Honey Bee Drones 

Can a lay person, not techy, do something like you're describing?

@@aidanquick3151It does take some tinkering, but totally doable for someone with even a beginning course in computer programming under their belts. Let's of beginner "Arduino" tutorials on the internet. The Wemos D1 Pro Mini is my goto board, as it is only a couple bucks and gives me the ability to communicate with the web (or even your own web server if you have one). There are free libraries and tools to make it all very easy. Wherever that data is going on the 8 bit coax; could be done much easier and less expensive using wifi on these Wemos D1 boards.

i think shes smarter then you by far!!!!!!! tellin her to do some more research gave ma a belly laugh!!!!!! LOL she is right drones dont forage at all they just cant!!!!!!!

@@thehiveandthehoneybee9547 What a pointless comment. You get pillock of the year award. Gonna frame this one for FB lol Laughing and mocking is all you have. WOW Your IQ must be at least 9 almost into double figures. Certainly where bees are concerned for sure. Where did I say drones forage? I said Drones do visit flowers to feed. Which they do. Certain flowers where they can reach the nectar to feed. I have many videos of drones feeding on certain flowers. I also have videos on worker bees feeding drones. I could not give a flying fairy what you think lol It does not change the facts no matter how you dress them up. HAVE A GREAT DAY ADIOS.

Sorry, your question just went over my pay grade.

No, not necessarily.

The white eyed drone work was done by Brock Harpur at Purdue this past summer and it is in the process of being published. He has a great talk on it, I'm not sure it's online anywhere but if you get the chance to hear him speak, it's a great talk.

Good morning sir.

We did, thanks.

Hi Oscar. Ready for a cold winter?

I'll ask.

I used Mycrosensys equipment but was not happy with it. It’s supposed to be easy to use but there were numerous problems.

It's a long video. I've been wondering how many people will stay until the end.👍 (I would)

@@bobbinnie9872 in the end didn't seem that long since it was packed full of information and a great sense of humor. Thanks again.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oH4fYUrYk1w.html, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GKA6K564P8c.html, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c28O916sy48.html

Thank you for the response Bob, I've just checked out the Polyandry video also very fascinating. Keep up the awesome work and greetings from the UK.

I forwarded this to RO. And I wanted to share a subject on making 5 frame nucs with him and his two sons after Almond pollination and in his out yards back in the foothills of his home several years ago. They had their flatbed truck with 80 or so, vacant honeybees, but full of open brood foundation. One son would be opening up 2 story 10 frame double deep hives getting ready to remove 75% of the frames with bees, capped brood, and honey with pollen in one of them also. He, RO, would be at a long rectangular table on saw horses with his other son making up 5 frame nucs with two frames of honeybees and brood, a frame of honey, a frame of pollen hopefully and an empty drawn out frame of foundation. I've seen you Bob in your RU-vid videos do this along with my mentor and I doing the same thing in prune pollination after taking them out of Almonds. They, RO and sons, were quite efficient, fast, and done in record time and onto a yard to deposit them and put in queen cells in the next couple of days. One thing I remember and noticed now was the putting of different frames of brood and bees from various other hives and not all from the same colony into the nucs they were making up. I think it represented as I look back that having different workers from other boxes helped hatch out, tend to and feed royal jelly from the start, and also cared and groomed her along with polishing up the emptying cells with newly hatched out young downy nurse bees wanting to help her on the virgin queen's journey to get mated, begin laying, and further the ability to begin a new nucleus colony of honeybees. I believe having different workers from different hives made for better attendants, nurse bees, and drones for the overall presence and survival of the hive. The varying otherwise unrelated girls took an unexpected approach to caring for that new hatched out virgin queen rather than sister siblings thinking that oh she is just a younger sister. She can take care of herself with little to no help from us. An interesting point of view from my perspective. What do you think of this Bob Binnie? Take care and again thanks for the video a different way to see and enjoy our drones. So important to the welfare of a hive. 🐝👍❄️ It's coming Artic air and El Nino' here on the west coast!

I understand. If you haven't watched it yet our video with Keith Deleplane on Polyandry In Honey Bees is very interesting. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GKA6K564P8c.html