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>I don't know about 'taking over', but we see swarms issuing and sitting on
>other hives regularly. Sometimes they enter, sometimes not. Queenless
>hives suddenly have a laying queen and larger populations that we
>recall. Sometimes, though they don't enter, but build underneath or
>between hives.
I also see these things .
. swarms which build wax under the entrance of another hive. A swarm drawing
wax between hives on a pallet. Queenless hives with a mysterious fertile
queen cell.
>Who can explain it? I can't.
I can't either. I am amazed by the bees. At times I will sit and watch the
bees coming and going. I now think back to when I was a boy sitting and
watching.
For me my friend Douglass Whynott sums beekeeping up on the last page of
his book "Following the Bloom"
"Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers"
quote page 206:
"I like to watch them,most of all ,and now,when I see them making their
sweeping arcs, when they glide down among the crowds of bees at the hive
entrance , I just watch.
CONTRACTION HAS FOLLOWED EXPANSION ,AND I SOMETIMES THINK OF A ZEN SAYING ;
AT FIRST MOUNTAINS WERE MOUNTAINS,AND THEN THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT MOUNTAINS,
BUT SOME OTHER THING,NOW MOUNTAINS ARE MOUNTAINS AGAIN.
Doug continues:
"The sentence comes closer to describing where I am now . I'am not
professing enlightenment ,or special knowledge , or anything like that. Only
that for me the bees are bees again"
Those which have worked around large numbers of bees understand the meaning
of the above.
Douglass Whynott peeked into a world few ever see.
read the book.
We had hoped maybe he would stay but he was only passing though.
bob
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