thorn
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2009
- Messages
- 1,502
- Reaction score
- 539
- Location
- An Essex boy stranded in Leeds
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- It varies.
I’ve three hives in a friend’s orchard. One swarmed on Sunday.
Today I got a call to tell me that the bees have suddenly, overnight, become bad tempered, going for anyone and anything in the vicinity. Could it be the queenless colony. Alternatively, there’s OSR about half a mile away. Could that be the trigger? Have you any thoughts or ideas. Could it be a short lived thing? I recall that about this time last year one colony was very aggressive when I inspected them one week, but were as nice as pie the following week and for the rest of the summer.
I’m off to identify the offending colony tomorrow, and am hoping that this evening’s rain may have calmed them down.
Today I got a call to tell me that the bees have suddenly, overnight, become bad tempered, going for anyone and anything in the vicinity. Could it be the queenless colony. Alternatively, there’s OSR about half a mile away. Could that be the trigger? Have you any thoughts or ideas. Could it be a short lived thing? I recall that about this time last year one colony was very aggressive when I inspected them one week, but were as nice as pie the following week and for the rest of the summer.
I’m off to identify the offending colony tomorrow, and am hoping that this evening’s rain may have calmed them down.