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I cleaned two beehives (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dihutenosa@piefed.social to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
 

It's finally warm enough here, so I could clean all the corpses out of the two hives that survived the winter (one got eaten by a mouse).

There was around 2cm layer of dead bees in there, so the surviving ones had to find an alternate way to go out for a walk. I'm happy to see that there was plenty of food for the winter, though, and they're already raising the next generation of brood.

For extra dull points, the bees were so dull that I didn't have to wear a mask or gloves.

The bees in the photo are dead, in case you wonder. I tossed them out and returned the comb to their live relatives.

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[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

In this instance, it's clearly nature over nurture. This is a cultured breed, or was, at any rate (I don't have evidence that they swapped out the queen).