Kenya's Gold Feature | Moving bees to bee hive [Part 2]

Añadido: 2026-05-21

[00:00:10]In this second phase, we are particularly focused on wanting to know what is inside the hive. But first of all, what do you call this device that you use to extract frames?

[00:00:22]This device he is holding is called a frame holder. The frame is usually around 33 mm wide. And then there's a space if you hold with your hands which have gloves, you crush a lot of beast. So then you pull up and that then you inspect or you harvest then you replace back. The other thing it helps us is precise putting back of the frames.

[00:00:46]What kind of bees are there in here?

[00:00:50]Explain to me in great detail. I know that we have often heard them say there is a queen here. Now here are three types of casts. The first cast is the queen. Remember the work of the queen is to lay eggs. And she has 10 double sided frames to lay eggs on. So she's not restricted in one location and she's only one and she's an elongated worker be. The second cast is now these big ones, these plump ones, they're called drones, those are the males. And uh we regulate the population of the male inside the beer because they are double the size of the female. So they tend to meet the queen to eat honey and to fund this hive to a regulated temperature. So we are going to cut off these drone cells because if we allow a huge population of drones we will not have honey to harvest. So what happens is these cells are usually an indication of an old queen or an inferile queen. So we regulate the population of the drones because apart from meeting they have no other major businesses on the side. These other ones are the worker B cells. So the worker B cells are the major major key players inside this hive because number one they have got different roles with their age.

[00:02:04]The first three weeks they spend inside the hive and the last three weeks they spend outside the hive. This is the transition how they do. This is the egg that we have laid here inside the cells. So when these female chicks lay eggs, let's call them female bee chicks, they should be frames out of 10 because their work begins when they are born like this. Their work is very much all in the hive. One is cleaning this hive. There are those bees that have died inside, they take them out, that's their first stage. The second stage inside the beehive is feeding the queen and cleaning the queen. So they give it to her from their head, they secrete royal jelly, they put it there, the queen eats royal jelly or they eat pollen, they secrete royal jelly. Then they clean the queen and touch the feremon. Number three at that stage they are called nursing bees. They take care of the older ones as well, as they are a little older. Then from there they head to the door and become guards. So they start cleaning then become nursing then they become guard the third week. So when guard bees bring pollen, they take the old ones, they know, they know what cells are the treasure they take, they go old ones or others return the pollen and they return something called nectar. The fourth week they go outside, they are sent on an orientation flight to visit the flowers, we get this and that water, we get this and that, we get this and that. Then from that time their venom is very much so they become the soldier so after here outside they have been soldiers they become soldiers because the venom has matured then they are strong enough then after that they become the last stage is foraging, those who go to go and bring water bring nectar bring pollen, now these are the ones you get outside so they bother us because the ones we got inside they are the first three weeks those who have invaded us are those those soldier bees and the foraging those are works inside the be so they invade us because they were going to take pollen you have so much pollen they come and they get invaded so they become very defensive and you will find them there are many flowers they really die a lot because they do a lot of work so their average age life span is 42 to 45 days drones the same but queen lives up to 5 years some areas you will find the queen has been marked even for nine years because of the diet the work and the order inside the behave when you spoke you mentioned two things about this queen that she will live for five years and then you also mentioned that her food is different let me talk about her great care so five years then her food in relation to the royal we will look at how and how they bring her the work of the queen we have seen these these are the cells queen cells because if you see the colon has become large it must be divided so these queen cells are a little big they stay in the shape of a peanut eh now when they realize they want to divide the colony or kusuped kusuped is here here it is getting old we want to replace her if you see this frame outside if with that queen cell they do something called swimming they want to move but if you get another one in the middle there is a queen there have been emergency cells queen cells so what happens now here is that when the queen hatches within the first six to 10 days she must die and drowns so they go flighting a mating flight catches 10 to 12 drowns and carries 5 million to 6 million sperms in her body. She only met once. Now that he has carried all that spam, he returns to the hive. Her job is to fertilize eggs. So her main job one is egg laying and she lays about 1500 to 2,500 eggs per day in the high season. But when there is death at those times when there is summer, lots of rain or lots of sun, she limits her egg lane. Because if he gives birth to many children and they die, he will have to waste the sperms. Number two coordination, its body emits a chemical called a pheromone. As we said here, if you smoke, you destroy the scent of pheromones. So there are 11 types of pheremons. There are pheromones released at those times, they know they are in a war, we must go on defense. There is one that says we need water. There is one that gives us food. The one that gives us nectar and pollen. There is a lot of coordination that he is providing and we need more cells to be created. There is an enemy inside, the magnitude of the enemy is probably a kalizard or a human or a snake so she coordinates with chemical call fon.

