Bee Keeping in a Bee Frenzy

[1974plowman]

Beekeeping is essential to bee survival. I "heard" the film guy get stung three times in a minute and a half...I believe I`d move swiftly too

[spiritwolf69uk]

I agree with Enslay that is not how its done. how many bees did you kill doing that?

when i do it i do it with cear and respect. I have only been stung 1 in 2 years respect the bees. take your time

[Chocolatte224]

@spiritwolf69uk It has to be done like that we are under a time limit, gotta catch the orange honey flow in Florida, pull the honey from 35 hundred colonies, make sure the queens are healthy and load them up to make the blueberry growers that have all ready rented all of our hives for pollination. Been doin it for decades. 

[Chocolatte224]

@spiritwolf69uk Its how its done by us we gotta meet a deadline, catch the orange honey flow in Florida, pull the honey off all 35 hundred colonies while making sure the queens are healthy and shipping all of the hives back to new jersey where they pollinate blueberries, this is a critical time, the growers are demanding the bees be in NJ, while we are also trying to make honey. Been doin it for 3 generations now.

[cycloneweaver]

Yes you are right about the bees being "Africanised" I kept bees in South Africa and thats what they do - they dive bomb and sting right through three layers of clothing. Think what the effect of thousands of years of evolution has from continuos baboon raids on the bees? only the most stinging fur penetrating bees survived!

[Enslay]

you ppl suck.... thats not the way to do with... u are killers

[Chocolatte224]

@Enslay what are you talking about? we're just pulling the honey

[SightsonTargetKris]

@Enslay Go back to vegan land!

[dvdferless]

Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!

[slacker361]

i love the delicate technique these guys use while handling the bees

[videovaultault]

I have a really good question for you beekeepers out here: Why is it that a beekeeper can walk up to a hive with or without the protective garments, and almost never get stung? Do bees know their keepers? I notice the camerman is getting swarmed, but the keepers are not.

[longliverocknroll5]

@videovaultault no not really some speculate but it's all about how you aproach a bee hive walk slowly and VERY calmly and you should be fine....and NEVER make any real sudden movements as bees have light sensitve eyes and move toward fast movements

[kccheesepie]

you can actually hear them banging on the camera...yikes those bees are pissed off

[Tickets825]

How many hives do you guys have

[donttrustsnowmen]

It reminded me of being in a horror movie,,they were attacking the camera lense!!!...I have 6 hives,but mine are gentle,if i get stung its my fault,,the bees in the video,they are just crazy man..I bet its a rush being there,,and suxs being the camera man..

[InverterDrive]

are those africanised bees? I thought you can normally walk up to a european bee nest and not even get attacked

[Fentanyl3]

LOL, it's late in the year, and they are all being robbed. If you had just taken you yearly income and stashed in your house, and I came and took it all you'd be pretty pissed too!

Even the most docile strain will be quite aggresive late in the summer or early fall and you are taking their honey. This is pretty much a normal reaction for what is going on here.

[phatboy84ca]

i'm a second generation beekeeper and those aren't africanized bees

[TerryCman]

If onlly I could be so lucky.

Terry

[jiroubu]

This is easily the manliest job ever.

Kudos to you and your kind.

[NudeBeekeepers]

he and me harvested honey in a yard like this once... got all stung up... course, we didn't have none of them fancy suits on, or even pants for that matter!

[buzzyb12000]

Hell for a minute i thought that they where Italian bees and what ever nectar that they where on was making them aggressive.

[brattzzzzz]

hahaha, this is funny!

[andy20149]

lol those bees are pissed!

[bvtbee]

Amesome video of angry bees! Do u sell comb honey?

[Miah151]

wow that is crazy! Aren't you using smoke?

[Chocolatte224]

We were using smoke, those bees were Africanized bees, way more aggressive

[PennyDropper]

I was going to say. Your doing it wrong.. But Africanized bee's Yikes...

[blip789]

Unhappy, pissed off bees.

[NuinOfTheWoods]

Anyone have any questions as to why modern beekeeping is suffering from absconding (leaving) bees???

Good Lord.

[wilsparky]

those little guys seem quite angry...not exactly happy about something. I've seen guys tend their bees stripped to the waste and no headgear. Maybe the queens need to be replaced?

[judge6754]

What the hell is going on????

[hoosierhiver]

nice video

[dbamb114]

I have never seen bees so alarmed while working the hives. It looked like they were spraying sugar water on them to slow them down, but smoke works the best for me. I like to take things down a bit and not get the bees so stirred up!

[ajlazowski]

I grew up on a bee farm here in Alberta Canada...I so remember those days of going to the field, makin splits, pulling honey even adding boxes.

[sh00skii]

I heard you guys are shooting HD Footage Documentaries on the Honey Bee. That is Awesome!

[Quietlydoesit]

Bees respond to ferromones released by the queen and other bees. If she is pissed off, they all are. They take their temperament from the chemicals she releases. That's how she controls them. And if a bee stings it dies and releases attack chemicals which the rest respond to. So, dont kill em!

[Chocolatte224]

This is great! I am you bigest fan! Make more please1

[bob4jjjj]

They sure didn't like being robbed either! ;D

[AuburnCreed]

Wow, those bee sure didn't like the camera!