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Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:52:59 pm »
I was able to record from video of festooning today in one of my top bar hives.  I had forgotten about the definition of festooning until River and Lazy reminded me of it.  I figured there might be some of you folks that have forgotten about it too.  Well, here is a link to my thread with the video.   Please share your festooning videos and photos.
http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,1318.0.html
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Re: Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2014, 07:56:06 am »
That's definitely what you see with foundationless frames. I love it when I take out a frame and see a line of bees stretching from top to bottom "measuring". And if your hives are not level from side to side, they don't hang to the bottom of the frame and that's how the comb gets out of alignment. Then it gets really fun removing frames!
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Re: Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2014, 10:40:39 pm »
not sure if this counts, but caught them stretching between frames during an inspection today



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Re: Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2014, 01:05:40 am »
it does count zweefer!  this is another cool behavior to see in a hive, when they are comb building or repairing comb, how they lace together, leg to leg, like a chain....

great thread dave!
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Re: Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2014, 01:36:17 am »
hehe yep Zweef.. that means they are saying...   WOW! Look at all this room!  We can put a sofa here, and a recliner there....     ;D
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Re: Festooning or Bee Chain Videos and Photos
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2014, 07:31:57 am »
Quote from: LazyBkpr on May 29, 2014, 01:36:17 am
hehe yep Zweef.. that means they are saying...   WOW! Look at all this room!  We can put a sofa here, and a recliner there....     ;D

Ha!

When I did a cutout recently, but didn't have any comb and tons of bees, I would pull out an empty foundationless frame and the bees were hanging on that frame making a solid wall as if I had foundation on it. It was incredible! I was really wishing I had my camera on that one.
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