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I was helping with some hives at a local arboretum when we came across this:
the dreaded HIVE #3
This is ONE HOT HIVE. These bees are CROWDED and ANGRY.
We had finished working with four other hives when we got up to this one. A bee got under my veil and stung me on the cheek, some got in my hair and I got bit through my jeans. The other volunteers all got stung through their sweatshirts and on their heads/faces/arms.
I had never witnessed something like this.
Some 20 year beeks with full suits are coming over the weekend to take a look and maybe do a split, this baby is ready to swarm. Its been a hell of a spring, huge honey flows, and the second+ year hives are in swarming mode (mine are all new hives, I lost all of my bees last year along with many others in the area).
On the upside, it was an eye opener and a bonding experience. Picking stingers off of each others faces and brushing bees out of one another's hair.. that's the sign of true friendship. :)
the dreaded HIVE #3
This is ONE HOT HIVE. These bees are CROWDED and ANGRY.
We had finished working with four other hives when we got up to this one. A bee got under my veil and stung me on the cheek, some got in my hair and I got bit through my jeans. The other volunteers all got stung through their sweatshirts and on their heads/faces/arms.
I had never witnessed something like this.
Some 20 year beeks with full suits are coming over the weekend to take a look and maybe do a split, this baby is ready to swarm. Its been a hell of a spring, huge honey flows, and the second+ year hives are in swarming mode (mine are all new hives, I lost all of my bees last year along with many others in the area).
On the upside, it was an eye opener and a bonding experience. Picking stingers off of each others faces and brushing bees out of one another's hair.. that's the sign of true friendship. :)
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Date: 2010-06-11 05:43 pm (UTC)From:But also kind of neat, since you keep hearing "It's the end of bees" all over the place.
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Date: 2010-06-13 06:17 am (UTC)From::)
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Date: 2010-06-13 01:40 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-06-13 03:58 pm (UTC)From:Were there any queen cells inside the hive?
Or are those made after the old queen leaves?
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Date: 2010-06-13 04:10 pm (UTC)From:I wasn't there for the last inspection two weeks ago, but it only takes 14 days to make a new queen
alot of the other hives in this field had queen cells, there have been quite a few swarms in connecticut with the huge honey flow.
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Date: 2010-06-13 04:18 pm (UTC)From:Surely the swarming indicates healthy hives?
:)
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Date: 2010-06-13 04:26 pm (UTC)From:"non working" bees face an ever changing host of issues, but CCD is not one of them.
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Date: 2010-06-13 05:18 pm (UTC)From:Now that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:11 am (UTC)From:What's been going on?
:)