POSTED:
I live in south central NY and have 8 hives (6 Italian and 2 carniolon).
2 of the hives (Italian) this year I checkered and went 3 deep them.
These 2 really took off and did very well with the locust flow this
spring.
I checked one of them last night and they were the NASTIEST bees I have
ever dealt with. 


REPLY:
You have probably had one or more of the Italian queens swarm or superceded this year, and you now have an ill-tempered Italian/Carniolan cross hybrid.  This happens to me periodically, and replacing the queen or if it requeens itself, the problem seems to diminish if not disappear.  Hybrids can be exciting that way...





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