"Ants can DESTROY your bees business😲!" JAMAICAN BEEKEEPER Shares Key Tips in Caring For Bees🐝

By nature they make their honey for themselves not for us. Hey guys molasses here again from myislandjamaica.com. Welcome back to my youtube channel. Behind me is an apricot. An apricot. Yes I actually just disappeared. I moved away from it a little bit so I can talk to you. So anyway I'm on my special series on beekeeping in Jamaica and today we're going to talk about how to care for bees, how to maintain the beehives or the bees box and Marsha expert beekeeper for over 10 years is going to share her knowledge with us. First though I want to acknowledge persons who have been watching my videos, liking, sharing and commenting on my videos. I say thank you really do appreciate it and for those who are brand new in fact if you I invite you to consider joining us by subscribing to my channel. Just hit the subscribe button and tap the bell notification and that way you'll be updated on all these beautiful videos I have coming out of Jamaica land we love. Alright so guys we are at the apiary and this is Marsha. How you do? How you do? Hi to the world. Hi everyone. Getting geared up. Yes. Preparing for the bees bites. Yes. Alright and these are some of the boxes here and this of course is a smoker. Smoker. Smoker and the purpose of the smoker Marsha is. Alright it's not a if nor but nor maybe you would need a smoker. A smoker is a must. Without a smoker you would just be looking at the boxes and can't go into the box because you need a smoker to go inside the bees hive. Alright guys and we're gonna go inside the bees hive because again we are looking at bees maintenance. We're going to look at how to take care of the bees and Marsha is gonna share that with us. So first Marsha I want to just to give my viewers an idea of who you are and and your time in the business. Let them know how qualified you are. Okay I'm Marsha. I've been in the business for actually around 10 years now. It's been a long long long journey. Actually this is one of the apiaries that I have currently now. There are others but they're in further in Hanover. So with the bees believe you it's been a long journey but I kept on and pushing and pursuing. So this is one of the apiaries. So I'll give you a look around to see what's happening in the hives. And on and you're right now you have products in in many of the supermarkets in in Jamaica here right and certainly in the western region. I've seen them and that is how I come to know of you. Excellent products. I actually have actually bought your products. So good work in that regard. But today guys Marsha is gonna show us how to take care of bees. And Marsha what's the first thing? So assuming now that you have your apiary here. Assuming that you have your these are what they call colonies. Yes. All right and what's the first step in taking care of bees? All right it's first thing you know your first step you have your hives and you have to make sure it's that it's up to standard. That meaning you have a a good to go queen. A queen that can can multiply. Do a lot of breeding. So because if you know if the queen is old because even by nature itself for we as females the older you get the less your reproductive organs work. So it's the same with the queen bee. The older she gets. But the thing about it it's left up to the bees if they like separate the older she gets. All right hold a point right there. Hold a point right there. So the understanding is that the queen bee is the one who produces right. I don't know if she's the one who produces the honey but she's the one who runs the operation in the hive right. Yeah she did. She's the one that by producing she produces the worker bees and those are the one that keeps the hive going. Those would be like the children. Yeah yeah. So she have so she have a lot of children and the children do what? They they go out to work. Each you have your household and each child you assigned to a different chores. It's the same thing in the hive. Each um bees that it is in there they they are assigned to a different work. Okay all right. So so so so you say okay so so I'm gonna go back to where you were now is that. Yeah. In taking care of them you want to make sure the queen bee is okay first. Yeah she has to be okay because without her you don't have a hive. Okay all right. So what's next? Um all right after the queen up to standard and workers are doing what they're doing like going who is supposed to go for nectar go for nectar who is supposed to go for pollen go for pollen who is supposed to look after the younger eggs that she lays are doing that and looking after the eggs each stages you have the nursery bees they look after the younger eggs coming out to maturity and from that and you have the drones um it's a little contemplation persons are saying with the drones they don't serve any purpose than just mating with the queen sometimes depending when it's coming on to honey season for me and I see too much drone cells in there I tend to cut them off some of the time they say you don't need to cut them off let them stay. Different type of bees have different rules. Yeah. How does how does that where does that play out into production now and how and in relation to how you take care of them? All right with everybody doing their chores doing what they have to do and then you the