Black bees are a unique species surviving climate change | Master of Bees (Sicily)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- In the 70s and 80s, the Sicilian bee came close to total extinction, avoided thanks to the colossal effort and devouring passion of the beekeeper, Carlo Amodeo. Today, the master of Sicilian bees owns more than 1800 hives, spread across the Aeolian Islands to the north-east of Sicily, which are now the sole sanctuaries for those that he calls his “empresses”.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00:00 - Intro
▷ 0:01:50 - In the Aeolian Islands, refuge of the black bees
▷ 0:06:15 - Extracting the honey of the black bees
▷ 0:07:56 - Extinction of the black bees
▷ 0:10:20 - High altitudes, a safe heaven for the black bees' hives
▷ 0:16:10 - Cooking fish with Sicilian honey, a traditional recipe of the Italian island
▷ 0:19:08 - Giving life to queens and creating new colonies
▷ 0:25:18 - Credits
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Ever since it appeared nearly 80 million years ago, the bee has occupied a special place in evolution. Untiring worker, essential to the development of vegetables, it is one of the foremost species maintaining our equilibrium on Earth. Mankind is fascinated by its perfect organization and its incredible reproduction process. And the relationship between people and bees throughout the world is equally plural. In a world where the climate is changing and biodiversity is gradually disappearing under the effects of “human activity”, the bee is in danger and so is our relationship with it.
This series is equal to this exceptional story and to the last men who are still sharing a close life with the bees for their mutual survival.
Original title: Master of Bees - The Black Bee of Sicily (Italy)
A film by François Chayé
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So pure, ty.
Mr Carlo is definitely a national treasure along with his black bees...
Since I started putting honeybees into hollowed out logs and leaving them alone they started to survive without any management. And every year they create swarms and the process starts all over being installed into more log hives.
are your hollow log hives registered with the Washington AG dept? as required by law
I hollowed out a log. The first season no bees took refuge and I thought the log was too small in diameter compared to most others I have seen. Second year and well into swarm season but no bees in it. Then I drilled I more top hole, about an inch.
Next day bees entered and have thrived ever since. No human interference. Probably they do have varroa. Find me a bee without varroa and that bee is a liar. But people are incapable of not interfering with everything there is to interfere with. My hives are treatment free, the bees have varroa, I don't feed the bees anything.
I take some of their honey (THEIR) honey if there is enough in autumn and I leave their food for them. They make honey for themselves, not for the undeserving human capitalist.
I hollowed out a log. The first season no bees took refuge and I thought the log was too small in diameter compared to most others I have seen. Second year and well into swarm season but no bees in it. Then I drilled 1 more top hole, about an inch.
Next day bees entered and have thrived ever since. No human interference. Probably they do have varroa. Find me a bee without varroa and that bee is a liar. But people are incapable of not interfering with everything there is to interfere with. My hives are treatment free, the bees have varroa, I don't feed the bees anything.
I take some of their honey (THEIR) honey if there is enough in autumn and I leave their food for them. They make honey for themselves, not for the undeserving human capitalist.
WOW 👍 i remember hearing that the black bee had gone extinct and felt devestated when i heard it thirty years ago. I'm so very glad that a beekeeper with such passion was able too find them and pull them back from the brink. This man is a national hero and an inspiration
❤bee is one of the most important pollinators . which 50percent our food productions needed from it.
This was excellent! Thanks. As a beekeeper in upstate NY, I would love to have some of these black bees.
This is inspiring story of reviving of a near extinct bee species with single man's pationate effort. Big congregation.
VERY educational and heart-warming episode! 🐝
Asphodel Honey.... Amazing! Cezzzz sono geloso !!!
I think I'm jealous of this guy's lifestyle.
Great work Carlo! I will always love Sicily! Beautiful piece of land you live in!
The Honey bee is a gift we all need to protect. God save the bees.
