My Norwegian tribe kept bees for longer than we know. We used top bar hives made from dugout logs and waterproofed them using beeswax and warmed the log next to a fire so the wax would soak into the bark. They were then propt up on saw horses. Today in Canada I use langstroth hives but have 1 traditional hive. My friends who don't know I have it keep asking my if I'm ever going to cut that log. I keep saying "Yeah, maybe tomorrow."
Bees are such fascinating creatures. I read a book that likened the individual bees to the neurons of a human brain and showed how much discrimination swarming broods displayed as they looked for a new home.
A bit off the topic, but wild bees deserve some love too! Although they don't produce honey for us, local native bee species are often vital and rapidly disappearing parts of ecosystems. For those that would like to support their local wild bees, consider growing plants that are native to your area in your garden. Wild bees (and other pollinators) are often better adapted to local plants, and these plants are well adapted to local conditions and need less care. If you're in Minnesota, check out the Lawns to Legumes program, which provides grants to residents to establish pollinator gardens and lawns.
I am a beekeeper and when I feed my bees, getting them prepared for winter, I feed them using jars inside the hives. I also leave out a birdbath filled with sugar water, for not just my bees, but all the other pollinators in the neighborhood. Everyone gets a free meal. :)
Lance had to comb through a lot of history for this episode. He truly waxed poetically over this sticky subject. I'm glad no one told him to mind his own beeswax or he wouldn't have shared this video with us!
I started making mead last April and love the hobby so much, that decided to start beekeeping this spring. (2025) Can’t wait to make mead with my own honey.
Good job Guy! Diabetes ended my days of eating honey but I still enjoy the love of the girls being around. I provide them homes and watch over them to see that it's kept in proper working order. They do their thing, keep their honey and multiply in spring to populate the wild population. My biggest and strongest hive this season is one of those swarms that came back to me and took up shop in an empty hive behind my home. One of Gods amazing little creatures that have made my life better by being a part of it.
The bees owned by Queen Elizabeth were told when she died. The beekeeper went to each hive and knocked on it and said, "The mistress is dead, but don't you go." If I recall correctly, black mourning ribbons were then tied around each hive.
A seemingly baffling tradition.. until you find yourself standing in the garden and talking to your bees (aka the girls) 😊 It’s nice to be part of something that has been around for so long
People talk to their cats, dog, birds,, plants, etc., why not bees? This was an interesting tradition and I'm glad to learn about it. It exemplifies respect for the bees and their work.
@@richf5967I talk to the bees when they visit my fruit trees and flowers. When my lemon tree blooms it is full of bees. Twice we have had a colony overnight in our elm tree, and our elm is over fifty years old and has a very large crown. Baffling, oh yes, the buzzing (a hum, really) is strangely calming. 🐝🐝
@@richf5967 Over the years I have detected what I call a bee language. Which is made up of different different vibrations . Some we can hear. Some transmitted through the comb. Seen as in dances. And smelt. We can use orders to attract swarms. Each hive has its own smell. When my daughter got married she went out and in her wedding and bare foot 'told the bees'. When a local keeper passed I had the honor of telling his bees.
As a beekeeper I really enjoyed this video. It fun to keep the traditions alive and pass your knowledge on to the next generation. Beekeeping is VERY addictive.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments. There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting. The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source. The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now. Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
"if sugar, was as sweet as you honey, sugar just couldn't be bought". A song by the band Rockpile. There must be hundreds of songs that reference "honey" in the lyrics, from Van Morrison" "she's as sweet as Tupelo honey" to " Honey pie "by The Beatles.
I am a bee keeper, and have noticed that there are almost no honeybees in the city of Edmonton Alberta. I have ween watching the flowering trees and plants and have only seen bumblebees pollinating.
All the feral bees have been wiped out because of Varroa. If you do see honeybees, it's because there is a beekeeper nearby managing them. If you live in Edmonton, try working some Russian bees. I have them here in Minnesota and they do well in our cold temps. :)
Loved it! Enjoyed the video, while partaking of my morning coffee with honey (as per usual). While not a beekeeper, I've taken an apiculture class, and would love to bee a beekeeper one day. For anyone interested, they might want to seek out the author Sue Hubbell and her books about beeing a beekeeper. Loved all the history - especially from other lands. Didn't know or remember about other removeable frames prior to Dr. Langstroth! One thing not mentioned is that honey should not be given to children less than one year old - generally this warning is on jars of honey. While I don't remember the details, I think it has to do with the infants' gut biome not being developed enough to handle honey. Also should mention, that I think honey is the only liquid sold as weight and not volume (at least in U.S.A., I don't know in other countries). It would be interesting to know how this came about.
