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Texas Beeworks founder Erika Thompson answers the internet's buzzing questions about bees and beekeeping. Can bees be trained to attack individuals? How accurate is "Bee Movie"? How does one get into beekeeping? How do beekeepers find the queen?
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Beekeeper Answers Bee Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
“Can you feel my blood boiling?”, she said in the worlds calmest tone.
HARREDIDYAPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIRA! dumbledore said calmly
@@sgrt12344 HAHAHA YOURE ICONIC FOR THAT
@@sgrt12344 you're pfp coupled with the comment makes you the most iconic person ever. i don't make the rules.
@@sgrt12344 LMAOOO
the antithesis to movie version Dumbledore's dialogue sksksksk
“the best thing to do is to leave them *bee* “ I chuckled.
kim k lol
Came here for this.
Me too
leave em bee!
Bees can remember your face for up to 2 days Most people: that’s *terrifying* Her: that’s *extraordinary*
Lol
well, at least it's just two days and not years like corvids
Its extraordinarily terrifying.
what are you scared of? theyre just lil creatures
I think it's amazing, imagine saving a bee and it remembers you
Is it just me, or does her hair look like honey? She's truly one with the bees. 🐝
🤣maybe *some-company* missed a hair health bee bi-product opp?
honestly they look more like baguettes to me
@@owo4470 🤣
I mean, it's dyed, so...?
@@feelin_fineThink they meant the style too. How it cascades down in those swirls. Really pretty.
I really appreciate that her take on being stung is to take a step back and ask herself what she did wrong to cause that. It shows her respect for them, and her confidence in her skill.
194 Yes :) 10/10/21
I'm 29 years old and have never been stung by a bee or wasp or hornet. It's because I'm respectful of them and they are for the most part also very respectful towards me because of that. My mom has wild bees in her garden and they often just land on us humans and chill for a bit. They were never aggressive as we also leave their small hive alone.
@@DieAlteistwiederda they're insects. They act on pure instinct. It has nothing to do with respecting you lol.
@@Jaymes400 yes thats true, which is why a bee wont sting unless it feels instinctually threatened
@Lyk Dat most people don’t have respect
Her smile and calming voice when she's talking about the male bees dieing after mating with the queen is so terrifying lmaoo
"his endophallus is ripped out" but said very calmingly
Thanks someone said it
@@jojopotato6732 It awoken something within me
girlboss
She haven't mentioned that weak male bees are being kicked out of the hive to die or purposely killed by worker bees if they resist. But I guess that is fine not to be mentioned. Having your pee2 getting ripped out with your other internal organs is more gruesome.
Her hair looks like layers of honeycomb, and her eyes are like pools of honey. She truly is the queen of bees
Her hair is amazing.
Is this Rizz?
The levels of rizz are Egyptian.... I'm referencing a love song sung by the ancient musical master Peter Pringle
@@datshortsguy4744 💀💀
You’re a ridiculous person 😂😂😂
I had a pet Bumble Bee for about an hour lol. I saw it on the ground moving very slowly looked like it was dying. I gave it some sugar water and it perked up and appeared follow me around and even landed on my shoulder a few times. I named it Jumbles Sadly she passed and I buried her under a Tulip in my parents garden. RIP Jumbles best hour ever.
It was probably just nearing the end of it's life cycle. Insects generally don't live very long.
Rip jumbles. Im glad it got to eat before its last moments
My condolences 😢
😭😭😭😭
RIP Jumbles. Pretty sure he also had the best hour ever 😿❤️
i love how she just says "the bees and i". this woman speaks for bees as a species. she is the ultimate queen bee
*Beyonce has left the chat
queen bae*
She’s like the Lorax, but instead of trees she speaks for the bees 😂
She is a bee’s ambassador in a human world )
@@vey5579 "I am Erica, I speak for the bees. I speak for the flowers, and I speak for the trees. I speak for the bees when I speak for the trees"
i love how she gets mad at the inaccuracies of the male bees rather than bees suing humans
Hello there
@@prakhardevnani7844 HELP
I don't understand.
@@prakhardevnani7844 WHAT
It’s not a Jewish lawyer bee who talks lol… it’s the gender roles
A study came out recently that found that bees also like to play :) The researchers put out little balls and the bees were rolling around on them just for fun. So cute!
She's so calm when answering the stupid questions. I wish I had patience like her.
🤭
There is no such thing as a stupid question. We don't know what we don't know. You do need to adjust your attitude. People with questions are simply engaged in the discussion: that's important to remember.
@@marilynrowland5197 True
It's a proven fact that people who think they are far competent and more intelligent than other people are in fact NOT....AT ALL.. It's called The Dunning-Kruger effect
None of these questions were stupid…
This woman has the most calming voice if you told me she didn't use smoke and just talked the bees down I'd totally believe you.
