Worried about my hive

[Sundog]

I put a brownie tray with a #8 screen under the SBB of my Langstroth, just just to see what might fall in.  What I found after eight days was...  no bugs, no bees, no beetles, just a lot of yellowish debris.  kind of smelly too.  I used water with a bit of dish soap to break the surface tension.  The colony appears healthy, although they haven't been coming home very well loaded lately, but neither have the bees in my other (Top Bar) hive.

Having fun, but a bit concerned.

[salvo]

A couple of times, once mid-summer, and again about three weeks ago, I too noticed this mucous on my drop board under the sbb. A cream colored snotty thing. I was looking to count varroa so I paid no attention to it, hoping it was probably normal. I was blocking.

There was a splotch or maybe two on each of my boards (I have two hives). I had a varroa count close to thirty on the boards, that prompted me to use Apiguard. I'm in the third week of treatment. Nothing extraordinary to report. Both hives doing ok.

Now that you brought it up, what was that mucous? Bee Phlegm?

Salvo

[Sundog]

I know..  I should have taken a photo, my bad.  Not phlegm or snot, I don't think.  Too granular.  Maybe just bee turds?

("Brought up phlegm...", I get it!  :roll:)

Too much fun!

[Kathyp]

pollen that they dropped?

[Tommyt]

 yellowish debris

pollen that they dropped?

and wax crumbles  :-D

Tommyt

[T Beek]

Yeah I'm w/ the pollen and debris crowd.

thomas