When The Bees Fight Back 

The fact this woman can spot queens out of thousands of bees...I would hate to play "Wheres Waldo" with her

About a month or so ago, it was raining really hard, and there was 2 bees that were on my porch and they were totally soaked, so i tore up an egg container and made them little huts with it, and ever since i did that, theres usually a handful of bees on my railing all day. I go outside and ill talk to them and just check them out and take videos and stuff, and i swear the more i interact with them, the more they show up😂 i also have deer that come by, and i love them more than anything. Theyll walk right up to me when i go out to greet them, and a couple of them (2 bucks and their mom) come right up to my bedroom window, and if im not paying attention, theyll either knock on my window, or theyll kick my wall😂 its precious. Nature is so amazing❤

Thanks for sharing this, so many bee relocation videos are all "oh, these bees were so calm and gentle and didn't try to sting me at all while I scooped them up by the dozens with my bare hands," which I'm sure happens, but I wouldn't want untrained people attempting something like that without knowing something like this could happen as well.

Wonder if knee pads underneath that suit would work to prevent the knee stings.

As a newish beekeeper I have always wondered what constitutes as "aggressive," this shows it! My bees never act like this. Thank you for such an informative video! Thank you also for talking about how sometimes we really don't want to be doing this and want to just go home lol

This is definitely one of the most intense bee removals I’ve seen you do wow

Popped over having seen several shorts... Lord this gave me flashbacks. Years ago... close to 15 now, we had a hive settle in to the side of our 200yo farmhouse. They'd found an opening and got inside the wall. It was awful. They'd chase my husband if he got within 20 feet of the house while mowing and several times chased my boys out of the yard and to the front door where they'd hang around outside the door for over an hour. We finally got a professional to come in and remove them. He removed the entire hive, including the queen, as you do, and put them in a hive on his property. The remaining workers started to build another hive- on the fence wire of my dog's kennel. (I later learned that Africanized bees often build in the open- on a tree or bush, rather than enclosed like "regular" honey bees do. Within 2 weeks, the beekeeper notified us he was forced to destroy the hive, because they were *so* aggressive. He sent some samples for testing to Cornell University, and discovered they were a hybrid. We're technically too far north for the "killer bee" hybrids to survive, but because they'd built their nest inside our walls, they had enough heat from the home to survive. I admire you for doing what you do. I couldn't. I respect bees and always try to give them space and move them outside if they get into my house, but that swarm was scary and I had to prioritize my boys' safety over the hive. :(

Beelady: “Here they come” Bees: “FOR GLORY, FOR HONOR, FOR THE QUEEN 👸, ATTTTTTTTTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

This is where you could use a bee vacuum to help you. I applaud you for this job. Angry bees are no fun.

Rain isn't what made them agitated, someone cutting into their hive with a loud vibrating reciprocating saw is what pissed them off. 😂

When I was a kid, (8-yrs-old) I stepped into a ground hornets nest walking through the woods near our cabin (over 200 stings) and since then, I have always been scared of bees. But after watching so many of your short videos and learning about bees, I've changed my mind and understand what happened as they were protecting their nest. I do have to admit though, it was hard for me to watch you get stung through your suit!! I hope putting a new queen in that hive has helped. Thanks for making this video, I love watching you work with the honey bees.🙂

I have never been so stressed watching a YT video lol. I peed on a wasp nest by accident while blueberry picking in the woods with my family when I was 6...which made me forever terrified of anything that flies with a stinger lol. But I have a healthy love fear and respect for our amazing honey bees even if I cant be around them. Thank you for what you do!

Wow, that's a big, difficult job. Thank you for all you do, and teaching us as well.

Thank you for showing how aggressive bees react to a removal. Everyone just post videos of easy removals, that’s not always the reality. When we have aggressive hives we also do splits and re-queen. Great job 👏🏻

I kept saying, "explain to us in a voiceover and just get it over with!" 😂 Incredible job. Thanks for letting us see all sides of the process.

You are one tough, sweet mama to those bees! The world could more people like you! I hope those stings aren't too bad

This was a marvelous video. Thanks for letting us tag along with you and see your interesting job.

Definitely hope we see a follow up video with rehoming and adding new queens.

I know firsthand that using too much smoke can change the taste of the honey but if I had been in your situation I would have smoked the hell out these bees! You're so brave for this! CONGRATS on yet another successful relocation!