beekeeper at times you'd assist the bees they don't need help you know but it's just to make sure they're not being disturbed uh-huh no water is going in on them and no frogs and ants these are the things some of the things some of the elements where we affect the bees them water going into their boxes frogs lurks in around the hive or red ants or even at times black ants too they do trouble them so you have to make sure those aren't troubling any nuisance to the bees. All right so I learned quick you know so I think I'm hearing that to maintain a bees the essence of bee maintenance or care of bees is to ensure that there's no disturbance yes that's that's the essence right yeah man they don't get any and disturbance mean it can be it can be um another animal or pest yeah or nature nature meaning as in rain yeah going in yeah yeah anything you know like that because if the boxes are damaged you know water is going to go in them and they're not going to you're in your house and water coming on you're not go happy yes yes yes yeah but so you want to just make sure now that those things are not affecting not affecting the bees to keep your bees happy yeah that is the essence of bee maintenance yeah man okay all right happy bees yeah you know the production going be good all right so we're walking in April the next thing all right we're going to look inside the hive because at times no you can't look inside the hives all right so this is a hive this is one hive yeah all right this is one hive guys and I notice here you're smoking the bottom yeah smoking the entrance that's the entrance yeah it's only how many entrances you have in a bee box one one entrance to be one yeah all right guys we're learning we're learning the basics we're keeping one oh yeah we're keeping one on one so one entrance and I notice the entrance here is just a little it's like a little just that he didn't bring just a little space a little extra space at the bottom yes right which is right here yeah the bees coming out there yeah they're small so they don't need a lot of space all right now this is the ideal space yeah this is a landing board you notice the board has an extended part so the bees can land and then they walk in and walk in yeah all right so that is the first so the first all right and then you open it and what you're gonna look for when you open it now we're talking about maintenance again guys when you look inside the hive you want to make sure you can know if the hive is all right just by the mere fact how you see the bees moving around and you can see if they have enough food all right so hold it right there we're gonna break it break it down easy so if they're moving around how they're moving around meaning what they're moving busy yeah busy moving around all over the frames walking about even though you see them walking about you know each each bees knows what he's supposed to do so he's just moving around you find some coming in with pollen you're going to go to put it where the pollen should be who's coming in with nectar is moving towards to putting it where the nectar should be so how you're going to know if they're if you're moving so when you check you say moving around you want to say that they're not static then you want to make sure there's movement or not too much movement yeah man they're always moving about this is why some persons use a limit and you're busy like bees okay i mean you're never standing you're always working moving so you want them to be moving around yes all right and what else you're gonna look for all right you can look at just the same to see you don't have to see the queen to see that she's performing you can just look and in the hive look at some of the frames you will see where she's laying you will see some small eggs white eggs in the bottom of the cells stay with us guys because we're gonna look for that too what else you're gonna look for in there all right then make sure there is food in there what do you mean food for the bees yes because they need food and the food mean what honey honey and pollen also but it's my understanding that they use the pollen and the whatever to make honey to make honey yeah it contributes towards making the honey but they eat by their own honey yeah they do because by nature they make their honey for for themselves not for us oh they store for themselves because it's like we say we have honey season for a particular time of the year and then they store up yes when it's off seasonal that's the time they say all right after all this work we can we have food now to sustain our sustain or if we need a little party we have you know yes yes if rain fall we can stay home and eat okay so when we come and take it that's invasion yes like what we're seeing about the place now anyway yeah all right so what else gonna look for that's another two things we're gonna look for so we're gonna look for there's movement i'm gonna look to make sure that the queen is producing and there is no disturbance no mite no ants nothing else in here yeah you look for those in there as well yeah man you look to make sure i suppose that there's no brick there's no damage to the hive no that is my that is me saying that no i'm just make sure to say you know what's not going in there disturbing okay all right all right and then if all of that is good then we're good we're good yeah how often do