Randy Oliver Reading the combs Understanding bee biology over the course of a season

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Randy Oliver now helps his sons to run a commercial beekeeping operation of around 1500 hives in the foothills of Northern California, managing them for migratory pollination, nuc sales, and queen and honey production. This frees Randy to engage full-time in beekeeper-funded research projects. Randy analyses and digests the scientific research, to figure out best management practices for beekeepers everywhere, which he then happily shares through his various articles, lectures, and on his website: www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
This lecture summarises his series “Understanding Colony Buildup and Decline.” By acquiring an understanding of the biology of the honey bee colony over the course of the season, and seeing how to "read the combs," the beekeeper can then make their own informed management decisions adapted to their particular situation and goal. He discusses the cues that trigger bee behaviour, colony nutrition, and the impacts of parasites and pathogens.

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@thomasbrown5366 3 месяца назад

I learned how to be a beekeeper off the Internet. I learned off RU-vid for free but nothing beats practical experiences and a good mentor.

@MarkZenner Месяц назад

This is one of the best beekeeping videos on the web.

@framcesmoore 3 месяца назад

Randy is great. I think this was the best presentation he's has ever done. Thank you for sharing this on RU-vid. I live in Virginia

@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm 3 месяца назад

Yer dumm

@HivesToHome 3 месяца назад

Best (of an incredibly good lineup) speaker presentation I have seen yet from this year’s recordings!!! Thank you for making this resource available to all.

@danielweston9188 3 месяца назад

This is where he shines . . .

@amurray001 Месяц назад

Outstanding video

@altaylor293 3 месяца назад

Outstanding video. Randy knows bees. Thanks for sharing.

@VideoEngineering 3 месяца назад

The best video about the hive biology I've ever seen. Thanks 🙏. Will be sharing and watching again.

@Merlin.Twiggles 2 дня назад

Wow Randy, you are amazing

@brianbennett4374 3 месяца назад

Wow. Great video 😊 Thanks

@andreyemelyanenko5230 Месяц назад

AMAZING 👏

@beep3r 2 месяца назад

I chuckled because you said near 8:00 intro the video if you have to buy bees every year you're not successful, but you followed with you sell 1000 nucs every year

@ashapogosova6172 2 месяца назад

Why while the bottom comb is full, but neither queen nor bees go to upper comb?

@gaurd3 2 месяца назад

old guy looks the part.. going to listen

@ashapogosova6172 2 месяца назад

What triggers them to produce white wax?

@TheTowhoward 2 месяца назад

When they don’t have enough room and they want to produce wax to make more frames

@ashapogosova6172 2 месяца назад

@@TheTowhoward thank you

@SRLappbeelachia 3 месяца назад

Who are the authors cited at 1:03:17?

@shadmorgan5491 3 месяца назад

Best I heard was reference to Zac Lamas and Ben Oldroyd... buuut he could be saying "OMHOLT". either way, what i could find quickly on the topic only produced this quote. /quote/ Winter bees have been identified within bee colonies living in temperate climates, and just like the name would suggest, this bee-type is present during the colder months of the year (late fall until early spring) (Amdam and Omholt, 2002; Amdam et al., 2005b; Mattila and Otis, 2007; Kunc et al., 2019). /end/ Certainly Randy always produces a great gig... even accepting all the self promotion as baggage.🙂

@suzanneguiho4882 3 месяца назад

In other words when « mad cow » desease appeared a few years ago, they should not have been destroyed but treated…???? Hummm why was this not told to the beef producers? They could have kept all of their beautiful animals and would have been good beef producers if I understand you correctly? 🤷‍♀️

@-Dwight-Schrute 3 месяца назад

Mad Cow treatment? Uh no

@dallanpotter7082 3 месяца назад

If you treat them nice; they will treat you nice too. Lol

@rauschaj 2 месяца назад

is this the new insight of chemicals? How could bees survive for so long without chemicals for thousend of years?

@kurdbrave1bravekurd238 Месяц назад

Why all your audience are very old?

@HUNTERDOODLE1 Месяц назад

Probably because older people have more time to study bee biology and behavior.

@MegaDavyk 3 месяца назад

There is no doubt Randy Oliver knows a lot about bees but to Quote Dr Thomas Seeley "If we had done nothing the Bees would have sorted out the problem of Varrora mite themselves in 4 years". The problem is commercial Beekeepers like Randy would rather rely on toxic chemicals indefinably rather that take the hit for 4 year while the Bees adapt. Dr Thomas Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He is the author of several books on honeybee behavior, including Honeybee Democracy and The Wisdom of the Hive He was the recipient of the Humboldt Prize in Biology in 2001. One of the foremost experts on Bees and Varrora mite alive today.

@blackberry5908 3 месяца назад

Are you going to pay him the 4 years he takes the hit ?

@MegaDavyk 3 месяца назад

@@blackberry5908 Are you going to pay me for the 4 years I have to take the hit.

@robertkramer621 3 месяца назад

Feral bees have had decades, yet varroa still ravages. Sometimes the "bad guy" wins. Oxalic acid is like toilet paper for humans. I'm not going to wait for random selection to clean my rear.

@MegaDavyk 3 месяца назад

@@robertkramer621 In 3rd world countries that could not afford chemicals their bees that have adapted. Treated Domestic bees with no resistance are constantly breading with feral bees that is what is slowing feral bees down. Its not rocket science. Personally I think you should wipe your arse with Oxalic Acid, let me know how that turns out.

@shadmorgan5491 3 месяца назад

0 seconds ago Yet the problem with Seeley is his meal ticket comes from academia, not labour. Not too many beekeepers have ever found the time to lay down in the local football pitch to gaze into the sky with visions of a DCA forming above... such is the thing of a child of the '60s, post Woodstock! Sure, Tom has his place... amongst the romantics "saving the bees". /wide grin / Respect for his publishing skills, yet I know for 100% certainty Tom has zero to teach anyone scoping the mite outcomes today... like so many building income off a pest it is not difficult to surpass their collective knowledge in an earnest set down study of applied biology. Ain't no pay day in that though. Take that to the Bank.😃

@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm 3 месяца назад

Dumm

@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm 3 месяца назад

Charts and BS

@-Dwight-Schrute 3 месяца назад

Nope, you obviously don't know his work or success.

@MrsHilly62 3 месяца назад

This is his life's passion. He is quite blunt with his criticism of new beeks, (we all have to start somewhere) but his scientific approach is helping the bee species for sure.