[00:06:46]So every be comes, it touches and goes. So within two hours, that pheromone has already entered the bee's body. And that's why within the foraging they cannot forage more than two hours because when the pheromone wears off she will lose her direction back to the behave and if she goes there she will be a stranger within this behave. So they have the time that the pheromone needs to expire. He has returned, he has touched the queen again, he has gone, he has returned, oh come on, now when you mentioned that, there is royal jelly, how will we recognize it? And you said what its food is, its food is this white royal jelly, now there is royal jelly, there is honey, there is pollen, but when pollen enters here, it is called bee bread, bread is food for all other people or all other bees, honey is a reserve at that time, there will be summer, but the queen's food throughout this white royal jelly. it is milk. This food is what makes the queen live for many years. She doesn't feed on anything else. Ro jelly which is very bitter. So it has science has shown it has elements that prolong life. Then the same it makes the sperms in her body to still stay alive for five years 6 7 8 n years. So royal jelly is food and is given to him in secret by young nursing bees, which is what they secrete for him. So they eat, they digest, they process, they secrete the royal jelly and he eats that.

[00:08:09]Before we get to pollen and its various colors, there is a question regarding how many bees should be in one hive as a queen? The Queen is one. one only drones 300 to 500 work 80 to 100,000 one queen 300 to 500 drones 80 to 100,000 one colony let's now also mention about pollen how many times especially in color and where is the difference ah pollen goes with flowers there is white pollen there is this orange one there is yellow there is light green so pollen is as multicolored as the flowers buse they do n't change the chemistry so if you see yellow flowers it has yellow pollen white flowers that takes all that comes and sticks together so we have got a variety of colors from the flowers I see you with this device that you are using the device itself what is it that you are using for pollen identification and also this honey is called a grafting tool this grafting tool is what we use to take these bee eggs at the time we want to do queen rearing you take these bee eggs it is sensitive and it is very small so you take it with this device we send to the lab queens so this device is To take the eggs and put them in is called a grafting tool. It's very precise. It just goes into the cell without destroying the cell.

[00:09:36]When you look again here, you will notice that there is a place that is completely blocked. The children have settled in.

[00:09:44]How long have the children been kept there? They will now emerge. How do we take care of this part? If you go back to science, it is the egg, pupa, lava stage, then adults. That is the life cycle of a be the complete life cycle. The three casts there is a queen she has a different touching period with the wakkarabas she's a different touching period and the drone a different touching period. From egg to a queen is 14 days. Egg to Wakabi is 20 days. Egg to drone is 24 days. Happo also, if you look, there are places where there is already honey. Explain to me why we do brushing before checking for honey and its presence. And how long did it take you to get here?

[00:10:27]If they put honey and cover it, it can take three months here. So you must make sure the honey is covered at least 90%.

[00:10:36]that honey has matured is to say its mist is less than 19 2019 back which is allowed standards otherwise this one that is not covered the mus is still high so the bees must continue to cover the mus it will decrease it will decrease if it comes less than 20 now if it comes less than 20 they will cover it so that the honey we say honey is hydroscopic does not absorb water again from the air then it will start fermenting because it has sugar if you attract a lot of water openly it will ferment so the same case even if you buy honey you should not leave the can open because it is hydroscopic it will take a lot of water from the atmosphere what should you do to form yeast so it becomes impure now thank you very much and good work every time we enter the third phase after coming out of the break the viewer has been following us and without hesitation thank you for the championship and I know that the work that you have done in the field we make sure that it is going in the right way now we are going to the break when we come back we still have a lot We would like to know the effects of the presence of climate change and such How can you not go anywhere with us in this drought?

[00:11:47]Thank you very much, viewer, for continuing to watch Kenya Gold, a program that teaches you a lot.

[00:11:52]We are now entering the third phase, discussing the importance of the bee as well as the impact of climate change on the environment. Sit back and follow us, champion. The very first question regarding this is how important is the bee in the land of Allah.

[00:12:10]Bee isse oral be is creating what you call biodiversity. That is to mean 70 to 80% of all flowering plants depend on bees for reproduction through a process we call pollination. So the world set aside in 2018 was the first world B day a proposal from the Slovenian beekeepers through the republic to set aside a day for people to appreciate the benefits the existence of bees in our ecosystem.

[00:12:50]So this is the eighth year we are celebrating the world B day and it was set on May 20 from the birthday of a Slovenian beekeeper and uh he modernized beekeeping because he studied you give free lectures on bees, colonies feeding everything and from him he started designing modern beekeeping equipments much of most of those which we used today. So one bees create biodiversity in our ecosystem. to the increased production in our food crops. Once we realize the benefits of the bees directly to us as human beings economically, we come to a consciousness on how to preserve these bees. And that's why when I showed you bees entering your house, what are you supposed to do? How are you supposed to get rid of them without killing them?

[00:13:37]How are you going to benefit economically from their existence in your house? So we take care of bees collectively by sensitizing farmers first on pesticides which kill bees.

[00:13:50]Right now so much research is ongoing about integrated pest management without killing bees without using pesticides on how we are going to protect our bees by minimizing pesticide usage.

[00:14:03]Number two integrated pest management if you use a plan to repel a pest it becomes better you get organic yields.

[00:14:10]Number three, we've got herbicides which destroy foraging for bees. Because if you spray pesticides in the name of weed, you have minimized the sources of nectar from the weeds and from the grass that the bees are going to get their nectar from. The fourth point is deforestation. When you cut a lot of trees, you're minimizing the forage for the bees. And the moment you minimize the forage for the bees, then we are going to lock bees. And in tongue, our yield is going to decrease.

