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·Okay, I'll try to give you the skinny. I started for the first time last year with 2 new hives. Using 2 deep brood chambers with medium supers (central missouri). One hive last year did great with 1 full super at the end of the season. The other hive just worked in the 2 brood chambers. This year I put on a super w/ excluder in April. I was getting ready to super up again and the good hive last year is pretty much gone. The have less bee's present that I started with the package. Upon closer inspection the bottom deep brood has really dark comb and is empty.
My questions are
1) What is this really dark comb, why might it be empty, what happened to the bee's? Yes they could have swarmed, but they were fine in April. I did not look and find the dark empty chamber though.
2) Is there problems with letting a supper sit at home wrapped in plastic and extruded last week? It tastes fine, a little more fluid than the store stuff. How do you tell if its fermented?
Thanks a ton.
ChemE
My questions are
1) What is this really dark comb, why might it be empty, what happened to the bee's? Yes they could have swarmed, but they were fine in April. I did not look and find the dark empty chamber though.
2) Is there problems with letting a supper sit at home wrapped in plastic and extruded last week? It tastes fine, a little more fluid than the store stuff. How do you tell if its fermented?
Thanks a ton.
ChemE