so quim what are we doing um so we just caught a swarm and I thought it was just going to be like a
normal day to help in the um garage but turns out we found a um swarm my grandfather said if um if
we find swarm it would be my first beehive oh said is it going to be your first piece ever yes and we
caught this swarmm so excellent let's look at the hive that we put him in so we used the B vacuum to
get them yep and so we have this old be box that we already had set up just in case we get a late
season swarm right so the interesting thing is we've also put a screen on the front of the hive
can you tell me what that's about um this screen right here show what's that for so this screen
right here um honeybees bumblebees drones can get out so um the queen so if the queen wanted
to leave and she decided she did not want to stay she couldn't because um that is for the queen so
that's a queen excluder and we just put this Hive in there so we we collected the Swarm we put him
in the hive if that Queen wanted to leave now she can't but the workers can come and go yeah
now you mentioned Bumblebee and stuff bumblebees can't get through there but they wouldn't want to
get in anyway but what makes us think the queen is in this Hive how do we know um you will see
um the bees Fanning they're Fanning and what kind of Fanning are we looking at they um they're going
out the end right here and their abdomen is um sticking up and they're like Fanning okay so and
what's interesting too is there's a lot of workers going in mhm they're not coming out so this is
what we're hoping for the tree that they were on which is right up there still has a lot of bees
on it but the good news is they're unsettled and they're flying all over the place and we
think most of them are headed right over here so they're following the smell of their colony and
we're hoping they all just end up going right in here and we're going to get a video of that mhm
how's that sound yes so you pretty happy first day ever owning your own bees yes probably my
the first day um hey you know what's funny this Hive right here is painted blue uhh this was one
of the hives that we set out back in 2007 so this Hive is older than you are isn't that funny yeah
it's funny because my first favorite color of my whole life was blue and I'm seven in 2007 so that
is pretty funny oh that's a good tie and I hadn't even thought them all the things so now we're just
going to sit here and we're going to wait and right show me the one that's Fanning the nasoff
land okay um just be right here yep right there and when she does that she's spreading the Queen's
pheromone and telling the others to come yeah so now we're just stoping to we're just going to take
a break and we're going to watch the Swarm that's in the tree oh what are they doing right now
what's going on in the tree uh they are looking they are active it's going to be cool if all all
those bees come from that tree come over here hit the landing board and they all go inside the hive
yeah that's that save us time when we caught this it took it took like an half hour 25 minutes with
the vacuum yeah yeah because there's so many bees very unusual what time of year is it right now do
you know what month it is um a September I mean know August it's August so next week what happens
for you um I get my second be what I think you want second beehive no not a second beehive
you're starting school oh yeah I'm starting school so this is going to be a great story
to share with your friends at school and let's see let's sit back and see these bees coming from this
tree and what they're doing is they're searching all over because they can't find their Queen but
what I really like is we see a steady stream of bees coming from this tree and going to your first
beehive we're going to garage but we um did the um little Shield M we told us we had a um told
us we had a swarm so my grand said theic for last years they were so calm and uh Cal and camouflage
in the tree um I didn't even notice yeah we're doing a tough job right now what is that um making
sure we have the quean watching the bees coming in and out yeah sitting and watching the bees
hard work huh you know it yeah but still it's still cool um we get the CBS um watch a colony
grow um but yeah so what did we do to help them out when we set up this Hive today um we make
sure they were what kind of frames do we put inside that live box we um put in um it's both
it's a 10 frame box yeah we um wait what's we put in some uh pre-drawn comb so they can get
started right cuz it's late in the year for them this is looking cool look what's going
on now look how many bees are coming to this Hive and all of The Naz andof glands that are
being elevated in the air calling the rest of a in do you think they're can to leave
that tree and join the bees here in this time yeah yeah I think they will too yeah
um it looks like it looks like a real swarm up there look it it does look like a swarm do you
know why why they're leaving oh I'm coming going to get off that tree and they're going
to come right over here you know why why they want to be a part of your very first colony of
bees I know it's like um it's like they made a swi just for me it's like they knew yeah they
knew that you needed one yeah funny like we got to be Fanning right there y they're all Fanning
and the more that fan the better here they come look at the tree go it's getting smaller every
second I mean it's amazing to have my first colony as a seveny old pretty
yeah probably not many seven-year-olds have their own bees um I don't think I
know any 7-year-old in the whole entire world who has aony well there may be some
in the whole world yeah there they're still them but I just don't know of
anybody old
but so how's it looking so far I can see a lot of Fanning look right here guys um I see a lot
of Fanning there's a lot of Fanning going and we're getting a bunch of new bees right yeah
um they just keep coming where are they coming from that that tree right here the tree where
we collected the Swarm right yeah I'm seeing more bees here every minute or half a minute
less bees there and less bees flying in the sky um but yeah when if you put your finger
like over here you can feel I you feel the panning yeah I feel like I feel like it's a
fan touching me right now wow they're moving a lot of air yeah they are moving tons of
air
welcome back to the way to be we are going to be talking about we're going to be talking about my
behive it's been um over a month since I got my first me we're going to go look around okay you
Dr so okay what were you saying it's been how long um over a month it's been over a month
so what's today's date um October 12th October the 12th um and uh what else you want to tell me
about um we inspected a few weeks ago we found out walw well capped honey and honey in every
frame not every frame all the frames are full how many frames are in that box um it's a 10
frame box 10 frame box so is that bad news if they're capped with honey right now um that's
amazing news that's good news what do they need it for um the survive winner we want them