@@GalaxyAeterna No the comment is saying that if she said she didn't use Bee Smoke to calm the bees and instead used her voice the commenter owuldn't be surprised
*BEElieve
Seriously
she does tho but it doesn't hurt the bees
Trueeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
I’m convinced this woman is a giant swarm of bees in the shape of a person dropping knowledge.
Good one 👍
Like Oogie Boogie, only nicer?
Miss Million Bees, newest member of the Vindicators.
and shes beautiful too!
@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302hahaha😂
One important aspect which hasn't been mentioned in this video: While honey bees definitely are crucial to agriculture, so are other bees and pollinators. The reason for that is because not all flowers are 'open' and 'easily accessible' during the time that bees are active. Some flowers require more strength or specialised tools to be pollinated by another species like the bumblebee and wild bees. This is why it is recommended to not only plant food for them but to also consider an open water source such as a tiny fountain as well as an insect hotel or sandy stripe because wild bees and other pollinating insects like to dig holes in them. Unfortunately, wild bees have a much smaller respawn rate than honey bees and may only lay two eggs per season so providing shelter and food for them is particularly important for the oecosystem.
Yes! Also people don't realize wasps are also very important. They to pollinate and also get rid of excess bug's that kill crops. In fact without wasps we wouldn't have figs
I have borrow bee huts every and I plant an array of stuff for all the bees to enjoy we have a ton of bumblebees around here and they are actually really chill
Giant American Sloths are extinct and they were the only pollinators for Joshua Trees, that's why the Joshua Tree is endangered
Aww thank you for that!
@@candyh4284 really?
I’m a 7 year bee keeper in NC. Thank you, Erika, for getting the truth out to the public about the amazing honey bees. There are so many misconceptions in the general public. (I too get very worked up about the “Bee movie”. Don’t get me started. 😆)
I'm not a bee keeper, but as a biologist, I hate what they did in that movie jfc
Bee movie: has a bee and a human fall in love That person: "is it accurate?????"
Yeah, I found the question so funny
This entire video is narrated by a human in love with bees. I don't think that's the inaccuracy in the film.
Hey, if they both like jazz, who are we to judge?
Person probably fell in love with a bee
They probably thought it was the least inaccurate thing in the whole movie XD
As a bilingual person who’s second language is English the way she speaks is so clear and nice to listen to. Is it just me?
Nope not just you
I'm learning English too and I find the way she speaks clear.
it's bcuz of the mic quality
Nope, not just you. She has a lovely voice, and conducts herself well. Probably great to be around.
@@corniel657 YE, it's a good mic. But her accent its really inteligible. Her pronunciation it's really sharp, and she doesn't unstress her vocals using the schwa sound and for an foreign that helps a lot. And for a person like I who learn English just watching TV shows and movies with subtitles it's also helpfull to learn the correct pronunciation of the words
2 weird things I've learned about honey: 1) it never goes bad if it is stored correctly - even if it's crystallized or extremely old. 2) Honey is an antiseptic and can be used on wounds to help them heal. I've done this before when an open wound stopped healing. I knew they did it for embedded dog collars, so I thought I'd try it. It worked extremely well. The wound started healing again, closed up, and the area is now a scar (would have done so either way)
Manuka Honey is a lifesaver! We use it all the time in the medical field.
Yes I've heard the ancient Egyptians used honey for wound healing.
It is also flammable, i have seen people use it as a starter in camp
Something I would add to the harvest of honey, it can be done with out damaging the hive. As a commercial beekeeper for a long time in a family business, I can attest to the fact that harvesting too much honey is not only detrimental to the hive, but a weaker hive produces less honey next time. Also, not harvesting honey regularly is also just as destructive. Bees have a high turn over of bees, that the Queen is constantly laying eggs to replace losses. If the bees are on a good honey flow, they can and will pack out every inch of space with honey leaving no room for the queen to lay eggs, which result in the hive loosing population. It's a balancing act. When ever we harvested hives, we don't just take all honey we find. We only took what the hive could realistically spare. And sometimes during the process, if we find a hive low on food, we would take frames of honey off the truck and put them in the weaker hives. Beekeepers aren't evil guys just stealing honey. We spend a lot of time and care to ensure the hives are string and healthy, because as said in this video, they are incredible creatures important to our ecosystem.
well bees in general are important to ecosystems, but really only the native ones. Honey bees are not native to the Americas and increase disease spread and competition with native wild bees that are far more efficient at pollination than any of the like 5 honey bee species on earth. Honey bees have their place in their native ecosystems, just not in the Americas. Our agricultural system needs honey bees now only because our method of agriculture is what is the main driver for decreasing native bee populations. The situation of our wild native bees is dire and we are only making it worse by expanding monocrops and trucking honey bees around spreading disease to what's left of our wild native bees.
