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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: Mircea_63 on June 27, 2013, 06:35:22 am

Title: What is this?
Post by: Mircea_63 on June 27, 2013, 06:35:22 am

Hello everybody!

I am a beginning beekeeper in Romania and I watch your forum. Because I am not an English speaker, I just read, but now I have to  show you something and ask your opinion.


What is happened here:

   youtube.com/watch?v=UARPWBWdHbE

Moderators, please do not banning. This is not spam.

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: BeeMaster2 on June 27, 2013, 06:59:35 am

Your bees are cleaning the hive. Usually they are inside doing this. Your hive is very strong with young bees so these bees had to move outside of the hive. You probably need to add a super to this hive. Your English is very good.
Jim

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: kanga on June 27, 2013, 07:01:51 am

Mircea welcome to the forum.

Have a look at the below I think it is similar to what you are seeing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwumXVTOz8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwumXVTOz8#ws)

Kevin

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Mircea_63 on June 27, 2013, 07:53:42 am

Thank you very much, I am amazing about your speed response...well, the beekeeper are brother all around the world. :-*

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Jackam on July 04, 2013, 10:25:58 am

It appears to me tat they are rocking to your music!

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: Apis629 on July 04, 2013, 07:38:40 pm

I always kind of enjoyed how due to the concentration of washboarding near the entrance, after storms down here there'll be debris and mud splattered on the walls of the hive, and the area around the entrance will be spotless.

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: sc-bee on July 04, 2013, 08:24:36 pm

As mentioned in the post above it is called "wash boarding" Most folks say it is cleaning the hive but I don't think the behavior has throughly been identified as such.