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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's me Josh, and for this week's selects,

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Speaker 1: I've chosen our episode on Beekeeping from October two. After

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Speaker 1: re listening to this one, I dare say that it

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Speaker 1: could be my favorite episode, and not just because I've

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Speaker 1: been hoping to use dare say in a sentence lately.

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Speaker 1: Sure it doesn't have the sexy thrills of the dB

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Speaker 1: Cooper Live episode or the loveability of the Elephant episode,

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Speaker 1: but it's got a mellow homeliness that makes me feel

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Speaker 1: like I'm wearing a comfy sweater, sipping tea at the

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Speaker 1: kitchen table, and a beautiful mourn. I hope it does

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Speaker 1: the same for you. Enjoy Welcome to Stuff You Should Know,

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Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant,

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Speaker 1: there's Jerry over there, and this is Stuff you should Know.

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Speaker 1: The Mellow Gold Edition were talking about Beck Ah, Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: but I think beck was really talking about a m

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Speaker 1: soft rock from the seventies, which I gotta say is

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Speaker 1: like right up my alley these days. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've always loved it, but I'm I'm really

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Speaker 1: on a streak right now. Yeah, you were championing, uh

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Speaker 1: the yacht rock thing, which I just I discovered Kenny Loggins,

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Speaker 1: like I knew Kenny Loggins only from the top Gun era,

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Speaker 1: and then that one Caddyshack song, which I was not

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Speaker 1: crazy about. But then even further back, before the caddy

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Speaker 1: Shack thing, it was just beautiful stuff Loggins and Messina. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've heard any Messina stuff, so

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Speaker 1: I think I'm catching him right after the Messina part,

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Speaker 1: right before the Caddyshack part. Okay, that's pretty narrow Kenny

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Speaker 1: Loggins window, that's niche right there. But anyway, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about mellow gold because I think you and I can

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Speaker 1: both agree, Chuck, that even just reading about bee keeping,

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Speaker 1: let alone actually engaging in the act of bee keeping,

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Speaker 1: is about the most mellow, just relaxing thing that you

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Speaker 1: can possibly do on this planet. I think it's just

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Speaker 1: above bird watching and birding because birds don't sting you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So so it's less mellow than bird watching. No, no, no, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's less mellow. I think bird watching is the most

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Speaker 1: mellow thing on the planet, Okay. And I think because

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Speaker 1: just slightly more stressful. Yeah, we should probably just go

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Speaker 1: ahead and cut to that particular chase. Like, if you

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Speaker 1: bees don't necessarily know you exist, and they certainly don't

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Speaker 1: learn to love you or anything like that. Um. There's

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Speaker 1: just certain tricks and techniques you can do too vastly

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Speaker 1: but you're going to be stung, like from what I've

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Speaker 1: if you have a b allergy, you probably don't want

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Speaker 1: reading or hearing about bee keeping is relaxing. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a great thing to do, uh for

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Speaker 1: and that's not cool. No, But it's not just that.

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Speaker 1: Remember there's there's the Colony clips Disorder episode that we did. Um. No,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it is a good thing to say, you

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Speaker 1: And we did a full episode on bees in January.

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Speaker 1: What else did we do on We did a a

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Speaker 1: Dave Rouse, from Dave Ruse, from our very own and

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Speaker 1: I actually called a guy from Honey Harvest Farms in Glendon, Maryland.

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Speaker 1: time for winter and all of a sudden, they're starting

425
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: to hit up their food stores and things are getting scarce.

426
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 1: The drones get pushed out into the cold to go

427
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 1: off and die by themselves. That's right, that's a pretty

428
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 1: ignomious end. Yeah, and you know that's it's a good

429
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: time to point out that at different times of the year,

430
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: bees are going to be more well fed, uh naturally,

431
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: And as you'll see, when you're beekeeping, you have to

432
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: keep track of what time of year it is, because,

433
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: like you said, in the winter it's gonna be super scarce,

434
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: but even in the fall and early spring, you're gonna

435
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: need to supplement their food and take right exactly. Because

436
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So so just with this life cycle

437
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: of bees, in the spring, when the flowers start to

438
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: bloom and the bees are going crazy, it's what's called

439
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: the nectar flow. Um, they are producing honey in overtime.

440
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: And so what you're doing is the bee capers, you're saying, okay,

441
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: well here, I want to make sure you have plenty

442
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: of room to store as much honey as you possibly can,

443
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: because what the bees are doing is storing honey, literally

444
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: storing energy away to help get them through the winter.

445
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: And you're going in and saying, I'm going to take

446
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: these honey stores that you plan to use to make

447
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: it through the winter, and I'll leave you some. I'll

448
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: leave you hopefully just enough so that you don't need any.

449
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: But I'll also, as the beekeeper, this human who's insinuating

450
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: himself for herself, I'll hit you up with some food

451
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: to to make sure you guys survive happy and comfortably

452
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: through this winter in exchange for letting me take this honey,

453
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: because I got some toast inside that's just popped out

454
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: of the toaster. Man, I had some creamed honey for

455
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: the first time today. I mean, like, I'm a big

456
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: time honey guy, but I had not had cream honey before.

