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
Bees gone - hive empty What happened - Beesource Beekeeping Forums I have read that that can trigger absconding If during your last inspection you killed, or injured, the queen and the bees didn;t have the correct-aged larvae to make a new one (unlikely in a hive in early summer) or that new queen met with trouble on her mating fligts the same dwindling scenario as a failed after-swarm queen would ensue
another formic pro question | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Didn't want to add to the question below My situation is a little different Early Aug I started Apivar strips (4) in a double deep 8 frame colony 16 frames of bees The queen had been replaced early July and the hive had been queenless for 2 5 weeks before that ( a whole other story with why
Bees absconding in late fall | Beesource Beekeeping Forums On Beesource! 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
Caught my first swarm! When to move it? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums I like to wait a week or so to reduce the likelihood of absconding and to allow a virgin queen to mate in the original location, but the difference is minimal I no longer use obstacles to promote reorientation regardless of how far I move the trap
Why do honey bees abscond? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums But when you say "absconding swarms" it raises questions, and not really sure if this is correct I guess it could described a hive that absconded, and has swarmed to some other location and is in the process of finding a new home, by having scouts actively looking???
Formic Pro Problems? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums That perked them right up and I've had 3 large orientation flights since so I'm hoping the queens have started laying a bunch for winter All in all though, Formic Pro is a tough treatment I don't like that there does seem to be a fine line between success and or absconding
Bees absconded at the end of summer beginning of fall. . . Experienced beekeepers tend to think of absconding as useless code for "something went wrong that I was not paying enough attention to to notice or fix, and now it's too late " I think most experienced beekeepers would like to get the point across very clearly that bees don't (or at most only very rarely) abscond You seem to have gotten that