Welcome to an extended lesson about honey bees as we follow a colony of honey bees and some interesting sounds they make.
This is a long video with narration and key moments are listed below with time stamps for your convenience.

If you have never heard queen honey bees piping, this will be an audible treat. While you listen, I go over some key activities that are occurring inside the hive.
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Key moments in this video are in order:

51:21 Queen gets picked up from the grass.

30:00 Individual Honey Bees Wash-boarding inside the hive.

32:00 Weather begins to turn, wind picks up.

32:41 Rain Storm arrives Swarm Activity begins.

34:00 Swarm departing the landing board.

35:00 Entrance during swarming.

38:55 Drone, male bee.

42:35 Thunder and arriving storm.

43:47 Swarm arrives on tree branch, unsettled and without a queen.

46:00 Storm arrival and absent queen causes the swarm to return to the hive.

47:26 Bees recall their colony mates with nasanov gland pheromones.

49:34 Tiny cluster in the rain on a tree branch.

50:16 Rain stops, wind dies down. Where is the Queen?

51:00 Providing shelter for the queen and her small group of attendants.

52:28 Queen placed inside the nucleus box.

53:36 Queen rejected the hive box.

56:09 Worker feeds the Queen.

58:01 New home endorsed by nasanov gland advertising.

At one hour, Queen exits the nucleus hive again.

At one hour and one minute, collecting support bees by hand.

At one hour and three minutes, follow up and explanation.

August 24th, current situation and explanation at one hour and four minutes.

One Hour Six Minutes, another hive swarms, at one Hour Seven Minutes, the queen is shown departing with the swarm.

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