[little lion]

I believe I've fed infected honey to a healthy hive.
The very next day has dead bees and bees pulling live sick appearing bees out of the hive.
I feel a lot more than stupid.
Is there anything I can do/should do?

 

[little_john]

Infected or toxic honey ? Sick bees the very next day sounds more like a poison/toxin to me. What's the full story - from where did you source that honey, and why were you giving it to that hive ?
LJ

 

[rwlaw]

About the only thing you can do is put some 1/1 sugar syrup on em and hopefully it’ll help flush the toxins out of the less severely affected.
This is the poster child example of never feed honey back to a colony except if it came from it.
Sorry to be crass but back in the day when I did cutouts, if I couldn’t give it away for consumption I’d toss it. Wasn’t worth the risk, knowing what scavengers bees are sometimes.

 

[little lion]

It was from my yard, my third hive. They couldn't requeen. There was one comb I just should have ditched. I put the frames from a top super of the third hive on my backporch and let the other two hives rob them out.

I put a political sign beneathe the super and today found there about 1/2 inch worth of dead bees after all the robbing. I'm sick over this.

Among the bees out front I found a near baby bee not yet completely formed pulled out.

 

[little lion]

Going to do this

 

[little lion]

One more question.
Do you think the comb in the infected hive is worthless?

 

[crofter]

One more question.
Do you think the comb in the infected hive is worthless?

I would consider it in quarantine until you identify definitely what the problem is. Make certain it does not get robbed out by other colonies.

 

[GregV]

There was one comb I just should have ditched..

Based on what circumstance?

I never understood this entire story.

 

[DanielD]

I am suspecting that you fed the hive honey and caused robbing, which results in a lot of dead bees and I have seen brood stripped out of a hive during robbing. I wouldn't know if it's the robbers or house bees doing it. Feeding a hive, especially honey, while a weak flow is going on is a bad idea. How did you feed the hive?