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Surprised to see this here. I used to work in a bee lab. I understand what kind of aggression he's talking about. I don't have experience with Malipona but dors

by pks016 6y ago

Surprised to see this here. I used to work in a bee lab. I understand what kind of aggression he's talking about. I don't have experience with Malipona but dorsata are aggressive like this. That's usual for them. Really difficult to handle. Sad to see euthanizing the colony. When colony becomes super-aggressive in a neighbourhood, it's a difficult decision to make. One way is to transfer the colony to another location and monitor it's behavior.

oh_sigh 6y ago
He mentions that as an option in the video, which is possible since he is located in the relatively remote areas of northwestern NJ, but you still need almost 2 months to let the hive re-queen, and there's still the possibility of them finding unsuspecting victims (e.g. hunters).
- pks016 6y ago
  Yeah. In bee keeping it becomes a trade-off I guess. Generally, bees won't attack someone unless there's unusual activity or disturbance in colony. Or sometimes this kind of aggression is the inherent property of the colony due to their life history and genetics of queen.
pvaldes 6y ago
Casually I just finish to build my new bee hotel this week (Just a log with some holes of different diameters). There are bees for any type of garden. Even small urban gardens can have it. Now opened for buzzness and waiting for customers. Any tip to make it more interesting?
- pks016 6y ago
  You can observe the bees and condition them to come at specific time. E.g put feeder (sugar water on a plate) in morning or evening in some distance from the colony (if the colony is there in the hotel) or put the feeder near the hotel. You could see how accurately bees will make trips to feeder after few trials, observe the dance in front of fellow bees, record the dance in camera. Further you can try to calculate the distance and direction of feeder from hive using the dance of bee. (there's a simple formula and there's always research going on this.)

by pks016 6y ago

oh_sigh 6y ago

He mentions that as an option in the video, which is possible since he is located in the relatively remote areas of northwestern NJ, but you still need almost 2 months to let the hive re-queen, and there's still the possibility of them finding unsuspecting victims (e.g. hunters).

pks016 6y ago
Yeah. In bee keeping it becomes a trade-off I guess. Generally, bees won't attack someone unless there's unusual activity or disturbance in colony. Or sometimes this kind of aggression is the inherent property of the colony due to their life history and genetics of queen.

pvaldes 6y ago

Casually I just finish to build my new bee hotel this week (Just a log with some holes of different diameters). There are bees for any type of garden. Even small urban gardens can have it. Now opened for buzzness and waiting for customers. Any tip to make it more interesting?

pks016 6y ago
You can observe the bees and condition them to come at specific time. E.g put feeder (sugar water on a plate) in morning or evening in some distance from the colony (if the colony is there in the hotel) or put the feeder near the hotel. You could see how accurately bees will make trips to feeder after few trials, observe the dance in front of fellow bees, record the dance in camera. Further you can try to calculate the distance and direction of feeder from hive using the dance of bee. (there's a simple formula and there's always research going on this.)