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I have about 6 to 8 pounds of cat, 53 pounds of dog, 43 pounds of female human child and 45 pounds of male human child. This is the only way to measure now.

.3 pounda of hamster and .8 ounds of english sparrow, it sounds like we are describing raw meat for consumption at this point lol

@@lumikkiharthri6658 Your .3 pounds of hamster is very cute. I would pet the soft meat lump.

@@Tory-JJ soft meat lump is an assortment of words i wish to never hear again.

Imagine if you're highly allergic to bee's its downright terrifying & oh god that sound, Shivers

Not as ominous as “A rapid influx of bees”

@@Duplicitousthoughtformentity right!

Flight of the bumblebee

Well without any alarmism swarming in last 15 years has raised from 3 5% to 40 50%... No problems but also how much they produce is reducing... It means that science is right. We are devastating a lot of balances ans we will be the next to migrate and probably fight and die... Migrations do not end aways well. Just read archaeology

I guess not :) because so many still had the pollen on their legs as they joined the swarm, it's a puzzle, but the fact that we don't have all the answers is what makes bees so endlessly fascinating :)

It does work out for them better though since they'll have some supplies while the new hive is constructed, or until their beekeeper gets them situated.

Not all bees leave in a swarm

I think you mean beemail

@Erich Addler Oh bee....have.

Get em! You won't regret it !

Just make sure to do as much research as possible, about care, proper equipement, disease, etc. Bees are great

@@WildVee And also check whether you're not allergic to apitoxin

MY LIFE

Read the shamanic way of bees

They kick out the old queen if I heard him right

Have you seen movie home alone?

Is there no love for Sid the Sloth?

Well, I didn't come home to it, but my other half came home to go in to the bedroom, stuff some of his crap into bags, storm out the door and leave... and was shouting at me the whole time, listing things that he said were my fault, when at least half of them were situations of his own making. And then promptly told me he needed "his space." No warning of a "swarm," nothing. Just *BOOM* get out of my way, I'm gone! All this after 38 years of what I thought was a very happy marriage. Seems he had a whole list of things that he had NEVER told me about, but that he thinks are ALL my fault. But he a) can't look me in the eye whenever we are in the same place, b) can't tell me why he did this to his family, c) can't even tell me if I can fix a portion of what he complained about, if he would think about coming back home, and d) refuses to even consider family or couple's therapy. I get "not at this time, no," as an "answer" to me asking if he could give me answers to those questions. And says he is thinking about divorce! Not even any *consideration* of couple's therapy, but he IS considering tossing away more 39 freaking years of us being together?!? How can someone even TRY to fix what they don't know is broken?? And he tells me he is "done for now." Whatever the ×bleeping bleep× THAT is supposed to mean. It makes no more specific sense than "need my space" does! He ALLOWS me to send him 5 messages or images per day time, and 5 messages or images per night time. He ALLOWS me that. Ain't THAT sweet? Oh, and he sent all 3 of us [myself *and our 2 adult disabled children*] a lousy, lazy-ass, unbelievably dismissive "Happy Thanksgiving" to all 3 of us! Didn't even tell his own CHILDREN that he missed or loved them! I was FURIOUS about that! I am working hard *enough* to be sure our sons don't hate their father for what he has done to us, and he goes and sends the exact same thing to them that *we* used to send to co-workers, sorta-friends, and 2nd cousins twice removed! I mean, WTAF am I supposed to think about ANY of this? AITA in all of this? I really, really don't think so! Yeah, yeah, I know... you were making a lighthearted joke... but at the point I'm at now... a family falling apart isn't very lighthearted a subject, currently.

@@MaryAnnNytowl sometimes is good to blow some steam of. Stay healthy and protect your kids I know how difficult it can be

Thank you so much John, I appreciate it.

It is interesting to see this side of a bee swarm. I have only seen the photos of the swarm on the side of a car, window frame, etc. a great way for the successful hives to spread further into the local environment. Very interesting!!

"Anymore"? Was there ever a time when this would be easy to see?

That would be great to for the SlowMoGuys to film this.

Evonix I was referencing swarming in general. Most people that talk about them as if it was back in the past and does not happen as often today.

When I was young, I had come out of a pool and was sitting down when a couple of bees landed of my stomach and started drinking the water from my stomach! At first I was scared so stayed still, but then they actually ended up tickling me and then flew away. I have always remembered it as one of the most memorable, mystical moments I have had to interact with nature.

Honey Bees are extremely gentle and reasonable creatures when they don’t feel like you’re threatening their nest. Usually they just want to get the resources they’re out for and head back home without a fuss. I’ve always loved meeting them.

I grow large leaf kale in my garden. I noticed that every morning after I water the kale braconid wasps land on the plants. I looked closely and yes, they drink water! Now, I try to make sure that the tops of the leaves have enough water for them and other insects....

