Not YOUR Bee

**Keywords:**

https://freethebees.ch/en/

Climate change

Bees. beekeeping, bee colonies

Varroa mite: Varroa destructor is an external parasitic mite that attacks and feeds on the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. The disease caused by the mites is called varroosis. The Varroa mite can reproduce only in a honey bee colony. It attaches to the body of the bee and weakens the bee by sucking fat bodies.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/breeders-toughen-bees-resist-deadly-mites

Your opinion on bee dying André?
-several factors from the outside, as pesticide, but also beekeeper is responsible. Bee production – prevention from swarming. Treatment, organic acids. Bees can’t adapt to their nature under this condition.

Comparison between bees and cows or any other husbandry Animal

Aren’t cows and so on not in the same way affected?

Yes, we’re doing the same, but with honey bees it’s even a lot more, having also lost biodiversity (resources in the nature) at the same time. And also, cows are not as important for the ecosystem as bees. Exploiting bees has quadrupled, cows only doubled

Isn’t the bee only a semi- husbandry Animal?

On one way yes -, but it’s kept as a husbandry though they are wild animals

Is this the key argument from the organization free the bees?
Yes, because they are linked to natural selection. And even though natural selection can be a horrible thing it’s very important for them because they have to adapt, otherwise they won’t survive the climate change etc.

So are they able to survive the Varroa mite? Link to COVID-19?

Yes, there is indeed. There are processes and behaviors, that the bees are able to protect themselves/immune system. We know, that they can coexist, we know it in a scientific and practical manner. But we also know if we try treating them then they won’t learn to adapt to live with them. The Varroa mite is only one problem today so we have to find another way to deal with it.

That is a really fascinating. Our subject is climate adaptation, or climate change. So if I remember correctly, bees have a history of some 45, or scientifically at least 30 million years. This proves they are very adaptive and have survived many extinctions. So it’s interesting, that they are now threatened by human species and civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee

Yes, that’s true, bees can cope with many things and in the last 100 years we have cut the natural evolution through beekeeping who feed and treat and prevent from swarming, so under this condition they don’t adapt to new conditions. So these are the solutions we’re looking for at free the bees

You as a participant of our crowdfunding, you and your organization are offering some very interesting rewards. There seem to be even bee dogs or things, that are able to deal with these problems or explain please what a Klotzbeute is?

https://wemakeit.com/projects/climate-adaptation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive#Bee_gums

https://www.bienenjournal.de/imkerpraxis/fachberichte/imkern-in-klotzbeute-und-zeidelbaeumen/

By the way you can call it log hive in English – just a hollow peace of a tree. So their most important thing is their habitat – and since bees always lived in trees, and we know their natural habitat have some very interesting parameters and factors of humidity etc., so we try to reproduce these with hollow trees and went down to learn how in the middle age the beekeepers kept the bees in a more natural manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Oxford%20English,age%20from%2055%20to%2065.

Now we went a step further to understand the tree cavity and helped us to produce a lot of them to give the bees back their habitat and all the rest is done by nature

That’s fascinating, that means I can go to free the bees and they can show me how to do it and I can take it back to the garden?

That is right yes, we give courses how to produce honey in a more natural way, so if you really want to know we can show you in two days, needs some muscles and sweating. So if you would like to give a habitat but don’t have time to build it, you just order it and we send it. You hang it and hope they will come

Sounds very good, I invite everybody to order one. What is a swiss tree?

Yes, that’S right. So instead of doing all this work of carving out a tree we have a swiss tree, which is much easier to produce

It’s the monitored, natural environment

Yes, we have different Swiss tree lines -some have their focus on the habitat where you can open and have a look. Others where you can even act as a beekeeper and even produce a little honey.

Now the most fascinating reward – you offer a beedog which can do the work much faster.

https://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/19713-meet-bazz-the-canine-beekeeper

Yes, there is the illness, American Foulbrood, you can tell from smelling – but only when it’s too late. So we decided to train dogs, so they can detect it in a very early stage. It’s a very interesting project because in the first time we can. Check beehives without opening them and stress the bees and especially tell if they are ill or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Aa56jut7Y

Well that sounds like a real breakthrough so you apply the sensitive noses of the dogs to detect if they are healthy.

Yes, it’s like an innovation in beekeeping
sustainability

Natural bee swarm. A word about trees?

Bees are dependent on old trees. Also on a variety of trees, otherwise you have a lack of food.

Next Podcast about trees.

Vision to the crowd?
Great you’re back on board. The Giraffe we want to introduce you to today is Dimi. Dimi is a filmmaker who has produced several documentaries on shoestring budgets. About his most recent one, which is still in the making Not your bee, he will give some fascinating insights in this talk. He’s asking the right questions, like who do insects belong to and what might be the consequence of this possessive idea men tend to have about bees – about the environment in general.
Other than that he’s revealing very moving stories about his other activities, be it as a filmmaker doing guerrilla actions to demonstrate the consequence of the refugee politics, or be it as a social worker trying to reunify families and help depressed young people. He’s explaining us how the open heart circles he organizes help make people talk, how rituals and candle light can help – to talk with each other and open up hearts instead of shielding off the most beloved ones around you.
Please join us to listen to todays…..

His approach is the one he has experienced on his travel in Asia - cooperating with bees rather than keeping them and trying to “bring the wild bees” back to Europe. Showing the way, men are taking too much space. About bees, trees, and giving them their space.

Dimi Dumortier, activist, artist, actor, film maker….. Dimi will be able to document the work of this nascent movement «GECA: Giraffes for Ecology and Climate Adaptation» and promote his documentary «Not Your Bee»
This is an animal, that is essential to the survival of the world basically. We are going to make races that don’t resist new preditors etc…

Part of the campaign

Everything is part of the system. If you take one thing out, it’s not going to work anymore.

Social work: my background was very healthy, no problems etc., caring parents, no financial issues. When I came to know all those people in Belgium, the young pple suffering in a rich country like Belgium….
We’Re trying to bring families together, people together. Create an atmosphere to be in the moment, live the moment. Try to talk, open. Ask questions. It’s called the open heart circles. We’re not able to stop every child to have suicidal thoughts – but a lot of these thoughts if you share these dark topics and manage to not shield off the rest of the family, disappear. And we try to take this off, being in family, is the right place to take it off, once you talk about it…
For me the first thing that comes in life is music, singing, people, social relationships. Only then comes the climate and so on.

https://www.facebook.com/NOT-YOUR-BEE-108212613874933

https://freethebees.ch/en/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-013-9609-1

http://www.bee-careful.com/bee-life/bee-community/

We’re facing challenges which we can only find solutions in the whole civilisation. We try to look for solutions but everybody really has to think for themselves and hope everybody can try to help and bring themselves in.```