She just whipped out that queen bee (and her entourage) like it was nothing, then moved on with zero explanation as to why she had bees on her that very moment. Love that for her.
She did say a responsible beekeeper *always* has a queen on them... 😂
@@poppy-spades I mean she does stumble across hives quite often, so maybe she does just have a queen in her pocket...
She had the spare queen in her pocket because it was planned out beforehand, just like everything else when making a video with professional production quality.
Because she's a beekeeper, so she keeps bees
Well, I am assuming this wasn't recorded live, so she likely read the questions beforehand and prepped for recording this, including gathering props and Queen Bee's on standby.
"they've been trained to recognize faces for up to 2 days" that's 47 hours longer than my record
Same
Can relate
😆😆
Yeah, I remember their names but forget their faces.
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus I’m the exact opposite in most cases…
Shes so smart, a pure spirit, bees around the world protect this woman 🐝
I loved the joke, " if the bees are no bothering you then just let them Bee"
She's like a speech therapist's success story, such enunciation!
As someone whose native language isn’t english (as seen by the fact that i don’t know if “whose” is actually a word but “who’s” just looks wrong) - i love the way she speaks :)))) i feel like she’d have the most accurate autogenerated subtitles as well hahahaha
@@meg1762 I agree!
Right?! ♥️ Prior to finding this, the only person I knew who speaks (and sings) so crystal clear with her words is Lea Salonga.
@Breakfastbean English is not my first language either but I second this! "Whose" is possessive; "who's" is a contraction of "who is"
As a performer, I really respect her pacing of her words. To most people, speaking like this feels really slow, but when you listen to it, it's _so_ clear and well-paced.
“Once a male bee does mate with the queen- if he’s the winner of the ‘beelympics’- his life is over” ☠️
@@TheCaminoGuide DAYUUUM
@@TheCaminoGuide oof
He won but at what cost?
@@menjii4833 the bee didn't die a virgin
@@bernardmontemor 😅
I just love when she says "baby bees" so cute lol
I couldn't deal with a single bee for the life of me, huge respect for this woman for doing such an awesome job!
I love how she's so excited to share her knowledge with us!
@Not RickRoll 👇 not a rickroll source: trust me bro (bro 1 hour really?)
kzhead.info/sun/Zr18Z9mngGqMn3k/bejne.html
She's great....
Yes, a pleasure
She literally looks like a Disney princess.
Omg yes, The Queen Bee 🐝
Her dress? A bee dress. Either a dress to resemble a bee or a dress made of living bees (obviously a black or yellow dress that is covered in living bees). I like the second idea.
Billy Stokes a dress made of bees would be pretty badass honestly
@@RT22444 Omg it would though!! She could hold her hand out and the bees would fly at people.
And she sings in jazz
She’s a national treasure! We love you, bee lady! 🇺🇸
I was stung by a bee once when I was a kid and had been afraid of them ever since. This woman really helped me get over my fear of bees so I now I just let them chill whenever they’re near me.
"...in beekeeping, we actually call it is 'Flower Fidelity'." Me: "And like that, I have a new name for a modern post-hippie band name."
Reboot of the Bee Movie 🎥
Actually a pretty fire band name
I love that! I can see them being the main act of Coachella.
1.3k people proofread this comment and gave it a pass? Guess I'll like it too.
@@danm8004 3k now
love how she dodges but answers the questions, like: can bees be trained to attack someone. her: bees can remember a human face for 2 days (so maybe yes, but don´t involve me, publicly).
LOL yeah as professional as possible. I think it might be more along the lines of bees recognizing people they see as benevolent like the keepers rather than being trainable to seek out and attack someone. At least I hope so.
The question was "How do you come by spare queens", and she answers with how the spare queen is introduced to the hive. Completely dodged the question.
@@Markell1991 ya, she is hiding something
@@Markell1991 exactly this ticked me off so much
@@prettypetite she’s probably just excited to talk about bee related topics lol. If you wanna know there’s probably info you can find on it online! :)
4:46 "And just always try to listen to the bees" "BZZZZZZZZZ"
It’s kinda wild that you can plop a queen bee into a colony of unrelated bees, and they accept her (hopefully)
Seems strange. Why would the bees accept a queen who isn't related to them? I thought the entire purpose of the hive was to spread their genes.
@@greywolf7577 To spread all of their genes. A bigoted bee is a failed lineage
Her hair game is on point. Also, as someone planning to do some bee keeping in the future, this is an amazing video.
I bet her hair dye color is named Honey Blonde lol
She uses wax
please don’t let your hair out while beekeeping.
Seriously. That is god-tier hair. How does she even style it?
