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Catherine

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I have just seen small groups of bees, I reckon 20, my husband 50, on the floor immediatley outside the hive entrance, where there are some freshly cut nettles. In each cluster there appears to be 1 larger and different type bee than mine.

Could this be a robbing attack that my bees are defending against? I don't know how long they have been there.
 
it could be or the old queen but if theres more than one it wont be the queen so prob somethink that has tryed to get in
 
Catherine
Are there any dead ?
Is there lots of activity still ?
 
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you - I hadn't realised there had been any responses.

I've got a beehaus which has a fairly large entrance/board. I have seen bees fighting off an attacker on it before, but maybe this was a bigger scale invasion.

Anyway, they seem ok and no sign of any problems now.

thanks for your help
 

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