Comments on: Bees and Bearding https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/ Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:40:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Donald Church https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-113105 Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:40:23 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-113105 HI! My name is Don. I’m a disabled Vietnam Veteran. I just wondered if there is any free classes of beekeeping. I am very interesting to learn about beekeeping. Hope you will be able to connect me to some free classes. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely yours
Eppie

]]> By: James https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-108668 Thu, 07 May 2020 13:40:13 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-108668 Hello, yesterday afternoon noon I noticed several thousand bees flying around the bee yard in front of their hive. I also noticed a large gathering of bees between the inner and outer covers, along the sunny side of the hive and underneath and at the entrance of the hive. The day and night had been cool, in the mid 50’s during the day. Suddenly the sun came out and the bee yard area warmed to around 64 degrees. This is when the hive emptied out. The bees that were on the hive box were wiggling and frantically fanning with a lot going on underneath the landing and bottom board (screened). This lasted for about 30 minutes and 2 more hours before they all returned back into the hive. After all settled, I checked the feeding area ( top of upper hive box) and all apperied “normal”. This hive is a nuc starter that has been in place for 1 month. My hive is an 8 frame with 2 brood boxes. Based on what information I have obtained, I believe this event occurred for temperature control? I am new first year keeping bees and loving every minute of it. Thank you in advance for any information.

]]> By: Calvin https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-88243 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:09:43 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-88243 Thank you for the info on boarding, I was worried something was wrong. Almost 100° here

]]> By: John H Hummer https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-75264 Wed, 16 May 2018 11:27:08 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-75264 Hi, I recently discovered a ‘wild’ hive (bee tree as they were once called) in an oak the ent. hole 20-25′ above the ground…….the day I discovered it was only because the bee were swarming, unmistakably, the NOISE. Since then the bees, probably because of very warm n humid weather have been ‘bearding’ all around the ent. hole. Even at night they stay out on the tree around the ent. hole, even though temperatures cooled to the mid 60’s n there was even some rain. Your info on this indicates it’s to cool the hive, or they’re ‘ getting ready to swarm’……Could they be getting ready to ‘swarm’ again after only a few days. It’s not hot now, n forecast to stay relatively mild compared to what it has been……

]]> By: Larry https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-61734 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:38:27 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-61734 I have bees that are bearding on a hanging chime on my back porch.

What should I do?

Thanks,
Larry

]]> By: Leilani Rosenbaum https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-56738 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:33:01 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-56738 My favorite farm to follow. Your articles are to the point! Thanks again. Leilani MisBEEhaving Bee’s in Mississippi

]]> By: John Williams https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-53948 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 02:29:06 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-53948 First time to notice my bees bearding on out side hive. Should i drill hole upper super or ck fullness of hive. Its one month old. Temp 80’s

]]> By: Mary Lathrop https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-22999 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:40:02 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-22999 In reply to Jenny Vander Meer.

Did you ever get an answer for this please? Ours are doing this now.

]]> By: Sidney Patin https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-12913 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:45:56 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-12913 Our Warre hive was bearding just like the pictures in your article. On inspection, they were crowded and it was also very hot outside. I can understand why they wanted to go out on the porch. We added two boxes and all looks ok now.
I would like to see an article on how to move an active bee hive. We want to move that Warre hive (4 boxes tall) to the other side of the yard, but don’t want to mess with the bees homing instinct. So if you can, please give us an article on how to move a beehive across the yard. Thanks.

]]> By: Jenny Vander Meer https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bees-and-bearding/#comment-12899 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:32:59 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1896#comment-12899 Hello! My husband and I were collecting honeys off of our hives last night and since we don’t use a trap to keep the bees from going in to the honeys when we collect, we had to gentle brush them off. It was a pretty warm evening around 75 degrees. When we got done and were putting the empty boxes with new frames back onwe noticed that a lot of our bees had bearded on the front of the hive. It may have been the warm weather but I thought maybe it was from use pulling the honey off and disrupting the hive.

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