No, not something Baden Powell would be worrying about ... I have a bait hive on concrete slabs in the garden. It's being getting a reasonable amount of attention from scouts over the last week. As it's on slabs it's easy to see that a fair number of them are perishing right outside the hive (I've been counting the corpses). I've not seen any fighting and the hive remains unoccupied (and may continue so as a swarm arrived at another bait hive 600 m away this afternoon).
Has anyone else seen this? Does this represent the usual attrition rate of old adult bees? Or what?
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