Albatrossity2
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| Quote (Assassinator @ April 30 2008,12:25) | | Question: how the hell do you keep those bees in the box, and isn't such a hive way to heavy for a cardboard box like that? |
The bees stay in the box as long as the queen is there. It was really interesting; the bee guys knew that they had captured the queen because immediately some of the worker bees positioned themselves around the vent at the top of the box, and started fanning their wings rapidly, to keep the temperature in the box comfy enough for a queen.
And it is not a permanent home, but merely a transport device to get them to a regular wooden new hive/home. I'd imagine that the whole swarm weighed under a kilogram, so the box could easily hold them.
Nice bird, BTW.
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