After determining the favored water source, we also did tests with salts and ultimately Sea Salts. ua-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/v-deo.html This test is repeatable with the same results. Many have asked about evaporation, when left out where bees could not access the water, there were no measurable variations due to evaporation... the evaporation rate was the same for all sources/samples. The order of drinkers was also changed, results remained the same.
These results could still be due to random chance and pack influence. You can't draw conclusions from a single iteration. This test should have been run multiple times with different bees and in different locations to eliminate uncertainties and biases and see if a pattern is established with a larger data set.
Dear Jeremy, it's people like you that keep bees from reaching their full potential, you need to be more encouraging and the bees will realize the extent of their abilities. They not only read the signs, they are the ones that printed and afixed the labels.
I feel like the bees didn’t go for pond water is probably because it’s “smell” is associated with the fish that will come up to eat them if they drink there
We have a pond that has now 4" goldfish in it...we didn't have a wasp problem this year...they have been seen grabbing surface creatures regularly...used to not be able to sit next to it without tons of yellow jackets...not this year
You might be on to something , In the countryside we have a pond with fish next to a small stream . There are hundreds of bees around all the time but I've never seen one go drink from the pond
If only you could make bees only get water from 1 place, that part being impossible unless you contain them but they roam up to 5 miles on average to get pollen.
I have recently become a beekeeper, and have two hives in suburban Melbourne, Australia. During my studies to become a beekeeper I had found instructions on the importance of providing a reliable supply of drinking water for the bees. It was considered important to provide good water relatively close to the hives, so that the bees did not get their water from less desirable sources, such as a neighbor's swimming pool, or a bird bath in a neighbor's garden. During our spring time of the last couple of months, we have had mild weather including good rain showers, and I had not seen any evidence of the bees drinking from the clean water I had provided for them. That mild weather ended abruptly yesterday when we had the hottest November day in Melbourne, for more than one hundred years. I was concerned for my bees, because they had been “bearding” on the outside of their hive boxes for several days. Even after I had provided additional hive-top ventilation they still continued this bearding, but not to the same extent. After I had watered my garden I found that a lot of bees (about 20) were congregated on a clump of quite wet composted material. I gently lifted some of this wet compost with a garden spade, together with a number of bees, and transferred it to my preferred bee drinking location. The happy result is that the bees continued to use the new location with its reliable water supply after the water had soaked away in the garden area, and they have continued drinking there in today’s milder weather. The thing that I have found most interesting in this observation is that the bees are drinking water from soaking-wet compost material, and not from the freshest part of the water container. Perhaps they prefer the taste of a “compost infused liquid”. We humans seem to like drinking infusions of various kinds of flavor such as tea, etc, and I wonder if bees actually prefer to have “flavored water”. I would invite other readers of this entry to respond with any of their observations which may add to our knowledge and understanding of this subject.
In my field, I use a silage tarp weighed down by logs. After the rain came, there were 3 water sources: 1) "clean" puddles, just water on top of tarp 2) puddles the log sat in and 3) water that had soaked up into the log. There were many more honey bees drinking water that had soaked into the log itself (not even the water the log sat in). I assumed it was for "safety" as I'd seen the occasional drowned bee as well, but perhaps the soaked log is also providing minerals?
@@bikerbrandon1 Bikerbrandon1 Let me fix that, Biker Brandon 1 You need the caps at the beginning of a sentence then a cap at the first letter of your name,and you also forgot 3 spaces.Dont let it happen next time.
@@sincotrodium7385 You need a period after every sentence and also a space between a period and the capital letter of the next sentence. And a space after a comma. But I guess, you are a typical hypothetical grammar cop, just walking his beet.
Frederick Dunn Not only the taste but the chemicals from the plastic that leach into the water. (I refrain from drinking out of plastic myself.) Glass or pottery could be a good test. 🙂
Joeaarsen0 Yes, but they have a preference for syrup from the glass vs syrup from the plastic feeder, as I clarified. That is the first one to be emptied, no matter where I move them in the yard.
I would test again but with the containers swapped around if they do enjoy one water over another the position should not effect the outcome. I would place the in a order that is opposite of their choices this time. But thank you for this work you do
The centers will evaporate slower duh and of course the different sources evaporate at different rates as well just as salt waterdoes not evaporate at the same rate as fresh salt and mineral free water.... this was not scientific in any way ....
