gold heads

[kendo]

hi can anyone tell me why some of my bees have started to have gold heads and upper bodies as the bees which i started with had not? cheers ken

 

[Erichalfbee]

hi can anyone tell me why some of my bees have started to have gold heads and upper bodies as the bees which i started with had not? cheers ken

Are you sure they have gold heads?
If it was just abdomen colour then I would say you are seeing the results of different patrilines; the different drones the queen mated with.
Gold heads though.......hmmmmmm?

 

[beeno]

Hi Kendo,
Seen some that are very golden on the heads on the net. EricA is correct you got some Italian genes there.

 

[Swarm]

Sure it's not just pollen?

 

[chrisb]

agree sounds like pollen.
some of mine are home in an orange / gold colour, last month yellow

 

[mbc]

ragwort

 

[chrisb]

Ah brilliant, got a mass of it close to us, penny has dropped

 

[Millet]

If my bees had gold heads i think i would need a new colony next year after i had decapitated them and spent a trip to the pawn shop.

 

[chrisb]

 

[kendo]

gold bees

hi i opened the hive yesterday and some of the bees had gold bodies defo not pollen so what are they?

 

[chrisb]

if you get chance to get a photo of one it would speak a thousand words !

 

[REDWOOD]

hi i opened the hive yesterday and some of the bees had gold bodies defo not pollen so what are they?

Italians or wasps

 

[For want of a better word]

Italians or wasps

How very dare you insult wasps !

Yeghes da

 

[birdsandbees]

 

[REDWOOD]

How very dare you insult wasps !

Yeghes da

I have to be careful what I say here as a new beekeeper JBM and my self are training is Italian, I nearly slipped up before but think I go away with it..... Well actually I didn't and had a ear bashing and quite right too but it was only a bit of fun on both sides.

 

[Hivemaker.]

so what are they?

Wasps.

 

[Millet]

hi i opened the hive yesterday and some of the bees had gold bodies defo not pollen so what are they?

A picture would help quite a lot.