Shut up you're not a beekeeper
She looks like the most realistic AI. I don't believe that she is real
The way her Body doesn't move and her head moves alot she looks animated and fake!
@@CameronSalazar2113 the hashtags were so unnecessary lmao
@28steps Perhaps Facelift / Botox? Her face looks unnaturally static with zero wrinkles.
maybe you should be more respectful
@28steps I feel like that was kinda stepping over the line into rudeness ngl
i LOVE HER! She's the definition of calmness, i instantly feel safe and calm when i see her, it's amazing
I love this woman. She clearly has a passion for the bees and an incredible knowledge. it's cool to hear she finds working with a colony like being in a meditative state, and she liked bugs as a kid, so cute! ❤🐝
She answers each question like she is answering questions in a beauty pageant.
"I passionately keep bees, with a heart" 👸🏻
Very eloquent I like it
Yeah, as someone with an entomology degree I was highly disappointed is most of these answers.
@@amjohnson86 Somebody said she's a fraud, so
@@amjohnson86 Rwally? to me she seems pretty well in informed and she does a lot more on her tiktok
Why did I think for a second “shakira is a beekeeper now?!?!”🤦♀️
I'm seeing the resemblance as well😁😂
SAME I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
OMG I was about to say the same thing hahaha
Totally
Ohh so that's where I thought I knew here lol!
no idea how bee stuff started showing up in my feed but been watching (same with trimming cow hooves a couple years ago LOL!) fascinating how they function as a unit
Bees are fascinating I watched a bee documentary years ago that blew my mind, highly recommend! Please have her back for more bee talk I love her!!
She’s right about not startling a bee, I used to panic or try to swap them away. Now I just let them land on me, they chill for some seconds and fly away. Edit: I mean bees that are out foraging and not near the hive.
When I was living in a place with a balcony overlooking a big meadow, I would have bees land on me when I had my morning coffee. I would let it chill on my hand and give it a few dabs of coffee. They'd often drink the stuff, hang out for a couple of more minutes, clean up and fly to continue with whatever they were doing. And the pictures are adorable, because they would often stay so still the camera could make a super-sharp photo of them. So, yea, they're actually super chill, I love these little creatures! 🐝 ps. I once found a bee that looked dead on the floor. I picked it up and fed it honeyed water. I would keep it in my palm and just give it small dabs periodically for like half an hour and then the little bee recovered and flew directly out of the window and went on with its life. And I never ever got stung by them, except that one time I accidentally stepped on one. :(
@@NixHarpinger I got stung by a bee when I was a kid. I never got scared of them - my foot hurt, but I was crying because I had manage to crush a bee that was just going their job :( I love looking at bees and bumblebees working: they're peaceful and busy - absolutely love them!
Hah, then there's the totally random exoeriences like what happened to my 4yr old brother. He's in front of the family walkign down sidewalk. Honeybee comes by my ma, we watch (she's allergic). Comes by me, we watch. Flies up to my brother, lands on his ear, he doesnt even react, aaaand it stings him. Whole family saw it. Completely baffling. No idea why it did that.
@@nikkisigmon8090 I,'ve experienced thst too - don't quite remember why that was, but think it had something to do with bees being genetically similar in a hive, and inheriting some kind of agression gene. A family member was a bee keeper, and had a really agressive hive ond year. Usually, we could walk quite close to thf hives and none if the bees cared. However, THESE bees flew atound the house (about 150 feet), where there barely was any flowers and chased humans...! After a couple of months of this, they had to be gassed, as they didn't let people to be outside the house
Love this stuff!! Look forward to the next one
She is how i imagined princesses talked and acted. I loved how she was so calm and clear and advocating for bees.
Actually my first impression of Erika was bee fairy 🙂
she a Queen Bee
She's very photogenic as well, which I'm sure has helped her media career. I kind of worry about the bees getting in her hair, though. She must have to spend some time after every bee encounter just picking bees out of her hair.
She kinda is a living Disney princess not these new 2020's type though.🤣😂
Quiet 🤫 bee 🐝. 😶
The more I learn about bees, the more I’d like to be one. Erika’s knowledge and insight makes bee appreciation a pleasure. 🐝 ❤
My grandad was a beekeeper in Oklahoma. Good times helping him pick up rogue hives and robbing his beehives in the summertimes. Best honey ever! And chewing on the wax forever was so satisfying ❤
you know she genuinely loves her bees by the way she talks about them. maybe i have to rethink the way i perceive them
It's simple just don't freak out.
I’m ridiculously scared of all bugs but know that honeybees most likely will leave you alone if you leave them alone. It’s when it’s a hornet or something
@@Jeremy-ff3jm it's the same thing, swinging or swatting at them just makes them go after you.
