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Offline 40 Acre Bees

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« on: August 11, 2016, 02:16:22 pm »
We have a large number of forest fires burning here in Nova Scotia, due to the extremely dry summer.  Even though they are a probably 100 to 150 km's away we are getting hazy smokey days with a strong smell of smoke.  My question is would the bees react to this amount of smoke or do they need a more imminent source to make them react.  Just curious that's all, just wondering what people think.  Thanks :bee:
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Re: Smoke
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2016, 02:43:11 pm »
Hiya 40, we are just coming out of a 5 year drought complicated by forest fires as well here in upper northern California. I found that the bees may have slowed a bit but they still managed to make all the honey they needed for the winter, and a little extra for me  :)

But on real smokey days, they stayed closer to home.
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Re: Smoke
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2016, 04:11:03 pm »
Woke up at 1 am here and we could smell smoke in the air.
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Re: Smoke
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2016, 06:21:38 pm »
RutRow , doesn't smell good y'all please be safe. I've never been in that situation it's dangerous !!!
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