Bee havior

[FloridaGardener]

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....

??

[.30WCF]

We?re they hitting it two days ago, rained yesterday, no bees today, but same weather as two days ago?


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[The15thMember]

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. 

[FloridaGardener]

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.