Randy Oliver's bee scooping.

[Sung Han Lee]

Every year at Randy Oliver's demonstration he scoops bees 

hand them to volunteers' hands every year. Such a cool thing to warch and experience. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vqt6cHKB3w0?si=7vw0u_chmRKDrLWX

Sung

[Maryly Snow]

I wish he had explained all his “tricks” (that’s what Randy

himself called them!” about scooping up a handful of

bees! Mainly curiosity, because I won’t try it myself!

Maryly

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[Catherine Edwards]

He scoops bees from brood frames so they are young bees. It is the old bees that sting.

Catherine Edwards

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[Catherine Edwards]

It's handy to know which age  bees do what. I learned that bees are guards only for a day before becoming foragers.

Catherine Edwards

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[MLuskin]

I assume it was to move slowly and calmly. 

Merry

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I wish he had explained all his “tricks” (that’s what Randy

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[Catherine Edwards]

Ha, I have never seen Randy move slowly. More like fast and with full confidence because he knows the bees.

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[Jim Veitch]

Randy shakes the bees into an open plastic dishwashing tub.  The flying bees leave and the young non flying bees remain.  As Catherine says and as Randy also said, the younger bees won't sting unless you pinch them.  He pours the bees in the tub onto his cupped hand and then tips those bees into a volunteer's hands as in the video.

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[Jennifer Radtke]

To clarify further:  the other key thing (next to getting young bees) is to POUR the bees into your cupped hand, as Jim says.  You don't scoop (as in the subject line).  I have him saying exactly this on video in July.  He does reveal his "secrets", but it usually take me 3 times of him saying it for me to actually hear it and retain it.  lol

[J R]

Sting or no sting , no problem , do older bee carry varoa mites if si then the count is inaccurate.

Incidentally bee sting have been proven now in serious university research “before trump shut them down” to actually kill , yes kill all cancer cell in a breast , 

that is something to rejoice . 

Was trying to post it on the google group but can only read , not post ! 

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[Susan Donahue]

awsome

Sue

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