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Re: Measuring Mite Immigration
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:09:40 -0800
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> I now put the bees in around dusk or on rainy or snowy days.

Many beekeepers have figured out the advantage to doing so.

As Pete and Charlie have pointed out, there is likely a combination of
scents involved--queen pheromones, orientation pheromone, perhaps worker
cuticular hydrocarbons.

Bees can certainly be confused by rows of hives, but they live by scent.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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