Honey Production Process

[trustyshopper]

LOL! The honey super she placed in the extractor was, "not that heavy", because had already been extracted.

[vampgirl137]

Actually the smoke sedates them, sorta like making them stoned. As a beekeeper, I don't believe that this isn't a massacre. Honey is only harvested a couple times a year, so by my calculations not even 1% of the bee population was killed by getting smushed by accident. During high work times, bees have an average life span of approximately 25 days anyway. So long as the queen is fine (and, any super with honey does NOT contain the queen bee) then the hive is fine. Get over it an enjoy the honey.

[longliverocknroll5]

moving them is far too much effort make a central point the bees will fly up to a couple of miles to get nector water or whatever

[drmokedweed000]

Are you PETA fucks kidding me? They are bees. They will sting the living shit out of it. KILL THEM ALL..After that put honey on my biscuits thou.

[xFallenHeroxx]

@drmokedweed000 dude dont kill them.. leme pet them first...... ~cough~ with my shoe ~cough cough cough~

[Diocapiroto]

It´s a massacre indeed. That´s why I prefer stingless bees that I can breed safely in my backyard.

[longliverocknroll5]

@Diocapiroto how would they stop potential predators

[Diocapiroto]

@longliverocknroll5 Those stingless species have many strategies to avoid attacks and defend themselves. For example, they can put propolis and wax in the potencial attacker, they also fly around, cumber in the hair and bite.

[longliverocknroll5]

@Diocapiroto nothing will ever compare to what millions of years of evolution has provided them....they will be at a disadvantage even with those "strategies"

[Diocapiroto]

@longliverocknroll5 disadvantage or not, evolution talks for itself. If there are stingless species it´s because they are as adapted as the stinged ones. It´s the same to say that poisoned snakes have more advantage than constrictor ones. By the way, evolution took away their sting. They still have a primitive sting, a vestige of what was sting, but with out venom production..

[sarner80]

sehr schönen Wabenbau

[Nordimker]

That´s not beekeeping - it´s a masacre!

[diaolosporos]

@Nordimker In what way would that be a massacre???

I don't get it.

[Nordimker]

@diaolosporos Open your eyes and you will see: in every way!

[diaolosporos]

@Nordimker I am a beekeeper in Greece and I am handling bees.

The only way to handle bees is to smoke them. The beekeeper in this video does not use too much smoke. After all the smoke does not hurt them. It is a mere distracrion. Even the hitting of the super isn't something serious. After all we are stealing the honey from the bees. And to call something a massacre you should kill tonz of living beings. I don't see killing.

[kornfan0001]

@Nordimker no its delicious!

[jorlson]

In many places this industries is dying out, and the only way to keep it up is to create more Apiaries,Honey is the healthiest form of sweet, in addition is its medical healing properties are a lot, so hooray for the bees, dont kill them raise them

[999933333]

@jorlson well if they sting im am

[porolita22]

If the smoke doesn't hurt them then how come they fly away?

Hint: it does.

[BadWolfMedia]

Too much smoke can hurt the bees. However I didn't see excessive use in the film. I didn't like their method of removing bees from the supers but it's faster than taking each frame out and brushing them off. Brushing them off would be kinder but take too much time.

[longliverocknroll5]

@BadWolfMedia and it can still make them mighty pissy TRUST ME

[BadWolfMedia]

@longliverocknroll5 Oh I know. I have colonies of my own.

[BelRiose2000]

@BadWolfMedia How high percentage of the bees die when they remove them by hammering on that wooden stand would you think? There were a lot of bee carcasses noticeable when they removed the bees. Strange there is no cost effective way to make honey without killing bees.

[BadWolfMedia]

@BelRiose2000 Not a lot really. You'd be surprised as to how tough a bee can be. The way they were getting the bees out of the boxes would irritate them more than kill them. Something like this wouldn't really put a dent in the hive population.

[longliverocknroll5]

@BelRiose2000 to be completely honest a bee hive has so many bees that literaly work themselves to death that this has nothing to do with cost effeciency but instead convenience for the beekeepeer

[longliverocknroll5]

@porolita22 it does hurt them but what kind of species does smoke not harm....have you ever tried to take honey off of a hive without a smoker NOT FUN and they're little bitches

[cuttinha]

they call this culture... it's not... it's just exploring the poor bees.. cause they do all the work... we humans just put it on the machine and its done

[LongHuII]

Cuttinha what are the bees going to do if they don't work. Go on vacation? These bees in this video is already in Hawaii. LOL

[longliverocknroll5]

@cuttinha the bees make more honey then they will EVER need and plus worker bees KILL THEMSELVES from work overload anyways so if we exploit them a little so what they still live as they would if we were not there....minus the wooden boxes

[bigbillyholmes]

they dont care about the poor bees..all they want is honey and money

[LongHuII]

Some of the film is graphic but reality. You probably have millions of bee's right there if they cared about a few they smashed then they would lose valuable time which can be big money. Bee farming could be a very hard business with a lot of competitors so this was a glimpse of a truck operation. Truth to be told bees in America are disappearing at an alarming rate and European bees are getting killed by an Asian Hornet invasion. They are killing all domesticated bees in France.

[45rescue1]

Why do we called significant others honey? Cause Honey is basically bee vomit that happens to be sweet......

[codycrowston]

dude your thinking too much

[ricericeaznrice]

shut up man just eaat the dam honey

[algon45]

Probabley cause honey is not bee vomit, rather bee wax is the cloest thing to vomit you get. Honey is necter just evaporated a lot by the bee, on the bee, not in the bee.

[racarurazvan]

belea

[onebrandofdemocracy]

That's what happens when something becomes too commercial. I prefer locally-produced honey...especially honey made from bees that pollinated fruit trees. Wildflower honey is the lowest quality of honey. It's like box wine. Most people don't realize how crappy their honey is until they try some that didn't come from wildflowers.

[LongHuII]

I'm sure they have fruit trees in Hawaii LOL he parks his trucks where there is blooming flowers and I'm sure once in season the trees get his bees. They also have exotic fruits not found anywhere else in the use that the bees pollinate.

[judge6754]

i wouldnt want to eat that honey. buy , your honey local form small appriarys whatever, know your your honey man

[Rodrigo200X]

sanamambiches las matan !!!

[skycub99]

i noticed that too, looked like they killed quite a few in that process.

[atkinsonja]

they Smashed the BEES!!

[judge6754]

I agree they smached to many bees  that is not good.