1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Thanks 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: for joining us on the program today. It is a 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: special program today. We do this once a year in 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: the springtime. I like talking to you about birds and 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: bees as a way as a general way of understanding 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: our need to integrate our homes and our properties back 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: into the natural world, to kind of desterilize them again 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 1: and invite nature back. Why because I'm a tree hugger. Yes, 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: I am a tree hugger, but that's not why I'm 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: actually a human hugger. First, because this is the essence 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: of what biophilic design really comes down to. We are 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: beginning to understand on a totally new level how critically 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: important it is as a human being, to the health 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: of human beings for us to be exposed to and 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: integrate in the natural world around us. That doesn't mean 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: we have to all go out like I do sometimes 18 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: and just go, you know, backpacking in the sierras for 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: weeks on end, but it does mean that we all 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: need more sunlight. We need more sunlight inside our homes. 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: This is why biophilic designers add more windows, more opportunities 22 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: for light to enter our homes. We need more fresh air, 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: we need more space, more room, we need more vistas, 24 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: we need more things like this. And I'll be talking 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: to this later in the program with my good friend 26 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: Richard Armording. But here's the thing, you know, Silence, the 27 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: thing that is so cherished these days by so many 28 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: of us, Silence when you are outside is actually a 29 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: somewhat stress inducing experience. Pure silence we from two million 30 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: years of co evolving with the natural world around us. 31 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: There's some deep buried in your brain stem that when 32 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: you walk outside and it is silent, something's wrong the 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: most and science has now verified this. The most relaxing 34 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: state of a human being audibly outside is a bird song. 35 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: When we walk outside and you hear the birds singing. 36 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: When you hear songbirds singing in the morning, it's not 37 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: just oh, that's lovely. It is actually doing deep things 38 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: in your brain telling you, you know what, the world. 39 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: Is fine today. Everything is safe. 40 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: You're safe because birds will stop giving away their location 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: when there are predators and threats nearby. Birds will stop 42 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: giving away their location when they feel threatened by anything, 43 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: and so silence in a yard This is not our goal. 44 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: Our goal should be bird song, natural sounds like the 45 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: key of C, which is what bees buzz at. Yeah, 46 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: go for it, nicol. 47 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 3: So. 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 4: Also, people don't realize that when the very early in 49 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 4: the morning are singing and making noise, it's also for 50 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 4: the bees to wake them up. I don't know if 51 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 4: a lot of people understand that. No, So that isn't 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 4: just a coincidence. It doesn't just happen. It's very very 53 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 4: early for that vibration, for that noise to also start 54 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 4: waking up all of the bees to start work. 55 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: It's a cycle. And around here the thing that wakes 56 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: all of us up are both of my roosters out 57 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: there who wake up way too early in the morning. 58 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: But still it's a good thing. Okay, where were we 59 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: at all Right, we're talking about the spring swarm. Okay, So, Danny, 60 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: So a colony is going to divide, and so the 61 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: old queen. This is really important for people to understand. 62 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: A new queen gets left behind. What a kind thing 63 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: to do. The old queen and several of her daughters, 64 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of sometimes like a third of the 65 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: colony are going to make a journey and they start 66 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: this journey not knowing where they're going to end up, 67 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: not knowing where they're going. But they leave the old hive, 68 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: the old colony location. And that's what we when we 69 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: see that big clump of bees, that's what we call 70 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: a swamp a swarm. Okay, And in movies and TV 71 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: and all this stuff, it's all it's like an attacking, 72 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: marauding great white shark out there. But that could that's 73 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: not the furthest from the truth. It is the furthest 74 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,239 Speaker 1: from the truth. Number one, Correct me if I'm wrong. 