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  • From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Update on robbing, fighting...
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:53:03 -0400 (EDT)

All I know to do is to ship the robbed hive off to a refugee camp several miles away for a week or two.  It seems odd to see so much robbing going on this time of year.


On March 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM Blair Christian <blair.christian AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's how things evolved....
>
> I saw some fighting over 2 weeks, ending with an entrance reducer as
> fighting escalated.  I had expected it to die down as expected nectar
> flow increased, but the opposite seemed to happen.
> (bad video)
> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_AFT3z3-BEeWFTEk4SIxU57U4W6tiA-PmQPFcO_LMe0?feat=directlink
>
> Robbers looked to be getting in, so I put up a robber screen
> https://picasaweb.google.com/106022773068627809372/Bees?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3A8NyCyffRMg#5722027405720406674
>
> The robber screen seemed to help
> (image of robber missing leg fighting with guard bee)
> https://picasaweb.google.com/106022773068627809372/Bees?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3A8NyCyffRMg#5722498943090955650
>
> But apparently my bees couldn't figure out the robber screen or the
> entrances on it were too small or too far apart
> (image of bees under hive)
> https://picasaweb.google.com/106022773068627809372/Bees?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3A8NyCyffRMg#5722696900652001394
>
> Any suggestions?  I took off the robber screen this morning when I saw
> the bees under the hive and put on my smallest entrance reducer.  Any
> thoughts as to whether this is a downside of breeding docile bees?
> I'm not sure if that plays a factor or not.
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