Why isn't this all over the news ?!?!! This is very big! I have news for people that think this is no big deal, we cannot survive without bees and other pollinators. Congratulations to Dr. Stamets and everyone else putting in all their time and effort into this VERY important work. A big heartfelt THANK YOU 💖👍😊
Mushrooms are some of the most powerful biological agents on the planet and every day we're learning more about their benefits. Unfortunately, big corporations aren't interested in mushrooms because you can't patent them like you can a chemical pesticide or insecticide. Paul Stamets is doing great work but we need more people doing this type of research before it's too late.
I am not a beekeeper but am interested in them - an observation by myself is that bees natural habitat is living in tree hollows. Trees are the usual place you find Fungi - therefore is there a relationship between bees and trees that have fungi/mycelium already growing in the wood :)
Accurate observation. The tree hollows have been disappearing worldwide for various reasons. Have had colonies that took over kestrel boxes and stayed alive for 6 years in varroa zones. Some hollow Cedar and Fir trees on forest land have seen bees in same trees for well over 10 years, more than likely far away from mites, until some "well intended" bee keeper tries for some fire weed honey. Mites are rough because they are born fertile and learn resistance because they breed so often.
within a feral hive theresquite a few types of fungi in the micro ecology of a hive, there quite a few yeasts as well in the hive, however due to varroa most of these microorganisms are killed off with varroa treatments.
I could not agree more that there is possibly an unknown symbiotic relationship between the health and survival of bees and a variety of wood rot fungi.
He mentioned on Joe Rogan that was part of how he thought of this. He noticed a bear strike (bear damaged the trunk of a tree) and went back to find fungi growing in the spot. He then remembered Winnie the pooh always ate honey out of the holes in trees. He put two and two together that something in the fungi that was rotting the holes in the trees was attracting the bees.
Great video! Definitely a great argument for homeowners to have decaying wood on our properties, too. I was recently at a talk where an apiarist said that the hives where bees drank from his fungus experienced DOUBLE the lifespan of his other hives, so he was purposefully growing more fungus on his property by soaking different kinds of wood chips on his property.
Instead of making hive boxes from factory lumber, painted lumber or treated lumber we could make the hive boxes from raw lumber with live edges. Hollowed out trunks. Stuff like that. The fungus would grow on them naturally.
All that Canola and Dicambria in Western North Dakota might have been a drop in feasible stoppage for pollen, it might a been a bad bad thing. Thanks for keeping bees!
I'm not surprised Paul Stamets ended up here. I'm interested in this. I might play around with it. Hopefully I can find something that will infect cattail, kill the mites and doesn't have to be alive to do it.
one of the biggest thing is that your own local state governments are using mosquito control and the stuff that comes out of that is highly illegal around the world but we use it here right here in Florida and it's being sprayed in every neighborhood across the state of Florida
I think chemtrail spraying in the upper atmosphere has alot to do with the rise in cancer in humans and also the death of many avian species and also bees.
Very interesting as a subject. If you allow me, I have a question about the varieties of Tricholoma matsutake and Tricholoma caligatum Can you tell me which variety is in symbiosis with cedar wood? Tricholoma matsutake or Tricholoma caligatum? What value can have an Tricholoma caligatum? thank you in advance
Paul I'm an arborist in Tallahassee Florida and I grow fruits and veggies with woodchips and I have massive piles of wood different species.I want to start raising bees.I wonder if putting the hives near the over piles of wood might help They have turkey tails and gelatinous shrooms I haven't seen the rishi that I think you were showing.im a newbie in mushrooms but I'm soaking it up.
Great stuff. Hey, it's not allot, but i really respect what you're doing, keep up the good work. Let me start hearing you say.. We doubled the bee population last year! Thanks again.
Can these beneficial fungi be grown on large scales in fungi farms outside of our forests? If not, my concern would that once scientists discover all of these great new beneficial uses for fungi, while at the same time we are deforesting the World’s forest, the demand for these beneficial fungi will skyrocket to far exceed the supply growing natural in our forests. And how do farm fungi on a large scale from forests, without doing damage to everything else in the forests? I’m assuming that people like Paul wouldn’t be researching uses for fungi, if there wasn’t the capability of developing large-scale man-made fungi farms, outside of our natural forests.
this was a really informative video thank you for sharing it! do you think it's certain fungi that help bees with their immunity or all kinds? I'm thinking of raising shiitake next year and toying with the idea of bees as well and wondered if the shiitake can benefit from the bees and vice versa thanks for your time!
