Thunder Storm's ..

[Millet]

I was in the garden earlier on watching my bee's happily going in and out of the hive loaded with pollen of all colour's it was glorious weather of around 77 f .. then the next minute a southerly thunder storm appeared.. i have the hive facing south and luckily i have placed a wide tin lid on top to shield the sun a bit like an umbrella.. so that stopped most of the hazel nut sized hail stones and rain from pounding the entrance..
This hive is my first and only just starting to grow and the last thing i need is lost bee's while foraging in such unpredictable weather..

What i would like to know will most of the bee's sensed the change in air pressure and headed back home before the deluge and hail.. i did find one casualty at the entrance too wet and cold too move so i'm thinking i may well have lost a good few flier's.. Thank's..

 

[Millet]

Thank you very much for that.. i know nature has natural selection for the week and old but this weather is bonker's.. even the weather men can't predict it any more.. lol ..

What would a wooden porch be please..

 

[Davelin]

They would certainly sense the static charge in the air, bees use static to detect pollen rich flowers and get very tetchy in thundery weather.

 

[MuswellMetro]

I was in the garden earlier on watching my bee's happily going in and out of the hive loaded with pollen of all colour's it was glorious weather of around 77 f .. then the next minute a southerly thunder storm appeared.. i have the hive facing south and luckily i have placed a wide tin lid on top to shield the sun a bit like an umbrella.. so that stopped most of the hazel nut sized hail stones and rain from pounding the entrance..
This hive is my first and only just starting to grow and the last thing i need is lost bee's while foraging in such unpredictable weather..

What i would like to know will most of the bee's sensed the change in air pressure and headed back home before the deluge and hail.. i did find one casualty at the entrance too wet and cold too move so i'm thinking i may well have lost a good few flier's.. Thank's..

your queen will lay between 1000 to 2000 eggs a day, so if the bee numbers in the hivec are to remain stable how many bee have to die every day?

 

[Millet]

your queen will lay between 1000 to 2000 eggs a day, so if the bee numbers in the hivec are to remain stable how many bee have to die every day?

This is a newly set up colony 5 day's ago.. some where lost moving the hive and some lost through traveling and being placed to the new site..

Will the Queen lay 1000 / 2000 egg's under that turmoil.. ?

 

[MuswellMetro]

This is a newly set up colony 5 day's ago.. some where lost moving the hive and some lost through traveling and being placed to the new site..

Will the Queen lay 1000 / 2000 egg's under that turmoil.. ?

it depends if it was made up with mix frames from old hives or was a from a nuclei that has developed it own brood, if a made up nuclei no as the hive needs to settle and balance nurse to foragers, if the latter then the nuclei will be balanced and will be about 300 -500 eggs a day until the hive reaches a critcal point and can take off to over 1000 and above

 

[Millet]

it depends if it was made up with mix frames from old hives or was a from a nuclei that has developed it own brood, if a made up nuclei no as the hive needs to settle and balance nurse to foragers, if the latter then the nuclei will be balanced and will be about 300 -500 eggs a day until the hive reaches a critcal point and can take off to over 1000 and above

National into a National brood box then away on holiday..