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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Yankee11 on October 14, 2015, 11:25:56 pm

Title: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Yankee11 on October 14, 2015, 11:25:56 pm

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Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: neillsayers on October 15, 2015, 01:14:33 am

yankee,

Is that dirt daubers?

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Jen on October 15, 2015, 02:12:00 am

Very Interesting Yankee! and I think too that that is not propolis, looks like mud daubers ~

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: tecumseh on October 15, 2015, 07:14:07 am

looks pretty normal to me Yankee.  and yes many of my own bees do much of the same thing in the fall of the year.  it is a very good sign that the bees are capable of producing lots of propolis which I suspect is in itself a survival mechanism.  for myself when I select stock for queen rearing this tendency is pretty high on my own list of thing to look for < which is kind of funny only in that 30 years ago this would have been considered to be a negative in terms of selection.

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Perry on October 15, 2015, 07:34:07 am

I have a hive or two that do almost the same thing. I have a dickens of a time getting frames out as there is a golf ball sized chunk of propolis attached to the corner of each frame at the entrance. It is proplis by the way. ;)

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: iddee on October 15, 2015, 07:40:55 am

It tells me that the idea of extra ventilation is overdone by most beeks today. The bees can control the amount they need.

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Michelle on October 15, 2015, 07:48:28 am

WOW! I have never seen them do this! Very interesting.

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Yankee11 on October 15, 2015, 08:25:32 am

Yes. it's propolis.

I'm with iddee on the ventilation, seems like there is something to learn from this.

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Perry on October 15, 2015, 08:29:38 am

I only ever see this in the odd hive, nothing to draw anything conclusive out of. ;D

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: apisbees on October 15, 2015, 10:27:43 am

like Tec said it comes from to the genetics of the bees. Italians produce very little  Caucasian produce a lot more. Al though I don't discourage propolis production there are occasions when the hive gets carried away with collecting propolis well beyond the needs of the hive.
I had a hive once that in addition to continuously closing off the bottom and top entrance, they would also pile it up on top of the ends of the top bars. This was happening in the middle of the hot summer the propolis was running down the face of the combs due to a lack circulation. I would scrape it clean and with in a week it they would have it plugged again. 

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: brooksbeefarm on October 15, 2015, 11:07:10 am

Like Apis mentioned, Caucasian bees  8) they were a popular breed if i remember right? about the same time of the Midnight breed. They were good honey producers and mild mannered,But :o i have tore frames apart trying to get them out of hives to inspect them. Maybe this trait is coming back to the bees to fight the SHB? i'm sure it would make the SHB's life miserable. :laugh: :laugh: Jack

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Jen on October 15, 2015, 12:24:48 pm

Learned something new today  ;D

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: Yankee11 on October 15, 2015, 09:22:46 pm

There ya go....I knew there was something to learn :)

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: riverbee on October 22, 2015, 11:31:33 am

LOL!  great pix yankee! gotta love bees................ :D

and yes, what iddee said!

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: capt44 on October 22, 2015, 10:43:55 pm

Yankee II you into raising dirt daubers now?

Title: Re: Are they telling us something down here in the south???
Post by: capt44 on October 23, 2015, 03:36:28 pm

I had two hive have that happen too.