So impressed with your video. Exquisite comes to mind. Glad your equipment is fixed! The clarity and colors are so perfect. Bees are so remarkable to watch and you were able to capture that so well.
@@SmallTNHomestead The note simply stated "two different products failed to communicate" (';') so.. nothing more than that and they didn't say they replaced, or repaird contacts or what they did, but it works so I'm happy :)
I just started beekeeping this past spring in Georgia (rural county). I currently have three hives. I planted sunflowers, buckwheat, clover, and several kinds of perennial and annual flowers. Very few honeybees visited my plantings once the tree flowers had finished. They were only a hundred feet away from the sunflowers and maybe 200 feet from the other flowers. But mainly bumblebees, small bees, and wasps were feeding on my flowers. So I tried tracking the honeybees and they were flying a half mile to a mile away to fields of rapeseed. . Once the rapeseed was finished, they flew to the wild Chinese privet bushes and the sumac in the area. After that, the sweet and field corn tracts. At least I fed the wild pollinators. I figure the honeybees were getting more energy and pollen from the big plantings and the bushes.
If there isn't enough of a single species of flower or nectar source, the bees will ignore that for larger plots of the same species. Bumbles and solitary bees will go between several species on a flight, so it's worth their time, honey bees practice floral constancy and commit to larger plots of single species.
In my zone only the common sunflower is blooming and the maximillian sunflowers on my fences and pastures havent bloomed yet. Planted some zinnas and a sunflower assortment mid june on a large bare spot and used a soaker hose. The zinnas are beginning to bloom and sunflowers should start this month according to instructions. Turning this 12 x 100 foot strip along my fenceline into a bee garden. I checked Eden seeds and American Meadows for things i can plant for next spring. Your plant tips are very helpful. Your slow motion videos are very helpful and informative. The bees wont slow down on my flowers so i can focus my eyes. Thanks
Thanks Fred. Love the sunflower. Here in Cali there are somtimes huge fields of sunflowers. It is a smaller plant i think for Sunflower oil anyway they really look cool. Thank you Fred. Just love you narrating and you micro photography is just amazing.
As always, an amazing video and information!!! I had no idea that the sunflower helps to fight nosema. That’s incredible!!! Thanks again for all you do good Sir!!!
Thank you Sir! Look forward to reading more about this. On a side note: your audio sounds amazing!!! Did Nikon fix the issue, or was it something different?
@@LarryLeesBees Thanks Larry, yes, Nikon was great - I have priority service with them so they fixed what they called "different products not communicating" whatever that means? And then it was overnighted to me and left on my doorstep in a plain brown box. BUT, yes, fixed and working fabulously!!!
I have a blooming drumstick tree in my backyard with different species of bees (mostly black and bumblebees) and I always stare and wondered how they collect pollen so fast. Great Vid mate! Very informative and interesting.
I was watching a newly established hive, created from brood frames with their accompanying nurse bees (plus a bought queen that was going to be for one of the other hives that I thought was queenless, but wasn't). The worker bees transferred with the donor frames had returned to their original hives. The nurse bees weren't foraging, so I provided sugar syrup as support, hoping that some of the nurses would soon transition into foragers. After several days, there were a few foragers that left the hive and returned with pollen. After another few days, the number of foragers increased. At that time 80-90% of the foragers were returning with pollen. Now I've weaned them off the syrup, and the percentage of pollen gatherers approximates that of the other two hives beside this new colony. It seems that the brood desperately needed pollen supplies, and the foragers prioritised pollen over nectar, as they were being provided with sugar syrup.
Love the video and information. Always learning from your channel even though I'm in the UK We do appreciate all the time and effort you put into the videos
Wonderful videography, and the most educational I have ever seen, which includes some from university studies. I always feel like if I don't learn something new from each of your videos, it's because I wasn't watching closely enough.
This was great thanks. Guess what I did there was a wasp nest in a rose bush at my employer house, I cut it out of the bush and took it home they did not try to sting me at all they were very passive, I kept it it was so great to do that. If I had not seen your video they would be dead. I talked to them the hole time I was doing it. they were great. Thanks for all your videos they are wonderful.
