Wabenbau / Honeycombs being built [2 months timelapse]

You can see a tiny colony of my mum's bees grow from around 2000 bees grow to it's full size of around 30000 bees in two month time.
The video was shot in the summer of 2010 with a specialy made box that would house the bees as well as the camera and some lights for the nighttime.
The bright pulsating orange light is the sun.

[goatsmiserable]

Finally an actual time lapse of comb production!

[jeffren]

I have never figured out my almost unnatural love of bees. How they make such perfectly consistant shapes etc. ....and honey is pretty darn good! Thanks for the video,

[PlatinumTales]

Title should be called 1 month hive build 1 month fog showoff xD

[tzkelley]

Very interesting, thanks! It's amazing how long a bee will stay in about the same place building comb and it's fun to watch the dead bees get cleaned out every now and then.

[hansiraber]

i'm not a bee expert either, i just like doing time lapses. but yes, they build along the wires and some of the frames can be centrifuged. but sometimes the bees build so thick that two frames stick together. when you try to take those out you end up with a giant mess, which you can still lick the honey out of :)

[larsraum]

Cool video! I really liked the part when the dew was on the screen lol

[hashtag_thisguy]

Mad skills... The heat they generate causes condensation 😯

[africantigeress]

amazing! and you see when they heat up the wax and when it cools down! from the condensation inside the hive

[schweizerd]

at 2:29 theres a frame of the beekeeper's face cleaning the camera lense

[ShlisaShell]

My brain gobbles this stuff up!!! Love it!!! Thanks for the brain candy. You're awesome!

[JotaParro]

Yes, the bees construct following lines, as well as stretch the wax or build them from the tables always work from the efficiency and the easy stuff it is efficient

[apismellifera]

Hey thanks for your reply! Being I have a top bar hive it would so cool to see them natural shape combs grow outward and down at the same time.

[scud]

Good Timelapse, not the music I would want to listen to when watching a Timelapse

[MasHaiHil]

Right winged bee because they always start with the right part of the box

[IAmTheWaterbug]

Nice work! I refer people to it all the time. How often did you take a frame? If I take your 4:04 x 30 fps and divide that across "2 months" I get ~5 frames per hour, or about one frame every 12 minutes. Is that approximately correct? Also, was the inside of the hive lit continuously? Or did you have a timer to turn on the light only when you captured a frame? Thanks!

[kzamora]

This was the coolest thing I've seen today. Thank you!

[dl]

Inspired timelaps...hoping my next honeybee hive will have windows so I can watch it take shape and monitor its progress. Cheerio.

[ivander]

The camera quality is impressive for a 10-year-old video

[MrRahimhosein]

This is cool. I wanted to see this. I searched it and it was the first video that came up. Exactly what i wanted to see. Thanks.

[yuckybummcswag]

man this condensation's winning the fight