75 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: They've all filled up their bellies like never before, and 76 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: so they're all feeling like we feel like a half 77 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: an hour after Thanksgiving dinner. They're all in a very 78 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: passive state. Number two. They only have one thing on 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: their mind, and that is survive and where are we 80 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: going to find a new home? And so they move? 81 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 2: How on? 82 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: Typically, how far will a swarm separate itself from the 83 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: old colony before it comes to rest? 84 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 5: They cannot go very far because the queen is too 85 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 5: heavy typically to fly. They actually they actually put on 86 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 5: a little diet beforehand so that she can fly a 87 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 5: little bit, and they only go twenty thirty feet probably 88 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 5: from the mother hive. 89 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: Not very far at all, So it could literally be 90 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: in your own backyard. It could be it could be 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: hanging on a fence, it could be hanging off of 92 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: a tree, not very far and they'll just kind of 93 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: hopscotch there. Now, what are they doing in the middle 94 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: of that clump of bees? Is the queen correct, She's 95 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: being protected by all the other ones, and we see 96 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: some bees leaving, So. 97 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, what happens is they coalesce on a branch or 98 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 5: a tree or something like that and the queen is 99 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 5: there Another reason, by the way that they are not 100 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 5: very that they're pretty calm at that point. Besides the 101 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 5: things you said, they also, if you think about it, 102 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 5: they have no brood, they have no young to protect, 103 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 5: they have no stores of honey. Yeah, they ate, so 104 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 5: they can survive a bit, but they don't have honey 105 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 5: to protect either. So they're in a very calm state 106 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 5: as far as what they're doing. They're looking for a 107 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 5: new home. So the bees that we normally see on 108 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 5: the flowers are foragers, and those bees change their jobs 109 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 5: instead of being foragers because they can't go get nectar 110 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 5: or pollen to bring back because there's no honeycomb there. 111 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 5: Yet they change their jobs. Miraculously they become scouts and 112 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 5: now they go looking for a new home. And when 113 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 5: they find what they think is going to be their 114 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 5: best new home, they come back to the swarm and 115 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 5: they do a waggle dance. They get real excited and 116 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 5: they try to communicate to their sisters, come check this out. 117 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 5: I think I found our best new home. And they 118 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 5: continue to do that, all of them, until somehow they 119 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 5: get consensus and they somehow. 120 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: It's literally a vote. It's literally a vote. Once more 121 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 2: than half of. 122 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: The the bees are convinced that's the way to go, 123 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: then they they make the call. 124 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, they make the call. 125 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 5: They may they communicate somehow and they pick up off 126 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 5: that branch and go to their to their new place, 127 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 5: and it's it's amazing. 128 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: So the lesson being these swarms, these beards of bees, 129 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: it's kind of what we call them when they appear 130 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: outside the hive in big clumps where they're all hanging 131 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: on to each other. This is not a hive. This 132 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: is not a permanent home. And so when you call 133 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,239 Speaker 1: me in the middle of the night and say, Dean, 134 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: I've got a hive of bees hanging in the front 135 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: tree of my front yard. 136 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 2: What do I do? 137 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: The answer I always give is do nothing. Just appreciate it, 138 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: take some photos, you know, maybe get some video of it. 139 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: Stay away from it, you know, I don't go, don't 140 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: don't hit it with the hose, because scouts are actively 141 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: looking and they will be moving very shortly. I my 142 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: personal experience, you guys correct me if I'm wrong, is 143 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: you know, within a few hours. I mean, I haven't 144 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: seen a swarm hang out in one location for more 145 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: than forty eight hours max. And most of the have 146 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: you have you seen it? 147 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 2: Have they? 148 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 4: Yeah? 149 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: They stay. 150 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 4: It just depends on like the scouts go out and look, 151 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 4: you know, for the best place to go. Sometimes they 152 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,119 Speaker 4: don't find it as fast. Sometimes the fluctuations in weather 153 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 4: can change that a bit, and the number of scouts 154 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 4: going out. So I've seen them sometimes hang out literally 155 00:07:58,880 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 4: for a week. 156 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, so it can be a few days. 157 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 4: People start to get a little nervous if they're like 158 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 4: you said, it might only be so I'm careful when 159 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 4: I say, Okay an hour or stay correct, don't get nervous, 160 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 4: But it could be several days. 161 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: I'm just leave I'm just gonnamend my statement. They're going 162 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: to leave, yes. 163 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 4: And sometimes they People will say, the swarm was here 164 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 4: this morning, it had been a day, it was here 165 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 4: this morning, it's gone. It's the next day, and they're 166 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 4: back in the same place. So sometimes an area that 167 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 4: they do choose to go to may not work out, 168 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 4: and they actually do leave and move. And sometimes it 169 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 4: doesn't work out and they will return back to the 170 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 4: same spot that that they were at. Oh, they find 171 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 4: a better place. 