Honey is probably the most fair trade on earth. They trade their work for protection from predators and give them a home. If they aren't happy, they leave.
This is pretty much how I feel about being a beek. I do my best to care for them and keep them happy. Can't be a beekeeper if you don't try to keep them in one place. 😊
It's ensured survival @@SIRA063they trade excess honey they're not gonna eat for protection from parasites, fungi, hornets, bigger predators. If they ever reach the point where they're lacking in food, beekeepers send in excess bee feed made of pollen to make sure they don't go hungry. Both sides benefit. Like op said, if they don't like the arrangement, they leave
Unless you're an unfamiliar trying to hurt The hive.dem little girls will show you they're way scarier than their little cousins, And they will throw themselves at you and sacrifice their lives to do this. Honey bees do really like their flowers and they'd rather not bother attack any. One, but at the same time, though they will straight rip out their own guto protect their no I don't know, man. They're Metal hippie warriors
i remember back in my childhood, when my parents were still together and they used to beekeep in our backyard, we didn't have many bees at all we just had enough to make ourselves honey and sell a few extra jars. i remember when it was time to harvest and they used to break off little pieces of comb and give them to me and my sister and we'd chew on those until all the honey was sucked out and we ended up just chewing on a mouthful of wax... those were the days
The bees: "our god has taken the sacrificial honey we have left for him as tribute. Will continue to put sacrificial honey in places he is sure to take it."
No. {The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein, glorify Him and there is not a thing but glorifies His Praise. But you understand not their glorification. Truly, He is Ever Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving.} 17:44
@@AnonMujahid there is no such thing brother we live in the United States don’t be chained up to one belief in the United States. We have freedom of religion, freedom of thought
I'm not a beekeeper, but I love bees. I worked at a place handling grain for a little while, which would attract a lot of bees. They were really docile, and even let me gently pet them ❤
They wag their butts at you as a sign to leave them alone. If ya see them do that, don't pet them. They're probably Italian bees, those are very docile. When they land on you they're usually just taking a break also
I'll never understand how people can say beekeeping is cruel. We give them housing, protect them as best we can, and usually have a surplus of food nearby. And to top it off, if they want to leave, they can. And will do so.
the only bad thing about beekeeping is that they are invasive in north america and compete with our native pollinators, and more biodiversity is always better for the stability of the ecosystem. but that issue is entirely separate from the treatment of the honeybees
@@oxapollyon9914they’re invasive but beekeeping isn’t really contributing to that problem. The bees that are already free and were brought here to pollinate crops hundreds of years ago are the problems, slowly outcompeting native bee populations which obviously shakes up the ecosystem. With beekeeping, if your Mr colony splits into 2, your goal is to keep both lol. And they don’t split all that often either. So the only “damage” that you’re doing is that within the radius of your beehives influence there will be less native bees until your bees die n
@oxapollyon9914 study after study has found they aren't as invasive as everyone says, and they have very little, if any, impact on the foraging habits, foraging ability, population levels, nest sites, etc of other native bees. It's called cohabitation. And as for the "non-native invasive species"... I get so tired of hearing this load of road apples... they've been here over 400 years. It's called a "naturalized introduced species". Why is it someone can jump the border illegally, work and get paid under the table, apply for citizenship, go through a half hour ceremony, say a handful or words and bippity-boppity-boo, they're an naturalized American citizen. But bees that have lived here for around 6 or 7 human generations are still being called "invasive"? You think an ecosystem can't reach an equilibrium in 400 years? There are places that were previously inhabited by humans, where nature is taking over and balancing itself out in less than a couple decades, not centuries.
Everywhere but North America. The honeybees over here are invasive and unfortunately aren't great for native pollinators. It's more a matter of competition than aggression.
@@nicholasmorgan7609Pretty much. In the future, if honeybees are the truly dominant bee, all it would take to wipe out whole colonies across the US is one good fungus because there is no genetic diversity.
when i was tiny my grandmother used to take me to the honey festival in belarus, minsk. this short brough up some really old and happy memories, thank you kindly
Interesting fact about Honey: If it is properly stored, honey will never go off, there have been jars of honey found in the pyramids that was over 5000 years old and it was still perfectly edible.
The fact that someone DEFINITELY tried it is concerning. "Yeah, here's this jar I found filled with sweet smelling stuff from thousands of years ago, it could theoretically contain viruses and diseases, and any other manner of microbe so old they don't exist anymore anywhere else, and we aren't immune to them, so uh... here, try some"
@@Dr.Shrikethey can use it though. You can cut it out and put in an empty frame with wires to hold the comb in place. They'll rebuild the gaps and it's mostly not wasted. It's what you do with swarms, cut the comb into frames to take with the bees. This guy literally made the gap so they would do this for the video. Normally you don't leave gaps in the supers or nukes for them to need to make more comb.
