Get the Best Pollination in Your Garden with a Bumble Bee Nest 

Bumble. Ees are always in my garden. They work hard. Last year they werent around as much and my garden suffered. This year theyre back. I was so excited to see them.

This evening I walked outside and watched one bumble bee pollinate almost every flower on 6 cucumber and 3 cantaloupe plants. And the flowers it skipped it went back for. Super cool.

I love bees as long as they are not flying around me. I once was stung by an entire nest of honey bees. So glad I was not allergic. You should look into the mason bees as well. We have them in Texas too. I have heard it is really easy to make nesting areas for them. They are big but then so are the bumble bees I have seen. I still remember the first bumble bee I spotted in Texas over 20 years ago - it was at least one inch long and seemed so heavy it had to fly low to the ground. - Heidi

The majority of the pollinators I see in our yard and garden are bumble bees. They are a very welcomed addition to our garden! They are incredibly calm, we have never been stung by one before (unlike honey bees and yellow jackets in our area, that are more apt to sting if you get too close to them). They often are happy to allow you to be right next to them as they are visiting the flowers in our garden, even sometimes landing on you for a moment of rest before happily buzzing away. I love the idea of having an actual hive to help protect them and will now add this to my bucket list. One reason I've never gone to the point of having bee hives is because I'm not interested in bothering the bees for honey, but this non-invasive idea for these pollinators sounds great. Thanks John!

Bumbles don't sting! They are Adorable!

I'm a homeschooling mom of three (so far) and this is the second video I've stumbled upon of yours that is really well done, educational, entertaining and keeps their attention. Thanks so much for sharing!

I won't use pesticides because of this : ) I also let native flowers grow around my garden to bring in the bee's. I'm allergic to them so I try and keep my distance but I also know they are absolutely nessesary to keep our earth healthy.

you have such a big heart john thank you for doing what you do brother you play a massive roll in this consciousness shift.you are a big part of the puzzle much love

R E S P E C T ing nature. I agree 100%. I am not a great farmer or gardener but nature provided me some help on things I cannot do too well on my own. Another reason I plant many flowers all around my land is to keep beneficial insects such as bees happy, my way of giving back for all the good things they're giving us.

Yes, they do cukes. Mine didnt do jack last year because they were not around. In the past i have great cuke harvest

Bumble bees are wonderful and so funny. They are like flying VW bugs. They bump into things because they are not aerodynamically efficient. I never considered having a bumble bee hive.

That last rip got u ramblin

INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT, lol! Wow John, you just gave me a flashback down memory lane! The arcade game you were referring to was, BERZERK. It was manufactured by Stern in 1980. I was only 10 at the time, and living in the Miami suburbs. I remember the 7-Eleven corner store in my neighborhood had one, and I was hopelessly addicted to it. We used to cruise the neighborhood construction sites on our BMX bikes, searching for soda bottles just to play this game.

Neat! Since honey bees are declining in my area, I've been noticing all of the other pollinators in my garden. Each type has their own charm. Bubble bees are extra happy with the pumpkins and squash that we are growing this year.

Hey John! Please contact the company you got the bees from and ask them to put a handle on top so they don't slip and fall into the permanent housing. Show them the part of your video where the box slipped. Thanks for all your vids. Love them!

Help! I want my plants singing "I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee! Wont my mommy be so proud of me!"

Love it John , keep us up to date . I have a hive from a local beekeeper here for pollination year round . Work with nature , not against it =)

very moving and interesting! Definitely gonna look more closely at my local wild bees now.

I guess this creates a whole new spin on Shakespeare’s old adage “To Bee or not to Bee” and now we will really get things buzzing by adding in “Oh but what kind of Bee to be?, what kind of Bee, be me?” Also, there is a way to make mismatched workers and Queen bees become friends. I believe it is by adding a drop of foreign material on their backs and putting them together...they will lick it off each other and become friends....I am not sure if this exactly right and will verify when I get a chance...I saw it on the documentary “More Than Honey”. Now, back to watching your awesome videos.

Luckily we still have wild bumblebees in the garden and I support them with all kinds of flowering plants all season. Love your passion John!

"And be very careful with your bee hive, don't be shaking these guys up, right"..... drops beehive in box. I know, it was an accident, but I LMAO! Cool stuff though, John. I do not have a nest like this, but one thing I have done in my yard to attract pollinators, is put up strips of yellow plastic on my bean and tomato supports. It seems to help.

Love your videos! I also love how you see the beauty in Nature and how we are best growing our own organic food and living natural. Keep them coming!!

Thanks John!

Not all honey bee keepers "rob" all of the honey and feed them sugar water. That's a bit of a harsh assumption to throw on all of them.

just today I saw three bumblebees on the pink cone flowers they love those things. They also like the snow on the mountain flower. I did see one honeybee which is rare. Every time I see that honeybee he is checking out the white clover in the grass.

