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- From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
- To: thor0510 AT gmail.com, "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Dead bees/hive
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:25:08 -0400 (EDT)
I hope you will report what you find Thorsten. Look for evidence of robbing during your inspection. Evidence would include excessive debris on the bottom board, all honey in the combs is gone, and the combs look like they have been uncapped by a band of marauding pirates.
I have some hives on scales and was able to graph a robbing incident that happened in mid-September. I have attached the graph. The weights are in kg. You can see that the robbed colony lost about 7 kg while the robbing colony picked up about 5 kg. I am not sure if the missing 2 kg was spent during the incident (I assume robbing and defending from robbing consumes a lot of calories) or if perhaps another colony in the yard participated in the action as well. The robbed colony was still technically alive but reduced to a hand full of bees with no queen and no honey.
Let us know what you find.
Lewis
On October 2, 2014 at 3:37 PM thor0510 AT gmail.com wrote:
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[ocba] Dead bees/hive,
thor0510, 10/02/2014
- Re: [ocba] Dead bees/hive, Just Bee, 10/02/2014
- Re: [ocba] Dead bees/hive, Randall Austin, 10/02/2014
- Re: [ocba] Dead bees/hive, Lewis Cauble, 10/03/2014
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