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Sundance:
It has been cold and wet here and I just dicvoered my first dead out. How cold is it there?
I am really not sure as to why this colony died. I checked them the other day because I saw no bees flying and I opened the lid and saw no bees looking at me so I dugged deeper and I found the middle three frames of the top deep empty and the outer frames full of honey along with the majority of the bottom frames in the bottom deep. I did find bees clusterd in the middle of the top box.
I did find two queen cells too that were unopened.
It is weird... I know I have stressed them out with the move and all. I thought they were going into winter with good stores, Maybe the queen died while moving.
I need to check for AFB and see if that was the cause or not.
It has been cold and wet here and I just dicvoered my first dead out. How cold is it there?
I am really not sure as to why this colony died. I checked them the other day because I saw no bees flying and I opened the lid and saw no bees looking at me so I dugged deeper and I found the middle three frames of the top deep empty and the outer frames full of honey along with the majority of the bottom frames in the bottom deep. I did find bees clusterd in the middle of the top box.
I did find two queen cells too that were unopened.
It is weird... I know I have stressed them out with the move and all. I thought they were going into winter with good stores, Maybe the queen died while moving.
I need to check for AFB and see if that was the cause or not.
