>
> >The crashing hive is kicking out its drones and they are drifting to
> other healthy hives that are not kicking out there drones no robbing going
> on.


Interesting observation Charlie--here in Calif foothills there are no
drones to speak of in late summer or fall.


> >Over here robbing happens after the hive completely crashes no live bees
> or so few that you can put them all in a small cup.
>

Ditto here.  Even a handful of bees generally protects a hive from robbing.
 But beekeepers in SoCal tell me that the robbing pressure from the
Africanized ferals is intense.

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

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