172 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha? All right. 173 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: On the other side of the break, we're gonna I 174 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: want to underscore this and identify visually the difference between 175 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: a swarm that's a temporary gathering and a hive, which 176 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: is a permanent, uh, you know, a permanent dwelling, and 177 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: if you got one of those in your house, and 178 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: the difference between important. Yes, okay, great, we'll do that 179 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: when we come back your Home with Dean Sharp the house. 180 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 3: Just you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand 181 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 3: from KFI AM six forty. 182 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: It's the beginning of spring. We're talking about birds and 183 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: bees in your yard in your life. Now, you know, 184 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: if you're not somebody who wants bees or around that's fine, 185 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: that's fine, it's all well and good. You don't have 186 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: to We're not trying to make everybody a bee keeper today, 187 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: a backyard beekeeper, although I would love to convert some 188 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: of you, I really really would. And Danny is here 189 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: to help you out, to provide supplies and training along 190 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: the way. Nicole is here to help you not make 191 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 1: the mistake of when you see bees that aren't expected 192 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: of doing the wrong thing. Now, we were talking about 193 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: the swarm, the spring swarms that happen, and the fact 194 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: that you may walk outside and find what we call 195 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: a beard of bees, a clump of bees hanging off 196 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: your fence, hanging off a branch in the tree, or 197 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: clung to the trunk of a tree. And the reality 198 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: is those guys are looking for a home, and so 199 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: we don't really need to do anything to them at all. 200 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: Don't call the exterminator, don't try and deal with They 201 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: will be moving on, Okay, eventually, they will be moving on. Okay, 202 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop saying forty eight hours, thanks to you, Nicole. 203 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 1: But because they may be back, they may go away, 204 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: they may come back, they may hang out for you know, 205 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: a few days, but they will be moving on because 206 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: bees need an enclosed, protected space to build all of 207 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: and store everything that they do. And so if you've 208 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: ever seen a beehive, you know they're seeing those big 209 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: boxes right as you drive through farmland or just see 210 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: a beehive, a langstroth hive, that's what they're called, their 211 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: commercial beehives. You know those big boxes. They have a 212 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: very very small little slit and the that's the front door. 213 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: That's because the bees need to protect everything that's inside there, right, 214 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: And so when you see a big clump of bees 215 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: hanging out, that is not a permanent hive colony that's 216 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: dwelling there because they're completely exposed to everybody who wants 217 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: their stuff, and believe me, a lot of people want 218 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: their stuff. So that is not a permanent home. We 219 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: don't need to do anything there because they will move 220 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: on and find their permanent home. However, if we see bees, 221 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: a few bees moving in and out of one little 222 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: crack in the stucco, or a few bees constantly moving 223 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: in and out of one little area of the wall 224 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: or the fence, I mean it could be a very 225 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: very tiny hole. That is an indication that we may 226 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: have and probably do have a hive being built below 227 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: the surface of whatever that is right? 228 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 4: Is that it's safe to say, and I will say 229 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 4: sometimes sometimes there will be an exposed hive hang from 230 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 4: a tree branch. It is possible, okay, but it's a 231 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 4: very it's maybe a few percent of where the colonies 232 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 4: do exist. But yes, there can be a high that 233 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 4: ends up on a nice solid tree branch and for 234 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 4: whatever reason they decided to stay there. We have removed 235 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 4: huge exposed hives gorgeous that are high up in a 236 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 4: tree somewhere. It's not all the time, but for whatever 237 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 4: reason they stayed there, so they I guess maybe found 238 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 4: enough shelter, felt, you know, calm enough to stay there. 239 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 2: And it is what it is, right, all right. 240 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: So again the safe is that if you don't see comb, 241 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: if you don't see honeycomb. 242 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 4: Right, I tell people, it's just solid bees. If you 243 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 4: were to put your hand through it, it's just solid 244 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,239 Speaker 4: bees protecting a queen in there while they are very vulnerable. 