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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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

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Speaker 1: over there, and this is Stuff you Should Know, the

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Speaker 1: Mellow Gold edition. We're 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 Candy

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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'm catching him right after the Messina part, right before

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Speaker 1: the Caddyshack part. Okay, that's pretty narrow Kenny Loggins window.

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Speaker 1: That's niche right there. But anyway, I'm talking about Mellow gold,

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Speaker 1: because I think you and I can both agree chuk

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Speaker 1: that even just reading about bee keeping, let alone actually

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Speaker 1: engaging in the act of bee keeping, is about the

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Speaker 1: most mellow, just relaxing thing that you can possibly do

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Speaker 1: on this planet. I think it's just above bird watching

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Speaker 1: and birding because birds don't sting you. Okay, So so

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Speaker 1: 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: there's a threat of stinging, than bees have to be

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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: are a beekeeper, you're going to get stinged. Like the

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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: cut down on the chance you're going to be stung.

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

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Speaker 1: seen several dozen times a year from working very closely

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Speaker 1: with bees, handling them, interacting with them. Um. And so

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

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Speaker 1: to take up bee keeping. But but don't turn this

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Speaker 1: episode off because as we were just saying, even just

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Speaker 1: reading or hearing about beekeeping is relaxing. Yeah, and it's

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

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Speaker 1: environment now because bees are super important to the environment

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Speaker 1: and they're dying off because people spray for mosquitoes and

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Speaker 1: that's not cool. No, but it's not just that. Remember

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Speaker 1: there's there's the colony claps Disorder episode that we did. Um,

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Speaker 1: no one ever got to the bottom of what has

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Speaker 1: been the cause of this. There's like so many different

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Speaker 1: culprits from like round up to um to yeah to

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Speaker 1: uh uh, pest sides to cell phone towers. Was a

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Speaker 1: culprit there for a little while, or suspected culprit, but

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Speaker 1: as far as we know, as far as I know,

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Speaker 1: we don't know exactly what it is that's leading to

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Speaker 1: colony claps disorder. So yeah, it is a good thing

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Speaker 1: to say, you know what, I'm going to oversee a

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Speaker 1: in hog Heaven as far as um their little lifespans

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Speaker 1: are concerned. That's right, and we did a full episode

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Speaker 1: on bees in January. What else did we do on bees?

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Speaker 1: We did a a TV show episode on bees. And

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Speaker 1: I sent you a clip from that episode today and uh,

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Speaker 1: we we both had a good laugh. I thought it

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Speaker 1: compared to how I remember it. Yeah. Wow, I thought

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Speaker 1: E to me and I guess enough time has passed.

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Speaker 1: Word now I look back on him, like, this is

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Speaker 1: actually not nearly as bad as I remember it being.

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Speaker 1: Nostalgia has kicked in. It's the shaan On effect, I guess.

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Speaker 1: So that's funny, you say, Sean Not because I was

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Speaker 1: Half this morning. So, uh, beekeeping in the United States

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Speaker 1: the stat and this was This is an article from

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Speaker 1: the Old House Stuff Works website, but it's from Dave

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Speaker 1: Rouse from Dave Rouse, from our very own and that's

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Speaker 1: how I found it because I'm looking for Ruse specific material.

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Speaker 1: Now it's it's just bona fide good stuff, it is.

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Speaker 1: But he had a stat here from where uh, there

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Speaker 1: were about two point six seven million honey bee colonies

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of backyard beekeepers doing their best

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Speaker 1: work in going out there with their mellow gold, smoking

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Speaker 1: up those hives and and getting out that sweet sweet nectar. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and actually those are good people to buy it from

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Speaker 1: if you believe in immunotherapy like I do, which apparently

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Speaker 1: is still considered unproven. Who do, But it makes so

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Speaker 1: much sense that you could introduce small amounts of like

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Speaker 1: local pollen that you may develop an allergy to to

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Speaker 1: buy honey that's been produced within ten twenty miles maybe

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Speaker 1: go find one of those small beekeepers who sells their honey. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If you're on your your Facebook neighborhood page or your

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Speaker 1: next door neighborhood page. Chances are you will see someone

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Speaker 1: pop up every now and then it says I've got

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Speaker 1: honey or eggs or something like that, or goat's milk.

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Speaker 1: Just go get that stuff and eat it up, right,

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Speaker 1: Who wants goats milk? Cool wants goats milk? You know,

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Speaker 1: the traditional Facebook post grips um. You can also go

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Speaker 1: You're probably going to find local honey there, or a

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Speaker 1: And while beekeeping is for sure fun and this made

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Speaker 1: learn and you get better and better at it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I want to shout out to also to some

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Speaker 1: of the great resources. In addition to this house Stuff

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Speaker 1: and all three of those are great resources. But there's

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Speaker 1: like arcane questions. And there's tons of forms like people

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I got the impression that, like there's always

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Speaker 1: um probably has its own personality, I guess, is how

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Speaker 1: you'd put it. Yeah. Should we go back in time

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Speaker 1: say if you find old honey like that, you can

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Speaker 1: being just delicious honey, even if it's crystallized, right, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't stores. It stores right, tastes like chicken,

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Speaker 1: And then they've also found hives that were human built,

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Speaker 1: And that's ultimately what beekeeping is. We'll see it's human saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: keep track of what time of year it is, because,

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00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: like you said, in the winter it's gonna be super scarce,

426
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: but even in the fall and early spring, you're gonna

427
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: need to supplement their food intake, right exactly, Because here's

428
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: the thing, so, so just with this life cycle of bees.

