Thousands of ‘bandit bees’ invaded the shop of BC Appearist

A roof, BC, beekeeter found himself in a bad dream position at the end of last month when “thousands and thousands of bees” filled his shop.

Call it a robbery attempt – Bees were trying to steal sweet, sweet honey.

Christine McDonald, the owner of the Rushing River Epiary, said that it is desperate for the first time “robber’s bees” – bees who try to take honey from another colony honeycomb – have landed at their indoor shop to hunt for food as resources are rare in late summer.

While he worked with bees for years and said that he was very comfortable around him, this situation was frightened to him.

“I think it’s the most nervous that I have felt. … There are thousands of bees, I don’t know where they are coming from, and I need to protect all honey.”

Versatile bees found their way through cracks in the old bay door of the shop.

When a bee finds a good food source, it returns to the hive and does “Vagal dance” to tell other bees, where there is food, McDonald’s said.

After throwing tarps and lids on equipment and products, and managing most of it, McDonald’s stated that she stated the attacker to trap the bees “” her bathroom sacrifice “: she abandoned the light, and the bees attracted the bees where she could collect and then leave them.

But it took four or five days until the bees tried to return.

“I think they have learned that, no, there is no other food here. We cannot go inside.”

McDonald’s has ever tapped the shop door.

He said that when the robbers attacked their bees by the bees, this is the first time he found his indoor shop.

“Fall beekeeping is very intense – trying to help Hankar of bees against other bees and wasp and trying to keep the food reserves for which they have worked so hard.”

The so -called robber bees are a fairly common phenomenon in late summer and early decline.

Alison McAi, a research colleague at the BC and Honeyibi Scientist University, said that when there are low food resources, such as nectar-productive flowers, and bee population is close to its peak, some forever colonies can attack weak colonies to steal their food.

“It is almost as they have a level of desperation, the way you can think in the way that there is a level of frustration about beers that are trying to be torn for winter,” McFi said.

He said that wasp can also attack Honeybee – but for a little different reasons. Wattas eat a sugary substance in the season before their own larvae, but in the fall, there are low larvae and more adult wasp.

“They are not getting that sweet treatment from their children, essentially, and so they are especially motivated to get something sweet from elsewhere, because adults actually prefer to eat sugars items – and there is too much sugar inside a honeybee colony.”

But the wasp is not only a bee-career there.

McAfee said that a bee colony dacoit can die from bees, if it is very weak to protect itself.

“We have a bad opinion about the wasp,” he said. “We are liking,” Oh, those wasp, they are attacking our honey bee colonies, they are killing my bees. ” But then a lot of time, in fact, bees will also kill our bees. ,

McDonald is back to produce honey after a few days of cleaning.

She said that bees seem more desperate this year than in the past, and thought that it could be due to extended heat as it still looks like a midsmor.

McDonald’s encouraged other beekeepers to keep their bees well fed, so they do not feel the need to loot other urticaries.