[sleafordbka] Re: Robbing
- From: Ayla Todd <ayla.todd@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "sleafordbka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <sleafordbka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:54:14 +0100
You are right in saying that weak colonies will be easy targets for robbing
bees. Try a lean to screen tomorrow, if you can, at both hive entrances (keep
the reduced entrances as well). If that doesn't work well enough, then your
only option will be to move them but you must remember the moving rule - less
than 3 feet or more than 3 miles or they will simply return to the old site and
die there.
Seems like your field would not be big enough. Do you have a friend living
over 3 miles away who could accomodate your hives for a couple of months? Or,
perhaps, another SBKA member who could offer the same?
Again, good luck, this isn't an easy cure situation!
Pam
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On 25 Jun 2011, at 20:55, "shf.kf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <shf.kf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for your advice Pam,
> Apiary is a rather grand name for my 2 hives. I think the robber bees are not
> from either of my hives as they are both suffering similar activity. I have
> restricted the opening on both hives which has slowed the problem(but then it
> is getting dark). Is it worth moving my hives within the apiary (2acre
> field)?
> I think one of the problems I have is the strength of my hives as one was
> queenless for sometime.
>
> Thanks Steve.
>
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