kazmcc
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2010
- Messages
- 3,147
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Longsight, Manchester, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- None, although I have my eye on one ( Just don't tell Dusty ;) )
I went for a watch of the bees a few days ago. I could have spent the whole day there just watching My question is this, the hive was very quiet, with bees coming and going, just getting on with it. Some came back with creamy white pollen, which could be the balsam that grows everywhere along the stream that runs through the allotments. I saw something going on in the hive near the entrance.....at the angle I was sat I couldn't see right in, but then two bees tumbled out onto the alighting board. A worker was kicking the stuffing out of a drone. She gave up and wandered back in, while the drone tried to right himself. He staggered back in after her, only for the whole thing to happen again 30 seconds later. He staggered back inside again, and I didn't see another drone after that. Maybe he was a bit slow in getting the message but is it not a bit early for drone kicking out season? Why could it have happened? Any theorys?