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I am fairly new to the beekeeping operation. I have 7 hives (west central Ohio). The first 6 are behaving normally but one seems to be behaving strangely. When I opened it during the warm spell a week ago it was full of bees, looked like a June afternoon. Though a little surprised I didn't think much of it. After a couple of cooler days (35-40 degrees), I thought the girls would have clustered and I could easily pop the hive top feeder off. When I removed the top, there were thousands of bees still at the top and they also came pouring out the bottom entrance, so I retreated again.
Last evening after 2 days of continuous sub-30 degree windy weather, I again cracked the top expecting to not see any activity. I was again met by a large number of bees that were very active and crawling around trying to get the feed from the nearly frozen syrup. The outside air temperature was 20 degrees F but it didn't seem to phase them.
Is this hive some kind of mutant?
Glenn
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