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Title: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: honeybeehive on August 15, 2013, 10:02:36 AM

    Hi

    we built 2 live cams into a beehive in a tree that we all see them building a natural shaped hive.

    you can watch the livestreams here:

    explore.org slash bees

    sorry I am a new user and not allowed to post links yet

    let me know what you think
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: millipede on August 15, 2013, 12:25:49 PM
Nice video. Wish I could look at my hives like this. It would save all kinds of inspection time and stings.
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: honeybeehive on August 15, 2013, 01:34:01 PM
go for it :) we would love to see more bee streams
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: alfred on August 15, 2013, 11:06:49 PM
Very Cool!!
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: Joe D on August 16, 2013, 12:22:03 AM
Nice, would agree with Millipede, would like to have that for my hives.




Joe
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: Carol on August 16, 2013, 05:35:41 PM
If I had one of these in my hive and hooked up to my tv....that is about all I'd be watching. Fascinating.  OK...where do I get a "bee" cam.

I've been researching them on the internet....have a company doing a test to see if their security camera will focus on a bee. Low budget ...

Anyone have a good suggestion....
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: Palouse on August 16, 2013, 05:56:31 PM
Time lapse would be fun to watch.

Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: Carol on August 16, 2013, 07:10:03 PM
What kind of webcam did you use.
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: millipede on August 17, 2013, 12:46:00 AM
I think a decent cam with IR LED lighting would work pretty good ad the bees would not be disturbed by the IR. I was thinking of hooking one up just to play with.
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: annette on August 20, 2013, 08:50:41 PM
That was so cool!!  Looks like they spend a lot of time with their heads in the cells.

Thanks
annette
Title: Re: livestream of beehive in a tree
Post by: tjc1 on August 21, 2013, 12:26:38 AM
Beautiful! I was watching at about 5:00 am local time and was interested to see bees busily at work in some areas, and seemingly resting (sleeping?) in others. It's true, I could sit and watch for a long time!