Light not change anything with observation bee hive unless it is direct sun light and is overheating the hive. Bees running around the observation hive because of 3 reason:
1)A few days after settled down the hive, bees are in mass learning process which means they learning the way out from the hive. In first days it is massive process because all bees in age over 8 days including foragers have to find way out and learn it. Just after few observational flights they learn the shortest way out.
2) Every day some amount of young bees over age 8days will try leave the hive to clean intestinum and learn the way out. Normally it is not very visible. The amount of that bees is not so huge. It is happening around from 1-3 p.m in sunny day with not so strong wind. But after few days of bad weather condition the amount of young bees is accumulating. So when the weather is getting better all of those accumulated bees are searching way out , learn it and make a poo.
3) swarming - this is obvious why. All bees trying rapidly leave the hive. Totally all, but after a while some amount of them going back ,rest of them including the queen fly away.
So the answear to your question - don’t cover the hive and don’t protect it against normal light. If you do that then bees will be behave unnaturally because will not used to live with light and later will be little harder for them to find way out from the hive because they ware learning in darknes before.
hope it help
Christopher
1)A few days after settled down the hive, bees are in mass learning process which means they learning the way out from the hive. In first days it is massive process because all bees in age over 8 days including foragers have to find way out and learn it. Just after few observational flights they learn the shortest way out.
2) Every day some amount of young bees over age 8days will try leave the hive to clean intestinum and learn the way out. Normally it is not very visible. The amount of that bees is not so huge. It is happening around from 1-3 p.m in sunny day with not so strong wind. But after few days of bad weather condition the amount of young bees is accumulating. So when the weather is getting better all of those accumulated bees are searching way out , learn it and make a poo.
3) swarming - this is obvious why. All bees trying rapidly leave the hive. Totally all, but after a while some amount of them going back ,rest of them including the queen fly away.
So the answear to your question - don’t cover the hive and don’t protect it against normal light. If you do that then bees will be behave unnaturally because will not used to live with light and later will be little harder for them to find way out from the hive because they ware learning in darknes before.
hope it help
Christopher
