Bees in the feed?!

[MarlaMac]

Bees aren't deaf at all, they just dont have ears or eyes like we do. The first time you hear a queen piping and the rest in cells respond its astonishing! The rest of the virgin queens hear loud and clear !!

https://www.honeybeesuite.com/piping-quacking-and-tooting-its-a-queen-thing/

Bee are my next journey.

 

[Apis mellifera]

So... many animals live side-by-side with the bees without issue. I don't understand how sometimes, but that does not make it any less true. I have countless times seen bees and chickens, side by side, with no issues. And here's the hard part. As a beekeeper, everything is MY fault. I can't blame other people, the weather, the bees, or even the cows. It's all my fault.

Its genetics. When a virgin queen goes out on mating flights she mates with 10 to 20 drones. If she mated with drones that carry a defensive gene then that colony will not be so nice. If you dont want to buy queens you can assess each hive in the spring and pinch the queens in the defensive hives. That way they wont be producing more drones with poor genetics in your area. It will make your apiary more tolerable just by removing those queens.

 

[Apis mellifera]

Twice a day I will go out and put water in their feed. They love the wet mash and gobble it up quickly. All that is left are crumbs and then the bees come back and get their fill too.

Great idea !!!

 

[SueT]

@Apis mellifera and @Pullet-Shut Chicken Doors what will happen to these bees now that the ‘false spring’ is ending and it will freeze again here as we knew it would? Spring could be 2 months away.

 

[MarlaMac]

@Apis mellifera and @Pullet-Shut Chicken Doors what will happen to these bees now that the ‘false spring’ is ending and it will freeze again here as we knew it would? Spring could be 2 months away.

They will store what they get and go back into standard winter operation. I am no expert, but I am pretty sure this is how they will react.

 

[Apis mellifera]

@Apis mellifera and @Pullet-Shut Chicken Doors what will happen to these bees now that the ‘false spring’ is ending and it will freeze again here as we knew it would? Spring could be 2 months away.

Bees like many plants and animals respond to photoperiodism. Our chickens lay less during shorter days. Bees typically wont raise a large amount of brood during the winter unless artificially stimulated with pollen patties. Warm periods during winter are beneficial in my area. It gives workers a chance to go on cleansing flights and move in the hive to stored food.