Cool, really cool, John :) Without bees we will not survive.

I love your Passion and your message keep it up !!!!

why are they all dying? One word - Monsanto

Hi, John! Thank you so much for the video. I love how passionate and moved you get about nature; it inspires me so much. Thanks again!!

I didn't realize those were different varieties of bees...I guess we have quite a number of the same types out here in the mid west. I thought that the green one and the carpenter bees were flies! We didn't do anything and have many types of bees pollinating, so we planted clover to help them want to come to our garden rather than the neighbor's! :)

Youre a rad guy, man of my own world. Im scavenging the web for Bombis footage due to a Native Bumble queen taking roost in a pile of straw in my back yard. I consider myself lucky! I want to help them, and cultivate the hive, but am not clear on how to relocate it into something permanent and truly luxurious for them. Loved the vid, and thank you for your radness!

So cool. I never knew there were hives for bumblebees. I have zillions of them this spring, so no need for a hive. They especially love lavender and catmint. Honeybees seem to love sunflowers most.

I can pet my bumble bees. Very gently of course

I can't wait for an update video on the bees. Great video, John!

"Bumble Bees are like Bruce Lee" :D

I was always taught that you HAVE to leave enough honey for bees to make it through the winter. I have never seen anyone take all of the honey before winter.

John, that was such a fun, interesting and yes, touching video. Well done! I live in Las Vegas too, and 2 years ago I discovered leaf cutter bees. I'm fortunate enough to watch them take leaf cuttings and go underground to line their nests. Now that I've discovered John Kohler (lol) and learned even more about things, I'm going to set up a leaf cutter-mason bee tubular nest Hotel. :)

What a great video, content like this is awesome thanks for taking the time... most people are just consumers of information I love bees so this is pretty awesome

Loved the video, thanks for sharing and helping us again. Love you man, I have learned so much.

Please keep us updated! this is too cool!

We thank you for the great video.......

Hi there John. I just love your passion for gardening, for the world! Your garden looks great. Mine however; is have heat and water issues . Ouch!!

Love your video's keep up the good work. Your friend from Holland

Got pop by one 4 days ago moveing a nest that was in some old insulation to clean up a area .

Bumble bees are great. Got very few cucumbers in TX until the bumble bees showed up.

All I saw in my garden the 1st 3 years were bumblebees. I didn't have them early this season and was actually having to hand pollinate until late in May and then suddenly I had lots and lots of honeybees. I had been so concerned that I was considering keeping bees next year. Hopefully honeybees are coming back.

Always love your videos John! Some people get bitchy when you mispronounce words but I think it's really adorable! It's also reassuring too. I struggle with speaking normally and I think people don't take me seriously because of it, but look at your following! Makes me feel like I can do it. :) Im over in the UK so I'm going to look into those hives. My boyfriend is scared of all bugs though so he will take some convincing *rolls eyes.* we always joke that the compost bin is our fly hive since they swarm whenever I open it!

Bamble bees bealtiful video end gardem.

This afternoon I found that bumblebees are making a nest/hive in the vent to my bathroom exhaust fan. What do I do?

Weird you say they make a whole new hive ? I have seen bumbles flying over the same portion of my back deck for years now. Might be different bees, but they are following the same routes somehow. Every year like clockwork there are certain male bees hovering around the same areas seemingly guarding airspace. Always the same spot though.

Cool! Looking into this but california restricts importation of bees without a permit? How about buying within California?

I accidently uncovered a bumble-bee hive once, they were not aggressive at all and not one of them came after me. They are great little creatures. On the other hand, I have stepped on a ground wasp hive two times in the past, both times they attacked me with a vengeance. So I say: death to all yellowjackets, viva la bumble-bees!

So did that yield actually increase?

do you think its safe for cross polination?

Thanks to you putting a face on my beef, I’ll never eat beef again.

If they are being fed sugar, are they being fed fructose sugar (fruit sugar, corn syrup sugar ) .... and corn (BIG CORN video) shows that corn and corn sugar depletes trace minerals in the body, and that it is used in softening lean muscle, and putting more fat into the muscles, for juicier cows, but literally is killing the animal with weakness (starvation). Bees are in a sugar-high (sugar is cousin to cocaine, one molecule difference, same for hops is same genus cousin to marijuana). Bees need diverse pollen food, not single orchard fruit trees. They are getting protein, enzyme, amino acids, sugars deficiencies. The bees need to be rotated amongst various crops, not planted on a single harvest product.

Proboscis is the name of the mouth part of the bee.

I love having bees to pollinate my plants. Wonder how I can find some

Washe about to cry when he opened the honey bees?