@@jolllyroger1 i was wondering that myself, if the evaporation rates were different due to contaminants. Could eliminate that as the cause if he covered the entire set-up using netting that the bees could not enter, left it for a few days and then checked the water levels. If all the water levels remained consistent after several days, it would confirm the results of the previous tests.
@@SergeantExtreme I never claimed otherwise. That wasn't the point. The point is that if the evaporation remained constant, as in all jars showed approximately the same amount of evaporation after some given time, regardless of how long, it would confirm his findings. If, however, the evaporation rates were different it would show evaporation was a factor, even if only slightly. Its a proper control, one he didn't actually do. Science is accomplished by eliminating variables in your experiments, even the ones you are confident are irrelevant.
The honey bees around where I live really like my little koi pond to drink but that is probably because I have a lot of water lily pads for them to rest on while they drink.
@Stock Name I don't mean the "pumping", they do that to breath. You can actually see their butt grow way bigger when it fills up with water. Just skip back and forth a few seconds to a part of a bee/wasp drinking, 1:26 for example.
Hi again Craig.... if I may ask, what do you think of my narration quality here? Is it worth constructing a sound-booth to improve? Or is this close enough? I'd like to improve my presentation quality wherever possible :)
Hi, Frederick. Without hearing the audio "dry," it's hard to tell if there's much background noise. There certainly isn't much reverb or echo, so your recording space seems pretty dead. Since you're mixing in the nats of the bees, it seems to cover any background noise that may be present in your recording room. It sounds like you're very close to your mike. Be sure to side-address the mike, instead of speaking straight into it. That will reduce plosives (p-popping) and may also reduce some mouth noise. I use a Sennheiser 421MkII for much of what I do, and side-addressing reduces or eliminates all those problems. Overall, I'd say if you kept doing things the way you're doing, you'd be fine. I especially like that you pause frequently, instead of filling every second. I don't recall hearing a lot of "uhms" and "uhs," which is what people do when they're trying to fill the silence. I appreciate that you embrace the silence and let us watch the bees from time to time. For UA-cam, it certainly isn't worth constructing a booth, IMO. Better to spend your time doing more videos! :) Hope this helps.
These are some of the fanciest bees ever. They definitely request Fiji water at any restaurant. *Thanks for being active with this video after two years!
3:52 "Don't worry about those bees; they're gonna get out just fine" 3:58 *bee disappears beneath the surface* Edit: Looks like it fell off the edge instead. My brain didn't recognize that as a gap between fountains xD
It's basic backyard science... do a test, record the results, repeat the test with varying positions and seasons, document the results. It's repeatable and easy to do, when the results are consistent, it's not an opinion it's science.
I think whats even more interesting is that none of the honey bees had full pollen pouches on their legs while drinking, which would imply that bees stay on task collecting pollen and always return to the hive before going off to drink on their own.
This is really interesting! As a kid I always saw the bees getting water from our pond during droughty times. Later, when I lived in the north and there were droughy times, I would put a pan of water out, and put rocks into the pan so the bees could get water without drowning. Many, many bees got water from the pan that summer. I think more people should place water out for bees when it is so dry, they cannot always help themselves in a drought. They will fly miles to get water, but it is much better with less loss of life if they can fly closer.
This is a brilliant video. Thank you! I loved the close ups of the bees. I didn't know they had such a prominent, what looked like a 'beak' of some sort. Amazing!
This makes me wonder if smaller creatures in general notice differences in water more easily and are more sensitive to particulates and chemicals in water than larger animals. Interesting video, thanks for posting.
I'm just wondering if the water would evaporate more or less depending on what it has dissolved in it? Maybe you could test this somehow to see if it effected the results if at all?
Depends where. Vancouver has _wonderful_ tap water. They have three reservoirs in the hills and they don't treat the water except for filtering large particles, so you get all the living stuff and fish pee and whatnot. If one of the reservoirs gets infected with something like cryptosporidium, they just switch to a different reservoir until a natural balance returns and clears the infection out. As a result, the water tastes delicious. When I was in Vancouver, I never drank pop or tea; the tap water was tasty all on its own.