457
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: And it's like spun honey or is that different. It

458
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: is a combination of crystallized and liquid honey that's highly

459
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: spread herble and I got it. It's like just Trader

460
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: Joe stuff. Who knows where it was made, but um,

461
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: it's very tasty. At least he's doing nothing for my

462
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: immune system, but it's doing a lot for my um

463
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: my limbic system. Yeah, I mean, honey honey sort of

464
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: one of nature's miracles. It is. And you start talking

465
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: about Manuka honey and things add like these healing properties

466
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty great. Stung by a jellyfish put

467
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: some money on it. Oh yeah, I bet it couldn't hurt. No,

468
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: at the very least, you can eat some while you're

469
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: doing that, and it makes things a little better. So

470
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: should we talk about equipment for a bit? Yeah, I

471
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: think so so, because this is about beekeeping. That was

472
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: our brief be overview. But again go back to Janu.

473
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: Do you want the full scoop on bees? But this

474
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: is about beekeeping and if you want to be a beekeeper.

475
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: We also did a little short on beekeeping one of

476
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: our little shorts that we used to like for the

477
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: car commercials when we would go around the different locations,

478
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: we did a little bee keeping bit because I remember

479
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: we had smokers and we wore the hat and veil.

480
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: I remember that too in gloves. I just had forgotten

481
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: what the context was for. But yeah, it was for

482
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: one of those shorts. I can't remember what we call

483
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: them interstitials. That's right, the most dry, scientific clinical name

484
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: for those things. Those were good. Surely you like those those? Yeah?

485
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: I think those? Hold up? Those are fun. So, uh,

486
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: here's what you're gonna need is new equipment. If you're

487
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: new to bee keeping, Dave here recommends you get new equipment. Oh, Yeah,

488
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: you know what you have to because if you get

489
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: inherited equipment, like once you're on the scene, somebody might

490
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: be like, hey, like I got an extra smoker, or

491
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: here some frames I can't use. They open their trench,

492
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of bee boxes hanging inside. What

493
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: do you have? What do you want? But as you

494
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: will find out later on in our section on disease

495
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: and bacteria and stuff, it's pretty prevalent. So you want

496
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: to get your new equipment going if you're new to

497
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: be keeping, just so you start out on the right foot. Yeah,

498
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: because once a specific kind of bacteria that causes foul brood,

499
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: once it's in, once it's in your boxes, like your

500
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: colony is toast in your boxes are done forever. There's

501
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: like you need to burn the boxes so they don't

502
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: end up in somebody's hands because it'll kill just stay

503
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: in linger and kill everybody. So it's not good. So um,

504
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: as we kind of said earlier, far and away, the

505
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: most popular hive among beekeepers is the Langstroth hive, right,

506
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: So we're gonna just kind of focus on that one.

507
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: But it is a lot of fun to just go

508
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: look at exploded diagrams of the different kinds of bee

509
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: hives out there. Beekeepers use and see all the different

510
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: parts or whatever, but there's there's too many of them

511
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: to really go into. So we're just gonna focus on

512
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: the Langstroth high even though it's just the length of

513
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: this introduction to how we're just going to pay attention

514
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: to the lyngstrave hive. I could have covered two or

515
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: three other high but we're gonna stick to just the

516
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: lionstrave hive. Okay, So you could build one of these

517
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: things if you were good at this kind of thing,

518
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: But what I recommend is that you go online or

519
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: you go to if there happens to be a local

520
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: apiary store in your village, go buy one there. If

521
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: you live in a village, there's an apiary store for sure.

522
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: But yes, they also still sell mustash, wax and beard oils,

523
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: handmade axes and made axes. Um so yeah, but it

524
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: is true, like if you have like a quaint hardware store,

525
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: that's probably a good place to to look. And then also, um,

526
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: I guarantee there's a million places online to get them too,

527
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: and they're relatively cheap too. Yeah, not not too much.

528
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: You can get into bees for you know, it seems

529
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: like including the bees for less than five bucks you

530
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: can kind of get going, right, That's that's what I'm getting.

531
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: Probably if you really, you know, watched what you're doing,

532
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: maybe half of that. Yeah, alright, So you get your

533
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: your Langstrath hive. And this thing has a big box

534
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: on the lower half called the hive body or the

535
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: brood chamber, and this is where the bees are mainly. Yeah,

536
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: and even even below that, you have a um a

537
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: stand that the things sitting on. It raises it off

538
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: the ground and usually it's kind of angled, so it's

539
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: like a landing pad for the bees. And then it

540
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: also improves circulation. Then you have the bottom board, which

541
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: is the floor of the hive, which protects the high

542
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: from invaders from above. And then you've got the brood

543
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: chamber above that the hive body, that's right, and that's

544
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be building net comb. That's where the

545
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: queen's gonna be layer eggs. That's where're gonna they're gonna

546
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: raise that brood up, and that's where they're gonna store

547
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: the honey that they think that they're going to be

548
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: eating in abundance, Right, and then you've got a really

549
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: important piece of equipment that it would be very easy

550
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: to overlook if you don't know what you're doing, but

551
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna have shoes if you don't get it. It's

552
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: called the queen excluder. So you remember, Chuck, that you

553
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: said that the queen is about twice the size of

554
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: the workers. I don't know, but you definitely did. I'm

555
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: here to tell you when, um, when when you added

556
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: queen excluder. All it is is basically like a mesh

557
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: or slats or something like that that are space far

558
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: enough apart for the workers to easily make it through,

559
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: but it's too close together for the queen to make

560
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: it through. So the queen won't leave the brood chamber

561
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: to lay eggs. She'll just use the brood chamber for that,

562
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: which means though, that the workers can go lay honey

563
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: in the chamber above the brood chamber, which is called

564
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: the honey super the box above that. That's right, the

565
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: honey super not the supper, No, just the super And

566
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: I didn't see why they call it that, did you know?

567
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: The honey super position. Maybe it's a nod to quantum physics.

