3 Simple Factors That Make Bees Go Away

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We have a look at the factors which affect what time of day bees come out. We have a look at when bees go away and explore whether they come out at night.

Under normal conditions, which we can consider being average environmental conditions.

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Air Temperature - below 50°F bees will make short trips out of the hive. Light Intensity - Bees generally wake up and begin leaving the hive.

General Normal Conditions

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Moonlight -  bees don’t like to fly when it is too cold, and when it is warm, they are up at dawn and home by dusk,

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Exceptional Abnormal Conditions

Exceptional Flowers - Flowers pay insect pollinators for pollination services with nectar. 

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Exceptional Abnormal Conditions

Sugar Sources - One of their main ingredients was glucose.

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Exceptional Abnormal Conditions

Free Glucose - bees gathered and collected concentrated pure glucose and carted this back to their hives.

They just had to fly a few feet from the hive, drink glucose and stumble home. 

When Do Bees Go  Away

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Bees come out when it is warm and light enough for them to do their work. If it is cold, they pop out to go to the lot. 

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