It was pretty interesting yesterday, put new bees in their new hives. The way its done is they are put in the box with a very small opening, and the bees crawl out to explore their new home. After they have acclimated to the new place they are supposed to come out through a small hole in the hive to orient to the new place.
One colony of bees just went crazy, flowing out of the hive and flying all over the place and looking everywhere for the hive entrance, getting lost and being stupid.
The other colony was more conservative. It was interesting. Two bees walked out side by side from the entrance. They looked around for a second or so, and then they rubbed antennae together as if they were talking...one went inside and the other sat at the entrance, guarding.
This morning I went out to check on them. Outside of colony number one there were 3 dead bees...looks like they never made it home.
Hive number 2 - one live bee guarding the entrance.
i hope it wasn't the same one.
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