Rescuing bees after a windstorm.
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When a tree, or a limb from a tree, containing bees in it hits the ground, the bees are in trouble. The reason for this, the jolt the hive sustains upon impact with the ground, breaks the comb from its supports, crushing bees and releasing honey that was stored. For these reasons alone, though there are other reasons as well, the clock is ticking for the bees. It takes only a matter of hours, 24 to 48, before the hive beetle will over run the colony and the colony will be forced to abscond. Fortunately, I was contacted right away in this situation and was able to successfully remove and relocate the bees. I hope you enjoy the video. Thanks for watching. God's peace to all.
Mr. Ed
Nice to find the queen in all of that. Lots of comb. Beautiful. Thanks for the video. Take care.
Good morning! 🌄
Happy Friday! God bless 🙌
Hi mr Ed. God bless u real good.
🐝Thanks for saving the bees and sharing your adventures.
You got the queen bee so that was a great save. Love the video. God bless you both.
You made another bee keeper Mr. Ed! And he got the traditional ending perfect. What a nice bee story, that ends happily ever after...God bless!
That was really great. Larry was asking all the good questions we all wanted to know. God bless and have a beautiful day.♥️👍🏼🙏
Thank you Mr Ed. I love seeing you save the bees. Catching the queen is a beautiful sight. Awesome!
That is a huge hive. Great to see you at work as always Mr. Ed.
Good morning!
Always fascinating how you are able to cut a tree open and extract the hive with a bonus of finding the queen!! So happy Larry was able to help you out and he learned alot about bees. Very nice guy and hope he gets into bee keeping and maybe help you again. God Bless
very enjoyable, Larry will make a very pleasant beekeeper great since of humor. I wish him the best. Thanks for sharing.
A great experience for the homeowner and I am so glad that this has inspired Larry to start keeping bees, he said he will keep one box, we all start out thinking like that but we end up having to keep at least three boxes to manage the swarms and make splits, this year I made lots of Nucs and packages for the new members of my bee club and people who were unfortunate in losing some colonies, this was the first time I did this as I have enough colonies now and they keep me super busy!
Oh yes, the innocence of the new beekeeper. By the time it's all over he will have at least 9 or 10 of them. Thanks for watching. God's peace Andrew.
Mr. Ed
I've been keeping bees for about five years now. I got into the hobby after getting hooked on Randy's videos which soon after led me to following you as well as other utubers. It started off with me finding an open air colony three feet off the ground hanging off from where two fallen ironwood trees crossed each other. I did research, spent about a grand getting set up with eqpt, and he homed them. Unfortunately, after filling out two ten frame langstroth hives they turned out to be a.h.b. I took 40 stings one day though my suit and I took off in my golf cart to my barn 500 yards away and took off my suit and left it on the cart to go in the house for a tea break. 15 minutes later I went out and there was about 30-35000 bees trying to murder my suit. I put on a different suit and walked out to the colony and found the queen and gave her the hive tool test (mashed her). I tried to requeen twice but they wouldn't accept a new queen. They would ball the queen cage, chew out the plug, and kill the queen. I asked Julie Norman with winding creek apiary about it later and she thinks the colony might have been in a transition and had two queens at the time and I just picked the exact wrong time to be messing with them. I've got nine strong colonies of really sweet bees now, the queens are all from Julie's place and she gets them from Don the fat bee man (sweet as peaches bees he calls them). Do you ever have to requeen or destroy a hive due to bad genetics making hostile hives there in Louisiana? I occasionally do cut outs for my job and our customers ( three or four a year ). One of the first ones I did is at a property that has old grain silos and warehouses. The owner had me set them up on his property and pays me to bring him the bees from cut outs. He keeps new eqpt there for me and I just swap out the full hives with the new eqpt and he cuts me a check, it's a pretty sweet deal. He gave me the code to the properties gate so I can do it on weekends when I'm off work. Love all that you do! May God continue to bless you and yours!
