From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:46:40 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Lost a hive, what do you think I did wrong?

At 13/05/01 09:29:00, you wrote:
>I had 2 supers 3 weeks old started from 4 frame nucs. One did good, the
>other did not ... Yesterday the bad hive had swarming activity (for the
>1st time),... I looked inside and there were lots and
>lots of dead bees (but the queen was there)... Late in the night I checked
>again and the hive had maybe 10 bees in it
>This morning I looked and the bad hive had bees crawling all over it and
>swarming, ... and saw some fighting and
>sucking of the comb which was pretty clean anyhow.

>So any suggestions as to what I did wrong and what probably
>happened?

Always hard to say from a text description but here's what it sounds like to me:

Your bad hive got robbed out to destruction. May have dwindled first through drift or
queen not laying (speculation), but once the population got low the neighbours muscled in on the action, hence the dead bees from fighting.

-Pav, hoping you're being philosophical about it.

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