NEED HELP

[GSF]

Something could be eating the dead bees at night. That's strange, I hope you get an answer.

[OldMech]

I would call the state inspector and have him come by to look.  Collect some of the bees etc and find out what they are getting into..

[Santa Caras]

Think maybe some robbing was going on? Tween the feeding, which can attract robbers, and this time of year is really bad about that happening. You said you'd see clumps of 4-5 of them fall off and hit the ground? Sounds like defenders defending the hive and the dead bees are the result of the fighting going on. A coon or some other animal at night maybe doing the cleanup work on the carcass's.

[robinh]

I only have the one hive so I don't think it could be robbing .I don't have any neighbors close to me that have bees.The clumps of bees are only happening after they have been on the ground for a while like they are trying to group back up.They walk around aimlessly and when they crawl up on something like grass or the hive stand (4x4) they crawl up a little and fall off. From everything I have researched it seems possible that it could be tracheal mites :?

[Michael Bush]

>Beet sugar will give them diarrhea.

I haven't used it since the GMO and neonics got popular, but I fed beet sugar for more than 30 years with no issues.

I suppose there are a few possibilities.  Pesticides.  Bad syrup (boiled and has too much HMF).  Nosema ceranae.  Not much you can do about any of it except maybe the syrup.  The latest research is that Fumidil make Nosema ceranae worse.  Feeding might help.  It used to help with Nosema apis before ceranae took over.  You can't really make pesticides go away.