gotta love the black cockies :) we have them in Perth as well- They are massive when you see them up close- those beaks! Hopefully the work being done here to help them reestablish healthier population numbers will be a success. Great job with the bees as well- I'm falling in love with your home more and more with every video I watch! :)
Wow! I have never seen anything like that! Our native bees are really different. At least the ones I have new "homes" for. No honey either!!! I just want to give more native bees a safe place to live. Tell your uncle thank you for showing us how he cared for the bees. I loved it. Your eggs looked beautiful. They look bigger too. Thank you for the view of the bird, he sure was big! Great Video, I really enjoyed it. Sorry about the bee attack, but your were in their yard! LOLOL Bless, Sheila
@@SelfsufficientmeI hope he's patented it. If not, he should, then market it along with his bees. It's got multimillion dollar potential. I'd buy his boxes and his bees and I know a ton of other people who would too. Generally native species are specialized. Are these? Do they have a specific flowers they're perfectly designed for or are they mostly generalized pollinators?
You can start a compost bin, just get a plastic rubbish bin with a lid for them with veggie scraps and drill some holes around the base about 2 inches from the bottom and throw your veggie scraps in it and it will help keep them away from your hives. Then feed the lava to the Chickens.
Hey Mark, Amazing sounds all around while you were filming that video.... and the stingless bees were interesting to watch. Do you get any honey from them?
Hey Adam, yeah she's nice down the backyard lots of birds and the sounds of nature. Yes we do get a small amount of honey sometimes but it's hardly worth harvesting, to be honest. Plus, you do have to be careful that the nest isn't left without food otherwise it can die. The honey tastes nice and is thinner than regular bee honey (it's like syrup) but the main purpose of these hives is as pollinators in the garden, which they are excellent at doing. Cheers mate :)
Thanks Yack, yes very different to European bees. We only really keep these native bees for the pollination purposes not honey but they do a great job in the garden so it's worth it. Cheers :)
I'm no expert but I have seen stingless bees "snuff out" other insects by grabbing hold in numbers sacrificing themselves to incapacitate the invader - they are very sticky so my guess is this is their defence system. :)
I really need to buy some of those bees I have been a follower for a long time I am a Beekeeper in Orlando Florida is there anyway I’ll be able to buy 5 to 6 hives I can pick up or if you ship please DM me if possible
He did a video on what native bee honey tastes like and it has his uncle's information in it. He sells them. Thinking about getting some, they're fascinating to me. I'm in NE Texas.
You need to repost this/re do this because your channel has grown so much! You can highlight native bees!
gotta love the black cockies :) we have them in Perth as well- They are massive when you see them up close- those beaks! Hopefully the work being done here to help them reestablish healthier population numbers will be a success. Great job with the bees as well- I'm falling in love with your home more and more with every video I watch! :)
Wow! I have never seen anything like that! Our native bees are really different. At least the ones I have new "homes" for. No honey either!!! I just want to give more native bees a safe place to live. Tell your uncle thank you for showing us how he cared for the bees. I loved it. Your eggs looked beautiful. They look bigger too. Thank you for the view of the bird, he sure was big! Great Video, I really enjoyed it. Sorry about the bee attack, but your were in their yard! LOLOL Bless, Sheila
Thanks Sheila! Bless you too! :)
His bee mites are a HUGE problem! That would be killing off his bees. It’s September 2021 and you have 1.37 million subscribers now!
Interesting hive setup. Haven't seen that before.
Yeah, it's my uncles design - it works well! Cheers :)
Me neither. Never seen hives split that way either, or such little bees! I'm fascinated lol.
@@SelfsufficientmeI hope he's patented it. If not, he should, then market it along with his bees. It's got multimillion dollar potential. I'd buy his boxes and his bees and I know a ton of other people who would too.
Generally native species are specialized. Are these? Do they have a specific flowers they're perfectly designed for or are they mostly generalized pollinators?
