Well... Why Does A Colony Need Water Daring Cool Weather?Hang on - this is not just another how to water-your-colony article

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Bees need water - I get it. What else have you got?Bees and their warm weather water needs have been the subject of numerous articles that many others and I have written in recent years. Primarily, my pieces centered on the concerns that my near neighbors had about water foragers at birdbaths and how thebees were keeping the birds away. At times, swimming pools were involved in the complaints.Initially, I defended the bees to my neighbors, but over time and after viewing many water-foraging episodes, I was forced to admit that my bees were keeping birds from watering at my neighbor's device. At any given time during the warm day, there couldbe hundreds up to a few thousand bees gathering water.