Really nice summary! I’ve done so much reading during my own apicultural career, and I can’t think of anything significant that you left out! They’re truly amazing creatures
I love bees (I love honey, too). Bees polinate our fruit trees and flowers in our garden. A couple of seasons ago I was removing the last lemons from the blooming tree, and the tree blooms were full of bees. I was awed by how gentle the bees were, they went about their business while I removed lemons around them.
My birthday is May 20. I have always asked my wife for fried chicken for my present. She has always taken me to a chicken restaurant, where they serve honey with the meal. OH, did I mention I live in Kentucky? Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
You could release "the history of the telephone book" and i would still listen just as intently and still be jist as entertained. The true mark of a great narrator.
The bee wax is made into a sculpture then the wax sculpture is covered in plaster then the plaster is heated. Then the wax melts out then you have a cavity where you pour in the bronze
Carl Sagan: "If all insect life on earth were to end, in 75 years there would be no life on earth. If all human life on earth were to end, in 75 years life would flourish on earth."
I love bees ! The reveal the beauty of Nature working in HARMONY. The colony works as a TEAM. They are beautiful and purposeful creatures. As a child I was allergic to their stings. I'd run a fever. After graduating from College and desiring to escape the city and join a past navy friend in South Dakota to aid in his beekeeping tending, I spent the Fall in this very remote area. A soulful experience. He taught me much about bees. It started a respect and admiration for their TEAM purpose. We are ALL connected, respect NATURE. Bees are beautiful creatures. - sometimes a Mountain Man (sMM) Stephen Skinner
That is very true. My bees do the same thing. but you have to be close to their hives almost daily. They will recognize person. I've had bees land on my arm to lick off the sweat. They do recognize people.
No one can argue that pigs have been domesticated, and yet they, too, can go feral in one generation. Bees, too! Horses, cows and dogs take a little longer, but in the end they don't need us. We need them! Our bees especially! The tragedy of this time in earth's history is the rate at which agri-farming practices are poisoning them, along with our planet. We can stop it, but everyone needs to be concerned and onboard.
This is why I so enjoy The History Guy. Something that is always around and always been around but you just don't think about. A history that is not forgotten or ignored but, just not thought about or remembered
Quite familiar with bees. At one time, my father had as many as thirty hives. In the 90s, the last hive died out from mites. Since there's no row cropping in my area, only cattle grazing and pine forests, pesticides are an unlikely cause. A super (a shallow upper box used to collect honey) has ten frames that can have two to four pounds on wax and honey each. A hive may have as many as four supers or more. Multiply that by thirty hives. The three of us worked up a LOT of honey.
@@tomtheplummer7322 Tossing waste wax on the ground near hives is said to draw Small Hive Beetles. Better to collect it in a bucket and render it down like any other wax.
"She was a rare thing/ as fine as a BeesWing/ so fine a breath of air might blow her away..." from BeesWing by Richard Thompson, a song about the Big Love that got away, and sung in Richard's *mellifluous* baritone. ( I could have simply written "first", as some people do, but that's for lazy people; and there are better ways to stoke the algorithm in THG's favor).
@@eloiseharbeson2483 , for the others here who aren't familiar with it, the song you reference is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning": a motorcycle, an outlaw, and a red-headed girl, the most dangerous combination imaginable! Another favorite of mine from Thompson's back catalog is "Al Bowlly's in Heaven (and I'm in Limbo now)". And then there's the insane electric-guitar freakout of "Shoot Out the Lights"......
@@davidparrish1133 _The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture_ is another good one. The two leading beekeeping magazines (in the U.S.) are "American Bee Journal," published by Dadant and Sons and "Bee Culture," published by A. I. Root.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments. There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting. The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source. The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now. Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
Check out the Kirkhoff Hive. I have a few. They are museum pieces. The are more efficient then Langstroth hive, but more expensive to build then the Langstroth hive.