Nah, they’re terrifying
Bees are the only insects I have love for. They’re so hardworking and the only reason why they sacrifice themselves by stinging is to protect their hive (unlike the spawns of satan that are wasps, those just do it for fun). Btw, irene looks lovely in your pfp 😁
I love her! And the way she says “The Bees”
Another great day of saving the BEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS
the opposite of Nick Cage. YES THE BEEES!!
I heard the way she said "the bees" as "number fifteen" ...
Omg YES!!
And its another great day, of saving the beeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I have lavender in my garden, and tiny, fuzzy bumblebees absolutely love it. Bees are probably the only bugs I'm not afraid of. I like to sit next to the lavender and watch the bumblebees. I'm really curious where they live at because I have never seen a bee nest around.
Bumblebees are solitary actually. So that's why you've never seen their nest
@@ghillies4life oooh makes sense! Thanks!
The world needs more people like her.
I agree. I think the bees would agree 🐝🐝😊
Hang on... you’re telling me that the movie where a bee voiced by Jerry Seinfeld seduces a human woman using the line “ya like jazz?” isn’t accurate to the inner workings of a beehive?
that movie is just a mess in general
Oh no ! 😭
@Er-Teeus true but it paints beekeepers as evil when then actually help bees to survive
I found the way you worded this so funny😂😂
@@simonwarren8856 it’s a stupid comedic movie. Big deal
I’m a little frustrated that she didn’t really answer the question about where exactly she gets the spare queen bees.
Obviously, she birthed them, being a queen themselves.
@Optimistic • Freak but how are there spares
maybe it’s unethical and she doesn’t want to admit that publicly :( I don’t know. I don’t like that she didn’t give an answer
@@GalChanx3 a colony doesn't "birth" just one queen bee. There are multiple ones, and the strongest one is accepted and the others are killed by the worker bees, along with their supporters. Basically a Game of Hive Thrones, happens. TLDR: the hives always have spares, it's just that they only need one, so they kill the others.
@@amaramoramei9959 yes I agree since there are multiple queen bees in a colony, it's just that one is picked and the rest will be killed unless a person who distributes queen bees picks the spare ones and sends them off.
You cannot tell me that she is not a Queen Bee in human form. She's just amazing....
5:45 this was the cutest part of the video lol 😂
She just slides past the "can they be trained to attack people" part of the question.
She almost slipped and revealed her masterplan of taking over the world with an army of bees.
I mean if they can only remember faces for 2 days you can't do much to train them reliably lmao
Well the answer would be no because she said that bees only remember faces for up to 2 days
I know, right?! I was WAITING for that answer, dammit...
@@abbyrose1314 well that just means you have to make sure your plan is 2-day doable and foolproof 🤣🤣🤣
I think it’s so cool how bees send out scout bees to look for a new location. It’s kinda like they have their own Realtors.
Not only that ,but not all the scout bees go to the same location so there are a few to several locations to vote on. And they do vote. After the bees swarm they collect in a mass and land somewhere. And the scout bees do a waggle dance on the face of the swarm. This communicates the distance and direction of their preferred spot. Over time more and more of the bees get persuaded toward one particular choice and off they go.
@@cathymontgomery7295 thank you for explaining it! I have so much more respect for bees and the important role they play on earth. ☺️
Lol
*Beealtors
@@hardmoneyhill 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂😂😂😂
Thank God there are people like you on this earth, I also learned a few things too!
Absolutely incredible... I'm still so new to the world of bees and bee keeping, but I love Erika's vids and explanations. Fascinating!
So about the "taking their honey" thing, beekeepers usually give them hives with more storage space than they'd need to store enough honey to go through the winter, it's sort of a surplus surplus, and the honey beekeepers take is only as much as the surplus surplus.
It’s basically rent
Yeah, the idea that beekeepers will let a hive starve is pretty silly.
@@thomasbecker9676 have you ever read that thing where a clueless vegan claimed honey was ground up bees?
@@agustinvenegas5238 No, but I can bee-lieve it.
@@agustinvenegas5238 what vegan was this? Do you have a name?
I can just imagine her having a headache whenever someone asks her "Ya like jazz?"
THIS.
I love her energy! such an amazing human being
I’ve always been terrified (still am a little bit to this day) of bees, wasps and other insects like those. But ever since I’ve seen this woman on tiktok and KZhead, I’ve understood that they don’t harm you if you stay calm, definitely helps me!
“Can bees be trained to attack a specific person… asking for a friend” lmfaoo 😂😂
I got stung 5 times the other day and had lots of swelling, than had lots of Hornets try landing on the old stings.
