The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Bees & Beekeeping => Topic started by: Laurieston on July 12, 2014, 10:50:33 pm
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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?
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I sometimes hear a bit of a roaring coming from the hive, but not purring
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Isn't that what Granny Weatherwax heard when she went to consult her bees?
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Isn't that what Granny Weatherwax heard when she went to consult her bees?
Oh, she heard all sorts of things! ;D
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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.
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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)