In the pool, they land in the water and sometimes the current is too much for them, so I scoop them out of the water and let them crawl around on my hand and dry off and then they fly away, I have done the same thing with wasps and they don't bother me, out of handling maybe 200 bees and a few wasps or so, I have only been stung once, and I don't know even know how that happened, I was looking away and then a stinger was in my arm but the bee was gone. Even more fascinating, was the bee pulled way from the stinger, but there was no venom sac attached to it, I had found the bee and I didn't kill it, I actually petted it, but I could see where some of it's guts were kind of sticking out of it's abdomen, I left it alone, put it on a floatie, when I came back, it was gone. So maybe that could quite possibly been one of the first bees to lose a stinger but not die.

@@gt-3797 that's unfortunately very unlikely. They can live for a while without the stinger but ultimately they'll die. What I found interesting was a video someone took where a honey bee not only stung the person, but also successfully retrieved its stinger and left. That was the only time I haven't seen a honey bee leave its stinger behind.

And he was happy too.

Of course he knows he is dealing with a calm and gentle specie of bees. Had they been some africanised bee...lol...

Swarm bees are relatively docile, there's videos of people scooping them up by hand.

me too! I called in a bee keeper but then the swarm left on their own. Now I know.

We often fear what we don’t understand

Bees in a swarm are in their least aggressive state because they have no hive to defend.

Yeah all those bees and the sheer volume of the noise can be very intimidating. When I catch a swarm and i have audience the first thing I do is walking right through the swarm without any protection just to prove people it’s not dangerous

@@spaghetti2777 good to know

Definitely would be worth it. Especially if the job runs in the family. But ya gotta do whatever would make you happy! You could also do it as a hobby if you found the right other job to manage both.

I was walking in my semi-rural neighborhood when I noticed a swarm on a tree branch, eye-level, right alongside the road. Fascinating! So I'm bobbling around, up and down, back and forth to get different vantages when I realize the property's owner was on his front porch a dozen yards away, right in my line of sight. I'm sure he was wondering what I was doing, playing peekaboo with him through the branches, so I said with delight, "There's a bee swarm here!" "Oh, yeah?" he said. "I'll go get the Raid." Aaarrrgh! The IGNORANCE!

Then you are doing God's work. Good job.

Sorry James :) I do have lots of swarm capture videos though :)

Me too 😂

Same

Yeah I know I can't wait I kept thinking I can't wait to see how it gets those bees off the tree and then Wham it was all done and we missed it and I was like oh no! We just missed probably one of the best parts of the whole video and we missed it oh that's such a bummer

I watched a bee hive capture he used a butterfly net but instead of mesh it was sheet material

They swarm because conditions in their hive aren't favorable to their survival don't they

Random Hip Hop I see. So, essentially, swarming can be the lesser of two evils at times. Thanks.

Generally speaking, bees swarm when resources are plenty, so that when they were established they can forage for what they need. It's a form of procreation and is a sign of a healthy hive

I saw it too!

I noticed that also. Pretty cool

Everything happens for a reason this is a correct observation. How you define significance and statistics from it is the art.

There's probably some air traffic rules put in place. Violators get a ticket.

The bees are not responsible for the honeycomb shape that you see on a bee frame or drawn comb. Bee's build cells in perfect circles, however Optimal Geometry (the constant need for matter too be in the most energy efficient state/shape), causes the semi-liquid wax too form into the most efficient 2D shape. That being the Hexagon. This is better summarised under the "Optimal Control Theory / Bubble physics." So any Honeycomb shapes that you think you are seeing in the swarm of bees is likely confirmation bias and therefore not there at all. The Swarm of bees is more like a flying conga line, where each bee is trying to follow the pheromone trial of the others, so that they can find the queen.

I often think about that when I see a swarm with pollen laden foragers in the mix. They are flying in only to have everyone else fly out.

Tanpopo-sama lol!

I bet it was the queen.

Underrated comment lol

It's a Beedemic

Buzzvid-19

Perfectly valid!

I'm odd... I am petrified of wasps, incredibly terrified of them! But bees? Nope! I enjoy them! There is even one miniature wasp that I really enjoy, too, the trichogramma wasps! They are incredibly cool! But amy wasps bigger than that kind had better leave me alone, or once they get far enough away to not threaten me, I'm hunting down the 12 ft or further wasp spray! I make sure I'm not aiming it where it can hit anyone or anything that I don't want to hit, and I'm a pretty good shot with the stuff, too!

I was at a boy scout camp in around 2007 and it was a prank to get the new scouts to try and sign up for beekeeping merit badge, full well knowing it had been discontinued. The frustration lives on!

During the 2010 centennial celebration, they should’ve offered the beekeeping merit badge as a fifth historical badge.

Just have a badge made. Who cares about BSA?

Jasper Janssen I guess you have a point about that...

Many a sleep deprived individual has been directed to my videos for sleep inspiration... not sure that's a compliment :)

Bee swarm ASMR!