I never felt bad about that. it means it is a healthy, hard working hive who is exceeding their needs. if you don't cull the comb, they will just keep building more, and the majority goes to waste.
@@AllieInWonderland there was a gap where he needed to slide in more trays but the bees filled in the gap with more honeycomb even without a tray there. so thats why he had to remove it
You did the right thing, don’t be upset. Bees are hardworking and deserve to be hardworking. If everyone stopped collecting honey and stopped beekeepers from harvesting honey, the hive would be full of honey and bees would not be considered as a hardworking insect. Keep your work good!
In my country, beekepers often sell honeycombs in little plastic containers on the side of the road. I just love eating them like that, with the wax and all. Its just so tasty and chewy
That sounds so cursed. Imagine being a bee, your beehive has a contract with an eldrich being that protects you in exchange for taking your honey and eating your walls from time to time
I don't know where my mom used to find this, but growing up I remember she would bring home bottles of honey with the honey comb in the jar. I used to love to chew on it. Those are great memories.
Excuse me what now? Pollination for instance. Pretty freaking useful You're talking about africanized bees POSSIBLY. Or varroa mites. Which aren't bees@@_maka4791
my uncle who owns lots of land in Sweden and also owns some bees flew over to Canada to see us, he also brought some of the honey he harvested from his beehives. It was the first time i saw honey this organic, it had these crystals in it that would sit at the bottom if you didnt mix it with the liquid for some time, it was the best honey i ever tasted
The way bees cap honey and brood are different and you can tell color and shape wise. In addition, the queen tends to lay eggs towards the center, which leaves the frames on the edges for food storages. If it's a honey super then the queen won't go up to lay eggs in the food storage.
Man the content and music had me so entranced when he put the lid on the mason jar it gave me such a feeling of buoyancy that I very much needed, thank you sir 😎
Bees are magnificent creatures. Both them and the beekeepers deserve all the credit for giving us probably the healthiest and most delicious sweet around.
Props to that cinematography work. I love the look of the honey being strained and poured. It looks so neat filling up a bowl with that round shape. Slowing going down and creating that neat effect as it's filling up the bowl
Hi man! I starten beekeeping 2 years ago and that was thanks to you. Your videos are fun and makes it look so fun. So i got bees, overcame my fear of bees, wasps etc and now i sell honey local and online. Thanks for making these videos!!
You can increase the quality of your honey by uncaping comb and letting drip with gravity. It helps keep wax residue from mixing and leads to clearer and usually more noticeable honey tastes
I'm a religious man, and I've always seen honey as a special gift from God. The one food that never spoils made by thousands of little workers, and a natural sweetener which is also has medicinal properties. The bees dont need training, they all know how to do it and are crucial in pollination of other plants and crops. Truly a complex creation I do not believe came to be by chance.
@@Valome_Virtual_Gravedigger He didn't deny evolution. At the very very least he indirectly implied theistic evolution which is basically evolution is directed by god.
I love your analogy, and it kind of hurts me to see so many people misled by a misconception that’s need disproved so many times… I know micro-evolution exists it’s a thing and it makes sense, but we have not ever found any evidence to macro-evolution. Change my mind.
No. The comb should be attached to the board. Floating comb hides problems, creates ventilation issues, and is unserviceable. According to my RU-vid education on beehives.
It’s a sign of a healthy hive. In nature they change hive locations more often and on their own won’t make the most stable structures. The main concerns as a beekeeper are, as the person above said, lack of ventilation in the box leading to the colony shrinking. They will also abandon the hive unless you service the box regularly for these reasons.
Yes by addind another box the bees would not make that comb the bees only make comb when they run out if space bee hives have a shuger surup feeder in them and it is very common to find honey comb in the feeders when checking the hives unfortunately most of that comb is thrown out because most of the time it allso has brood in the comb along with honey you can get away with pollen and bread but not brood
That music makes me feel like I'm going towards the edge of the universe while watching honey get filtered. Anyways, have a lovely day, and may your bees stay healthy and strong.
I feel bad everytime I destroy burr comb and cross comb.. seems like everytime they get it just how THEY want it..I mess it up to try to get them to build it the way I want it
That was several thousand bee's work. In it's lifetime, a bee only makes about a quarter teaspoon of honey. That much comb was several thousand bee's life's work. Respect that they worked their entire life for something you'll spread on a sandwich. Also, rejoice because bees just live their bee life and are taken care of by a keeper that cares enough about them to fix their hive (if he hadn't taken that out, they might have damaged their home and made it uninhabitable)
@@aaronburdon221I mean, even human beings working their entire lives don’t relatively accomplish much more. Spend a decade in schooling to become a historian, write a few books that’ll some day be forgotten. Become an architect, design a few buildings that’ll probably be torn down before the end of the century. Altogether, nothing we do amounts to much or really lasts long, the best we can hope for is to contribute something to the species as a whole like pasteurization or electricity, tools, ideas, or processes, and even then as revolutionary as it is, it’ll become normal and taken for granted.
