Absconding - Beesource Beekeeping Forums Absconding is pretty rare, but a sudden collapse of a colony happens all too often I had one abscond last year, it was a very populous colony in a box far too small for it After about a week of that mess, they jumped ship and I don't blame them, my fault
Why do honey bees abscond? | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Not sure if its just a word issue, but absconding and swarming are two different things Absconding is the complete population of the hive All bees have left the hive Except for a stragler or lost bee, all the bees leave In swarming, it is the natural perpetuating of the species, that being by some of the bees leaving to start a new colony
What Will Make Bees Abscond? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums (A frame of brood does wonders for preventing absconding ) Not having any drawn comb present The hive not smelling like bees have lived there before The bees just plain don't like their new home The reasons may be so random that we can't figure them out If we knew what caused absconding, we could take steps to prevent it
Package bees absconding - Help me figure out what I did wrong. Is an SBB a screened bottom board or a solid bottom board? I've heard a lot about screened bottom boards and bees absconding so that could bee your problem right there Last year I start four hives, all foundationless in mediums One hive was an accidental direct release, the other three I used marshmallow plugs Every hive took without problem
Will ApiLife Var cause absconding or fighting? Hello, could use some input from experienced beeks I bought ApiLife Var from Brushy Mountain but after finding this thread about it causing absconding and fighting for these folks, now I'm scared to use it even when our weather cools off next week (to low 80s) Have you seen this product cause absconding or other bad reactions? Thank you in
Hive Keeps Absconding! - Beesource Beekeeping Forums Trying to get my bees to stay home! This hive was a new split just a few weeks ago I gave it a mated queen This past Monday, I observed lots of eggs and fed the hive since it had no honey stores Last evening the entire hive swarmed I checked and no queen cells I searched the whole
Bees absconding in late fall | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Well, here's something additional on absconding, and on BS at that I've seen what I think is absconding often enough, always in nucleus colonies The nuc gets build up into 4x4 configuration with large population Then in August we get hot humid weather Too hot and humid for the bees to be able to cool off their cavity First they beard
Why do bees abscond | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Absconding Ants are certainly capable of driving bees from their combs, stores, brood, and so on seemingly overnight,devour brood and honey afterward I am acquainted with the Argentine that Ernie Lucas mentioned They form a network, a supercolony as it is known, consisting of multiple queens and huge numbers of cooperating workers
MAQS and absconding - Beesource Beekeeping Forums I had NO loss of queens, or appreciable loss pause of brood (nor any absconding) I removed the pads on the 8th and 9th days when my bees began to chew them up (My girls are very tidy about hive trash, in general ) I can't figure out whether I just got lucky, or if there are some fundamental differences among users and methods or conditions
Do bees still abscond this time of year? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums Absconding happens but is rare Individual bees dying of mite related issues leave the hive and crawl away as far as they can It is a self sacrificing thing bees do when sick, for the good of the hive So when a hive has died of mites, you will rarely find many bees in it