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Speaking of learning curves, I am a new bee hobbiest. I have obtained two
hives, full, with extracted supers set back on top. The first one seemed to
do just fine, the second seems awful active. I noticed the drones were
being put out quite regularly. Then I would see them fly back in..... if
they could get off the grass. I did notice the workers were trying their
best to damage the drones wings..... I suspect they have the notion that
they do not have enough stores to keep the drones through the winter and are
trying to be rid of them...... Question, as a hobbiest, and not really
wanting to see all that turmoil, should I feed the hive with a top feeder or
bag feeder to see if that settles them down? Or should I not worry about
it? I did notice the first hive, was throwing off a "not completely" ready
bee of some sort. Fully developed, but still very imature.... do I have
another problem in that hive also? Thanks......
Carl
Portsmouth, VA.
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