Hello, I am a new beek in south GA. I got my hive at the beginning of this year. Everything seemed to be going great. Added a super at the end of March. Opened the top of hive this past Saturday and all seemed good. The hive was active with bees on the entrance. I did notice one SHB in the super. Today (Wednesday) there were a lot of dead bees outside the hive on the ground. When I say a lot, I mean prob a double hand full. There were dead bees on the entrance, some looked like larvae. Opened the hive up and the top box it was business as usual. It did not seem as populated as this past weekend. I cleaned the entrance to the hive and put that in a ziploc. Later inspection of the ziploc bag, I noticed it had a fowl odor.
Any ideas what may have happened? What can I do to try and save this hive?
Any ideas what may have happened? What can I do to try and save this hive?