These bees for the most part seem to be young fuzzy bees. Most wash boarding 
we observe is older forager bees with worn wings when a flow stops.

I have been told by other commercial beekeepers is caused by foragers upset 
the flow has stopped (kind of like a person pacing the floor)

Judging from the quick glance at the lower entrance I would say the bees are 
not in a flow and apparently not wash boarding at the lower entrance or a 
close up would have been made.

few bees using the top entrance.

interesting.

I do not see the behavior when a strong flow is on. Not all hives do the 
wash board and always seem to be a hive strong enough for bees to hang out 
on the front, I saw a couple hives wash boarding in a yard yesterday but did 
not look closely.

This time of year when warm there are beards on most hives. quite a bit of 
bees. The older bees seem to take a guard stance covering the same area but 
not wash boarding.

If the bees had been wash boarding all summer to polish or clean I would 
expect to see paint missing by now so *in my opinion* I would guess not a 
serious cleaning effort of cleaning or polishing.


> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxjc4tSKJFs&feature=youtu.be&a

bob 

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