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Bees - pecha kucha

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Marc Curtis
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- The speaker took up beekeeping after being inspired by his father who kept bees. He enjoys honey and sees beekeeping as a way to lead a self-sufficient life. - He learned that natural honey contains pollen and can boost immunity, while supermarket honey is often blended and heat-treated. - The speaker took a beekeeping course where he learned about queen bees, workers, and drones. He now has two hives and is working to monitor them technologically and keep them organically. His goal is to harvest honey from his productive hive.

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B E E S M A R C C U R T I S - P E C H A K U C H A B E E S 1 0 1 & W H Y D O I H A V E T H E M
I L I K E M Y W O M E N L I K E I L I K E M Y C O F F E E . C O V E R E D I N B E E S E D D I E I Z Z A R D
C O U P L E O F R E A S O N S W H Y ? My Dad used to keep bees Bee keeping has become emblematic of the kind of life I want to lead I like honey
W H Y I S L O C A L H O N E Y B E T T E R T H A N S A I N S B U R Y S ? The honey is almost always blended Supermarket honey is heated and pressure filtered It's effectively slightly flavoured polluted sugar paste
N A T U R A L H O N E Y O N T H E O T H E R H A N D Contains pollen Can boost the immune system Helps with season allergies Fewer food miles Delicious honeyness
O N E D O E S N O T S I M P L Y F I N D S O M E B E E S Applied for the Mick Costella fund to enable me to buy the kit Hive, frames, smoker, tools 4 day training course Practising in the mirror
W H A T D O Y O U L E A R N O N A B E E K E E P I N G C O U R S E ? Three types of types of bee in a hive Queens have sex once, lay 2000 eggs a day and live up to 5 years When a queen starts to get old, workers start creating new queens by feeding larvae with royal jelly When a new queen emerges it either kills the old queen or forces her to leave with half the bees
W O R K E R S When they first emerge from their brood cells, they spend a couple of weeks in the hive - cleaning, caring for the larva and making honey When they get older they leave the hive to forage for nectar and pollen The nectar they bring to the hive for the young workers to turn into honey They do this until they die of exhaustion - they live for 6 weeks
D R O N E S ( M A L E B E E S ) As far as anyone can tell, their sole purpose is to mate with a new queen. Workers seem to like having them around. However, if the weather turns, or the food runs out or winter approaches, the workers drag them outside the hive to die.
S W A R M S A R E H O W B E E S I N C R E A S E T H E I R N U M B E R S A swarm in a tree is a colony of bees looking for a new home. Swarming bees very rarely sting - they are 100% focused on finding a new home
H O N E Y B E E S R A R E L Y S U R V I V E I N T H E W I L D There are always exceptions, but on the whole swarms that nest in trees or roof spaces will normally not survive the winter Even if they do, they will succumb to disease - and not before they spread it to other bee hives
H O N E Y B E E S N E E D H U M A N S The european honey bee needs to be cared for like any type of livestock Infection, Varroa mites and lack of food all need to be managed by humans
W E N E E D B E E S Honey bees are not going to die out - humans have too much invested in them The real problem is the wild bees - they struggle to survive in an environment filled with pesticides and mono-culture farming (bees cannot collect nectar from a giant field of wheat)
W H E R E D O T H E Y L I V E ? Two days before I picked them up, I still hadn't sorted out a place for them to live, so I knocked on the door of a big house at the top of the hill and asked the scared looking retired couple if they'd like bees in their garden
T H E Y S A I D Y E S
M Y B E E S I have two hives I collected my bees in two cardboard boxes and drove them home. This was terrifying
T E C H N O B E E S Developing an Arduino based monitoring system Temperature, humidity and possibly movement
W H A T C A N T H E B E E S E N S O R T E L L U S ? Hives that are about to swarm get hotter Humidity and damp kills bees People kick over hives
H I P P Y B E E S I am trying to keep my bees organically This means letting them build their own comb, with no pre-made foundation wax (which can contain chemicals) Cut comb
T H E Y S E E M T O K N O W W H A T T H E Y ' R E D O I N G
S H O W M E T H E H O N E Y The first year, the bees are establishing their colony, so will have less excess honey However one of my two hives is far more productive than the other, so I'm hoping for a few jars
T H E E N D