TL;DR 4:43 The honeybees preferred drinking the PUR filtered water rhe most, followed by unfiltered well water, then chlorinated (pool) water third, and finally pond water last.
I feel like evaporation plays a factor in this as well. I know chlorine evaporates faster than water so I would imagine minerals, contaminates, etc. in water would play in to factor too.
dyscea , they store the honey in there 'hairy legs' or something like that. It's very unbalancing for humans even to dip there lips into water down low. And a difficulty for many animals. So one slips, trips and flips, don't have opposable thumbs to grab onto a branch. Maybe bees are more designed to drink dew off leaves rather than dip down for water. But not much of that around on hot days. Something like this I am sure.
Great, great video, thanks. I hope you can repeat the experiment to see if you get the same results. But maybe switch the position of each jar to rule out factors such as distance from the hives or flight paths, solar loading, etc.
Spoiler alert, the current test is with all four drinkers filled with the purified water to see if that does indeed rule out location. The drinker on the left did get early morning sun better, while the drinker all the way to the right received the setting sun which is normally when the bees are more active as compared with sunrise activity.
I'd do the experiment again but switch up the order of the buckets. just to see if the position didn't have a role to play in which water they chose. very interesting non the less.
I am having an issue with to many bees and some wasps crowding my pool. We have to keep diligent with the wasp, they seem to have no fear of humans. I have sprayed essential oils (peppermint and Eucalyptus) to help keep the bees from always drinking from the pool . That does work but they just keep trying to test the pool area. If I put water with sugar away from the pool is it possible they will congregate there instead?
Yeah, it looks like it's a wall there since they're placed quite close together, but it's actually a gap. It fell down easily as the water level was right at the top of the container.
it went off the edge and fell between the two pools. you can see that there is a gap between the two and it rolled over, watch at 1/4 speed and you'll see.
0:53 I flinched so much when the buzzing happened - I moved my head left and looked to the right expecting to see a bee next to me and I was so weirded out, until I thought 'What if it was in the video?' and I played it back and it was in fact in the video. I have never been so caught off guard by a random sound in a video before...
I would like to see some videos on flowering plants Honeybees utilize and the growing season where you stay. I will add it to my Honeybee Garden playlist if you do.
If you should happen to do another video, please put the label down low so we can see the name of the water they are drinking from...as they drink it. Thanks.
Chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) will decompose into regular table salt in sunlight. After a day or so, your pool water should have become mostly regular salty water. Chlorine has a very overpowering smell even in small amounts though, so it may be difficult to tell.
In the case of Calcium Chloride, it decomposes into calcium ions, which binds to and reacts with a variety of things in the water, making hard water. Either way harmless, and the resulting hypochlorites to chlorine gas don't stick around for long.
After determining the favored water source, we also did tests with salts and ultimately Sea Salts. ua-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/v-deo.html This test is repeatable with the same results. Many have asked about evaporation, when left out where bees could not access the water, there were no measurable variations due to evaporation... the evaporation rate was the same for all sources/samples. The order of drinkers was also changed, results remained the same.
I was just going to ask if you tried rearranging the drinkers. :)
What was the position of the containers? I ask as I think maybe the location in relation to sun or maybe temperature has an impact on the choice made.
These results could still be due to random chance and pack influence. You can't draw conclusions from a single iteration. This test should have been run multiple times with different bees and in different locations to eliminate uncertainties and biases and see if a pattern is established with a larger data set.
@@archael18 To this day, I still do water tests. If the results differ, then there will be an update link in this video description.
You should try different store bought water. Like disoni, Aquafina, ice mountain, and so on. Would be cool
this is FAKE....NO WAY can them bees read those signs
Dear Jeremy, it's people like you that keep bees from reaching their full potential, you need to be more encouraging and the bees will realize the extent of their abilities. They not only read the signs, they are the ones that printed and afixed the labels.
Frederick Dunn Fred, Freddy,... Are bees holding you hostage? You can tell us. We are here to save you.
The bees are better smelling than dogs
@@AcuaDi And they have a better sense of smell too.
😂😂Jeremy! Really dude. Sadhu
Bee: *falls in water* HELP!! I'M DROWNING IN POND WATER!!
