William DeMeo wrote:
if you let them roam freely how come they dont run away?
Americans are free, and they don't leave either, this is a mystery to me, except then I think about who would let them in.
Oooh, bit of politics there... meh, I'm sure if I grew up pledging allegiance to a flag every morning I'd stay too. Oh lordy the social commentary just will not stop.
Anyway, I think the bees stay because the home, over many hundreds of years of trial and error, has been evolved and arrived at where it is today, the bees feel like it would be insanity to leave it.
It provides all the things that the bees look for in a wild or natural home in buckets, warmth, shelter, protection from predators, perfect internal sizing and so on.
About the only thing it doesn't have is height. Bees would prefer to nest at 2-3m above ground, but that would make stealing their honey inconvenient. (and these days you'd need a 3 day seminar on working at heights, scaffolding and rescue equipment)
Anyway, with the tournament over, I can get around finally to dealing with all the videos and shit I've been trying to make. I've not even been inside the hives for 2 weeks. We really monstrously messed up the last hive inspection and we've been staying out of their way since. Also, nothing has been happening since the last update, but changes are afoot inside the pretty hive we can tell, it's so damm busy. I've got some photos from yesterday I can post later when I get home. It was 30 degrees here yesterday and they went nuts.
