Why would it be bad to have the Cape Bees take over a regular hive? wouldn't it be a good thing to have bees that can re-queen themselves when a queen dies without leaving eggs that can be used to raise a new queen?
Jamie is a great speaker on this topic, but the fact that you edited out his discussions of pesticide impacts is suspect and as such I'll not trust the National Honey Show or anyone so associated. Seems awfully corrupt.
very interesting talk, being a new beekeeper myself that subject is always on my mind, I'm trying to keep my bees with the minimum amount of varroa but is very hard, our bees can't live without our help, must buy formic acid but I hope someday with bees of the natural size the situation improves and they can live in balance with varroa
bees have evolved over time without help from humans . allow bees to evolve hygienic behaviour without chemicals feral colony still exist without chemicals.
I'm sorry, but that's a critically ignorant viewpoint. Bees have absolutely, absolutely not evolved over time without humans. That statement is about as fact-free as you'll find. That's like saying that dogs, cats and cattle have evolved without humans. Speaking as someone in the US (not sure about you of course), bees would not even be here were it not for European settlers who brought them here. So right away the very existence of bees here owes itself to humans. They first brought German bees, then later Italian. Now we have two races interbreeding in a foreign land, because of humans. Human breeders through the years gather genetics from around the world trying to create the perfect kept bee, some of them escape into the "wild" and interbreed with the already interbred "feral" bees, creating ever more unnatural, human created sub races. Now fast forward to the 1980s, varroa is introduced here by... humans. Fast forward again a few years and Africanized bees and their incredibly overpowering genetics arrive here via 27 colonies that escaped a research facility in Brazil in the 50's. Humans again. So, bees being here = humans. Our biggest parasitic pest = humans. The most invasive species of bees ever seen on the globe is here = humans. To then stick your head in the sand and say, "let's let nature sort it out" when it is a 100% human created problem is silly and naive.
@@elephantcup as someone in the United States of America ... let me help you stay on topic ... the topic is natural and chemical influences. Can you please tell us what chemicals were used by the European beekeepers that brought the first bees here?
@@elephantcup - No, you climbed on a high horse and were ranting about what us terrible humans did for a few years compared to the millions of years bees have been around!
I always enjoy Jamie's talks. He should do one on TED.
Ted talks is probably the best place for him
Yea did you notice how the vid skipped the resistance varroa have to the chemicals!!!!
why was that edited out?
Jay Collett because no one wants to admit nor add ammo to the argument that treating bees isn’t helping.
How can I buy these series beekeeping be
Why would it be bad to have the Cape Bees take over a regular hive? wouldn't it be a good thing to have bees that can re-queen themselves when a queen dies without leaving eggs that can be used to raise a new queen?
Am I misunderstanding something or he is making basically african honey bees and africanized honey bees the same thing?
Jamie is a great speaker on this topic, but the fact that you edited out his discussions of pesticide impacts is suspect and as such I'll not trust the National Honey Show or anyone so associated. Seems awfully corrupt.
Horribly agendized editing.
very interesting talk, being a new beekeeper myself that subject is always on my mind, I'm trying to keep my bees with the minimum amount of varroa but is very hard, our bees can't live without our help, must buy formic acid but I hope someday with bees of the natural size the situation improves and they can live in balance with varroa
treatment for varroa in the long term does not help the bee.
@@natserog
treatment actually helps. If I do not treat , 100 % of my bees will die.
Been there for the last 2 years.
I will treat.
Sections removed.Very annoying ..stopped watching because its not complete.
Gis we doing
bees have evolved over time without help from humans . allow bees to evolve hygienic behaviour without chemicals feral colony still exist without chemicals.
I'm sorry, but that's a critically ignorant viewpoint. Bees have absolutely, absolutely not evolved over time without humans. That statement is about as fact-free as you'll find. That's like saying that dogs, cats and cattle have evolved without humans.
Speaking as someone in the US (not sure about you of course), bees would not even be here were it not for European settlers who brought them here. So right away the very existence of bees here owes itself to humans. They first brought German bees, then later Italian. Now we have two races interbreeding in a foreign land, because of humans. Human breeders through the years gather genetics from around the world trying to create the perfect kept bee, some of them escape into the "wild" and interbreed with the already interbred "feral" bees, creating ever more unnatural, human created sub races. Now fast forward to the 1980s, varroa is introduced here by... humans. Fast forward again a few years and Africanized bees and their incredibly overpowering genetics arrive here via 27 colonies that escaped a research facility in Brazil in the 50's. Humans again.
So, bees being here = humans. Our biggest parasitic pest = humans. The most invasive species of bees ever seen on the globe is here = humans.
To then stick your head in the sand and say, "let's let nature sort it out" when it is a 100% human created problem is silly and naive.
@@elephantcup as someone in the United States of America ... let me help you stay on topic ... the topic is natural and chemical influences.
Can you please tell us what chemicals were used by the European beekeepers that brought the first bees here?
@@joecitizen6755 The topic is that I was responding to the comment above.
@@elephantcup ... now the topic is ... you are just another stupid person ... stay on topic next time Danielson.
@@elephantcup - No, you climbed on a high horse and were ranting about what us terrible humans did for a few years compared to the millions of years bees have been around!
Was all over the map on topics and I really didn't get anything out of this.