Sitting next to my smoker this morning making labor day bbq and getting my bee video fix in...and now I know bees can get diarrhea. Fred, check out Rock Rose, Pavonia Lasiopetala. Bees are ALL OVER IT at the moment.
Awesome video. You do incredible photography. You mention that you have many different sunflowers. Which type do you have ? Or do you have a video on them?
Hello Mr. Fred i sent you some pictures and asked a question on the Facebook messaging app for your Facebook page "Fred's Fine Fowl" my question may not make sense without the pictures but i was wondering if my bees are sick. My hive has gotten a vertical white strip down the center of their body. And some have a white head and a pure black back half that almost looks like... glistening like a snake when its barely starting to shed. Are my bees extremely sick or is it normal?
Sent it off to Nikon and they fixed what they called "two products not communicating" (';').. then they sent it back overnight "fixed" that's all they said.
Hi today is the 9-1-2019 we did final inspection on the hives one hive base 9 Queen cups it’s late in the season I’m Northern Indiana I don’t know if it’s better to remove the cups and by new queen or let them do what they have started this hive was week from the beginning what you would do in this situation please advice thank you
Are they Queen "cups" or Queen "cells" lots of healthy hives will produce and retain "cups" even when they have no intention of laying eggs in them, sort of an insurance material policy. If you remove them, they will simply build more. I personally leave them in place. If they have queen cells starting and you like the line you're working with, I personally would let them swarm and go into winter with a fresh new queen. Lots of drones this time of year for any virgin queen to mate with.
It’s queen cell 9 of them. Thank you for the response and I will do that let them replace the queen I think the queen in this hive had problems it was not strong thank you again for the response
Frederick Dunn hey Fred I have to truly say I really appreciate your communication with your followers I hope you don’t ever lose that it is really great to see you interact with people and you have a great blessed day
I've seen docile bumble bees before, mainly on Allium species flowers. I thought perhaps there was some kind of narcotic within the pollen that kept them crawling all over the flower heads aiding pollination. Turns out they were just greedy.
You'd be disappointed... I have a very basic method of just mowing it all down tight, tilling to 6" with the tractor, tossing seeds by hand as I drive by and then rolling it all down with a 700 lb roller... then I do nothing else but watch them grow. :)
Thank you very much. I really love how you slowed this video down and how you explain what’s going on. Videos like this help to drive my want and need to start Bee Keeping. I ordered my first hive I should get it in ten days. Even though it’s pretty late in the year as soon as I get my Bee yard fenced I’m thinking about baiting it, just to see if I get any free 🐝 bees
Nope, just sharing the same environment and floral resources. Bumble bees are more diverse in their foraging, and we need them to pollinate flowers that honey bees just can't.
I am happy to announce that I found a huge grove of Japanese knotweed. Time to spread it. Ones mans invasive plant is another man's best honey and super dearth filling treasure lol.
Excellent! Yes, I've also been told that Maximillian Sunflowers are invasive "bamboo" like flowers but here I am planting them :) We're entering our last few weeks of honey harvesting. Glad your bees are doing well Carlos!
@@FrederickDunn I got to get into one of my hives tomorrow. I saw a bunch of goopy honey in the pest management tray. Only reason for that would be wax moths in there destroying frames. Yet there is enough population for that to not happen so I dunno. I guess it could be a mouse also but the entrance is reduced.
@@FrederickDunn I dunno I have never once had hive beetles in the hives. It could also be a big temperature change we had. It is not like dripping honey it is almost solid like amber and only on one side. Things look great in the observation window.
@@FrederickDunn Nope. No hive beetles. No wax moths. Wall to wall honey frames that look amazing and all capped and no damage. No mouse. It looked like and felt like caramel or amber. Just on one corner of the bottom tray. Bees... sigh see something new all the time.
That bumblebee was awesome when she took off from the yellow sunflower. Awesome video...thank you for sharing it.
I am in absolute awe at the magnificence of Nature. It can bring a person to tears.
