african bees-- hive transfer in Ghana (1 of 2)

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Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, transfer a wild nest of African bees from the soffet of a building in Tamale, Northern Region Ghana into a Kenya Top Bar Hive (KTBH). The transfer was done at night when the bees are cooler and, thus, less aggressive. They are also not as likely to fly in the absence of much light but will fly at lower light levels than European bees (hence the need for night vision setting on the video). We didn't find the queen during the transfer but got her the next morning where the bees had swarmed into a nearby tree.

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Pets & Animals

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• beekeeping
• african
• bees
• KTBH
• Kenya
• Top
• Bar
• honeybees
• Farmer-to-Farmer
• Volunteer
• hive
• transfer
• wild
• nest

[gardingolb]

those arent africanized i dont think, if they were africanizeed theyd be attacking u...for a mile...

[ebutoooy]

No they're not Africanized-- they are African bees-- this was filmed in Ghana West Africa-- and, if anything, the bees there are more fierce than the "Africanized" bees I've worked with in Latin America and the southern U.S. If one knows what one is doing one can manipulate African bees to the same extent as European strains-- just not as carelessly.

[debay777]

I would like to have some information on how to manage African(ized) bees. Please send me a link to that information if you have it.

[gardingolb]

oh ok

[alosh77]

very interesting keep up the good work