Ah beekeeping. Here is a true story. Back in the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton was on an around the world tour(without Bill BTW). Winding up the tour she stopped in New Zealand. At a meeting, she impressed the audience by admitting that she was named after New Zealand's favorite son,,,,Sir Edmund Hillary. The problem was,,,,Hillary was born in 1946 and Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest in 1953. In 1946, Sir Edmund Hillary was an obscure bee keeper in Auckland , N.Z. Then she made it to NYC to end the trip,,,,and this was another event in the life of Hillary. Hillary arrived in NYC and DEMANDED the PRESIDENTIAL suite at the Waldorf. She did not make reservations btw. She demanded that they put her in and kick out the person who reserved the room. The hotel called and asked the person if he would let Hillary have his room. His answer was,,,,,,"I earn my money, I work for a living." His name,,, Dale Earnhart #3. As a shear coincidence,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dale #3 is my 7th cousin.
There's also "House at Pooh Corner" by Loggins and Messina: " I've got to get back to Pooh Corner by one/ you'd be surprised, there's so much to be done/ count all the bees in the hive/ chase all the clouds from the sky..."
Playlist inspired by this episode: Honey I Miss You Honey Don't A Taste Of Honey Honey Pie Wild Honey Pie Honeycomb Honey, Honey Honey Bee Honey Child I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Honey Hush (Albert Collins). Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison). King Bee (Slim Harpo). Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller). Money, Honey (Ry Cooder). House at Pooh Corner ( Loggins and Messina). Last but not least, BeesWing (Richard Thompson): "She was a rare thing/ as fine as a bee's wing/ so fine a breath of wind might blow her away/ she was a lost child/ she was just running wild/ she said 'as long as there's no price on love I'll stay/ and you wouldn't want me any other way'....."
My wife’s grandfather kept bees. When he got old he would hold a few and make them string his hands help his arthritis. Not sure how well it worked but he swore by it.
Anecdotal evidence by people who were stung by scorpions and found that chronic back pain was reduced has led to research into using venom for this type of medical purpose.
A great tribute to and historical accout of the HONEYBEE. Ah, creamed honey. Stored properly, it will never spoil and "never" crystallize beyond the micro-crystallization process that is "creamed honey". There is no "cream" involved. It may be used the same as liquid (runny) honey (baking, cereal, tea, etc.) but is spreadable at room temperature. I buy honey in bulk, cream it and gift it. It's always appreciated. I don't have the facilities for beekeeping but I greatly appreciate and support the apiarists.
I knew this video would BEE! great to watch and interesting, How ever you might need a part two for this one hahaha I think you totally missed out the most knowledgable bee keepers of Ancient times? The Vikings where the first to be able to harvest honey with out killing the bees and invented the cloth method to filter the honey to make Mead. and the Celts and Bee Lore
Been bee keeping for six years now excited to see what this video says about bee keeping! I also do live removals. I have five gallon buckets of honey lol
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments. There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting. The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source. The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now. Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
Bees also appear on British Sanitary wear. It was the logo on Napoleon. So during the Napolieonic wars, sanitary wear with a Bee emblem was introduced and you were invitide to take 'Apis' on Napoleon.
There are several people in the area I live are bee keepers. They have formed a club and/or association and get together sometimes to discuss bee keeping and honey production.
I use the Layens way of keeping bees as I don't care for the Langstroth way as it's WAY too labor intensive. I'm in my mid 60's can not do all that heavy lifting. I thoroughly enjoy beekeeping in my senior years. (Never bought bees, I catch wild ones!) Not much work and well worth the efforts. Love those little girls!
'Winnie the Pooh' bear says: "Bears 🐻❤🍯.....So, PLEASE keep the bee's 🐝 knees's 🦵 a going n' a growing'......bee 🐝 cause its time for something sweet"‼️ 💟 🐝🍯🏳️😉❤️
Having lived my whole life in an agricultural area, it's just taken as a given that if an orchard is in bloom, there are going to be beehives by the side of the road. The beekeeper brings them in and when they're done pollinating that orchard they move them to the next one.
