Robbing bees is always a problem when flows slow or stop.
After a rain is always a problem.
Obviously the supers were too close but robbing can happen at even greater distance.
Once we had bees from a couple hundred hives robbing in the honey house.
a side door was left open while the guys went to lunch.
The only solution was wait till sunset and open the doors.
I even turned the bug zappers off.
Of course the problem was blamed on me for not moving the hives to a holding yard.
My wife asked what I was going to do so I fired the person which left the door open.
He laughed as I fire Aaron a couple times a week.
Gets his attention but he knows after 20 years his job is secure.
I have worked long days in bee yards with robbing bees but does not make for pleasant
beekeeping.
I am glad for me those days are over.
In larger operations work goes everyday except in downpours.
Heat and humidity is a bigger concern than angry bees in commercial beekeeping
Back breaking work plus boring work is a bigger problem than angry bees.
bob
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