568
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: Maybe so, But this is where they're going to store

569
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: that surplus honey when when the plants are blooming in

570
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: that neck are is flowing and you're you're skimming some

571
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: off the top as the beekeeper. Yeah, and like if

572
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: you did not have that queen excluder, the honey super

573
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: would be just another brood chamber because the queen wants

574
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: to use as many places as she can to lay

575
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: eggs and then they lay honey around it. So the

576
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: the eggs, which is where which also serves as the

577
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: nursery for the brood um and the honey they're all

578
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: like together in the same combs. But because you put

579
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: that queen excluder, she's not laying eggs in that honey super,

580
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: which means it's just sweet, delicious honey in all of

581
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: the combs. On the frames, which we haven't talked about yet, well, yeah,

582
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: these are the frames. These are frames that you can

583
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: take in and out. They hang vertically and these days

584
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing how far they've come. They are actually

585
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: pre printed with bees wax or some sort of foundation

586
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: made of plastic that's just sort of says, here you go, bees,

587
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: here's a little head start, right, um, But you found

588
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: some extra interesting stuff about the bees and and their

589
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: wax making abilities to yeah, I did actually so like

590
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,479
Speaker 1: it takes about a table spoon of honey to make

591
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: an ounce of wax, and bees make wax through a gland, right,

592
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: they eat the honey and secrete wax instead, And so

593
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: whenever they create a new brood chamber, they make it,

594
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: they secrete it as wax and basically a circle, and

595
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: then they use their body heat to shape it into

596
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: a hexagon. And the reason they make right, and the

597
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: reason that they make hexagons is because they don't know this,

598
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: but structurally it is the most structurally sound um shape

599
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: in nature. That um uses the least amount of material,

600
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: which is just astounding that bees instinctually know to make

601
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: an um hexagon hexagon right, not octagon right, So they

602
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: but they use but they start with the circle and

603
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: then use their body heat to melt it into the shape. Well, anyway,

604
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: would they have to do this for each a that

605
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: they put in a brood chamber. They have to do

606
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: this for each um, each cell that they put honey into.

607
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: And then they they also make wax to cap the

608
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: honey off. So it requires a lot of honey to

609
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: make that wax, which means logically, if you can give

610
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: them a leg up, either with preprinted honey or plastic

611
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: or leaving as much honey as you can from the

612
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: honey harvest, or leaving as much wax there as you

613
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: can from after the honey harvest, they don't have to

614
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: make new wax. They can reuse the old stuff, which

615
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: means that's less honey that your bees are eating to

616
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: produce wax, which means it's more honey that you're getting. Yes.

617
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're typing an email to

618
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: me right now because I said hexagons or five sided,

619
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: please stop. It is six sides. Yes, everyone knows that

620
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: five sided. Uh, structure is a circle. Wait what is

621
00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: a five sided one? Huh? What's a five sided one? Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

622
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: you're right pentagon. I played enough Dungeons and Dragons as

623
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: a youth that I should know this, but I don't remember.

624
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: I get my guns. Uh confused sometimes everyone, Well, Chuck,

625
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: i'll teach you a little cheat here. Refer to all

626
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: of them as polygons, and you're covered real. Oh yeah,

627
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: so like every hexagon, it's a polygon, that kind of thing, hexagon, triangle,

628
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: anything with three sides or more. It's a polygon and

629
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: someone no, not a polygon, that's a circle. But ask

630
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: someone to debate you. It can't. You'll just shut them

631
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: down every time. Yeah, and also make new friends at parties, right,

632
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: come at me, fight me, polygon. Uh. So you're also

633
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna have a feeder in this thing. We talked a

634
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: little bit earlier about the fact that you're you're skimming

635
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: this honey and taking some for yourself as it's um

636
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 1: made in excess, and at other times of the year

637
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: when it's like especially late summer and winter, they're pollen resources.

638
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: Resources are gonna be lower obviously because things aren't in

639
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: full bloom. So you're gonna have to help feed these

640
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: little little fell was and little ladies. There are feeders,

641
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: um Dave here says something about a zip block bag

642
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: with sugar water with a slit cut. But I've seen

643
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: that's the most rudimentary thing I can imagine. One small

644
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: step up is like, uh, sort of an aluminum pan

645
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: with sugar water that slides in and out of this box. Yeah,

646
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 1: and you know those like pet feeders of pet waters

647
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: that have like the water something look like that. Yeah,

648
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: So that's specifically called a boardman feeder, and it's just

649
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: a mason jar filled with sugar water and um screwed

650
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: into the mason jar cap which is inverted in a

651
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: little wooden thing with some slots for the bees to

652
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: get in and out of, and the cap is perforated,

653
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: so the sugar water just slowly drips out, and so

654
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: it's a long, steady supply of water that you slide

655
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: the wood part that the cap is is inserted upside

656
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: down into um into the front entrance of your beehive.

657
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: So all you have to do is unscrew the mason

658
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: jar and put more sugar water in every once in

659
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: a while, and the bees need. It's a really easy

660
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: way to feed bees, that's right. But specifically you mentioned pollen.

661
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: I saw something that I didn't realize. But when you

662
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: reach about the fall, you don't want the bees to

663
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: have any pollen if you're feeding them. It has to

664
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 1: be like pure sugar water, because if they eat pollen,

665
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: that will produce solid waste, and bees are really clean

666
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: and they won't go in their hive. They leave the

667
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: hive to go evacuate their bowels, which actually ties into

668
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: that yellow rain short stuff we did remember that. But

669
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: they'll go fly away from the hive, but if it's

670
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: too cold, they can't leave the hive, so they will

671
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: actually die rather than poop in the in the colony,

672
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: or some of them will be like, forget it, I'm living.

