We have full-on flow. Many trees are forage withing 50 feet of the hives. They were frenzied maniacs, hauling in the nectar. Two hives were within 20 ft of a tree. I could scarcely walk between, it was like a bee highway past my head.
Has anyone ever seen this: suddenly, all stops. It's as if the collective stomachs of the colonies got full, and all oragers stayed in to mind brood/festoon & build comb. Same weather, same trees still blooming. Then the foragers are out again....
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We?re they hitting it two days ago, rained yesterday, no bees today, but same weather as two days ago?
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Are these trees that only have nectar at certain times of the day? Some plants will only produce nectar at certain times, or only produce a certain amount in a reservoir that is only replenished at certain times of the day. It could be that the tap turned off until later, so everyone went home.
68 at night
83 at day?All week long?.No rain
Blooming all over nearby: Japanese privet, scrub privet, pittosporum, bay magnolia, southern magnolia.
I seriously wonder if every crop of every bee was full and they needed to hang out in there and leak wax. It happened at all 9 hives here.