429
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: In the spring, when the flowers start to bloom and

430
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: the bees are going crazy, it's what's called the nectar flow. Um,

431
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: they are producing honey in overtime. And so what you're

432
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: doing is the bee caepers. You're saying, Okay, well here,

433
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: I want to make sure you have plenty of room

434
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: to store as much honey as you possibly can, because

435
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 1: what the bees are doing is storing honey, literally storing

436
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: energy away to help get them through the winter. And

437
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: you're going in and say, I'm going to take these

438
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: honey stores that you plan to use to make it

439
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: through the winter, and I'll leave you some. I'll leave you,

440
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 1: hopefully just enough so that you don't need any, but

441
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 1: I'll also, as the beekeeper, this human who's insinuating himself

442
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: for herself, I'll hit you up with some food too,

443
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: to make sure you guys survive, happy, and comfortably through

444
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: this winter in exchange for letting me take this honey,

445
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: right because I've got some toast inside that's just popped

446
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: out of the toaster. Man, I had some creamed honey

447
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: for the first time today. I mean, like, I'm a

448
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: big time honey guy, but I had not had cream

449
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: honey before, and it's like spun honey or is that different.

450
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: It is a combination of crystallized and liquid honey that's

451
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: highly spread herble and I got it. It's like just

452
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: Trader Joe stuff. Who knows where it was made, but um,

453
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: it's very tasty. At least he's doing nothing for my

454
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: immune system, but it's doing a lot for my um

455
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: my limbic system. Yeah, I mean, honey's honey is sort

456
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: of one of nature's miracles. It is when you start

457
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: talking about Manuka honey and things at like these healing

458
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: properties and it's it's pretty great. Stung by jellyfish. Put

459
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: some money on it. Oh yeah, I bet it couldn't hurt. No,

460
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: at the very least you can eat some while you're

461
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: doing that and it makes things a little better. So

462
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: should we talk about equipment for a bit? Yeah, I

463
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: think so so, because this is about beekeeping. That was

464
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: our brief be overview. But again go back to Jan

465
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: if you want the full scoop on bees. But this

466
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: is about beekeeping and if you want to be a beekeeper.

467
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: We also did a little short on beekeeping. One of

468
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: our little shorts that we used to like for the

469
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: car commercials. When we would go around the different locations,

470
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: we did a little bee keeping bit because I remember

471
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: we had smokers and we wore the hat and veil.

472
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: I remember that too in gloves. I just had forgotten

473
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 1: what the context was for. But yeah, it was for

474
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: one of those shorts. I can't remember what we call

475
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: them interstitials. That's right, the most dry, scientific clinical name

476
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: for those things. Those were good. Surely you like those those? Yeah?

477
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: I think those hold up? Those are fun. So, uh,

478
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: here's what you're gonna need is new equipment. If you're

479
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: new to be keeping, Dave here recommends you get new equipment.

480
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know you have to because if you

481
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: get inherited equipment, like once you're on the scene, somebody

482
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: might be like, hey, like I got an extra smoker,

483
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: or here some frames I can't use. They open their

484
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: trench coat and they've got a bunch of bee boxes

485
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: hanging inside. What do you have? But as you will

486
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: find out later on in our section on disease and

487
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: bacteria and stuff, it's pretty prevalent. So you want to

488
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: get your new equipment going if you're new to be keeping,

489
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: just so you start out on the right foot. Yeah,

490
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: because once a specific kind of bacteria that causes foul brood,

491
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: once it's in, once it's in your boxes, like you're

492
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: calling his toast, and your boxes are done forever. There's

493
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: like you need to burn the boxes so they don't

494
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: end up in somebody's hands because it'll kill just stay

495
00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: in linger and kill everybody. So it's not good. So um,

496
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: as we kind of said earlier, far and away, the

497
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: most popular hive among beekeepers is the Langstroth hive, right,

498
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: So we're gonna just kind of focus on that one.

499
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: But it is a lot of fun to just go

500
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: look at exploded diagrams of the different kinds of bee

501
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: hives out there the beekeepers use and see all the

502
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: different parts or whatever. But there's there's too many of

503
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: them to really go into. So we're just gonna focus

504
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: on the Langstroth high Even though with just the length

505
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: of this introduction to how we're just going to pay

506
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: attention to the Langstroth hive, I could have covered two

507
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: or three other highs, but we're gonna stick to just

508
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: the Langstroth hive. Okay, So you could build one of

509
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: these things if you were good at this kind of thing.

510
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: But what I recommend is that you go online or

511
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: you go to if there happens to be a local

512
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: apiary store in your village, go buy one there. If

513
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: you live in a village, there's an apiary store for sure.

514
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: But yes, they also still sell mustash, wax and beard oils,

515
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: handmade axes and axis um so, yeah, but it is true,

516
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: like if you have like a quaint hardware store, that's

517
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: probably a good place to to look. And then also, um,

518
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: I guarantee there's a million places online to get them too.

519
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: And they're relatively cheap too, yeah, not not too much.

520
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: You can get into bees for you know, it seems

521
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: like including the bees for less than five bucks you

522
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: can kind of get going, right, That's that's what I'm getting.

523
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: And probably if you really, you know, watched what you're doing,

524
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: maybe half of that. Yeah. Alright, So you get your

525
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: your Langstrath hive and this thing has a big box

526
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: on the lower half called the hive body or the

527
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: brood chamber, and this is where the bees are mainly. Yeah,

528
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: and even even below that, you have a um a

529
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: stand that the things sitting on it raises it off

530
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: the ground and usually it's kind of angled, so it's

531
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: like a landing pad for the bees, and then it

532
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: also improves circulation. Then you have the bottom board, which

533
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: is the floor of the hive, which protects the high

534
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: from invaders from above. And then you've got the brood

535
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: chamber above that the hive body that's right, and that's

536
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: where they're going to be building net comb. That's where

537
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: the queen's gonna be laying or eggs. That's where gonna

538
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna raise that brood up, and that's where they're

539
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: gonna store the honey that they think that they're going

540
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: to be eating an abundance, right, and then you've got

541
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: a really important piece of equipment that it would be

542
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: very easy to overlook if you don't know what you're doing,

543
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have issues if you don't get it.