673
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and poop. But now the

674
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: whole colony is spoiled. And the reason why it is

675
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: because they've eaten too much pollen and they can't make

676
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: it until the spring to go outside and poop. So

677
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: you don't want to feed them any pollen in the fall.

678
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: That's right, And that is the opposite of our wives

679
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: who would rather die than poop in a public place.

680
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: Exactly me too. I basically would as well. Oh I'll

681
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: put anywhere. I know. Man, it's a it's an admirable quality.

682
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't love it, but I certainly won't

683
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: put myself at risk. What's your technique to you go

684
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: to like a happy place and just pretend you're not

685
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: you're not there, like you just leave your body for

686
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: a little while. Uh No, I just go kind of primal,

687
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, Oh yeah, like a lot of grunting, kicking

688
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: at the walls, just you know, it's like that. You

689
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: gotta do it. It's the most primal thing you can

690
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: do to force feces out of your body. And Jerry's

691
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: eating them very sorry, I know, sorry Jerry Themisa is

692
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: just drooling out of the crack of her mouth. I'm

693
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 1: not doing it is So let's let's keep going here

694
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: because we need to move on to the tools, because

695
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: that's the box. That's the langstroth hive. UM, get a

696
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: get a good one, make sure it's solid. Yeah, and again,

697
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: you don't have to break the bank. There's there's a

698
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: there's you know, a cheap basic langstroth hive isn't going

699
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: to put you in the poorhouse. And plus one other

700
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: thing about langstroth hive before we move on. That's so ingenious, Chuck,

701
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: is the um. It's modular and scalable, so you can

702
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: easily like remove the top boxes and put another brood

703
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: chamber on, put another honey super off, and you know,

704
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: harvest more and more honey. Um. It's if you break

705
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: part of it, you can replace parts exactly. So yeah,

706
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: it's it's like a really good inventor, Like it makes

707
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: sense that it would have been invented in eighteen fifty

708
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: and not, you know, really have been changed that much.

709
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,479
Speaker 1: I agreed. Uh. So we talked a little bit about

710
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: the protective clothing that is that veil. You can have

711
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: the cool little uh sort of safari pith helmet with

712
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: a veil um, but usually they will just fit over

713
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: any kind of wide brimmed hat. You want to make

714
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: sure it's snug. Uh. They some people, you know, it

715
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: depends on who you are. If you're really used to this,

716
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: you can build up sensitivity to be stings and you're like,

717
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: forget the gloves, forget covering my body, I'll just wear

718
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: the veil. Some people might not even wear the veil

719
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: because they're so cool. I think at least they wear

720
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: the veil. Oh no, I've seen people handling bees without veils. Friend,

721
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yeah, you think old time beekeepers are putting

722
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: on a veil. All the videos I watched, everyone was

723
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: wearing veils like they might not have been wearing anything else,

724
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: but they had a veil. And they had the second thing,

725
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: a smoker. Well, yeah, you gotta have that smoker. And

726
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: that is a very cool device. And I always wanted

727
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: to hold one, and finally we got to when we

728
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: made that little video interstitial, and it looks sort of

729
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: like they've compared it to a elongated metal teapot. Not

730
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: a bad descriptor. Um. It's just like a metal canister

731
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: with a with a spout pointing upward, and it's got

732
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: a handle that has a little little bellows built into it.

733
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: And what you do is, and I always wonder what

734
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: the heck was in there, You're just burning something. You're

735
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: burning cardboard, or you're burning leaves or something, and use

736
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: that bellows just to pump a little smoke out, right,

737
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: And the reason you're pumping the smoke out is to

738
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: calm the bees, and it calms the bees by masking

739
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: the pheromones that they that there, say the guard bees

740
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: or eoting out, which means that the other bees aren't

741
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: picking up on this alarming pheromone and so they're all

742
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: remaining calm. Actually, So it's an essential tool of the trade,

743
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: is a smoker, that's right. And you're also gonna need

744
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: a hive tool if you look those up. It's if

745
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: you've ever used a wonder bar. I think that's probably

746
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: proprietary name, but it's it's kind of like a kind

747
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: of like a flat crowbar, and that's exactly what it

748
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,439
Speaker 1: looks instead of a beefy round crow bar. I atly

749
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: suggest you get a wonder bar too, because those are

750
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: just great to have a run the house. Yeah, I

751
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: have one of those. You got a wonder bar, I do.

752
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's wonderbar, wonder Bar, trademark, pride bar,

753
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: but it is exactly that. Yeah. Yeah, So this hive

754
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: tool is sort of the same, and it is used

755
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, I think I mentioned be glue earlier on.

756
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: That's propolis and that is uh saliva and bees wax

757
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: and other like materials from the garden maybe, and they

758
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: use that to seal up gaps in the hive. But

759
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to pry open stuff, uh like get

760
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: that be glue loose, and that high tool is what

761
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 1: you use because it doesn't destroy your beautiful, beautiful hip box. Yeah,

762
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: because I mean the frames are where they build these honeycombs,

763
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: and you need to get the frames out to get

764
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: the honey from the honeycombs. So yeah, you're gonna need

765
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: to pry the frames out sometimes because everything the bees

766
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: doing is saying please don't take my honey exactly, and

767
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, but we have a tool that allows

768
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: us to do that, right, Yeah, including it up to

769
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: stinging you to say, please don't take my honey, but yeah,

770
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: we don't listen. You want to take our second break, Yeah,

771
00:42:33,719 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, we'll be right back, all right. So,

772
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: if this whole thing has really floated your boat as

773
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: it did us, because Chuck, I guarantee you both of

774
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: us are going to be country folk beekeepers by by

775
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: the time we're dead in our retirement. Right. Um, So

776
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: if that, if you've been bitten by the bug, the bee,

777
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: if you've been stung by the beekeeping, Um, there's actually

778
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: just a few things you want to do to get started.

