Last week there was some mad bee activity in the yard, this weekend it was obvious that hive one was finished. Light, empty boxes; ground beneath covered with fine white wax bits. All of the frames had been robbed, the wax cappings chewed off and discarded to litter the hive like so much sawdust. Best case scenario is that hive 2 stole it all; their boxes are very heavy.
Empty frames of drawn comb harbored a few wax moths. We froze the good frames (16) and are melting down the old black ones (chose 8 worst frames, most 2 yr old).
This is how it plays out after the previous observation; the hive had already failed. We will bring all the hardware in for the winter. Good luck to hive 2😓
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Hive 1 done
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