Wtf

[Millet]

What is going on here, ? i did see a more clear clip and they do not look like bees..
Any ideas wise ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsB55yLbmKQ

 

[Angry_Mob]

I think hes a bee cup.

 

[Erichalfbee]

They are stingless bees

 

[Millet]

They are stingless bees

I know they are stingless something but the stingless bees i have seen where minute compared to them..

 

[Erichalfbee]

I know they are stingless something but the stingless bees i have seen where minute compared to them..

Well the genus is Meliponenes and there are 500 species. I’m sure one will be right.

 

[Bakerbee]

I hope a giant comes down n starts shoving him up his shirt and messing about with him for no better reason than to put it on youtube. Poor things, beautiful structure of comb tho.

 

[Jafer2]

Yes its sad to see the bees treated like that but in those areas there is a lack of knowledge in beekeeping and would distroy the colony to get the grubs and honey. Just watch this a nice little refresher https://youtu.be/hEuEIRNrXj0

 

[MartinL]

Is that what what happens when there are no Ferrets available!

 

[Millet]

Is that what what happens when there are no Ferrets available!

You have lost me with that one..

 

[ShinySideUp]

Destructive little cretin, isn't he?

Hopefully he'll make a mistake and pick on an Africanised honey bees nest one day.

 

[coffindodger]

Destructive little cretin, isn't he?

Hopefully he'll make a mistake and pick on an Africanised honey bees nest one day.

Agree

 

[Millet]

That is not me in the video clip by the way...

 

[ShinySideUp]

Reading the above piqued my interest in how stingless bees protect themselves. Apparently they use jaws to bite and some species can also spray acid, they also try to crawl into ears and noses to cause the aggressor to back off. The colonies are not as large as regular honey bees and as such have less honey and smaller nests to defend. Interesting subject.

 

[Beefriendly]

There is a lot of information about their keeping in some of Eva Crane's works. Many native houses in the tropics (S America mainly) incorporate nesting sites for them. The honey is stored in what looks like an egg cup. The honey is more prized as there is little of it I think they make about 1kg per year...
The S American tropic also have some honey gathering species of wasps e.g Brachygastra mellifica, the Mexican Honey wasps. The nests are still hunted for their honey.

 

[Millet]

There is a lot of information about their keeping in some of Eva Crane's works. Many native houses in the tropics (S America mainly) incorporate nesting sites for them. The honey is stored in what looks like an egg cup. The honey is more prized as there is little of it I think they make about 1kg per year...
The S American tropic also have some honey gathering species of wasps e.g Brachygastra mellifica, the Mexican Honey wasps. The nests are still hunted for their honey.

That sounds like the last angry Thirsk mongrels i had but they where certainly not stingless..

 

[eltalia]

"Destructive little cretin, isn't he?"

An attribute of indigenous peoples (hunter gatherers) with today many
supposedly educated folk repeating the exercise using modern means,
and call it "harvesting".
I do some work among our Tetragonula*(carbonaria) colonies with no
recovery of any of their honey - I personally do not find the taste
attractive - yet I have witnessed first hand many an 'expert' smash
down whole of honey stores to retrieve maybe 500grams of their honey.

Interestingly enough I also keep skeps, started in 2017, and from
exposure to the very video linked to in the thread. I will take some comb
honey from these but again only sufficient to aptly manage those colonies.

Bill

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http://www.aussiebee.com.au/trigona_carbonaria.html

 

[Stiffy]

Amazes me the lengths humans will go for entertainment, pity they have to disturb, kill or pursue animals that are just. getting on with survival
S

 

[coffindodger]

Nice link Bill; thanks. Yup, 'Experts' and empathy don't always go together - like Stiffy I'm amazed that people should find mistreatment and cruelty entertaining, but then, as said before, we could pay off the national debt in no time if we brought back public executions.