you maintain all right how often do you visit a box then all right no that is off season it's not honey time and we're having the rain that has an issue where prior to this it was our honey season i went in and i took the honey from the bees no if this is no me no have the feeding some person say oh you're the bees use you put sugar in the honey that isn't so because they store their honey for themselves no we and the business aspect go in and take it away so we have to give them something to sustain them okay to make them survive it's a survival thing so this is where the sugar comes in where we mix sugar and water or you can say if they have as much pollen in there they will use it as a protein to keep them going then you won't use it to make honey as some person say people put sugar in honey yes that that for me is it's not so okay all right because now i i did feed them i was there last week and i feed them so you will find that you in the box now you'll find i'm not sure if they ate everything there is a bag in there with sugar so you will see it as we're going just the same and hopefully i'm still hoping that we get a little piece of honey somewhere along the line yeah man let's go through the hives and see if we can can detect it all right guys so we're gonna go in the box now and let's see what we got let's see all right all right they're quiet man they're busy working oh they're okay everybody busy working yeah you see the bag with the sugar yeah all right now Tonya is here guys and you should see Tonya's face she's standing as far as possible shout out to Tonya here she is she's my subscriber she came with me today but she's nervous look at her face all right she don't want to be back anyway this is um this is the hive now yeah and you're giving them some some some sugar but so this is they said they are a little bit they don't look too busy to me no they're calm now at the time because they have food and if you look down in the box you see most of them they're down into it we call the bottom box a brood chamber so there are two boxes yeah this is the brood chamber this is most of the time the hive keeps growing at that time oh i wonder if we can see the queen we can all right so remind my viewers again what you're looking for here again you're making sure they're busy yeah and they have food because i see you can see the sugar is still in there you have to make sure it's clean sugar because if you won't consume it you can't give it to the bees okay okay yeah so it has to be clean sugar okay i had put some liquid in there but they have drunk out the liquid now it's just only the sugar all right okay what else we're looking for again we said all right then to get a better look on the possibility of seeing the queen we have to go down yeah so here looks good so far yes yeah man because they're all the normally you this is what you always want to see the hives falling off the bottom chamber which is down here yeah we call it the brood chamber and there's a lot of okay all right good so what we're gonna do though we have to remove the top bar all right yeah okay so you can see all the activity going on here and we can just move this and put it at this side okay all right so they have activity down there guys down there down there all right all right yeah if they are storing honey normally what they say they have two frames at each corner you have 10 frames in the hive storing of honey they tend to do it at the two last ending frames so we're just going to check it to see if we see any little nectar or honey coming okay all right yeah this is what the hive tool you need this to space the frame in order to pull it off for me i use this one it has a grip on it so it tends to grip you see this little glassy looking it that is funny it's where inside of the hole okay all right all right but it's not funny fully for for us it's just for them all right so there's some money there yeah just for them okay so they're working yeah man and you see when you smoke them you see them sticking their heads in the hole because most of the time when bees are in the wild and they send smoke they know that it's a fire so they tend to just stick their heads in the hole and suck up some of it oh yeah the nectar yeah because they're wondering if it's a fire what the fire do normally in the woods man fire they burn out oh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh okay suck up some to keep them to sustain them if they have to be away for a while yeah if they have to all right so there's a little bit of honey there yeah okay all right what are we doing here now all right oh this is a lot of bees now look at that guys so you don't need to smoke those down the bottom here right look at that guys this is crazy all right all right you see these with the brown tops these are bees inside of them oh soon ready to emerge so those are baby bees yeah you see the ones that walk in on the film you have the nursery bees they look after for these from from egg stage until they emerge from it okay so you have these they look after the meaning one they feed them okay when they're in the egg stage the lava stage they feed them until they come to they emerge from it so they have to look so you have to have your nurse right true all right so let me ask you now so it's for a layman i'm seeing so this is a yellow section here and this is this is where