Beehive Activity - Is It Normal?

[JazzJPH]

Hey everyone!

Hopefully this is normal activity and my only colony isn't being robbed.. Please see the video here and let me know what you think.


If it's just my own bees, then I guess I need to take that Abelo entrance reducer slider out (As per JBM's advice in another thread).

Any other comments welcome. The little brown nuc is a 5 framer with 2 dirty combs (one with honey/pollen in) and three frames with foundation. Just sitting there and will hopefully catch a swarm at some point.

Please click here for the video on my OneDrive

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

you need to get that entrance reducer off
Be mindful that all the honey you have left in the nuc will do is trigger robbing - I'd also move the nuc somewhere more attractive to a passing swarm, somewhere as high as possible and South facing

 

[JazzJPH]

you need to get that entrance reducer off
Be mindful that all the honey you have left in the nuc will do is trigger robbing - I'd also move the nuc somewhere more attractive to a passing swarm, somewhere as high as possible and South facing

That was the answer I was hoping for!! thank you JBM!

 

[JazzJPH]

Quick one JBM - the entire entrance reducer or just the white slider?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Quick one JBM - the entire entrance reducer or just the white slider?

Personally I'd ditch the whole thing - but at least remove the slider for now.

 

[Adam Bee]

For what it’s worth, I started with the small (3 bee abreast?) entrance and changed that to the 6” opening before the first day was out. Then I noticed that in early afternoon, the air traffic was still terribly congested and now I’ve removed all entrance reducers. This seems to have helped relieve a lot of the backups, though the mid afternoon rush hour is still a bit crazy.