Howdy, just a quick question. I have 3 established hives all with first year queens. I just harvested 22 gallons of honey from them. Then, I put the supers back out in the yard to get cleaned up. When I went out to check how clean the supers were, I found (50-75)dead bees in front of one of the hives. I searched inside the hive and found hundreds of dead bees on the bottom board. There is a ton of live bees still in the hive along with fresh brood (saw a little girl coming out of her cell), also alot of the frames have nicely capped out honey. The other 2 hives are within 1-2 feet of this hive. It is in the mid 90's in the day and high 70's at night with very little rain here lately (but ,we have several pools and a river close by). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank y'all, Kevin
Sounds like putting the wet supers out to be cleaned up incited a robbing incident.
I kind of was thinking that. Thanks
Quote from: Natalie on July 11, 2009, 09:12:06 PM
Sounds like putting the wet supers out to be cleaned up incited a robbing incident.
i agree, I always put mine wet super about 100 feet from the hives and let them work them over about 2 days, then put them in trash bags and then in a freezer for 20 hours, then I store unless I need them for other hives.
Could it be from a crop duster? What do the bees do if they got into that toxic stuff?
They died of a broken heart because their whole summer's work was taken away from them... :'( :'(
It sounds more like pesticide to me. If it were robbing, they would still be doing it. They don't stop once they start.
Quote from: iddee on August 16, 2009, 09:00:12 PM
They died of a broken heart because their whole summer's work was taken away from them... :'( :'(
LOLQuote from: iddee on August 16, 2009, 09:00:12 PM
It sounds more like pesticide to me. If it were robbing, they would still be doing it. They don't stop once they start.
diitto
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