My dad lined the roads on his farm with all sorts of fruit trees. After a few years he got his first hive. The bees pollinated the trees, the garden, and the pastures. Their money crop was a pecan orchard. Don't know if bees pollinated Pecan trees or not.
@@goodun2974 The honeybee must be one of those 8 because their stinger can't be withdrawn from your flesh by the bee. When they sting and fly away she leaves her guts behind, connected to the stinger.
When my wife makes peanut butter balls, sort of a better version of Reese's peanut butter cups, she melts a little beeswax into the melted chocolate so that it will firm up and stay solid at room temperature without easily melting the second you touch it.
My Norwegian tribe kept bees for longer than we know. We used top bar hives made from dugout logs and waterproofed them using beeswax and warmed the log next to a fire so the wax would soak into the bark. They were then propt up on saw horses.
Today in Canada I use langstroth hives but have 1 traditional hive. My friends who don't know I have it keep asking my if I'm ever going to cut that log. I keep saying "Yeah, maybe tomorrow."
The Langstroth hive was the first major modern advancement in beekeeping. The second was the centrifugal extractor.
As an apiarist, I salute your efforts on behalf of our long and noble profession. Thank you!
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I'll second that!!! Northern Californian beekeeper for 13 years.
@@GeorgeCMcRae SoCal Beek - 4th year.
Bees are such fascinating creatures. I read a book that likened the individual bees to the neurons of a human brain and showed how much discrimination swarming broods displayed as they looked for a new home.
Southern Missouri and NW Arkansas 10 years. 👍
A bit off the topic, but wild bees deserve some love too! Although they don't produce honey for us, local native bee species are often vital and rapidly disappearing parts of ecosystems. For those that would like to support their local wild bees, consider growing plants that are native to your area in your garden. Wild bees (and other pollinators) are often better adapted to local plants, and these plants are well adapted to local conditions and need less care. If you're in Minnesota, check out the Lawns to Legumes program, which provides grants to residents to establish pollinator gardens and lawns.
I am a beekeeper and when I feed my bees, getting them prepared for winter, I feed them using jars inside the hives. I also leave out a birdbath filled with sugar water, for not just my bees, but all the other pollinators in the neighborhood. Everyone gets a free meal. :)
❤❤ most folks I've tried to educate either don't care or don't want to try to understand 😢😢❤❤
Stay busy as a bee and that will make you bee happy
Lance had to comb through a lot of history for this episode. He truly waxed poetically over this sticky subject. I'm glad no one told him to mind his own beeswax or he wouldn't have shared this video with us!
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He who would pun would pick a pocket.
Buzz off!
And such sweet result for such a worker bee.
@@charlotteemerson5050 The History Guy goes by the old saying, "never let 'em see you sweet"!😆
I've kept bees for fifty years. this is a brilliant and accurate video. Well done.
History that deserves to Bee remembered 😆
Billy - I certainly BEElieve that.
🐝 Bee True To Oneself 🐝
Come on, surely you can do better than the most obvious pun imaginable.
But...that's what he always says, classic.
@@jppatterson7142 This is a honey of a presentation of happy culture and we can apidae-t they are anthophilic creatures.
Obey the bees. Brew more mead.
As an amateur meadmaker I fully appreciate the hard work our little black and yellow friends perform.
I started making mead last April and love the hobby so much, that decided to start beekeeping this spring. (2025) Can’t wait to make mead with my own honey.
I was a beekeeper for five years. Fascinating but rather expensive hobby. I miss my thousands of fuzzy friends. 🐝🌼
Good job Guy!
Diabetes ended my days of eating honey but I still enjoy the love of the girls being around. I provide them homes and watch over them to see that it's kept in proper working order. They do their thing, keep their honey and multiply in spring to populate the wild population. My biggest and strongest hive this season is one of those swarms that came back to me and took up shop in an empty hive behind my home. One of Gods amazing little creatures that have made my life better by being a part of it.
My favorite Bee was Aunt Bee. She was the nicest old lady in Mayberry.
Well, hardee har har.
The bees owned by Queen Elizabeth were told when she died. The beekeeper went to each hive and knocked on it and said, "The mistress is dead, but don't you go." If I recall correctly, black mourning ribbons were then tied around each hive.