Thank you for your story, very cool, your blessings, and for trusting Randy enough to take a look at my channel, it is all greatly appreciated. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Micah.
You can't save African Honey Bees. They are all aggressive hence why they are invasive and usually exterminated.
As always, I love your videos!!!!!! Blessings from Texas! God Bless!
Good luck Larry on your future Bee adventure. Pick Mr. Eds' brain.
He already is. Thanks for watching. God's peace Jimmy.
Mr. Ed
Hi Mr. Ed the Bees 🐝 more honey to share 10-6-2023❤
Fantastic job Mr Ed I loved your video and I watched it twice 👍
Loved the commentary that your camera man did. Asking questions I often ask myself while watching your videos. 21:22 looks like the running of the hive beetles. Keep"em coning.
Great down to earth video.
It shows real dedication to beekeeping when events like a fallen limb/tree necessitates a fast response.
A wpnderfull learning experience, also. Thank you!
I have to admit, it's wonderful when I hear when folks like and appreciate the efforts I make to rescue bees and post videos about it, or as I say, my bee wrangling adventures. I post these videos, to show just how important bees are to our very survival, and why we should not just kill them out of ignorance. I have been rescuing bees from being needlessly destroyed for over 13 years now, and hope to continue to do so for many more years to come. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Darla.
Mr. Ed
Well done Mr Ed god bless
Thank you Nola for your blessings and for watching. It's time for you to hit the hay now isn't it. My guess is't about 9:00 at night. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
The homeowner had some great questions
And he's going to become a beekeeper himself in the spring. Thanks for watching. God's peace Bill.
Mr. Ed
When that chainsaw revs up: "Who's the new gal? She's so loud!"
Good morning. Bélo trabalho, enxame grande ..thank ..
I also love when you say, “It ain't there no more!”
It's a New Orleans thing, but I love it as well. God's peace Nashia.
Mr. Ed
Looking forward to the framing up. I love watching that.
That was a great video, Mr. Ed. Thank-you.
That is a HUGE hive!!!
A beauty for sure. See you tomorrow. God's peace Rich.
Mr. Ed
@JeffHorchoff Thanks Mr. Ed!!! Looking forward to it!!! God Bless.
Without Wreckin' Ralph doing the usual cutting I'd say the homeowner, Larry did a fantastic job cutting the tree limb open for you. Looks like he had great fun being your helper and camera man. He did a great job on both. It's fun see a beehive very much in the wild. It doesn't get any wilder than a hollow tree! Winnie the Pooh would definitely agree!
If Larry did not have a full time job, he'd bee doing a bunch more of wrangling with me, the guy is awesome. Hopefully when he gets his bees nest year I can do a follow up with him. A great guy for sure. Thanks for watching. God's peace Brock.
Mr. Ed
Oh, My ! How frightening the storm must have been from the little girl Bees point of view... BOOM ! and the whole branch and Hive hit the ground... It must be very confusing to them, with their little bee minds, ''Hey! Why is Hive on the ground ?!?" Tiny little souls, the bees get busy, take it all in stride, and get right back to work ! For the Hive ! For the Hive ! God Save the Queen ! 🙂
These bees certainly had a struggle, but they are now resting comfortably at their new digs at the abbey. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Mr Ed, great video! Larry did the closing as good as any guest that you’ve ever featured in your videos.
One day you and I are going to have to do a closing. For sure, when we are at Louisville I'll get you to do and intro for me. God's peace Don.
Mr. Ed
It's always amazing to see how they build in the "wild", how they do it naturally.
Can't wait to watch the video 👍
Less than 18 hours to go for the video, see you then. God's peace Stephen.
Mr. Ed
This is the most awesome thing to see. ❤
I agree, saving bees is a GREAT thing to do! Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Don’t forget to like the video. 🤗
G day from your friend from down under! God peace . Jose
You ought to bring him to Louisville. That would blow his mind. Have a great month . God bless.
