Hello, youtube Humberto back here. Welcome to the channel one more time. I am in Brazil right now
dealing with some family things and taking care of some personal issues and I'm also taking advantage
to take you guys on a little tour in my place where I start everything
when I work with the bees for the first time. If you know a little bit of my story
I am a second-generation beekeeper in my family and dad always asked me to help him and
at the beginning, I hate the bees a lot so that's I think was a good time so I can give
you a little tour and I can show you my first bee and it's not the honey bee Apis mellifera
but that was I think, my favorite bees and I think you're gonna enjoy it too let me give you a tour
so this is the house the property
there is a little pool over there nobody's taking care of that too much,
of course, I'm not here they always put me to work. We build the house ourselves with my hands
and dad's hands and we have normally we don't have bees here anymore we uh sorry about the noise and
the wind I don't have my stuff I didn't bring my microphone good gear for audio recording so
I apologize for that uh normally we have a lot of bees here honey bees Apis mellifera in this
area the whole thing and also the other area right there we're gonna get there soon but now
now it's a mess that is retired not doing anything not doing very well physically to do
the work that needs to be done so I'm not here, unfortunately, there is some things here I have
bananas we have lemons we have yucca this yucca here bananas we have palms we still have some
nice trees here but normally the apiary was here and we have around uh
20 to 30 hives in this apiary the other side over there we have more
20 and then we have located in all those places they have a couple little hives here and there
depending on how the neighbors were happy about them normally they were not because it's not easy
to work with Africanized bees I'll show you a little clip about a visit that I did yesterday
to a beekeeper and there was a cinematographer and it was kind of fun to watch what happened so
I'll play the clip right now enjoy I'll see you right there I'm gonna show you the other side
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this is another area uh dad's trying to do some things here but not looking good as normally look
at before we still have some orchard here here and there but normally this area was
all these we have plenty of these uh i will show you where we have our little honey house which is
not a honey house anymore i don't even know what they are using the things for i'm more yucca and i
just need to be careful here because i don't have my shoes on and sometimes we have surprises here
uh so there there's a lot of constructions now we have neighbors we never had neighbors before
the area is growing fast a lot of properties being built but this little thing right there
that was uh our little honey house or extract and keep equipment and things like that so this is
also part of the area the back of the house we also have bees on top here i also put some
uh little nooks to capture some swarms on the top here because there is when the bees were here and
everywhere there is some swarms i always like to keep some some you know some baits there and some
box so they can go straight there uh the only problem is to get them and put them down
yeah fun stuff
so yeah proper to keep going forever here I'm not going there it's too much going on
this is a nice place and now what I want to show you is my first bees and trying to find them now
before the bee I forgot to show one area that we also have lots of bees and now I think dad
playing some beans and more yucca, kind of like yuck a lot you can see more you can hear
and again we have neighbors now it's so weird for me to see
other constructions around here uh i don't know what to think about that i don't like it
not that anti-social or anything just it's not the same so also have a lot of bees here
there the house there and this little place that have water there
we we have our honey house here and with equipment things like that but now we don't doing anything
so the idea now for my dad that my wife gave me the idea and i don't know why i
didn't think about that before uh we're going to transform this whole place now instead of
it's melithera apiary we're gonna we're gonna do the melipona apiary here we're gonna have
uh plenty of uh stingless bees i'm gonna make honey from stingless bees very different taste
very good very expensive and dad is not gonna have problem with stings which is the most important
thing i guess and can and then so they can still enjoy the bees without me being concerned that
you're gonna die every day okay so after a while i finally find them my first bees these are
they are very small social eusocial bees and they live all over here in south america and
central america they're quite fun and if you know my story let me sit down i can
talk a little bit better with them and the fun about them is that they don't have stings so
they're stingless bees and when dad pushed me to work with honeybees Apis Mellifera I didn't
like it all i think i mentioned that before my stories and these are the ones that i enjoy when
i was a kid after got tons of stunts from the honeybees i normally come here and talk to them
and say that they are the ones that my friends and things like that quite a lot of stories with
them they're quite fun they have this tube and by the size of the tube and the amount of bees
on on around the tube that you can have an idea about how strong they are, the nest is inside this
wood i'm not gonna touch anything i'm not gonna transfer them to boxes, we can, so that the main
idea now here is to build for dad our stingless bees apiary we have hundreds of species and
it's gonna be quite fun to to get to start this from stretch and do videos about that and bring
and talk about the biology of this all those species that we have here in south america it
is going to be fun, Dad is excited he was happy about it now it's going to be able to to work
with bees again with and without the problems from getting stung and and almost died so we are happy
about that i'm happy about that so let me talk about a little bit about jatai there is plenty
of names i don't remember the other names but there is seven different names abelha amarela. uh
there is plenty of names the only one i remember is Jatai but uh it's not a melipona for the genera
melipona is from the tribe if I remember correctly meliponini and thethe genera from this species is
Tetragonisca so the species is Tetragonisca angustula and it's quite fun they're very
small they're eusocial they have workers they have soldiers they have one queen
and when the time comes in the spring they need to split they build the uh four or five drones only
so they can meet and move on uh it's quite fun we can put them in boxes the honey tastes fantastic
and it's very expensive there is a lot of properties uh antimicrobial properties
anti-inflammatory properties and yeah we're going to talk about them when the time comes
right now i came completely unprepared i don't have my best gear to i'm really mad about that so
see you got it now you know my first bees the ones that i consider my friends when i was starting in
beekeeping i hope you enjoyed this video uh click the like button if you enjoy it that kind of
give me some help with the algorithm the youtube algorithm and i'll see you guys in the next video
inside the hive.tv the show about bees including these ones see you guys next week bye bye