I came here to say this. Traditions like this baffle me. 😂
A seemingly baffling tradition.. until you find yourself standing in the garden and talking to your bees (aka the girls)
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It’s nice to be part of something that has been around for so long
People talk to their cats, dog, birds,, plants, etc., why not bees? This was an interesting tradition and I'm glad to learn about it. It exemplifies respect for the bees and their work.
@@richf5967I talk to the bees when they visit my fruit trees and flowers. When my lemon tree blooms it is full of bees. Twice we have had a colony overnight in our elm tree, and our elm is over fifty years old and has a very large crown. Baffling, oh yes, the buzzing (a hum, really) is strangely calming. 🐝🐝
@@richf5967 Over the years I have detected what I call a bee language. Which is made up of different different vibrations . Some we can hear. Some transmitted through the comb. Seen as in dances. And smelt. We can use orders to attract swarms. Each hive has its own smell.
When my daughter got married she went out and in her wedding and bare foot 'told the bees'. When a local keeper passed I had the honor of telling his bees.
As a beekeeper I really enjoyed this video. It fun to keep the traditions alive and pass your knowledge on to the next generation. Beekeeping is VERY addictive.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments.
There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting.
The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source.
The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now.
Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
As Beekeepers ourselves this was quite interesting to watch. Thanks for putting this together!
Here in Greece, our neighbourhood is full of bee trees! They never bother us, as they are busy bee's . 🐝
Thanks for the inspiration... I'm gonna go out any work my neglected hives today...
"if sugar, was as sweet as you honey, sugar just couldn't be bought". A song by the band Rockpile. There must be hundreds of songs that reference "honey" in the lyrics, from Van Morrison" "she's as sweet as Tupelo honey" to " Honey pie "by The Beatles.
I am a bee keeper, and have noticed that there are almost no honeybees in the city of Edmonton Alberta. I have ween watching the flowering trees and plants and have only seen bumblebees pollinating.
All the feral bees have been wiped out because of Varroa. If you do see honeybees, it's because there is a beekeeper nearby managing them. If you live in Edmonton, try working some Russian bees. I have them here in Minnesota and they do well in our cold temps. :)
What do bees chew? Bumble gum
the keeper's quandry: to bee or not to bee.....
Loved it! Enjoyed the video, while partaking of my morning coffee with honey (as per usual). While not a beekeeper, I've taken an apiculture class, and would love to bee a beekeeper one day. For anyone interested, they might want to seek out the author Sue Hubbell and her books about beeing a beekeeper. Loved all the history - especially from other lands. Didn't know or remember about other removeable frames prior to Dr. Langstroth! One thing not mentioned is that honey should not be given to children less than one year old - generally this warning is on jars of honey. While I don't remember the details, I think it has to do with the infants' gut biome not being developed enough to handle honey. Also should mention, that I think honey is the only liquid sold as weight and not volume (at least in U.S.A., I don't know in other countries). It would be interesting to know how this came about.
"None of your Bee's Wax"!!!!! 🤣
Really nice summary! I’ve done so much reading during my own apicultural career, and I can’t think of anything significant that you left out! They’re truly amazing creatures
I love bees (I love honey, too). Bees polinate our fruit trees and flowers in our garden. A couple of seasons ago I was removing the last lemons from the blooming tree, and the tree blooms were full of bees. I was awed by how gentle the bees were, they went about their business while I removed lemons around them.
Don't forget Xenophon's description of the use of "mad honey" as a weapon.
What a great bit of history and entertainment. Thank you.
My birthday is May 20. I have always asked my wife for fried chicken for my present. She has always taken me to a chicken restaurant, where they serve honey with the meal. OH, did I mention I live in Kentucky? Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
❤❤may 12 also in Kentucky ❤❤
@@HyloWard-i6t Lee's Famous
You could release "the history of the telephone book" and i would still listen just as intently and still be jist as entertained. The true mark of a great narrator.
Thank you for turning down the outro volume!
The bee wax is made into a sculpture then the wax sculpture is covered in plaster then the plaster is heated. Then the wax melts out then you have a cavity where you pour in the bronze
Carl Sagan: "If all insect life on earth were to end, in 75 years there would be no life on earth. If all human life on earth were to end, in 75 years life would flourish on earth."
thanks
Awesome presentation!
