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Hopefully pics below will help some of the newer B-keeps identify this potential problem. Perhaps not the best pics but in my opinion show the signs of what to look for.... The below frames have "salvaged Comb" in from old cut-outs. These were used in a box to house a forced abscond... (Using...

:iagree: Look forward to hearing results of all the other trials.... Unfortunately, my book keeping regarding the Bees is so bad doubt I would even find the same colony again...:confused: Aaaagh, going to have some fun making them anyway - Win Win !

For us using Langstroth brood boxes as supers we are always moving the tougher brood frames up into supers anyway... Large drone comb? let it age a bit and move up into supers... No Queen excluder used either,,, so really a fast and painless job of frame rotation... Let the bees get on with...

Hmmmm, let me work this out.... My Mom? HUH? Them's fighting words ! ;)

Thank you for sharing this..... Very helpful and I am most certainly going to do this.... If the bees make more drone cells, so be it! I have already learnt that the bees know far more than I do... Leave them to do what they do.... (y)

A lot of mountain people up that side like their "Green Tea" Excellent growing conditions. Incidentally, the other name for that is "Mountain Cabbage". Truly the tree of knowledge. :judge:

Thanks Mr Palmer. As I said in an earlier post - I slipped up here, I didnt pay close enough attention to a couple of very difficult forced trapouts.... I should have known better.... Not certain about other folks but I always have a soft spot for these problematic trapouts, especially when they...

Not everything is always plain and simple Mr JBM - Especially with regards to Poo ! What about Odour & prevailing winds? Would / could this not have an impact?

You say that now,,,, but when you try and hold your breath because they congregating on you veil, thats something else,,,, blowing smoke in your own face is not always as fun as it sounds.. :) Note: they are not always like that,,, but when one or two take a run at you and sting... All hell...

Altitude here is 1075 M above sea level.... Not so high... It would seam as soon as you see the black gene show,,,, colony is far more agro.... Perhaps survival of the fittest,,,, closer you get to the mountains the more issues you pick up with Baboons raiding... I admire these black little...

Had a look at the frames again today.... Pffft! Shook all 3 boxes out on a temp site housing one newish trap out colony....Will keep an eye on them.. Never had to do this before.... very sad. Truth be told! I slipped up here, I should have kept a closer eye on these trapouts and re-queened...

Thank you for info and link..... very interesting... Always learning...(y)

Beginning of new Apiary. Far away from most humans. Apis Mellifera Scuttelata - Dark / black variant - Very aggressive / protective. Akasia & Aloe ahead in mountains with small Gum plantation behind. Excuse distance of pic, I had no suite on.....

Help spread the word today... Great picture doing the rounds in my part of the world....

Yep, - Cape Weed.... I believe dandilion of sorts ? Grows thick on lawned / grassed areas until our first cut. small yellow flower just above the high cut on a lawn mower.. Gum coming in fast here know... (In other areas of farm...

Point taken - I would also be concerned with shudder from imbalance or bearings etc.... However.... As a keen fisherman, I have often held a rod up when wind is blowing.... just from the resistance you can feel the the light shudder, and this is only from a small thin spinning rod... Imagine...

In an effort to hijack this post and nudge it back to the original question - Here is my opinion... I believe it has more to do with ground vibration than anything else..... If I have a traktor close to hives throwing fertiliser - No issues. Just add other implements that cause more "ground...