When" and "When Not To" - Mutipule Bee Hive Splits - Ep 1

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Presented by Peter Clarke - Envirotube and WildThings. Directed by Howard Jackson, Wildhoop Productions
Part of Peter's work involves splitting the hives, a process that requires him to physically divide the hive into two parts so that a new hive can be created while the old one regenerates.
"I'm a bee midwife. I just love it," he said.
"Every day I go to work during bee splitting season - it's something very special. I'm creating life. How many people at work can say that?"
Just like European bees, native stingless bees have queens, workers and drones.
However they are not beholden to the traditional bee hierarchy and will simply find a new queen for the hive if required.
Another difference is in the honey that they create, which is much thinner compared to regular honey because native bees do not extract the water from pollen.
Often known as sugarbag, it tastes like lemon or eucalyptus.
The hive wax is often used by Indigenous Australians as a mouthpiece for didgeridoos as well as a natural glue agent.
To find out how you can become a native stingless bee keeper, visit the Wild Things NSW website.

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4 май 2016

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@dogphlap6749 7 лет назад

When ? Is there not a prefered season to do a split. I get the feeling that this is such an elementary question that everyone assumes it's obvious but not to me. I'm in Brisbane with a hive that's probably getting too full and really needs to be split but when should I open it up to check for potential new queens and all being good go for a split.

@chethannk3741 3 года назад

U r method is wrong kills a lot of bees 🐝

@dadu63 6 лет назад

this is stupid. this is not a honey bee hive. looks like ant hive. OMG!!!!!

@greenstylenorth 6 лет назад

Your common honey bee comes from Europe but there are thousands of bee species all over the world. The bees you see in this clip do indeed make honey. Australia has over 1,500 species of native bees. Only 10 of these species are stingless! These are the native honey-producing bees (Tetragonula - previously called Trigona - and Austroplebeia). All of the other species of native bees in Australia can sting.

@rgriffith2006 6 лет назад

The resulting hives seem like the first or second attempt to keep and manage bees, ever, like in 22,000 BC. One of the early failed attempts. I'm fairly certain it's due to the species of bee but honestly, it doesn't look like something I'd even bother doing. Is their honey like crack? Why not just keep the standard Euro bee? Or properly title the video "Super specialized niche beekeeping of bees no one has seen before.....video."

@greenstylenorth 6 лет назад

These are native Australian 'stingless' bees. They have been significantly depleted due to the introduction of the European honey bee and through habitat destruction. This is far more about helping bring back their numbers, though the honey is especially delicious. These small bees have evolved to pollinate native Australian plants which, very often, the introduced honey bees are too big to get inside. So it's also about reestablishing native flora and fauna. By the way 22,000 BC is along time off, I know Virgil wrote extensively on bees but that was around 20BC. But yes people have been tending bees for a very long while. Cheers.

@rgriffith2006 5 лет назад

Mankind has been around and organized far far longer than people really think. It's not a real stretch to think they were domesticating bees that far back. So this isn't an attempt to domesticate them, but reintroduce them? Seems like you have to destroy the hive just to get a look inside.