Understanding The New Vaccine for Honey Bees

[@mikeconley3031]

Bob I know you don’t need to do this, post on KZbin, give classes. I know how busy you are. But thanks for giving your time and spreading your knowledge.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Thanks.

[@carlgirolami8973]

The high level contributions to bee industry we need from some of the finest.

[@TheCaliforniaBeekeeper]

Like most commercial outfits, in my experience the 2 times we came across Foulbrood of any sort AFB or EFB. We would remove the entire pallet(4way) to a remote area(night move)away from other yards. We would burn the infected colony and monitor the others. A quick dusting of antibiotics. Great video Bob

[@mikeoxlong3224]

Amazing content and information. Your knowledge on beekeeping is of gold standard!

[@robertling9872]

This is a 'chicken and an egg' discussion. When the chemicals disappear from agriculture and the soil improves again, this also improves the plants and the bees. Now we make the bees sick and then administer substances that do not solve the cause. We live in a strange world.

[@rogierdikkes]

This! We are treating a sickness without dealing with the cause.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

Please provide some evidence to support your claims, because “chemicals” and “soil” do not cause AFB/EFB or viruses. If you disagree then please prove me wrong with some evidence.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

@@RyanMcDonnough YT usually auto-removes hyperlinks, especially to other sites. It's not as simple as: bacteria/virus A is present -> therefore organism has disease A. The best example I can think of for this is poliovirus. As posted by the CDC: 25% may show symptoms of a cold, 1-5% may get meningitis, .05 - .5% develop any form of paralysis/muscle weakness. It is well known that pesticide exposure is bad for bees. Combinations of stresses, some known and many likely yet to be recognized, can contribute to lower immune function, allowing more severe infection & disease symptoms to show. Unhealthy soil, means soil that is devoid of a fungal microbiome, like on any cropland where heavy fungicide use is practiced. For some reason bees like to feed from mycelium, both on the ground and from trees. There have been studies that certain mycelium extracts have potent antiviral effects in bees. It's possible that certain fungi may have antibacterial properties in bees too.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

@@rogierdikkes The inevitable result of reductionist thinking in complex systems, where causes have a multitude of compound factors. People used to think big, but somewhere around when germ-theory came out (and especially in the computer age) it has become A = B.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland I just posted a link to Dr Delaplane’s interview on the Beekeeping Today podcast. You should listen to it. Also, AFB and EFB have existed and were problems well before the widespread use of agricultural chemicals. Pretending that less agrochemical usage will somehow reduce the incidence of AFB/EFB as an excuse to not utilize a vaccine is nothing less than magical thinking.

[@bobbinnie9872]

I fully expect a variety of comments on this video from "Great News For The Bees" to "Terrible News For The Planet". Either way you lean there's food for thought throughout this video.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

A honey bee vaccine for AFB, EFB, and *especially viruses* is the absolute best thing that could possibly happen to honey bees and beekeepers. Pretty weird that anti-vaxxers are also willing to allow their unscientific biases to affect their beekeeping management. Bees will suffer unnecessarily as a result, as countless humans already have for the last several years. I’m a healthcare professional. Vaccines save human lives and the lives of our pets & livestock. The beekeeping community should be absolutely elated that our honey bees will soon benefit from vaccine development for our insect livestock. Honey bees are animals too. They deserve to live healthy lives and receive the best animal husbandry possible.

[@rmason5477]

Bill Gates Klaus S NO.1 WEF WHO and others are all for complete CONTROL over all people's lives and sadly many people have become sheeples

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@rmason5477 Sure thing, bud. 👍🏻😂

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for the discussion Bob!

[@suthrngadawg]

Sounds like a bunch of mad scientists.

[@beekeepinggarden165]

Really good information Bob massive thank you for your time

[@suthrngadawg]

If for some reason this goes bad, I hope it just affects the bees that are vaccinated.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Great video. Very informative

[@jamesmcnally2519]

Great topic Bob! Thank you for the information

[@billc3405]

As always top notch video with loads of information.