779
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: It's not hard to get into. It's one of those

780
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: things like, um, have you ever taken scuba diving lessons?

781
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 1: You learn how to scuba dive and it takes about

782
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and then the rest of like say, the

783
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: week long course is to teach you how to stay

784
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: alive as something goes wrong. Beekeeping is kind of the

785
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: same way, like it's really easy to get into and

786
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: learn the basics, but but it takes years of just

787
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: understanding and learning and picking up new things to to

788
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: really become an advanced beekeeper. Yeah, and and it's you

789
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: can read books, and you can go online and you

790
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: can take courses, but like with everything, there's nothing like

791
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,479
Speaker 1: firsthand experience ants. And like you said, it's it's gonna

792
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: be a while, be a while, I mean to do that.

793
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but in a couple of seasons, you know

794
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: you you're gonna really know what you're doing to a

795
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: large degree. Yeah, Dave Rus says, Man, go find a mentor.

796
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: There's plenty of beekeepers out there who are They're not

797
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: gonna yell at you for asking. They'll probably be happy

798
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: to pass along this knowledge and information. I think. So

799
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: it seems like a hobby slash job that people want

800
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: to spread the love of right like creamed honey. So

801
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: Dave says, though, just there's some basic things to start. Um,

802
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: you want to pick a location for your hive, and

803
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: one of the first things you want to do is

804
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: make sure that you're allowed to have a hive. Depending

805
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: on where you live. If you live out in the country,

806
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: there's probably very few ordinances. Most most ordinances either say

807
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: you can't have bees here because this is a city

808
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: and within the city limits, no bees are allowed. They

809
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: say bees are farm animals, so they belong on a farm.

810
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: Or bees are non domesticated animals, so same thing. Or

811
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 1: heaven forbid you have an e joe, just forget about it. Yeah, literally,

812
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: forget about it if you have an h O way. Um,

813
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: there's one place called Champlaine, Minnesota, and they say, at

814
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: least as far as the University of Minnesota says that

815
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: they allow bees so long as quote the neighbors are

816
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: on board. That's the official from what I understand. I

817
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: don't know if that's in what in the city code

818
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: or the county code, but that's that's how it was

819
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: put on the University of Minnesota website. So that is

820
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: a good point, though. You want to make sure your

821
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: neighbors are cool with it, or at the very least

822
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: that you have enough land that your neighbors aren't gonna

823
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: be bothered by the bees. Yeah. But if you have

824
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: a neighbor that says, you know, I have a I'm

825
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: definitely allergic to bees, and then I mean tell him

826
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: to move right. Either that or it's time for you

827
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: to get into like r C planes. That's right. Um,

828
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: So you you get your local ordinances all settled, you

829
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: pay off your neighbor. And then you want your the

830
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: the uh you want to direct that be traffic. You know,

831
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: like where you set it up on your property is important.

832
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: You don't want to have the hive entrance and exit

833
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: facing your neighbor's property, right, Uh. You want to have

834
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: it facing your house, and you want it ideally facing

835
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: south or southeast. Yeah. And the reason why you want

836
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: to have a facing south and southeast is so it

837
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: gets Also it's a really good morning sun, because that'll

838
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: wake the bees up and get them going and saying,

839
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: get off your duff's lazies and get out there and

840
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: start foraging and make me some honey. That's right. They

841
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: also say that it's goodbye if you have a like

842
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: some bushes or a privet or a fence near the entrance,

843
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: because when they when they leave the hive, that's gonna

844
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: make encourage them to go upwards, yeah, rather than to

845
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: your neighbor's pool. That's right. Um. So you also, in

846
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: addition to making sure the beehive gets morning sun, you

847
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: want to protect it from strong winds. Um. You want

848
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's definitely protected from afternoon the

849
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: worst of the afternoon sun. So say like between two

850
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: and four. You don't want unobstructed sun just beating down

851
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: your beehive is gonna cook them. Um. And you also

852
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: want to make sure that there's a good, you know,

853
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: all weather cap on the bee hive that's going to

854
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: protect it from rain and stuff like that too. And

855
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: speaking of rain, you also want a water source nearby. Yeah,

856
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: I mean you you made a joke about going to

857
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: your neighbor's pool, but that could happen because bees need water.

858
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: They forage for water and they cool to hive with it.

859
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: They blend it with pollen to make bee bread, which

860
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: is pollen, nectar and honey, and that's what they eat.

861
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: And um, I think that's what the larvae especially feed on.

862
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? I think so that be bread.

863
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: So if you live near a pond, or you gotta

864
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: like grow up like me and head a creek uh

865
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: nearby your house, and then you're all you're all set.

866
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: You don't need to worry about it. But if you don't,

867
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: then you're gonna want to put something in Like a

868
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: bird bath might be nice. Or Dave even says you

869
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: can just put a large platter of water. Yeah. Dave

870
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: also says put a zip block of sugar water on

871
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: your beehive and cut have slid in it. So maybe

872
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: go a step further beyond a platter. Well, I mean

873
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: it depends on your esthetic, I think, I guess, but

874
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: I mean put some water in like a tire that

875
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: stood up on its side, and I'm like that to

876
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: see that in your yard. Why are you picking on

877
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: day if he's the best, because that was some just

878
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: genuinely bad. If I still put a platter of water

879
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: out there, like like, put a little more thought into this. Okay, okay,

880
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: all right, So you've got everything except bees. And it

881
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: never occurred to me where you get these bees? Right?

