- Joined
- May 29, 2010
- Messages
- 6,213
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Norwich
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3 National Hives & 1 Observation Hive.(Indoors) & lots of empty boxes..
2 hives.
About every other day each hive has an afternoon stroll and flypast.
At first I thought it was robbing sessions but am now not sure.
Dozens of bees walking out of entrance and climbing up front of hive. Casually wandering about, having a short flight and landing back on front of hive.
Many many more bees flying about in front of hive attempting to land on the runway, and whenthey do they walk straight in without being asked for security passes. No fights, no chucking off the balcony. No dead damaged or dying bees.
I have seen some of the ones which have been walking about on the front of the hive walk back down and back into the entrance.
Then after some time everybody goes home....
One thing I did observe is bee/s on the landing board facing inwards and one or two on the front of the hive facing downwards fanning their wings.... are they telling everybody where thay live or telling the robbers where the goods are?
About every other day each hive has an afternoon stroll and flypast.
At first I thought it was robbing sessions but am now not sure.
Dozens of bees walking out of entrance and climbing up front of hive. Casually wandering about, having a short flight and landing back on front of hive.
Many many more bees flying about in front of hive attempting to land on the runway, and whenthey do they walk straight in without being asked for security passes. No fights, no chucking off the balcony. No dead damaged or dying bees.
I have seen some of the ones which have been walking about on the front of the hive walk back down and back into the entrance.
Then after some time everybody goes home....
One thing I did observe is bee/s on the landing board facing inwards and one or two on the front of the hive facing downwards fanning their wings.... are they telling everybody where thay live or telling the robbers where the goods are?