544
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: It's called the queen excluder. So you remember, Chuck that

545
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: you said that the queen is about twice the size

546
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: of the workers. I don't know, but you definitely did.

547
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you when, um, when when you

548
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: added queen excluder. All it is is basically like a

549
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: mesh or slats or something like that that are space

550
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: far enough apart for the workers to easily make it through,

551
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: but it's too close together for the queen to make

552
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: it through. So the queen won't leave the brood chamber

553
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: to lay eggs. She'll just use the brood chamber for that,

554
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: which means though, that the workers can go lay honey

555
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: in the chamber above the brood chamber, which is called

556
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: the honey super the box above that. That's right, the

557
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: honey super not the supper, No, just the super And

558
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: I didn't see why they call it that, did you,

559
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: The honey super position. Maybe it's a nod to quantum physics.

560
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: Maybe so, but this is where they're gonna store that

561
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: surplus honey when when the plants are blooming and that

562
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: nectar is flowing and you're you're skimming some off the

563
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: top as the beekeeper. Yeah, and like if you did

564
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: not have that queen excluder, the honey super would be

565
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: just another brood chamber, because the queen wants to use

566
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: as many places as she can to lay eggs, and

567
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: then they lay honey around it. So the the eggs

568
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: which is where which also serves as the nursery for

569
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: the brood um and the honey they're all like together

570
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: in the same combs, but because you put that queen excluder,

571
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: she's not laying eggs in that honey super which means

572
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: it's just sweet, delicious honey in all of the combs.

573
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: On the frames, which we haven't talked about yet, well, yeah,

574
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: these are the frames. These are frames that you can

575
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: take in and out. They hang vertically, and these days

576
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing how far they've come. They are actually

577
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: pre printed with bees wax or some sort of foundation

578
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: made of plastic. That's just sort of says, here you go, bees,

579
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: here's a little head start, right, um, but you found

580
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: some extra interesting stuff about the bees and their wax

581
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: making abilities to Yeah, I did, actually so Like it

582
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 1: takes about a table spoon of honey to make an

583
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: ounce of wax, and bees make wax through a gland, right,

584
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: they eat the honey and secrete wax instead, And so

585
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 1: whenever they create a new brood chamber, they make it,

586
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: they secrete it as wax and basically a circle, and

587
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: then they use their body heat to shape it into

588
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: a hexagon. And the reason they kind of perfect to right,

589
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: And the reason that they make hexagons is because they

590
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: don't know this, but structurally it is the most structurally

591
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: sound um shape. Inn sure that um uses the least

592
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: amount of material, which is just astounding that bees instinctually

593
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: know to make an um hexagon hexagon right, not octagon right,

594
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: So they but but they use but they start with

595
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: the circle and then use their body heat to melt

596
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: it into the shape. Well, anyway, what they have to

597
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: do this for each egg that they put in a

598
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: brood chamber. They have to do this for each um,

599
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: each cell that they put honey into, and then they

600
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: they also make wax to cap the honey off. So

601
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: it requires a lot of honey to make that wax,

602
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: which means logically, if you can give them a leg up,

603
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: either with preprinted honey or plastic or leaving as much

604
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: honey as you can from the honey harvest, or leaving

605
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: as much wax there as you can from after the

606
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: honey harvest, they don't have to make new wax. They

607
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: can reuse the old stuff, which means that's less honey

608
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: that your bees are eating to produce wax, which means

609
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: it's honey that you're getting. Yes, And by the way,

610
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: if you're typing an email to me right now, because

611
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: I said hexagons or five sided Please stop? Okay, it

612
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: is six sides. Yes, everyone knows that five sided. Uh,

613
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: structure is a circle. Wait what is a five sided one? Huh?

614
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: What's a five sided one? Uh? Is that a pentagon? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

615
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: you're right pentagon. I played enough dungeons and dragons as

616
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: a youth that I should know this, but I don't remember.

617
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 1: Get my guns? Uh, confused sometimes everyone, Well, chuckle, I'll

618
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: teach you a little cheat here. Refer to all of

619
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: them as polygons, and you're covered. Oh yeah, So like

620
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: every hexagon, it's a polygon, that kind of thing, hexagon, triangle,

621
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: anything with three sides or more, it's a polygon. And

622
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: someone no, not a polygon, that's a circle. But asked

623
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: someone to debate you. It can't. You'll just shut them

624
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: down every time. Yeah, and also make new friends at parties. Ready,

625
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: come at me, fight me, polygon. Uh. So you're also

626
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: gonna have a feeder in this thing. We talked a

627
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: little bit earlier about the fact that you're you're skimming

628
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: this honey and taking some for yourself as it's um

629
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: made in excess, and at other times of the year

630
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: when it's like, especially late summer and winter, their pollen

631
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: resources resources are gonna be lower obviously because things aren't

632
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: in full bloom. So you're gonna have to help feed

633
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: these little little fellas and little ladies. There are feeders

634
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: um Dave here says something about a zip block bag

635
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: with sugar water with a slit cut. But I've seen

636
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: that's the most rudimentary thing I can imagine. One small

637
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: step up is like, uh, sort of an aluminum pan

638
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: with sugar water that slides in and out of this box. Yeah.

