- Joined
- Sep 7, 2015
- Messages
- 792
- Reaction score
- 60
- Location
- East Yorkshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 16
Newcomer this year still learning despite being on theory and practical bbka courses. Fearing robbing I narrowed my entrance to one bee space yesterday. Tonight I noticed on my varroa board and below the mesh floor hundreds of bees. I thought they were my bees not managed to get back into the hive due to my narrow entrance. So I took the roof off smoked the super and dumped them all into the hive and replaced the cover board and roof. Now I'm thinking maybe they were all robber bees, at the time I thought any robber bees by then would have returned to their own hive, it was 7pm and darkish. Do robber bees stay around after dark or maybe they were mine and all ok... But I'm thinking if mine they would have found the single bee space entrance. Thoughts anyone?