245 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: Leave them alone. 246 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 4: Obviously, If you have something going on immediately, like a 247 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 4: party or an event or somewhere, and you have a 248 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 4: swarm that's not in the best area, yes you can 249 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 4: all and have it safely removed. But besides that, it's 250 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 4: like we were talking about, it's kind of a blessing, 251 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 4: you know, to have these beautiful creatures come and bless 252 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 4: your property and you want to hang out and feel safe. 253 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 4: So hang out and enjoy that. 254 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 255 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: Now, Danny was saying that there was a time, like 256 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: in the Middle Ages, when it was considered a blessing. 257 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: We got to say this real quick, a blessing when 258 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: a swarm would come by and choose your property to 259 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: at least rest on because you're like, oh, maybe they'll 260 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 1: stay and live and I'll have I'll have easewax, and 261 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: I'll have candles, and I'll have honey, and I'll have 262 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: and now it's considered a curse. 263 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 2: Now they call in a panic kit them out of here. 264 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: Yes you can. 265 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to rethink some things. Yes, we'll do 266 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: that right after this your Home with Dean Sharp the 267 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: House Whisper. 268 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 269 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 270 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 1: You know, if there's one wish I have for today's show, 271 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: I wish my guests were more passionate about what they do. 272 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: I just it's kind of a snooze fest around here. 273 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: They're just like, yeah, yeah, you know whatever, bees whatever, Yeah, 274 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: we keep bees, No big. 275 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: Deal breaking a sweat over here. Yeah exactly. 276 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: So if you are just joining us, man, you gotta 277 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: go back, go to the podcast and catch the first 278 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: part of the show. Here, I've had Nicole Palladino from 279 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: Bee Catchers and Danny Finkelstein from The Valley Hive here 280 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: with me. What wonderful guests talking about bees. I had 281 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: a whole list, by the way, we just didn't have 282 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: time to get to it. I had a whole list 283 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: of that I've assembled over the years of bee facts, 284 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: just fun stuff. I'm going to give a couple of 285 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: them now. But I mean, I literally could go on 286 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: and on about this. Bees have been on planet Earth 287 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: for one hundred million years. One hundred million years, which 288 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: is about fifty times longer than we have been on 289 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: planet Earth as a species. So they know what they're doing. 290 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: You know, they know what they're doing, and we should 291 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: that should garner a little bit of respect from us. 292 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: Let's see what the bees are super smellers. Did you 293 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: know that they have one hundred and seventy odorant receptors 294 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: giving them a sense of smell fifty times more powerful 295 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: than the most powerful smelling dogs. Not smelling dogs, I 296 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: mean dogs that smell things powerfully. Uh, honey, this is 297 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: a thing that not a lot of people know. Honey 298 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: is forever food. Honey has no expiration date. Edible honey 299 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: has been found in three thousand year old Egyptian tombs. 300 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: Now it wasn't in liquid form. What happens is that 301 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: honey will eventually the water will evaporated, it'll crystallize. But 302 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: you can take crystallized honey, add a little bit water 303 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: back to it and warm it and boom honey again. 304 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: Back in act, you guys are looking at each other. 305 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: Did I get that wrong? 306 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, just honey, great forever is not. 307 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 2: Not adding, it's just reheating. 308 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 4: So just yeah, and to the right temperature, not too hot, 309 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 4: because you don't want to kill the great. You know 310 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 4: all the properties. 311 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 2: But the fact is it doesn't spoil. It just doesn't spoil. 312 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 4: No, it's an absolute gift of the gods. 313 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: And if you're looking for the health benefits of honey, 314 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: you're looking for raw honey that has not been pasteurized 315 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: or done anything like that, overheated, and you're looking for 316 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: raw local honey. And the reason is honey is one 317 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: of those few foods on the planet that is completely hypoallergenic. 318 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: Everybody can handle honey. It shouldn't be fed to infants 319 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: at some point because of the sugar structure. But apart 320 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: from that, Uh, they're they're very I know, I don't 321 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: know of anybody that has a negative their bad reaction 322 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: to honey. 