1:52 Just thinking if you find a dead rat close to bees hive, good indication might need the full suit. 😁Tackled a few bees nest's and hornets on my Uncle's land (assisting him) he had several garages and barns, he had a small forest, and a huge what he called a 'garden' that occupied about half acre by itself, every kind of veggie you can name. Bees especially loved his land.

The bee suit looks pretty thin no wonder she was still getting stung through it

Definitely want an update on this bee family after you have them in their new home with a new Queen 👑

Use more smoke and have your suit reinforced; once you have done this, move slow to avoid alarm them more; maybe there's a bee calmer you can buy at your Vet Shop. Very brave, good job👍

I was in a similar situation…what I found out that your gonna piss off the bees with any tool that vibrates…the hive…and that’s gonna get the guard bees after you

Midsummer its raining and you used a hacksaw to get into their home. All a recipe for angry bees even with the most passive hive. An aggressive hive will humble you real quick when you realize that the bees can sting you through your suit and all this time you haven't been stung was because the bees didn't want too.

Respect. No quit in you. Not only did you tough out the stings and stay with the job, but you kept your skills under pressure. I can learn from someone like you. Subscribed.

You need a bee vacuum. It's a life saver for you and the bees!

A tassel from a blanket brushed my arm while I was watching this…it scared the crap out of me and I threw my phone across the bed 😅😅 Kudos to you!! You did an amazing job on what almost no one else would even try to approach! Let alone specifically trying to not injure or kill them. The world needs more people like you!❤❤ When you found the queen, talk about a needle in a haystack!!!!

I thought aggressive hives were supposed to be destroyed? I know 2 bee keepers and they say sometimes they try to change the queen out so that the new offspring is not so aggressive but if this does not work they must destroy the nest. You have nerves of steele. Even in a suit I would be flipping out.

That was fun! My rule of thumb is that if you make the bees mad, and can still see through your veil, then they're not truly africanized (aka 'killer' bees). I teach a class I created called "Managing Mean Bees". You did well. Let me suggest, don't use leather gloves, they will get completely covered in stingers. Switch to PVC gloves (harbor freight). You can dunk them in a bucket of water when honey coated, & they're ready to work again. Overall, well done, I enjoyed the video. (ps I'm also the guy that invented the Everything Bee Vacuum which would have come in handy on this job)

I worked as a commercial beekeeper for 25 years; that's a normal day. I find bee removal in a populated setting is best done at dusk.

How many stings can a non allergic person take before needing medical intervention?

Update to my first comment (below).I just heard this brave beekeeper say genetics could be altered by giving them a less aggressive Queen. Yay!! Even removing them to a remote location concerns me since they're aggressive.

Thank you for doing this job and recording it. This is exactly how I expect each job to be when you do a removal but everytime I see you do one they are usually calm. This video reminds me that it's not always easy.

2:52 Bees: "Hold my stinger."

I just watched this as a bedtime story and it was such a wonderful sweet thing to fall asleep to. I didn’t know you could still save the entire colony after killing a hostile queen. ❤ thank you for sharing this.

Our bees in South Africa are always aggressive... extra layers are a must.

You handle bees like angry kittens while I’m over here literally screaming crying and running inside.

That's a defensive hive, not aggressive. An aggressive hive would have lit you up and chased you back to your truck when you smoked them from the entrance. But defensive or aggressive, there's no reason to keep a hive like that around. Honey bees are not in the huge amount of danger that the media makes them out to be. Wipe out the nasty ones, keep the nice ones.

The difference in sound when bees are aggressive is both insane and amazing. ❤

You are my hero and one very brave little gal!! I am very allergic to bee stings so I respect them and stay away and remain calm when I encounter them. I think I was literally holding my breath and flinching every time you were stung! They really are fascinating creatures aren’t they!!

All of the older bees come back to the hive when it rains. The older bees are always more aggressive. Do jobs like this in the morning while all of the older bees are out foraging and leave the box you put them in and they will move right in when they come home. Then move the box the next day. Save you some stings. Dont give up, the learning never ends with beekeeping.

It might be a good idea if you look into making yourself a bee vacuum, then you can vacuum up the aggressive bees, which would reduce the amount of stings you are receiving, also spraying bees with sugar water calms them down.

