I have a newly installed package. There were a lot of dead bees in the package after 5 days of shipping. Unfortunately a lot of them found their way into the hive when I installed the package. The behavior you described is exactly the same thing I have seen in both of my hives. But sometimes they just push them off the edge and others they jump off to the ground with them and fly back to the hive. This morning I noticed a couple dozen dead on my patio. I guess that is the new dumping ground.
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> I assume this is just good house keeping but why carry the dead off so far?
Workers in any enterprise have different personality types. Some of them are Type A overachievers and they were told in B-school that if they work hard that one day they too could end up as the boss of the whole outfit. Some of them do stuff like showing up early, working though lunch, staying late, and doing more than the expected work. I'm sure you have run into some of those along the line. They swallowed the whole enchilada and drank the Kool-Aid.
Huh? :s What ...??:scratch: Ohhhh ...you were asking about BEES?? Well ... never mind.
OK, just so this post isn't a total joke, here is a real paper: "Corpse Management in Social Insects":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619097/
which does have some interesting discussion, including various ways that insects might recognize their compatriots as actually dead. However, it doesn't address the question of disposal distance from the hive.
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Workers in any enterprise have different personality types. Some of them are Type A overachievers and they were told in B-school that if they work hard that one day they too could end up as the boss of the whole outfit. Some of them do stuff like showing up early, working though lunch, staying late, and doing more than the expected work. I'm sure you have run into some of those along the line. They swallowed the whole enchilada and drank the Kool-Aid.
Huh? :s What ...??:scratch: Ohhhh ...you were asking about BEES??
Well ... never mind. OK, just so this post isn't a total joke, here is a real paper: "Corpse Management in Social Insects":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619097/
which does have some interesting discussion, including various ways that insects might recognize their compatriots as actually dead. However, it doesn't address the question of disposal distance from the hive.
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You guys need "like" buttons on this forum.> I assume this is just good house keeping but why carry the dead off so far?
Workers in any enterprise have different personality types. Some of them are Type A overachievers and they were told in B-school that if they work hard that one day they too could end up as the boss of the whole outfit. Some of them do stuff like showing up early, working though lunch, staying late, and doing more than the expected work. I'm sure you have run into some of those along the line. They swallowed the whole enchilada and drank the Kool-Aid.
Huh? :s What ...??:scratch: Ohhhh ...you were asking about BEES??
OK, just so this post isn't a total joke, here is a real paper: "Corpse Management in Social Insects":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619097/
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The problem with a bee dropping a beetle from 60 ft is that SHB can fly.
If the bee could damage the beetle somehow that would be great. But reports of bees being able to kill SHB are rare.
If the bee could damage the beetle somehow that would be great. But reports of bees being able to kill SHB are rare.
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