Elaine123
New Bee
What can make a normally reasonably tempered colony have a bad day? Started out with an over wintered nuc good temperament building up nicely, added a super 2 weeks ago and they have been given light sugar syrup. Last week didn't seem to like the smoke so I thought it was the cardboard I was using. Yesterday was having problems with my smoker so hardly gave any . The bees were very lively 8 frames in use in the brood box, bees in the super but as soon as I went into the brood box they were not happy, walked away from the hive but was followed by a good half dozen, one managing to get through the zip in my veil, continued into the next field still being followed and buzzed, decided to unzip my veil , remove the bee, bad move was stung on the back of the head and then under my chin and side of neck, took off a glove to unzip more quickly stung on my finger. I have not known them to be like this before but it is my first season. Last week did have 2 stings on my gloves but didn't go through. I added another super after rezipping and going back into the apiary, and also put another super on with a rapid feeder of light syrup. Could it be the weather or am I in for more of the same next weekend???