Bees and Beekeeping for Kids

hi junior rangers welcome back to the ranger zach show let's play a game i'm going to think of a food and you have to tell me what i'm thinking of sound good well okay the food i'm thinking about is golden in color it's sweet sticky goes great on biscuits doesn't have to be refrigerated and never goes bad even after 3 000 years is your tummy rumbling in your mouth watering yet well if it is you're probably thinking what i'm thinking it's honey and we all know where honey comes from right that's right bees so today let's see what all the buzz is about as we learn about the busy bee [Music] did you ever want to know what makes a tree grow taller why a turtle wears a shell on its back to get your hiking boots and a walking stick come along with ranger zach come along with ranger zach it's the rangers act show well junior rangers today we have two very special guests junior ranger gavin and junior ranger grady say hi boys gavin is 11 years old and he's been keeping and learning about bees since he was eight actually seven and a half seven and a half and grady how old are you i'm five five you must be the youngest beekeeper on the planet well maybe well boys before we get started can you tell the junior rangers at home why we're wearing these fancy looking clothes this is obesity and it prevents us from being stuck that's right junior rangers many of you know that when bees are scared or protecting the hive they might give you a painful sting but here's something you may not know not all bees can sting and those that can don't really want to sting you just like when you get scared you might give a little shout well when a bee gets scared they might give a little sting which makes bees scary at first but the more that we learn about these amazing little creatures the more that we can see them for the beautiful and important animals that they are gavin were you scared of bees when you first started beekeeping yes i was when i first started beekeeping i got stung for the first time and it really scared me but after learning about the bees and keeping them for a while i learned that they aren't so scary it looks like you've come a long way since then so gavin can you tell me what we're going to be doing in the hive today today we're doing an inspection and in that inspection we're looking for eggs larva worker bees ground bees and the queen bee oh [Music] okay ranger zack we're gonna get into this hype and you're gonna be in charge of the smoker you got it gavin the smoke inside this can helps relax the bees before we open the hive [Music] oh this hive is made up of two boxes and a single box could contain thirty thousand bees so there could be sixty thousand bees flying around us right now [Music] bees make their home in hives and all the bees living together in the hive is called a colony inside a colony you'll find several types of beets when you see a bee buzzing from flower to flower chances are you're looking at a forger one of the jobs of a worker bee her main goal in life is to visit as many flowers as she can when she lands on a flower she uses her long tongue called a proboscis to slurp up nectar which she stores in her honey stomach that's right these have a special stomach for honey but we'll get to that later a single forager may visit 5 000 flowers a day drinking up nectar and collecting pollen this is a queen bee we can tell that it's the queen because it's bigger than the other bees her body is larger because her main job is to be an egg-laying machine she lays as many eggs as she can and ensure that there's enough bees to keep the colony running and even though she doesn't wear a crown she still gets weighted on hand and foot the worker bees feed and groom her so that she can focus on pumping out those eggs she lays the eggs inside a little baby cradle of wax see these here they look like grains of rice but these are b eggs the eggs hatch into larva and larva turn into pupa pupa turn into baby bees look carefully as this baby bee emerges from her capped wax cradle oh look at you all grown up [Music] the only males in the hive are called drones you can tell a drone from a worker by their large black eyes and their job is to mate with other queens so that they can lay more eggs now we come to the good stuff honey bees make honey by drinking nectar and here's what they don't teach you in school by throwing it up again and again and again here's the story when a forager lands on a flower she drinks a little bit of nectar and stores it in her honey stomach now she may have to visit 1 000 flowers to fill up her honey stomach but once she does she flies back to the hive once she's back in the hive get ready for the icky part she throws it up into the mouth of another bee and that bee throws it up into the mouth of another bee and then another beat and another beat and another beat and this process may sound gross but it's actually an incredible talent as the nectar moves from one honey stomach to the next it becomes thicker and loses more and more water until it becomes honey i love honey liquid honey honeycomb creamed honey [Music] honey [Music] [Music] [Music] little too much honey in my mouth [Music] are you ready for your rangers act fun fact well here it is honey is the only food on the planet that never goes bad and in fact archaeologists have found honey inside the tombs of ancient egyptians which means if you found it you could be eating mummy honey [Music] uh [Music] [Music] these aren't just important because they make delicious honey for us to eat gavin why don't you tell the junior rangers at home what the world would be like if there were no bees there would be a lot less food because about one third of the food that you put in your mouth is pollinated by bees think back to all those flowers that one worker bee might visit each day each time a bee visits a flower it moves pollen from one flower to the next this process is called pollination and flowers need it to produce fruits vegetables and seeds which help make sure that the plant can grow to the next generation well junior rangers thanks for showing me around the hive today no problem ranger if our junior rangers at home wanted to become beekeepers like you how could they get started you could head over to our shop ocb supplies let's head there now and put together a starter kit [Music] hi junior ranger we're back and we're at oc beekeeping supplies in fullerton california and i'm here to show you what you're going to need to become a backyard beekeeper please suit glove a hand tool a smoker and the actual beehive and before we say goodbye gavin and grady are gonna build us our very first beehive okay junior rangers i'm gonna teach you how to build a beehive all you need is a bottom a box some frames [Music] and a top [Music] it's that easy hi junior rangers welcome back to the ranger station i sure had a lot of fun learning about bees and beekeeping with grady and grayson today if you want to try some honey made by the bees that we hung out with make sure to check out their website at hoppahoneyfarm.com and you can try some of their blue ribbon award-winning honey now before we say goodbye let's do the ranger roundup [Music] this week's question comes from asher who's 6 years old hi ranger dad how to whale full wall well asher that is a great question but whales don't blow water out of their blow hole they blow air out of their blow hole you see dolphins and whales are mammals which means they breathe air into their lungs just like us and they breathe in through their nostrils which is their blowhole located at the top of their head each time they ride to the surface they take a big breath out and because their body is wet some of that water gets wrapped up in their breath only making it look like they're blowing out water i hope that answered your question now let's do the junior ranger challenge [Music] this week's junior ranger challenge is to observe what plants and flowers the bees in your neighborhood are most interested in make a hypothesis on why the bees are attracted to that plant remember a hypothesis is an educated guess you can tag me in a picture of your special adventures at the ranger zack show on instagram and you can be featured as one of our junior rangers of the week and don't forget new episodes of the rangers act show come out every monday so please make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss any of our exciting adventures and until next time junior rangers there's a world of adventure right outside your door so get out there and go explore this is ranger zach and pearl the squirrel over and out ah

Channel: The Ranger Zak Show

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Id: 4D_6ugaukIY

Length: 15min 6sec (906 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 19 2021