Have been fascinated by apiculture since I first started home brewing, mead is delicious
I love bees ! The reveal the beauty of Nature working in HARMONY. The colony works as a TEAM. They are beautiful and purposeful creatures. As a child I was allergic to their stings. I'd run a fever. After graduating from College and desiring to escape the city and join a past navy friend in South Dakota to aid in his beekeeping tending, I spent the Fall in this very remote area. A soulful experience. He taught me much about bees. It started a respect and admiration for their TEAM purpose. We are ALL connected, respect NATURE. Bees are beautiful creatures. - sometimes a Mountain Man (sMM) Stephen Skinner
My grand father raised bee's he could go out with no protection and the bees wouldn't bother him much because he said they would get to know him.
That is very true. My bees do the same thing. but you have to be close to their hives almost daily. They will recognize person. I've had bees land on my arm to lick off the sweat. They do recognize people.
No one can argue that pigs have been domesticated, and yet they, too, can go feral in one generation. Bees, too! Horses, cows and dogs take a little longer, but in the end they don't need us. We need them! Our bees especially! The tragedy of this time in earth's history is the rate at which agri-farming practices are poisoning them, along with our planet. We can stop it, but everyone needs to be concerned and onboard.
I love all your videos, but this one was especially both broad and deep. You manage to put sooo much into just several minutes!
"What's the buzz, tell me whats'a happenin'/ what's the buzz, tell me what'sa happenin'...."
WHY should you wanna know
@@steveoh9025 , you're probably too young to recognize the song....
@@goodun2974 nah that's the next line in the song ;)
Must admit...I do like the effort you put into each intro. Thanks :)
This is why I so enjoy The History Guy. Something that is always around and always been around but you just don't think about. A history that is not forgotten or ignored but, just not thought about or remembered
I had no idea how much history you can learn when studying simple everyday things until I discovered this channel.
Quite familiar with bees. At one time, my father had as many as thirty hives. In the 90s, the last hive died out from mites. Since there's no row cropping in my area, only cattle grazing and pine forests, pesticides are an unlikely cause.
A super (a shallow upper box used to collect honey) has ten frames that can have two to four pounds on wax and honey each. A hive may have as many as four supers or more. Multiply that by thirty hives. The three of us worked up a LOT of honey.
Beetles and mites are a scourge. A healthy hive can control beetles to an extent. Mites are a hives bane.
@@tomtheplummer7322 Tossing waste wax on the ground near hives is said to draw Small Hive Beetles. Better to collect it in a bucket and render it down like any other wax.
Thanks THG for the historic buzz.
Thank you
Hey J.H
North Carolina's state insect is the honey bee!
"She was a rare thing/ as fine as a BeesWing/ so fine a breath of air might blow her away..." from BeesWing by Richard Thompson, a song about the Big Love that got away, and sung in Richard's *mellifluous* baritone. ( I could have simply written "first", as some people do, but that's for lazy people; and there are better ways to stoke the algorithm in THG's favor).
That song always brings tears to my eyes. "52 Vincent" will always be my favorite RT song, but that one's number two.
@@eloiseharbeson2483 , for the others here who aren't familiar with it, the song you reference is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning": a motorcycle, an outlaw, and a red-headed girl, the most dangerous combination imaginable! Another favorite of mine from Thompson's back catalog is "Al Bowlly's in Heaven (and I'm in Limbo now)". And then there's the insane electric-guitar freakout of "Shoot Out the Lights"......
🐝 kind 🐝 loving 🐝 grateful
Great video, Bee Keeping has been my most rewarding hobby.
"None of your beeswax Nelly Olson!"
Thank You for covering the topic of "Honeybees"! I kept bees in my youth and it was always enjoyable as well as intellectually stimulating!!!
Me too. Well actually the bees were my dads. I was just a worker bee.
It’s a great day of saving the beeeez
-Erika Thompson, Texas Beeworks
Thank you 😊
Interesting summary of bee keeping.
I was recently thinking of studying beekeeping as a hobby, so the upload of this video is a very nice coincidence.
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The Hive and the Honey Bee is a good book on bees.
@@davidparrish1133 _The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture_ is another good one.