[@kvadrad1]

Greetings Bob, I am Oregon Beekeeper (commercial). Thank you for your informative videos. I know lots of beekeepers in the area using TM and other types of antibiotics as a way of prevention of afb/efb, even though they don't have it and there is no sign of it. I try not to use any antibiotics, since I'm scared that if i ever get afb/efb, antibiotic treatment won't help. Can you comment on that topic?

[@beebob1279]

My mentor was a pollinator who taught me years ago to treat with TM. I got AFB in one hive (lucky it didn't spread). I had the state come out to verify and sure enough the bacteria was resistant to TM. That's the problem. I re-started the whole program with foundation and shook all the hives in that apiary. No AFB since. I'll just burn the hives from now on if I get it again

[@RyanMcDonnough]

Prophylactically treating with TM sounds like a risky game with little upside and a lot of downside. Upside: If you already have AFB in one or more of your hives at the time of TM application, then you may dodge a bullet or delay the arrival of said bullet. Downside: If one or more of your hives get AFB after TM application, then you’re still screwed. You’re greatly increasing the likelihood of pathogen resistance to the TM. You’re doing harm to the bees’ gut biome. Prophylactic TM does more for the beekeeper’s mental health than it does for the health of bees. I’m also in Oregon. You should contact the Bee Lab at OSU and talk to an extension agent. This vaccine will do far more good for your bees than TM.

[@michaelscott6273]

AFB and EFB are pretty rare these days, so how much work to MAYBE prevent a case per year doesn't even seem worth it.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

The company developing the vaccine is currently going after the low hanging fruit. Much easier to vaccinate against bacteria than viruses.

[@zarkobojanic2141]

Here in Europe is epidemic of AFB.

[@andreimolodoi88]

@@zarkobojanic2141 What do you mean epidemic? Do you have lot of cases of infested hives in Serbia? What is the situation in countries near you?

[@zarkobojanic2141]

@@andreimolodoi88 yes, almost every beekeeper that I know have afb (few hives ewery year sporadically)my neighbor destroy last year 80colony,its similar situation in Hungary, Slovakia... until 10 years ago nobody ewan knows what is afb

[@FloryJohann]

Will the vaccination show up in bee products and contamaninate it like honey , wax and other things and how would it affect humans in a longer time ?

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

They haven't bothered to study that, have they? Color me cynical.

[@GEEZBEEZ]

Thanks for the video and information. Take care.

[@springcitybeefarm5971]

Opinion . This just seems to be not good idea . AFB needs to be identified and eliminated , with a reduced reaction to bacteria may be harder to identify but that dose not mean the spores are not there and live to kill another day . So would that not be a concern to be considered?

[@CCCRApiary]

the treatment is for your bees that don't have AFB. The front line treatment would still be to eliminate your affected colonies, ie burn the equipment.

[@springcitybeefarm5971]

@@CCCRApiary I understand that my question is if the bacteria is active in a nest , is that not going to be harder to identify if 50% effective then there are 50% that it may still effect means there may be a reduction in the ability to notice the illness in a nest . We need more info on this and is that 30- -50 % apply to an individual colony or Colony that is in 30-50 % effective status 100% protected or is it just 30-50% or the colony . My self I want to see it if I have it in my operation so I can immediately eliminate it !! This effort would been better spent on mite viruses. We know how to deal with AFB but not all the effects of mites . Just my thoughts on it we don’t need new keepers with a false sense of security especially AFB.

[@CCCRApiary]

@@springcitybeefarm5971 Their results are high. That's 30-50 at a 200 times normal infection rate. That is quiet effective. I'm like you new keepers will be the monetary driver of this application.

[@crabmanbc21]

We appreciate the information on a new and hot topic to bees. G's Bees Apiary, Jim and Guylaine Crabtree

[@FloryJohann]

So, if I understand this right . It will help bees to survive the AFB, but it will not kill AFB. So if someone has a yard of untreated bees close to a treated yard , does that this mean that a untreated yard can get the AFB from bees from the treated yard?