639
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: And you know those like pet feeders, those pet waters

640
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 1: that have like the water, some of them look like that. Yeah.

641
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: So that's specifically called a boardman feeder. And it's just

642
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: a mason jar filled with sugar water and um screwed

643
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: into the mason jar cap, which is inverted in a

644
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: little wooden thing with some slots for the bees to

645
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: get in and out of, and the cap is perforated,

646
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: so the sugar water just slowly drips out, and so

647
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: it's a long, steady supply of water that you slide

648
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: the wood part that the cap is is inserted upside

649
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: down into um into the front entrance of your bee hive.

650
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 1: So all you have to do is unscrew the mason

651
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: jar and put more sugar water in every once in

652
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: a while, and the bees need. It's a really easy

653
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: way to feed bees. But specifically you mentioned pollen. I

654
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: saw something that I didn't realize. But when you reach

655
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: about the fall, you don't want the bees to have

656
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: any pollen. If you're feeding them, it has to be

657
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: like pure sugar water, because if they eat pollen, that

658
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: will produce solid waste. And bees are really clean and

659
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: they won't go in their hive. They leave the hive

660
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: to go evacuate their bowels, which actually ties into that

661
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: yellow rain short stuff. We did remember that. But they'll

662
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: go fly away from the hive, but if it's too cold,

663
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: they can't leave the hive, so they will actually die

664
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: rather than poop in the in the colony, or some

665
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: of them will be like, forget it, I'm living, I'm

666
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and poop. But now the whole

667
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: colony is spoiled. And the reason why it is because

668
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: they've eaten too much pollen and they can't make it

669
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: until the spring to go outside and poop. So you

670
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: don't want to feed him any pollen in the fall.

671
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: That's right, and that is the opposite of our wives

672
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: who would rather die than poop in a public place.

673
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: Exactly me too. I basically would as well. Oh I'll

674
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: pop anywhere. I know. Man, it's a it's an admirable quality.

675
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't love it, but I certainly won't

676
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: put myself at risk. What's your technique to you go

677
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: to like a happy place and just pretend you're not

678
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: you're not there, like you just leave your body for

679
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: a little while. Uh no, I just go kind of primal,

680
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 1: you know, oh yeah, like a lot of grunting, kicking

681
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: at the walls. Just you know, it's like that. You

682
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: gotta do it. It's the most primal thing you can

683
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: do to force feces out of your body. And Jerry's

684
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: eating them very sorry, I know, sorry Jerry Themisa is

685
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: just drooling out of the crack of her mouth. Oh

686
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it is So let's let's keep going

687
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: here because we need to move on to the tools,

688
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: because that's the box. That's the langstroth hive. Um, get

689
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: a get a good one. Make sure it's solid. Yeah,

690
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: and again, you don't have to break the bank. There's

691
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: there's a there's you know, a cheap basic langstroth hive

692
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: isn't going to put you in the poorhouse. And plus

693
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: one other thing about langstroth hive before we move on

694
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: that so ingenious chuck is the um it's modular and scalable,

695
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: so you can easily like remove the top boxes and

696
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: put another brood chamber on, put another honey super on,

697
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: and you know, harvest more and more honey. Um. It's

698
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: if you break part of it, you can replace parts exactly.

699
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's like a really good inventor, Like

700
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: it makes sense that it would have been invented in

701
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty and not you know, really have been changed

702
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: that much. I agreed. Uh. So we talked a little

703
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: bit about the protective clothing that is that veil. You

704
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: can have the cool little uh sort of safari pith

705
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: helmet with a veil, but usually they will just fit

706
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: over any kind of wide brimmed hat. You want to

707
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: make sure it's snug. Uh. They some people, you know,

708
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: it depends on who you are. If you're really used

709
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: to this, you can build up sensitivity to be stings

710
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, forget the gloves forget covering my body.

711
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: I'll just wear the veil. Some people might not even

712
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: wear the veil because they're so cool. I think at

713
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: least they wear the veil. Oh no, I've seen people

714
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: handling bees without veils. Friend, that's crazy. Yeah, you think

715
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: old time beekeepers are putting on a veil. All the

716
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: videos I watched, everyone was wearing veils like they might

717
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: not have been wearing anything else, but they had a veil.

718
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: And they had the second thing a smoker. Well, yeah,

719
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: you gotta have that smoker. And that is a very

720
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: cool device. And I always wanted to hold one, and

721
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,479
Speaker 1: finally we got to when we made that little video

722
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: interstitial And it looks sort of like they've compared it

723
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: to a elongated metal teapot. Not a bad descriptor, um.

724
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: It's just like a metal canister with a with a

725
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: spout pointing up where, and it's got a handle that

726
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: has a little little bellows built into it. And what

727
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: you do is, and I always wonder what the heck

728
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: was in there. You're just burning something. You're burning cardboard

729
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: or you're burning leaves or something, and use that bellows

730
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: just to pump a little smoke out right, and the

731
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: reason you're pumping the smokeout is to calm the bees,

732
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,479
Speaker 1: and it calms the bees by masking the pheromones that

733
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: they that they're say, the guard bees are shooting out,

734
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: which means that the other bees aren't picking up on

735
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 1: this alarming pheromone, and so they're all remaining calm. Actually,

736
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: so it's an essential tool of the trade, is a smoker.

737
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: That's right, And you're also gonna need a hive tool

738
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: if you look those up. It's if you've ever used

739
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: a wonder bar. I think that's probably proprietary name, but

740
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like a kind of like a

741
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: flat crow bar, and that's exactly what it looks instead

742
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: of a beefy round crow bar. I at ly suggest

743
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: you get a wonder bar too, because those are just

744
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: great to have run the house. Yeah, I have one

745
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: of those. You got a wonder bar, I do. I

746
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: don't know if it's Wonderbar, wonder Bar, trademark, pride bar,

747
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: but it is exactly that. Yeah. Yeah, So this high

748
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: tool is sort of the same and it is used.

