The one paragraph, Q&A, Observations and advice thread. One paragraph SO EASY!

[mick]

My bees are dive bombing back to the hive with a real purpose, 10 feet out, just drop from the sky to the landing pad. They are in a big hurry!

[Finsky]

My bees are dive bombing back to the hive with a real purpose, 10 feet out, just drop from the sky to the landing pad. They are in a big hurry!

That looks fine. When they have big loads the sound from wings  is a little bit cracking.

[Brian D. Bray]

During honey flows I've seen the bees coming back to the hive, flying like they were going to overshoot the hive.  Then suddenly they drop, it there's not wind they usually land on the entrance or very close to it.  It's amazing how percise they can parachute into the hive like that.

[beemaster]

Gathers like to help the collectors near the entrance out by dislodging the pollen from their back leg - by landing hard (so I have always heard and wrote about many years ago) this is a great time saver and gets the forager back in the field where she belongs all the quicker. That sudden FLOP onto the landing board also gets attention from the house bees that incoming has arrived.

There... one paragraph - well, until now  :roll:

[Finsky]

2 summers ago I had hives in the middle of splended fireweed pasture. Bees worked with full load but they flyed direct into entrance.  They need not to rest because their flight distance was minimun short, about 500 yards.

[Kirk-o]

Wow thats fantastic stuff to know about bees
kirko