[@beebob1279]

Once again, Great Video. The first two minutes of the interview was exactly what I wanted to hear. How does the vaccine cover all the bees? It's incorporated into the eggs. That's how it works. I would rather see vaccines to the virus' related to varroa mites. AFB ( I had a case years ago) really isn't as common as it once was as you explained. I'd burn the hives instead of the vaccine. The problem is the dormant bacteria is still present. Eventually the hive will be replaced, you'll end up mixing frames, selling nucs, and so on. Just spreading the problem to others. The one concern I have is that the university is being funded by the exact company that has the intellectual rights to this vaccine. The old saying is... Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Will the research by the university be skewed to protect the money coming in by the vaccine owner? I've seen it before in my field of health and will see it again. I don't want to be a negative force into this, and truly hope it progresses in the future to viruses vectored by the Varroa Mite.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Well said, thanks.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

I'm skeptical for a few reasons. A bit of research finds that Dalan was set up in 2019, headed by a group of board members and industry insider/partners of Google, big-pharma, bio-tech, & multinational investment/holding companies. This is their very first product. As stated in a press-release they put out in 2021, "This is not only an innovation for animal health but an important step in saving bees and providing a more sustainable food supply". "Dalan will expand its product development to other underserved industries such as shrimp, mealworms and grasshoppers used in feed and food production. Up to 40% annual losses due to diseases are limiting growth across theses billion-dollar industries. Vaxlnes being developed by Dalan are a breakthrough for these industries." "Dalan expects to raise... funding in 2022 to expand their commercial offering and further advance a pipeline of novel vaxlnes for other new production animals." "Mealworms & grasshoppers used in food production". "New production animals". They can't be much clearer. They're global industry leaders & they're planning for us to eat bugs.

[@beebob1279]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland A lot of people around the world eat insects.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

@@beebob1279 That may be true, but I'd rather not have that decision made for us all by people who fly on private jets. I'd also be willing to bet that there would be many fewer people currently eating insects if they could afford and had ready access to fish, poultry, beef, pork, sheep, goat, etc.. Hopefully small beekeepers will continue to be able to sustainably keep bees without becoming reliant on big-ag to have colonies that aren't overrun by disease. I apologize for my pessimism!

[@beebob1279]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland Hey, I get it. I agree with you. I don't want people telling me how to live my life either. Yet, the elites think they can run everything because they have money. Put them in the woods by themselves for two weeks and I bet they couldn't survive.

[@tonyc44]

Thank’s bob, another outstanding video.

[@got2kittys]

I had an outbreak of AFB, and every box went into a burn barrel. I'm a hobby beekeeper, I don't sell much honey. But it was 40% of my gear. I sulfured the bees to make handling easier, but it's really depressing to take those hits. This could save a commercial beekeeper literally 100's of 1000's of dollars, it's a good thing.

[@maragrace820]

Nobody I know ever had that. not even my mentor who has been doing beekeeping for 65 years. vaccinating for this would be stupid since you NEVER use drugs that have not been out for at least 3-5 years (And I won’t take them even after that time frame)

[@gl2250]

Thanks Bob!

[@bernardwalker9064]

Hi Mr bob binnie I'm Bernard a big fan of your. I'm a beekeepers from Jamaica, found your videos very informative, Learnt alot. Question:where is the best place to get paraffin.

[@bobbinnie9872]

We purchase it from "Dadant and Sons" in High Springs Florida which can be found online.

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Curious if the vaccine will work with viruses or just with bacteria? Also, what age queen does it need to be fed to? Is it fed in royal jelly to developing queens, or can it be mixed into syrup and therefore inoculate a mature queen in an existing hive?

[@bobbinnie9872]

Good questions to which I wish I had good answers.

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

I seem to recall Dr. Humberto explaining the vaccine was fed to attendant bees which in turn it to the queen. And typically a bacterial vaccine does not affect virus loads.