749
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: You know, I think I mentioned be glue earlier on.

750
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: That's propolis and that is uh saliva and bees wax

751
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: and other like materials from the garden maybe, and they

752
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: use that to seal up gaps in the hive. But

753
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to pry open stuff like get that

754
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: be glue loose, and that high tool is what you

755
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: use because it doesn't destroy your beautiful, beautiful hive box. Yeah,

756
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: because I mean the frames are where they build these honeycombs,

757
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: and you need to get the frames out to get

758
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: the honey from the honeycombs. So yeah, you're gonna need

759
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: to pry the frames out sometimes because everything the bees

760
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: doing is saying please don't take my honey exactly, and

761
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, but we have a tool that allows

762
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: us to do that, Yeah, including it up to stinging

763
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: you to say please don't take my honey. But yeah,

764
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: we don't listen. You want to take our second break, Yeah,

765
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, we'll be right back, all right. So,

766
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: if this whole thing has really floated your boat as

767
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: it did us, because Chuck, I guarantee you both of

768
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: us are going to be country folk beekeepers by by

769
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: the time we're dead in our retirement, right. Um, So

770
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: if that, if you've been bitten by the bug, the

771
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: bee if you've been stung by the bee keeping bug. Um,

772
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: there's actually just a few things you want to do

773
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: to get started. It's not hard to get into. It's

774
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: one of those things like, um, have you ever taken

775
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: scuba diving lessons? You learn how to scuba dive and

776
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: it takes about thirty minutes and then the rest of

777
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: like say, the week long course is to teach you

778
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: how to stay alive as something goes wrong. Right. Beekeeping

779
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: is kind of the same way, Like it's really easy

780
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: to get into and learn the basics, but but it

781
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: takes years of just understanding and learning and picking up

782
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 1: new things to to really become an advanced beekeeper. Yeah.

783
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: And and it's you can read books, and you can

784
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: go online, and you can take courses, but like with everything,

785
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: there's nothing like firsthand experience. And like you said, it's

786
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a while, be a while, I mean

787
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: to do that. I'm sorry, but in a couple of seasons,

788
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: you know you you're gonna really know what you're doing

789
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: to a large degree. Yeah, Dave Russ says, man, go

790
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: find a mentor. There's plenty of beekeepers out there who

791
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: are They're not gonna yell at you for asking, they'll

792
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: probably be happy to pass along this knowledge and information.

793
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: I think. So it seems like a hobby slash job

794
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: that people want to spread the love of right like

795
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: creamed honey. So Dave says, though, just there's some basic

796
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 1: things to start. Um, you want to pick a location

797
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: for your hive, and one of the first things you

798
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: want to do is make sure that you're allowed to

799
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: have a hive. Depending on where you live. If you

800
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: live out in the country, there's probably very few ordinances.

801
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: Most most ordinances either say you can't have bees here

802
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: because this is a city and within the city limits,

803
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: no bees are allowed. They say bees are farm animals

804
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: so they belong on a farm, or bees are non

805
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: domesticated animals, so same thing. Heaven forbid you have an

806
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: h O A just forget about it. Yeah, literally, forget

807
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: about it if you have an h O W A. Um.

808
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: There's one place called Champlaine, Minnesota, and they say, at

809
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: least as far as the University of Minnesota says that

810
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: they allow bees so long as quote the neighbors are

811
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: on board. That's the official from what I understand. I

812
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 1: don't know if that's in what's in the city code

813
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: or the county code. But that's that's how it was

814
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: put on the University of Minnesota website. So that is

815
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: a good point there. You want to make sure your

816
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: neighbors are cool with it, or at the very least

817
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: that you have enough land that your neighbors aren't gonna

818
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: be bothered by the bees. Yeah. But if you have

819
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: a neighbor that says, you know, I have a I'm

820
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: definitely allergic to bees, and then I mean tell them

821
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: to move right Either that or it's time for you

822
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: to get into like r C planes. That's right. Um,

823
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: So you you get your local ordinances all settled, you

824
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: pay off your neighbor, and then you want your the

825
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: the uh you want to direct that be traffic, you know,

826
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: like where you set it up on your property is important.

827
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: You don't want to have the hive entrance and exit

828
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: facing your neighbor's property, right, Uh. You want to have

829
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: it facing your house, and you want it ideally facing

830
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: south or southeast. Yeah. And the reason why you want

831
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: to have a facing south to southeast is so it

832
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: gets all sorts of really good morning sun because that'll

833
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: wake the bees up and get them going and saying,

834
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: get off your duff's lazies and get out there and

835
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: start foraging and make me some honey. That's right. They

836
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: also say that it's goodbye if you have a like

837
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: some bushes or a private or a fence near the entrance,

838
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: because when they when they leave the high that's gonna

839
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: make encourage them to go upwards, Yeah, rather than to

840
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: your neighbor's pool. That's right. Um. So you also, in

841
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: addition to making sure the beehive gets morning, son, you

842
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: want to protect it from strong winds. Um. You want

843
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's definitely protected from afternoon the

844
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: worst of the afternoon sun, So say like between two

845
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: and four. You don't want unobstructed sun just beating down

846
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: your beehive is gonna cook them. Um. And you also

847
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: want to make sure that there's a good, you know,

848
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: all weather cap on the beehive that's going to protect

849
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: it from rain and stuff like that too. And speaking

850
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: of rain, you also want a water source nearby. Yeah,

851
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: I mean you you made a joke about going to

852
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: your neighbor's pool, but that could happen because bees need water.

