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  1. Robbing

    Robbing is a term used in beekeeping. Bees from one beehive will try to rob honey from another hive.

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  1. Robbing

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  1. Robbing

    Robbing is a term used in beekeeping. Bees from one beehive will try to rob honey from another hive. Robbing behavior is especially strong when there is little nectar in the field. Strong colonies with the largest stores are the most apt to prey upon weaker colonies. Some robbing is carried out so secretly that it escapes notice. Most of the time, when robbing is going on, one can see bees from the opposing hives fight. The fights can lead to significant losses of bees. Robbing may go on between hives in one apiary or hives of different apiaries. Among the races of the Western honeybee the Italian bee has been identified with an especially strong tendency to rob. Robbing can be prevented by reducing the entrances of the hive so the attacked hive has a better chance of defending itself. Bees are immediately attracted when a hive is opened and honey supers are removed. In the US South, robbing is an archaic term for removing honey. Beekeepers do not actually "rob" bees in modern times, but "harvest a surplus." Some historical methods of bee "keeping" actually were bee "robbing" in that hives were killed for harvest. As recently as the 1940s Southern beekeepers would "sulphur" hives to take honey. This killed the hives and required bee "keepers" to catch spring swarms to replenish their livestock. In some extreme latitudes bees are still killed at the end of the season to take all their honey, then bees are imported from lower latitudes to begin the next season, but this practice is also dying out, mostly due to expense and movement restrictions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ROBBING in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ROBBING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ROBBING in a Sentence

  1. Harold Prévil:

    What frustrated me a lot and made me feel really sad and sick was that I thought that the Haitian people and the Haitians who were in charge of the country would have taken [the earthquake] as an opportunity to make the country better, but it has not happened. My leaders have become more selfish, they have been robbing more. So instead of taking the opportunity to change the country, they've made it worse.

  2. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

    ***(C)(P) I, RAS CARDO AM HERE TO DEBUNK ALL THE LIES TOLD OVER THE YEARS BY THOSE IN THE-REGGAE- MURDEROUS MUSIC INDUSTRY, AND TO DECLARE THE DECEITS AND DECEPTIONS ABSOLUTELY FALSE.I WILL SHOW ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE AND CALL THEM OUT SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND THE WORLD WILL SEE JUST WHO THEY ARE AND THOSE CONNECTED TO ROBBING THE PEOPLE. THY KEEP HIDDEN FOR DECADES NOW.

  3. Deborah Lehr:

    ISIS is arming its campaign of terror in part by selling the past and robbing future generations of our history, we must constrict the terrorists ’ ability to profit from the sale of plundered antiquities.

  4. John Bercow:

    One should no more refuse to request an extension of Article 50 because of what one might regard as the noble end of departing from the EU as soon as possible, than one could possibly excuse robbing a bank on the basis that the cash stolen would be donated to a charitable cause immediately afterwards.

  5. Mike Madrid:

    Abortion and crime are visceral issues that have an immediate concern to female voters, both are based on fears in a way, the fear of losing reproductive autonomy versus the fear of somebody breaking into your car, your home, somebody robbing you, or raping you.

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