[@henryparrott2447]

GREAT show 👏 thanks Bob you're my hero

[@derozendaaltjes]

Lincomycin and oxytetracyclin are not related. Both are bacteriostatic antibiotics though, meaning they don't kill bacteria but stop them from multiplying by inhibiting protein synthesis. When you think of inflammation as a reaction of the body to a noxious stimulus, it makes sense that an immune suppressant can reduce disease. Like when you have pneumonia, corticosteroids can help cure the disease. When the vaccine has a 30-50% effectivity, does that mean 30-50 of 100 challenged larvae survive, or that 30-50% more larvae survive than unvaccinated? It former would blow my mind, being immune within 7 days of life. Great episode.

[@rrussellco1176]

How many thousands of commercial colonies over the past 50+ years had infections, were treated during blanked treatments, and had immunities produced as a result of that? This is presumably why we haven't seen afb resurgence in the US for quite some time.

[@bomchickawahwaaaaah]

Thanks Bob for sharing these exciting insights. Cheers from NYC.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Cheers!

[@thomashanna1253]

Spores need to germinate in order to have an effect on bees and brood. Propolis may hinder the spores germination. Depending on what the propolis is made from it may render the spores unviable.

[@CCCRApiary]

Question, Has the infestation by varroa eliminated colonies susceptible to AFB, creating a more hygienic bee overall?

[@bobbinnie9872]

We don't know the answer to that for sure.

[@jeremiahputnam4714]

Will wax dipping save the equipment (not frames) from AFB

[@bobbinnie9872]

I honestly don't know if it gets hot enough.

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

The only thing that destroys bacteria on equipment is 15 minutes above a certain temperature at a certain pressure. You'd need a giant pressure cooker or a lab water bath.

[@rockcray7525]

Since the sister can pass the vaccine somewhat to a sister by feeding, can it be passed into the honey and what affect would it have to honey and possibly us after consumption?

[@RyanMcDonnough]

No and none.

[@henriettasimon8813]

Great Question. I would say yes, passed into human consumption.

[@FloryJohann]

If it can pass to a sister by feeding I can see that it can pass into honey or wax or other bee products.

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

@@RyanMcDonnough "No and none." And you have the data to support that assertion, or have you taken a position on something without any data?

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@thedeafcattledog8608 Oh hi, 🤡

[@TheCaliforniaBeekeeper]

Orchard with an air strip. Not many of those. I pollinate I big orchard that has an air strip in Williams Ca. Do you recall where this was. Small world if it's the same orchard

[@bobbinnie9872]

It was several miles outside of Keyes which isn't anywhere near Williams. It may not be there any more. That was 40 years ago.

[@KamilOwnz]

I was just looking online yesterday for where I can purchase the vaccine and wanted to learn more about it. Thanks for all you do for the beekeeping community Bob!

[@RyanSarks]

This is a great and very informative video Bob and Keith. Thanks for sharing!

[@chrisshaw8943]

As others have mentioned my worry is that new beekeepers use the vaccine and don’t bother to look for the signs in there apiary causing trouble for the rest of us!

[@bobbinnie9872]

I agree.

[@yeahsowhat643]

The problem is, if this goes bad, what’s the process to reverse it? Elaborate on that since you have it all figured out..

[@bobbinnie9872]

I definitely don't have it figured out. Just trying share and look at whatever information I can get.

[@robbywhite8041]

I wonder if an AFB vaccinated hive was exposed to AFB, regardless of the effectiveness of the vaccine, would the gear be contaminated with spores.

[@finsbury8919]

Good question. Swapping frames from a colony with no symptoms could be very risky, unless all other colonies in an apiary are vaccinated. Also what risk does this pose to feral colonies that might rob a weak but vaccinated colony that has AFB spores. A colony that would otherwise of been detected and destroyed.

[@billc3405]

Excellent question I dont remember hearing this possibility

[@FantaLaStrada]

Yes, excellent question! Is this a leaky vaccine, or more like a perfect vaccine? They only studied the efficacy, not how leaky it is. If you want to know what a leaky vaccine is, look up Marek's disease vaccine in chickens. Most people think of a vaccine as a perfect vaccine and don't actually realize that it is not the case most of the time. However, this is a big step away from using antibiotics. We really need to save them for when its critical, and not over use them and take them for granted. They are life saving medicine!