the the baby bees are under those little caps right because the queen has laid in these yes yes yeah so after the queen lady it kind of cover up right they form the covering of it oh they cover it okay because after each stages yeah from egg to lava i tell you i tell you this thing is complex all right and then the yellow ones no oh the other ones that are just the empty cones are empty okay okay all right all right okay okay but eventually or hopefully the queen laying those too yeah because you can i'm not sure if the camera can see inside because at times you can look in the holes to see if to make it evident to see i'm going to look for another frame to see if i can see it better to evident you see all right then you don't see the queen but she's around let me look if i can find one of the okay frame with the larva in it a lot of lava will be easier for the camera okay ah that one those white things in them where we're inside of the holes those white things yeah you see that oh yes yes yes those are the lovers all right yeah guys yeah okay so those are the baby queen larvae the baby ones right the baby eggs yeah coming up to adult stage to be sealed off like this ah okay okay okay all right all right you have to have some courage though to deal with this thing yeah and this is one of the thing you make it evident if you don't see the queen because at times remember you know so when by going through i want to know if a queen is in my box and i see these at times you can see they all exist we're gonna need to dig up into the box to look for the queen herself because if there's a day old egg in it she's there that means she has laid those eggs so right now the queen is here yeah man she's here okay so you want to know as part of the maintenance that the queen is here too yeah at all times because without her your hives would collapse all right so we're still hoping to find the queen here but we may not guys we may not but meanwhile everybody else is busy working this everybody this beef business is an entire world by itself i tell you so complex and there's a there's unity there yeah yeah there's unity there okay oh let me you see some you see some yellow stuff inside them those are the pollen i don't see the yellow let me see do you see any yellow guys let me see what you see there oh yes yes yes yes yes i think i see one somewhere here let me see if i think here's one here you can see here there's a yellow there somewhere let me look over the other side and the yellow you say is pollen yeah meaning the picket of the tree or the fruit yeah yes suppose you see these now yellow oh yes yes that's yellow yes yes yes you want all them do another one here um all right and go see yellow here a lot of yellow here that's the pollen that they use uh-huh all right all right still no trace of the queen here no trace of the queen yet we're still hoping to see the queen not famous queen yeah it's not so easy to find her in a hive when it's everybody's moving about because she doesn't stay still either she just walks about so she's a worker yeah well she's she's a queen but you know she's steady like no because she walk around and find um cells to lay in if everything is in good condition uh-huh she just moves about and lay inside the hive and meanwhile meanwhile they're looking to find a queen bee uh the question there's only one queen bee in a hive yes only one and if there's two we're gonna have a war right yeah if you look and you can see some lot of little white jelly stuff in them on this side right up in here you can see those are i don't see much i see honey here i'm seeing is that honey i'm sitting through here yeah but they have some little the olive those are very difficult to see okay right off here i see yeah those are one that she made for me so you can know the day old today how do you know the day all right the day old eggs are some little small eggs standing in the middle of the the hole what these look like they're from yesterday because they have after they are two they tend to lay down and there is gel around them okay yeah okay but you this bees look very calm though yeah man how do you get them so calm are all bees this calm no probably it's a good day for them today because sometimes they really get aggressive yeah okay well good for you Tonya i wonder if Tonya wants to hold one of the frames um i think she does actually she can't wait she can't wait to hold one i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure look at this now look at this now don't mind them crawling on your hand that's not yeah and if you get a bite or two it's part of your adventure you know me all right guys so this is Tonya i'm gonna have to take a picture with her all right Tonya we got you we got you we got you good job Tonya all right we're just fitting in all these frames that way we're more okay all right so so again here in the bees is there anything else that you normally do or check for to make sure if the hive is not performing meaning it's weak because at times the hives do get weak they're hungry or they're having a lot of disturbance and they will tend to get weak a bit weak we will just eventually we feed them but just not to have an invasion of ants ants yeah okay so we didn't find any we didn't find any ants in no man there's any insect or anything like that no no wouldn't it be brave for ants or insects to come and