I Met a Rare Bee Collector! (and tried some interesting honey) - Amazing Plants

[@WeirdExplorer]

After watching this, do you think bees are adorable or scary?

[@chad2422]

Dude, Bees are King. But its really neat that their are stingless bees that make honey. Never knew that. "The more you know"

[@atastyspamwich]

Yes

[@babypapaya8229]

Adorable. The stingless bee in Mexico is the only bee in the world to naturally pollinate vanilla! All other vanilla has to be manually pollinated

[@sixeses]

Busy bees be best but betimes be batty. I like his pronunciations of latin.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

They are adorable, I love to eat and drink their gurgled spit, and other bee things. The polen and the type of bee make it so honey is almost as complex as beer in its fabrication

[@benlefranc]

This guy is on another level - probably one of the greatest guides/guests you had ever

[@therealrandyquaid]

Agreed, a bee specialist.

[@spiral2012]

Costa Ricans man! They truly love and appreciate their nature. Can't wait to go back someday.

[@linbaker]

There are over 430 species of bees found in Pennsylvania, USA! Most people think only of the honey, carpenter, and bumble bees in the USA. There are a few thousand native bees in the USA.

[@-jank-willson]

Are their native honey bee species in america? Most honey bees that beekeepers keep in america are european honeybees, which can actually push out native species and are technically considered an invasive species...

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

@@-jank-willson Only honeybees produce true honey, and no honeybee species are native to the Americas. They all come from Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa. The primary honey-producing species in the world is the European honeybee, Apis mellifera. Of the 20,000 species of bee in the world, most are "solitary bees". These are species that don't form colonies/hives. They certainly don't produce honey. What you see Jared tasting in this video isn't really honey. It's most likely raw nectar that has been collected and stored.

[@-jank-willson]

@@Duncan_Idaho_Potato well, he said it tasted like honey but more concentrated, so... There are also some wasps and hornets that produce honey

[@SilvaDreams]

@@Duncan_Idaho_Potato They all produce honey to some degree but the problem is they don't produce enough to gather.

[@dennisrichards7994]

Yup we have over 2000 species of bees in Australia and we are in terms of variety , bee species poor !!!

[@jamescanjuggle]

The guard bees remind me of tiny bouncers 😂, doing I.D checks on their colony and standing up to predators. The fact they even stood up to you makes you think what's going through their heads....

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'm not cool enough for their hive...

[@ShellyS2060]

@@WeirdExplorer none of us are. I understand you have to be(e) related to some one to get in...

[@mahna_mahna]

@@WeirdExplorer I assume they told you to buzz off.

[@budakcelake]

@@mahna_mahna "Hey Weirdo, buzz off!"

[@DrAnderson1]

I love this! 😂❤

[@alemalvina7624]

Here in Brazil there is about 200 diferent species of stingless bees. There is one specie that is small as an ant and they. Produce tiny pots for honey. Really interesting.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

That is interesting, I’d like to see more videos about that.

[@realleon2328]

What's that bee called? I would like to learn more about it

[@kurttrzeciak8326]

Fascinating! I had no idea about all of these different bee species

[@tobiasvm100]

@@realleon2328 Look for Abelha Jataí, it's very common here in Brazil!

[@TerminalM193]

How bad are the species that sting?

[@MGM_Think]

I love the bee keeper dude! he's young and have accumulated so much knowledge about his own habitat and the bees in it. in the last episode he named all the berries by the scientific name! To whatever university in Costa Rica, you really need to give this dude a place among your faculty.

[@liabobia]

Just a note - there are over 400 species of bee in New York, and it seems like more than a dozen are very common in NYC! Now that you've seen some of the diversity, maybe you'll notice new friends at home.

[@twilightraven1232]

This guy is achieving what is probably one of my life goals. I am obsessed with bees and being able to contain and properly keep rare and native bee species has always seemed fascinating to me.

[@SimpleIdeaz]

I love trying different honeys... Everytime I travel I look for rare and local honey. My favorite so far is tobacco plant honey

[@WeirdExplorer]

fascinating!

[@sdfkjgh]

@E MO: I would've thought the bees would stay away from tobacco plants, as almost every part of them are strongly insecticidal.

[@platedlizard]

@@sdfkjgh not if the tobacco plant wants to be fertilized! I imagine it keeps the nicotine away from the flowers and nectar and pollen for that reason. it's a flowering plant that relys on pollinators after all

[@Theater00jock]

@@sdfkjgh Interestingly, the nectar has an extremely low dose of nicotine, in comparison to the rest of the plant. And studies have shown that this low level of nicotine actually might be ATTRACTING bees!