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

After some study, every time someone starts talking about vaccines, I get really nervous. Imperfect fixes, breed potentially catastrophic biological problems.

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

@@FantaLaStrada the antibiotic resistant studies are mostly crap you know. Look into this to understand it - they found antibiotic resistant bacteria 10,000 feet under Carlsbad Caverns. The bacteria had never been exposed to antibiotics, which if you ask any doctor or "scientist" they will tell you that exposure to antibiotics is what caused the bacteria to become resistant to the antibiotic. Lamarck lives on! At any rate, there are no paradoxes. When you have a black swan, a paradox in your theory, it means your theory is WRONG.

[@dianetaylor6751]

Interesting. But never had a single case of AFB. Maybe it's cuz my girls goo everything to the point it is most frustrating. I will most definitely watch for results and outcomes in commercial operations tho. But I will not jump to purchase AFB vax. EFB.... meh... maybe I had a case once but a big flow came on and problem solved. So hard to say if it was EFB or another bacterial issue. But thx for passing the info on.

[@karlgant8953]

Golly if the FDA gave it provisional acceptance it's got to be good!😈

[@dcrogers59]

Help, I need some help with determining what to expect or charge a solar field operator for placing and maintaining an apiary on the solar property. Please let me know if anyone has already been involved and what compensation terms are being negotiated?

[@RyanMcDonnough]

Give them some honey

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Seems a huge risk.... can't undo the science if it goes too far in the wrong way.

[@t-bonejones3576]

Undo the science? What?? Too far the wrong way? This doesn't make sense. Methinks someone doesn't really understand how science works

[@noonespecial3010]

Modern science = playing god.

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

@@t-bonejones3576 It's called unintended consequences and long-term effects which can only be known after the long-term has passed. The Greeks called it Pandora's Box. Methinks someone doesn't really understand how pharmaceuticals work. Ask an old pharmacist how long they wait before taking a new drug that has been approved by the FDA. I guarantee you they will likely say between 5 and 10 years, that way "all the bodies can shake out" - to quote a pharmacist I know. See also: Thalidomide, Vioxx, Dengue vaccine in the Philippines, others I will not name... caution is always warranted here, and yet for some reason, we have many who trust blindly and jump into things with no hesitation. I'd like to believe that the company that made this has the bees best interest above all else including profit, but while I may have been born at night, it wasn't last night.

[@Tomfogg-nu9br]

just wondering if you have aft in your yard and you remove the colony but leave some dead bees behind will the spores still not be able to infect remaining colonies thanks for the great videos Bob

[@maryloomis8075]

Breeding a hygienic line of bees makes sense...as with any other creature make sure there is a healthy immune system and breed those pairs for a new colony. But,...genetic diversity is also important in preserving a species.

[@tasmedic]

This is a wonderful development. Thanks for bringing some clarity to the issue.

[@6Deep6]

Thanks for this video Bob. While I appreciate that research is still going on with AFB and that efforts are being made reduce its destruction. What I do not like about this vaccine approach is two fold: 1) I believe many beekeepers will use it preemptively and they will no longer put any effort into eliminating colonies that have it. As a result, AFB will become ubiquitous over time. 2) Because people use the vaccine, and thus AFB spread becoming ubiquitous, it locks all beekeepers (commercial or hobby) into a subscription where one has to buy a vaccinate queen as the only option. Thanks again Bob.

[@bobbinnie9872]

Well said.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

That sounds like a perfect-scenario business plan for the company selling the stuff, & likely protected from competition via patent law.

[@Draintheswamp2024]

I sold all my bee equipment to a commercial beekeeper, and he told me that when he takes the bees back down south, he pulls off all of the honey and pollen and replaces it with non gmo pollen and fructose sugar he claims quote you need to flush the poison right out of the queens and the ones that don't do good he replaces them with new ones and for a little more salt to the Wound I asked how does he treat for mites and he said he does not treat for mites.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

That’s some of the nuttiest sh*t I’ve heard in a while. 🙃

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

Don't worry, Monsanto has done lots of studies with their future board members in the FDA/NIH/CDC, that all conclude their products are absolutely perfectly safe.

