Honey Bees Building Comb And Festooning Explained
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- When honeybees prepare to draw out wax they first start to festoon. Festooning is a large cluster of bees linked together by each others legs. It's almost like a chain of bees. They usually festoon from the area they are going to draw wax. In this case it's the empty frame in my hive.
Have you seen bee festooning before? Did you notice if they were building comb?
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Festooning during wax building is so that bees can determine the angle of cells using gravity. If you turn a frame with bees festooning sideways (horizontal), the bees will build comb the direction they are now hanging. Bees are smart. Gravity pulls the festoon down at tbe perfect 90 degree angle.
Wow so cool
Damn, so they essentially turn themselves into a plumb bob? Lmao
One of the reasons the festoon is an energy exchange between the bees in the hive. It’s been mentioned it is a way of measuring for them too. They will also use their bodies to form bridges so that other bees can cross from one point to another.
I think it would have been cool if you could have made a time lapse video of the comb being made from start to finish. Keep the vids coming; I need them!
Mark Crider I would have to agree that would have been cool. I just did not want to leave light shining on them that long.
Maybe, pronounce ^comb^ way supposed to be said, instead of ^cum^. Get that ^oh^ in ^comb^ out there! But loved the video. Show me how build hive like that!!!!
I was searching for the cum comment...and here it is.
Thank you for interesting video of internal life of the hive. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bees and insect lovers!
Stop saying "comb" like "come" goddammit.
Lol
I like these videos of your observation hive! These are really neat and informative.
Camillio Thanks, I am glad you enjoy them. I really like my OB hive. With our long winter it gives me a chance to still watch the bees.
Jason, Great to see how quickly they draw out the comb, and fill them with eggs, larvae etc.
Bees.... never cease to amaze... !
Hi Jason , Thanks a lot for the great video, the WAX image you shared is also awesome.
Would be great to watch your video showing the how-to for observation hive when possible .. cheers
Wow! Those honeybees are busy like real bees! I give it a thumbs up and a subscribe!
Neat video Jason. I wish you would have done attendance call for your bees. Adamson? ......here, Adler?.....here, Anderson? ...... here! Beeler?.............Beeler?.............Beeler?..........Beeler?
That's funny, maybe next time. lol
I've always had it that they were sleeping out. Its not like they were strapped in and producing wax flakes for the other workers, and not wasting many calories.
Thanks for sharing! Good closeups!
You do good work and we do appreciate it. I had a couple of bee keeping friends come over a month or so a go and, ( I'm a new Bee Keeper) and one of them added a med box and frames to my hive. The honey super frames were about full, I opened them back up a few weeks later to pull the full frames and the hive was destroyed by wax moths, bees had left, and I had no honey. Found out the box he put on had had wax moths and he put it in the freezer but it didn't clean them up. I'm very disappointed over loosing my hive. Heart broken is more like it. Think I'll give up on raising bees for now, and I'm going to burn all of that equipment. Don't want that to happen again if I get over it and try again. I'll use new equipment and do it all on my own if I do it again..........
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Don't give up. There are ways to clean your equipment, and you then just need some bees to get started again. I think the operative word here is "a few weeks." It's OK to poke your nose in once a week or so to see how they are doing, and as a new beek, you need to inspect often to learn what you are seeing. The earlier you find a problem, the easier it is to fix. Put this down to a learning experience and get back on the horse.
George, thanks for the encouragement, I'm not a quitter just a little upset as in pissed. They had got kind of mean of late, thus not visiting them enough, they got me 3 times a while back but my fault as I was just wearing a veil. I've got good protection now and will start over after we move to new home. How would you clean the boxes and frames?
How do they produce the wax for the comb?
Mr Jason, that means they festoon and by doing so, how and from where they obtain wax? Thank you for the nice video..
Mohammed Aslam The wax is made by the bees and is secreted from their abdomen. Here is a great image of the wax coming out of the bee. www.beesandbeyond.com/bees/news/bee-facts-beeswax
Dear Mr.Jason, thank you very much replying to my quarry.
I felt happy to see how the bees produce wax. Thanks a lot Bee man.
With my best regards
This might be a silly question, but when do the bees fill the Combs with honey? Is that much later after the larvae have hatched out?
There is a couple types of honeycomb. One is brood comb which is for laying eggs in. The other is for storing surplus honey and it's usually above the brood frames. A lot of people use a queen excluder to keep the queen out of the honey supers so she can't lay eggs there. Hope this helps!
This is fascinating. What I would really love to see is HOW the individual hexagons are made. With basic sacred geometry you can draw a perfect hexagon with just a set of compasses and a pencil and then a straight edge to finish it off, no measurements required. I want, no NEED to know how the bee (or bees) use certain body parts or movements to create the sweeping arcs we can draw with compasses. Any info at all about this would be very gratefully received. Thanks.
They do this in order to get every comb exactly straight down so they are doing a living vertical waterlevel.
This is legitimately one of the best explanations and close ups i have found after extensively searching on RUclips. Thank you!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
How long does it pat bees to have honey
Fascinating! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It is a great observation hive! I was wondering do you cover him when not observing or it is open all the time?
Lazarov Georgi Yes I made covers to go over the glass and most of the time they are on the hive. My first few months with it I did not have covers and they started drawing comb on the glass. I made covers and they stopped. So I assume they were telling me they do not like all the light.
Thank you
You're welcome
Nice
Awesome!
love you observation hive, going to have to make me one day.
I like bees...
That is so 😎 cool!
That didn't actually explain much. But cool video
What would be making my hive build wavy combs? We are new to keeping bees so we’re clueless. Please advise.
What kind of foundation are you using?
Just need a fast forward and you will see what happens.
Yeah they require double the amount of honey to make that hive.
Nice video!!!
Did you make this hive?
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video not good...expected to see how a bee secretes wax and makes it hexagon shape. Try next one, ok?
Sorry!
Subhanallah...allah is the creator.
So it made itself?
Those bees are doing a fine job creating by themselves.
Getting ready to draw what sir 😃