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5 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Around where I live these bees emerge in late February. The time can vary in different places based on when temperatures rise above 55F (12C). In North Georgia this will occur early on in February or March. Winter is not usually done by then and som...
4 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Watching the bees work on building their homes is entertaining to me. I watch them as they finish off a tunnel capping it off with a final cell of mud. In the first part of the video a bee can be seen laying down mud to seal off the larva they will...
1 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I had a chance to explore a few acres of land up in northern Georgia. I was told by the land owner there are old beehives somewhere, she just pointed me in the general direction and I got to walking through the summer woods looking for the houses....
26 Jun 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer
In this segment I add another bee house to the stack, this one specializes in collecting pollen. It has screens inside that the bees must pass through and when they do it rakes off a little bit of pollen. This pollen drops down into a tray I can col...
21 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
The Bees fill these holes from the back all the way forward to the front. In the cover animation, a female can be seen laying larva at the end of the tunnel. Her face and body covered in pollen as she works hard during peak season to build as many h...
15 Jun 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Solominer
This video starts with a Hawk call in the background with various other bird calls going on around us, the Bees can be heard buzzing in the background. All is calm at the moment. Two Orange-vented Mason Bees enter the bee boards. Distinguishable by...
12 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Solominer
We see more of the bee house I constructed, and a little over half way through the video at the 10:15 mark I change the angle and get a view into the bee homes straight on. I usually set up the camera to the left or the right, so I am not in the fli...
10 Jun 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
I have shared alot of footage of my Mason Bees, a kind of Solitary Bee. Mostly its pictures and video from my webcam. Which is nice to see the whole of their homes, but not so much up close. During the few months while these Bees were out and from F...
8 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I had a few clips I made during the early spring that I did not use in any other videos. So I put them together to make a short video lapse compilation. I put a random audio track in the video as its usually without sound when doing video lapse. I s...
3 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
In the beginning of the video, Bees can be seen crawling around the trays I laid the cocoons in. I set my camera up and recorded all day using video lapse. By half way through the video I did not see any others emerge but there were a few in the beg...