disturb honeydew yeah man they would i don't think you heard me wouldn't it be brave if i if i was an ant to come inside a colony of bees and disturb them you see with the ant is just the same as we make up our mind to go in for the honey yeah that's what the ants does because they want the honey the pollen for protein so they make up okay yeah so they make up their mind yeah and do the invasion is there is there um is there is there a reason or how is there a way to prevent ants then to prevent some of those things from from invading from your perspective as a beekeeper yeah man you have different ways or you can prevent they help out the bees because remember you know they so here what if you find that there are ants disturbing the hive you can do little traps you can do set some traps around the hive when i say traps you can have some powder that you can put around the stand i use blocks some persons use metal for their stand you can put it around the foot put the foot off the stand in in oil and spoiler you can splint it around the foot and to make certain that they don't invade it too much we narrow down the entrance some persons use a strip paper i just work with the sponge and smoke the entrance and smoke down the entrance and small down it so the bees themselves can maintain the hive i think you're gonna hurt one of them all right oh so you just okay narrow it down and give them just an inch out of space with that no the ants won't be able to invade them that much because they're just good enough space for them in order to maintain themselves let's use a piece of sponge so guy we're talking about bee maintenance be caring for the bees so here we're preventing the ants how do you prevent well you don't have problem with any other animals just maybe just pests right no no mongoose no no no nothing can come across these bees right no rats no nothing like that no yeah yeah the only thing is the ants and the red ants and the black ants you said and at times if it's well really weak to you find a lot of cockroach will invade it cockroach yeah it has to be a brave cockroach okay all right so that is so that's a typical day of maintenance so you feed them you check their you check to make sure inside the workers are up to standard and everything when you do all of that and you make sure that you yourself don't disturb them too much by every minute you're going inside the hive no it'll be a disturbance normally i fed them we normally do the feeding on two weeks every two weeks yeah okay all right when you say feed it's not just a feed but to check on them as well check on yeah make sure that they're up to standard okay green is functioning and all no disturbance and all right and also you check to uh in terms of the entries to make sure you prevent the pest and the main pest is um ants and mice yeah all right all right so the feeding no water getting in and that kind of thing yeah so we did okay guys so this one look good looks good give give marsha a thumbs up marsha and look look actually look for part two because marsha is gonna tell us about her journey in beekeeping all right so check that wait for that as well look out for that as well all right what else you need to do what else is checking marsha this one this one here um do you do any sort of recording marsha recording no i don't meaning to how do you track oh all right yeah with recording no you need your book to make sure that if you go inside a particular hive and you see it not functioning meaning it's weak yeah and you did your check as to say you feed them and then you narrow down the entrance you will mark today's date in your book on your calendar say all right box number four hold on a second check for me either a beef inside or outside outside it's outside because it's not like he's writing me here because he's crawling around the room he just flew oh i think he's trying to get me man man all right yeah you have to make sure your recording is records are up to standard okay meaning yeah you check today you see if a particular box not doing well it it or if it loses its queen you have to make note of that and you will take eggs from another box that has a queen and put in that you mean like one of the mother box one of the box that is functioning that has queen and she's laying you would just remove a frame with the old eggs and put inside that box that doesn't have any so you need your recording because you know you have to check back that particular hive okay make certain that all right the queen they're looking a hive lose a queen you need to make sure that hive gets back a queen else is going to die out because a bees tend to go like six weeks five to six weeks lifespan and if you don't replace that queen within that period of time that hives will die out so hold on a second i'm learning learning learning learning learning a bee lives you said five to six weeks yes the entire lifespan yeah because remember all the flying about the carrying a load and all that so what happened no really yeah this is why the queen has to produce so let me ask you oh this is interesting guys did you know this no listen so five to six week is just a month and a half yeah or a month and a week or thereabouts i mean at most month and a half yeah but the but the colony or the beehive is here for months yeah ah with the queen now a queen can live up to five years but after that