@tonylewis - May 01, 2024
When you see all of them flying so erratically, what are they doing? : 2 : 0
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@BeeSmart - May 01, 2024 Hello Tony. as I mentioned briefly in the video, the old queen leaves the hive with part of the colony. This leaving is more of a storming out. The old queen has not flown for a long time and is therefore exhausted quite quickly and rests not far from the old hive. Usually on a tree, branch, shrub or, as in our video, on a wooden post. The bees that fly out with her always try to fly after the queen (her pheromone), so they look for her in the air and that's the big mess. But this dies down after a few minutes because all the bees gather in a cluster around the queen. But this first swarming and flying around of around 20000 bees is an experience every time, even for me. : 0 : 0 |