Remember, last fall when someone gave me a hive, sorry,...can't find my old post!
Anyway, this hive got started on its own and the fellow, who gave it to me, didn't want it, [his dad used to keep bees]
The hive came in one deep, 9 frames, everything looked fine, and have fed them before going into winter, but noticed allot of dying bees outside the hive.
I knew for sometime, that they where all dead, have open it up and most of the dead bees where on the bottom board. There was about 2 1/2 frames full of caped honey, but since I'm going to start new this year, I wanted to burn everything, because wasn't sure, in what condition these combs are.
But then I thought, first I'm going to show it to this former bee keeper in town, to see what he would do, .....he said, they had foulbrood, but he wouldn't throe them away, or burn them, he would still use them and treat the bees as such??
I'm not willing to do this yet, until I get some information from you!
I'm thinking like this...
If I would still keep it as a bee lure only, since, according to you, old comb is good for this right? But I would do this away from my "new" hive [many miles] and if I can catch a swarm or bees and treat them with AFB and eventually, slowly get rid of old combs...would that be OK ??
Konrad
Anyway, this hive got started on its own and the fellow, who gave it to me, didn't want it, [his dad used to keep bees]
The hive came in one deep, 9 frames, everything looked fine, and have fed them before going into winter, but noticed allot of dying bees outside the hive.
I knew for sometime, that they where all dead, have open it up and most of the dead bees where on the bottom board. There was about 2 1/2 frames full of caped honey, but since I'm going to start new this year, I wanted to burn everything, because wasn't sure, in what condition these combs are.
But then I thought, first I'm going to show it to this former bee keeper in town, to see what he would do, .....he said, they had foulbrood, but he wouldn't throe them away, or burn them, he would still use them and treat the bees as such??
I'm not willing to do this yet, until I get some information from you!
I'm thinking like this...
If I would still keep it as a bee lure only, since, according to you, old comb is good for this right? But I would do this away from my "new" hive [many miles] and if I can catch a swarm or bees and treat them with AFB and eventually, slowly get rid of old combs...would that be OK ??
Konrad