no hold on now so the queen will be there but the several people will come and die and leave the queen yeah so if they live just a month and a half and they work and dead yeah this is why a queen have to be looked after properly that she can because a queen lays up to 2 000 eggs a day oh that means and one egg is one bees yeah right yeah so these worker bees that you call them well typically they know well i'm guessing that they know that they're not gonna leave more than a week and a month and a half not sure you don't know they know no but they're working like crazy to make sure the colony continues continues yeah and they support the queen interesting interesting there's some lessons for us as human beings that's true yeah man yeah yeah i know they're gonna die but they're still working to make sure there's continuity yeah and the queen okay and the queen is doing her job laying two thousand eggs per day yeah man man all right so that's that is there anything else you want to tell us about bee maintenance i noticed you put them on blocks to keep them yeah i use two block heights just to make sure they're not down to the the ground level because a lot yeah it make it too easy for and if water yes at times they can pretty cool heavy the rain might fall so you excel them to black side yeah ah make sure the entrance is cleared just to make certain okay okay okay is there a king bee ah you don't have one king bee you have the jones without the men yeah the man bees so they are the one who fertilize the female yeah queen bee only yeah only the queen yeah so how is that possible you have so many i'm supposed there are thousands of drones in there and one queen yeah man because you take probably up to 15 16 drones to to to meet with uh one queen and you take them yeah after you she made she doesn't do it again she has all that it's stored up in herself to just produce her for a while i spend years five years there yeah oh it's not but yeah you have to 15 to 16 yeah and then that's it and then those drones die yeah yeah so for me i always say they only dare to to um to meet with the queen and then are they called king bees or just drones drones oh they're not you don't call them king bees no they're just donors all right okay good is there anything else we need to anything else we think we need to know about bee maintenance or caring for the bees all right after what about water you give them water no normally then they tend to forge for some persons they put water inside the hive but sometimes you know you put the water right at their foot and they still go out to forge okay so it's not a guarantee that they will accept the water at times for me i allow them to forge because there there's a river there and there are lots of branches and stuff they can get the water okay all right good and we're in a very lush area here with a lot of greenery guys lots of greenery and there's a river around this this place lovely place lovely place look at that anything else marcia oh by the way so guys marcia is in the business of beekeeping and has been doing beekeeping for over 10 years as much as she looks so young but she's an expert beekeeper here it's the venom from the bees that keep me healthy all right so so so but you have been doing very well with bees the bees i mean honey business and i just i want to salute you too as a beekeeper a but also a woman in beekeeping a brave a brave um adventure i'm gonna say adventure not initiative but adventure uh to do bees you know um how how how if persons are interested in learning more about what you do um probably want to have you to do some sort of i don't know lecturing guy um teaching or if they want simply want to buy some of your good honey how they can reach you all right then i have a email you can call me at my cell number it's 402 sorry 1-876-402-0985 you can call me anytime i'll be available if you want information and you have a hive and you want some advice how to look after i'll be up with that just let's see i think we're in luck here so we didn't come to get honey per se but we came to do bee maintenance but um we saw michael actually uh working with marsha here just found i think we think we find some honey yeah this is honey yeah see they seal it off this mean the honey is ready honey behind there yeah all right hold on there all right so when you cut it look at the honey run down look at the honey running down the honey running down all right so tell me about this now all right this is a frame that is has honey that is ready for extraction normally we would just cut the seed because whenever the honey is ready the bees tend to seal it so it's sealed so it can't come out apart from with yes so we have to cut this so we can eat that now yeah man this can be eaten all right guys tony's gonna eat honey watch you're gonna give her a piece of it yeah let's have a let's have a party listen all right all right so you have to cut okay yeah we can just cut it off yeah all right you probably have to wait till you go all right oh you don't want to open it where's the first number you can taste it's really deep it depends on the metal let me just orient take out a little piece and then close it back you can put it over your head right yeah you're not gonna bite it like that i think that's a little piece this is the honey with the honeycomb all right that piece oh that's a lot of honey