Robbing

[sfisher]

If bees are robbing a nuc that has a fedder on it, do they kill more than gaurd bees once inside the hive. Or once they get in the hive is their only mission to get food, and not do any other damage.

[BeeCurious]

It's possible that your queen could be killed.

Here's some links:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=0009670...20queen%20nucs

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesrobbing.htm

This is interesting too: http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/robbing.html

Just for the record, do you have Italians?