In this video, I show an alternative to honey bees as my Uncle Kevin coaches me through my first native beehive split.
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Are these banned for export? US?
Wow, I never knew about native honey bee hives. Learn something new every day and I agree with all your reasons for going native! Nice haircut and enjoyed your Uncle's comments!
Great haircut!
Have you ever looked into the Flow Hive?
https://www.honeyflow.com/
I thought you guys were amateurs until I saw the ‘duct tape’. In Canada that stuff is considered a full tool box. Fixes everything- LOL.
I was surprised to see your Uncle Kevin as I met him last year, and see him often. Although he is not my direct Uncle, he is a relation to me. I'll have to mention to him next time that he is now famous as he was on Self Sufficient Me. What a small world.
For anyone who may be wondering I believe there are some species of stingless bees in North America but I don’t know if anyone keeps them.
Gday, im from southern qld and i have 15 hives,
Hockingsai
Carbonaria
And australis.
I have tried the vertical split and found it troublesome mainly all the seams that need to be sealed back up.
I now employ a method of attatching an empty hive and following a system that i have hybridised from another technique to get a new hive in 12 weeks without opening a hive.
Benefits are i dont have to open a hive to begin with and this method just follows the principal theory that in a tree a hive will follow the hollows that open up as time goes by and new colonies will emerge.
Love the haircut
must be the only aussie animal that cant sting, bite, poison, box or kill you?
nice hair cut mate lmao
Fun video
Why is it that the only thing in Australia that doesn’t bite or sting you is the GOD DAM BEES
I didnt even know these were called native bees, thought they were in the wasp family or something. I believe in America we have some very similar, great content bud!
A plane near me has a big trunk with holes drilled into it fir native solitary bees
Loved your Uncles part of this vid. Not sure about your head chop. It’s tooo short for a greenie.haha
I saw a version of these in Nicaragua. I love them. Wish I could have them in Utah.
I have also heard of Mason bees; are the Australian native bees similar to them or are they something else entirely?
Your uncle is just too adorable!
Ugh watching this makes me so sad. I had termite guy spray insecticide over my vegetable and bee friendly garden and just killed my bees and pollinators
lol, they may be stingless, but they sure can pinch hard and know exactly which spots to go for….
Noooo, you dont split vertically, thats not how the hives are structured! the bees build in horizontal layers, so all you have to do is tear the layers apart. by cutting it up like that for a vertical split, you are killing god knows how many larvae as well as possibly the queen herself. terrible box design.
If that bees are stingless why the need of a protection?
Cool