Monthly Archives: September 2014

15 Sep

MahakoBees (mahakobees)

MahakoBees (mahakobees)

MahakoBees manages a small boutique apiary. We produce the finest raw products. We pride ourselves in superior quality honey and beeswax. We promote beekeeping.

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12 Sep

FIGHT to DEATH. Australian native bees wrestling. Take a look!
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Australian Native Bees fighting to death in a huge swarm. Close ups of the bees are midway through the video. These bees are Australian native and STINGLESS Trigona carbonaria bees from our one of our miniature beehives. The bees seem to be migrating on their own into an empty hive I put nearby. Can they split the colony on their own without beekeepers intervention, hive inspection or a physical hive split? The bees appear to be migrating to the new hive for a few days now, but will they prevail? Interesting behavior. 

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11 Sep

HOW TO light a long lasting bee smoker quickly and easily in only minutes, that will smolder for hours.

An essential skill for anyone starting out in the beekeeping hobby or beekeeping industry. We have many smokers available at our online store http://www.mahakobees.com/store.html ready for immediate shipping (mostly free in USA), so feel free to visit and get yourself a smoker or an entire backyard beekeeping starter kit if you are ready to indulge in this excellent earth saving hobby as an apiarist.

A bee smoker is essential for a beekeeper. Most beekeepers will not undertake a regular hive inspection without a well lit bee smoker. The cold smoke masks the pheromones of the guard bees and alerts the bees that a fire may be approaching. This helps the bee keeper because the bees gorge on honey, fill their stomachs in preparation for an urgent migration if necessary. Once the bee stomach is full, they are less likely to fly around and sting the beekeeper doing the beehive inspection in their apiary. 

This video describes full instructions to light a bee smoker, items needed, and the step by step guide to a successfully smoldering beekeepers smoker. The steps outline using hay and wood filings, but also a layer of insulating cardboard (or ideally non-toxic paper as correctly noted by Honey-B-guys in the comments below), which protects the bee smoker itself, insulates the heat, and certainly maintains the smoldering coals a lot longer than usual. Make sure you pack the smoker well for a long and easily reinvigorated smoke with just a few puffs of the bellows.

We trust you will find this beekeeping 101 how to video and if you do, we invite you to subscribe, share, and thumbs up below. We very much appreciate it.

Have a fantastic day

MahakoBees

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10 Sep

WASP CHEWS LEGS OFF LARGE HUNTSMAN SPIDER KEEPING HIM ALIVE. http://www.mahakobees.com

Eat or be eaten is what we are talking about here. A little off the beekeeping topic we know, but this was so interesting, we had to share it. Its unique to Australia. This Australian Yellow Antennae Black Wasp, a “spider wasp”, first stings the fairly large spider, much larger than herself, which paralyzes her soon to be prey. She then brutally chews legs off this large rain spiders (HUNTSMAN’s) body, keeping him alive and fresh for her off spring to consume later. The Black Spider Wasp will then lay one egg on the the back of the spiders remaining carcass, usually only one per egg per spider. She then carries the spiders dismembered body to her nest. She can’t fly with such a heavy payload, so she uses her long legs to lift the spiders large body and drags him mercilessly away. Its a strange world out there, especially in the insect world. 

Hope you like this one. We invite you to SHARE it, SUBSCRIBE if you like what we do, and give us a thumbs up! We appreciate your visit.
Have a great day.
MahakoBees

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Music composed, performed and provided by Groovey – Adam Kubát a Pavel Křivák. You can visit their website on: http://www.groovey.cz/ Also, a big thank you goes to Kevin McLeod for providing his royalty free music “Ice Flow”. We appreciate your kind contribution.

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07 Sep

Beekeeping 101 – Honey frame spots – harvest extraction


Beekeeping 101 – DARK SPOTS in your beeswax honey frame? Backyard beekeeper . 

http://www.mahakobees.com – The uniquely simple beekeeping video channel.

The dark spots can be many things, but more often than not, it will be pollen. It is often difficult to see as the bees cap the honey with a white beeswax capping. But if you shine light through the honey frame, you will see the spots. They are perfectly normal and are very good for you. In fact, they are very good for you in many ways. Unless you are allergic to honey and pollen, you should try and eat RAW honey in your diet as it helps prevent and in many cases cure hay fever by introducing your local flora into your body, therefore reducing hay fever symptoms when local trees and plants flower. 

It is not advisable to give children under two years of age raw honey or pollen. Seek medical advise prior, and seek medical help immediately should your child consume raw honey and show adverse reaction to it. 

To learn more, we encourage you to take a look at our range of earlier videos and specifically a short closeup of the honey bee queen eggs and larvae (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2E76XaDYk), or alternatively our playlist of CLOSEUPS which has many related and interesting videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfE6cWwwWKoiXEp4xSACAmvTHSrweW0nU)

BUT, if the art of beekeeping interests you, the best place is to visit our http://www.mahakobees.com/store.html website for many instructional and HOWTO videos.

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Have a relaxing day
MahakoBees


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Music composed, performed and provided by Groovey – Adam Kubát a Pavel Křivák. You can visit their website on: http://www.groovey.cz/.