Perfect multi-dimensional educational video on one species of bees. A video for everybody, not just honeybee lovers. Carlo, congratulazione per la tua passione con the api siciliane scoperte da te.
Respekt and greetings from 🇽🇰 🇦🇱
I started beekeeping 2 years ago with bees cought in my area in SE Texas. Of the 14 colonies I have 3 are black. I don't know what the genetics of these black bees are but they are black and are gentle and productive. I've asked older beekeepers about them but all they say is some are just that color.
Odds are they have strong Carniola genetics.
Sorry to disappoint a bee expert like you.. but Carniolan bees have a gray color. Queens can be brown, gray and striped. They habitat is on the Balkans, Austria, ex Yugoslavia... and the bees are never black.
Black bees live in northern European countries (the AMM bees) and there are some attempts to bring them back in England, Ireland... but it will never happen with the Buckfast hybrid bees in the mix.
What you have is an American fluke. By some rare event they didn't took the Italian Ligustica orange - yellow stripes which is the color of 99% of your bees. But those are just colors. Nobody knows what are the genetics of those bees. By now it's all just a big mix of all kinds of bees
I'm a new beekeeper in Australia and some of them are completely black like these.
More documentaries on bees please
Should’ve given the bees new frames with a new start
Awesome video
At 23:00 what type of hives are these called? Looks maybe Dadant size
I dont know about his bees, but i do know he put the frames of honey in his extractor wrong. He put 1 frame right, but the 1 next to it was backward.
My grandfather was from Sicily Sir name Silvestero
Sicily bee is similar to Maltese bee
This was a good documentary for someone who knows little about Honey bees, but I found it very romanticized.
I have to stress that this is a traditional beekeeping practice in Sicily. Apiculture outside this scope, as in the rest of the world, would look very different in the management, environment and threats they face.
I am not trying to take away from this documentary. In an era of increased globalization and the loss of traditional and local genetic breeds of Honeybees, Beekeeper Carlo Amodeo is doing important work keeping his local bee, Apis mellifera siciliana, alive.
The following will be some nitpicking, but it might be informative to some :p
The first few words, "These Islands were home to Apis mellifear of Sicula," confused me a bit... I thought that was a strange Latin Name.
Apis mellifera siciliana is the full Latin name for the Sicilian black bee.
The common name in Italien is Ape nera sicula. Combining parts of the Latin and Italien common name was confusing.
And from what I can find, they are descended from an African strain, not native to Africa. I realize that the difference doesn't mean much if you are not technical, but the distinction does matter if you look at the genetics and breeds. It is now distinct from its African counterparts. The reason Beekeeper Carlo Amodeo is trying to save them!
Those first sentences sent me down a rabbit hole lol
I learned some cool stuff about Apis mellifera siciliana.
Apis mellifera sicula is a junior synonym of Apis mellifera siciliana. Perhaps the beekeeper knows it under this name.
Does it survive pesticides?
What kind of hives are those?
I think its 'Dadant Blatt'
The problem with bees is varroa not climate
Glad you noticed, my first thought.
varroa mite + weakened immune system due to pesticides
It's so much more than Varroa. Changes in climate, agricultural practices, chemical usage, a reduction in forage.
@@davidryle1164 No big agriculture in my area so the really big problem is varroa and mild winters, they have babies all year round, the only cleaning time is when they swarm.
Chemicals must be worst than varroa, awfull!
Oh and don’t forget small hive beetles.
And we are always being preached to it is the pesticides used, the lack of diversity of things that grow and bring flowers to feed the bees?
As far as i know from all those stories, climate change was never anywhere mentioned.
So,what to make of this one?
The header a clickbait?
OR WHAT?
sit back and realize every species is 'a unique species surviving climate change' as the Earth's climate is forever changing.
Stolen buckfast bees
Quite the reference. Dig it.
Fake news
Found in an “ abandoned” Hive????? More bee BS.
Mr Carlo is definitely a national treasure along with his black bees...