fall brood frames

[gdog]

I checked my bees and found that the brood frames have very little covered brood, larva or eggs if any eggs. it seems they have changed over the brood frames to honey but it is not yet capped honey. Is this normal?

Also the smell of vineger is present is this from the fall goldenrod? I pulled a frame and the honey has the smell of vineger but is sweeter than the honey I pulled at the end of summer.

[LoriMNnice]

I think you may need to tell people where you are located in order for them to help answer your question accurately.

[Riggs]

I asked about pretty much the same problem last week, I hope this helps.

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,34950.0.html

[Finski]

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Impossible to say....what should be normal there...

Sounds like the queen has troubles to lay.
-  Few capped brood - a new queen
- no eggs - the queen has become sick like nosema
- spotted brood area? Sick, too much inbreeding?

Rigg has another kind of trouble. District give no yield.

If you have a mesh floor, perhaps the hive is too cold that tiny colony can keep a large brood area.

One possibily is that the hive has swarmed twice and the rest colony is small after swarming.

What about varroa?

[Finski]

I think you may need to tell people where you are located in order for them to help answer your question accurately.

this is the best answer.

[gdog]

live in Wisconsin, milwaukee area

[Hemlock]

I checked my bees and found that the brood frames have very little covered brood, larva or eggs if any eggs. it seems they have changed over the brood frames to honey but it is not yet capped honey. Is this normal?

Yes.  In Fall the bees brood less and backfill the brood area with nectar/honey.  Talk to a local beek to check the timing of this in your area.  Queenlessness can be an issue so make sure you have a queen.

[T Beek]

This time of the year, temp depending, a beek really has to 'see' a queen as she may have stopped laying all together. 

thomas