Re: Bkeepr

Posted by Bkeepr on May 05, 2008 at 04:10:29 from (140.139.35.250):

In Reply to: Bkeepr posted by sHan,TN on May 04, 2008 at 09:30:05:

Hi sHan,

I know the feeling. Eventually you'll get to the point where you can find her in a hurry, practically no matter what. One trick: don't look for the single queen, look for the circle of bees around her...they "act different" when they're near the queen, and it is a whole lot easier to see a knot of several dozen bees than a single one.

One thing that helped me a lot, though many folks think it sounds bad: We kept an observation hive in our living room for years. I mounted it with a tube through the outside wall so the bees could come and go and work. It was a great conversation piece, and a great learning tool...we all spent many hours year-round watching the bees work, and it helped me learn to find the queen easier.

good luck,
Tom a

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