323 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 4: The point if you get it locally and you're outside 324 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 4: and you're suffering from your like spring allergies or whatever 325 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 4: it is, it's the things around you that you're suffering from. 326 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 4: But if you think about the bees going to collect 327 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 4: the in the nectar from these things and then making 328 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 4: the honey and you're eating it in small amounts, it's 329 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 4: kind of like you're immunotherapy. Do you become exactly now 330 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 4: resistant to the things that are so you have hay 331 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 4: fevers and allergyally That's why they say local, because it's 332 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 4: from your know. 333 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: What exactly, since the honey itself is hypoarelogenic, Yes, so 334 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: it becomes a medium with that microdoses you on the 335 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: things you're allergic to, and you personally for you Yeah, 336 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: there you go. Uh, these are responsible for fifteen billion 337 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: dollars of US agricultural economy every year and over two 338 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: hundred billion annually worldwide. The honeymoon. The honeymoon originated from 339 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: ancient Northern European traditions where newlyweds drank the world's oldest 340 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: fermented beverage mead, which is honeywine, for one full moon 341 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: cycle or a month. Basically, so you get married and 342 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: for a month, one of your gifts is a month 343 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: worth of mead. 344 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 2: Uh. 345 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: And that is what that is literally where the term 346 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: honeymoon comes from. And I'll just I'll do this one 347 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: just because this will help us transition into the birds 348 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: as well. Bees have incredible eyesight. Clearly, they can see 349 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: the main spectrum that we can see, but it's shifted 350 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: towards blue ultraviolet. Bees see into the ultraviolet things that 351 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: we can't see. So for us, we look at an 352 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: area full of blossoms, and it may seem not very 353 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: colorful or vibrant to us, but to bees, some of 354 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: the least attractive flowers to us are just screaming out 355 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: saying come this way, because they're putting off ultraviolet light. 356 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,479 Speaker 1: But bees don't see into the red spectrum, which is 357 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: why hummingbirds are attracted to red flowers. Naturally, hummingbirds and 358 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: bees are after the same nectar. They're after the same stuff. 359 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: They're competing with each other. Essentially, hummingbirds have learned genetically 360 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: that their chain ants as a finding nectar in red 361 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: flowers is very high. Because the bees don't see the 362 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: red of the flower, they're not attracted to the red flower. 363 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 4: And you can also use red light if you want 364 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 4: to check on your hives, because it doesn't disrupt them 365 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 4: the way that a brighter white light would. 366 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 2: Exactly red light they're like. 367 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 4: No, it's like a red light therapy, you know. They're 368 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 4: just they're way more relaxed. 369 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: So all right, well we could go on and on, 370 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: but we're going to transition into birds, and I'm going 371 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,719 Speaker 1: to let you guys go and have your Sundays. But 372 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: before we leave, very quickly, everybody needs to know who 373 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: you guys are, where they can find you. Nicole bee catchers. Again, 374 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: if you have a b issue, if you have a 375 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: bee infestation, if bees are in the wrong place and 376 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 1: your property, do not call an exterminator. You're not going 377 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: to spend the less and you're not going to get 378 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: the right, job done. You call bee catchers. How do 379 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: they get a hold of you? 380 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 4: You can call eight sixty six five four four zero 381 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 4: zero seven four. Visit us online bee CATCHERSSOCL dot com 382 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 4: always here to help even for questions. 383 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 2: Let us know. 384 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 4: I'm sure on your site you have the information post 385 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 4: as well. And I just want to say one thing 386 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 4: quickly that every swarm is a chance for the environment 387 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 4: to heal itself. These bees have already proven that they 388 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 4: can survive, and we should be protecting them and relocating them, not. 389 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: Ex absolutely absolutely, Danny, tell us more about the Valley hive. 390 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: Okay, a number of things before we're done here. 391 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 5: Uh, those of you who are interested in keeping bees, 392 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 5: we can teach you how. Those who are interested not 393 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 5: interested in keeping bees, but may want to have the 394 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 5: benefit of bees on your property, we can do that 395 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 5: for you as well. 396 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 2: We do it regularly. What does that mean? 397 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 5: Exactly means we can come to you, We can supply 398 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 5: you with bees and equipment, and you don't ever have 399 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 5: to touch the bees if you don't want, or we 400 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 5: can teach you how as well. 401 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: So you guys will take care of it. We'll take 402 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: care of the bees for you. You're served. 