853
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: They forage for water and they cool to hive with it.

854
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: They blend it with pollen to make bee bread, which

855
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: is pollen, nectar and honey, and that's what they eat.

856
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: And um, I think that's what the larvae especially feed on.

857
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? I think so that be bread.

858
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: So if you live near a pond or you gotta

859
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: like grow up like me and had a creek uh

860
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: nearby your house, and then you're all, you're all set,

861
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: you don't need to worry about it. But if you don't,

862
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: then you're gonna want to put something in, Like a

863
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: bird bath might be nice. Or Dave even says you

864
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: can just put a large platter of water. Dave also

865
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: says put a zip block of sugar water on your

866
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: beehive and cut have slid in it. So maybe go

867
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: a step further beyond a platter. Well, I mean it

868
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: depends on your esthetic, I think, I guess. But I

869
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: put some water in like a tire that stood up

870
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: on its side, and I'm like that to see that

871
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: in your yard. Why are you picking on day if

872
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: he's the bath because that was some just genuinely bad.

873
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: If I still put a platter of water out there,

874
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: like like put a little more thought into this. Okay, Okay,

875
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: all right, So you've got everything except bees. And it

876
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: never occurred to me where you get these bees? Right?

877
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: You know, I thought you just set this all up

878
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: in the bees would be attracted to it and fill

879
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: it up over the course of a decade and then

880
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: you can start making honey. You can actually buy bees. Yeah,

881
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: and they arrive via post postal service what I understand,

882
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: or probably FedEx these days. But I read a mother

883
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: Earth News article from nineteen seventy four and they were saying,

884
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: your postman will love you for this, but they're going

885
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: to arrive in a package, a box filled with live bees,

886
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: probably somewhere around ten thousand of them. Yeah, and amated queen.

887
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: That's important. It's not like you have all this and

888
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: you're like, now I gotta go find the rarest thing

889
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: in the world, which is a happily mated queen. Right,

890
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: And so the made this is one of the reasons

891
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: I called Jeff um over at the farm at Honey

892
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: Harvest Farm and Glen to Maryland because I was like,

893
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: I couldn't find what made it specifically meant it was

894
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: called premated, That's what Dave. Dave called it premated, So

895
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: I was like, does that mean a virgin queen that

896
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: hasn't made it yet or has made it beforehand. Me right, yeah, yeah,

897
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: the latter is correct. They both like they they have

898
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: the queen mate with a bunch of drones, and then

899
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: they say, you wint and take the queen and put

900
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: a sequester her so that she can't lay any eggs.

901
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: And then they put her in a special container with

902
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: the rest of the bees and ship them to you.

903
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: And then you put the bees together in your own

904
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: brood chamber with the queen in her sequestered thing, and

905
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: you peel back a little like piece of tape or something,

906
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: and that exposes a little candy plug, and the workers

907
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: eat through the candy plug to free the queen. It's

908
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: pretty cool work, it really is. And I've also seen

909
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: that the candy plug which is meant to also keep

910
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: the queen bee alive during transport, um, if it comes

911
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: out or something, you can just plug it with a

912
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: marshmallow too, which is the most quaint thing I've ever

913
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: read in my entire life. Uh, you should also try

914
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: and get your bees locally. Um. If you get them locally,

915
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: then you know a that they haven't been shipped a

916
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: long way, which is going to stress them out and

917
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: be that they're gonna be hip to your scene. Uh,

918
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: They're gonna be down with your weather and just cool

919
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: with the bars and the restaurants that are nearby. They'll

920
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: know all about the local schools that the parents never

921
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: stopped talking about, and everyone's just gonna be happier. Right.

922
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: So also, you hopefully you can just go pick them up.

923
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: But I do have the impression that there's tons of

924
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: mail order bees too. Oh sure, but you you, whatever

925
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: it is, you want to order them so that they

926
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: arrive in early early spring, because your whole goal here

927
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: is to get this colony up and moving and really

928
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: healthy and well populated and rare and to go um

929
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 1: by the time the spring flowering and the nectar flow begins.

930
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, there's another way to do this, what

931
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: I call the Chuck way, the Chuck version, and that's

932
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: to buy a nuke, right, And a nuke is a

933
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: nucleus colony, and that is just sort of like the

934
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: lazy persons all in one solution. You you buy a

935
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: hive box. It's preloaded, it's stocked, it's got an active queen,

936
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: it's got eggs, it's got your brood. It's got your

937
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: pollen stores, it already has honey, for God's sake. And

938
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: they call it, like I said, a short for nucleus

939
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: colony as a nuke. And you can get a nuke

940
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: for not much more than this other stuff, right, yeah,

941
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: And I mean so basically it's the brood chamber component

942
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: that we're talking about with the Langstroth hive. That's basically

943
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: what you're buying. Is they ship you a like you say,

944
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: you're ready to go brew chamber, and then you just

945
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: start putting a queen um excluder and you know, super

946
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: boxes and all that stuff on top, and there you go.