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Bees - pecha kucha

  • 1. B E E S M A R C C U R T I S - P E C H A K U C H A B E E S 1 0 1 & W H Y D O I H A V E T H E M
  • 2. I L I K E M Y W O M E N L I K E I L I K E M Y C O F F E E . C O V E R E D I N B E E S E D D I E I Z Z A R D
  • 3. C O U P L E O F R E A S O N S W H Y ? My Dad used to keep bees Bee keeping has become emblematic of the kind of life I want to lead I like honey
  • 4. W H Y I S L O C A L H O N E Y B E T T E R T H A N S A I N S B U R Y S ? The honey is almost always blended Supermarket honey is heated and pressure filtered It's effectively slightly flavoured polluted sugar paste
  • 5. N A T U R A L H O N E Y O N T H E O T H E R H A N D Contains pollen Can boost the immune system Helps with season allergies Fewer food miles Delicious honeyness
  • 6. O N E D O E S N O T S I M P L Y F I N D S O M E B E E S Applied for the Mick Costella fund to enable me to buy the kit Hive, frames, smoker, tools 4 day training course Practising in the mirror
  • 7. W H A T D O Y O U L E A R N O N A B E E K E E P I N G C O U R S E ? Three types of types of bee in a hive Queens have sex once, lay 2000 eggs a day and live up to 5 years When a queen starts to get old, workers start creating new queens by feeding larvae with royal jelly When a new queen emerges it either kills the old queen or forces her to leave with half the bees
  • 8. W O R K E R S When they first emerge from their brood cells, they spend a couple of weeks in the hive - cleaning, caring for the larva and making honey When they get older they leave the hive to forage for nectar and pollen The nectar they bring to the hive for the young workers to turn into honey They do this until they die of exhaustion - they live for 6 weeks
  • 9. D R O N E S ( M A L E B E E S ) As far as anyone can tell, their sole purpose is to mate with a new queen. Workers seem to like having them around. However, if the weather turns, or the food runs out or winter approaches, the workers drag them outside the hive to die.
  • 10. S W A R M S A R E H O W B E E S I N C R E A S E T H E I R N U M B E R S A swarm in a tree is a colony of bees looking for a new home. Swarming bees very rarely sting - they are 100% focused on finding a new home
  • 11. H O N E Y B E E S R A R E L Y S U R V I V E I N T H E W I L D There are always exceptions, but on the whole swarms that nest in trees or roof spaces will normally not survive the winter Even if they do, they will succumb to disease - and not before they spread it to other bee hives
  • 12. H O N E Y B E E S N E E D H U M A N S The european honey bee needs to be cared for like any type of livestock Infection, Varroa mites and lack of food all need to be managed by humans
  • 13. W E N E E D B E E S Honey bees are not going to die out - humans have too much invested in them The real problem is the wild bees - they struggle to survive in an environment filled with pesticides and mono-culture farming (bees cannot collect nectar from a giant field of wheat)
  • 14. W H E R E D O T H E Y L I V E ? Two days before I picked them up, I still hadn't sorted out a place for them to live, so I knocked on the door of a big house at the top of the hill and asked the scared looking retired couple if they'd like bees in their garden
  • 15. T H E Y S A I D Y E S
  • 16. M Y B E E S I have two hives I collected my bees in two cardboard boxes and drove them home. This was terrifying
  • 17. T E C H N O B E E S Developing an Arduino based monitoring system Temperature, humidity and possibly movement
  • 18. W H A T C A N T H E B E E S E N S O R T E L L U S ? Hives that are about to swarm get hotter Humidity and damp kills bees People kick over hives
  • 19. H I P P Y B E E S I am trying to keep my bees organically This means letting them build their own comb, with no pre-made foundation wax (which can contain chemicals) Cut comb
  • 20. T H E Y S E E M T O K N O W W H A T T H E Y ' R E D O I N G
  • 21. S H O W M E T H E H O N E Y The first year, the bees are establishing their colony, so will have less excess honey However one of my two hives is far more productive than the other, so I'm hoping for a few jars
  • 22. T H E E N D