Newbie question,
I have fed extracted frames back to my hives this summer, but only by adding them over brood boxes. I also only did this for both hives at the same time. Will it incite robbing behaviour if I put a super of extracted frames in front of my hives. By this I mean will they finish off the extracted frames and then turn on each others hive in a frenzy of robbing? I was planning on doing this tomorrow as I extract. :?
Quote from: BEE CWill it incite robbing behaviour if I put a super of extracted frames in front of my hives. By this I mean will they finish off the extracted frames and then turn on each others hive in a frenzy of robbing? I was planning on doing this tomorrow as I extract. :?
it could incite robbing being close to hives, when I extract my supers I some times put them back on the hives for a few days, I mostly just put the extracted super's behind my home stacked on 2 saw horses and a piece of plywood, the bee's clean them there but this is 300 feet from the hives not close to them, never have started robbing at this distance.....
I would divide up the extracted frames and put some on each hive. I think 300 yards is still chancy for igniting a robbing frenzy.