[@OsirusHandle]

did it have a smokey flavour

[@StuffandThings_]

I remember reading about stingless bees once and I'm surprised they're so obscure. A completely different sort of honey, and native bees tend to be much better pollinators too. The Mayan bee honey seems really quite nice. The lack of sting seems like a nice bonus gimmick with them too. It reminds me a lot of the current situation with crops, so many species and varieties get ignored for whatever is the most productive, even if so much else is lost in the process. Such a shame that many native bee species are on the decline.

[@haseo8244]

Not a lot for USA bumblebees comes a bit close to social bees.

[@StuffandThings_]

@@haseo8244 The USA has plenty of native bee species. None of these honey producing stingless ones as far as I'm aware but still plenty that act as good pollinators. I remember some story about farmers beginning to use some native bee species in eastern Washington to pollinate crops as its more effective and better for the local ecology.

[@telegramsam]

@@StuffandThings_ Yes, there are a LOT of native bees, including multiple species of bumblebees, carpenter bees, etc. I think North American bees really get overlooked, people think of domestic honeybees and forget the rest of them. The "pollinator crisis" really isn't about domestic honeybees, but the loss of native pollinators, which have just collapsed catastrophically in recent decades.

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

In us theres like 6000 types of bees and we have the most of any continent but ours just look like a bunch of different size and shaped bumble bees and honey bees! Some are super furry some arent at all and we also have miner bees which are the most docile bees in America but they live alone and raise only 3 babies in their life and they only one out In a 1 week period all around America and if it's cold they'll land on you and just sit there while they heat up and you can pick them up with no risk of stinging!

[@jasonjennings6686]

Mason bees and leaf cutter bees are native to the US and look nothing like the traditional honey or bumble bees. They are solitary bees and make cocoons. They are really cool.

[@HuckleberryHim]

I think you are talking about sweat bees (family Halictidae) which includes the genus Lasioglossum, which includes the species people tend to encounter. They are thought to drink sweat off people's hands so they can be quite docile, it's very cool. They are tiny, compared to something like Apis mellifera (non-native honeybee) I think it's a myth that they come out for a week although it could be true for some species. In much of the US, you can find sweat bees as long as it is warm out, especially in summer. There are also some other families and kinds of bees besides Bombus genus and miners, there are mason/leafcutter, carpenter, stingless, longhorn, etc. We have nice bee diversity but sadly many are in decline and you will almost always see the same handful of species every time you see a bee, at least in the NE USA

[@Jobobn1998]

I really like Marco! Dude is incredibly interesting!

[@Tobi923]

What the... I'm just mindblown I was like 100% sure all of the bees that live in colonies make honeycombs. Honey bubbly pots so cool, who would have thought. Great video as always, greetings from Poland.

[@vanessapaakkonen6637]

One of the best videos! So fascinating.we are bee keepers as well and this was so interesting to see bees fron Costa Rico 🇨🇷. Marco is a rock star...love what he is doing in the world! Thanks so much for making this video.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@catherinedufresne3543]

I betcha the difference in honey flavor depending on time of year is due to what flowers are in season. Even European honeybee honey tastes different depending on what the main flower was used to make it. My favorite local honey here in western Washington is from bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) nectar. Fun fact: you can eat bigleaf maple flowers, too. They taste like cucumbers. I'd love to see you in western Washington during flower and berry seasons!

[@amberm2777]

Bees are so amazing. This was very interesting

[@WeirdExplorer]

glad you enjoyed!

[@amberm2777]

@@WeirdExplorer I enjoy all your videos! Been watching you for years 😁😁😁 would love to hear more stories about your life as a contortionist too, just putting it out there!

[@Jobobn1998]

Weird collab suggestion: Do a video with Cody of Cody's Lab regarding beekeeping. He'd probably be all for it.

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Mind blown!!! Stingless bees that make cute honey pots!? So awesome! Can't wait to see what else is up his sleeve!

[@arukiojake97]

All the guards are so cute. I love the diversity in all the species.

[@foreseengust]

I love your guest, he clearly has so much respect for nature and is so knowledgeable. Bees are adorable. I love planting flowers and watching bees feast on the nectar.

[@atomicskull6405]

Fascinating how they use comb for their larva but pots for honey.

