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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: Kris^ on July 09, 2006, 08:43:38 PM

Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: Kris^ on July 09, 2006, 08:43:38 PM
I saw something unusual in one of my hives this morning -- a worker bee with "fuzz" on the back of its thorax.  It was slightly greenish in color, and looked like mold or fungus.  It didn't look right so I flicked it off the frame out of the hive.  I didn't see it anywhere else.

Does anybody know what this might have been?  My reseach on-line doesn't reveal anything.

-- Kris
Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: thegolfpsycho on July 09, 2006, 10:02:45 PM
yes.. it was the fabled leprechaun bee.  Worth millions.  What did you say you did with it?
Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: Kris^ on July 09, 2006, 10:17:08 PM
That sounds like blarney . . .   :lol:

-- Kris
Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: Brian D. Bray on July 10, 2006, 05:26:03 AM
Sounds like a bee that has just emerged from the cell.  Newly hatched bees often have a fuzzy yellowish or greenish tinge to them.  It's normal.
Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: Kris^ on July 10, 2006, 07:46:22 AM
Okey dokey.  I didn't know; just hadn't seen it like that before.

-- Kris
Title: Question -- Fuzzy Bee?
Post by: TwT on July 10, 2006, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: thegolfpsychoyes.. it was the fabled leprechaun bee.  Worth millions.  What did you say you did with it?


BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! better find out where that bee is  :lol:  ;)
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