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Good morning. So inspected the dead hive this morning and I think it’s definitely been robbed… 1. Other two hives normal activity 2. Blue hive plenty of dead bees on the ground in front of the hive 3. Mountains of chewed wax in the bottom tray and on the floor of the hive 4. Frames bone dry...

So after a couple of days of that flight activity in front of the blue hive, today the weather is colder (but normal for this time of the year) and to my dismay I find all the bees from the blue colony dead 😟. The other two seem ok. No idea what happened. Could it be that something got into the...

Hi. I thought the same thing but no, there isn’t an opening. They were just hanging around the side of the building. I also noticed them fighting a lot. Could it be robbing? (As I said before they are stacked full of honey. I’m guessing around 15-20lb of honey each hive). By the way now that...

Hello from the north of Italy… The temperatures here are 15-18 max during the day, 8-10 at night. The sun has been shining for the last few days and so the bees are out to have a look around. All seemed good. At the moment however, from one of hives the bees are all out and flying and near the...

Hello to everyone from the north of Italy! As some of you may know, we had a spell of bad weather up until last week and so I had to feed my two hives with 2:1 syrup. All is well and I’ve inspected the hives since then and they seemed to be doing well. There was lots of new wax and bridging comb...

Thanks for the quick reply. It doesn’t feel too heavy to be honest

Hi everyone, Here in the north of Italy March and April weather has been underwhelming to say the least. March was hot and dry and April has been cold and wet and it’s still raining so I’ve started to feed my two colonies with 2:1. So far they’ve consumed about 3 pounds of sugar per day each and...

Hi. I found this one quite useful. It assumes you start with clean wax already processed...

Or do they? Support for the stupid question and thanks for your help

I live in Piemonte about 150m above sea level. As you probably know beekeeping is very popular in this area but I don't have anyone in about 3km radius. One the local experts that has helped me in the past never feeds his bees. Wondering how they survive. Perhaps he doesn't aggressively harvest...

It's called a "Baravalle" here in Italy. It sits on the top under the cover and holds about 2 litres of syrup. See image...

I had a look. Cells look smooth and clean

Good afternoon everyone. My face is red with embarrassment as I write this email but if really need to get your expert opinions. I started treating my hive with Apivar strips about 6 weeks ago. The weather here in the North of Italy has been 26-30 everyday up until earlier this week. Unusually...

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Good morning from Italy... So the weather here has been sunny and hot thought-out September and is due to continue through most of October. 25-26 degrees here in the North. The bees have been unusually quiet despite the good weather... I inspected yesterday and found they had almost completely...

Ok thanks for the quick answer. I treated the hive last autumn so a year ago. No wonder I guess... What do you mean test or sunken larvae? Inspect for Varroa? Thanks again

Hi. Sorry for the delay. Heavy rain yesterday. Here are some pictures of the frames. There are less than a hundred bees left. A few moths and a strange smell, a mixture of honey and yeast. They had eaten almost no syrup at all before they left. No sign of the Queen. See pics.

I will inspect and take photos this afternoon... Back soon

Sounds likely and what you say makes sense. I forgot to mention that in this particular hive I noticed more than a few dead bees in the cover.

I looked in the brood last Saturday. The brood pattern was not good. Looked like the Queen had slowed down and/or stopped laying. Plenty of space therefore. Having taken some of their residual honey in the super in order to treat, I thought that feeding them would help replace super stores.