Those bees are multitalented. Builders, harvesters, scouts, soldiers, chefs, brewers, nurses. I wish I was so talented.
Wow! That was so fascinating...not to mention beautiful to watch. Thanks for taking the time to film this, Fred!
Thank you Steven!
Always excellent videos! Very cool info on the Nosema! Thanks for sharing Fred!
So impressed with your video. Exquisite comes to mind. Glad your equipment is fixed! The clarity and colors are so perfect. Bees are so remarkable to watch and you were able to capture that so well.
Nikon fixed my camera and overnighted it to me :) thank you Mary!
@@FrederickDunn curios to know if they told you what was causing the noise?
@@SmallTNHomestead The note simply stated "two different products failed to communicate" (';') so.. nothing more than that and they didn't say they replaced, or repaird contacts or what they did, but it works so I'm happy :)
I just started beekeeping this past spring in Georgia (rural county). I currently have three hives. I planted sunflowers, buckwheat, clover, and several kinds of perennial and annual flowers. Very few honeybees visited my plantings once the tree flowers had finished. They were only a hundred feet away from the sunflowers and maybe 200 feet from the other flowers. But mainly bumblebees, small bees, and wasps were feeding on my flowers.
So I tried tracking the honeybees and they were flying a half mile to a mile away to fields of rapeseed. . Once the rapeseed was finished, they flew to the wild Chinese privet bushes and the sumac in the area. After that, the sweet and field corn tracts.
At least I fed the wild pollinators. I figure the honeybees were getting more energy and pollen from the big plantings and the bushes.
If there isn't enough of a single species of flower or nectar source, the bees will ignore that for larger plots of the same species. Bumbles and solitary bees will go between several species on a flight, so it's worth their time, honey bees practice floral constancy and commit to larger plots of single species.
In my zone only the common sunflower is blooming and the maximillian sunflowers on my fences and pastures havent bloomed yet. Planted some zinnas and a sunflower assortment mid june on a large bare spot and used a soaker hose. The zinnas are beginning to bloom and sunflowers should start this month according to instructions. Turning this 12 x 100 foot strip along my fenceline into a bee garden. I checked Eden seeds and American Meadows for things i can plant for next spring. Your plant tips are very helpful. Your slow motion videos are very helpful and informative. The bees wont slow down on my flowers so i can focus my eyes. Thanks
Thanks Fred. Love the sunflower. Here in Cali there are somtimes huge fields of sunflowers. It is a smaller plant i think for Sunflower oil anyway they really look cool. Thank you Fred. Just love you narrating and you micro photography is just amazing.
Shaun, we refer to him as the Bob Ross of Beekeeping, minus the fro! Lol.
@@danskisbees7348 he's the "Bees Knees"
@@SmallTNHomestead Hello Mary, definitely admirable.
I think the fields you see are for bird seed.? The black sunflower seeds we buy come from somewhere.
Your voice is so calming and the video is great quality 😊thanks for sharing
Thanks so much! 😊
Watching you from France...we love your work ! .. thank you so much!
Thank you!
Pretty cool! also lovely Sun flowers.
Good job as always Fred!
As always, an amazing video and information!!! I had no idea that the sunflower helps to fight nosema. That’s incredible!!!
Thanks again for all you do good Sir!!!
That's new information Larry... ongoing study :)
Thank you Sir! Look forward to reading more about this.
On a side note: your audio sounds amazing!!! Did Nikon fix the issue, or was it something different?
@@LarryLeesBees Thanks Larry, yes, Nikon was great - I have priority service with them so they fixed what they called "different products not communicating" whatever that means? And then it was overnighted to me and left on my doorstep in a plain brown box. BUT, yes, fixed and working fabulously!!!
Fantastic!!! Glad to hear it... Literally! 🤣
@@LarryLeesBees I see what you did there Larry! (';')
I have a blooming drumstick tree in my backyard with different species of bees (mostly black and bumblebees) and I always stare and wondered how they collect pollen so fast. Great Vid mate! Very informative and interesting.
Great footage Fred. Thanks for sharing!