Narrator: he'll be fine.
If it was pure unfiltered water he was drowning in he'd have no reason to complain
Miles and how do you know
lost in the sauce
@Miles daddy satan took my virginity in the night
He'll bee fine
I feel like the bees didn’t go for pond water is probably because it’s “smell” is associated with the fish that will come up to eat them if they drink there
Interesting hypothesis...
We have a pond that has now 4" goldfish in it...we didn't have a wasp problem this year...they have been seen grabbing surface creatures regularly...used to not be able to sit next to it without tons of yellow jackets...not this year
Yep same with mosquito wont lay egg if there still a scent of amonia from fish
You might be on to something , In the countryside we have a pond with fish next to a small stream . There are hundreds of bees around all the time but I've never seen one go drink from the pond
@@Lucifer-qt9gh i always get " confused with feet and thought that was bad ass that you had 4 feet long goldfish
NEXT LEVEL: Expert level taste testing comparing water sources for honey production and taste sensation.
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If only you could make bees only get water from 1 place, that part being impossible unless you contain them but they roam up to 5 miles on average to get pollen.
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Me at 3AM:
UA-cam: you wanna watch some bees drink water?
Me: we both know the answer to that question is yes
I wish I could convey just how much I enjoy your comment. I literally have tears running down my cheeks. You've perfectly summed up my life.
Same but it’s 7am 😖
Dam im reading this at 2.55 am
4:30am baby, or you could say ... 🐝🐝
How did you know it was 3am?
Yea take the labels off and see if they know the differance you labeld them and they knew the best one hahahahahaha
I knew I'd forgotten something (';')
So at picnics & such it seems they always want to get into your can of soda or beer... curious if they can get drunk?
You know, if there is a difference after you remove the label, that'd be a real discovery ^^'
"Dont worry they will get out fine"
Bee just disappeared into the abyss. Lmao took me a minute to realize he fell off the side and was fine
i was looking at that on 0.25 speed for a good minute or so trying to figure it out, i didn't realise he went into the side abyss.
I have recently become a beekeeper, and have two hives in suburban Melbourne, Australia.
During my studies to become a beekeeper I had found instructions on the importance of providing a reliable supply of drinking water for the bees. It was considered important to provide good water relatively close to the hives, so that the bees did not get their water from less desirable sources, such as a neighbor's swimming pool, or a bird bath in a neighbor's garden.
During our spring time of the last couple of months, we have had mild weather including good rain showers, and I had not seen any evidence of the bees drinking from the clean water I had provided for them.
That mild weather ended abruptly yesterday when we had the hottest November day in Melbourne, for more than one hundred years. I was concerned for my bees, because they had been “bearding” on the outside of their hive boxes for several days. Even after I had provided additional hive-top ventilation they still continued this bearding, but not to the same extent.
After I had watered my garden I found that a lot of bees (about 20) were congregated on a clump of quite wet composted material. I gently lifted some of this wet compost with a garden spade, together with a number of bees, and transferred it to my preferred bee drinking location. The happy result is that the bees continued to use the new location with its reliable water supply after the water had soaked away in the garden area, and they have continued drinking there in today’s milder weather.
The thing that I have found most interesting in this observation is that the bees are drinking water from soaking-wet compost material, and not from the freshest part of the water container. Perhaps they prefer the taste of a “compost infused liquid”. We humans seem to like drinking infusions of various kinds of flavor such as tea, etc, and I wonder if bees actually prefer to have “flavored water”.
I would invite other readers of this entry to respond with any of their observations which may add to our knowledge and understanding of this subject.
Hi Wilfred! Yes, they definitely go after the high mineral content sources: ua-cam.com/video/KS9rMDKvH_I/v-deo.html
It seems that bees are very adaptable and thank goodness for that....we need them!
In my field, I use a silage tarp weighed down by logs. After the rain came, there were 3 water sources: 1) "clean" puddles, just water on top of tarp 2) puddles the log sat in and 3) water that had soaked up into the log. There were many more honey bees drinking water that had soaked into the log itself (not even the water the log sat in). I assumed it was for "safety" as I'd seen the occasional drowned bee as well, but perhaps the soaked log is also providing minerals?
