Bee Action

  Eric looked out the window late this afternoon and spotted some peculiar behavior going on with our Daisy hive. We might have expected to see the bees out enjoying the evening if the weather would have been warmer, but it was kind of chilly.  When we looked closer, we found that the bees seemed to be locked in mortal combat with each other.

.

Maybe if you look closely you can see some groups of bees fighting.  We watched for a while to be sure we knew what was going on.  We finally decided with Eric's brother's consultation that Daisy was under attack from some other bees trying to rob the hive of its honey!!  Yikes!

Every once in a while a ball of bees would fall off the porch and end up in the grass.  There were a bunch of dead bees in the grass in front of Daisy.  We hope these dead bees were the robbers and not Daisy's defenders/warriors.

 

We set a water sprinkler near Daisy's entrance for a while and everything calmed down rather quickly.  Then we put an entrance reducer on the hive so Daisy could defend herself better.  We'll have to keep an eye on things to see if normalcy returns.