Ivor Kemp
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2010
- Messages
- 228
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Poole, Dorset
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Hope you can help.
I have one hive with a first year Queen which was doing really well until last night.
I had viewed the hive at lunchtime and two or three times in the early evening and all was fine.
At 8.30pm last night I went for a quick look and there were hundreds of bees all over the front of the hive (not in a cluster) and hundreds of dead and fighting bees on the ground in front of the hive entrance.
At daybreak today the bees on the front of the hive had seemingly gone inside the hive but today the fighting has continued unabated both at the front of the hive and on the ground. I am also witnessing bees flying off with dead bees and dropping them many meters from the hive
I have photographs if anyone can tell me how to upload them.
Can any one tell me what's going on and what I should do?
I have one hive with a first year Queen which was doing really well until last night.
I had viewed the hive at lunchtime and two or three times in the early evening and all was fine.
At 8.30pm last night I went for a quick look and there were hundreds of bees all over the front of the hive (not in a cluster) and hundreds of dead and fighting bees on the ground in front of the hive entrance.
At daybreak today the bees on the front of the hive had seemingly gone inside the hive but today the fighting has continued unabated both at the front of the hive and on the ground. I am also witnessing bees flying off with dead bees and dropping them many meters from the hive
I have photographs if anyone can tell me how to upload them.
Can any one tell me what's going on and what I should do?