947
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: It seems pretty pretty smart to me to try starting

948
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: with that as well. When I was looking at the price,

949
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: I was like, cheeze one of these nukes, like a

950
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: thousand bucks, And it seems like it was all about

951
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: fifty dollars more than starting from scratch. But I think

952
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: you can spend quite a bit on a starter kit

953
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: of bees if you're, say, um, looking to have just

954
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: pure bread bees. Yeah, like just Italian honey bees are

955
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 1: just Russian honey bees, because um, the different different races

956
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: have different kind of um tendencies, like Italian honeybees tend

957
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: to to keep a larger population over the winter, which

958
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: means that you need to leave a more honey or

959
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: feed them more. But they're also friendly or more docile

960
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Um, But it's really expensive because

961
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: those bees are artificially inseminated and like really in a

962
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: very controlled environment, whereas with most of those ones that

963
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: you're spending like a hundred two hundred bucks on ten tho,

964
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: they're what they call mutts, which are just like, you know,

965
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: a whole whole bunch of different races of the same

966
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: species of bee, and they they have a lot of

967
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: different characteristics, some of which may actually make them less

968
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: susceptible to diseases than say, like pure breads are. It's

969
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: like it's like a normal person compared to um, British

970
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: royalty or something. Is that too soon? I don't think so. Okay,

971
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,919
Speaker 1: So once you've got everything set up, um, your main

972
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: job is going to be to feed your bees, try

973
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: and keep them from swarming, and then making sure they

974
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: stay healthy from disease and mites. Um, you're gonna be

975
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: harvesting that excess honey along the way, like we've been

976
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: talking about, and gonna be feeding them that sugar water

977
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: to keep them happy. And as you're doing this, you're

978
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: gonna be learning more and more about just sort of

979
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: the shorthand of it all. Like like when you go

980
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: to even lift the back of a box, you're gonna

981
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: know just by weight, like how heavy with honey that

982
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: the thing is. You're not gonna have to keep pulling

983
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: stuff out and looking at it over and over. That's

984
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Yeah, all these little shortcuts. Um, but we

985
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: need to talk about swarming because that's a that's a

986
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: big deal and something that seems like it could happen

987
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,439
Speaker 1: fairly easily. Um, if you have a good, healthy hive

988
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: going on and they're producing a lot of brood, it's

989
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna become overcrowded. So you want to part of avoiding

990
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: this is to keep your population in check. But if

991
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: you don't, then they're going to swarm, which means half

992
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: of your colony and sometimes all of it, is gonna say,

993
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: come on, queen, let's go, let's leave this place. I

994
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: don't like this apartment anymore because it's too crowded, right,

995
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: which is just an unavoidable natural process because if you

996
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: think about it, what the bees are doing is reproducing

997
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: and growing their population, and then eventually when things get crowded,

998
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: they split into two and go establish a new colony

999
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,959
Speaker 1: or um leave the old colony behind. Right, So you're

1000
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: you're artificially preventing that from happening by doing things like

1001
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: inspecting the the um brood chamber. Four signs of queen

1002
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: cells like little queen larva that are being grown by

1003
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: the by the workers, which means that they're preparing to

1004
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: swarm and start another colony. That like a little peanut

1005
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: sort of hanging off of your comb. And if you

1006
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: just go through and pick those off literally pick just

1007
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: get them out of there, then the bees are like, Okay,

1008
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,959
Speaker 1: I guess we're not going to raise another queen now.

1009
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: But there's other things you want to do to like

1010
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: you want to actually physically get rid of some of

1011
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 1: the brood to to control the population. You're basically saying

1012
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: this idea about swarming, you'r we we were, We're not

1013
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: going to do that. We're going to make it so

1014
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: that you have more room by controlling the population. Yeah,

1015
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: when you say get rid of the brood, that doesn't mean, uh,

1016
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: take these frames out and burn them on the fire.

1017
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: You're gonna be involved, hopefully by this time, with other

1018
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: local people in the area that are doing this. You're

1019
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: gonna be going to beekeeper meetings and getting hammered once

1020
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: a month on mead right, and uh, you're gonna trade

1021
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: with your friends. You're gonna say, hey, let's uh, I

1022
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 1: got too much going on here. I'm afraid I'm gonna

1023
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: get a swarm happening. So here's some brood frames h

1024
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: if you can, if you can take them, and uh,

1025
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: people are going to be very grateful for that. Yeah,

1026
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: because it's kind of like getting a free nuke. Uh,

1027
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,959
Speaker 1: to to to um supplement your your calling me that's

1028
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: maybe not doing so good because there's two problems. One

1029
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: you're calling he can be too healthy and then it's

1030
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: gonna swarm, which you want to prevent. Or it can

1031
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: be weak, which means that it can be overwhelmed by

1032
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: robber bees nearby bees that come through and to steal

1033
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff and basically kill off the wheat colony.

1034
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, just to supplement your numbers with a brood

1035
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: frame that somebody doesn't want because their population is starting

1036
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: to swarm, that would be a very good thing. To have.

1037
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: That's right. One other thing about swarming chuck, that's how

1038
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: you make a bee beard. That's right. You take a

1039
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: queen and you tire to your forehead and the bees

1040
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: will come and form a beard around your face. That's

1041
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: what they're doing with the b beard. It's pretty funny

1042
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: looking and they will get stung. But the reason why

1043
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: they're not totally stung is because before they swarm, the

1044
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: bees gorge themselves on honey for their traveling to go

1045
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: establish the new colony, and they're just following the queen,

1046
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: and so if the queen is tied to your forehead,

1047
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: they're just hanging out waiting to see what she's gonna do.

1048
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: Totally all right. We need to talk about disease because

1049
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: it is It is bad right now. Um. There's something

1050
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: called the Veroa might which is a parasitic pest and

1051
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: it is very small, came to the United States in

1052
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties and is the most common cause of

1053
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: be death and colony failure right now because of commercial beehives.

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Speaker 1: Almost half uh in spring ofen were infected with veroa.

