Too much time on my hands

Started by Vance G, November 06, 2014, 03:23:12 PM

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Vance G

We are having unseasonably warm weather and my neighborhood hobbyists and there are suddenly many, are not keeping their bees home.  For some reason a garage with piles of wax and wet extracting supers is for some reason attractive on any flying day.  This has lead me to indulge in a past time that may or  may not cause problems.   I have been catching and marking foragers.  What year is green?

D Coates

I can imagine the neighboring beekeepers looking into their hives and seeing marked bees.  It's going to confuse the heck out of them.  I know if would me.
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Eric Bosworth

You have way too much time on your hands. Have you tried glue on dots? maybe you could number them.
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Eric Bosworth

Are you sure that they are your neighbors and not your own?
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thewhiterhino

If it was easy, everyone would do it....
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Vance G

Not my bees but would not be a problem.  I can tell a queen from a worker.  I know several of them so I will find out the reactions. 

rookie2531

Quote from: Vance G on November 06, 2014, 06:01:56 PM
Not my bees but would not be a problem.  I can tell a queen from a worker.  I know several of them so I will find out the reactions. 

Did you already mark all of yours? My wife tells our friends that I have named all mine.

GSF

Paint a skull and cross bones on a couple of them  :)
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Steel Tiger

 glue these on their backs. I know that it would freak ME out.

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troyin17331

http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/SeeleyBees1.jpg

there was also a study done where they had feeding stations set up and someone at each station marking the bees that came there to see where they were going

Eric Bosworth

Quote from: Vance G on November 06, 2014, 06:01:56 PM
Not my bees but would not be a problem.  I can tell a queen from a worker.
I can tell a queen from a worker as well but when looking for her majesty it is a lot easier to find her when she is the only one with a dot. On the flip side, if she is the only one without a dot that might work as well. I was so lucky when I combined my hives together for the winter. I took all the frames out of two hives and put them into 4X4 nucs with a divider board. I went back a while later and the queen from one of the hives was still in the old box. I can't believe I found her. I had just assumed that she would have been on a frame when I moved them. The seemed happy to see her when I got her back to her hive.
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. ---Mao Tse Tung

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. ---Benjamin Franklin