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Bees can fly from the hive any time in daylight, provided it is warm enough. They really want the air temperature to be higher than about 14 degrees C to stay away from the hive for any period of time.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoBees (and wasps and hornets) generally become less active whenever it begins to get dark and the temperature starts to drop.
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What time of day to prune rhodys and avoid bees?
Either early morning, before it gets warm enough for the foragers to leave the hive, or leave it until the evening when the foragers will have returned to the hive as the temperature falls.
How many bees leave the hive to gather nectar at one time?
About 25%
Do honey bees carry their hives from one place to another?
Honey bees don't usually migrate. Nor do they hibernate, but they won't leave the hive if it is too cold or wet. They only time they will leave a hive as a group is as a swarm, where roughly half of the colony will leave to start a new hive elsewhere. The only time the whole colony will move is if their current hive becomes uninhabitable for some reason, in which case they will move anything from a few metres up to two or three kilometres.
What is the population of bees in one bee hive?
Anything between 10,000 and 80,000 depending on the time of year and type of hive.
How many female bees in a hive?
All bees in a hive are female. The workers are sterile females. The only time there are males is in the spring when there is a new queen to be serviced.There are usually more than 1 million bees in a hive.
Why are bees eating their own honey?
Bees eat their own honey because that's what they live off of throughout the year, especially during colder months when there are little or no blooming plants for the bees to collect the nectar for the hive. To better understand this, we need to know exactly what a hive is, and I think once you understand what a hive is, the rest will make sense. From the dictionary a hive is a place "to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment." That being said, that is what bees do. They store wax and honey for lean months. As a beekeeper, we take the comb from the hive from time to time to extract the honey for our own use. When we do this, the bees naturally continue to make wax, honey, and propolis. They don't realize that the comb is full of honey is gone, they just know that there is an empty space that they need to create more wax and honey in. When fall comes, the beekeeper, if he is managing his hive properly, will leave in the hive as many combs full of honey to sustain them through the bees winter months. That's why bees eat their own honey.
When is the best time for a beekeeper to catch bee swarm of bees?
The best time for the beekeeper to catch a swarm of bees is when he hive has been settled. Using smoke also helps to calm the bees.
How many times in life will bees mate?
When she is about five to seven days old a queen will leave the hive on a mating flight. She will mate with up to twenty drones then return to the hive. This is the only time she will mate. Worker bees are all female, but never mate. Drones (males) mate once only, then they die.
How many months do bees and wasps hibernate?
They truthfully don't hibernate. Hibernation is a long period of sleep in mainly the winter time. Most types of bees are just inactive outside of the hive for a month or two. They mainly just stay inside the hive and do some cleaning up like you or me would do when we really cant leave the house.
Are male bees in charge of their hives?
No,Their job is only to mate with a queen and not usually the one in their hive. In the winter time, they are often kicked out of the hive because resources are scarce.
How does a beekeeper make the bees go inside the hive?
They normally start by locating a dark enclosed, dry space (in a tree trunk, roof or wall cavity - or indeed a man made hive). The colony of bees including the queen move into this and the worker bees use honey that they have stored in their tummies as they left their original hive to make wax (bees wax). they chew up this wax and shape it into a new comb with hexagonal cells. The queen lays new eggs in this and the new colony starts. With more bees, more time, and more comb is produced to store honey and brood young and the new hive becomes established. A resinous substance collected from the buds of certain trees (called Propolis) is used by the bees as a cement or sealant to plug up any gaps in the the walls of the hive so that predators can not get in and the hive entrance is guarded by young workers.
How does a beekeeper get the swarm to go inside the hives?
Bees like to be in a dark place so there are two methods of getting a swarm into a hive. The fastest way is to shake the bees out of the container that they are in, straight onto the top of the frames that are inside the hive and replace the roof of the hive thereby leaving them in the dark and giving them the chance to settle down. If you have time available, it is much more interesting to watch them walk into the hive by themselves. Every hive has a small entrance for the bees near the bottom of the hive. You place a ramp from the ground to the entrance of the hive and shake the bees out of the container that they are in, onto the ramp. When the bees find the hive entrance and realise that it is dark inside, they will start to walk into the hive but as it is a small entrance and there are lots of bees, it will probably take about an hour for them all to get in.
