was 2: They sting people who are perceived to be attacking their colony or queen or if you are swatting at them (they see that as aggression on YOUR part!). And again, these bees had no colony or queen so they would have no reason to fight. Until they were dropped from 30 foot up onto the ground, at which point the only people there to be stung were all in full bee suits, so again, no fight!
Good Job! Dirt Rooster any buffet you want on me Gulfport or Biloxi! Bee there Thursday Fri Sat Sun, as long as this storm does not bare down on Us. Great channel, great work sir!!
