How To Identify Robbing!

[newbee07]

Well we did it me and my brother found out how to see if other bees are robbing nearby hives very much. We were doing a sugar roll today for the mites and only got through two hives before we ran out of light and we noticed some sugar coated bee going in some of the hives we hadn't got to yet. That's about as clear of the term robbing or trying to rob as a bank robber wearing the same clothes to the bank across the street. Don't know if this has any meaning to it or not but we thought it was funny.

[Bennettoid]

Drones.

I've seen Drones moving away from the PSed hives and into other hives.

[Cindi]

newbee07.  That was interesting eh?  I do have my doubts though that this sugar coated bee was going out to do some robbing.  She probably just got disoriented from the sugar powder and didn't find her right home.

Robber bees are quite easy to identify.  They have like a flight pattern that when they get close to the hive looks quite suspicious.  They are not sure of the exact entrance, for example, top, bottom, and are flightly, they are nervous and display behaviour that is not similar to a bee that is coming home with a load of water, nectar, pollen or propolis.  They often times will appear darker in colour, less hair on their bodies because of fighting, these are some signs of the robbing bee.  Great little story you put here, though.  Have a wonderful day, enjoy our wonderful life.  Cindi