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A couple of weeks ago I accompanied my mentee to check her two-hive apiary. We saw that the QEx had been left on between the super and BB on the 'angry hive' the inhabitants of which 'always go for me'. She decided against removing it for fear of retribution, but today decided to go ahead to remove the risk of the queen becoming stranded below the QEx.
We were fully suited-up, I wore stout gauntlet gloves, she wore red velvet/fleece gloves over Marigolds. I lifted the super and she removed the QEx remarkably easily. A modest number of bees (c.100) flew up most of which settled on her red gloves, the rest all over her bee suit, buzzing loudly. They resisted attempts to brush them off. Not a bee settled on me!
It's sometimes difficult to explain these phenomena of the apiary. Never a dull day!
PS: no perfumes or deoderants
We were fully suited-up, I wore stout gauntlet gloves, she wore red velvet/fleece gloves over Marigolds. I lifted the super and she removed the QEx remarkably easily. A modest number of bees (c.100) flew up most of which settled on her red gloves, the rest all over her bee suit, buzzing loudly. They resisted attempts to brush them off. Not a bee settled on me!
It's sometimes difficult to explain these phenomena of the apiary. Never a dull day!
PS: no perfumes or deoderants