[@pbjandahighfive]

I have a couple of notes to make. 1. The US doesn't just have "bumble bees and the other one". The US has an estimated over 4000 species of bees residing in various locales across the nation. 2. A few times you said "this guy" when referring to a bee, but almost all bees are female. Only a very small fraction of males are produced and generally they live very short lives and do very little besides eat honey which they use to produce spermatozoa which they will then deposit with a new queen when the hive wishes to expand, separate or spread their genes. The males then die almost immediately afterward. 3. That Aztec bee colony has a mite problem. Not really sure what type of mites they are as it is impossible to tell from that distance at this resolution, but when he opened the box you could see a concerning number of them scurrying around. Mites can be a huge problem for bees depending on the exact type

[@infernaldaedra]

We have thousands of native bee species across north and south America. We have a lot more than 2 in NA btw.

[@valterzc8187]

Brazil is the country with most species of social bees, with almost 300 species of them, and I am lucky to have 3 of them in my house. they don't produce a lot of honey, around 2 liters each hive, but the amazing flavor compensate it.

[@henriqueprado9205]

They don't produce a lot of honey because their hives are way smaller than african european ones. But given the proportion of bees to honey, stingless bess produce more.

[@valterzc8187]

@@henriqueprado9205 exactly! Mainly the ones called manduris

[@hare6663]

thank you for this video, its very important for people to know how diverse bees are! though as im sure others have pointed out-- there are MANY bees native to the US, not just bumblebees, and certainly not the invasive honeybees people often farm here. (in fact, the Eurasian honeybees used commercially are very aggressive generalist pollinators that have the ability to out compete native pollinators, including native bees.) hopefully this will get more want-to-be beekeepers to consider looking in to native species to their areas!

[@Philitron128]

This was fascinating. That small bee airport in the tree at the end was mind blowing. Great stuff man!

[@wpc456cpw]

Bee airport 🥹🥹🥹😭💕

[@RosieMe5]

I just learned about solo garlic, which is garlic grown in special conditions to prevent the development of separate cloves. It would be cool to see you try it some time, it looks like a tiny onion and apparently has a slightly milder and more perfumy flavor

[@sdfkjgh]

@RosieMe5: Solo garlic is excellent, but what's really amazing is when you make black garlic out of it! I'd recommend stuffing some dried figs with it, then drizzling on some basalmic crema vinegar. Excuse me, I need to go clean up the drool and eat something, I'm suddenly _intensely_ hungry...

[@rebaeveler3062]

I think it's super cool that so many different types of bees live next door to each other.. That guy has an amazing hobby.

[@jasonsoto5273]

I was not aware bees could make literal honey pots!

[@JD-ou2ce]

I love this guy. Doing gods work

[@susanpatterson7088]

Ionly knew about mason bees in the US, they are also stingless. It was very interesting to know that there are so many different honey making stingless bees!

[@nisnber5760]

One of the most fascinating and intriguing videos I've ever watched. Bravo to the both of you.

[@wamlartmuse2983]

The US has a few different bees. My favorite so far is a green one. It's very shiny lol. I also like the tiny regular looking ones.

[@catherinedufresne3543]

My favorite bee that you can find all over the U.S. is Agapostemon texanus, a sweat bee. They are a bit smaller than honey bees. The females are all metallic green and the males are metallic green on their heads and abdomens but they're thoraxes (butts) are black and yellow striped. They are solitary bees whose homes you can see dotting nice sandy areas. The females keep watch over their babies when they're not getting supplies by plugging the entrance with their heads and staring out at you. I wonder if the green bee that you like is also a sweat bee!

[@wamlartmuse2983]

@@catherinedufresne3543 I'm not sure. But their whole bodies are metallic green. They're also smaller than honey bees. If I figured out what they are I'll make another comment.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I'm very allergic to the stings of the common honey bee, wasp, yellow jacket, etc, So this guy's place is kinda my nightmare, lol. I very much appreciate the work of people who keep and care for bees so we can have the delicious honey, and thankfully I'm not allergic to the honey they produce so I can enjoy it, but without an Epipen I'd be in a lot of trouble! Very interesting stuff!!

[@platedlizard]

these bees are stingless so you wouldn't have any problem!

[@teresamexico309]

Gracias Marco! I would love to learn and do the bee-keeping of those beautiful stingless bees. Those native bees are better pollinators than the Apis mellifera and live in many places besides their optimal region. I do live in a place in MX with chilly winters (sometimes even it snows) and there are many wild bees around. I know that because they cut the leaves of my cherry trees, so those trees are theirs and I place wood sticks around in case they want to spend the night or live there.