to survive winter so let's go take a look what shall we see going on on the landing board right
now um PA coming in bearding should see pollen coming in check that okay got some cute little
be well they seem calm don't they very calm now the thing is time of day what time is it right
now um I don't know the time um you don't know the time no it is 4 442 442 so we're actually coming
to the end of their productive day all right enjoying Le so what kind of bees would you see
on the landing board right now like what are their jobs um their jobs is um if you see a bee carrying
a bee that is in Undertaker bee with dead bees trying to take it out the hive oh that's a good
one so if somebody's dragging a dead be out is an Undertaker okay um like the you can see honey with
the small eyes and small skinny body if you want to know what a drone is don't want to be stung
it would be a big fat bee with big eyes wrapping they're like they're kind of the eyes are touching
from the top from the top so if you see a big heavy one that's not a queen that's a drone yes
okay and didn't you just pick one of those up in the grass a minute ago yeah okay so what else can
you tell us what other jobs are happening on the land board um jobs are to go on flowers and bring
pollen what else make which are the bees most which ones are most likely to sting us honey bees
well the honey bees could do it but there's a job on the landing board guard bees guard bees that's
what I was hoping you would say yeah what do guard bees look like well the guard bees look like every
other bee but you'll notice that they're looking around and sometimes they grab other bees when
they land like these these got bees and I think let's look to see if any of them have their
mandibles open and if they grab at bees as they fly in they're kind of like inspectors oh like we
inspect beehive yeah but they're going to inspect other bees that are coming in and if a bee doesn't
belong they'll bite them and chase them away like this one right here so there's one right on the
edge see it's got its legs it front legs are up mhm that one right there sure okay you thinking
that one yeah I think more towards the entrance look at this one right in the middle it's grabbing
other bees as they come oh oh this one like kind of upside down yeah you don't need to put your
hand right there to see them I don't want to be stung yeah um also I want to talk about something
okay what do you want to talk about so if you guys ever wonder what um how long it takes for a you to
die so after it stings you apparently I tested that out the hard I freaked out by honeybees bad
chice I shouldn't have um somehow a honeybee crawled out my shirt bit me five times four
or five times and then St me in the chest um we timed it it at least um live after for 52 minutes
about 52 minutes so after a bee leaves it stinger in your skin it's injecting poison in you so yeah
you try and remove as fast can will die and so you turn that into an experiment to see how long
that worker be would live and you say it was how long 52 minutes how did you figure that out um
we used the timer used a timer and then we put it on what where do we put that be um in a in a
little container to watch it yeah and where was that um just a little out in the yard down the
street in the side in the kitchen on the kitchen table that's where we do most of our experiments
just in case you know somebody wants to give us food yeah and you want to watch it while eating
okay yeah so then you did make a determination cuz now you've been stung by bees and wasps yes what's
worse 100% honey bees the honey bee hurt more yes um okay when I got stung on the yellow jacket when
I got stung like a honeybee I don't know if it's a bite or S but um I did see a honey be um my
arm like right here um I don't know for sure if it was yellow jacket but it did not it did not really
hurt it felt like a little poke in my skin it only hurt for a few minutes and I was fine like when
I got stung on the chest it hurt for like tens of minutes it hurt tens of minutes okay I don't know
what I'm talking about no that's okay 10 about like a 10 minutes 10 of minutes okay I don't know
what I'm talking about but you do you're actually doing a very good job of explaining what happened
to you so now the Stinger was in your skin yes is it important to get it out fast or should you
just leave it until it's done what should you do yellow jacket um you better get out of here
um yeah Yellow Jackets are hungry too M um yeah you want to remove it as fast as possible because
it um it is injecting poison in your body okay and it's not real Poison it's a type of B poison
so can't kill you or anything okay unless you're allergic which you're not allergic thank goodness
right yep and also when I was about three or four um I enjoyed the worst of my life like
there's a bunch of black hornets like over there and oh you're talking about the wasts that were
in the yeah you're go in the clothes line yes and and then I messed with them and they do not like
me apparently they just sting me over and over and over again I was crying hard so honey bees
are much better but their stings hurt more because the Stinger stays on your skin it's also Barb it's
Barbed so it actually crawls into your skin more right yeah and and it can't pull it out so rips
off the so we need to get that off right away cuz it has its own Venom sack with it its own muscle
also y jackets have that jacket hornets have those what do they have um that um like poison
can squir out they have a stinger right but they can sting you over and over because their stinger
is not lost and they don't die when they sting us yeah it's also not Barbed I also go um yeah
yeah when I got stung by y jacket um I don't know if it was one or a bite but it's not if something
poked in my body so like I don't know how a pokey bite would feel but I don't know that now let's
talk about how you come up with a number for your hive um um myor you wanted it to be number 50 mhm
that's a valve tag that we put on there why'd you come up why was 50 your choice I don't know
cuz I five letter money but we didn't have five so I picked 50 okay all right so an exponent of
five right close enough okay any uh last words do you think these guys are ready now for winter yep
think they'll make it they're definitely going to make it w w wall honey W the wall honey there
is some brood in there and as we're having really cold nights right now so as they consume the honey
they'll be replacing it with brood I don't see a lot of pollen coming in and I think that's because
the pollen probably came in earlier in the day don't you think so around this time we don't see
a lot of pollen yeah but there was some earlier cuz I came out and checked them just in case it
was going to be raining mhm and pollen indicates that they're raising brood in there so that's it
yep thanks for the update yeah all right any final words advice wisdom thanks for watching okay I
hope you learn something new about the be thing in my chest I hope you learn how yeah okay thanks a
lot
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