Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Robbery

It is hard to believe that we have such wet weather this summer. Rain, rain, rain. I didn’t say bad weather because in a way I liked it; I had an essay to write. Though, on the other hand I wished so much to go to the mountains a few more times; now it keeps snowing up there. If we won’t have an Indian summer this autumn, so that snow will melt, I can say farewell dear mountains at this very moment.
Wet weather is also toilful for the bees. There’s a lack of food for them and illnesses take a huge toll among them. Well, the lack of food caused that the small hive on my balcony was a victim of robbery. Our bees had hive full of honey and obviously some alien and hungry bees smelled it. Too many bees died in just half an hour. Luckily I was at home, so that I could close the hive before all were killed. I took them to my cousin, who is a beekeeper, too. I almost closed the entrance of the other two hives, so that the bees can easier defend their hive from alien bees.

A sad story indeed. And I found out that it is really difficult to make a good photo of bees …

3 comments:

Feronia said...

Oh, the poor bees! I had no idea this could happen.

Pina said...

Yes, here, where I live, this can happen, because there's not enough food for the bees in nature. Especially this year is critical due to the bad weather we keep having during this summer.

Feronia said...

I watched an interesting documentary about the varroa mite on tv. Bees are really under threat, but thankfully not in Australia as yet.