I brought home three nucs today. They traveled for about 2+ hours with me. They came in cardboard boxes and I was told to get them into the woodenware as soon as possible. SO I released them into the woodenware when I got home. That was around 1. It is five and they are buzzing me, my dogs, and my babysitter as soon as we step outside. I have frames full of honey 20 yards from the hives for them to rob. The hives are 100 yards or so from the house. Did I do something wrong, are they just inquisitive and checking us out. Are the angry and attacking us? Do they just need a day to calm down? I am not quite sure and hoping for a little help. After dark tonight or tommorrow I could put out a hive top feeder in the open(I don't have enough of them to put in each hive) and put out honey for them if that would be better? I could also use a small chicken feeder type feeder that I have to feed them the honey out in the open.
Thank you for your input
Lee
Is it breezy there today? The reason I ask is that I set off a robbing situation last year when it was breezy and the bees were all over the neighborhood trying to figure out where the honey was. They were even 150 yards away from the honey buzzing everything trying to figure it out.
yes, it was cloudy and breezy today. Not ideal conditions.
I never been happy with my open feeding. I have tried buckets and such and just had too many dead bees from drowning or fighting. But when they clean out wet frames after extraction, they do ok, just have bees flying all over the place. Try to feed inside the hives.