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Offline Jen

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Feral Bees
« on: January 13, 2014, 12:31:08 pm »
Early last summer I had these 'black butt' bees visit my hive. I have Europeans. There were a lot of them each day. They were not aggressive. My bees didn't seem too worried about them coming into the hive. I was the one freaking out, and put a robbing screen on. Problem solved.

Most often I would come out to the hive in the morning and see several dead ones on the top of the hive and on the porch. It appeared to me that several would fly to my hive, land and die. They are still in the area because I took the robbing screen off in late summer and they came back.











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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2014, 12:57:36 pm »
I have some with black tips, but they also have stripes above the solid black..  Interested in replies as well!
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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2014, 01:20:56 pm »
I have one hive at least that has some all most black bees. They belong there, so come and go with the rest. It is said that a hives bees have 20 different fathers!
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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2014, 01:24:46 pm »
Sounds like the 60's   ;)
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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 03:54:21 pm »
LOL!!     errr, wait, I was born in the 60's.....    :(
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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2014, 04:21:29 pm »
What was that Diana Ross song..... "Love Child"


oh gawd, I'm sorry snarking ;)
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Re: Feral Bees
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2014, 04:29:07 pm »
I think I am safe...  Mom said her and my father were parked in Grandpas pasture, and everything happened when a cow stuck its head in the window and mooed loudly....    Pretty memorable set of circumstances so she said there was no NEED to do a DNA test....
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« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2014, 04:41:04 pm »
AAAAahaahHHHhahahaha! :D
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