[@Draintheswamp2024]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland LOL

[@Draintheswamp2024]

well considering rain has up to 30 different chemicals in it from seeding the sky. don't believe me see mike morales channel on you tube.

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

curious how u administer a vax to a bee

[@FloryJohann]

Feeding it to bees by putting it in sugar water.

[@DooleyBFR]

Dr. Said Scorch the boxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ats One Big Reason I Scorch all inside hive parts!!! God Bless!!!

[@FloryJohann]

Spors and bacteria can be in noocks and crannies and a second tourch fire will not go deep enough to kill. At 240F⁰ and 90 minutes time ecposed to those temperures will kill spores. Just an FDA rule law when preserving food.

[@jtlearn1]

Bob, how would our scientists be influenced and benefit by embracing or considering an Engineered by God Honeybee/Genetics/Immune system model in contrast to an Evolutionary model based on accidental beneficial mutations?

[@patrickmcneely7388]

I suspect the pathway for this vaccine appeared in nature and this is at least in part why we have such a low occurrence of AFB in the south. The propolis discussion was interesting.

[@robertdemers5125]

Good morning Bob !

[@bobbinnie9872]

Good morning sir.

[@hisgrace4225]

What effect does this have on the human body _vaccine 🤔 😳 ???

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

They don't know and the company and its supporters don't care. If they cared, they'd have taken time to have a third party do tests. That rarely happens nowadays with anything.

[@nirmalsubedi6208]

When will be the vaccine available for developing countries like Nepal??

[@bobbinnie9872]

I don't know.

[@zarkobojanic2141]

Probably like in serbia 20+years 😁

[@NancyBryantIdeas]

How would a hobbyist who is running plastic hive bodies deal with AFB? (I know this is an odd question, but that is how my mind works.)

[@bobbinnie9872]

Some use bleach but I hear of mixed results.

[@NancyBryantIdeas]

@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you for your reply.

[@thevalleykid]

Who owns Dalan Animal Health?

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

Dalan Animal Health, Inc. appears to be a "startup" made up of board members and industry insider/partners of Google, big-pharma, bio-tech, & multinational investment/holding companies. Board of Directors: Annette Kleiser - CEO - Ph.D. in Philosophy from - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Linda Rhodes - former R&D at Merck, current Board member at Zoetis (the largest producer of pet&livestock drugs+vaccs, formerly part of Pfizer, divested in 2013, current top shareholder is Blackrock, followed by Vanguard Group) Peter Brons Poulsen - president of Colgate-Palmolive Europe Tom Chi - co-founder of Google-X, the company's semi-secret special projects R&D division Neal Carter - President of Okanagan Specialty Fruits. "OSF is one of the first firms to pursue the use of biotechnology to deliver product innovations to the tree fruit industry." From a press-release in Oct., 2021: "Dalan will expand its product development to other underserved industries such as shrimp, mealworms and grasshoppers used in feed and food production. Up to 40% annual losses due to diseases are limiting growth across theses billion-dollar industries. Va$$ines being developed by Dalan are a breakthrough for these industries." Ze will eat ze bugs.

[@Richardofdanbury]

Is this a classical vaccine as we have been used to? Or is this simply a mRNA therapy? Since it seems to pass on the subsequent generations it would seem to me this is an mRNA form of therapy!

[@bobbinnie9872]

I don't know enough about it to say.

[@thedeafcattledog8608]

AFB is a bacteria. So this is not a vaccine. Vaccines only work against viruses. Unless of course you change the definition.

[@richardkuhn4358]

Thanks for another great video with mucho information🤡

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Healthy bees should be left alone.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

Should healthy humans not be vaccinated?

[@finsbury8919]

But that’s the point of the vaccine, healthy bees can quickly become unhealthy and potentially dead with both foul brood diseases.