@@nathanielbarrassi4404 That sounds.. most disturbing. My condolences
@@ecvjtv2778 I never seen them so angry like 2021... it must be all the smoke and cellular phone waves
He gonna turn out to be a supervillain someday 😅
Nathaniel Barrassi Maybe the species, there are a lot more invasive species than before so that may explain it
Surprised no one asked if she hears buzzing randomly throughout her day.
She def does. 💀
That's tinnitus
That's Bee-TSD
@@WolfpackOne Ayyyyy nice one
i’m glad we have people like her to scoop up bees with their bare hands bc i could never. like i don’t think my brain would physically allow me lol
Thank you Erika , my grandfather was a beekeeper and he would love how your respecting this amazing trade.
She needs to be protected at all costs. This is a pure human.
She must've already been protected when it was imperative. There are many "pure humans" who weren't, and they go through life like a wasp.
@SEJ_429 Can I ask what you mean?
@@cattiemaxie7160 seriously? It's SO painfully obvious what they meant, if you can't tell with one single glance you're clearly one of the sheltered ones the guy above mentioned.
@@Ice.muffin Thanks for the condescension but I was interested in the second part of their comment, namely the pure humans who go through life like wasps.
@@cattiemaxie7160White Anglo Saxon Protestant, the most protected species this world has ever seen.
That queen cage is actually a really neat idea. Cool how the hive acclimates to it and releases her on their own.
change of management lol
She didn't invent it xd you can just buy Queens and they come in there
It's also good if the bees don't like the queen that way it keeps them protected too a bit you can remove the queen cage and try an different queen
When I was 16, I worked at a honey processing plant. I set up my own behive, by buying a queen, placing her queen cage in a 2pound bee box, and setting that box with the top open near a mound of swarming bees. It was fascinating to watch over about 4 hours, how first 1 bee would land on the queen cage, then another, then 2 more, then faster and faster as those first bees dispersed her pheromones, until the entire box was filled with bees, and the swarm was gone. Capped it up, and placed it in my hive.
@@unlimon6382 She didn't say she invented it, just that the invention is neat.
I really admire seeing people who clearly *LOVE* their job❤
I'm taking my first introduction to bee keeping in a few weeks. Thank you for your videos truly inspiring and very helpful 🐝💕
if you live in the Americas please be mindful that honey bees are not native there. There are plenty of other native bees you can take care of that are native and don't create unbalanced competition. No shade to bee keepers I just wish people knew this before committing to tending a honey bee colony.
Okay but can we talk about how she was asked the question regarding spare queens and she was like "I have one right here" and pulled out a tiny wooden bee cage?
And she still didn't tell us where she got that queen!
@@iwasalllikeomg agree. I was waiting for the answers but she was talking about something else.
The poor bee sitting in her pocket all day till someone needs her 😭
I was like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait
I love in her vids when she just whips a queen out.
One thing she didn't mention at the "do you get stung a lot?"-question is, that it also depends on the bee colony. Like humans, each colony is different. There are colonies, which are so chill, that you have do something really wrong to be stung and there are colonies, whch are very aggressive and can sting you just because you exist.
Lol like the murder hornets 😬
@@heysilly1341 yes but hornets are not the same as bees. Hornets are assholes.
@@verbalkint4258 , right because hornets are predators. Honey bees are vegetarians. So...
I remember in another video she made she kind of explains this a little bit. She only goes without protection if the bees allow her and arent aggressive which she has also encountered! She only shows us her favorite cases of course which just so happen to be the ones where she doesn't need protection! :D
Yes, it certainly depends on the hive. However, even aggressive bees won't sting you just because you exist. Like all bees, they'll only sting you if you give them a reason to. Unfortunately, standing too close to an aggressive hive may very well be a good reason for them to get defensive.
i love this woman and her content so much i hope her pillow is always cold and her charger always works at every angle
I have a fear of bees, however listening to her was very nice and educational!
Give this woman a show. With the importance of bees to all of humankind, paired with her poise, enunciation, knowledge and just sheer presence, she'd make for a remarkable weekly watch. Did she ever once say "um" or "uh". She's tv-ready. Sign her up!
Honeybees are not native to America and many other countries in Europe where they are used. Sure, they pollinate crops fairly well but native bee species are much better at pollinating native plants. Honeybees are NOT good for the environment as honeybees and endangered native bees both feed on nectar and therefore compete with each other. Native bees in my country are already endangered so we can't keep promoting honeybees as if they were good for the environment. Instead, build a bee hotel and plant some native flowers in your garden, that will do much more for the environment. Just so you know. Have a good day😊
@@wha82 That is correct Honeybees are important but are invasive and our native pollinators are the ones that need to be saved too! So all these people spreading honeybees everywhere are overtaking the small wild pollinator and spreading disease . Keep the honeybees in managed areas not in every back yard. I remove thousands of wild feral honeybees and invite people under estimate bees and the danger of trying to remove them. We just had a fatality of a tree light installer in Texas. So dont try to scoop up the bees. Let the professionals do it
Nope no verbal fillers with that princess.