That is a crazy amount of honey
Wait till you see next Friday's post, now THAT'S going to bee a lot of honey. Thanks for watching. God's peace Suzanna.
Mr. Ed
Larry, did you figure out who the boss was on that fun job? Professor Ed is a perfectionist at heart, so FOR GOD SAKES, don't lose any film time while the queen is being captured. Nice quick recovery. 22:41 FILM, FILM!
You know me to well Bran. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
I can't believe I missed this one!!! Thanks Jeff!!!
Hello Mr Ed, muito boa noite, que resgate top demais, tinha pouca cria,mais tinha bastante mel,parabéns pelo vídeo, que DEUS abençoe a todos. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Já faz um tempo que não tenho notícias suas, espero que esteja tudo bem. Muito obrigado pela sua bênção e por continuar assistindo minhas aventuras de luta de abelhas, isso é muito apreciado. A paz de Deus sempre.
Sr.
Bees are amazing. I saw bees in the video bringing back pollen, so they got slammed around, but they continued to operate the colony.
Unlike humans, bees, when preforming their duties, are undeterred by their surroundings. They continue their functions but work around the distractions around them. Amazing. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace William.
Mr. Ed
So satisfying to watch the slicing of the combs with that delicious 😋 liquid gold..
I was distracted for a moment and when I looked back I was like why are you killing the beees? Then I realized it was a bee vacuum. Oooof. Thanks for saving them and giving them a chance in a safer place.
I post these videos, to show just how important bees are to our very survival, and why we should not just kill them out of ignorance. I have been rescuing bees from being needlessly destroyed for over 13 years now, and hope to continue to do so for many more years to come. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Jenn.
Mr. Ed
Awesome way to start my day! Thanks Jeff, take care, have a great weekend!
Great video Mr. Ed. Another hive saved
Wow!! They've been there a while!! Such a beautiful sight 😊 and this is why I'm going to start keeping bees in the spring ❤
AWESOME! The world need as many beekeepers as it can get, welcome to the club. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Seeing all these videos, I want to build own Abbey, and have many bees ! But there is only one Mr. Ed ! God Bless you all, and all the little Bees ! ❤🙂❤
Thank you, Jesus!
Great questions, Larry!
Blessings to you both from Australia 🇦🇺 🦘🙏
WoW, Larry was a great addition to your video!
Yes he was, and when he gets his bees, I plan on shooting that video with him. Thanks for watching. God's peace Amy.
Mr. Ed
Hello Mr Ed! ☺️
I just love how patient you were with Larry and answered all of his questions!
It always amazes me where bees make their homes. Another educational and entertaining video. Such a privilege to watch. Tku Mr Ed.😊
Good morning great job god bless
Nice one. You make a tough job look so easy. Another hive for the Abby. Wrapping up bee season here in Oklahoma. Feeding the light weight hives to get thru winter. Take care Jeff.
That was a good video! It was fun seeing Larry's genuine interest and responses. Thanks for sharing!
God bless you and your helper and the bees. Have a blessed and honey filled week.
I love your videos and the work you do for your viewers, your enthusiasm is contagious and brother I truly see Jesus living with in you
Thanks buddy
I on't know how I found y'all, but I'm sure glad I did !! I feel so sorry for what I did about 15 years ago. My pest control showed me that I had bees around my shed and asked me if I wanted to get rid of them, I saw yes...those poor bees :( . I've never had anymore of them since, after watching you'r videos I know what NOT to do...thank's for the informative videos and thank you for saving the bees !!
Don't beat yourself up, you learned from your actions and seek amends, nothing more could be asked of you. I'm happy you have found my channel, and I hope you can learn from it. I post these videos, to show just how important bees are to our very survival, and why we should not just kill them out of ignorance. I have been rescuing bees from being needlessly destroyed for over 13 years now, and hope to continue to do so for many more years to come. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Another job well done Mr. Ed and now I'm going to have a Bagel with HONEY on it.