Incredible photography! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Karen, thank you so much. Sorry this response is so late... :)
I was watching a newly established hive, created from brood frames with their accompanying nurse bees (plus a bought queen that was going to be for one of the other hives that I thought was queenless, but wasn't). The worker bees transferred with the donor frames had returned to their original hives. The nurse bees weren't foraging, so I provided sugar syrup as support, hoping that some of the nurses would soon transition into foragers. After several days, there were a few foragers that left the hive and returned with pollen. After another few days, the number of foragers increased. At that time 80-90% of the foragers were returning with pollen. Now I've weaned them off the syrup, and the percentage of pollen gatherers approximates that of the other two hives beside this new colony. It seems that the brood desperately needed pollen supplies, and the foragers prioritised pollen over nectar, as they were being provided with sugar syrup.
That's a great statement of progress with that colony. Thanks for sharing, and for paying attention to the needs of the bees in your care :)
Love the video and information. Always learning from your channel even though I'm in the UK We do appreciate all the time and effort you put into the videos
Hey...great video work....and the narration is right on....thank you for your time input....
Very informative Fred , great channel ❤️❤️
Wonderful videography, and the most educational I have ever seen, which includes some from university studies.
I always feel like if I don't learn something new from each of your videos, it's because I wasn't watching closely enough.
Thanks Phil and btw, several universities (grad students) use my videos in their programs and presentations :)
Outstanding Fred! 👍
Thanks Fred another great video!
Interesting information, beez are too freaking cute flying slow mo! Thanks Mr Dunn🐝🐝🐝🌻
Excellent video as always. Thanks
Great quality video.
Great quality footage, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
this needs to go viral
OOhhh I would love that!!! :)
Fantastic video as always. 💙 i was just watching the wild honey bees collecting pollen this morning and wondering how it was done. Perfect timing..😃
Hi Fred! Absolutely love the videos. I’d be curious to see a video on bumble bees and their nests!
In a class all your own, Thank you for your content.
This was great thanks. Guess what I did there was a wasp nest in a rose bush at my employer house, I cut it out of the bush and took it home they did not try to sting me at all they were very passive, I kept it it was so great to do that. If I had not seen your video they would be dead. I talked to them the hole time I was doing it. they were great. Thanks for all your videos they are wonderful.
Perhaps that was mason bees.
They can't sting you.
Relocating a wasp nest? Uh..a wasp can sting you repeatedly.
will definitely be putting more sunflowers in my garden next year.
I wish food I was covered in food while I worked....bees covered in pollen is like me being covered in cheetos...
Beautiful Video and info !!
This a superb video..!!!! Thank you alot
Fascinating. Thank you very much.
Frederick Dunn
- niceeeee video
Fred thank you so much just A great video
Sitting next to my smoker this morning making labor day bbq and getting my bee video fix in...and now I know bees can get diarrhea. Fred, check out Rock Rose, Pavonia Lasiopetala. Bees are ALL OVER IT at the moment.
Awesome video. You do incredible photography. You mention that you have many different sunflowers. Which type do you have ? Or do you have a video on them?
I did a video on pollinator plants and discussed my cascade of resources through the year so we can cut down on the dearth periods.
Very interesting,thank you.
Hello Mr. Fred i sent you some pictures and asked a question on the Facebook messaging app for your Facebook page "Fred's Fine Fowl" my question may not make sense without the pictures but i was wondering if my bees are sick. My hive has gotten a vertical white strip down the center of their body. And some have a white head and a pure black back half that almost looks like... glistening like a snake when its barely starting to shed. Are my bees extremely sick or is it normal?
So how did you fix the audio problem?
Sent it off to Nikon and they fixed what they called "two products not communicating" (';').. then they sent it back overnight "fixed" that's all they said.