882
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: You know? I thought you just set this all up

883
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: in the bees would be attracted to it and fill

884
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: it up over the course of a decade and then

885
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: you can start making honey. You can actually buy bees. Yeah,

886
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: and they arrive via post postal service what I understand,

887
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: or probably FedEx these days. But I read a mother

888
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: Earth News article from ninety four and they were saying,

889
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: your postman will love you for this, but they're going

890
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: to arrive in a package a box filled with live bees,

891
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: probably somewhere around ten thousand of them. Yeah, And amated queen.

892
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: That's important. It's not like you have all this and

893
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: you're like, now I gotta go find the rarest thing

894
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: in the world, which is a happily mated queen. Right,

895
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: And so the made this is one of the reasons

896
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: I called Jeff um over at the farm at Honey

897
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: Harvest Farm and Glen to Maryland because I was like, well,

898
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't find what made it specifically meant it was

899
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: called premated, That's what Dave. Dave called it premated, So

900
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: I was like, does that mean a virgin queen that

901
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: hasn't made it yet or has made it beforehand? Yeah? Yeah,

902
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: the ladder is correct. They both like they they have

903
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: the queen mate with a bunch of drones and then

904
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: say you wint and take the queen and put a

905
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: sequester her so that she can't lay any eggs. And

906
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: then they put her in a special container with the

907
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: rest of the bees and shipped them to you. And

908
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: then you put the bees together in your own brood

909
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: chamber with the queen in her sequestered thing, and you

910
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: peel back a little like piece of tape or something,

911
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: and that exposes a little candy plug and the workers

912
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: eat through the candy plug to free the the queen.

913
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool how it works, it really is. And

914
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: I've also seen that the candy plug which is meant

915
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: to also keep the queen bee alive during transport, Um,

916
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: if it comes out or something, you can just plug

917
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: it with a marshmallow too, which is the most quaint

918
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: thing I've ever read in my entire line. Uh, you

919
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: should also try and get your bees locally. Um. If

920
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: you get them locally, then you know a that they

921
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: haven't been shipped a long way, which is going to

922
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: stress them out and be that they're gonna be hip

923
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: to your scene. Uh, They're gonna be down with your

924
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: weather and just cool with the bars and the restaurants

925
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: that are nearby. They'll know all about the local schools

926
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: that the parents never stopped talking about, and everyone's just

927
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: gonna be happier. Right. So also, you hopefully you can

928
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: just go pick them up. But I do have the

929
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: impression that there's tons of mail order bees to Oh sure,

930
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: but you you, whatever it is you want to order

931
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: them so that they arrive in early early spring, because

932
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: your whole goal here is to get this colony up

933
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: and moving and really hell, the and well populated and

934
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: rare and to go um by the time the spring

935
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: flowering and the nectar flow begins. That's right. Uh, there's

936
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: another way to do this, what I call the Chuck way,

937
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: the Chuck version, and that's to buy a nuke, right,

938
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: And a nuke is a nucleus colony, and that is

939
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: just sort of like the lazy persons all in one solution.

940
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: You you buy a hive box. It's preloaded, it's stocked,

941
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: it's got an active queen, it's got eggs, it's got

942
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: your brood, it's got your pollen stores, it already has honey,

943
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: for God's sake. And they call it, like I said,

944
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: a short for nucleus colony as a nuke. And you

945
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: can get a nuke for not much more than this

946
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: other stuff, right yeah. And I mean so basically it's

947
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: the brood chamber component that we're talking about with the

948
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: langstroth hive. That's basically what you're buying is they ship

949
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 1: you a like you say, you're ready to go brood chamber,

950
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: and then you just start putting a queen um excluder

951
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,479
Speaker 1: and you know, superboxes and all that stuff on top,

952
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: and there you go. It seems pretty pretty smart to

953
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: me to try starting with that as well. When I

954
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: was looking at the price, I was like, cheeze one

955
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: of these nukes, like a thousand bucks, and it seems

956
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 1: like it was all about fifty dollars more than starting

957
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: from scratch. But I think you can spend quite a

958
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: bit on a starter kit of bees if you're, say, um,

959
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: looking to have just pure bread bees. Yeah, like just

960
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: Italian honey bees are just Russian honey bees because um,

961
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: the different different races have different kind of um tendencies,

962
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Like Italian honeybees tend to to keep a larger population

963
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: over the winter, which means that you need to leave

964
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: them more honey or feed them more. But they're also

965
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: friendly or more docile that kind of stuff. Um. But

966
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: it's really expensive because those bees are artificially inseminated and

967
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: like really in a very controlled environment, whereas with most

968
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: of those ones that you're spending like a hundred two

969
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: hundred bucks on ten tho, they're what they call mutts,

970
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: which are just like, you know, a whole whole bunch

971
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: of different races of the same species of be and

972
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: they they have a lot of different characteristics, some of

973
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 1: which may actually make them less susceptible the diseases than say,

974
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: like pure breads are. It's like it's like a normal

975
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: person compared to um, British Royalty or something. Is that

976
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: too soon? I don't think so. Okay, So once you've

977
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: got everything set up, Um, your main job is going

978
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: to be to feed your bees, try and keep them

979
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: from swarming, and then making sure they stay healthy from

980
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: disease and mites. Um, you're gonna be harvesting that excess

981
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: honey along the way like we've been talking about, and

982
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: gonna be feeding them that sugar water to keep them happy.

