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AugustC
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Location: Malton, North Yorkshire
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 Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject: flys on bees |
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Checked the entrance activity at the hives this evening 6:45pm.
One of the entrances had a lot of activity but not coming and going. There were lots of small flies attempting to get in and landing on the bees which they did not seem to like.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? This is a kTBH with an ecofloor with varroa mesh in between. |
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Che Guebuddha
Golden Bee
Joined: 31 Jan 2012
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Location: Hårlev, Stevns Kommune, Denmark
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| Ant Queens have wings and one strong colony can produce many. Eco-floor would be a great place to build a strong colony of Ants. I suggest open the hive and check pronto because ants can weaken the colony alot. Ants are also very much attacking bees on comb so warming the brood can be impossible. I have seen it in one of my hives who got a huge ant colony inside |
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AugustC
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AugustC
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semiautonomous
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Joined: 30 Dec 2013
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Location: England, Shropshire, Shrewsbury
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| I noticed something similar a few days ago on one of my HTBH. With mine it was only one or two flies, but like in your video they where flying around the entrance, landing on bees and getting chased off and then coming back. It doesn't seem to have carried on so I'm not too worried but I would still be interested in what they are and what they were doing. They were definitely flies, not ants/wasps etc. |
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Paul Reyes
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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| Thanks for the information, thats some great advice. |
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SueBee
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Location: United States, Pacific Northwest, Camas
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| I may be way off base, but could these possibly be phorid flies, the ones who are now responsible for "zombie bees"? Google and see? |
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AugustC
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| I don't think so, they are far to large and on entirely the wrong continent. |
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