Beekeeper trains his bees to collect cannabis resin

[fishwyfe]

22 Feb 2016

https://www.dinafem.org/en/blog/trainerbees-beekeeper-honey-cannabis/

 

It is an interesting story. He then sells their honey as what else but ... cannahoney.

 

I can't figure out whether he has the bees deliberately seeking out and collecting the resin, or whether it sticks to them as they hunt for pollen and nectar. When back at the hive they clean the sticky resin off and then find use for it as glue or varnish on the honeycomb cells. Either way, it's a neat trick that this apiarist seems to be capitalising on.

 

Inevitably, the resin imparts a distinctive piquance to the honey that has been stored in that comb.

Edited February 2, 2017 by fishwyfe

[Ozzy420]

22 Feb 2016

https://www.dinafem.org/en/blog/trainerbees-beekeeper-honey-cannabis/

 

It is an interesting story. He then sells their honey as what else but ... cannahoney.

 

I can't figure out whether he has the bees deliberately seeking out and collecting the resin, or whether it sticks to them as they hunt for pollen and nectar. When back at the hive they clean the sticky resin off and then find use for it as glue or varnish on the honeycomb cells. Either way, it's a neat trick that this apiarist seems to be capitalising on.

 

Inevitably, the resin imparts a distinctive piquance to the honey that has been stored in that comb.

I have done some reading into this he has trained the bees to collect from canna plants.

 

It took him a long time to train the bees to do it and seems he wont tell how it fully done it.

 

There has been bees trained to detect explosives.

[Serrated edge]

Bees trained to find cocain and Heroin.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33195468/honey-bees-trained-to-detect-illegal-drugs

Edited February 4, 2017 by Serrated edge

[AussieBogan]

Crazy!

 

BOGAN

[marceline the weed queen]

I think if you had a hive in a greenhouse when your plants are flowering you could theoreticaly have them harvest from that plant

 

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[fishwyfe]

I think the only way to "train" bees would be by using a food reward. My theory is that the beekeeper may have regularly splattered honey or sugar water over his buds. Bees home in on this and feed.

[GreenRazzberry]

Not that this really matters that much but the process that Nicolas Trainerbees is allegedly using would mean his bees aren't technically producing "honey" since he artificially adds the sugar to the resin. It's more like a cannabis-infused propolis. 

Edited February 13, 2017 by GreenRazzberry

[Gissepi]

Not that this really matters that much but the process that Nicolas Trainerbees is allegedly using would mean his bees aren't technically producing "honey" since he artificially adds the sugar to the resin. It's more like a cannabis-infused propolis. 

maybe a process they use in training. and not in the product

[nici]

Another good read on the subject

 

http://www.beeculture.com/bees-and-cannabis/