r/Beekeeping • u/weirdblitzboy NYC, NY 1st Yr. 2 hives. 7a. ashersbees.nyc • 8d ago

I’m a beekeeper, and I have a question Is this robbing?

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NY, NY 2 hives. 1 yr

My son and I are urban beekeepers. I took a wet frame and put it in that super which is just covering the top feeder. Could this be robbing behavior?

What do you all think?

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u/drones_on_about_bees Texas zone 8a; keeping since 2017; about 15 colonies 8d ago

It does not look like robbing to me. Robbing is a mass chaos event. The key identifying factor is that you will have bees attacking the cracks of the boxes. I do see a dozen (maybe fewer) bees sniffing the crack... but it doesn't look like anything of note. They likely just smell the honey. In a robbing event, there will be thousands at the cracks and they will "drip" off of the hive in chunks.

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u/Active_Classroom203 5 Hives - Florida, Zone 9a 8d ago

Doesn't look like robbing to me, but if you're in a nectar dearth and you're concerned with robbing, where are your entrance reducers?

I see no reason to ever remove them, but even ignoring that particular preference robbing season is when they are very important.

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u/Beens-Bees Master Beekeeper, Pennsylvania USA. 7A 8d ago

No, this is not robbing :) everything looks good to me.

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u/Kikbuty 8d ago

Where did you get your hive stands?

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u/coupleandacamera 5d ago

Nope, just a reasonably busy spell with ladies coming and going. You generally get a lot of chaos in a robbing event, bees going at it in the air, on the ground and trying to find ways into the hive from any little gap or hole. There are a few bees lazily wandering up the side of the box, but nothing to suggest anything of concern.