My old mom was able to box a swarm of bees that had balled up near the entry way of her work place. "Don't have them killed. I'll take them," she said. That night she took an adequately sized cardboard box and scooped them into it, closed it up, & back trucked them home. She went through the trouble of purchasing a bee box that day and thankfully the bees loved it. Free pollinators and free honey.

I once caught a swarm of Africanised bees in my swarm trap, I was just about to lift the box off the cleat when I got 4 or 5 stings all at the same time, I jumped off the step ladder and made it to my van just in time, as I closed the door I could see that the whole box had emptied and they were covering the van, I had to come back later that night with a full suit, I moved them and got them into a hive the next day and requeened them, I didn't even inspect them until the bees were replaced.

I tip my hat to you, Maam!! You’re a better “man’ than I am!! I’ve only had one hive with an aggressive queen. You are INDEED a dedicated professional!!

I've never seen a bee suit in person so I don't know exactly if thicker clothes would work under it but if it does you should definitely wear jeans and a long shirt underneath it. I know it's very hot and you would sweat but that's a lot better than getting stung the way you are. Much respect for what you do

You are one of the most respectful bee keeper ive seen

Amazing and brave ❤️

I love bees, yet have a healthy respect for their ability to ruin your day. I am glad people like you exist to help them thrive.

I harvested about 50 lb of Honey with my dad the other day and we have the angriest most aggressive Hive you've ever seen

You are very kind and patient….Many would just unload a canister of cypermethrin and shut the door until the screaming stopped.

Oh wow!! What an amazing job you did there!! 😮

"These bees are extremely aggressive towards me" - of course, because someone just came and ruined their home 😅It's a bee city I guess

i just started to love these kind of videos...."long life to the bees...and the beekeepers"!!!

For agressive bees, always ware long pant, and long sleeve shirt with boots and leather gloves and you won't get stung. Always crack and smoke; then let the smoke filter throu out the area. While the smoke is working, spray the area with sugar water. When you open, spray the guard bees with sugar water. After you open, spray the whole hive with sugar water.

Will you make a video showing where you take them? And/or how you introduce a new queen to change the colony.

So the old queen was ultimately squished to make way for a less psychotic one? Good move!

This is my worst nightmare. I hate bees when they buzz near me and I would be in a full blown panic so kudos to her

They're protective of their mansion! It's very nice.

You are amazing! What an aggressive hive!

These were killer bees? You are extremely brave and experienced. Amazing. Congratulations. May God protect you always, dear.

"... Too many more bee stings." She casually says after 20+ stings.

Oh my goodness! Hard to watch but I admire that you can do this & the care for the bees you show 🐝

This would be a great job for a bee vac. AND. At some point you have to consider whether saving them is too big a risk to humans. You can re queen, but you still would have two more months till the new genetics are hatching. If a human stumbles by the new hive before the new genetics are established, someone could get stung to death.

That is so incredible. I’m so sorry you went through that with this hive

😮 !! Combien de piqûres ??? C’est très impressionnant et tu m’as fait peur de ne pas les enfumer davantage pour les calmer 🥴 Prends bien soin de toi et merci de ce reportage instructif 👍🏻 🌸🌸🌸

I have only watched in awe as you scoop up bees for their new hive. This was something else! You mentioned you were going to have to squish that Queen and introduce a new one to change the genetics. What makes one queen dangerous and another docile? Is it the queen's genetics or one of her male drone partners or environmental factors? This is a whole new world! Well done and thank goodness, you aren't allergic to bee stings. Blessings from Australia.

Wish people would stop calling bees "aggressive" and properly call them "defensive"

That was awesome. Years ago, my brother tried to talk me into getting a job removing bees and wasps from homes. Never did. I don't think I'd be as good as you at it.

😁Hey, Nice job . BUT.. I don't know why you used a SAW an got them all crazy mad ! You could have bore a holes in the board smoked them into a vacuum box. thanks

So respectful of your efforts to protect their colony!

I love to see how much passion and respect you have for the bees, it must take a lot of self control not to slap them when you get stung, my natural instinct is to brush away anything that lands on me. Also how do you get the hunny out of your suit and gloves? Is it recommended to do that as not to cross contaminate hives with each others hunny?

