I went out a couple weeks ago to find one of my hives completely over ran by insects and utterly destroyed. I wasn't worried about my second hive (have / had two) because I saw a few bees flying in and out.
I finally had some time to check on the one remaining hive, thinking I'll just split it and be on my way with two hives again, and just take better care. Well it turns out the second one starved with about 4 full frames of honey left and several frames with about 10% honey on each. The bees I saw coming in and out were robbers coming to clean up whats left. Now there is a ball of a few hundred bees eating up the honey on a few of the frames with no obvious signs of a queen.
My wife lost her job last year so I don't have the available money for more bees. I do have skills and if anyone is interested, I'd be willing to trade up to a 6 page, custom website for a couple nucs.
Let me know if anyone is interested, otherwise it looks like I might have to wait until next year and just plan the budget for more bees.
Thanks!
I finally had some time to check on the one remaining hive, thinking I'll just split it and be on my way with two hives again, and just take better care. Well it turns out the second one starved with about 4 full frames of honey left and several frames with about 10% honey on each. The bees I saw coming in and out were robbers coming to clean up whats left. Now there is a ball of a few hundred bees eating up the honey on a few of the frames with no obvious signs of a queen.
My wife lost her job last year so I don't have the available money for more bees. I do have skills and if anyone is interested, I'd be willing to trade up to a 6 page, custom website for a couple nucs.
Let me know if anyone is interested, otherwise it looks like I might have to wait until next year and just plan the budget for more bees.
Thanks!