yeah it's a little dark um let me just say i don't think they're gonna she's nervous all right look at the juice that's the honey honey honey honey guys i don't know oh that's that's what you're gonna have to go through you get it yes you're not taking any chances though all right you're gonna eat this all right so that's the honey guys we found a piece of honey and that's bee maintenance courtesy of marshall all right i noticed something here guys and this is a bee box here or a hive uh and this appears to be something burnt here uh what is this marshall all right this is um i went through some hives and i left some of this bee wax on it and this is how the sun eventually melts everything right out oh wow yeah this is how dangerous the wax is because you know you use it to make candles and stuff so it melts all the way out yeah yeah yeah yeah oh whoa whoa whoa yeah that's why we in a bee's hive you have to make certain that the surrounding is not much dry grass because once any fire spark that's it because there's nothing that can put it out when these wax start burning so that that's another message i'm learning as well it's where your position where you put your bees or your hive should be away from all all risk of fire fire yeah because you might lose everything yeah all right guys i want to hear from you what questions do you have for marcia drop it right now in the comments she's waiting she promised to get back and answer your questions so put your questions in the in the comments right now right marcia yes yes and and this is the wax you're mentioning as part of the maintenance but why do you typically use this this is the one that you've got the honey from already or yeah this honey was extracted from this but it was on a frame and it tore off so i just rested um okay but we tend to use but this works to boil it boil it in water as a process to use it to give back to the bees as what a food no this is what they store normally it would be an empty flat piece of paper and the bees draw them out with these cells in it oh yeah oh so you boil it yeah boil it as we know boiling and then what we mill there's a process there's a machine that you put it when it's boiled boiled and thin we put it in the machine that it stretches it out to a flat piece of sheet it has a measurement to put on the frame itself and then the bees oh and it was dry and it would dry and then form okay these would draw these cells out of it to store the honey that's what you mean so that's also part of the this is where you want to help them to create a frame yeah you want to start from scratch right yeah this with from scratch most of the time that the foundation that is how it looks like this is the foundation itself and then they draw it out this is what it looks like before and then see they draw the holes in them so you would have made this i'd make here yeah okay okay okay okay but when you make it it's not as thick as the finished product no the bees doesn't work oh to build it up all right guys i'm i'm i'm getting a lot of learning here because i didn't know this either and i'm sure you didn't uh well most of you didn't if it's a let's say it's a wild bee and in the hills right yeah and they will have their comb and everything ready already yeah but because you know this is an this is an um an exercise yeah a commercial exercise yeah you actually have to help them with this yeah but typically they wouldn't need this it's on a out in the wild they would just build it up in no particular order but remember after we put it on the frame out in the wild they're just there for themselves okay they will eat the honey out of the comb the comb will still remain there but for us now because we're using it as a business we we are we have to make sure everything is organized ah so that's why you put it on this on the frame so we can pull a frame yeah yeah yeah yeah to get the honey and then we can give back to the bees so only thing they do they just store more honey i got you so so guys that's marshall what's your last name again williams marshall williams and her her her your your um your brand is marshall's 100 pure honey marshall's 100 pure honey and you can find it in a lot of the supermarkets yeah here in jamaica um but again whether you're local or overseas you can reach out to her there is actually a link in the description as well i think i'm gonna help her to get some of her products out so check the link in the description how you can get some of her good honey as well marshall's pure 100 pure jamaican honey marshall what makes jamaica special jamaica for me the natural mystic of jamaica it's an island things do happen here but believe you me i've been to different countries and within two weeks time i yes i want to come home because there's no place like home yeah we might not have the cash as much but believe you me home is home and it's in jamaica there's a natural mystic yeah how to care for bees with marshall guys i'd love to hear from you what jumped out at you were you nervous at any point in the video i'd love to hear from you drop a comment down below and remember i do a lot of videos capturing stuff like these people like her i call it the real jamaica if you have not yet subscribed to my channel go ahead and subscribe now that way you stay updated but i also have several other 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