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Are bees getting covid.... from bee keepers.

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Science is not 100 percent sure or right... That's Science. It's a risk-taking question and answer without facts yet. Now that's a fact. I guess we will have to wait and see. Since this was done before bees got covid...propolis is a protection for bees.. Flowers don't have covid. Bees try to stay away from humans and animals as much as they can. So I think the risk to benefit is risky...

[@davidpook5778]

@@RyanMcDonnough Not for Covid that is!

[@fredsanford9224]

There is a double blind study on going and the results have not been observed and reported and yet the FDA has approved the vaccine's use? What ethical standards does the FDA have when they are approving something without long term study? Is the honey from vaccinated bees going to cause myocarditis in humans that eat the honey like the plandemic jab?

[@Peter_Gunn]

My bees wear little tin foil hats and are vaccine hesitant. Lol 🤣 😂

[@wishicouldspel]

your sick !!

[@RyanMcDonnough]

That’s a shame. My bees are vaccinated and have 5G. You should see my cell signal in the bee yard! 😳

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@RiceDriedger No one claimed that you are livestock. The Covid vaccines (that seems to be what you’re referring to) are not experimental. Did you make this much of a fuss when you were vaccinated for everything else? Or do you only take issue with the vaccines for this particular virus? 🙃

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@RiceDriedger Everyone has a right to their own opinions. No one has a right to their own facts. I’m not delusional, my polite friend. I’m a healthcare professional. Good luck out there.

[@RyanMcDonnough]

@@RiceDriedger That, my polite friend, is what is called an “anecdote”. Anecdotes are not scientific and should not be used to make decisions. My anecdote: I have seen (in-person) many die from Covid. I have seen no one die from the vaccine. I have seen no one receive treatment in the ICU from the vaccine. I know hundreds of people who received the vaccine…none were harmed or killed as a result of receiving the vaccine. That’s my own anecdotal information. It features a much larger data set and front-line perspective. But it is still anecdotal. So…if that isn’t good enough, then go to the CDC website and have a look at all the data regarding vaccine safety. It is safe. We don’t all think that we’re right about everything. That phenomenon is caused by “confirmation bias” and “the Dunning-Kruger Effect”. I suggest avoiding those behaviors. You should consider trusting professionals. They exist for good reasons. Would you trust a McDonalds employee to fix a a downed power line? Would you hire a plumber to perform your hip replacement?

[@framcesmoore]

Thanks for this are u going to get the vaccine for your queens when it comes out to the public. U know people in high places are they close to finding something that will kill the mites that works and the hive beetles are so bad Me as a bee keeper my biggest problem is the mites Thanks again for all u do Have a Blessed week

[@bobbinnie9872]

Hi Frances. I personally don't see a need to use the vaccine at this time. Yes, I believe mites are public enemy number one too but I don't see anything tremendously different in the works.

[@toprakanaciftligi8037]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@3Beehivesto300]

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️👏🏼

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Bee keeper should not sell sick bees or sick used boards which happens.

[@stevecorcoran9869]

Typical academic. The guy spent 4 minutes rambling on making sure we all knew how smart he was but never actually mentioned what the vaccine was for, so finally after 4 minutes, Bob had to tell us what the vaccine was good for. Our university system has become such a joke.

[@mervemrv8611]

Sorry but cough sound that comes from back has very disturbed. I stopped video as you can see

[@rodrigogabrecht7945]

✌🤗

[@Gord1812]

Maybe you should have given the person off camera some honey. : )

[@kellycarpenter9350]

wow nice .Can I buy f0 or f1 vacinated Italion queens. For my winter brood factory .I use hamagenized drone sperm .I have a drone yard of . Great break though .Kel

[@asialee8102]

Not good

[@1realtruthrightnow742]

Sorry Nope, not doing it.

[@peggybair9708]

Someone needs a cough drop

[@tiffanysstoryscraftsandgar5852]

Bee keepers need to keep clean and well without infecting bees with covid by not tasting the sugar they make. Making bees Sick as well. I noticed this and thought it was not a good practice.