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Hi beesource members,
First time poster. This is my second season beekeeping and I'm at a loss at what this pest may be... I'm pretty sure what we're looking at are dead brood, but perhaps it's something else? Some potentially useful info: this is not the original queen, we had a swarm early on this season ... I was able to capture that swarm and transfer it to a new hive... but they eventually fell to robber bees. This hive we're looking at was battling sugar ants for awhile until I was able to put oil moats at the base to stop... for awhile I just assumed these were dead brood from that attack.
I looked into the hive (it's a 8 frame hive about 5 shallow boxes deep). I did not see anything particularly unusual, though I didn't have the nerve to go to the bottom box. Let me know if y'all need any more information... and thank you for taking an interest!
First time poster. This is my second season beekeeping and I'm at a loss at what this pest may be... I'm pretty sure what we're looking at are dead brood, but perhaps it's something else? Some potentially useful info: this is not the original queen, we had a swarm early on this season ... I was able to capture that swarm and transfer it to a new hive... but they eventually fell to robber bees. This hive we're looking at was battling sugar ants for awhile until I was able to put oil moats at the base to stop... for awhile I just assumed these were dead brood from that attack.
I looked into the hive (it's a 8 frame hive about 5 shallow boxes deep). I did not see anything particularly unusual, though I didn't have the nerve to go to the bottom box. Let me know if y'all need any more information... and thank you for taking an interest!
