{"id":559,"date":"2015-08-07T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=559"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:36:13","slug":"marauder-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Marauder Bees – Aug 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1214\"<\/a>Jan 2015 \u00a0– Newbie homesteaders in\u00a0Florida lost their entire hive to marauder bees. \u00a0 The home bees attempted to defend themselves, but even adding a reducer at the entrance and covering the hive with a sheet to keep the renegade bees out did not help. \u00a0“It only took 24 hours…everything in the hive was gone.” \u00a0A neighboring beekeeper suggested that the bees may have destroyed their own hive and left, when they saw that they couldn’t win the fight. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do marauder bees come from? \u00a0Bees that run out of pollen sources or have too much honey taken out of the hive, and are not supplemented with sugar water, have to go out raiding\u00a0other hives. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

There’s not too much information about it on youTube or searching on Google. \u00a0I did find this entry in “Routledge’s Cheap Literature”. \u00a0It’s a book written by John George Wood, and published in 1862.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lovely illustrations…<\/p>\n

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The author’s advice for discouraging the marauders is to make the reducer into a tunnel or tube, in hopes that the villains will not venture in. \u00a0We’ll have to try it…but the book<\/a> is great if you would like to read it on Google eBooks. \u00a0Search for ‘marauder bees’…<\/p>\n

Anyone have any other advice?<\/span><\/p>\n

Best,<\/span><\/p>\n

U.M. Schin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan 2015 \u00a0– Newbie homesteaders in\u00a0Florida lost their entire hive to marauder bees. \u00a0 The home bees attempted to defend themselves, but even adding a reducer at the entrance and covering the hive with a sheet to keep the renegade bees out did not help. \u00a0“It only took 24 hours…everything in the hive was gone.” … Continue reading Marauder Bees – Aug 2015<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild-things","tag-bees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-91","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}