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When is the best time to spray a yellow jacket hive?
Spray late in the evening when more insects will be inside the hive.
Do bees move a natural hive?
A hive is an artificial home provided for honey bees by a beekeeper. Once bees are settled in the hive (or wild colony), they usually stay there and don't move.
How do you relocate a beehive?
Firstly, do it in the evening when there are no bees out foraging, and block the entrance with sponge and strap the hive sections together.Secondly, there is a saying: 'You must move a bee hive less than three feet, or more than three miles'. This is important because bees learn the location of their hive and usually forage within a three mile radius, although they can go further. If you move a hive more than three feet, foraging bees will return to where the hive was and will not recognize the hive in its new position, so will be lost.If you move a hive further, but still within the bee's old foraging area, they will again try to return to the original hive site.The only solution is to move the hive well out of the original foraging area. The bees will then learn the new location of the hive and a new foraging area and all will be well.There is another part to the saying: '... and don't move them back within three weeks'. This is because the foraging life of a bee is about three weeks, so if you move them back within the original foraging area within that time the older bees will be confused. After three weeks there will be few, if any, bees that knew the original area.
What bee lives in the bee hive?
Honey bee workers perform different tasks as they get older. They start by cleaning cells ready for the queen to lay in, then go on to feeding larvae and cleaning the hive. As their wax glands develop they move on to making comb, and storing pollen and nectar and making honey. When their venom glands develop they move on to guarding the hive entrance. At this time they also start making short exploratory flights around the hive to learn the location of the hive. After this, they start foraging for nectar and pollen, which they will do for the rest of their lives.
What type of habitat does a bee need?
a bee needs a home, a hive, the hive needs to be where it wont get ruined and the bees have to move to another
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.
What are the best weather conditions for moving your hive?
Cold.
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 number one job of the queen bee?
To lay eggs and move the hive if neccassary.
Can you remove a hive located outside once most of the bees are dead?
No. If there are still some bees alive, you can get seriously stung. And Trying to move the hive will make the bees madder.
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.
When is the worse time to requeen a bee hive?
November