They only live for 3 weeks but that is when they are working havasing nectar due to flying up to 4km each trip 8km there and back during the winter they live alot longer
Yes they are. Plant pollination is extremely important to our everyday lives. Luckily, there are more honeybees in the world today than there ever have been. But the same can’t be said for a good amount of native bee populations. Many have been endangered due to deforestation. It’s a sad reality. Not an end of the world situation since there are several other thriving insects that pollinate as well, but still sad.
@@reekyfartinwhat’s really unfortunate as well is native bees are significantly better pollinators even on farms. They bring in significantly more types of pollen and spread it around properly. I had to do my democracy project on saving the wild bees last year, it’s crazy that they can make some fruits and berries grow to twice the size they normally would, though that was mainly seen in strawberries
It's wild bees that are endangered. Honey bees are not threatened in any way, they are useful to humans so there might even be too many. And many are being industrually abused when they're carted around from farm to farm to pollinate, the travel stresses them
@@DukeDukeGo yeah it is wild. Honeybees are still terrific pollinators but it doesn’t lessen the misfortune of endangering the others. And honestly I don’t really think there’s a way to effectively reverse it. That damage is already done.
No! Honey bees are not! Native bees/pollinators are. people should stop celebrating honey bees as the saviours of humanity when they are out competing native pollinators.
Depending on how big your box is you can either fit 8 or 10 frames in it. This person must have removed a frame while inspecting the hive last time and forgot to put it back in it's spot. During the time in between inspections the bees drew comb in the empty area so now he's not able to put his frame back in that spot. In order to properly take care of the bees the bee keeper will move the frames around in the boxes to make sure the bees have everything they need in the right places to be healthy thriving hive.
Have you seen the flow hive thingies? They look pretty neat, and as far as i understand youre destroying only very little bit of the bees' work because a large part of the structure is plastic and the bees just need to seal up the spaces each time you crack it without having to remove it at all.
now i’m no beekeeper but i watch a lot of videos on it, can’t you just keep it in larger pieces and band it in a frame so they can keep the comb? They’ll attach it to the frame and chew off the bands when they’re ready. A bunch of youtubers do this like Mr Ed
You're right that's definitely the best option and if there was any Young on the comb I would have done that, but this hive was already so strong (I counted 13 full frames of Honey today) and expanding so fast that taking one wouldn't set them back at all. If it Did then I could always just feed the honey back to them and they would only lose a little wax.
I used to be so afraid of bees as a child. But as an adult, honeybees have found a warm place in my heart. Such sweet little things. They truly don't want to hurt anyone. They just want to vibe and make the most interesting gift God has put on this planet. A gift that is antibiotic, helps with allergies, and many more.
I hope you keep the honey raw. It's unnecessary to pasteurize it, since it keeps indefinitely and can't go bad. They've found honey that's thousands of years old in tombs in Egypt, and it's still completely edible.
@@GambitsEnd Pure honey does kill bacteria. It pulls water out of them and kills them. Look it up. Of course, diluting it with saliva, water, and food does largely prevent this, so once you eat it, all bets are off. It can be used as an antimicrobial agent, though. I've heard of it being used in ye olde medicine to prevent infections; people once smeared on wounds and burns for this very reason. Also, it's been used as a treatment in stomach ulcers. You can still do so, in fact. Nothing has really changed about honey, after all.
@@jedh3721 I think the most is usually 4 before it becomes unwieldy. You leave 1 to sustain the hive through the winter and the other 3 you harvest. Or on a lesser year, 1 or 2. Really depends on the size of the hive and how intelligent they are at finding food sources. You might think the queen is the brains of the operation, but you're incorrect. It's a hive mind (literally) The queen is just a tool they use to get more babies. The only reason they protect her so much is because breeding a good new queen is extremely difficult for them and having a good queen is blessing. If they don't like the queen, they'll literally ball up on her and off her by suffocation.
The good thing is bees don’t really care. They’re incredibly smart but they’re also incredibly hard working so they’ll just start over with a new hive like nothing happened👍
When they build outside of frames it makes inspecting the hive much more difficult as you can't cleanly lift the comb out (without severely damaging it) like you can when it's in a frame. This means diseases or pests can go unnoticed and spread much more easily.
I have a friend who does bee keeping and they give the bees some nice flowers and a bit of the processed honey every time they pull, at this point there is a dozen different species of nice pretty flowers outside the hive and the bees seem to love it, as well as the process honey with the suger added, they go crazy for it
