dickndoris
House Bee
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2011
- Messages
- 282
- Reaction score
- 5
- Location
- York
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 35
Was just sorting out a colony that has lost its virgin queen, I guess on her mating flight as the house martins have been out in force, when I noticed but 6' away a scraped out hole like the start of a rabbit hole and coming and going out of it were wasps. Lots of wasps with the nest part exposed. Badger maybe? Fox? We have no rabbits as the cats have had em and the river stops them coming over. My question is might they be a big threat to the 6 colonies that are all very close? So far this year there have been no wasps attacking at all unlike the previous years. All the colonies are 14x12 brood and half or 1/4 with 2-3 supers on each and very busy. Struggling to keep up on honey extraction and get the supers back on so maybe they are defending well due to the shear numbers and the wasps are wise not to even try;-)
Will take a PIC tomorrow before work if needed.
Rich
Will take a PIC tomorrow before work if needed.
Rich