Black Bees?

[Beewildered61]

 I started noticing last year there were some black bees showing up at my feeders and I had never seen any before. This year I am seeing black honeybees again and they aren't coming from my hives. Anyone have any ideas about this? My pics aren't great, they moved too fast for me to get a good pic... and dang if the bees were being all friendly and lighting all over me and I went to get up and there was a black bee had been sitting on my side I guess and I accidentally mashed her hard enough for her to sting my inner forearm! 

[BeeMaster2]

They are probably from feral hives. I have some black bees in my hives.
Most of my hives come from feral hives.
Jim

[Beewildered61]

 thanks sawdstmakr, I was wondering if that was it.... so you reckon that could be some of the genes from the old black bees from long ago?

[Michael Bush]

They also end up black and shiny when they are robbers and get all their hair pulled...

[Beewildered61]

dang! well, there is no robbing going on with my two hives, because I have robbing screens on and was watching both hives to see if the black bees were coming from either one of them. Never saw any.

[don2]

I had a swarm from the wild several years ago. Try not to capture a swarm of black bees. They are ok, not really mean, they just tend to come off the frame when you pull a frame for inspection. They have also seem to have turned to the "maverick" type, where they will move into a colony, clean out the honey then leave. In other words they tend to join your colony just ro rob it out then leave. It doesn't appear to be a regular robbing frenzy. They will stay maybe a week or two. Just upsets your colony and sets it back. This happened different from the swarm that came in. D2