Scot Mc Pherson
05-28-2004, 12:17 PM
Its is interesting that a lot can be told by the sounds that bees make.
Loud hums, as opposed to gentle buzzing sounds. Queen's piping, and all sorts of other miscellaneous sounds.
It would be interesting for those who have had the experience to post some stranger sounds they have heard.
The one sound that my bees make that is still a mystery to me is a sort of tittering sound. It sounds almost like a watch that ticks randomly, or sounds like taking two flingernails and making a ticking sound with them by pressing them together and letting them snap. Often I can almost pinpoint the bee that's producing the sound, but I can't figure out what it means. It also only seems to happen on the combs, not outside the hive. Sometimes I can stick my head in the back of the hive and listen to them all tittering thusly.
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Scot Mc Pherson
Foundationless Small Cell Top Bar Hives
BeeWiki: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~scot/beewiki/
Loud hums, as opposed to gentle buzzing sounds. Queen's piping, and all sorts of other miscellaneous sounds.
It would be interesting for those who have had the experience to post some stranger sounds they have heard.
The one sound that my bees make that is still a mystery to me is a sort of tittering sound. It sounds almost like a watch that ticks randomly, or sounds like taking two flingernails and making a ticking sound with them by pressing them together and letting them snap. Often I can almost pinpoint the bee that's producing the sound, but I can't figure out what it means. It also only seems to happen on the combs, not outside the hive. Sometimes I can stick my head in the back of the hive and listen to them all tittering thusly.
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Scot Mc Pherson
Foundationless Small Cell Top Bar Hives
BeeWiki: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~scot/beewiki/