What a great bee wrangle! Sad about how the old oak trees in your area live such short lives. But I really enjoyed seeing the homeowner participate in his first bee hive rescue! And he enjoyed the process and the honey! Prayers for his continued journey with bees. Thanks as always and God bless you Mr. Ed!
Thank you for sharing! Great work!
Very good video Mddy frdiend Mr Ed
OMG Mr. Ed you are blessed with that carisma and positive energy that you send to all of us making things, happily done so easy on those videos… The bee-vac is a plus… Larry did a wonderful job, cutting that tree limb.. at one point I saw 👀 that CS blade deep in he bark, I thought it would be a mess, but like you said “we’re lucky”.. please make a another video setting up Larry with his new hive & the fallow up even after the winter to see if they make it or not… Now Larry can’t back up.. he’s part of the team… 😂 I want to see more videos of him… with you guys… great job.. God blessed us all. Keep the good work.. from NYC 🗽🇩🇴
Larry and I plan on shooting the video of him setting up his bees, stay tuned for that one. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Alec.
Mr. Ed
Wow Jeff that was cool. The comb looked like you were filleting up a big honey salmon. Fun stuff. Thank You Jesus!!!
Great job finding the queen
Great work! Thank you!
It's amazing how long the combs were. Almost seemed longer than your arm. That was a great video.
I think bees are so amazing. God just planned for everything. Your channel always makes me happy, you’re very informative and you seem like you love what you do. God bless you.
Thank you for your blessings, kind words, and taking the time to watch the video, it is all greatly appreciated. Until the next one, God's peace Janet.
Mr. Ed
He's lucky Larry!
And so am I as I got some great bees to bring back to the abbey. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Great video that homeowner needs to remove that tree that looks like it was leaning towards the house it’s amazing how bees build hives/nests in any place they can find that works lol thanks for sharing
I met a couple who keep bees at a faire today in France! They were telling me all about their different honey and about their bees. I told them that I watch your UA-cam videos and they said they do as well!
How about that Jeff? 😊
So cool, I hope they follow along with my bee adventures like you. Thanks for spreading the bee love. God's peace Lesley.
Mr. Ed
It was so cool watching this removal from a tree! I love watching how careful you are with the bees.❤🐝🐝🐝🐝
This reminds me of an autopsy... intestines or lobes of the lungs. Fascinating.
Fortunately as the bees were saved, there was not autopsy, but , the corpse of the tree was opened up. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Dana.
Mr. Ed
Bravo, lijepo❤️👍
His curiosity about bees was great. What a great educational experience. BTW: was that a queen cell that you cut out? - Bill
No, it was not a queen cell. Thanks for watching. God's peace Bill.
Mr. Ed
Great video. Tree ones are always interesting. Larry seems a cool fella too and I'm glad he asked some 'beginner' questions because there are a lot of us who don't really have that much knowledge about bees despite watching your videos for .. well a long time. Hoiope you have the guy back on some day. by the way, How long did the job take? asking for a friend
The whole job took about 4 plus hours, not bad considering all the work I had to do afterwards as well. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff This is not right! The correct answer is two hours!! Ask Charlie ;)
22:42 -- You are a magician.
Great video! Since the honey was so wet- would it not had been easier to scoop it out? Or would you be afraid of scooping up the queen at the same time? God bless you!
Even though the comb was wet, it is still better to get it out as much intact as possible. Scooping it out would only make the situation messier as there would be honey everywhere. By leaving it in the comb, there is less spillage. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Annette.
Mr. Ed
VERY educational and Larry would fit right in with the amigos if you ever want/need to branch out a bit. Sure was a nice big wet hive and yall ought to get a record for the longest piece of comb sometime. Have a Jesus weekend and God Bless
Fun, informative video!
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video, thanks so much for taking the time to watch it. Also, I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Timothy.