The two leading beekeeping magazines (in the U.S.) are "American Bee Journal," published by Dadant and Sons and "Bee Culture," published by A. I. Root.
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments.
There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting.
The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source.
The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now.
Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
do it..... now the time to buy bees if any local bee keepers still have them for sale. I got some new colonies last week.
thank you for sharing
Worth noting that infants under the age of a year and a half or so, as I recall, are not supposed to ever be given honey.
Yes, mentioned this myself. Only omit I noticed. :)
Happy Bee Day everyone! Thanks for another great episode with a fascinating topic.
Have been a beekeeper for almost five years. The research that is needed is substantial. THG you did a great job putting this together. 👏 👍 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
Didn’t know my job as Hunny-Hunter-Gatherer is pretty old.
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Check out the Kirkhoff Hive. I have a few. They are museum pieces. The are more efficient then Langstroth hive, but more expensive to build then the Langstroth hive.
Ah beekeeping.
Here is a true story. Back in the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton was on an around the world tour(without Bill BTW). Winding up the tour she stopped in New Zealand. At a meeting, she impressed the audience by admitting that she was named after New Zealand's favorite son,,,,Sir Edmund Hillary. The problem was,,,,Hillary was born in 1946 and Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest in 1953.
In 1946, Sir Edmund Hillary was an obscure bee keeper in Auckland , N.Z. Then she made it to NYC to end the trip,,,,and this was another event in the life of Hillary.
Hillary arrived in NYC and DEMANDED the PRESIDENTIAL suite at the Waldorf. She did not make reservations btw. She demanded that they put her in and kick out the person who reserved the room. The hotel called and asked the person if he would let Hillary have his room.
His answer was,,,,,,"I earn my money, I work for a living."
His name,,,
Dale Earnhart #3.
As a shear coincidence,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dale #3 is my 7th cousin.
Oh look! Lame political propaganda!!
Like varoa mites, maggie mites infect and weaken the hive.
When I was in high school one of our janitors was a beekeeper and one day showed us how he extracted the honey from the frames.
the stingless bees of the mayans are also interesting.
it tastes great
Hey a Bee🐝 day Reminds me of France 🇫🇷 Cest Le Vie
7:25 why did that artist add that elephant there 😂😂
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Hovering under the honey-tree.
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Pay no attention to me...
Winnie the Pooh
There's also "House at Pooh Corner" by Loggins and Messina: " I've got to get back to Pooh Corner by one/ you'd be surprised, there's so much to be done/ count all the bees in the hive/ chase all the clouds from the sky..."
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Thanks HG
Playlist inspired by this episode:
Honey I Miss You
Honey Don't
A Taste Of Honey
Honey Pie
Wild Honey Pie
Honeycomb
Honey, Honey
Honey Bee
Honey Child
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Honey Hush (Albert Collins). Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison). King Bee (Slim Harpo). Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller). Money, Honey (Ry Cooder). House at Pooh Corner ( Loggins and Messina). Last but not least, BeesWing (Richard Thompson): "She was a rare thing/ as fine as a bee's wing/ so fine a breath of wind might blow her away/ she was a lost child/ she was just running wild/ she said 'as long as there's no price on love I'll stay/ and you wouldn't want me any other way'....."
Thanks for this video.
Happy Bee Day!
Sweet video! Thank you for waxing on this subject!
To use a historical comparison, 618M pounds of honey is just over ten Edmund Fitzgerald loads...
"I'm just a little black raincloud...."
Thank you!
My wife’s grandfather kept bees. When he got old he would hold a few and make them string his hands help his arthritis. Not sure how well it worked but he swore by it.
Anecdotal evidence by people who were stung by scorpions and found that chronic back pain was reduced has led to research into using venom for this type of medical purpose.
I have heard of that. Never knew anyone who did it. Not sure I could do it even though I'm not very sensitive to bee stings.
A great tribute to and historical accout of the HONEYBEE. Ah, creamed honey. Stored properly, it will never spoil and "never" crystallize beyond the micro-crystallization process that is "creamed honey". There is no "cream" involved. It may be used the same as liquid (runny) honey (baking, cereal, tea, etc.) but is spreadable at room temperature. I buy honey in bulk, cream it and gift it. It's always appreciated. I don't have the facilities for beekeeping but I greatly appreciate and support the apiarists.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!
