brit.thebee
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« on: September 20, 2012, 10:43:26 PM » |
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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.
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kathyp
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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2012, 11:07:45 PM » |
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other than pollen, what are their store like?
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brit.thebee
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 12:34:52 AM » |
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They've got lots of uncapped and capped honey, as well as some brood
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 10:02:42 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 03:35:08 PM » |
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Cold bees are sluggish. Starving bees are sluggish...
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brit.thebee
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 06:54:53 PM » |
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Yeah that's true. But it's 72 degrees here and they have plenty of honey. Any other ideas?
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2012, 06:59:59 PM » |
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It's so weird. It's like they're confused and walking like their legs weigh a ton.
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2012, 10:49:17 PM » |
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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?
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« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2012, 11:04:46 PM » |
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got rotting fruit on the ground?  |
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"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)
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brit.thebee
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« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2012, 11:32:30 PM » |
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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?
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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2012, 11:46:43 AM » |
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Rotten fruit = fermentation = drunk.
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