my bees look stoned. worried.

Started by brit.thebee, September 20, 2012, 11:43:26 PM

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brit.thebee

Haven't been on in forever and I have relocated to Illinois from Texas.  Started over with new bees so this will be my first time in winter. 
Today I checked the hive and under the inner cover a bunch of bees were hanging out that looked sluggish, slow, confused, and drugged.  But there was also giant activity going on around them and tons of bees bringing pollen into the hive.  There were no dead bees in front of the hive or any of the slow ones crawling around on blades of grass.  They were only inside the hive.  Anybody have any ideas?  Thanks.

Kathyp

other than pollen, what are their store like?
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brit.thebee

They've got lots of uncapped and capped honey,  as well as some brood

oblib

I can't really help with your question but wanted to say welcome to my neck of the woods. You are about 30 miles from me now.

Michael Bush

Cold bees are sluggish.  Starving bees are sluggish...
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brit.thebee

 Yeah that's true. But it's 72 degrees here and they have plenty of honey. Any other ideas?

brit.thebee

It's so weird. It's like they're confused and walking like their legs weigh a ton.

jimsteelejr

were they all drones? As the weather cools the hive usually starts getting rid of the drones. Could they have just run them up under the inner cover and are starving them out?

Kathyp

got rotting fruit on the ground?   :evil:
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

brit.thebee

No, though there were more drones hanging around than I thought there would be. They all looked like they were about to take off and work, but instead they were zombeeing around. Out of curiosity, what if there had been rotting fruit on the ground? I'm still learning so much...what would that mean?

paindragon1

Rotten fruit = fermentation = drunk.
Veni vidi, fecit mulsi.

Bradeeen

Just wait for some time.It will be all right with the passage of time. You need not to much worried
about it . These things happen some time.

TenshiB

I would definitely start feeding them. Do you have an inner cover with a hole so that you can set up a feeder up towards the top of the hive?
The bees that do no work do not survive long. The people that do no work get rewarded.