Honey Bees Pollinating Boxwood Blossoms April 6th Common Boxwood Shrubs.
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2024
- This video is the first of a series for a year of pollinator moments.
We will follow honey bees through the growing year and share what they are visiting, and what they are collecting that benefits the hive.
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Hello Fred. Thank you every time. My English not so good, but I often use translator, nice watching and listening. God bless you.Kind regards Sam
You are very welcome
Lovely video can’t beat watching the bees work
Thanks, Darren!
Wonderful bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝 🥰🥰🥰🥰
So wonderful and I very much appreciate the education about the bee people❤ Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Fred! Another great video! I'm in NW Indiana and we have fields of Purple Dead Nettle. It loves the cold and my bees are on it heavy daily. Farmer will turn it in a few weeks. It's another great source of resources in early spring. Thanks for all you do
Those are just getting started blooming here, and will be added to this play list soon :) And it's an excuse to crawl around on the ground :)
Thanks Fred. I love watching my bees. We have two ash trees in our front yard that bloomed over a month and a half ago. The bees worked those trees anytime the temperature hit 48 degees and sunny. Why these trees come out so early I don't know. Thanks for the video.
Hi Mr Dunn from northern England, my bees were out last week collecting pollen from my neighbours boxwood hedge too, but although temperature has remained high have high winds and rain now 😢
Great video Fred! Thanks for the explanation and education!
You are very welcome, Rodney! :)
Great educational video. Thanks Fred.
Thank you so much :)
Nice video Fred :) have a great weekend
Edit: I’m watching the video now 😁😎👏
Thanks Grayson! I hope you are getting lots of opportunity to be outside with your bees :)
Great video quality, thank you for the educational narration.
Thank you, interesting, learning..
You are welcome!
Hi Fred. You said the workers feed the bee bread to the larvae . I believe that workers consume the pollen and bee bread which provides the protein and nutrients necessary for the workers to then feed the larvae with secretions from the hypopharengeal gland and the mandibular gland. Any traces of pollen seen in a larval cell is just by accident. I could be mistaken of course. Were you suggesting that bee bread is the gland excretion?
Bee bread is a protein resource that is metabolized and used by nurse bees to feed drones, developing larvae, and the queen. This is a pollen gathering video, only touching upon why they gather pollen. You are correct, the jelly produced comes from glands in nurse bees.
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You have many maples in your area? At the moment the red maples are in full bloom in my area and the bees come back absolutely loaded with the pollen.
We do, and I've covered those earlier in the year. Scanning the tree tops over the past couple of days, the Maples have fallen from favor for now.
Great stuff as always.
Hey Fred. I’m buying another flow super and was wondering if you still have that $50 off code?
Hi Brad, yes, you can find the link to that on my website: www.fredsfinefowl.com/flowhivediscount.html
Bee Behavior category: Fred, why would +-200 Drones fly in front of a hive, facing the hive for 4 days in a roll?
Drones also do orientation flights, that's what this sounds like based on what you're observing.
@@FrederickDunn Thanks
Red Wing Black Birds in background?
Yes, I heard them too. There must be a pond or marsh land near by. Red wings like to hang out near water.
Yes, among others! Good ear! :)
Do you have any recommendations how to get over my fear of my bees? They chased me last year across our acre of land and now I'm scared of them
Yellow Jackets often nest in the ground in former mouse nests or under boards. Please be sure you aren't mistaking Yellow Jackets for Honeybees. Yellow Jackets are nasty and will chase/sting you, where Honeybees really have no interest in what we are doing unless we are disturbing their hive, usually found in a hollow tree.
Are you sure it was honey bees and not yellow jackets? Yellow jackets are far more aggressive than honeybees. Yellow jackets will chase you for some distance. Honey bees, not as much.
@@user-zv3lj1ef7l ya I have 2 hives. I think it's bad genes
@user-zv3lj1ef7l thank you. I've been stung so many times. Once in my eye lid. I'm just scared of them now so I completely stayed away from the hives the rest of last year. I have sugar water out around the property for them so I didn't starve them. I guess I'm just gonna have to face my fears
@@MadalaneBoden Last year at night, in the pouring rain one of my triple deep hives, my favorite one, fell over from a strong gust of wind. I had to think of something quick, I been bee-keeping for 5 years without any personal protective gear, just shorts and a tee- shirt, so my response was to just walk out there without a flashlight and stack everything back up. Well I got stung more than fifty times, as each box went up. Looking back, i was sore but it didn't hurt and I would do it again to save my bees. They haven't stung me since I reconstructed their hive. I'm quite sure they would have lit me up a lot harder if I was a bear trying to steal their honey. 🤣 Anyhow, keep tuning into Fred's channel, watch all of his previous videos as this is the best place on youtube to learn about honey bees. Also, I am an older fella, I had heart murmurs/palpitations prior to bee-keeping I can say with 100% confidence, these bees and their honey are making me live longer. I don't have any of those heart conditions anymore.
There will be a solar eclipes this monday, april 8th. What will the bees do? Will they stay in the hive thinking ots night, will they be caught unaware and take naps on the flowers when the sun goes dark? Please observe your bees and let us know what they do.
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They will pause when it gets dark, and resume their activities when the eclipse is over. That's what I think will happen.