Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: colbees on March 12, 2012, 08:14:21 pm
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is it ok to place a hive near water and, should you have an enterance reducer on the hive right when you first put the bees in it. :camp:
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Water is good....and yes a small entrance is necessary until the hive is well established.
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I keep reducers on most of my hives year round. (I also run screened bottoms year round also)
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Define water? Lake Superior, or a mountain stream?
Bees need water for evaporative cooling in the summer and for raising brood. Having a source of water nearby is a good thing. My bees like sucking water out of mud, peat moss, or sawdust I have setting a 5 gallon bucket waiting to get dumped. Sometimes, lazy pays! They also like bird baths.
They have no problem flying to a water source, so it’s not like you need to park your hives on some river bank. I would probably go for a sunny site over river bank myself.
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Define water?
You also want to avoid someplace that is perpertually damp.
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How near is near ??? 6'' or 6'
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
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I wouldn't want them low enough they get flooded or low enough that the air is always moist... they seem to do better part way up a hill rather than in the bottom of a valley.
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Hi sorry i didnt tell you it is a small swamp that im going to put the hive near and there is about 6-7 feet in front of it that is dry land.
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Perfect.