It is so strange other new video always gives me the alarm when it uploads but not yours... Anyway, beautiful sunflowers and bees ~
Hi today is the 9-1-2019 we did final inspection on the hives one hive base 9 Queen cups it’s late in the season I’m Northern Indiana I don’t know if it’s better to remove the cups and by new queen or let them do what they have started this hive was week from the beginning what you would do in this situation please advice thank you
Are they Queen "cups" or Queen "cells" lots of healthy hives will produce and retain "cups" even when they have no intention of laying eggs in them, sort of an insurance material policy. If you remove them, they will simply build more. I personally leave them in place. If they have queen cells starting and you like the line you're working with, I personally would let them swarm and go into winter with a fresh new queen. Lots of drones this time of year for any virgin queen to mate with.
It’s queen cell 9 of them. Thank you for the response and I will do that let them replace the queen I think the queen in this hive had problems it was not strong thank you again for the response
I see tons of bumblebees out in my fields along with honeybees, but the bumble bees are really really busy
So, what was causing the audio problem and how did you fix it?
Nikon said it was a "communication failure between products" - whatever that means, they fixed it and sent it back and it's now perfecto!
@@FrederickDunn Carbon on the valves...
Probably just took it outside and floored it.. problem solved...
Oh what kind of camera do u have it does such a wonderful job thanks again
This was probably the Sony AX-100B
Do the bumblebees make honey as well Fred
Yes
They do and it's in tiny honey "pots" rather than in honeycomb as the bees do. They are truly remarkable.
Frederick Dunn hey Fred I have to truly say I really appreciate your communication with your followers I hope you don’t ever lose that it is really great to see you interact with people and you have a great blessed day
They make honey ,but its more liquid than bees honey and its actually just nectar that they store in those wax cups.
I've seen docile bumble bees before, mainly on Allium species flowers. I thought perhaps there was some kind of narcotic within the pollen that kept them crawling all over the flower heads aiding pollination. Turns out they were just greedy.
Fred how about a video on how to plant a meadow with wildflowers
You'd be disappointed... I have a very basic method of just mowing it all down tight, tilling to 6" with the tractor, tossing seeds by hand as I drive by and then rolling it all down with a 700 lb roller... then I do nothing else but watch them grow. :)
Do you plant in the fall or in the spring
Hi-five Fred!
Ha ha hardee harr harr... :)
We grow sunflowers to attract birds. It works.
Thank you very much. I really love how you slowed this video down and how you explain what’s going on. Videos like this help to drive my want and need to start Bee Keeping. I ordered my first hive I should get it in ten days. Even though it’s pretty late in the year as soon as I get my Bee yard fenced I’m thinking about baiting it, just to see if I get any free 🐝 bees
So glad you enjoyed it Cliffton and all the best with your honey bee adventure!
waiting for an update of the chickens.
Good.
Soo what's the deal with honeybees & bumblebees ? Do they have some ongoing agreement ?
Nope, just sharing the same environment and floral resources. Bumble bees are more diverse in their foraging, and we need them to pollinate flowers that honey bees just can't.
I am happy to announce that I found a huge grove of Japanese knotweed. Time to spread it. Ones mans invasive plant is another man's best honey and super dearth filling treasure lol.
Excellent! Yes, I've also been told that Maximillian Sunflowers are invasive "bamboo" like flowers but here I am planting them :) We're entering our last few weeks of honey harvesting. Glad your bees are doing well Carlos!
@@FrederickDunn I got to get into one of my hives tomorrow. I saw a bunch of goopy honey in the pest management tray. Only reason for that would be wax moths in there destroying frames. Yet there is enough population for that to not happen so I dunno.
I guess it could be a mouse also but the entrance is reduced.
@@weasleoop That could also be small hive beetles... though I hope NOT...!!! They ruin the honey and it runs out of the cells.... terrible stuff.
@@FrederickDunn I dunno I have never once had hive beetles in the hives. It could also be a big temperature change we had. It is not like dripping honey it is almost solid like amber and only on one side. Things look great in the observation window.
@@FrederickDunn Nope. No hive beetles. No wax moths. Wall to wall honey frames that look amazing and all capped and no damage. No mouse. It looked like and felt like caramel or amber. Just on one corner of the bottom tray. Bees... sigh see something new all the time.
Do bumble bees make any honey?
I see you've already answered this question, thanks !!