Made me laugh when zooming in on the chicken and pointing out that's not the black cockatoo, that's a chicken :-)
I'm glad you found that chicken zoom in funny lol... Cheers :)
You can start a compost bin, just get a plastic rubbish bin with a lid for them with veggie scraps and drill some holes around the base about 2 inches from the bottom and throw your veggie scraps in it and it will help keep them away from your hives. Then feed the lava to the Chickens.
Your uncle seems like a cool npc I would talk to for ages in Fallout New Vegas or similar video game.
Awesome update thank you for sharing have a blessed day
Can these bees use a standard beehive or do they need this type in order to be a successful colony?
Im fascinated with these little bitty bees.
It just seems like there should be a pond, even though it'd attract perhaps unwanted wildlife.
Hey Mark, Amazing sounds all around while you were filming that video.... and the stingless bees were interesting to watch. Do you get any honey from them?
Hey Adam, yeah she's nice down the backyard lots of birds and the sounds of nature. Yes we do get a small amount of honey sometimes but it's hardly worth harvesting, to be honest. Plus, you do have to be careful that the nest isn't left without food otherwise it can die. The honey tastes nice and is thinner than regular bee honey (it's like syrup) but the main purpose of these hives is as pollinators in the garden, which they are excellent at doing. Cheers mate :)
That's was very interesting to see how natives bees are split. Different from the European bees.
Thanks Yack, yes very different to European bees. We only really keep these native bees for the pollination purposes not honey but they do a great job in the garden so it's worth it. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientmeso if 2 queens end up in the same hive the bees reduce it to one and the other hive makes a new queen just like honeybees?
That is a great load of eggs 🍳! I wish I could have bees 🐝 here, maybe one day 😊
As long as the bees visit that's the main thing! Cheers :)
I love your uncle's accent, how come you don't sound like that? Lolz!
how do stingless bees defend their colony? Do they have a mean bite or try to snuff you out by sheer numbers?
I'm no expert but I have seen stingless bees "snuff out" other insects by grabbing hold in numbers sacrificing themselves to incapacitate the invader - they are very sticky so my guess is this is their defence system. :)
aren't the stingless bees really small and therefore not greatly large producers of honey? or are you just raising them for pollinators
Just do a split and saw it in half, nice one, Good informative video Mark.
Thanks Graham! :)
Hi Mark does your uncle Kevin sell hives at all?
Your a friendly yobbo ancha mate!
Hello sir
What a great uncle!!!! Can the native bees grow by the coast of Victoria, I'm definitely wanting bees when I move to Warrnambool :)
They’re said to only be viable in northern Australia/QLD and south only as far as the northern rivers in NSW…
LOL. Last time my Benny dog got a drop of honey on his back and they absolutely swarmed the poor little guy. He ended up hiding in the toilet.
LOL, poor little fella... :)
our biggest bee problem are bears, many put electric fences around them
best
Thankfully, we don't have bears here! Just be one more creature that could kill us... Thanks Rev :)
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Are you between caboolture and bribie by chance?
I really need to buy some of those bees I have been a follower for a long time I am a Beekeeper in Orlando Florida is there anyway I’ll be able to buy 5 to 6 hives I can pick up or if you ship please DM me if possible
They are Black Fly, the lava are very good chook food
Geezes those spiders are big! Eeek no thank you😬
Those were tiny ones hahah their called huntsman spiders. They grow particularly big up the north-east coast of Australia.
What sort of spider was that please?
It was a type of Huntsman spider - they're everywhere here... :)
5:00 what was that fly/wasp thing?! 7:02 Is it mimic fly?
Yes correct it was a mimic fly. :)
thanks
I really want to import stingless bees to florida. I think this is a fantastic idea! Know anyone who has imported them to the states?
He did a video on what native bee honey tastes like and it has his uncle's information in it. He sells them. Thinking about getting some, they're fascinating to me. I'm in NE Texas.
Do they sting🤨
Sweat ecosystem Mark.
Thank you! :)
bees pollinating mate --not fertilizing plants
Ahh yes of course! Did I say that lol... Cheers :)
Chandra Dasa either word is technically correct. 😊