Today I saw something that I thought it was strange. A dead bee, head down in a honey cell. The cell was also capped. Looks like she drew her last breath in there and a slack worker capped the honey cell over her corpse.
I'm only new to beekeeping so these incidents still puzzle me. I'm sure you experience keepers here have seen this before - is it a common occurrence?
Perhaps I was lucky to see it because this hive is a Flow hive with see-through frames, and I was able to see this through when I opened the back cover, the the dead bee was in a cell close to the edge.
I'll try to take a photo too after they go to sleep tonight, as they were toey this morning.
I'm only new to beekeeping so these incidents still puzzle me. I'm sure you experience keepers here have seen this before - is it a common occurrence?
Perhaps I was lucky to see it because this hive is a Flow hive with see-through frames, and I was able to see this through when I opened the back cover, the the dead bee was in a cell close to the edge.
I'll try to take a photo too after they go to sleep tonight, as they were toey this morning.