[@HacknBuild]

"I've never seen a bee that small." Once you start looking at flowers, you'll see a lot of different tiny wild bees. They vary quite a bit in color, some are iridescent, some have black and white stripes and some are solid colors. Quite a few species even around here!

[@Thingsthatgopew22]

That beekeeper is doing an amazing job! Great work Marco, keep it up!

[@applegal3058]

That was so cool and interesting! Thanks Marco for sharing your knowledge and bee collection with Jared 💚

[@sdfkjgh]

3:11 I can just picture a heated argument in the bee waggle dance that breaks down to: "Don't lie to me, I saw you visiting that neighboring hive! I thought you said it was over between you and that hussy!"

[@heidic5404]

This video is fascinating! I never would have guessed there would be such drastic variety in honeycomb/nest formation. Thanks for sharing.

[@evilanno3394]

Would love to see more of those bees and how they are kept

[@MelnoQuintal]

Thanks for sharing how amazing Stingless Bees are! Hopefully people will get to know them better and realize their importance as the main pollinators of more than 80% of cultivated crops and 90% of native plants. And also for our health, due to the amazing benefits of their honey, pollen and propolis. Raising them is definetely a synonym os Sustainability - social, economic and environment as a whole! Here in Brazil we keep a collection of more than 18 species, over 200 colonies near São Paulo. We aim to teach people how to keep them safe and multiply them. If you ever come here, please feel invited to get to know our space (Meliponário Mel no Quintal). Let's swarm!!

[@ethanstewart9970]

This was ridiculously fascinating.

[@yellowbird5411]

I absolutely loved this video! Thank you so much for doing it. And I thank your friend who has the hives for showing us his amazing collection!

[@mariakasstan]

There are hundreds of species of native bees in North America...about 300 in the Toronto area alone. Most of them are NOT honeybees, however, but all are good pollinators.

[@jared5811]

Thank you for this fascinating and educational look into the lives of Costa Rican bees! This was great!

[@simeklanac1116]

The most unique tasting honey I have ever tried is chestnut honey, it leaves a bitter aftertaste that I didn't expect the first time around.

[@agent57]

It's so wild that native bees in Costa Rica are stingless! I know there are stingless species in the US but I've only heard of ones that are solitary and not hive-building. I'll have to look into it more. Also very cool that these hives are so little! Imagine having a small box of bees for pollinating your garden, and not having to worry about them stinging either. 😆 In European honeybees, (the main producer here in the US I believe - not native, but naturalized by this point) the eggs are laid in the same kind of comb as the honey is stored in, but usually grouped together in part of the hive. So if you're keeping a hive you'll have frames that are mostly "brood" comb and ones that are all or mostly honeycomb. Apiarists will harvest the honeycomb and leave the brood comb and enough of the honeycomb to get the hive through the winter. Not a beekeeper myself, but I find it all fascinating. Maybe I'll get brave enough to try it out someday.

[@scallopohare9431]

North America has a genus of stingless bees, Trigona, which comprises three species. They eat carrion, and make an analog to honey. I know this because some critter died in my attic, and there was a stream of slightly odd-looking bees for a few days.

[@fummy33hotmail]

In commercial beekeeping for honey, there's a thing called a queen excluder so that the queen can only lay eggs in one portion of the hive, otherwise the comb would be mixed honey and eggs

[@Lisatheecologist]

I would love to try honey from other species of bees. so few species produce honey in any harvestable quantity

[@privato9238]

Man Costa Rice is a magical place. Thank you for showing this and thanks to Marco!

[@ogreenius]

This was *such* a cool video! Loved seeing all these unique bee species, and seeing you get to taste some of the unique honey (a dream of mine). And FYI, we have a ton of natives in the US too, they're just much less well-known. But the natives are actually more the primary pollinators of many plant species, so get to know 'em! Our natives are likewise adorable, and very often tiny (although we have far fewer honeycomb-forming ones, AFAIK). Hooray for bees!😊

[@Purwapada]

amazing! I'm so endeared by those guard bees. Thats super cute lol

[@KenJohnsonUSA]

The bees you mentioned as being in America are actually non-natives. My people called them "White man's flies." We do have native bees in America. They are super tiny. Usually, they are collectively called "sweat bees." Most are no bigger than a pencil eraser. Some are green, others are yellow and black, etc. The European bee actually creates harm to the ecosystem, pushing out native pollinators, etc.

