so...
hive#1 robbed hive #7, that was about a month ago. hive #7 was actually a nuc still on sheaky ground so it got killed of in the procedure, hive #1 got really weak.
a week ago, a beek brought 120 hives (on two trucks) for overwintering (i think), and when i went to check them out i saw they were robbing each other and a lot of hairless bees. do i have to explain what i saw in my apiary the next day? i probably do, only hive #1 was being robbed. i have heard that robbed honey has special odor that bees can smell (yeah, now i'm being a real smartass). the next day i put a robber screen onto it, and it helped---too late. today i opened it up only to found maybe 5 living bees and half empty comb.
so..to salvage the comb, i put it in my other hive (#3)-so it would be cleaned of wax moth and stuff(brood). went back after an hour, whuusssss, cloud of bees (yep, this was the momment it occured to me-ODOUR!!!!).
so...there's little i can do today, i'll put the robber screen in the evening and hope they survive, also i removed that comb imidiately. hope it helped.
for future reference:
DO NOT MIX COMB FROM ROBBED HIVES!!!
Actually there is always a lot you can do to shut down robbing. If nothing else you can screen off the entrance on the hive being robbed. You can cover it with wet sheets. You can also open up the top of the hive doing the robbing.
i left room for only one bee at a time:
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which one is it? :-D
Quote from: Mici on August 24, 2007, 08:56:10 AM
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which one is it? :-D
LOL!!
How far from your hives are those trucks?
less than half a mile i'd say.