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hi my name is Jeff Walker and my
flowhive is in San Antonio
Texas so I started messing with bees in
uh I think it was around 1992 basically
helping a friend do a a cutout kind of
got hooked from that point on and have
messed with bees on and off but didn't
really get serious about it until uh a
few years ago folks that knew me when
the flo High video came out started
sending me that video I think I got that
video from almost every person that I
know and so that kind of got me
interested in the flowhive as well and I
think it's a great
product so today we harvested four
frames of Honey out of the flowhive and
the bees that we worked with are
Africanized bees they're very aggressive
and that's an unfortunate part of
working with bees in in the South Texas
Arizona are probably two of the worst
states that have this problem but it's
continues to spread and uh I think the
good thing is that even though the bees
were very aggressive and and uh started
trying to sting us from the moment we
got near The Hive they did kind of
mellow out and and settle down a bit and
and it it was a a steady attack as
opposed to if we had to open that Hive
it it would have been been much worse
and you get to the point where it's
almost difficult to do anything because
there's just so many bees on you so we
didn't see that today and that's a great
uh another great benefit of the product
is that when you do have a hive that's
really bad you can still Harvest honey
from it and work with it and uh on an
upside these Africanized bees I think
they're so mean that the mites won't
touch them uh that that Hive appears to
be extremely strong
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I hate to uh requeen in the middle of a
flow so I kind of am willing to just
deal with it but uh now that we're
entering dir this Hive is uh going to
get split up pretty
soon you know I think the most
interesting part about the honey uh
coming out of the
flowhive is the difference
in each frame of honey so harvesting a
frame of honey and just being able to
smell it like a glass of wine and
actually the floral notes are are there
I mean if you smell a a bottle of honey
that's that's been
extracted uh it just it's not the same
and I think that's a an amazing thing
that is hard to believe until you
experience H
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it I I think bees are amazing the more
you learn about bees the more I'm amazed
at everything they do so for example
here in Texas the bees have to bring in
a lot of water uh because it's hot and
when you think about how a a bee air
conditions The Hive using a evaporative
cooling how do they
know whose turn it is to get water
who's going to Fan the water who's going
to get pollen today and who's going to
get nectar I don't think they line up in
a formation every day and somebody hands
out orders and says okay you know a
squad uh you're on water
detail so it just amazes me how the bees
know what to do and when to do it
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