Thank you for sharing this. I am a new keeper with only one hive. They were very amicable for the first few inspections and even when I pulled 5 frames of honey for extraction. Then I went back to rotate out some frames with badly formed comb and they were on full attack mode. I managed to close it up and leave, but stung multiple times through a full suit and they chased me a full quarter mile away. Going back was nerve wracking, but they seem to be back to their calmer selves. Apparently, it happens. Hate that you have to re-queen, but hope that improves the hives for you.

If these are Africanized honey bees (killer bees) I don't think the right move was made here. I've watched "Killer Bee Guy" (he's in Arizona) and they always comment that trying to re-queen, relocate or save killer bees ... is not a good idea at all. You are essentially creating more of a problem by enabling the spread. You can't "make" killer bees less hostile.

Bee-keeper here. If you don't want to get stung on your legs, you wear pants under your bee suit. It's a trade off --- hot for a while or stung repeatedly. Of course they can sting through the suit.

Great vid, thank you. I would love to see a part 2 with the relocation and the new queen.

I'm so impressed by this effort toward conservation. 🙏💛

You need a Beevac, that way you can knock the numbers down and they'll calm down.

Oh my goodness I had so much anxiety watching this video! 😂😅 Those bees were savage! 😂

We live in South Texas and my Dad was beekeeping for a while. He originally started back in the 80s and this wasn't the case, but now ALL the hives he'd relocated or dealt with were ALL killer bees. He'd order new queens from the internet in hopes of calming them, but it did little to help. He said the killer bees thrive in hot locations. Even 200 miles away in Austin, it wouldn't be as common to find killer bees. Because they are SO aggressive he's stopped beekeeping after only being back a handful of years. 😞

You are brave girl Good work :3 Id have been screaming and noping outta there by the first sting lmfao

She plarped the bees, and bees plarped back.

Wouldn't having the smoke have helped you more during the extraction?

These do not necessarily have to be africanized bees. You took the saw to the toy box and caused unnecessary vibrations. That causes bees to be come aggressive. We keep several hives of Russians and it is all how you deal with them.

That's the beauty of Africanized (Killer) Bees. They're the best workers and produce A LOT A LOT of honey. It's just that they hurt so bad! Great job in pulling through all that suffering. May you get a better bee suit that wont let them sting you through it.

When the Bee Hottie says OMG! you know it's about to get Western! WOW! Great Queen score. Good luck on the resettlements.

How do you tell if the aggression is genetics or circumstance? Seems like the set of circumstances was ripe for bee aggression even if the genetics were gentle (mid day, rain, jig saw).

I have to give you HUGE Respect. That is the biggest most densely packed bee hive I've seen in all of the bee service call vids I've watched. Before you put your suit pants on I had a feeling that suit wasn't going to afford you very good protection. Yet your One Tough Lady, watching you stick to the job at hand makes me want to shake your hand and buy you a coffee in person. You are amazing to watch. This is THE BEST BEE service call videos I have ever watched.

Wow!….Just WOW….

I dealt with a hive just like that yesterday, so I feel for you. I didn't have my jacket, just a veil, so they got me good. I'm mostly immune to bee venom, but it still hurts. Eventually, I did like you and just started working as fast as I could to get it over with. At least yours calmed down. Mine never did. Nice that you show the reality of doing a cutout. It's not always fun!

I was wondering about the lack of smoke.

This is, without all that woke stuff, a very beautiful woman with balls!

I love your channel and I appreciate what you do, but . . . I disagree with you about the preservation of the Africanized bee. It is not a creator "of nature," but a mistake of man. The presevation of the western honey bee -- our bee -- is a must, but the preservation of this monstrosity of man, which presents a danger, even to adult humans, is, in my view point, unnecessary. It's another "invassive species," like the pythons and boas plaguing Florida now. Man is very good at screwing things up and very bad at fixing his mistakes.

I have a swarm like this, it takes the fun out of beekeeping. I sometimes react to the stings on certain parts of my body more than others. That hive has kept me from the rest of my hives all summer, I overheat easily. Thus compounding the inability to be a well and good beekeeper

Wow, what a difficult job. I like honey, but in a bottle.

Do not do this in rain. Do not vibrate them. You should have so much smoke you can’t see.

I want to have bees so bad… but I’m allergic to the stings. Seeing this vid gives me pause for sure

You need to wear a hat with a bill under your hood so that the veil stays pushed out and does not get close to your face where they can sting you.

9 mins bees just chilling on your head. A crown of bees 😅