[oxnatbees] Scout bee?

  • From: Karen Giles <karen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 17:07:10 +0100

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I left all 3 entrances open as a bit of an experiment and put lemon grass oil on each entrance, there are followers between each cavity and they were going in both ends but not the side entrance, one every 5 mins or so.
 Weirdly I didn’t see any come out! Fingers crossed they like what they see.
Does anyone have any idea as to approx how long between scouting and moving in if they do deem it acceptable?Interesting that they were much lighter colour than my other bees.One other thing, loads of my other bees are tooing and froing with very yellow heads, I assume that is the glut of oil seed rape we have around us this year?!
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Karen 

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Karen Giles Senior Design EngineerBlack Dog Design Ltd
t: 07790 908144e:karen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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