Mr. Ed
After having backyard hives and understanding the value of bees themselves, this is a bonus to grab some honey to boot! $$$$ lottery find here. At least $200 worth of bees alone.
Is the comb damaged at all from the fall? I’m imagining the comb bursting when it hits the ground. Or is the damage just from the chain saw? I’m assuming all the honey will be fed back to the bees? Thanks for showing us this recovery.
When the tree hits the ground, the impact jars the comb lose from the inside of the tree and opens cells releasing honey and crushing bees, a very messy situation which is why action is required ASAP. Yes, the honey was crushed and strained and is now being fed back to the bees. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Cheryl.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Thanks
Lots of honey. But the cicadas are so loud. Thank God they don't live long. These bugs are the loudest in nature.
All the hundreds of hive removals I’ve watched over the years, that one appeared to have more propolis on it than I’ve ever seen before.
Larry was like I would be. What’s this, how’s that 😂😂
What do you recommend reading or watching, to learn about the benefits and properties of honey.
I really wish I could recommend something, but I have nothing to offer on those fronts. There is a lot of info out there concerning the benefits, but for myself, I am satisfied with the simple pleasure of just eating the honey. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Laurel.
Mr. Ed
Good morning everybody just got off the night shift just in time
So impressive!!!!!!
Awesome video 🐝
Could all the Laynes hive fan boys please pay attention the hollow tree was vertical until it fell down.
In our apiaries, I run all Langs. Still, you can't argue the fact that bees thrive in floor spaces in houses and those run horizontally. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
The talking horse. Mr Ed. You know that is how you got that name....love the program Mr Ed
I've been called Mr. Ed since 1982 and there is no doubt about it, the name suits me perfectly. Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, thank you so much for taking the time to watch it. Also, I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I just found you on UA-cam about a month ago. Been watching a whole lot. Thanks mr ed...very educational
awesome!
Very happy to hear you enjoyed the video, thank you so much for taking the time to watch it. Also, I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Noreen.
Mr. Ed
Unless I missed it you did not introduce your partner in this removal, but the video was great as usual. Waiting for you next Friday
That was a mistake on my part, I should have introduced him Thanks for watching. God's peace Michael.
Mr. Ed
So last year I cut my first bees from a tree. Like in your video I got sawdust in the honey. What did you do to process the honey, and did you keep it for human use or give it back to the bees? Thanks for the videos!!
When sawdust gets into the honey, it becomes bee food. They can eat around it, I can't. Delighted to hear you enjoy watching, thank you for that. And remember, I post a new video every Friday. Until the next one, God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff That was my thought as well, thank you for the confirmation!! God bless!!
Question. As the hive was in a tree does it impart any flavour to the honey?
I think it makes a slight difference, but that might just bee me. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
In situations like this, are you able to keep the honey from this hive or do you feed it all back to your bees? Also is the wax usable? Meaning can you melt it like regular box hive's wax?
Both the honey and wax are useable. The honey was given back to the bees, and the wax was rendered down and will be used shortly to be place on our foundations. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I had to go on a work trip to LA a stone's throw from the Abbey, and was quite disappointed to learn that not every house and tree is filled with bees. I had begun to hope it was so after watching so many of your videos 🤣
To bad you did not get in touch with me while you were here, I could have given you the 2 dollar tour of the abbey, maybe next time. Thanks for watching. God's peace Matthew.
Mr. Ed
Where do the bees go after vacuuming?
Very often in my videos I show the release of the bees that were vacuumed back onto their comb and are rejoined to the colony, this time I did not. To be sure, the bees that were vacuumed are safe and healthy. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Marilyn.
Mr. Ed
It helps for the fire starting in the fireplace to
When you're going to speed up the footage, such as when you're vacuuming bees, please put the camera on a tripod? I want to keep watching but all the sped-up movement is giving me a headache...
I do try to keep it on the tripod, but sometimes it just is not possible. Still, thanks for the suggestion and for watching. Until the next one, God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed