I am in my second year of keeping two hives and have successfully carried
them over the winter.  Both hives are going very strong and I go through
the hives weekly to find the queen cells so they don't swarm.  I have
notices that one of the hives is much more aggressive to my presence than
the other hive.  They have stung me through the gloves several times and
tend to swarm around me much more than the other hive.
 
Both are about equally productive.  Last fall I harvested about 190 pound
total, not counting what was left to carry them over the winter.  I am also
thinking I will run out of honey supers before the summer is over.
 
The question I have as a new-comer is Can I do something, or am I doing
something to rile up one have and not the other?  Did I also read in
another Bee-l that the bees leave a pheremone  or something on the gloves
when they sting and therefore are prone to sting there again?  Thanks for
the advice:  Just beginning, but enjoying it.
 
Myron Van de Ven
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