Caused A Bit of a Traffic Jam

[Garden Hive]

Had put several wet supers into the freezer months ago. It has been very hot for an extended period. Now we have some rain and looks like a flow begining.

So I thawed a few and my effort to prevent a robbing event was to close off the top entrance and reduce the front door.

Well this is what I got with a mid 90's temp.



After removing the entrance reducer they are still just lounging around but slowly returning.
Definitely not any robbing going on. 

[Perry]

Lots of loafing though. 

[apisbees]

Garden you did some good things but may have gone a little to far by the bees hanging out the front of the hive.
If the bottom brood boxes were full of bees the population will have kept any robbing from happening as long as you never provided the bees easy access to the wet supers that were placed on top, You took care of that by closing the top entrance. The hive would be fine leaving the bottom entrance open. A lot of times when we hear that placing wet supers started robbing, they don't mention that they placed the supers on the hives they thought could use the remaining honey the most. but these are generally the hives that are the weakest and instead of helping the colony they get robbing started. If a flow is starting the chance of the bees wanting to rob will be diminished.

[Garden Hive]

Good point Apis, that's exactly what I was pointing out. My efforts to help them for just the very first day of the fresh wet box on top was to choke it down. I surely did that. 

It became evident that more were returning from foraging then cleaning up or feasting on the available.