Darwinian beekeeping

Thank you Dr. Seeley. Some interesting things to think about.

I like your philosophy and your reasoning seems sound. I have a question. What do you bait your swarm traps with?

Could you have a look at english subtitles, thanks

Could you have a look at english subtitles, thanks

Thank you from Joe in Northern Ireland.
Any ideas for reducing drone comb in foundationless frames?

Have you ever seen colonies survive with high mite loads? Your suggesting killing off colonies with 10 mites in a count, but I've seen colonies survive with higher loads with no issues, and seems it takes the tolerance trait and balances out their colony with mites. What do you think?

Yes you are %100 right. We hunt regularly wild bees in forest. grandfather was old style hives like basket
.In basket hives bees never die winter. But he said when change hives turn modern beekeeping used langstroth hive 50 percent increased winter lost. Upper Insulation is very weak langstroth hives. He found empty honey comb and frozen bees. When we add top 4 cm insulation everything OK.

Nicely done. Thank you.

No matter wild or not beetles, moths, and mites will come. I think, which is not epa friendly, the warre hive allows them to build what they can protect. But still warre brings its own difficulties of lifting ect. but over all the warre is like the wild more than any topbar and framed boxes.

Talks like a millenial. .emphasis on the last syallBLE. Most disTRACTING. Best to read his works, listenING will drive you NUTS.

Great presentation. I wish you wouldn’t apologize for the Darwinian style. It has a place in commercial beekeeping. Timely splits to mimic swarming can actually increase honey production.

Another excellent presentation, I am thankful for your time and efforts! Thumbs UP of course!

Before we faithfully accept Dr Seeley's "Darwinism" as the only solution to what ails the honey bee we must consider that unchecked evolutionary stressors do not always lead to the success of a species. A strong enough stressor acting over a short enough time span leads to extinction. Evolution never taught us that simply allowing "bees to be bees" under the current circumstances would provide assurance of their continued survival. 10 thousand years ago the dire wolf was walking the North America continent "being the dire wolf" with zero management from mankind. The dire wolf is now extinct.

Hello Tom, do you have a video on "condensing hives for bottom entrances?" Thank you

Congratulations, I have read your books and I am a big fan of yours. Would it be possible to subtitle the video in Italian? Thank you

Very very fascinating. Your videos are always great to watch!

Hi Tom, superb information as usual. I live in southern Spain near Portugal. Would you happen to know if there is any evidence that painting hives very different colours or with bold markings reduces the amount of drift between hives which are close together? Hives are normally the same colour within an apiary.

Thank you dear Tom Seeley for sharing your knowledge and experience.
It is always a pleasure listening to you and learning.
And it is far more than just interesting and useful, it is a treasure.

Kind regards from Vienna/Austria
Kyros

Dr. Tom. I've been working on a small layens poly hive (I don't think anyone in the world makes one). Its pretty much based on your principles of Darwinian Beekeeping. I wondered if you'd like to hear more about it.

Grazie Tom, dalla liguria in Italia. Bellissima e interessante lezione.

Love your talks. Am trying to be a natueal beek. You and Dr Leo Shariskan have my attention with anything you put out. You have done so much specific to bees research. I however call it natural, not Darwinian. So many thing darwin couldn't connect the dots on, without God in the picture. Have a blessed day!

Very useful. Thank you

How mine has a round 3/4 inch hole in the front I was thinking about trying up down to see how that works

Sir, when bee wants to show where to go she does "the waggle dance". What when she wants to warn her sisters not to go somewhere. Do they perform something opposite to waggle dance? I am not talking about beeping the waggling bee by another bee. Regards!

Bees can prefer higher places because of low humidity and larger radius of flowers smell

Thank you…I learned so much.

I wonder if the height of wild colonies making a nest is because it affects chalkbrood? As the ground in spring is wet and ripe to throw spores. Being closer to the ground may affect spore transferring to the hive.

why don't you use horizonal hives? far less disturbance to the colony

In Poland last 500 years we have been hives in tree trunks
You can get all answers from people having them in polish woods

10-year beekeeper.
I never treated my bees. The first few years I had up to 60 percent loss in a given year. These were mainly purchased bees.
I caught many swarms over the years and produced more colonies from those swarms. Now I lose about 10 to 15 percent in a given year. Some of that is due to learning from experience and becoming a better beekeeper, but I am convinced the genetics of my colonies are getting more adapted to the local environment as a result of my refusal to treat.
I also used to run Warre hives. I believe the Warre hives are better for the bees due to the smaller overall cavity size and the ability of the bees to better regulate their temperature in the winter.

Thank you very much Dr.Seeley I hope you are fine and healthy.