I knew this video would BEE! great to watch and interesting, How ever you might need a part two for this one hahaha I think you totally missed out the most knowledgable bee keepers of Ancient times? The Vikings where the first to be able to harvest honey with out killing the bees and invented the cloth method to filter the honey to make Mead. and the Celts and Bee Lore
Another great vid. Many thanks.
A mention of Deseret, the Beehive State, and it's people would have been nice. 🐝
Been bee keeping for six years now excited to see what this video says about bee keeping! I also do live removals. I have five gallon buckets of honey lol
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Neat.
Big buckets of honey are perfect to preserve the heads of your slain enemies!
What most people don't know is that modern bee keeping in wooden magazine boxes is incredibly bad for the bees and for the environments.
There are many reason for this and a scientist wrote a book about it. Very interesting.
The main problem is humans are turning the 100 million year old honey bees into pets right now by interfering, in all the wrong ways, with their natural selection, habitats and behaviour and at the same time these artificially large hives suck up all the nectar in the area on a massive scale (and still need extra sugar as feed) depriving other insects of their food source.
The detailed explanations why this is so is too long for a youtube comment but it's utterly fascinating and a massive shame what we are doing right now.
Traditional beekeeping in logs or self made straw skeps on the other hand is almost unproblematic.
My bees didn't make it through winter this year. I didn't get more. Maybe take a break for a year.
Concentrate on my grapevines instead.
Bees also appear on British Sanitary wear. It was the logo on Napoleon. So during the Napolieonic wars, sanitary wear with a Bee emblem was introduced and you were invitide to take 'Apis' on Napoleon.
There are several people in the area I live are bee keepers. They have formed a club and/or association and get together sometimes to discuss bee keeping and honey production.
Common source of local bee information. All new beekeepers and those wanting to be beekeepers should seek them out.
I use the Layens way of keeping bees as I don't care for the Langstroth way as it's WAY too labor intensive.
I'm in my mid 60's can not do all that heavy lifting. I thoroughly enjoy beekeeping in my senior years. (Never bought bees, I catch wild ones!) Not much work and well worth the efforts. Love those little girls!
Utah's has a State insect - the honey bee.
World bee day is on May 20th because that's Anton Janša's birth date (the same one mentioned in the video).
'Winnie the Pooh' bear says: "Bears 🐻❤🍯.....So, PLEASE keep the bee's 🐝 knees's 🦵 a going n' a growing'......bee 🐝 cause its time for something sweet"‼️ 💟 🐝🍯🏳️😉❤️
Having lived my whole life in an agricultural area, it's just taken as a given that if an orchard is in bloom, there are going to be beehives by the side of the road. The beekeeper brings them in and when they're done pollinating that orchard they move them to the next one.
My dad lined the roads on his farm with all sorts of fruit trees. After a few years he got his first hive. The bees pollinated the trees, the garden, and the pastures. Their money crop was a pecan orchard. Don't know if bees pollinated Pecan trees or not.
Love the Art and Bees!
This history lesson is the Bee's knees
Thanks bee's ❤
I love the cartoonesk bee-men with ancient Egyptian headdresses
Own of my favourite sayings. " If you put out shit you'll attract flies but if you put out sugar you'll attract bees." You choose........
A great book to read is The Sacred Bee!
A bee accused of stinging a person said "I didn't do it, I was framed!" Wrongfully convicted, they took him *away* from his cell...
...her away from her cell...
Can't be true, a bee cannot live once it stings you, it dies.
@@pankajmakwana2300 , I looked this up, and only 8 out of 21,000 bee species worldwide actually die after stinging.
@@goodun2974 The honeybee must be one of those 8 because their stinger can't be withdrawn from your flesh by the bee. When they sting and fly away she leaves her guts behind, connected to the stinger.
When my wife makes peanut butter balls, sort of a better version of Reese's peanut butter cups, she melts a little beeswax into the melted chocolate so that it will firm up and stay solid at room temperature without easily melting the second you touch it.
I will Bee🐝 lieve it when I See 👀 it!
when the queen died they told her bees... so ya that's a thing still.