Dead hive - what should I do with frames?

[FRAMEshift]

Ah that's a different matter.   :-D   How long has it been since the second swarm?  Your queen left and maybe it was too late in the year for a new queen to mate.  Or maybe 90 percent of the hive swarmed.  That would explain everything.

[rdy-b]

**The hive that just died was the 1st swarm.  I still have the original hive and the 2nd swarm which I assume still has the original queen.  Just a note - all three hives sit on the same stand - only a few inches between them.  Is it possible that the middle hive could die and the two end hives live if it is CCD?**


maybe the first swarm had a biger mite load-im sticking to mites- :lol:
RDY-B

[Bellavista2]

I'm in northern ca. also and had one of my 4 hives die under very similar circumstances. I treated for mites in Oct.and at that time they looked great. One thing I discovered was that by blowing the frames off with the air nozzle the dead bees poped right out of the cells and cleaned up the frames very quickly. While blowing them off I saw what looked to me to be a young dead queen so I think the old queen died and the younger one didn't have time to get laying. Some people say Northern Ca. starts around Stockton which is like 4 hrs. south of where I live near Redding. I think that would make it around 80,000 sq. miles. Excuse the long winded post just rambling.

[rdy-b]

  well from what you just said about the compresed air --i would say your bees
starved to death-- :lol:--when they are dead head first in the cells thats why-most times---
stockton would have to be more of a central california - 8-) RDY-B