Beehive Removal

[caseydog]

I needed to think about this BTW for a bit.
Since they were going in and out-they were mostly all alive right? If it was nearing sunset, the bees in the fields, the worker bees were all going home and wanting to get into the hive. They don't stay out at night. If it was after sunrise, or mid day, they would be leaving the hive. There is a waggle dance they do also to signal to the other workers where the honey flowers are, which looks like going into and out of the hive at the entrance.

If 'the swarm' was live bees cleaning out the hive, there might have also been a pile of dead bees. They take out the dead bees and remove them from the hive usually dropping them right out of the entrance area.

Since the hive was only days old, I assume they were coming and going, actively building the hive. I got home in the afternoon, so bees should have been active at the time.

It was a pretty tight gap, so I imagine there was a bit of a traffic jam. This hive was not in a beekeeping frame, made for easy in-and-out for the bees.

CD