Nordicul
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2018
- Messages
- 90
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Waterford Ireland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hi All,
Watching the bees working a Mahonia shrub in the garden today got me wondering....were they my own bees?
I didn't know if Beeks can recognise their bees and if so how?
The shrub is about 80 feet from my two hives, in the opposite direction, in a field prob about 500 feet away another Beek has hives.....I'd like to have thought it was my own girls getting my gardens bounty.
I tried trying to figure which direction they were coming from or departing too but I couldn't, again maybe there is a technique?
So please tell, Do you know your own bees?
Nordicul
Watching the bees working a Mahonia shrub in the garden today got me wondering....were they my own bees?
I didn't know if Beeks can recognise their bees and if so how?
The shrub is about 80 feet from my two hives, in the opposite direction, in a field prob about 500 feet away another Beek has hives.....I'd like to have thought it was my own girls getting my gardens bounty.
![Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile: 😄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png)
I tried trying to figure which direction they were coming from or departing too but I couldn't, again maybe there is a technique?
So please tell, Do you know your own bees?
Nordicul