Cutout Question #2

[Jeff L]

I get intelligent answers here so this why I ask rookie questions. Here's another. This hive doesn't have a lot of bees going in and out throughout the day. Probably just 5 or 6 at a time. But in the eves. depending on how hot it is, (CA) it then gets busy. Hundreds coming in and out. Someone told me this is when the bees are coming back to the hive. Is this correct? I thought they came and went all day long. Thanks.
Jeff

[Jerrymac]

They come and go all day. This is the orientation flights of new foragers. Ones just learning the ropes outside the hive.

[Jeff L]

Jerrymac, thanks for the reply!!!! Your answer makes sense as these bees don't seem to be going back and forth. They just seem to be "hanging around" for lack of a better term, and then going back in. Great! This means my queen is doing her thing and maybe my newbie hive will take. Very nice! Thank you!
Jeff

[Jeffrey Tooker]

depending on how hot it is, (CA) it then gets busy.

Jeff:

Where in Ca.  I am 30 mi East of Redbluff.  160 mi North of Sacramento.

[Finsky]

A couple of days ago I looked that the hive foraged very activile. They flied a short distance and flew directly into entrance and they stomach was full.  

I wondered if they robbed some other hive. I tasted a couple of  honey sac and it was water. Hundreds of bees carried water. I don't know why.

I have gived 2 boxes extracted frames to hive 2 days ago.

[Jeff L]

I'm in Sacto. Hot here, but much hotter in your area. Used to drive a delivery truck to Red Bluff and Redding in the summer. Nasty heat!
J.

[Jeffrey Tooker]

I'm in Sacto. Hot here, but much hotter in your area. Used to drive a delivery truck to Red Bluff and Redding in the summer. Nasty heat!
J.

I am 30 miles East of Red Bluff at about 3400'.  It runs about 10 degrees cooler than Red Bluff.  I graduated from Elk Grove High in 1960.  My parents still live in Elk Grove, just East of Consumnes JC.

[Brian D. Bray]

So If I get this right, the heat in Paynes Creek is a real pain.

[Jeffrey Tooker]

So If I get this right, the heat in Paynes Creek is a real pain.

Brian:

The heat is dry here so it is not too bad.  A normal summer day is 85-90.  If you stay in the shade, of which we have plenty, it is not bad.  When we get a hot spell you do like the bees and start early and stop about 11 and come back out about 4 or 5.  Up untill I retired I lived in Kent Wa.  A 90 degree day up there is oppressive.

[Brian D. Bray]

Living in the San Juan Islands the humidity gets a little high on warm days.  Here 80 feels like what I remember the Jungles of SE Asia being like at over a Hundred Degrees.