looking for water or storing it

[enrico]

When living on the Welsh borders my bees would have been tucked up in bed by now but here in Somerset they are flying all day and every day, not only that but they are in the windfall apples in their hundreds. My question is 'are they collecting water or are they storing the sweet apple juice as they would nectar? More to the point, will I be extracting cider next year instead of honey?
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[Erichalfbee]

Maybe they are just eating them?
I have seen bees on all sorts of fruit in California during a dearth.

 

[Finman]

.robbing dead hives or weak hives?

They do not need to fly for water all day.
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[Hivemaker.]

here in Somerset they are flying all day and every day,

Still lots of pollen being collected from the Ivy here, lots of it in flower, and still a lot yet to flower, usually goes on until early December.

Lots of Gorse also in flower.

 

[Finman]

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Last night -16C. Seems to be different climate.

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[enrico]

So........are they drinking, eating or storing?
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[Finman]

So........are they drinking, eating or storing?
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My bees....eating. Nothing to drink during 6 months. In tight cluster.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Nothing to drink during 6 months.

find that hard to believe

 

[ladaok]

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Last night -16C. Seems to be different climate..

It's called " continental drift "

 

[Finman]

It's called " continental drift "

IT is not. High pressure centres were surrounded by seas.

Nothing wrong in temperature but this happening was very early. IT is rare that our winter starts that early. Last winter started in February.
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IT may have something to do with curve of Jet Stream

 

[Finman]

find that hard to believe

IT is same what you believe. First 5 years you believed that I do not exist. Then next 3 years you have tried to explains, that I do not have bees.
And now you claim, that I do not nurse bees, what I do not have.

Everything is OK if your age would be under 7.

 

[Stiffy]

IT is not. High pressure centres were surrounded by seas.

Nothing wrong in temperature but this happening was very early. IT is rare that our winter starts that early. Last winter started in February.
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IT may have something to do with curve of Jet Stream

It is the Atlantic that keeps the western side of the UK warm, my region has been classed as sub tropical, in other words it doesn't stop raining!
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[Finman]

my region has been classed as sub tropical, in other words it doesn't stop raining!
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That is quite good.

Sub tropical areas

 

[Plenty of honey]

I get honey bees on raspberries and also figs here, apples, never really noticed ans there is so many on the ground this time of year!. however its actually the wasps that attack the fruit first, dam raging the fruit the bees so suck up the nectar afterwards. As you know bees just cant bite and chew, but wasps can.

 

[Erichalfbee]

My bees chew polystyrene

 

[Goran]

So........are they drinking, eating or storing?
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Seems they treat it as food source..

 

[Goran]

My bees chew polystyrene

What bee knows what is polystyrene. They just get on and chew.. if they know what it is I believe they woudn't chew it..