[00:14:37]I would really like to know the temperature especially when climate change occurs in this world. And also tell me what happens to that bee when it experiences drought. The discussion about climate change can only be reversed if we understand on the importance of the bees in the ecosystem because bees indis they pollinate indiscriminately so they pollinate the grass the weed the trees the shrubs everything we mitigate climate change by allowing the bees to flourish in their natural ecosystem that is to mean if we as human being are part of the ecosystem if we stop destroying the environment. We stopped discussing the trees. If you're not using a land, let it grow the weeds. And the other part is your neighbor, he needs to be aware and to be very much informed about the kind of pesticides and herbicides they are using. So for us to mitigate the effect of global warming, we need grasses, we need trees, we need fruits, we need food as well. So we must allow biodiversity in areas that we are not settling.

[00:15:49]Number two, the government interventions by restricting the red soils to agriculture, it will help us to integrate agriculture and what we call the agroforestry. So we are going to allow bees, we're going to allow more plants to grow in areas in between our lands. So if we accept that there is a problem, we will agree to sit down and understand what we need to do to eliminate the global warming problem in our world. And the bees are there, they will bring biodiversity. If we protect if we protect the be will pollinate all these trees. Number three out of the climate change is a disease that affects us humans. You will find there is a lot of UV and if the UV comes we need a protection. E-protection. One of the products from the bees that gives human skin protection is the bees works creams. So if we are going organic, we stop mining chemicals for their effects on the human body. We allow the bees to give us the bees works. We are going to mitigate the process of mining for human cosmetics by using the B products that protect our skin better than the chemicals that we are going that are currently in use.

[00:17:04]When you mention medicine, there is a risk of getting what we call pesticides. When farmers use pesticides, where is it again for that bee and how do we avoid it so that in the future we can protect its life during the use of pesticide it is a known fact that if you spray some of the pesticides direct to the bee you kill it and we are fighting where the bees are dying on the pesticide because you will find them crawling down there they are weak they don't have energy then there is an indirect maybe you sprayed the medicine and the medicine has not finished entering the plant the bee has come to the innocent flower and takes the nectar the nectar is what enters the medicine when he brings it to the hive that medicine they drink it inawahiri so what we advise farmers because you cannot technically tell somebody what is going to do with their with their land is they change the spray regime. You apply the pesticide in the evening when the wind velocity is low when the bees are back inside the hive and the pesticide will have time to be absorbed by the flower. So if the farmers neighboring beekeepers are able to spray in the evening they'll have more value for the year pesticide and they will still have bees for pollinating their flowers so that they spray in the evening by the time bees come after 12 hours there will be no traces of those pesticides to be very minimal and bees will not be affected by the pesticide so they are going to co-exist the crop becomes abundant number two becomes heavy Pollinated fruits are heavier than wind pollinated. Number three, you will find if it is you are selling per kg a very few fruits per kg let's say avocado that are pollinated you will have like less than 8 per kg. Go to other fruits you find like avocado sorry you can get around four passion fruit you will find 8 to 10 are hitting 1 kg because of the effect of the pollination. So you will get more money at no expense. So you increase your yield at very minimal expense.

[00:19:12]I love that bee because it gives you money, it gives you life, it gives you medicine, it replaces sugar in your tea, it does so many, many things for you. In fact, even the grazing of sheep in these grazlands if you don't have bees the grass will also fade away because it must be pollinated for it to have seeds to germinate. So even the pastelans the pasturolites we need bees for those pastures to keep on flourishing. So every sector from animals to human beings we need bees directly or indirectly. How many years have you been doing this business and what do you think, sir? Why aren't you coming out?

[00:19:49]11 I continued, I left engineering, otherwise I made stones, we don't talk, then that same principle in out and I realized being a civil engineer I wanted more things that you keep on challenging and I landed into being keepeping after I planted some avocado trees and I found bees pollinating my trees And um I'm not so active. So I also wanted a business that will not be tedious also cuz that time I was working so I was in employment. So I found bees also they do n't need my attention. That is initially what drew me into keeping. But I was so blind that keeping is busier than civil engineering. As busy as I am, I'm more busy now than I used to be.

[00:20:40]So they drew me they deceived me into being keeping that it doesn't have much work but the work is more than that because for any success especially in agriculture I've realized agriculture is more of an art to understand those things how they are coordinating and once you understand that art becomes it flows naturally thank you very much champion for your explanations that we have listened to since we went to the hive we read together then we looked at who is in the hive and now you have greatly emphasized the importance of bees and also the challenges they face thank you also for following up with us and making sure that we come to you during this period if it is the day to celebrate bees in the world.

[00:21:31]I am very grateful to the champion who has ensured that we are seen here, the photographer as well as the producer of the show itself. Say thank you very much and to those who ensure that this program goes on air, I also thank you, the viewer, who has ensured that we do this work in the best possible way.

[00:21:46]You should be trained. I conclude this program by saying, "The rest is up to God, remember, we will only fulfill our dreams, and you will be very successful."