@@FrederickDunn You have a nice soothing voice. I'm jealous. Be proud of it! Start narrating some books of bees! Lol

Nothing like it... glad you had that experience :)

I could not agree more, that's why they are what occupies my thoughts day after day, year after year :) Thank you!

​@FrederickDunn I appreciate what you do and your content, friend! ☺️

The swarming bees are definitely for the queen...

So, it's basically a vote of no confidence in the old queen by the bees that remain, but not everyone agreed and those that didn't leave with the old queen cause they still think she's BEEautiful.

@@Niniel28b Loyalists!

@@Niniel28b just a way to disperse population once the hive gets bigger.

Think Game of Thrones, but with less profanity XD

Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much, what great compliment! That swarm did make it through winter.

I noticed the older people get the more interested they get in what seems mundane to younger people, because slowing down makes you appreciate much more the details in what's around you.

jigmond or their are some of us who have brains from childhood to death and always find things fascinating which normies say are for ‘freaks’

@@JohnKobaRuddy you've already lost any chance of discussion when your start throwing around terms like "normies." it's completely natural to not like bugs. they bite, sting, and some even try to live inside us. I like bugs but I don't hold it against people if they don't like them. in fact, my mantis had a successful molt into an L3 today. but I had no one to share the news with because my whole family hates bugs. you can't force your interests on other people.

John Ruddy Lol nobody’s calling people freaks in 2020.

Buff Pathfinder freak

I am, the more you understand them, the less afraid you'd be :)

HI Laura, thank you so much and yes, this little shed is a perfect presentation space for small groups of people who want to learn about honey bees. I appreciate that you took time to comment!

You are very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting :)

Sorry about the kids that were stung... but glad they had a learning opportunity.

You are very welcome and thank you for watching! :)

I've done it...you are not alone...

Thanks for sharing!

Oh thank you!

Frederick Dunn I

From what I understand, this type of swarm is very docile and there are rarely stings. Is this true of africanized swarms?

Hi there I have a 3 level deep lans hive with the fronts fixed with Perspex and what I noticed is the bees running around like yours in the video daily for over a few weeks towards the end of summer between 2 & 4pm flying around in huge groups in what seemed to be orientation flights never seen any queen cells could it have been little groups swarming

Fred, thank you for responding so quickly , and the link will be building my own soon

Very informative and interesting video. Good luck on your bee keeping venture.

That can happen with after-swarms, but the prime, or first swarm departs with more than enough workers.

@@FrederickDunn does it ever happen in the reverse where so many leave that the old hive dies? Or have you never seen it happen in reverse like that?

The remaining hive can fail, the virgin queen could die during her mating flight and the remaining wouldn’t be able to make a new queen. There could be multiple new queens hatch but they will duel it out until one remains, sometimes both die in that case as well. Beekeeping has lots of unknowns, strong healthy hives can die with no warning, you just have to expect the unexpected 🐝✌🏻

I cant tell if you're joking

Armpitjam 4 They are talking about past family members, activities their ancestors used to do.

That wasn't actually to ground the swarm, it was a means of claiming the swarm so other keepers wouldn't take it.

Thank you so much Neill! Sorry I didn't see your comment until now. Such a nice thing to post!

So glad you liked it :)

They got their wish.

Ive done it on accident before

it must be working

@@randomhiphop5055 you can undo it, just click it again

​@Really Though I don't think you understand how jokes work.

I appreciate that!

Bri D Swarms are a totally natural phenomenon that is one way of reproducing a hive. Its a natural split. For the beekeeper though, swarms can be good - or bad. There is a natural swarm season; swarms which happen at other times of the year have little chance of success - resulting in a mass suicide. Also, swarms in certain environments are also doomed (due to environmental loss of good habitat, loss of good nutrition sources, presence of poisons and pesticides, etc.). Beekeepers not only lose their bees - the loss may end very badly for the bees. Responsible beekeepers try to prevent swarms that have little to no chance of success by doing a split which satisfies the bee's instinct to swarm. There are a lot of videos on this process, its pretty easy to do given you have all the tools and equipment handy.

Mystery of nature

Probably, their own choice.

Sounds like treason to me. Lol

Yeah prob what they are inclined to do but millions of years of breeding made it so only half are inclined to leave and half are to stay. It's not that much of a mystery how this mechanisms come about.

@@randomhiphop5055 Not a mystery why the mechamism came about, but it'd be interesting to know what the mechnism is. How does an individual bee decide whether it stays or goes, so that it works out to about 50/50?

Hi Krasimir... that's actually a great way to expand your apiary as you already know now. Pulling splits from solid brood frames with queen cells already in production is fast, easy and a great way to keep your genetics.

Wow, thank you!

There are risks to everything. I've just been very fortunate.

So true, you really just have to be ready for anything. That swarm made it through winter, so they were full of surprises.

Ah ah ah ah *STAYIN AlIIIIIIIIIVE*

With the support of your parents Anything is Possible! It takes a financial commitment.

You're very welcome Samantha! :)