Today I made an interesting discovery in my neighbor’s yard. As I was walking around the bee yard, I heard loud buzzing in the distance. I thought it could be a very late swarm or absconsion. The video below is what I found.
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Bruce First time I’ve ever seen that! Desperate for forage!
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Wow! Do they have enough food? Or just very keen? I couldn’t watch with sound on as it might wake the baby up…
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Hi Emily! Yes, all of my colonies (82) have good amounts of stores, and I’m currently feeding heavy syrup through the dearth.
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82!! That’s a lot of syrup 🙂
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Very Interesting. I have a little clip of bees foraging on what I think might possibly be urine from when a large animal hit our electric fence and broke it. I wonder if it is because of the mineral content, or if it is because of the sugar content.
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I’ve seen them drink urine many times. Could be different reasons.
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I do know so honey tasting wheels have a urine flavor under the animal flavor, but I did not know if that actually means that bees make honey with it.
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This was so cool to see thanks for sharing!
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My pleasure. Thank you for visiting the Swarm King. 😁
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I dye yarn using lichens. Honey bees frequently come in to drink at cool dye pots especially of usnea
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Saw bumblebees doing this today on fenceposts covered with lichen. Its mid July, 8AM.
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Cool!
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