- 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..
I know that bees do what bees do but do they know why?
2 hives in garden next to each other. For the last month whenever the temperature has been above 10 or so, one hive has been active and and chucking out drones by the dozen..
Obviously they had too many drones for one reason or another and some of the activity was in sorting that problem out.
Today they were out at 9.00 walking over the front of the hive and generally behaving as if they were new bees, but so far today no dead drones...
Other hive has had a few bees out but not what I would call busy.
Now, is one hive being extra busy or is the other hive not being as busy as it should be?
2 hives in garden next to each other. For the last month whenever the temperature has been above 10 or so, one hive has been active and and chucking out drones by the dozen..
Obviously they had too many drones for one reason or another and some of the activity was in sorting that problem out.
Today they were out at 9.00 walking over the front of the hive and generally behaving as if they were new bees, but so far today no dead drones...
Other hive has had a few bees out but not what I would call busy.
Now, is one hive being extra busy or is the other hive not being as busy as it should be?