Thanks for the input. There was exit/ventilation exits at the top of the hive so air could flow. I will wait until I get back and see if something looks amiss
I'm on vacation in San Diego and though back in Phoenix Arizona the past few day the temperature was 121F (49.4C) the hives were under a shade tree.
This morning, I received a call that said my two alfalfa hives were dead. Two is all I had on alfalfa. Dead bees piled up outside the hive i was...
Of my six new hives, two are out at my gold claim 50 miles northwest of Phoenix Arizona. Last weekend I checked on them hoping to add an excluder and a third super. But the girls in the past two weeks hadn't drawn out any comb yet. Down below is packed so tight with honey that they filled in a...
These hives are in Phoenix Arizona where the temperature has already topped 102F or almost 39C where many of you use that strange Celsius way. There is just about every tree and flower in bloom right now and I border the desert where mesquite and palo verde is full of bees. Then houses border...
I'm two months and six hives into this exciting world of bees. However two weeks ago I started two new hives from "packages". In the past two weeks both new hives have faired very well and filled five frames up with honey,pollen and I saw some capped brood in one frame. Here's the question, two...