This video shows an Australian stingless native beehive being split to make two hives. These Australian native bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria, but there are over 1500 different varieties of native bees and of course many more worldwide.
With the alarming decline in the honey bee it makes sense to grow and create more native bee hives and protect habitat because if the honey bee goes it will potentially leave a massive hole in how our food plants are fertilised.
These native bees are stingless so they are great to keep in the garden as they are safe around children and are fierce pollinators of local plants – it’s a win win!
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Mate Thank god for people like you, With out Bee's W'ed be Fucked, You've inspired me to start doing it, I might need your help along the way and will be posting questions and needing your advise, Cheers Mate Great thing your doing
the white beehive squares what is the material sounds and looks lime blocks or white ceramic clay blocks???
Where can i buy some of these bees and boxes? Think they will survive in florida?
Hi Mark do you sell you hive with bees after you split them ? as I am interested in helping by having some . I am always want to be self sufficient like you bloomnhairstuff@gmail,com kind regards Cathy
Watched afew videos of people splitting te hive on the horizontal … I like your way beter … Makes more sense to make a hive with distribution of different age bees …
Just got stung by a honey bee…would really like some stingless bees right about now.
How many get squished when putting the tops back on?
I don't think destroying so many cells in favor of different ages bees is a good option. Horizontal splitting like the one used by INPA boxes can be done without destroying any cell, and the new hive will be able to develop with good handling if you only give it just a good amount of mature cells.
Very interesting, I had no idea there were stingless bees. Especially in AUS where there’s all kinds of poisonous snakes and whatnot.
Can you pls share how you make there housing?
hi Mike thanks for this video. I wonder if they can be exported to Europe, south of France for example? Where can one buy these bees?
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thank you for a truly informative video. Great work to you and your uncle
Hi there, is your uncle located at Brighton? We recently purchased a hive and after watching your video ours look to be very much the same construction, right down to the tie strap used.
I can't believe these little hidden gem videos have eluded me for so long!! I only just found these and wow did I love them. This is awesome content Mark
Amazing! Does your uncle sell hives? Also has he ever written a book about this stuff?
Was uncle's face ever revealed once?
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Wearing earphones and the buzzing is sounding like they're all around me. It's making me want to brush them away.
I've had a bit of experience with native stingless bees, but I've never seen a hive design quite like it. Splitting top to bottom I haven't seen before. The trend with the young ones seem to be split side to side. I might need to give this up down method a go.
Really interesting Mark. I picked up my hive last Sunday and was wondering what it looked like inside. Now I have an idea what it’s like, thanks. I’m in Mackay
How expensive compared to the dollar will cost 8 oz in Australia thank you
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Very interesting vertical process.
Good to see he is not using stainless steel.
It appears that one of the boxes was the wrong orientation (1st one). Native bees will more often put honey stores in the back behind the brood and pollen at the front near the door. So one of those hives got all the honey stores and one got all the pollen. The 2nd two seemed to be better orientated so that each half got half the supplies each along with half the brood.
Also to answer your question why it is darker, 2 things possibly older if this is his 1st hive. And colour of structure may vary depending on the sap they have drawn from different trees to make the structural support propolis/cerumen.
The colouring around the doorway is also more propolis (wax mixed with tree sap). And helps them 'smell' their way home.
I am surprised he doesn't move the split hive with the old doorway away as the one in the original position will get all the workers returning to it and overall there will be less bees left in the one that has been moved from original position.
Hey there guy's any updates on the hives. Do you have them stacked right next to each other or on top.