Hornets : Water is water.👇🏻
No it's not, do even a little research and learn something
bikerbrandon1 it was a joke, lmfao chill
@@bikerbrandon1 you see that ? its a joke but it have fly right over your head
@@bikerbrandon1 Bikerbrandon1
Let me fix that, Biker Brandon 1
You need the caps at the beginning of a sentence then a cap at the first letter of your name,and you also forgot 3 spaces.Dont let it happen next time.
@@sincotrodium7385 You need a period after every sentence and also a space between a period and the capital letter of the next sentence. And a space after a comma.
But I guess, you are a typical hypothetical grammar cop, just walking his beet.
UA-cam: you want bee's drinking water
Me: n-no-
UA-cam: You. Want. Bee's. Drinking. W a t e r.
H A Y A T O
I want people to stop putting apostrophes in non-possessive plurals.
I’m not going to question why this is in my recommendation
I’m questioning why did I click it...
@@odilebartlett8191 But it's not possessive, drinking in this case is a verb, not an adjective.
@@nathangamble125 Never bothered me 🤷♀️
Bee: *Drinks*
Bee's butt: *Wiggle wiggle wiggle*
Moral of story: Honey bees are smarter than chickens.
Makes sense. Chickens are morons.
A stick is smarter than a chicken.
Untrue.
In some cases, honey bees are smarter than humans!
I’m curious if you’d also notice a preference for glass vs. plastic containers. Our glass hummingbird feeder is always first to be consumed.
That's an interesting idea... I think I actually should shift to glass as it may impact the taste to the bees. Much appreciated!
Love it please do this
Frederick Dunn Not only the taste but the chemicals from the plastic that leach into the water. (I refrain from drinking out of plastic myself.) Glass or pottery could be a good test. 🙂
Your glass hummingbird feeder is sweetened watered. Of course they love it!
Joeaarsen0 Yes, but they have a preference for syrup from the glass vs syrup from the plastic feeder, as I clarified. That is the first one to be emptied, no matter where I move them in the yard.
I never knew bees drinking could be so cute. Glad you're keeping those girls hydrated.. for science.
I would test again but with the containers swapped around if they do enjoy one water over another the position should not effect the outcome. I would place the in a order that is opposite of their choices this time. But thank you for this work you do
The results have been consistent even when the order has been changed. Easy and repeatable.
The centers will evaporate slower duh and of course the different sources evaporate at different rates as well just as salt waterdoes not evaporate at the same rate as fresh salt and mineral free water.... this was not scientific in any way ....
@@jolllyroger1 i was wondering that myself, if the evaporation rates were different due to contaminants. Could eliminate that as the cause if he covered the entire set-up using netting that the bees could not enter, left it for a few days and then checked the water levels. If all the water levels remained consistent after several days, it would confirm the results of the previous tests.
@@ixamraxi LOL, not even close. Those things would have to sit there for DAYS in order for evaporation to actually affect the outcome.
@@SergeantExtreme I never claimed otherwise. That wasn't the point. The point is that if the evaporation remained constant, as in all jars showed approximately the same amount of evaporation after some given time, regardless of how long, it would confirm his findings. If, however, the evaporation rates were different it would show evaporation was a factor, even if only slightly.
Its a proper control, one he didn't actually do. Science is accomplished by eliminating variables in your experiments, even the ones you are confident are irrelevant.
At first I thought the bee just drowned but the realized he actually fell off the edge of the pool LOL
Oh, to be a Bee in the summertime, thirsty, and twerking.
The honey bees around where I live really like my little koi pond to drink but that is probably because I have a lot of water lily pads for them to rest on while they drink.
4:23 That bee sure is enjoying that pool water
You can actually see that their rear grows quite large while drinking.
@Stock Name I don't mean the "pumping", they do that to breath. You can actually see their butt grow way bigger when it fills up with water. Just skip back and forth a few seconds to a part of a bee/wasp drinking, 1:26 for example.
3:30 "Goddammit, Barry! Stop drinking that fermented honey!"
0:53 RIP headphone users, I freaked out cause I thought one was buzzing close to my ear
I keep coming back to watch bees drink water
Why are insects drinking water so cute
first time i've seen a bee's mouth tongue appendage thing, looks kinda neat
Not only a great test, but beautifully shot-and-edited video!
