Honey Bee Swarm Behavior Up Close and Personal
http://www.FredsFineFowl.com This video features honey bees in a swarm, their communication and organization. It ends with the honey bees dispatching to thei…
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Awesome! Thanks Fred!
Bahram Kheradmand
January 16, 2015 at 10:34 am
at 25:35 be looking in the bottom right of the screen and you can just
barely see the queen pass through the mass of bees. Great video
SerenityApiaries
January 16, 2015 at 10:40 am
Stuff like this convinces me that I made the right decision to study animal
behavior.
Chase Starr
January 16, 2015 at 10:45 am
it ws amazing how many there were really great video. thx i learned a few
things thx they are fascinating
Paul trotter
January 16, 2015 at 10:55 am
Dear Mr Frederick, thumps-up, excellent video.
Mohammed Aslam
January 16, 2015 at 11:16 am
Bees are awesome!
Laszlo Mag
January 16, 2015 at 11:52 am
This half hour video shows the honey bees swarm behaviour.
matthew liotta
January 16, 2015 at 12:38 pm
This was so cool to watch! Very intimidating to see all those bees if you
don’t know about them being pretty darn gentle. Thanks for recording and
sharing!
ramaloki
January 16, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Nothing short of AMAZING
nmkelite
January 16, 2015 at 1:24 pm
That’s really cool, especially the end and looking out over the corn field.
:)
SpiritHawk7
January 16, 2015 at 2:04 pm
amazing footage. they function as one mind. now’s the time to set up the
capture box. when they get lowered into a warm and cozy capture box, their
search for a home is done. where’s my fiskers and bee suit??? shlit it
was there a… oh, there it is…all plans to relocate stop. all they want to
do is chill with the queen in something she approves of as suitable. she
makes all the decisions for the collective. typical woman thing. where
she goes, they all follow. typical male thing, but wait, 95% are
females…LOL… and yes, absolutely never exterminate honey bees no matter
how much the exterminator wants to convince and exploit you to do so for a
fee. $$$$$$ because they are aficanized. OMG, oh no… la la la, whatever.
cha-ching… bees are brilliant and have amazing memory. my bees know and
love me… and i have africanized bees. ooooh noooo. omg. africanized bees…
kill them all! no, don’t anyone dare kill my beloved bees. they share my
honey jelly sandwich with me and know me. i only got stung once on the
ear.. something they like about ears. i don’t know what it is about ears
they like to sting.. it felt zippy for a few mins and went away. i love my
beloved africanized bees. they are great pollinators for my crops. kill my
bees, i’ll break your pencil. i am salivating at this hive. imagine all
the honey dripping from the future combs….. mmmmmmmm honey. we love honey
especially in our room fresheners and perfumes. i love to watch women in
gardens swatting at bees that are attracted to their hair and skin because
of the sweet smelling perfumes and hair sprays with, … what else but honey,
LOL x 10. leaves me rolling in the isles. the exodus was thrilling. i
just figured it out. the european bee is going extinct and the africanized
persuaision verity is taking over. oh no, now that means we can’t exploit
them for their honey without a bee suit.
Howard Kaemerer
January 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm
good video thou learned alot. i saw a bee yesterday. it was buzzing around
in my kitchen. it settle down. and it laid there with its legs kinda
shaking around sometimes. sometimes seem to be brushing its underside
belly. would sit there for a while then walk a little bit. then legs would
shake around. i left the bee alone. later on the bee was gone. must have
flown away but i didn’t understand its behavior. i did sit and watch for a
while looked like the bee was having a heart attack 🙂 it wasn’t but its
legs just shaked around. weird.
Paul trotter
January 16, 2015 at 2:45 pm
what is that voice at the end. really spooky. 27:38 sounds like she
coming. ? weird
Paul trotter
January 16, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Good video on swarm behavior
Sheila Smith-Ramirez
January 16, 2015 at 4:36 pm
What a beautiful thing to see. Looking forward to inspecting our new hives
soon! Nature is wonderful!!
royallhawaii
January 16, 2015 at 5:04 pm
I have posted to my page BEE STRONG and shared with everyone so that they
can enjoy it as well. I believe that the wonderful mysteries of nature
should be observed and I could tell the amount of time and effort you put
into making your video. I will be watching for the next one, whether about
the bees or about farming etc…. Thank you.
Sheila Smith-Ramirez
January 16, 2015 at 5:32 pm
Loved your video <3
Sheila Smith-Ramirez
January 16, 2015 at 6:08 pm
…that the swarm wouldn’t be as motivated to protect their queen when in
“swarm mode” as they would be when the colony becomes fully established…
leisulin
January 16, 2015 at 6:34 pm
Thank you!
Frederick Dunn
January 16, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Grossartige Aufnahmen, lange Szenen, kein dramaturgisches Geschwätz. (Nur
schade dass die verschiedenen “waggle dances” nicht als “slow motion”
abrufbar sind.)
Gregor Wenger
January 16, 2015 at 7:34 pm
This is great. I’ve been looking for videos like this. A nice, long,
relatively unprocessed footage of bees. Great job!
rauyeu
January 16, 2015 at 8:17 pm
FANTASTIC !
Waddawik
January 16, 2015 at 9:00 pm
I appreciate the disclaimer. But I’m still just trying to understand their
behavior. I watched another video where a guy inserted his hand gently into
a swarm and scooped out a few dozen bees with his hand, apparently without
getting stung. Or capturing a swarm by shaking the branch they’re on
vigorously to make them fall into a box, but apparently that wouldn’t
“cause the bees to become defensive” either?? Just what kind of action
WOULD make them become defensive? It seems strange to me…
leisulin
January 16, 2015 at 9:40 pm
My five year old son and I were mesmerized by this video! He was especially
impressed by the waggle dance. We are starting our first urban backyard
hive and I will be installing 4 more at my brother’s farm as well. The more
I look at bees, the more beautiful they are to me.
Laura Lencioni
January 16, 2015 at 10:25 pm
Made sure to give this a thumbs up.
David Spivak
January 16, 2015 at 10:58 pm