Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post
I've noticed that they definitely seem to concentrate efforts around our mating hives mid morning and again during the afternoon. We also seem to have higher losses from those boxes than ones on a site about a mile away. Just got to grow a few extra queens to balance things out .
Do these boxes have a lot of drone activity? With their clumsy flight and juicy chunkiness (and lack of a sting) I'd have thought they'd be the prime targets.