[@fokkerd3red618]

I didn't realize the medicinal value of honey until I read about it, quite some time ago. The roof of my mouth was extremely sore on one side, so instead of rinsing with very warm salt water i tried applying raw honey on the area for a few hours. The following day it wasn't sore at all which i thought was amazing. I always have raw honey on hand to use as a sweetener instead of sugar.

[@cuttwice3905]

I live in the US and I have carpenter, mason and sweat bees in my garden as well as honey and bumble bees. Most of the honey bees visit from a hive a block away.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

There were bumble bees that made a nest in a little yellow bird house where I used to live, and the guard bee would sit on the bird perch. It was adorable. One would always hover around me if I was gardening, keeping an eye on me. lol

[@matthewodonnell6906]

Fun fact, solitary ground-nesting bees can be found throughout the Northeastern USA. They make small burrows in sandy soil & pollinate local flowers including blueberries & apples. I used to have some in my backyard as a kid here in NJ & would watch them flutter around our zucchini plants in spring.

[@reilea9977]

OMG, how freaking cool is this?!🥰

[@Catlily5]

I looked up my state (New Mexico, USA). It said there were around 1000 types of bees both native and non-native.

[@YourDickMyMouth]

There are plenty of fascinating native bee species in Australia such as amegilla cingulata. I suggest checking them out if you’re interested in this sort of thing.

[@carollizc]

I have always thought bees are adorable. I've let them xrawl in my hands in the garden, and have never been stung. I guess they somehow know I mean them no harm

[@bootblacking]

I live in suburban Florida and we're super lucky to have a honeybee hive on our property. They survived the hurricane, thank goodness.

[@arritoukiros7063]

The bees poking their heads out is super cute lmaoooo

[@LittleSpaceCase]

The US has thousands of bee species! Many are endangered due to habitat loss but you can help them easily by gardening with plants native to your area! Native bees can usually only eat 1-10 native plants, so lawns and non-native gardens are starving them out. A lot of people dont know that honeybees are actually an invasive species in the US.

[@WarhavenSC]

Neat. Was just chatting with my GP and he mentioned that physicians will occasionally use honey on wounds that are having trouble healing. It's basically nature's Neosporin.

[@Spamista]

Thanks Marco, for sharing with us all xdddd

[@erutuon]

I like how many bees can hang out in wooden boxes in Costa Rica. Here in Minnesota it's way too cold in the winter, so many bees have nests underground.

[@chir0pter]

The US has many different types of native bee. Including some gorgeous ones, next time you go blueberry picking in the Northeast in June see if you can find any orange Turk's Cap lilies, they are pollinated by bright iridescent green bees

[@orionx79]

In a normal beehive in the US, the outside are the honey comb and the inside are the brood. The honey in the winter normally acts as a insulation as well as food when humans aren't taking it.

[@pattheplanter]

You have some spectacular and weird bees in the US, though perhaps not in New York. Metallic desert sweat bees in green, for example. You might be surprised, even a small island like Britain has a huge range. I saw a British native sweat bee called _Lasioglossum_ on flowers in my garden. Though the hoverfly bumblebee mimics are the best bee even though they are not a bee, in my opinion.

[@connieembury1]

Very interesting! I never realized there were so many varieties of Bees!

[@Ally-Oop]

This is wild! I had no idea there were so many varieties. The vast majority of homesteading beekeeping vids I’ve seen just have the common NA honey bee or talk about worries of Africanized bees, but never the smaller populations. So cool!

[@scrpion669]

WOW!I never knew you could keep different species of bees next to each other like this.So cool!Thank you for this video!

[@catherinedufresne3543]

At about 6:00, what is that little plastic cup in the hive that has sticks in it? I vibe with this guy, I wish I could meet him and talk bees with him. Does he have much online presence, like a website or youtube channel? Thanks Jared for combining my two biggest interests: plants and insects!

[@WeirdExplorer]

check the description for his site! Marco is a cool guy

[@comfortablynumb9342]

I tried Mariola bee honey in Costa Rica at my friend's farm by where I lived. It was very dark and sweet. When he opened the box the bees all came out and swarmed but didn't sting. They were tiny, like a small/ medium mosquito. My buddy Chicho had about 5 or 6 colonies hanging under his eves on ropes. I really miss living in Costa Rica. I was there for 9 years and it wasn't enough. Coming back to the states to help the family was hard. Hopefully I'll move back one day.

