by honeybs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(beekeep)
Aug 6, 2007 at 12:29 PM
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:13:25 -0700, dave-rawlins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Hi folks
>Does anyone out there recognise what these bees are doing and why.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ZBUETa2xw
>
>About a dozen or so kept it up, on their flight board for over an
>hour. It had been a hot day and the temperature at the time of
>filming was 25C but other bees from this hive, and bees from an
>adjacent hive, did not appear to be heat-stressed. To the best of my
>knowledge nothing had been spilt on the flight board and when they are
>cleaning up spilt honey bees don't usually move like this.
>
>Living in one of the most heavily sprayed counties in the UK. I'm a
>bit paranoid about unusual behaviour as a symptom of neurological/
>spray damage.
>
>Any ideas/observations gratefully received.
>
They are doing what is called "washboarding." They will do it by the hour
and
nobody really knows why they do it. Nothing to worry about!
beekeep