983
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: And as you're doing this, you're gonna be learning more

984
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: and more about just sort of the shorthand of it all,

985
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: Like like when you go to even lift the back

986
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: of a box, you're gonna know just by weight, like

987
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: how heavy with honey that the thing is. You're not

988
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep pulling stuff out and looking at

989
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: it over and over. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, all these

990
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: little shortcuts. Um, but we need to talk about swarming

991
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: because that's a that's a big deal and something that

992
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: seems like it could happen fairly easily. Um, if you

993
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: have a good healthy hive going on, and they're producing

994
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: a lot of brood. It's gonna become overcrowded. So you

995
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: want to part of avoiding this is to keep your

996
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: population in check. But if you don't, then they're going

997
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: to swarm, which means half of your colony and sometimes

998
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: all of it is gonna say, come on, queen, let's go.

999
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: Let's leave this place. I don't like this apartment anymore

1000
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: because it's too crowded, right, which is just an unavoidable

1001
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: natural process, because if you think about it, what the

1002
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: bees are doing is reproducing and growing their population, and

1003
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: then eventually, when things get crowded, they split into two

1004
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: and go establish a new colony or um leave the

1005
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: old colony behind. Right, So you're you're artificially preventing that

1006
00:54:55,640 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: from happening by doing things like inspecting the the um chamber.

1007
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: Four signs of queen cells like little queen larva that

1008
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: are being grown by the by the workers, which means

1009
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: that they're preparing to swarm and start another colony. That

1010
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: looks like a little peanut sort of hanging off of

1011
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: your comb. And if you just go through and pick

1012
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 1: those off, literally pick just get them out of there.

1013
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: Then the bees are like, Okay, I guess we're not

1014
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: going to raise another queen now. But there's other things

1015
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: you want to do to Like you want to actually

1016
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: physically get rid of some of the brood to to

1017
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 1: control the population. You're just basically saying this idea about

1018
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: swarming your you we were We're not going to do that.

1019
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: We're going to make it so that you have more

1020
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: room by controlling the population. Yeah, when you say get

1021
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 1: rid of the brood, that doesn't mean, uh, take these

1022
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: frames out and burn them on the fire. You're gonna

1023
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: be involved, hopefully by this time, with other local people

1024
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: in the area that are doing this. You're gonna go

1025
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: in to beekeeper meetings and getting hammered once a month

1026
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: on mead, right, and you're gonna trade with your friends.

1027
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 1: You're gonna say, hey, let's uh, I got too much

1028
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: going on here. I'm afraid I'm gonna get a swarm happening.

1029
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: So here's some brood frames h if you can, If

1030
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: you can take them, and uh, people are going to

1031
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: be very grateful for that. Yeah, because it's kind of

1032
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: like getting a free nuke, uh to to to um

1033
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 1: supplement your your colony. That's maybe not doing so good

1034
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,439
Speaker 1: because there's two problems. One, your colony can be too

1035
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 1: healthy and then it's gonna swarm, which you want to prevent.

1036
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: Or it can be weak, which means that it can

1037
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: be overwhelmed by robber bees nearby bees that come through

1038
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: and to steal a bunch of stuff and basically kill

1039
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: off the weak colony. So yeah, just to supplement your

1040
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: numbers with a brood frame that somebody doesn't want because

1041
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: their population is starting to swarm, that would be a

1042
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: very good thing to have. That's right. One other thing

1043
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: about swarming chuck, that's how you make a bee beard.

1044
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: That's right. You take a queen and you tire to

1045
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,399
Speaker 1: your forehead and the bees will come and form a

1046
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: beard or around your face. That's what they're doing with

1047
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: the bee beard. It's pretty funny looking and they will

1048
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: get stung. But the reason why they're not totally stung

1049
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: is because before they swarm, the bees gorge themselves on

1050
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: honey for their traveling to go establish the new colony,

1051
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: and they're just following the queen, and so if the

1052
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: queen is tied to your forehead, they're just hanging out

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Speaker 1: waiting to see what she's gonna do totally. All right.

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Speaker 1: We need to talk about disease because it is. It

1055
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: is bad right now. Um, there's something called the Veroa might,

1056
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: which is a parasitic pest and it is very small,

1057
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: came to the United States in the nineteen eighties and

1058
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: is the most common cause of be death and colony

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00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: failure right now because of commercial beehives. Almost half uh

1060
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: in spring were infected with veroa. It's a bad, bad problem.

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Speaker 1: It is because they will lay their eggs. These mites

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00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: will lay their eggs on the um larva or the

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00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: pupa of the bees, and they will feed on the

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00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: pupa and either kill them or deform them. They will

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00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: also attach themselves to adult bees and suck their blood.

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00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: They spread disease. It's a really bad jam. And so

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00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: as being a beekeeper, you have to keep an eye

1068
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: out for any kind of might infestation and then treat

1069
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: it accordingly. That's like a basic part of beekeeping, but

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00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: also something that's a little more advanced than anything we

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00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: could really go into now. It's just know that part

1072
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: of beekeeping is monitoring for diseases and pests and then

1073
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: treating them. Yeah, you don't want more than ten, And

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00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: there are various ways that you can test how many

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00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,959
Speaker 1: mites you have. Uh that once you get into bee keeping,

1076
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna learn on these little tricks. But you don't

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00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: want any more than ten mites per two bees. And

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00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: if you have more than that, then you're in trouble.

