29/06/2025
"Wash Boarding" This is an interesting act the honey bees perform at times. This hive was doing this out off all my hives the other day. No one really knows why the honey bees do this, but some think its an act of cleaning. Some think they are leaving their pheromones (bee scent) The girls move back an forth, usually spaced equally in lines, with their rear legs holding in place and rapidly dragging their front legs across the surface. They also use their mandibles (the jaws of a honey bee), which bite, chew, shape wax, ect. During wash boarding they seem to be trying to scratch or biting the surface.
It is very interesting!
If you would like to see a very close video look at this please go to my friends YouTube page
Frederick J. Dunn "The way to Bee"
https://youtu.be/3fdtl2gxDUA?si=Jndi16-5Xgjv0zQL