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Yesterday I fixed up a small hive with upper and lower ventilation, strapped it together, and added a Brushy Mountain Bee Farm moving and robbing screen, partially painted. My plan is to move this hive further from the house–away from the dog–and I will use the method I outlined in the post, “How to [...] Do you remember the Stockholm Syndrome? It’s a behavior seen in some hostages in which they develop sympathy for their captors, often to the point of defending them. The most famous case in America is Patty Hearst who, after being captured by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, eventually joined them and helped rob [...] No matter how you do it, you must stop robbing or you may lose your colony. Robbing bees will tear open all the honey cells and clean up every last drop. Fighting between bees will kill many and, once the hive is overpowered, predators such as wasps will move in and kill any remaining [...] One of the worst parts of honey extraction is the accumulation of sticky, gooey frames that remains after the process. These frames of uncapped comb, known as “wet” frames, are a storage nightmare until they are cleaned of all traces of honey. Fortunately, honey bees are more than happy to do the job. They [...] Late summer is the season when yellow jackets can be a problem for beekeepers. This is the same season that honey-robbing honey bees appear, and the miscreants can work together to produce a synergistic mess. Yellow jackets are eusocial predatory wasps. An overwintered yellow jacket queen begins a new colony in the spring by [...] During these first warm and sunny days of spring, the bees literally climb over each other to get in and out of their tiny entrance. You’ve got the urge to remove the entire entrance reducer so they have plenty of room to move about. But be careful. Pollen is usually in good supply before [...] Yesterday was perfect for mixing up a big batch of barbecue sauce. A friend had just given me a jar of her newest creation and I loved it. So after a quick trip to the farmer’s market I was ready to cook. I was stirring away when I noticed a bevy of bees milling [...] Up until this week I hadn’t seen many yellow jackets. Since 2009 seemed to be “the year of the yellow jacket,” I was expecting to see fewer this year. Nevertheless I had yellow jacket pheromone lures hanging nearby and my hive entrances had been reduced for a month. Everything seemed fine. But late last [...] Robbing is a term used by beekeepers to describe bees that raid another hive and take all of the honey back to their own hive. Robbing is particularly prevalent during nectar dearths that occur in the warm months of summer or early fall. The robbing bees may come from within an apiary or from [...] |
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