More rude bees

gkempf · April 18, 2007, 11:06:28 PM

I have 2 hives that are really strong, and it seems they are really agressive this spring, i have been stung twice already just being close to the hives, today i was just putting in a bottom board feeder and got stung.

Now my question, for the last several years i have had 2 wild hives of bees on my property,with no way to get to them,
i noticed this spring both hives are empty and all the honey cleaned out also, could they have moved in with my 2 hives?

Kirk-o · April 18, 2007, 11:46:45 PM

No I don't think the wild bees moved in. You should go to Michael Bush's site
and read up on how to handle a hot hive. His site has many poop of Knowledge.
I hat a hive two years ago that was ATOMIC his advice help out
kirko

Joseph Clemens · April 19, 2007, 12:37:34 AM

Your description does not sound like agressive bees, to me. Just sounds like normal defensive behavior. Agressive, to me, is when one stings you and then you have to fend off the unwanted attentions of dozens or hundreds.

JP · April 19, 2007, 12:58:36 AM

The idea that bees should be nice and let us do whatever we want with them and that they can get use to us, well I through that idea out the window a while ago. I think that hives just have different personalities. I have a couple that head butt me from 15' away and I'll get stung if I'm not protected and heed the warnings. As long as they're not overly aggresive and obnoxiouslly mean, if they're good producers, I'm happy with 'em. I've learned to always wear protection and use my smoker.

likes2grill · April 19, 2007, 07:16:03 AM

The idea is to breed gentle bees that can be worked. Here is some video you might wanna watch http://grill.no-ip.org/Bees/video
I can change the jar top feeder without any problems and with no smoke on all my hives.

Sean Kelly · April 19, 2007, 07:41:02 AM

Quote from: likes2grill on April 19, 2007, 07:16:03 AM
The idea is to breed gentle bees that can be worked. Here is some video you might wanna watch http://grill.no-ip.org/Bees/video
I can change the jar top feeder without any problems and with no smoke on all my hives.

Cant get your video to work bro. Page cannot be displayed.

Sean

likes2grill · April 19, 2007, 08:42:22 AM

Quote from: Sean Kelly on April 19, 2007, 07:41:02 AM
Quote from: likes2grill on April 19, 2007, 07:16:03 AM
The idea is to breed gentle bees that can be worked. Here is some video you might wanna watch http://grill.no-ip.org/Bees/video
I can change the jar top feeder without any problems and with no smoke on all my hives.

Cant get your video to work bro. Page cannot be displayed.

Sean

Should work now. Sorry the server was down I had forgot the power went off in the middle of the night. :-\

JP · April 19, 2007, 09:53:07 AM

Still takes a while to load those clips. I'm not a breeder yet and most of my hives are feral colonies I've rescued. Some of these hives are just arnery at times.