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Offline jayj200

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how to tell
« on: August 16, 2014, 09:51:31 am »
how to know the difference?

Is it the beginning of a swarm or is it just orientation flight?

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Re: how to tell
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2014, 12:03:53 pm »
Orientation = going in and out at leisure.
swarm = Going out only at full speed.
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2014, 04:43:00 pm »
What Iddee said, and more bobbing and weaving, facing the hive (orientation), and more larger and larger circling with swarms.
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2014, 07:07:11 pm »
Also when a  swarm issues from the hive as Iddee stated, full speed run outside, and will circle around the hive quickly moving away. Orientation flights the bees in flight always face the hive entrance circling the hive but always returning to face the entrance.
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2014, 01:56:57 am »
Barry- "Also when a  swarm issues from the hive as Iddee stated, full speed run outside, and will circle around the hive quickly moving away.

    Well fella's, that's not the way it happened with my 10 swarms this last spring. The bees gathered as a mob at the front entrance and started crawling up the front of the hive, from there lifting and accumulating a mass of humming bees into the sky, swirling and swirling until they landed in a cedar tree up on the bank. The whole thing was completed in about 15 minutes. there was no 'zooming' to it in the least.
 





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Re: how to tell
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2014, 02:03:59 am »
Perhaps Jen, but you had SP.ED Bees...not everyone has them there bees. Lol
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2014, 03:30:25 am »
Swarmers form a diffuse cloud,
Orienters seem to fly in an organized manner
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2014, 12:12:08 pm »
Barry- "Perhaps Jen, but you had SP.ED Bees...not everyone has them there bees. Lol
 
     I have created my own bee genetics  :)  Barry hon, they are NOT SP.ED bees.... they are Gifted! It takes a Gifted beek to see that quality in her bees  :D  And along with Gifted bees you get Ruby honey! Gifted!

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Re: how to tell
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2014, 12:27:21 pm »
Lol:-*
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2014, 12:24:23 pm »
jay, did we answer your question?
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Re: how to tell
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2014, 03:41:54 pm »
pretty much

Thanks jay

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