Raising 10,000 Bees (in my home)

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00:00Here are 10,000 bees and over the next hundred days they'll live in my home

00:08But becoming a hive means fighting fear death and war

00:14Their survival means everything to the queen to the planet and now to me the only problem

00:23I've never done this before

00:25Oh

00:27No, no, no that one just stung me look at him if I could find the queen the rest of the bees will follow me home

00:34But there is a catch

00:36They all look the same. They all look the same

00:41The bees will do anything to protect their queen

00:45She is the one who started this and she is the only one who can finish it

00:49What and then I noticed it they weren't just flying they were marching marching to their queen

01:03Queen Queen Queen Queen after an hour of pain. I had finally found her the leader of the hive

01:11But my journey is a beekeeper has only just begun and

01:19With the queen captured the bees made their way inside

01:24But when I brought them home, I knew they would not be safe for long

01:28Too many bees in too little space. I didn't have much time

01:34I

01:36I

01:38Decided to turn my cabinet into a beehive a tube lets them travel between the inside and outside world

01:47But to move the bees in I have to wait for nightfall

01:53These cannot fly in the dark so this should be easy

01:57The first step is to get the queen

02:04But they were extremely defensive. I have to be careful not to cause alarm

02:10One wrong move and the whole colony will panic

02:14So I gently place the queen into the hive the rest of the bees should follow her scent

02:21They didn't move didn't care, so I tried scooping them into the entrance, but this caused them to panic

02:32Help help help

02:34The bees had no idea where to go. I forgot to zip up the bee suit

02:39They swarmed the cameras the lights and even our heads. You hear them? Uh-huh. Oh, I hear them

02:46A little in my head the bees were lost and couldn't find their queen. Oh, hello

02:51Oh

02:52But a few began fanning their wings

02:57They are spreading the scent of the queen

03:01The others could smell it

03:04And

03:06Pretty soon the bees were marching marching to their queen

03:16It was almost unbelievable I

03:19I decided to let them be

03:22Overnight

03:23Overnight

03:24And over the coming days their lives are about to change forever

03:29Thanks to the internet browser Opera

03:31Wait, what?

03:32When I began my bee research I had over 40 tabs open

03:36Which is a total mess

03:38But I can use Opera's built-in AI tool Aria to instantly organize my tabs

03:43Whoa, and they can be expanded or collapsed with a single click

03:48But it even caught this bee's attention

03:50If I take a picture of her I can use Aria's image recognition tool to analyze and explain the photo

03:57And Aria can make custom images as well

03:59You wish that was you

04:02And thanks to the floating music player I can control my music without interrupting my browsing

04:08Opera lets you choose from seven different streaming platforms and you can listen to music even outside the browser

04:14But what we really love is their video pop-out feature

04:17I can watch YouTube while studying the bees

04:21And all you have to do is click the link in my description to download Opera for free today

04:26And by day four their empire was underway

04:31They design it to serve their queen

04:40She is the only one in the nest who can lay eggs

04:43But without food she cannot lay so she sends her workers to find some

04:53They will fly up to three miles in search of food

05:01They collect nectar and pollen to bring back to the hive

05:05But some of the bees started to swarm

05:09They were swarming the same plastic I used to catch the queen

05:17It still carried her scent

05:19But inside our bees were going to save them

05:23They begin spraying pheromones into the air

05:27And it caused the other bees to rally

05:32Every last bee made their way into the hive

05:39And by day 10 the queen was beginning to lay her very first eggs

05:46They are the foundation to her future empire

05:50But the eggs are in danger

05:55A hive beetle

05:59And it was not alone

06:00These beetles eat and kill the eggs

06:05So the bees will try and stop them

06:08But their armor is too strong

06:13And as if things couldn't get any worse

06:17A wasp colony invaded the hive

06:20They had come from a nearby nest

06:24And the bees were overrun

06:26They had no choice but to save the queen

06:29So they rallied to form a protective wall around her

06:34And then they began to fight back

06:36They are fighting for their queen

06:47But this would not be a victory

06:53For most of the colony had died

06:57Only yesterday they were safe

07:01But today they are nearly extinct

07:04But bees are one of the few animals that respect their dead

07:10So the remaining few build a graveyard

07:14They are the number one most intelligent insect on our planet

07:22But before they could recover

07:25They must face a new kind of threat

07:28Parasites

07:30This is the Varroa destructor mite

07:33And they have taken over the hive

07:35They have been on the bees since day one

07:37And only now when the bees are at their weakest

07:41Have they chosen to strike

07:44Even the queen wasn't safe

07:51And each day more and more are killed

07:56And on their own the bees are doomed

07:58Instead of leaving them to rot

08:04I built a graveyard of my own

08:06They may have died today

08:10But they will feed the bees of tomorrow

08:13I now have two choices

08:15Let nature run its course

08:17Or there is option two

08:19I am going to save them

08:26But it will be extremely dangerous

08:28Because this is an oxylic acid vaporizer

08:31The fumes are deadly to me

08:33But also deadly to the mites

08:37But after all the dust settled, I noticed dozens and dozens of dead mites.

08:52The operation was a success, and the queen's eggs are all beginning to hatch.

08:59By day 30, they had become larva, soon pupa, and by day 41, the first bee was beginning

09:07to emerge.

09:10She carefully chews her way through the cocoon until she was able to take her very first step

09:16onto land.

09:18And over the next six sea days, the bees went from a colony to an empire.

09:32But I'm so used to living with them that I forgot this is crazy.

09:38But it's not for everyone.

09:40I mean, it's pretty cool.

09:44This is really nice.

09:45Did this come with the house?

09:47And it was about time to move them outside where they belong.

09:51But I took one piece of honeycomb for myself so I can try their honey for the very first

09:57time.

09:58And who better to taste the honey than the very creature who made it?

10:14Check out this video for more, and I'll see you in the next one.

10:18Bye.

10:19Bye.

10:20Bye.

10:21Bye.

10:22Bye.

10:23Bye.

Raising 10,000 Bees (in my home)

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