If you recall a few weeks or so ago, the bees were all hanging outside the hive. For a while, I thought they were going to swarm, but it was because they were so hot inside. I did two things to help them, inserting a stick or rock under the top cover lets in air, and I removed the entrance reducer. Between those two actions, what a difference! I haven't seen this kind of scenario again so now the bees can concentrate on gathering.
In the interest of full disclosure, my grandson got stung in my yard last week. We were hand picking japanese beetles off some plants on that side of the house but not really near the hive. Rather than spray them with poison, I pick them off and drop them into a can of water and then cover them. Cruel but safer then pesticides. He was helping me.
Somehow a bee found him and stung him on the. I am not sure why but there may have been a bee in the clover that he stepped on. He was very brave after the shock wore off!
It happens. I refuse to give in to a few bee stings but family will be better off on the other side of the house where the hive isn't.
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