Comments on: How to Stop Robbing Bees or Wasps

By: Gimlet

Gimlet — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:09:54 +0000

That’s interesting. I’ve used that method to move bees short distances – ie MORE than 3ft but LESS than 3 miles. I moved a hive from one end of the garden to the other and applied the sheet of glass as you’ve described it there. The shock of hitting the sheet of glass on leaving the hive caused the bees to re-orient on the new position.

By: Brendan Sheppard

Brendan Sheppard — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:58:27 +0000

after bees have stopped flying place a piece of glass the full with of the hive and four inches or so high in morning hive bees will soon find new way out robbers will arive front and centre and will give up after a fiew days the glass is on the alighting board and laying back to hive body so bees can come out to extreme right or left robbers can see hive bees but cant work out new entrance

By: Greengage

Greengage — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:24:20 +0000

In reply to Gimlet. I dont know, I would hope they would all find their own way home ??

By: Gimlet

Gimlet — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:25:01 +0000

In reply to Greengage. No, I've never heard that. It's an interesting idea. I can imagine two hours of pandemonium. But what happens when you put all the roofs back on? I might try it.

By: Greengage

Greengage — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:22:51 +0000

I also heard if you have more than two hives and you have robbing you could remove the roofs for a couple of hours off all the hives then the bees are too busy defending their own hive to go robbing but this only works if the bees are not coming from outside your apiary.. have you ever heard of this,