Honey Toxicity testing?

[hiptfarms]

Does anyone know if honey can be tested to see if there are any residues from pesticides?  I lost a hive that appeared strong and it seemed suspicious. - Dead bees piled on the bottom board and dead bees throughout the hive.  Plenty of honey - both fully capped and some uncapped.  I wanted to take the remaining frames  to another site where I have a hive and let those bees have the honey.  I was experiencing some robbing of one super that I left exposed to allow the fireants to leave.  An excaped swarm (I assume) cleaned out the one super but the other super I left covered and on a stand whereby the fireants cannot reach it.  That super looks untouched and I see no signs of the robber bees anywhere!

I wondered if perhaps there was something toxic in the honey that may have killed off the original hive and then did away with the robbers as well.  If I could have the honey tested that would ease  my mind a bit.  The hive was located in the middle of my 129 acres and it looked as though it had been fumigated or something.  It was situated on a large powerline right-of-way that is accessed  by two very large power companies.  They use herbicides but that shouldn't have hurt the bees I would think.

Any suggestions?

[Michael Bush]

Pesticides are likely.  Someone was spraying somewhere.  They can be tested but it's expensive.  Notify the department of Agriculture and see what they can do for you.

[Brian D. Bray]

Your local county extension agent can probably give you some direction on this and is much easier to deal with than the state or federal agricultural departments.