@@wha82 Do you have a source that honeybee compete with native bees in the Americas? As I understood it, most native bees don't target the same species as honeybees (I was told most of them target just one species or genera of flower while honeybees are generalists that don't bother with many of those flowers). The primary risks to native bees are habitat destruction and pesticides I don't remember anything about disease impact, but I imagine it varies depending on the species.
@@pendlera2959 Here's one recent (2022) : "Mounting evidence that managed and introduced bees have negative impacts on wild bees: an updated review" (if i give the link my message may be taken down so i just give the title, normally it's free access). Then i'm gonna be writing with an european perspective, but i think this'll apply to the US too. "Most of them target just one species or genera of flower" Well depends on how you count. Considering species number that is probably true, lots of bee species are specialist of a genera. But considering abundance of individuals, probably not because generalists wild bees tend to be more abundant overall because they can find food in most places. Now of courses there's some other bees that may be generalists considering flower selection, but not considering habitat selection... Anyways given honey bees target a wide variety of flower they will indeed compete with other bees, generalists or not. Now it's just about how much does that affect wild bees : look up at research. Of course, given science need a great amount of data and papers to really be able to draw strong conclusions, it's still debatable whether or not honey bees do indeed cause lots of damages. But i don't think it's still reasonnable to believe that. But you're right when saying that habitat destruction and pesticides are the primary risks for wild bees. Hence why we shouldn't put many hives in places where a great diversity of wild bees still survive...
I love how much she loves her bees compared to how others just scream at them
Hey you forgot running away aswell
What do u mean? Most bee workers love their bees and it would be strange if somebody screamed at those working to produce honey. I would assume almost all those with bee hives try to have more profit with unstressed bees.
@@kumarshanita93 no i just mean people in general get scared of them
@@cardboardbox284 oh lol I just assumed beekeepers as she's one. Yah bees are so sweet it's strange how people can be scared of them. But I guess it's the same with spiders.
@@kumarshanita93 bees are rediculously cute and i love them but I am terrified of them idek why.
You are extremely good in educating about bees. And your love for them and for nature is palpable. I think you should have a TV programme.
She’s beautiful. I’m convinced bees see her as a giant queen bee. They never seem to be bothered by her presence.
Male bees be like: Honey Nut Cheerio Edit: Holy crap thanks for the likes!
LMAO NOOOO
Looool Oh Youu!!
I'M WHEEZING HOW COULD YOU
Casual Geographic?
dude...
As someone who’s allergic to bees they definitely make me nervous. I’m trying my hardest not to pass that on to my daughter so I tell her “bees are good but we don’t touch”
I’m laughing at this so much I’m allergic to bees too🤣
I'm not allergic to anything, but I still don't touch bees. If they land on or around me I just calmly wait for them to leave. Wasps and hornets on the other hand...
@@DanSlotea Ikr. Bees are nice, they produce honey and looks kinda cute. Wasps don't, and they look *horrifying*
@@hey9974 some wasps are parasites
That’s the best mindset for all wild animals and bugs! All animals have a purpose and are good for the environment, but most (if not all!) should not be touched or interacted with. Teaching your kids that most animals aren’t like your pet dog or cat and actually get scared when humans try to hold them or pet them is really important. Lots of wild animals each year get killed or seriously injured due to children trying to “play” with them.
Just ran into your video, and you are so eloquent and full of knowledge and the way you deliver your expertise is quite captivating !! Calm and soft spoken adds even more luster to your beautiful esthetic !! Cheers 🙂
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen in a LOONG time. I love this 🐝🐝
3:14 “His life is Over!” _said with a calming voice_ 10/10/21
"another day of saving the bees" is one of most iconic lines i ever heard
its also ironic, she clearly works with western honey bees which are an invasive species in America, they compete with other bee species which kill them off
Awhile back, the algorithm popped one of your videos into my feed. I don't think I've missed many of your other videos. I've been highly impressed by your technique, and having g spent some time watching other bee rescuers, I've pretty well determined you could probably teach them a thing or two. 😊 I grow a fairly small back yard garden and becoming more and more interested in possibly bee keeping, both for the benefit of mine, neighbors gardens, and my love and fascination of the bee kingdom. Their honey is purty darn good, too. But, that is not my reason for attempting this. I just wish to tell you that I thank you for showing me how and the confidence to try keeping my own. I promise you I will proceed with caution and knowledge as I do respect the natural world more than most. Keep on with what your doing. I enjoy every bit of it. And, thank you for doing this videos. It does clear a few things up. 😊❤️
That last question they asked specifically about honey bees versus other pollinators. Most pollinators are not bees, and most bee pollinators are not honey bees.
as a person deathly afraid of anything that meets the criteria of a bee (flies, has stinger, buzzes) i look at her heroically
“A bee colony is in fact a democracy. The worker bees all make decisions for the collective good of the colonies.” Based
Bee socialism
Anarcho-Beeism
A Beemocracy, I'm sorry I couldn't myself. I'll be going now take care!
