Recent content by Troutdog

A main factor most overlook is the solar length of day. There is some brood rearing occurring now but imo its just not going to match the mortality rate. Darker bees brood up later than others. They are not fooled by an early flow such as maples in my area (NE. USA) Not fooled by a warm...

So short answer is attitude improves with forage. Your AMM are a bit more cranky than our mutts here in upstate NY. Same rules apply just like people full belly less likely to behave poorly. I put a pail feeder out the day before I'm working the hives when conditions are as you describe and...

Africanized and many black bees can become aggressive over 30k. Outside of the rare and occassional warm/hot hive i find that on my area there is a time when population exceeds forage and this forced scale down of brood rearing makes them a bit more cranky. They know the happy days of unlimited...