Today I looked in my hives and one of them was dead, but I don't know why- There could be many reasons so I have a few questions. Okay here is what I can see. There are fecal stains on the comb/top bars so I'm thinking dysentery or nosema. The package was bought this spring and no honey was taken off in the fall (I wintered them in 3 deeps, also wrapped). They were under inner cover so I started dry sugar feeding on inner cover and they wouldn't take any, the inner cover has dead bees around the outside just laying their, and bees appeared to be mingling around the hive all over. Still a lot of drones (dead of course!) with the workers. Also there appeared to be a lot of brood around. The second DHB still has honey (capped/uncapped) and there is not much pollen. So my questions if you could please help are: What did they die of? If so does the hive need to be treated? Can I extract the honey of feed it to other bees? Help! P.S. some pictues are at http://home.earthlink.net/~bschmidtbauer/id9.html
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