Only certain kinds. Fungi have different genomes that have different sets of genes. Some sets of genes are called biosynthetic pathways, which code for a set of enzymes. The enzymes work successively, so the product of one goes to the next from beginning till the end. The end output of such pathways are specialised secondary metabolites, like the one shown in this video. Your fungus may not have this set, you could do what's known as genome mining, however, to test this.
Reishi are good for people too, but due to improper harvesting, theyre getting decimated in thr wild and are damn near impossible to artificially grow. If youre gonna get some, learn how to cut the growing white edge correctly and not damage the unusable part so it can continue to thrive. Really id say dont mess with mushrooms at all but gatekeeping is just going to leave curious people with only bad guidance. This summer, mt hood college and other colleges near you are doing online myco foraging classes for 20-40 dollars.
-@Pecu Alex- He didn't mention any name, nor any specific species. I watched the video three times to see if I missed it. If you heard the name, please type it in the comment, maybe with a time mark too. Because you chose not to type it in, I suppose you will ultimately concur that the name is not mentioned. I used deductive reasoning to suggest any and all tree fungi are helpful, because if the fungi they study are specific to one small region of Washington State, then for eons, bees in every other part of the world would have been in jeopardy. But because bees naturally, successfully, hive in old rotting tree hollows, it is reasonable to deduce that the fungi that also colonize every rotting tree hollow may be of some beneficial use. No? Obviously, this guy thinks he will develop a fungus-based medicine that he can market and sell, therefore he doesn't want to advertise the name. When information is guarded in such a way, for such reasons, it all becomes suspect. I hope he finds what he is looking for, and I hope his marketing scheme helps farmers produce food for people.
Dear bee keeping friends. Please go out and find these polypore mushrooms on wood & trees, put it in the crockpot and make your bees some tea! I am doing it and the bees love it!
I'm having a problem with chronic bee paralysis virus. I've been using oxalic acid towels and have a mite count of 2 to 3. I've been searching the net and can't seem to find a cure for the virus wondering if the mushrooms will help. If so could you let me know where, if or how I can obtain some and what's the formula for the mixture. I have six hives and two of them are affected. Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way I'm in Southern California.
One website teaching you how to prepare sugar water to feed the bees said to steep the hot/warm sugar mix with 2 teaspoons of dried Thyme herb as it help ward off Varroa. Any truth to that?
What looks like the "bowl" at the bottom is just the little excess bit of ripped paper at the bottom that happens when you don't rip it straight along the lines.
crgaillee Good luck with that. Once they get it to market they will tell us all they think we need to know. Meanwhile I have virtually eliminated the Varroa problems in my hives by selective requeening from hives with natural Varroa resistance. I haven't seen more than a half dozen mites in three years now. I just wish I could say the same for Small Hive Beetles.
@@artist5554 Michael explained it... He requeens from hives that show to be resistant to the mites... In other words he kills queens in hives and replaces the queen with one from a hive that has proven to be resistant...
The honey bee is fine , it’s just the European honey bee that has become weakened by years of capitalist based farming . The blood line for the bees is simply just getting weaker because of the breeding programs they run for the bees. It’s actually quite a simple problem
Bees are all female. Except for a few males who don't do any work. They are there just to fertilize the queen and are driven out of the hive to die before winter since they are just a drain on food resources.
@@mrmasterpeels thank you for the response. I am going to start a club for ostracized male bees, so they can discover their purpose through the performing arts.
It's a polypore looks like fomitopsis pinicola .... Not edible its way to woody but excellent for tinder... Possibly they use some in their smoker since that's what shows in the first 15-20 seconds of the video. Just an observation.
I get so angry when I hear someone say varroa feed on the bees "blood" or hemolymph. it's been proven they feed on their "fat bodies" or the bees equivalent of a liver. this makes a huge difference in their biology.
