[tecumseh]

a well populated hive rarely gets robbed. it is the weak hive and those with weak queens that seem to be the prime suspect. play flight (where the young bees take their first flight and memorize where home is located) and robbing look somewhat alike. with robbing you have a bit different tone generated by the bees and you have guard bees and robbers wresting around on the ground (most of the time in good enough numbers that it is difficult to ignore).

robbing screens help in such situations. actually to me robbing (by the bees and not by humans) is really more like looting than robbing.

 

[tecumseh]

nice picture Iddee. worth at least a thousand words. add a bit of audio and raise the price to two thousand words.

 

[tecumseh]

perrybee writes:
I also don't think you see the kind of build up in the entranceway with playflights like you do with robbing (especially in those pictures)

tecumseh:
# 6 was a very nice description perrybee. with robbing the accumulation of bees is entering the hive and at leat when play flight begins the new bees come flowing out like water.