Thank you so much Craig, such a great compliment!
Hi again Craig! It's not every day that I receive a comment from a celebrity :) I wish I did some voice-work, you are the man!!! Thanks again!
Thank you, Frederick...you're too kind. :)
Hi again Craig.... if I may ask, what do you think of my narration quality here? Is it worth constructing a sound-booth to improve? Or is this close enough? I'd like to improve my presentation quality wherever possible :)
Hi, Frederick. Without hearing the audio "dry," it's hard to tell if there's much background noise. There certainly isn't much reverb or echo, so your recording space seems pretty dead. Since you're mixing in the nats of the bees, it seems to cover any background noise that may be present in your recording room.
It sounds like you're very close to your mike. Be sure to side-address the mike, instead of speaking straight into it. That will reduce plosives (p-popping) and may also reduce some mouth noise. I use a Sennheiser 421MkII for much of what I do, and side-addressing reduces or eliminates all those problems.
Overall, I'd say if you kept doing things the way you're doing, you'd be fine. I especially like that you pause frequently, instead of filling every second. I don't recall hearing a lot of "uhms" and "uhs," which is what people do when they're trying to fill the silence. I appreciate that you embrace the silence and let us watch the bees from time to time.
For UA-cam, it certainly isn't worth constructing a booth, IMO. Better to spend your time doing more videos! :)
Hope this helps.
These are some of the fanciest bees ever. They definitely request Fiji water at any restaurant. *Thanks for being active with this video after two years!
3:52 "Don't worry about those bees; they're gonna get out just fine"
3:58 *bee disappears beneath the surface*
Edit: Looks like it fell off the edge instead. My brain didn't recognize that as a gap between fountains xD
a disappearing "act" as it went between the drinkers...
Wanna see bees drink water??? Of course! I’m down! BTW that’s an awesome water station❤️
At 0:53 did anyone instinctively move their heads when they heard that buzz sound?😂😂
I've seen bees my entire life......and had no clue they were all flying around with Gene Simmons tongues.
Its more of a big spike with a Gene Simmons tongue inside
You could do a control experiment by putting out 4 PUR Waters
Damn good idea!
I was thinking of adding the PUR water to the other 3, but your idea is much better.
Lol @ 0:54 I smacked the air pods from my right ear, could swear a bee flew by.
Very interesting 🙌🙌
Thanks for watching
They forgot to say that this was not a scientific study and that this video was more like a commercial.
It's basic backyard science... do a test, record the results, repeat the test with varying positions and seasons, document the results. It's repeatable and easy to do, when the results are consistent, it's not an opinion it's science.
Should do another test or 2 with water types in different orders
Please read the pinned comment, thanks Travis.
I think whats even more interesting is that none of the honey bees had full pollen pouches on their legs while drinking, which would imply that bees stay on task collecting pollen and always return to the hive before going off to drink on their own.
Nectar gatherers and water collecting bees are completely different tasks. Water collection is for older foragers that no longer go for nectar.
@@FrederickDunn Amazing ! thanks for the insight Fred!
Very interesting test. I was surprised at the results. Nice work, Frederick.
Thanks Jason, always something new :) thanks for commenting!
This is really interesting! As a kid I always saw the bees getting water from our pond during droughty times. Later, when I lived in the north and there were droughy times, I would put a pan of water out, and put rocks into the pan so the bees could get water without drowning. Many, many bees got water from the pan that summer. I think more people should place water out for bees when it is so dry, they cannot always help themselves in a drought. They will fly miles to get water, but it is much better with less loss of life if they can fly closer.
Apparently they love my dogs bowl of water
This is a brilliant video. Thank you! I loved the close ups of the bees. I didn't know they had such a prominent, what looked like a 'beak' of some sort. Amazing!
Hi Shelley, yes, they have an interesting proboscis with their tongue at the center, they form up a tube to sip through. Amazing indeed!
TLDR: They preferred the Pure Filtered Water
Thanks. That was boring.
You made a glorious Bee-henge monument.
next test , add little honey in water
Viral Videos
Bees: this taste fishy...
The differences between waters are not substantial so the beekeeper doesn't have to worry about it.
