What to Know About Beehives | Ask This Old House
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video, Landscape contractor Jenn Nawada visits Detroit Hives, a nonprofit in the Detroit area, to learn more about bees, their hives, and what beekeeping involves. Spoiler alert: She sneaks a taste of those bees’ hard work before she leaves.
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Jenn delves into the world of beekeeping with a Detroit-based nonprofit, Detroit Hives [detroithives.org/] that manages multiple beehives across the city. Jenn learns the fundamentals of beehive care, from understanding hive structure to recognizing bee behavior.
Smoke is a Big Help
A smoker [homedepot.sjv....] is a big help for beekeepers. These tools look like metal coffee cans with funnels on top, and they allow the beekeeper to softly blow plumes of smoke in and around the hive. The smoke masks the guard bee’s alert pheromones and disorients the bees in the colony, making them a bit more docile and calm.
Beehive Structure
The most common beehive structure that backyard keepers tend to use is the Langstroth hive [homedepot.sjv....], which is essentially a set of top and bottomless boxes stacked on top of each other. In these boxes are frames, which the bees use to store brood, pollen, and honey.
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These girls were so gentle, even with very little smoke
When I was a kid growing up my mom would purchase a small box with honey cone section. I learned eating honey this way. The warmth of your mouth would melt the wax while your saliva loosened the honey so it was so easy to separate the two. I would then just spit out the wax and do it all over again. I still do it now and then when I find honey in the market. Nice memory.
Thank U for sharing a video about our wonderful honey bees! I've been beekeeping for several yrs, & it's a fantastic hobby for people of all ages! I encourage every1 to give it a try by contacting a local bee club. Beekeepers love to share their knowledge & mentor any1 interested in becoming a Beek!
Loved my bees, so did the bears.
Where abouts? Did you have to get rid of the hives because of Winnie the Pooh? 🐝🐻
Thanks for sharing this, what a cool lesson!
We have an issue with too many people with bee hives in our area.
Local news channel explained the problem, which really surprised me.
What's the problem with having a bunch of bee hives? I'd think Mother Nature would balance things out if there's an excess?
I grew up about an hour and a half from there in Jackson, MI. My dad was a bee keeper when I was much younger. I remember my brother and I getting the bees mad and trying to run in the house before they got us, we never made it though.
Hey Honey, this is a pretty sweet video that didn't sting at all.
Jen got the hives, bee hives that is .
Back in my day, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. “Give me 5 bees for a quarter!”, you’d say.
The Simpsons? 🤔🤷🤦😎
@ Now you’re on the trolley.
We looked into getting beehives for our area, and we were told that the bees that you would order for your hive, will basically drive away the resident bees that you already have in your gardens. We do have a good amount of bees in our area, our fruit trees, and gardens always have bees around them, but we wouldn't want to upset any eco systems around here by bringing in non native bees. Example, our local farm store is right now advertising ordering your Italian or Carniolan bees. I am assuming these are not native to Minnesota, where we are. We would like the honey, but not upsetting the local eco system, if what we were told was true
Try to use a swarm trap to catch local bees that are splitting from the local bee populations, bees naturally swarm and leave the mother hive. Good luck
Good for you in not wanting to mess up the local ecosystem. Maybe contact your local county extension service, ie the agricultural folks, and ask them?
Bees are very interesting 🤔
Hi
So who exactly took a look at bees and their hive and thought, "They're probably hiding something delicious in there..." and then later they or someone else would discover that it's basically just bee vomit?
Ask this old hive 😂.
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I want to do this at my house. I eat tons of honey.
please check your local regulations for if the city or area you live in allows the raising of bees before going and getting started
@Thom101 yes they do
Well I'll bee
See those are honey coloured amber bees, not bright yellow wasps.
No more Steve, Norm or Bob?
That's the problem when you've either been in prison, a coma or snatched by Aliens, you lose track of time. Bob Vila left in 1989, Steve Thomas in 2003 and Norm Abrahm retired in 2022. 🤷⌛🚀👽🤦
@Navy1977
I've been in a coma, at a prison on the planet Tralfamadore.
@@craigbrowning9448Well, that explains it then. 👍👌🙏🤭😎
Oh wow I never knew Bob Vila was on This Old House. That's how long ago he left haha
@@craigbrowning9448Why?