Thanks for this Gareth. And you're right - the sun was partly out and
there was very little wind..
Gilliane
On 03/04/2019 09:54, Gareth John (Redacted sender grjohn for DMARC) wrote:
Bees will take short flights at these temperatures if the sun is shining and there is no wind. The sun warms them.
Gareth
On 3 Apr 2019, at 09:21, Gilliane Sills (Redacted sender "gillianesills" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The temperature underneath my hTBH was 2 - 3 degrees this morning and there was quite a dense group of bees outside on the landing board. Every now and then one would detach itself from the group, walk to the edge of the board and take off and at similar intervals a bee would fly on to the landing board and walk inside the hive. I hadn't been expecting to see any bees flying because of the low temperature - is this surprising?
Best wishes
Gilliane
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