I love how entitled you are that you think you know better than a world-renowned mycologist (someone that LITERALLY has a doctorate and MANY books and research papers on... FUNGI) ... Troll
the bees immune systems are compromised from eating gmo and un organic pollen as well as living in bee cities just like human cities make people more prone to disease and have weaker immune systems in my opinion.
Why, because he thinks outside the box??? that is where ingenuity comes from.. maybe because he walks with a stick, have you ever met unfriendlies in the woods??? Maybe you could just give reasoning for your comment
Dianna Boykin why certainly id love to provide some reasoning for my comment although im not sure its needed. through out the video appears the logo for the band which are called "stealies", a stylized skull with a lightning bolt inside featuring a backdrop of red and blue coloring. you can see one at his computer and one on his hat at 4:40 and 4:50 respectively.
Dianna Boykin no problem. But ill warn you. If you dont listen to the grateful dead much and eventually wanna hear what its about you might not be able to turn it off
He is from my home state (and city) and we have a LOT of weird names up here, well normal for us... but everyone else says they are weird... Puyallup, Spanaway, Auburn, Bellevue, Spokane, Okanogan, Wooloomooloo...
Why isn't this all over the news ?!?!! This is very big! I have news for people that think this is no big deal, we cannot survive without bees and other pollinators. Congratulations to Dr. Stamets and everyone else putting in all their time and effort into this VERY important work. A big heartfelt THANK YOU 💖👍😊
Cause liberals only care about the latest of trump and JAN 6
I love you Paul Stamets, keep it up brother.
Word, such an unknown hero!
It seems they were unsuccessful because this pest is still a major problem...
Indeed
He's a real one. Most people would be afraid to admit that drugs got them into nature but I think it's true for a lot of people.
@@dvdrwsor well maybe the bee farmers don't know about this. It's clearly explained in the video it works
I love you Paul Stamets! Thank you for all your research and hard work. This World needs you🙏💗
Mushrooms are some of the most powerful biological agents on the planet and every day we're learning more about their benefits. Unfortunately, big corporations aren't interested in mushrooms because you can't patent them like you can a chemical pesticide or insecticide. Paul Stamets is doing great work but we need more people doing this type of research before it's too late.
I am not a beekeeper but am interested in them - an observation by myself is that bees natural habitat is living in tree hollows. Trees are the usual place you find Fungi - therefore is there a relationship between bees and trees that have fungi/mycelium already growing in the wood :)
Accurate observation. The tree hollows have been disappearing worldwide for various reasons. Have had colonies that took over kestrel boxes and stayed alive for 6 years in varroa zones. Some hollow Cedar and Fir trees on forest land have seen bees in same trees for well over 10 years, more than likely far away from mites, until some "well intended" bee keeper tries for some fire weed honey. Mites are rough because they are born fertile and learn resistance because they breed so often.
within a feral hive theresquite a few types of fungi in the micro ecology of a hive, there quite a few yeasts as well in the hive, however due to varroa most of these microorganisms are killed off with varroa treatments.
I could not agree more that there is possibly an unknown symbiotic relationship between the health and survival of bees and a variety of wood rot fungi.
He mentioned on Joe Rogan that was part of how he thought of this. He noticed a bear strike (bear damaged the trunk of a tree) and went back to find fungi growing in the spot. He then remembered Winnie the pooh always ate honey out of the holes in trees. He put two and two together that something in the fungi that was rotting the holes in the trees was attracting the bees.
I have so much appreciation for you Paul Stamets!
where is the nobel prize for this? Keep it up Paul!
Great video! Definitely a great argument for homeowners to have decaying wood on our properties, too.
I was recently at a talk where an apiarist said that the hives where bees drank from his fungus experienced DOUBLE the lifespan of his other hives, so he was purposefully growing more fungus on his property by soaking different kinds of wood chips on his property.
interesting concepts, hmmm, keep the thoughts rolling, sometimes, all it takes is a different set of eyes, seeing amazing things...
The best part: Paul Stamets was the first to notice and study this phenomenon as well.
