Can confirm. When you’re removing honey frames or hive parts that have had honey spilled on them you have to be on the lookout for scouts. One or two can quickly escalate into dozens. And they have no qualms about coming indoors.

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bregma 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

We always leave our harvested frames outside until after dark because (a) the bees go to "sleep" at night and (2) at the time of year we're usually harvesting the temperature drops into the single digits (Celsius). But the problem is not usually robbers, it's defenders from the hive you just harvested.

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afandian 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t you find cold stowaways hiding between the frames the next day? I have in the past, when I’ve missed one or two.

	▲	cryptonector 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's always stragglers who stuck with the honey rather than going home. It's sad.

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xandrius 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Basically protecting their strage from the real robbers, from their perspective.

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cryptonector 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> And they have no qualms about coming indoors.

Bees don't like small, dark indoor spaces. But a honey house can easily be large and well-lighted, and they might not notice that it's indoors.