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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: sandhya on April 30, 2007, 10:33:20 pm
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in my arduent task of still looking for my queen, I notice some of my bees have white (very white) spots on them..no, not marks, spots like splattered paint.... :?
of course the first one I got all excited because she quickly came out and then quickly went back in....^(_(@ thought it was her, but of course she was just a worker..
so whats up with the spots?
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It's probably pollen. When the jewelweed blooms around here all the girls have white stripes down their backs!
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Do you have a feeder on the hive? Could it be sugar water dripped on the bees and dried there?
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very true!!! SUGAR!!! as today as a matter of fact... I put a new LEAKY can on and before I left, I checked it and found out all of it had dripped out into the hive...so they got a sugar shower today...that will keep em busy!!!!!
cant seem to get the holes right in these cans!
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Cans? :?
What kind of cans? I have a vision of an open top on this can you are talking about. Or an opening somewhere on the side or top.
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in my arduent task of still looking for my queen, I notice some of my bees have white (very white) spots on them..no, not marks, spots like splattered paint.... :?
of course the first one I got all excited because she quickly came out and then quickly went back in....^(_(@ thought it was her, but of course she was just a worker..
so whats up with the spots?
I saw some similar marks on a few of my workers Thorax. I have no idea what that is. Kind of like a little splatter?
It's probably a splatter of syrup now that I read on
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When they work Milkweed they get stuff glued on them that is white.
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I'd say wax flakes....