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00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: It's a bad, bad problem. It is because they will

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00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: lay their eggs. These mtes will lay their eggs on

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00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: the um larva or the pupa of the bees, and

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00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: they will feed on the pupa and either kill them

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00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: or deform them. They will also attach themselves to adult

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: bees and suck their blood. They spread disease. It's a

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00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: really bad jam. And so as being a beekeeper, you

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00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye out for any kind of

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00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: might infestation and then treat it accordingly. That's like a

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00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: basic part of beekeeping, but also something that's a little

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00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: more advanced than anything we could really go into now.

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00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: It's just know that part of beekeeping is monitoring for

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00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: diseases and pests and then treating them. Yeah, you don't

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00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: want more than ten and there are various ways that

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00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: you can test how many mites you have. Uh that

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00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: once you get into bee keeping, you're gonna learn these

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00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: little tricks. But you don't want any more than ten

1072
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: mites per two bees. And if you have more than that,

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00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: then you're in trouble. And when you look at a

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00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: picture of these things like sitting on a bee and

1075
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: feeding on it, it's just you just want to like

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00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: pride off of their right and squash it. Right. But

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00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: then then foul brood, which we mentioned earlier is another

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00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: big problem. And there it got its name from the

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00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: sulfur smell that a brood um, a brood frame will

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00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: have when you pull it out. And once you have that,

1081
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: your your whole colonies gone. They're goners and you need

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00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: to burn your your wooden wear. Yeah, I saw dead fish.

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00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: I was because I saw sulfur and I was like, well,

1084
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: does this smell like farts? Right? But then I saw

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00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: dead fish was kind of what a lot of people

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00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: said it smells like. And if you've got that, then

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00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's what a letdown. It is a letdown,

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00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: especially if it happens, you know, right around you know,

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00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: right before they really start producing honey, right, And that's

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00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: where we find ourselves. Finally you get to that sweet,

1091
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: sweet mellow goal, which is which is what you're doing

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00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: this for, not only to get the honey, but obviously

1093
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: it'd also do the right thing by encouraging bee populations,

1094
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: but harvesting honey is what everyone's really in it for.

1095
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: Whether you're gonna sell it or just give it away

1096
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: to friends or just have some for your family. That's

1097
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: really the end game here. And so like when you

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: do when you go to to get the honey. Um.

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: There's actually a pretty clever little thing you put on

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00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: uh in between the brood chamber and the honey super

1101
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: that you're gonna collect honey from that lets the bees out,

1102
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: but it's it produces a maze for them to try

1103
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: to get back in. So after forty eight hours all

1104
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: of bees will clear out. You can take your honey

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00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: super and all of the frames laden with honey and

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00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: put them into an extractor, which is definitely going to

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00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: probably double the amount that you've put into your bee

1108
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: keeping so far. But from everything I've seen is if

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00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: you're going to harvest honey, this is the way to

1110
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: do it. Did you see any videos on this, Yeah,

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00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: I mean you can get mechanical, motorized ones it's like

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00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: a centrifuge, but the ones I saw or mainly very homespun,

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01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: just sort of these hand cranked versions literally homespun. Yeah.

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01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: You you you uncap it and remove the wax, and

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01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: you'll see in these videos they hold up the frames

1116
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: and just take a knife like a hot knife and

1117
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: just sort of cut the wax away from the frame

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01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: and then you can literally see the honey there. If

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01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: you don't have a uh. An extractor. You can just

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01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,959
Speaker 1: do it the old fashioned way and lay it down

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01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: and just wait for the honey to flow. But you

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01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: can also stick them down in the extractor. The one

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01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: I saw held about eight frames and you just crank

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01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: that thing and it just slings the honey out and filters.

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01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: You have to have certain sized screens, uh for for

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01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: honey extraction, to filter out the wax bits and be

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01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: legs and antennae or things, you know, be parts. You

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01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: want to get that stuff out of there too. Yeah.

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01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: But then at the bottom is the catch where they

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01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, between the the extractor and the screen is

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01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: a reservoir. In the is this bigot on the bottom,

1132
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: and you put it up on your countertop and pure

1133
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 1: honey just flows right out of the bottom. It's pretty awesome.

1134
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: It's beautiful and taste. The good thing about the extractor too,

1135
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: is all you're doing is carving off the top wax cap,

1136
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: but you're leaving the wax part of the chamber, the

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01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: bulk of the wax intact, so that the bees can

1138
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: reuse it and they have to eat less honey to

1139
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: produce more wax for the next season. It's pretty great.

1140
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: It is pretty great. That's beekeeping, which is pretty great too. Agreed,

1141
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: Got anything else right now? I got nothing else? Well,

1142
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this more later when we get into

1143
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: bee keeping. His old man, okay for sure. Uh not

1144
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: that you have to be an old man to be

1145
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: into bee keeping, That's not at all what I mean. Uh.

1146
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Speaker 1: If you want to know know more about bee keeping going

1147
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: and how stuff works, and check out this awesome article

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Speaker 1: by Dave Rouse. And there's also tons of other stuff

1149
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: around the internet to help you. And since I said

1150
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: tons of other stuff on the internet, that means it's

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01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: time for a listener mail. I'm gonna call this uh

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: each other, which is very cute. But my story is

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Speaker 1: less cute. I just moved into a new house and

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Speaker 1: it turns out we have the exact amount of steps

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Speaker 1: on our stairs for me to stomp to your jingle.

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Speaker 1: Ever since I discovered this a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 1: I was thirsty in the middle of the night and

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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,

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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,

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

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Speaker 1: and uh, I'm sorry you have the worst of all

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Speaker 1: earworms right that. But that was the email. It just

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Speaker 1: kind of ended like that. Yeah, I mean it was

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Speaker 1: will or something. But no, it ended with the chipping

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Speaker 1: of the tooth. That's it. Sorry, Jamie. That's all we

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Speaker 1: can say. En did like many of my own stories.

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