A few days ago I took 3 deep frames with eggs/capped brood/stores, plus 2 drawn frames, and a entire med that was half capped brood and half capped honey to start a split. Left the queen in the original hive.
After 2 days I noticed that the that the split was tossing out the drones and, this is what I'm worried about, a lot of bees falling out of the hive and walking away.
I might see 4 or 5 flop out in a 10 min. period, or I might see 1 an hour. 90% have they typical k-wing we've all seen pictures of...trying to fly, walking up grass.
The parent hive has plenty of drone traffic and no sign of "walkers".
Not worried about the drone eviction from the split but what's going on with the k-wing?
Why would the split have K-wing but not the parent hive?
Could it be tracheal mites?
Can I / should I treat queenless split with mite-a-thol? (did not expect to harvest honey from this hive this year)
Should I treat the parent hive?
Looking for suggestions.........
Thanks for the help!
Thought about sending samples to Beltsville Bee lab but they request 100 bees.......not sure if I can wait that long to collect that many.
After 2 days I noticed that the that the split was tossing out the drones and, this is what I'm worried about, a lot of bees falling out of the hive and walking away.
I might see 4 or 5 flop out in a 10 min. period, or I might see 1 an hour. 90% have they typical k-wing we've all seen pictures of...trying to fly, walking up grass.
The parent hive has plenty of drone traffic and no sign of "walkers".
Not worried about the drone eviction from the split but what's going on with the k-wing?
Why would the split have K-wing but not the parent hive?
Could it be tracheal mites?
Can I / should I treat queenless split with mite-a-thol? (did not expect to harvest honey from this hive this year)
Should I treat the parent hive?
Looking for suggestions.........
Thanks for the help!
Thought about sending samples to Beltsville Bee lab but they request 100 bees.......not sure if I can wait that long to collect that many.