403 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 5: We have a whole service division for doing that. Okay, okay. 404 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 5: You also can come to depang A nursery at any 405 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 5: time if you don't want to have bees on your 406 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 5: yard but you want to help them, come in pick 407 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 5: up some pollinator friendly plants. We've got native plants of 408 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 5: all kinds and all all types of pollinator friendly plants there, 409 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 5: and it's a beautiful, wonderful place to come and hang 410 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 5: out as well. And if you come and check it 411 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 5: out and get on our email list, you will also 412 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 5: find all kinds of events that we have going on, 413 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 5: have Taichi classes coming up, and planting classes, classes and 414 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 5: much awesome. 415 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: Guys. Thank you Nicole Danny, thank you guys for being here. 416 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 3: Thank you. 417 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: It is always a pleasure. 418 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: I love working with you guys, and I love what 419 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: you guys do and what it means for all of us. 420 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: And so thanks for taking time out of your morning. 421 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: Thank you. 422 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 2: Thank you. Dean. 423 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: All Right, y'all, when we come back, we're going to 424 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: be talking to Richard Armording from wild Birds Unlimited. We're 425 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: gonna talk about we're gonna hit the tough issues, just 426 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: like we've done with the bees here. We're going to 427 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: figure out how you can have backyard birds without attracting 428 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: rodents with it. Yes, there's a way, but there are 429 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,479 Speaker 1: a couple of really really important things that you have 430 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: to pony up for along the way to make that happen. 431 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: We'll discuss that and the state of birds in the 432 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: US as well when we return your home for Dean 433 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: Sharp the House Whisper. 434 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from 435 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 436 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: Every home deserves great design and how are we achieving 437 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: that today? How am I helping you with that? Well, 438 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: we're talking about areas that relate to what we call 439 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: biophilic design. Biophilic design is the one of the best, 440 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: in my opinions, iterations of modern residential and architectural design 441 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: in a long, long time. Biophilic design is not just 442 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: about getting back to nature in terms of tree hugging 443 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: for the planet. It goes beyond that. And you know, 444 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: I know about half of you listening. You know, all 445 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: I need to say is is, hey, this is good 446 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: for the planet, and you're all in another half of 447 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: you would be like listen, Okay, I get it, I 448 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: get it. You know, I'm not a planet hater. But 449 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: I'm not a tree hugger either. Well, if you're a 450 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: human hugger, then biophilic design is for you as well, 451 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: because the whole point is that we have now learned 452 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: through science, yes science, that biophilia, the love of nature 453 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: is good for human beings. Okay, good for human beings. 454 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: More light inside the house, more natural light bouncing in 455 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: and around the house, more vistas. And this has to 456 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: do with the fact that, you know what, We've been 457 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 1: living in structures for a while now, but not as 458 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: long as we have not been living in structures of 459 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: any significance two million years. Our species has been roaming 460 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: around the vast majority of that time, very very exposed, 461 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: and a part of the natural world. So I said 462 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: this earlier in the show. I'm gonna say it again 463 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: as an intro to my new guest in studio here, 464 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: is that when you walk outside, silence, silence is not 465 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 1: the best thing for us outside silence actually, when you're outdoors. 466 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: I mean maybe, if you're in your house and you 467 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: get inside a soundproof room, silence fine, contextually your brain 468 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: can handle that. But when you walk outside and it's dead, silent, 469 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: dead quiet outside, that's an eerie sense. People actually get 470 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: unnerved by that. Why is that? That's because for the 471 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: two million years that we've been poking around on the planet, 472 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 1: we've been out and around birds and birds song and 473 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: bird's song is in fact the most relaxing, audible state 474 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 1: of being outdoors. When you wake up in the morning 475 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 1: and you hear the song birds singing, without even consciously 476 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: thinking about it, there are messages going directly into your 477 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: brain stem that all is well, all is safe, life 478 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: is good. Things are good because birds stop giving away 479 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: their location when there are threats and predators and problems. 