On april 11, I installed 4 packages. 3 seem to be ok. This one hive, the bees are clustered up in the feeder and not moving from that spot. One other hive was doing this as well, but upon my 9 day first inspection I noticed that that one was at least doing what it was supposed to be doing. Now the hive that is now dying, upon that same inspection, I noticed that no work was being done at all and there were zero bees on the frames. They were and are all just huddled up in the feeder, not even touching the syrup. I pretty much have written this hive off as dead and I am ok with it. The other 3 are drawing out frames and bringing in pollen. So what do I do with this hive? there are still bees alive in the feeder. Do I give it the benefit of the doubt and leave them be until it totally dies? Im not sure I want to combine them with the other hives, in case there is something wrong with them. I will add, that the syrup has white stuff floating in it and some of the bees crawling around looks like they have white specks all over them too.
any thoughts on this?
todd
any thoughts on this?
todd