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The Birds and The Bees with Jolly Holly! We have been swarmed🤯 craziest thing I’ve seen on a boat!
April 20, 2025 · 15 min · 2K views · Central America Pacific
What this video covers
James and Holly, living aboard the boat Tridium in a Central American mangrove estuary, discover a queen bee on a leaf and attempt to relocate the swarm to a custom-built hive to prevent the bees from nesting inside the boat’s mast.0:09 They construct a wooden hive box featuring internal ledges for wax slats and two entry points.6:10 The crew captures the queen and several attendants, placing them in a cage inside the hive with a supply of "queen candy" and sugar water.10:04 To encourage the swarm to adopt the box, they position the hive near the bees' preferred gathering spot at their hydroponics setup and provide supplemental water and sugar solution.7:29 Despite these efforts, the bees continue to forage independently rather than tending to the queen, requiring the crew to manually hydrate the caged queen to keep her alive.12:47 The goal is to establish the colony in the box so it can be relocated to land at least three miles away.5:16
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