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Hi ya'll. Anyone ever see something like this before? This carpenter bee was observed dead just inside one of the entrance holes. She had apparently squeezed through one of our entrance arches, and was killed. Our girls were struggling so hard to get it out of the hive, pulling with everything they could, for 2 days. My wife got some tweezers ..the girls got out of her way as if they knew we were helping...Pernille grabbed two legs of the dead carpenter bee and it finally popped out.
Lots of bees on the porch...not sure why a carpenter bee would try to enter a healthy hive like this? Any ideas? Maybe it was attracted to the hole in the entrance to use for her own nest, but to try to get in with all our honey bee activity and guards was obviously suicidal.
Lots of bees on the porch...not sure why a carpenter bee would try to enter a healthy hive like this? Any ideas? Maybe it was attracted to the hole in the entrance to use for her own nest, but to try to get in with all our honey bee activity and guards was obviously suicidal.
