Problems with a split

[Chef Isaac]

Hello all! I made a split from a hive on April 14th. I put three frames of brood in it and 1 frame of honey and pollen and today, I just put a 5th frame of undrawn foundation in it. When I was inserting the frame, I decided to look and see how the nuc was doing. I saw a few problems that I would like peoples opinion on.

1) I saw a lot of really small black ants. I am not sure what to do about it. I do not want to put the hive on a hive stand with legs. Currently it is on some bricks. I was thinking of podwering them with cinnamon. Any thoughts?

2) when I looked in the frames, I saw brood that had emerged half way and than died. Why is this? I do not understand it. The weather has been pretty good lately.

3) I also noticed that larvea had little black spots on it. I am not sure what those little black spots are. I did not take any out and I am somewhat sure it is not varoa mites as the main hive I used to make the splits is really healthy with no mites. A short conclusion is that, in my opinion, it might have been the ants that killed the larvea? I am not so sure. I have never experianced these problems.

I did not see the queen on this trip however, I was not really looking for her.

I am not sure what to do. Any thoughts are suggestions would be great.

Thanks

[Chef Isaac]

I am thinking about just requeening. I do not have any solid reason to justafy this but I have never seen outcomes like this.

i bought a queen from a beekeeper who wasent the most honest person (of course you do not know that until you get burnt) and I am not sure about the queen he sold me.

Any suggestions?

[BULLSEYE BILL]

>I saw brood that had emerged half way and than died.

I think you do not have enough bees in your nuc to keep the brood warm. The wax is too cold and they don't have the strength and warmth to get out.

Ants usually go for the honey and carry off granuals of sugar and other small debris.

[Chef Isaac]

So I take some more bees from the main hive and give to te nuc eh?

What do I do about the ants? Cinnamon?

[BULLSEYE BILL]

>What do I do about the ants?

What are they doing when you look inside of the hive? Are they on the frames?