1079
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: And when you look at a picture of these things

1080
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: like sitting on a bee and feeding on it, it's

1081
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: just you just want to like pride off of their

1082
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: right and squash it. Right. But then then foul brood,

1083
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: which we mentioned earlier, is another big problem, and there

1084
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: it got its name from the sulfur smell that a

1085
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: brood um, a brood frame will have when you pull

1086
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: it out. And once you have that, your your whole

1087
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,439
Speaker 1: colonies gone. They're goners and you need to burn your

1088
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: your wooden wear. Yeah, I saw dead fish. I was

1089
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: because I saw sulfur and I was like, well, does

1090
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: this swim like farts? Right? But then I saw dead

1091
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: fish was kind of what a lot of people said

1092
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: it smells like. And if you've got that, then I'm sorry,

1093
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: that's what a letdown. It is a letdown, especially if

1094
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: it happens you know, right around you know, right before

1095
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: they really start producing honey, right, and that's where we

1096
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: find ourselves. Finally you get to that sweet, sweet, mellow gold,

1097
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: which is which is what you're doing this for, and

1098
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: not only to get the honey, but obviously it also

1099
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: do the right thing by encouraging be populations. But harvesting

1100
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: honey is what everyone's really in it for. Whether you're

1101
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: gonna sell it or just give it away to friends

1102
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: or just have some for your family, that's really the

1103
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: end game here. And so like when you do when

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00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: you go to to get the honey um, there's actually

1105
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: a pretty clever little thing you put on uh in

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01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: between the brood chamber and the honey super that you're

1107
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: gonna collect honey from that lets the bees out, but

1108
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: it's it produces a maze for them to try to

1109
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: get back in. So after forty eight hours, all of

1110
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: bees will clear out and you can take your honey

1111
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: super and all of the frames laden with honey and

1112
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: put them into an extractor, which is definitely going to

1113
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: probably double the amount that you've put into your bee

1114
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: keeping so far. But from everything I've seen is if

1115
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: you're going to harvest honey, this is the way to

1116
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: do it. Did you see any videos on this. Yeah,

1117
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: I mean you can get mechanical, motorized ones it's like

1118
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: a centrifuge, but the ones I saw were mainly very homespun,

1119
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: just sort of these hand cranked versions literally homespun. Yeah.

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01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: You you you uncapped and remove the wax, and you'll

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01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: see in these videos they hold up the frames and

1122
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: just take a knife, like a hot knife, and just

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01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: sort of cut the wax away from the frame and

1124
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 1: then you can literally see the honey there. If you

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01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: don't have a uh an extractor, you can just do

1126
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: it the old fashioned way and lay it down and

1127
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: just wait for the honey to flow. But you can

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01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: also stick them down in the extractor. The one I

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01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: saw held about eight frames and you just crank that

1130
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: thing and it just slings the honey out and filters.

1131
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: You have to have certain sized screens, uh for for

1132
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: honey extraction to filter out the wax bits and be

1133
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: legs and antennae or things, you know, be parts. You

1134
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: want to get that stuff out of there too. Yeah.

1135
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: But then at the bottom is the catch where they

1136
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, between the the extractor and the screen is

1137
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: a reservoir and there's this bigot on the bottom and

1138
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: you put it up on your countertop and pure honey

1139
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: just flows right out of the bottom. It's pretty awesome.

1140
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: It's beautiful and the taste delicious. The good thing about

1141
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,959
Speaker 1: the extractor, too, is all you're doing is carving off

1142
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: the top wax cap, but you're leaving the the wax

1143
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: part of the chamber, the bulk of the wax intact,

1144
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: so that the bees can reuse it and they have

1145
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: to eat less honey to produce more wax for the

1146
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: next season. It's pretty great. It is pretty great. That's

1147
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: bee keeping, which is pretty great too. Agreed, you got

1148
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: anything else right now? I got nothing else? Well, we'll

1149
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: talk about this more later when we get into be keeping.

1150
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: His old man, Okay, yeah, for sure. Uh. Not that

1151
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: you have to be an old man to be into

1152
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: be keeping. This's not at all what I mean. No. Uh.

1153
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: If you want to more about bee keeping, go on

1154
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Speaker 1: a how stuff works and check out this awesome article

1155
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: by Dave Rouse. And there's also tons of other stuff

1156
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: around the internet to help you. I mean, since I

1157
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:28,479
Speaker 1: said tons of other stuff on the internet, that means

1158
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Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail. I'm gonna call this,

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Speaker 1: uh something about our jingle, our theme song. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: been listening for about eight years. I never had a

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Speaker 1: reason to write in. And you get a lot of

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Speaker 1: emails from couples who sing your jingle back and forth

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Speaker 1: went downstairs for some water. I'm sure you can guess

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Speaker 1: what happened next down I go into my front door,

1174
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Speaker 1: chipping a tooth. I was not guessing that that was

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. I wasn't gonna guess that either, But Jamie,

1176
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Speaker 1: I'm very sorry that happened. Seriously, Jamie is from Sienna College,

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Speaker 1: and uh, I'm sorry. The worst of all earworms right that?

1178
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Speaker 1: But that was the email. It just kind of ended

1179
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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I mean it was like I wanted

1180
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Speaker 1: it to be like, and I went to the dentist

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1182
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Speaker 1: But no, it ended with the chipping of the tooth.

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1185
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Speaker 1: like many of my own stories. If you want to

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Speaker 1: get in touch of this, like Jamie did to let

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1188
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