Instead of making hive boxes from factory lumber, painted lumber or treated lumber we could make the hive boxes from raw lumber with live edges. Hollowed out trunks. Stuff like that. The fungus would grow on them naturally.
Big respect, more of these please
No, no. Ended too soon. I want more info!
Such wonderful discoveries await. I wish more people caught Paul’s enthusiasm
Great Vid guys, can you give us an update??? would love to know how the trials have gone for the last 19 months.. THANKS
All that Canola and Dicambria in Western North Dakota might have been a drop in feasible stoppage for pollen, it might a been a bad bad thing. Thanks for keeping bees!
7 years later - STILL no large-scale progress here. Sad.
I'm not surprised Paul Stamets ended up here. I'm interested in this. I might play around with it. Hopefully I can find something that will infect cattail, kill the mites and doesn't have to be alive to do it.
one of the biggest thing is that your own local state governments are using mosquito control and the stuff that comes out of that is highly illegal around the world but we use it here right here in Florida and it's being sprayed in every neighborhood across the state of Florida
Good point. But I watched something about GMO mosquitoes that’s suppose to help. This was a few years ago. I wonder how that’s going.
Thank you for a great Video! It is nice to see so enthusiastic beekeepers!
Interesting and encouraging! Thanks for this news.
Hope this takes off. Honeybees are beautiful creatures.
I think chemtrail spraying in the upper atmosphere has alot to do with the rise in cancer in humans and also the death of many avian species and also bees.
Please hurry and get this out. Our bees need saving.
Grateful dead hat, should I be surprised? Love you man!
Not one mention of Monsanto?
Awesome video, keep up the good work. Cheers from Southwestern Saskatchewan ,Canada.
Very interesting as a subject.
If you allow me, I have a question about the varieties of Tricholoma matsutake and Tricholoma caligatum
Can you tell me which variety is in symbiosis with cedar wood? Tricholoma matsutake or Tricholoma caligatum?
What value can have an Tricholoma caligatum?
thank you in advance
Paul I'm an arborist in Tallahassee Florida and I grow fruits and veggies with woodchips and I have massive piles of wood different species.I want to start raising bees.I wonder if putting the hives near the over piles of wood might help
They have turkey tails and gelatinous shrooms I haven't seen the rishi that I think you were showing.im a newbie in mushrooms but I'm soaking it up.
I'm in the PNW and have seen all these mushrooms but which ones are they working with, I would like to try this on my hives...
I believe metarhizium anisopliae
where to get mushroom treatment?
Nothing ever came of this.
@UrielHiue Sorry, What?
My hero for sure. Ima do what I can as well. Grow mushrooms and your own food.
Beautiful Ganoderma Tsugae specimen on that hemlock tree ! Makes great tea
I love the ungratefull dead hat ✊
Great stuff. Hey, it's not allot, but i really respect what you're doing, keep up the good work. Let me start hearing you say.. We doubled the bee population last year! Thanks again.
Can these beneficial fungi be grown on large scales in fungi farms outside of our forests? If not, my concern would that once scientists discover all of these great new beneficial uses for fungi, while at the same time we are deforesting the World’s forest, the demand for these beneficial fungi will skyrocket to far exceed the supply growing natural in our forests. And how do farm fungi on a large scale from forests, without doing damage to everything else in the forests?
I’m assuming that people like Paul wouldn’t be researching uses for fungi, if there wasn’t the capability of developing large-scale man-made fungi farms, outside of our natural forests.
Good luck , sounds really good , the cure . I believe it will .
great content more of that pls and nice ideas of permacultures
trippy_psyche1
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They're on Instagram
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Paul Stamets is the man he is the mushroom genius
this was a really informative video thank you for sharing it! do you think it's certain fungi that help bees with their immunity or all kinds? I'm thinking of raising shiitake next year and toying with the idea of bees as well and wondered if the shiitake can benefit from the bees and vice versa thanks for your time!
Only certain kinds. Fungi have different genomes that have different sets of genes. Some sets of genes are called biosynthetic pathways, which code for a set of enzymes. The enzymes work successively, so the product of one goes to the next from beginning till the end. The end output of such pathways are specialised secondary metabolites, like the one shown in this video. Your fungus may not have this set, you could do what's known as genome mining, however, to test this.