[@lynth]

You can see all the evil mites everywhere, e.g. there were thousands crawling everywhere at the edges @4:10. Did you ask him whether the bees are threatened by these mites and whether they does anything to help the bees against them?

[@syriuszb8611]

This! I saw them too and am wondering if they are dangerous to them or not. I wonder why bees wouldn't try to eat them or something to get rid of them, they are clearly visible.

[@davidedgar2818]

I love this video. Bees are very interesting as well as the different types of honey. I live on a fruit farm in Hawaii and although I'm allergic to bee stings, I do love the bees and their benefits. When my trees are flowering I'm not scared to be out amongst them I just don't mess with them and I haven't been stung yet. It is incredible to stand under an avocado tree in full bloom, the buzz of the bees is quite loud.

[@CraftyChicken91]

What an absolute legend. This dude is so talented.

[@greendaylover323]

I live near Houston Texas and we have a ton of different bees here. If you're ever in the area I would highly suggest coming when the wildflowers are in bloom. It's common to see 5-7 different types of bee in the same area. Some are tiny, and then you have the big ol bumbles haha.

[@Scereyaha]

I love them all so much

[@thesilentone4024]

I love these bees and the gords best water bottles ever and the bees help make em. I use the wax from the bee. Unfortunately I don't have this bee but I have native bumble bees from Nevada and wow you can literally hear them coming from 7 feet away its terrifying but very cool too. There calm very tame so I can walk right up to the very big box. So bee suits not needed just be slow to not disturb them.

[@pangyre]

Super fun video. For the record, the US has 4,000 species of bees. Urban/suburban people will just never see many of them.

[@WeirdExplorer]

That's a lot more than 2. 🤣 I was aware there were more than that, but would never have guessed a number that high.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

European honeybee hives are spherical despite the direction of the comb. Brood is the center then pollen and bee bread then honey over the top. Almost like an onion, layered. Their home range includes freezing temps so they've evolved to insulate the brood. It wouldn't be such an issue but Italians for example only stop egg production for the coldest months and consume much more honey comparatively. That leads to winter sugar feeding and other problems.

[@repeatdefender6032]

How did I miss this! I love bees! The tiny ones are my favorite. Also Marco is amazing! So knowledgeable and he must work his arse off taking care of all that living stuff.

[@ezbo1883]

I have 8 inch reference monitors and 11:20 made me slap my head and run out of my studio :D As fascinating as they are i don't think i'll ever get over the sound they make.

[@iknowtoomanyfacts]

The Sacred Mayan bees are so cute with their fuzzy thoraxes. Like they're all wearing furry vests.

[@thomaswilliams690]

Wow, I have honey bees in Washington state and they produce lots of honey. I would like to find out ifmany tiny bees I saw in my pasture were like the bees in Costa Rica. The ones I saw look an awful lot like those. Did he say how he got his collection?

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

These bees arent native to north America but people did find some stingless bees in a tree in California not many years ago and of all people it was a little girl! These bees are tiny and look like half bee and half fly, bee butt, fly face and not at all aggressive!

[@k8eekatt]

Wow! This is so cool! Thanks for sharing! On another show, I saw stingless bees need protection from ants.

[@chir0pter]

7:20 "Scuse me buddy, giant finger coming through!" *bee obligingly moves out of the way*

[@nathanhale7444]

He should make honey sampler packs with little containers with just enough honey from each of his bees to get a good taste so people can experience the different flavors.

[@danielkorrmann5467]

You have a lot of Bees in the USA ! Wild Bees are everywere. Keep your eyes open when coming by wild flowers.

[@griigorihabii]

I just know that picture of the Bee egg stalks is gonna be used for a bogus medical ad 😂

[@YeszCore]

Wish I could talk to this guy and have him show me all of his bees. So much knowledge

[@cynthiajohnson6747]

There are so many native bees in America, all colors and sizes I believe native bees are stingless.

[@jikkermanccini]

Well I know what I'm keeping to pollenate my future greenhouse! This was fascinating!

[@EricHunt]

You need to learn about orchid bees! They collect fragrances from orchid flowers and use them to make mating pheromones.

[@KarmaCadet]

I've heard that many bee species are going extinct, so it's very cool to see that people are actually raising bees like this! Thank you for sharing!

[@chir0pter]

Holy crap, move over Ants Canada I want to hear about bee collecting! Get this guy his own channel (and an English coach so he can reach a wider audience)