Providing water... it the top concern. You're right about the rest.
Chlorine is only active for a short time when exposed to open air and light! Less than 12 hours.
But the flavor remains...
Chloramine, however, is active until you remove it chemically. It is cheaper than chlorine and many cities use it instead.
This makes me wonder if smaller creatures in general notice differences in water more easily and are more sensitive to particulates and chemicals in water than larger animals. Interesting video, thanks for posting.
I know that dogs don't seem to care, while goat are among the pickiest drinkers.
0:53 hell, that freaked me out. Thought a bee was in my ear
You can tell it's summertime because of the Cicadas.
I'm just wondering if the water would evaporate more or less depending on what it has dissolved in it? Maybe you could test this somehow to see if it effected the results if at all?
0:53 I smacked my ear so hard I thought it was in my room 😭
I tend to agree with the bees. Tap water is gross.
I guess you live in a city.
And bottled water is even worse
Chemicals from plastic be making the water taste like sanitizer and I've tried a lot of bottled waters...
Depends where. Vancouver has _wonderful_ tap water. They have three reservoirs in the hills and they don't treat the water except for filtering large particles, so you get all the living stuff and fish pee and whatnot. If one of the reservoirs gets infected with something like cryptosporidium, they just switch to a different reservoir until a natural balance returns and clears the infection out. As a result, the water tastes delicious. When I was in Vancouver, I never drank pop or tea; the tap water was tasty all on its own.
But tap water is filtered so your point makes no sense.
Plus water doesn't exactly taste of much unless it's pool water
Excellent info . And such a calming voice. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
3:40
everybody drinking water normally:
that one bee:
I love how their little butts pulse with excitement
That's how they respirate.
0:53 this jumpscared me as a headphone user xD
00:53 was wearing headphones and i thought there was a bee near my ear
0:53 I tried to swat it..
God it scared the crap out of me... LMAO
HAHA oh god so true xD
I’m wearing earphones, so I was ready to hit the deck at that point.
Ah yes
Angering the bee
legit thought there was a bee next to me since I was wearing headphones. Scared the poop outta me lmao
“They happily share watering holes.” The bee that came in hot at 4:34 : Are you sure about that?
No kidding! That wasp was stealing the good water! That wasn't pond water it was drinking.
That's because wasps are pricks, plain and simple
Brilliant test. But I feel it needs to be repeated before concluding what water bees really preferred
You're right, and the preferences continue to be the same, even when re-arranging the order. Thanks.
chlorine is a very important in the building and groth of many organic compounds..... maybe the bees know this.... i doubt they dont
TL;DR
4:43 The honeybees preferred drinking the PUR filtered water rhe most, followed by unfiltered well water, then chlorinated (pool) water third, and finally pond water last.
I feel like evaporation plays a factor in this as well. I know chlorine evaporates faster than water so I would imagine minerals, contaminates, etc. in water would play in to factor too.
Chlorinated water probably gives off a sweet scent to bees and wasps, etx.
I think it is better to do a bee count because the evaporation surface is ofter very different for each bottle. Look closely.
spring-fed? well that changes everything... Should add rain water. Interesting anyway.
That's pretty cute.
How do they “flip” into the water? Did they trip? Did they lean in too far? Did they clip their landing? I need to know.
awkward honey bees
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dyscea , they store the honey in there 'hairy legs' or something like that. It's very unbalancing for humans even to dip there lips into water down low. And a difficulty for many animals. So one slips, trips and flips, don't have opposable thumbs to grab onto a branch. Maybe bees are more designed to drink dew off leaves rather than dip down for water. But not much of that around on hot days. Something like this I am sure.
Cate7451 thx! It was just annoying seeing them in the water 🤣
dyscea , yes it bugged me too. Good little honey bees. Made me want to buy one of those things. Help them out a little.
One decides to swim in the chlorinated one lol.
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I love the ones swimming around all like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- it's ok I'm OK I'm out it's cool" **Wingfans Activate**
How close/far does water need to be? My bees are using neighbour's hottub + water dish, although I provide multiple sources for them.
They generally go for the closest preferred water source they can find. Mine is in the middle of the apiary.
