crawling bees

I have been bee keeping since 2015 and have had lost my first hive two years after I started my second hive in 2017. This spring (here in Florida that is end of February) I had two healthy hives on was three years old and the other was one year old. The one year old was a new queen (russian) and...

Hi - I'm a new beekeeper and I really need some help identifying what has happened to my package of bees. Short version: received package mid April, fed the bees a 1:1 syrup in a top feeder (not boiled - just hot water to mix), and within the first week there were a number of bees crawling...

Today is one of those days as a first year beekeeper I ask "Now why did I decide to do this again?!". I would appreciate some feedback and advice on this situation. I have two hives I got from packages in April. Both seemed to be doing reasonably well all spring and summer building up their...