So 4 years later, how are his colonies doing ?
We have a large amount of honeybees in ohio. It's monsanto pesticides.
Reishi are good for people too, but due to improper harvesting, theyre getting decimated in thr wild and are damn near impossible to artificially grow. If youre gonna get some, learn how to cut the growing white edge correctly and not damage the unusable part so it can continue to thrive. Really id say dont mess with mushrooms at all but gatekeeping is just going to leave curious people with only bad guidance. This summer, mt hood college and other colleges near you are doing online myco foraging classes for 20-40 dollars.
crazy how one thing naturally can be used to decimate another
you are a good man!
So whats the name of this mushroom?
Reishi and the Amadou
Probably any tree fungus from any region in the world. Bees thrive in nature in all regions even in regions where that specific fungus does not live.
-@Pecu Alex- He didn't mention any name, nor any specific species. I watched the video three times to see if I missed it. If you heard the name, please type it in the comment, maybe with a time mark too. Because you chose not to type it in, I suppose you will ultimately concur that the name is not mentioned. I used deductive reasoning to suggest any and all tree fungi are helpful, because if the fungi they study are specific to one small region of Washington State, then for eons, bees in every other part of the world would have been in jeopardy. But because bees naturally, successfully, hive in old rotting tree hollows, it is reasonable to deduce that the fungi that also colonize every rotting tree hollow may be of some beneficial use. No? Obviously, this guy thinks he will develop a fungus-based medicine that he can market and sell, therefore he doesn't want to advertise the name. When information is guarded in such a way, for such reasons, it all becomes suspect. I hope he finds what he is looking for, and I hope his marketing scheme helps farmers produce food for people.
thank you paul!
Awesome information
Very good work to save bees
Be cool to have an update?
Dear bee keeping friends. Please go out and find these polypore mushrooms on wood & trees, put it in the crockpot and make your bees some tea! I am doing it and the bees love it!
How to you administer it to the bees?
Killer bees? Montesano ? Paul you are very cool ? I love mushrooms .
I'm having a problem with chronic bee paralysis virus. I've been using oxalic acid towels and have a mite count of 2 to 3. I've been searching the net and can't seem to find a cure for the virus wondering if the mushrooms will help. If so could you let me know where, if or how I can obtain some and what's the formula for the mixture. I have six hives and two of them are affected. Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way I'm in Southern California.
plant marijuana nearby bees love it and might even help curing them
One website teaching you how to prepare sugar water to feed the bees said to steep the hot/warm sugar mix with 2 teaspoons of dried Thyme herb as it help ward off Varroa. Any truth to that?
A true keeper of bees luv the bees an the way of life
Anyone know the name of the Polypore on the video cover? ive found a few but having a hard time identifying them
Mushrooms produce oxalic acid... and this killing varoa ?
Is that true ?
Thanks for the video !
did he pack a bong into his backpack at 4:52?
david water looks like an almost empty paper towel roll
What looks like the "bowl" at the bottom is just the little excess bit of ripped paper at the bottom that happens when you don't rip it straight along the lines.
narc
Pesticides really seem to do a number on hives. If you keep bees near corn fields or farms that spray, good luck.
You don't tell us what fungus it is. I would also like to know how would you apply it to a hive?
crgaillee Good luck with that. Once they get it to market they will tell us all they think we need to know. Meanwhile I have virtually eliminated the Varroa problems in my hives by selective requeening from hives with natural Varroa resistance. I haven't seen more than a half dozen mites in three years now. I just wish I could say the same for Small Hive Beetles.
@@michaeldavidson9939 please explain how your doing this, I would love to know how to repeat the results in my hives.
@@artist5554 Michael explained it... He requeens from hives that show to be resistant to the mites... In other words he kills queens in hives and replaces the queen with one from a hive that has proven to be resistant...
what mushroom are you talking about?
Formic Acid, Oxalic Acid. Both work GREAT on the killing of varroa mites.
