Hello everyone.
I just took off my honey supers and dearth is on.
I have ten hives and four nuc in a row close to each other, When I open the hives to check them a careless move is enough to set off a rubbing frenzy, They particularly know which hive is weak, if a hive hasn’t been able to requeen itself and the numbers are low it gets attacked, to a point where I have to close the entrance till the next day, going through my hives I have to use cloth to cover the open hive as I inspect frame at a time. I like to know if anyone else has such problem during the dearth?
I am sure this is partly due to having too many hives near each other, Or maybe my bees are particularly overly aggressive? I like to hear experience of anyone who has ten or more hives in a row, after the flow is over and how they go about their inspection.
I just took off my honey supers and dearth is on.
I have ten hives and four nuc in a row close to each other, When I open the hives to check them a careless move is enough to set off a rubbing frenzy, They particularly know which hive is weak, if a hive hasn’t been able to requeen itself and the numbers are low it gets attacked, to a point where I have to close the entrance till the next day, going through my hives I have to use cloth to cover the open hive as I inspect frame at a time. I like to know if anyone else has such problem during the dearth?
I am sure this is partly due to having too many hives near each other, Or maybe my bees are particularly overly aggressive? I like to hear experience of anyone who has ten or more hives in a row, after the flow is over and how they go about their inspection.