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Laurieston

  • Joined May 2009
  • Northern Germany
is there a cat in my hive?
« on: July 12, 2014, 10:50:33 pm »
Several times this year I have heard a purring coming out of my hive.  It sounded like a cat.  I could hear it from outside the unopened hive.

Has anyone else heard something like this?

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: is there a cat in my hive?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2014, 05:46:18 pm »
I sometimes hear a bit of a roaring coming from the hive, but not purring

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: is there a cat in my hive?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2014, 09:31:33 pm »

Isn't that what Granny Weatherwax heard when she went to consult her bees?
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Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: is there a cat in my hive?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2014, 07:21:42 am »

Isn't that what Granny Weatherwax heard when she went to consult her bees?

Oh, she heard all sorts of things!  ;D

cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: is there a cat in my hive?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2014, 11:30:02 pm »
Several times this year I have heard a purring coming out of my hive.  It sounded like a cat.  I could hear it from outside the unopened hive.

Has anyone else heard something like this?

 It sounds as though the field bees were working a nectar flow and the hive bees were fanning the uncapped honey to reduce the moisture so it can be capped  . Their fanning also produces heat so you'll have also have had the "  ventilation bee " fanning like mad to keep the hive temp down to stop the wax melting and collapsing the combs.
Strong belief , triggers the mind to find the way ... Dyslexia just makes it that bit more amusing & interesting

Laurieston

  • Joined May 2009
  • Northern Germany
Re: is there a cat in my hive?
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2014, 08:33:48 pm »
Man they work hard those bees.  I'm glad I'm not one.

Thanks for all the replies.

(I'll see if I can record it sometime and try to attach the audio file)

 

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