480 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: And so when you walk outside and all is silent, well, 481 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: something's up, something's going on, Okay, And so how do 482 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: we bring more of that very very relaxing, biophilic design 483 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: into our yards? And I said at the top of 484 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: the show, I use the presence of beneficial insects like 485 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: honey bees and birds on our property. Their presence, I 486 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: use them as a litmus test for how well we 487 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: are reversing the displacement that our homes have created in 488 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: the natural world. Okay, and homes displace things. And like 489 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: I said again, I'm going to repeat this, displacement is 490 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: not something to feel guilty about displacement. Every creature in 491 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: nature displaces something else when it builds a home for itself. 492 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: When the gopher digs the hole in the yard under 493 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: the ground, it's literally just displacing dirt, literally moving dirt 494 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: out of its way. Displacement. But the difference between us 495 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: and the other species on the planet is that, you know, 496 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: we displace things permanently and we sterilize them along the way, 497 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: all right, And so it is the efforts of in 498 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: my opinion, really good designers now to help reverse that process, 499 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: not just for the sake of the planet, but for you, 500 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: because you are healthier you when you live in closer 501 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: proximity to the natural world and have no doubt, no 502 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: matter how much you've convinced yourself you're a city person 503 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: or you're an urban dweller, or whatever the case may be, 504 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: the sound of traffic is noise and stress in your system, 505 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: and the sounds of birds is relaxation and peace in 506 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: your system. Beyond your conscious thought. It's just the way 507 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: it is. 508 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: Okay. 509 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: So with that setup, let me introduce you to somebody. 510 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: If you're a longtime listener of the show that you 511 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: have heard before, he is my resident wild bird expert, 512 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: Richard armor Ding from wild Birds Unlimited out here in 513 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: Thousand Oaks. Richard, so glad to have you back. 514 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 2: On the show. 515 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. It's fun to be here. And 516 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: you brought somebody with you. Now, I promise I'm not 517 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: gonna put her on the spot and put her on 518 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: the mic, but introduce us to this lovely lady sitting 519 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: next to you. 520 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 6: This is my wife, Catherine, and she's pretty much the 521 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 6: reason why I am into birds. 522 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: Oh really, there's a backstory, Do tell? Do tell? 523 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 6: Well, when I met her, I didn't really know much 524 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 6: about birds. I didn't have any particular interest in birds, 525 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 6: but I had an interest in her, and she had 526 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 6: an interest in birds. So she dragged me along on 527 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 6: birding trips and the bird stores and got me interested 528 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 6: in bird feeding in the backyard. And so it's pretty 529 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 6: much all her fault. 530 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: He's so in pursuit of one thing, you ended up 531 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: pursuing a bunch of things. 532 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 6: I developed whole new passions. 533 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: Well, very much like in my household, everybody who knows 534 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: us knows who's really in charge. This lady sitting right 535 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: here the boss, and so I just do my best 536 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,719 Speaker 1: to keep up, that's all, you know. Yeah, okay, so 537 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: well that actually led you to owning a wild Bird's 538 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: Unlimited pretty much. Yes, my favorite store by the way, 539 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: right down the street, and so it's where we get 540 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: all of our feed and that's one of the So 541 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: first I want to discuss the state of birds. We'll 542 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: do that after the break, just kind of the state 543 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: of birds in general. You know, we talk about this 544 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: every year, you know, where things are out, things that 545 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: have happened since the nineteen seventies, the loss of bird 546 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: population in the United States, and then how we can 547 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: draw these birds, these amazing creatures back into our lives 548 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: without you know, the problem that so many people people 549 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: associate with having birds in your yard, and quite often 550 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: those are the reasons, are the excuses that people give 551 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: for why they're not going to have birds in the 552 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: yard because you know, they don't want rats or this 553 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: or that. But there are solutions to all of those issues, 554 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: and I want to cover them all as we go. 555 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 2: Great, all right, y'all to it. 556 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: We are going to talk wild birds in your yard 557 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: when we return your Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper. 558 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: This has been home with Dean sharp the house whisper. 559 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: Tune into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty 560 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: every Saturday morning from six to eight Pacific time, and 561 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: every Sunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time, or 562 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app