Good video annoying ads
The honey bee is fine , it’s just the European honey bee that has become weakened by years of capitalist based farming . The blood line for the bees is simply just getting weaker because of the breeding programs they run for the bees. It’s actually quite a simple problem
Anybody who loves one of God's creations enough to try an heal it's a friend of mine.Paul Stamets is a great American.
Is that the reishi mushroom he is talking about
I wonder if Paul Stamets is RR on mycotopia..
Interesting! Could bees be saved?
excellent
Information refers to the use remnants of mushroom prevent birds from approaching or attacking the hives
Dat comb over though!!!?!??
Looks like it's nature to the rescue. Can't see the geo-engineering spraying going on in the atmosphere helping any.
1:19 will these girls survive?... aren't the bees male, other than the queen? Just wondering if that was a term of affection for him.
Bees are all female. Except for a few males who don't do any work. They are there just to fertilize the queen and are driven out of the hive to die before winter since they are just a drain on food resources.
@@mrmasterpeels thank you for the response. I am going to start a club for ostracized male bees, so they can discover their purpose through the performing arts.
3:40 they are not wearing any protection, do his bees simply not attack him?
Bees get used to you after a while. They will sting at first, but then then they will start to trust you :)
@@mylanremon4204 wrong
It's a polypore looks like fomitopsis pinicola .... Not edible its way to woody but excellent for tinder... Possibly they use some in their smoker since that's what shows in the first 15-20 seconds of the video. Just an observation.
No moon no Mars travel lol people are so gullible.
All they say is mushrooms, in it for the money.
Geo-Engineering = Dead Bees
Everything is need, even fire in the forest!
fungicides the number1 enemy
Varroa mites killing them?
Geo engineering
Really 1 factor: humans
I get so angry when I hear someone say varroa feed on the bees "blood" or hemolymph. it's been proven they feed on their "fat bodies" or the bees equivalent of a liver. this makes a huge difference in their biology.
Just watch the first 20 seconds.
watched the first 20, they got into the box, and Paul wasn't shown yet... Can you please clarify?? Thanks
I believe him
Fun-jai? I thought it was pronounced fun-guy spelled fungi
Claro Mepa its fun-guy here in UK but like half of english words, Americans mispronounce.
Common we use in Europe formic acid
Tell me all that You know !
Spent mushroom can spreed around hives
🙏 all the chem trails being sprayed world wide,
#WEDONOTCOSENT
💚🤍🧡🦾
Eric Olson narrates porn
Gmo, Monsatan and your love of anything chinese are killing the bees. Varoa is from asia
It's fun guy that is how it is pronounced fungi
I love how entitled you are that you think you know better than a world-renowned mycologist (someone that LITERALLY has a doctorate and MANY books and research papers on... FUNGI) ... Troll
:)
the bees immune systems are compromised from eating gmo and un organic pollen as well as living in bee cities just like human cities make people more prone to disease and have weaker immune systems in my opinion.
GMOs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's quite unsettling to know that old balls was more chill with his fellow humans dying in war, than bees dying in his yard.
Wade Grant what are you referencing?
0:45
He says this may be the ‘new normal’
Covid 19 predictive programming yo
paul stamets is a deadhead
Why, because he thinks outside the box??? that is where ingenuity comes from.. maybe because he walks with a stick, have you ever met unfriendlies in the woods??? Maybe you could just give reasoning for your comment
Dianna Boykin why certainly id love to provide some reasoning for my comment although im not sure its needed. through out the video appears the logo for the band which are called "stealies", a stylized skull with a lightning bolt inside featuring a backdrop of red and blue coloring. you can see one at his computer and one on his hat at 4:40 and 4:50 respectively.
theres a stained glass one on his window at 1:54
I See, not familiar, thx for clarification,
Dianna Boykin no problem. But ill warn you. If you dont listen to the grateful dead much and eventually wanna hear what its about you might not be able to turn it off
shungite can
*funji*... no... who indoctrinated you into pronouncing it that way?
He is from my home state (and city) and we have a LOT of weird names up here, well normal for us... but everyone else says they are weird... Puyallup, Spanaway, Auburn, Bellevue, Spokane, Okanogan, Wooloomooloo...