Need Bees Removed?
International
Beekeeping Forums
June 19, 2013, 09:36:00 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: Beemaster's official FACEBOOK page
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar bee removal Login Register Chat  
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forums > BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER > GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. > What is wrong with my bees? Or is it nothing.

Pages: [1]   Go Down
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: What is wrong with my bees? Or is it nothing.  (Read 1028 times)
njoylife10
House Bee
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 64

Location: Central Kansas
« on: March 07, 2011, 02:37:33 PM »
The last couple of days have been nice out and they have been bringing in pollen and robbing out some honey that I had frozen from the fall and just processed. Last night as it was getting quite chilly out, I noticed that there were about 50 bees in various spots on the porch and stand of the hive.  It was way too cold for anyone to be out, just above freezing.  Today it is still quite chilly 40 degrees and there are a few more than last night barely alive, but hanging out outside the hive.  Why are they doing this?

I can't get in the hive till Thursday or Friday to check it out.  When I do, what should I be looking for?

njoylife10
Logged
backyard warrior
House Bee
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 475

Location: NE PA
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 03:12:14 PM »
My hives do this as well. I doesn't necessarily mean they are sick when bees get old they want to leave the hive and die i get a few now and then that dont go back into the hive and die on the outside.  It doesn't mean yours arent sick but if its a few bees and they arent crawling all over the ground in front of the hive i personally wouldnt bee to concerned maybe im wrong.
Logged
skatesailor
House Bee
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 101

Location: Millbrook,NY
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 07:32:12 PM »
I was doing an external check of my hives the other day and I noticed a couple of bees on the landing board, alive but lethargic.  I coaxed them back inside only to have them come back out repeatedly. Some things just want to die. Don't loose sleep about it.
Logged
kathyp
Universal Bee
*******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 13974


Location: boring, oregon
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 08:02:34 PM »
when it warms up and you do check your hive, you'll probably find 100's of dead bees on the bottom board.  those  didn't make out out the door  Wink
Logged
"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?

– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
Brian D. Bray
Galactic Bee
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 7280


Location: Anacortes, WA 98221

I really look like this, just ask Cindi.


WWW
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2011, 10:32:03 PM »
In warm weather used up bees will be seen crawling away from the hive, usually southwesterly, they will travel from a few feet to a hundred yards or more.  They are going off to die, having worn out their wings.  In cold weather old bees will crawl outside the hive where they become chilled and can't go further, so the dead bees mound up near the entrance to the hive, or in many cases just fall from the cluster onto the bottom boards.
Logged
Life is a school.  What have you learned?   Brian      The greatest danger to our society is apathy, vote in every election!
edward
Field Bee
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 807


Location: BÖNAN SWEDEN

FEED ME HONEY or I`ll smash your screen !
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2011, 07:55:06 AM »
Quote from: Brian D. Bray on March 12, 2011, 10:32:03 PM
In warm weather used up bees will be seen crawling away from the hive, usually southwesterly, they will travel from a few feet to a hundred yards or more.  They are going off to die,

Any reason why they choose southwest ?
Logged
agrimm01
New Bee
*
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 13

Location: Jacksonville, Fl
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2011, 09:57:09 AM »
RE:   Any reason why they choose southwest ?

No baggage fee!!   Smiley
Logged
Brian D. Bray
Galactic Bee
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 7280


Location: Anacortes, WA 98221

I really look like this, just ask Cindi.


WWW
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2011, 08:58:10 PM »
Quote from: edward on March 13, 2011, 07:55:06 AM
Quote from: Brian D. Bray on March 12, 2011, 10:32:03 PM
In warm weather used up bees will be seen crawling away from the hive, usually southwesterly, they will travel from a few feet to a hundred yards or more.  They are going off to die,

Any reason why they choose southwest ?

In the Northern Hemisphere it is the direction of the setting sun.  Thus, one can deduce that the bees would crawl northwest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Logged
Life is a school.  What have you learned?   Brian      The greatest danger to our society is apathy, vote in every election!
georgie
New Bee
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 2

Location: Hopelessly Lost
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2011, 04:58:55 PM »
Quote from: agrimm01 on March 13, 2011, 09:57:09 AM
RE:   Any reason why they choose southwest ?

No baggage fee!!   Smiley

LOL!!! With the heavy pollen, those fees could really add up.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Beemaster's Beekeeping Ring
Previous | Home | Join | Random | Next
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.18 | SMF © 2013, Simple Machines | Sitemap Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.198 seconds with 22 queries.

Google visited last this page June 17, 2013, 09:04:51 PM
anything