Listening to this on headphones, at 0:54 I think there's a bee behind me 😂
Well, there might be other factors here... like distance, they simply take the ones that are the closest.
100% repeatable, change the order, direction of the base, even variable heights... consistent results.
@@FrederickDunn nice
Great, great video, thanks. I hope you can repeat the experiment to see if you get the same results. But maybe switch the position of each jar to rule out factors such as distance from the hives or flight paths, solar loading, etc.
Spoiler alert, the current test is with all four drinkers filled with the purified water to see if that does indeed rule out location. The drinker on the left did get early morning sun better, while the drinker all the way to the right received the setting sun which is normally when the bees are more active as compared with sunrise activity.
You should also test water with/without salt - that's a big debate on the West Coast (like you need the work)
I'd do the experiment again but switch up the order of the buckets. just to see if the position didn't have a role to play in which water they chose. very interesting non the less.
Please read the pinned comment, thanks :)
Plot twist: the bees on their backs in the water are just rebels going for a swim.
I was really surprised about the well water because in a lot of clips there were no bees on the well water and tons on the others.
Omg I'm wearing headphones and that bee sound scared me so bad
This video has the same vibe as steve1989.
Nice.
I am having an issue with to many bees and some wasps crowding my pool. We have to keep diligent with the wasp, they seem to have no fear of humans. I have sprayed essential oils (peppermint and Eucalyptus) to help keep the bees from always drinking from the pool . That does work but they just keep trying to test the pool area. If I put water with sugar away from the pool is it possible they will congregate there instead?
At 3:56 where does that bee in front even go? Straight disappeared
it fell intbetween the stations and flew away i think
Yeah, it looks like it's a wall there since they're placed quite close together, but it's actually a gap. It fell down easily as the water level was right at the top of the container.
it went off the edge and fell between the two pools. you can see that there is a gap between the two and it rolled over, watch at 1/4 speed and you'll see.
0:53 I flinched so much when the buzzing happened - I moved my head left and looked to the right expecting to see a bee next to me and I was so weirded out, until I thought 'What if it was in the video?' and I played it back and it was in fact in the video. I have never been so caught off guard by a random sound in a video before...
What a lovely and heart fulfilled video.
It's nice to see there are more out there protecting the bees.
Curious if you factored in different evaporation rates? What did the bees witnessed behavior show?
Yes we did. Evaporation rates made no difference.
0:53 Oh my god, that was way too real.
right? I had earbuds on
I would like to see some videos on flowering plants Honeybees utilize and the growing season where you stay. I will add it to my Honeybee Garden playlist if you do.
I already have that... honey bee nectar sources ua-cam.com/video/zsHezbF_F_4/v-deo.html
Humans: this pond water from spring is best
Bees: im about to ruin naturist entire lifestyle.
us: surely bees will like pond water it's natural
bees: actually we prefer chlorinated
If you should happen to do another video, please put the label down low so we can see the name of the water they are drinking from...as they drink it. Thanks.
I don’t know why, but this video is very satisfying.
Anyone else keep looking over your shoulder??
Great video. I didn't know that yellow jackets mixed with bees?
I love your experiments. I learn so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing. Best to you.
Thank you so much Colleen!
Man! Your voice is very calming and comforting. 😌
I wonder if PH levels were a factor.
what the mating activity is happening at 02:40? Is the bee being attacked by another one or what?
No mating activity...
Would they fight other insects if it was sugar-water?
Nope... they never fight over feeding stations.
@@FrederickDunn Bees know better than humans, lol.
@@TheDoorspook11c Nah, if they cant find food, they sometimes rob neighbour hives.
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Chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) will decompose into regular table salt in sunlight.
After a day or so, your pool water should have become mostly regular salty water.
Chlorine has a very overpowering smell even in small amounts though, so it may be difficult to tell.
Chlorine is also highly water soluble.
In the case of Calcium Chloride, it decomposes into calcium ions, which binds to and reacts with a variety of things in the water, making hard water.
Either way harmless, and the resulting hypochlorites to chlorine gas don't stick around for long.
I bet they would prefer soda
Sugar content is another thing altogether. You're right. But water bees are not the ones that take sugar syrup.
@@FrederickDunn You responded after 3 years?! Lol