Thanks for sharing, really interesting! Lost a hive recently but it has new inhabitants and they seem to be cleaning it out. Marvellous little girls!
@spudgn2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Nick. I will remember these lessons.
@gothenqcowboys7 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for sharing
@spudgn2 жыл бұрын
Hello Nick. I enjoy your videos on native bees. Not so many stingless bees here domesticated hives. Sence I intend to retire in SEA and hobby farm for profit and personal development, bees would be an asset rather that a pest; 40-50% increase in coconut and fruit production. To the point, SHB is be coming a problem in the Philippines. My friends here in the USA use traps with veggie oil or diatomaceous earth or a combination of the same or borax and honey. Another thing is a series of entrances to the hives. SHB do not hover. So a landing board with a lip diverts the beetles. A 90 degree plastic entrence, pointed down, makes entry more difficult to enter. Any thoughts from you would be appreciated. Thanks again for the video classes.
@HAMMER2537 жыл бұрын
Sealing and freezing the infested hive for a day or 2 would hopefully kill off enough of the larvae and reduce/eliminate the risk of infecting the cleaner hive?
@australiannativebee36627 жыл бұрын
Yes it just makes the job easier for the bees. A strong hive will handle an amazing amount of pests but it pays to help them. I haven't had the pests move into the healthy hive but I have had the healthy hive seal its door off.
@dshack4689 Жыл бұрын
if the healthy hive seals itself off, do you have to intervene later and unseal it or do they do that themselves at some point? we lost a hive to phorid. had a good recovery hive going off a parent hive but the extreme storm we had last week (169km/hr through Archerfield QLD) crashed a tree into our hives and the phorids attacked again - i wish they'd seal their front entrance instead of just an internal entrance just like the healthy hive does? cheers =)
@deebelee35583 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks mate
@deebelee35583 жыл бұрын
Just curious mate, how do they leave the hive if you have the entry connected on both hives via a tube? We have the same problem at the moment.
@stevepreston454 жыл бұрын
Hi Nick, would you connect a hive if under attack from Phorid fly or do you wait until there are maggots.
@jamesmonkey68436 жыл бұрын
Hey nick! I'm pretty new to keeping australian native bees and I had a question; I was just wondering if this method is a viable way of creating a new colony? (Maybe during mating season?) I was hoping I could do this to the point that maybe they would build enough food for the queen to lay some queen cells in some brood comb Inside the new box?
@australiannativebee36626 жыл бұрын
Well this is for getting rid of pests but there is a method shown on my blog australiannativebee.com that is similar for making new colonies of native Australian stingless Bees. Check it out
@Josh-e2l4 жыл бұрын
Are those long beetles bad for the hive?
@australiannativebee36624 жыл бұрын
For the strong hive I never worry. A weak hive they can be a problem.
@Josh-e2l4 жыл бұрын
@@australiannativebee3662 Ok thanks, I split mine a few months ago and have noticed phorid fly have got in since the split. And I saw those same long beetles. I've made a fly trap and open the lid every few hours and squash as many as I can
@Au_Aquatica5 жыл бұрын
That log hive lmao. Bee bush
@recycledchannel84634 жыл бұрын
hello sir i want to learn to grow that stinglessbee