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OK, newbie beek here. What am I seeing?
I went into hive today and was going through frames. I saw a frame that had some brood cells hanging off the frame. So I thought I would knock them off, in case the hive was making a new queen. When I touched the cells with the tool, the cells popped full of white liquid. It looked wrong. Is this foulbrood? or do bees look like that when they are growing? I didn't see any larvae to speak of in the cells. I put the frame back. Now I'm worried it's infecting the whole hive with something. Hive otherwise looked healthy.
I went into hive today and was going through frames. I saw a frame that had some brood cells hanging off the frame. So I thought I would knock them off, in case the hive was making a new queen. When I touched the cells with the tool, the cells popped full of white liquid. It looked wrong. Is this foulbrood? or do bees look like that when they are growing? I didn't see any larvae to speak of in the cells. I put the frame back. Now I'm worried it's infecting the whole hive with something. Hive otherwise looked healthy.