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Patrick Thomas Scout Bee

Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 280 Location: Florida, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:57 am Post subject: Swarm creates table cloth and then marches inside hive |
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Just breathtaking footage of the bees and queen marching into hive.
This is the full-length video of an excerpt I posted the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3B5Umpxl2s
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Adriaan Foraging Bee
Joined: 18 Jan 2016 Posts: 139 Location: central Belgium
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Wow that queen was in a hurry to get in.
If you keep the 'queenincluder' on for a few days untill she is laying, there will be near zero chance of the bees absconding.
very nice video
friendly greetings
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Patrick Thomas Scout Bee

Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 280 Location: Florida, USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Adriaan wrote: | Wow that queen was in a hurry to get in.
If you keep the 'queenincluder' on for a few days untill she is laying, there will be near zero chance of the bees absconding.
very nice video
friendly greetings
Adriaan |
Adriaan,
Yes, I turned the wheel to the normal setting the next morning and everything was fine, but I made sure I gave them some supplies from another hive to keep them anchored before I did that.
They have settled in just fine and I have actually merged another colony with them that was queenless. I checked yesterday and their movie-star queen is laying up a storm, LOL. |
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beehappy New Bee
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