Do you feed the bumble bees with rock dust?

funny the just put the bumblebee on the endangered list...:( please help...what plants do they like the most?

You got a little emotional there my friend.. We all know your emotions are coming from a sincere place. Keep on growin'

Is that the queen at 11:51?

I'm having a hard time trying to find where to buy bees and the dragonfli box to ship in Arkansas. Has anyone had any success?

John, did you really order your hive box and the bees from the UK link in the description? I wouldn't think that it would be easy or even possible to have bees shipped from overseas to an individual. Where did you get all of that and how much did it cost to get it shipped to where you live? Also, if that front door on the bee box is a one-way-out-only door, how do the bees get back in themselves? Tonight I accidentally disturbed/unburied several hibernating bumblebees (it's not time for them to come out yet here). They are in one of my unused container beds in the back corner of my lot. It's one of those big black fabric beds that you've showcased in another video. I had no idea they were in there or I would obviously had *not* disturbed them! I hadn't done anything with the bed for a couple years since trying to grow sunflowers (in a place that didn't get enough sun), and there were ground-cover plants (weeds to most people) growing in there since that time. I was digging them out today and transplanting them elsewhere so that I could have a space for some shade-loving wildflower seeds (for the bees--lol). I slowly got about halfway through this bed with my weeding tool and I looked down and saw a big bee crawling around on the dirt. I was shocked. At first glance I thought it might be a carpenter bee since I've had them in my eaves for several years until I fixed the problem and they had seemingly moved on to better wood opportunities. I was looking around to see where it might have fallen from. Lol. But I also see bumblebees once in a while so I knew they were around the area. It didn't take me long to realize they were bumblebees, but at that point I had no idea that bumblebees will burrow into soil to hibernate. It was undeniable because I stood there watching 3 more bees emerge from the potting soil. I guess I never really thought about where they go in the winter (zone 4 here). I came inside to do some research and realized that they had picked a perfect spot to hibernate. My neighbor's shed is causing the bed to be on a north side, which is where bees hibernate in the ground. They chose my big fabric bed because it was filled with potting soil instead of the clay soil that the bed sits on. It's a perfect place for their hibernation. And I disturbed it. Doh!!! Anyways, I don't suppose they need any kind of box since they've obviously been doing this for a few years and may have some kind of summer-time hive elsewhere, but since there are so few of them I thought it might be nice to set up a summer home for them back at that corner of the property. Do those hive boxes sell in the US or would we need to order from the UK site?

I believe you were talking about the Atari game called BEZERK!: "Intruder Alert.....Intruder Alert.....Destroy the Intruder"

Colony desertion is becoming a bigger and bigger problem and they can't figure out why.

One year I had bumble bees coming over to my squash and tomatoes. There was one who was pollinating/getting pollen and one who was GUARDING against ME! It was ready to strike in case I made a move toward the 'worker'. I have never seen that before. I wondered if they had been Africanized.

Defender!

Please don't demonize honey bees as being aggressive...bumble bees are as aggressive as honey bees. Honey bees are mainly as docile as bumble bees unless you are being aggressive with them or their domicile.

Intruder alert....wasn't that from the tv show Lost in Space?

Where did you get the bumble bees from? If you got them from the same place as the hive (in the UK) you were VERY wrong to release them. You should only release NATIVE bees.

16:30 i meant

Bom dia, para aumentar sua audiencia seria bem interesante mandar ja DUBLADO em espanhol ou portugues e asim poderemos le entender mejor, susseso amigos,ate abrazos.

How do you know that the pollen those bees collected was not pollen from GMO laden plants? So....that honey that you have in front of you may not be as pure as you may think it is.

Let us fist together to fight climate change's consequences.

Fun-girls...dork.

please look at flowhives they do not disturb the bees ♥

Mason bees are another great bee. Great pollinators, dont sting/bite, but dont produce honey. Great for people who are allergic to bees/honey.

It is not called us now it’s called a proboscis

John's videos have gotten funnier since he got his medical marijuana card...

If you don't want a bee to get into GMO plants you cannot let them fly, especially in farming areas.

Invasive types of bees 🐝

I think that you and LDSprepper need to get together and have a big talk. Really. You two have major differences in opinion. He likes the Mitliner gardening system. Maybe spelled that wrong.

at min 16:16 was you crying ?

can i recommend you to cut your videos down to somewhere between 5-10 minutes? i can't watch a half hour of you going on random rants. get to the point

Intruder alert....robotron

Iv learned nothing from you

While John does a GREAT job in presentation, he does tend to talk TOO much! I would suggest getting to the point and do the demonstrations, be CAREFUL how you handle the bumblebee nest, and cut back on the excessive talking. Too much extra talking going on. My opinion.