It works for a colony of ~30,000 bees. Not for 330,000,000+ humans.
@@leilagotspaz socialism is a economic policy idiot
This was incredibly fascinating and informative!
So nice to "meet" the lady behind all those incredible videos of rescuing hives.
They can recognize faces? This explains that one summer as a kid where the bees and I went to war. It was pyrrhic for everyone involved. Numbed by grief, loss, and withering horrors etched indelibly on our hearts, we reached a sober armistice in September. Presently, our relations are neutral to positive.
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Tell us more man you can't leave us hanging like that
Yeah tell us more
Sounds like an anecdote you'd hear in a Wes Anderson movie, haha!
So... who won the war?
I love how every professional they have for these videos just loves what they are doing. They also all look exactly like their job would be like “yup that’s a beekeeper”
I've been stung by bees and I've been stung by hornets and wasps. The difference was always the fact that the bees had good reasons to sting (I accidentally stepped on them or something). But the hornets and wasps were just trying to steal my food or they flew into my sleeve for some reason. Sometimes people just need to pay more attention to the circumstances instead of assigning blame without thought.
I love bees, especially honey bees. There is a lot of unnecessary fear around them and their cousins. I've had a wasp land on my left cheek, crawl up over my eye (which I closed for obvious reasons), across my forehead, and cross the other eye (again, closed) to my right cheek before flying off. I was able to carry on with my conversation during the whole thing and didn't get stung, though it was hard not to laugh at the horrified expression of the other person watching this happen! 😂 Don't panic, and be mindful and respectful, and 9/10 times you won't be stung.
Personally I think that protecting wild bees is just as important. There are lots of plants around, and beekepers usually have one or two species of bees, and that's it. Some bees will polinate some plants, but never touch others. Thats were wild bees, bee species that have always lived in the wild and nobody has ever domesticated, come into play, polinating those other plants that beekeper bees never touch. Pesticides is the biggest treath to those bees, so banning the used of pesticides is the best step at protecting wild bee species.
Honey bees are not native to North America they were brought by European settlers so we have no (true wild bee) or feral honey bee populations in North America
@@patrickbone4592 there are plenty. Its just that no beekeper has them. Just in the US there are 25 species of wild bumblebees. Also how ethnocentric can you get? North America is like one part of the world. The entire world is facing problems with bees. Take China for example. They are the country with the most man made beehives. So many that omits wrecking the enviroment. Because there is such a thing as too many bees. And that is no even counting counterfit honey. Something that actually exists.
@@LuckyBird551 I do have to apologize I miss read your comment honey bees are very different than bumble bees the main difference being they don’t produce honey there are lots of native bees in the us but honey bees are not
Suuuuper important comment. Domestic bees are not endangered - and wild pollinators are crucial, vital to the entire ecosystem. And yes, to humans, of course. Gotta do so much more to preserve them and help them thrive
She totally dodged the question about wild bees as well
My husband has always been a bit cynical about the “save the bees” mission, citing that the bees we have now weren’t here before colonization and were actually an invasive species to the area. But what she says here just blew his mind. That because they’re such good (/aggressive) pollinators we have tailored our agricultural practices around them and are now dependent on them. He literally just said “that is so cool!” 😍😍☺️ makes my heart happy. Keep saving the bees! 🐝
It is true that a lot of native bee populations have declined as a result of domestic bees, but we are more or less reliant on them at this point. On top of that, conservation for honey bees often benefits a lot of other important insect pollinators as well. Still, domestic honey bees are so much more common that’s it’s always a joy for me to see a native species, especially because they’re usually quite colourful or funky!
I would call honeybees an introduced or exotic species instead of invasive which implies a negative effect. They have also hybridized with the native bees. They are a rare example of a foreign species with positive or neutral effect. Horses introduced to America are another example.
According to scientists your husband is right! We should be focusing on saving the WILD bees now
Well I mean your husband is kinda right alot of science says that while honey bee populations have been going up, native bees are the ones that are going down, and farming honey bees to try and save the bees is sort of like farming cows to try and save wild bison. Honey bees Aren't going anywhere anytime soon, we're top reliant on them, but the native bees are
@@iigoofylucyii8103 yeah it’s like people having chickens to save some endangered bird species it’s just not the same
How does her hair stay so perfect And she is probably the most composed human I’ve ever seen
I love that you addressed the bee pollen/allergy myth.