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Dealing With Summer Robbing (136)
It's the time of year when summer is nearly over, but the fall flow hasn't started. Colonies are big, there's lot of foragers, and not much to forage on, yet.
A colony that is ripe for being robbed is usually small, weak, and not able to defend itself. When the beekeeper starts working these colonies, foragers from other nearby colonies may find them, harvest a bit of honey, head home and tell everybody what you just found. "Come on girls, there's lots of food right over here. Let me waggle you a map!"
The robbed colony of course takes a dim view of all this, lot of fighting breaks out…
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