I peered under the roof as I had left some fondant there some weeks ago and was checking if they had finished. I was confronted with a huge amount of bees standing around and even more worryingly a ball of bees hanging there as well, see pics.
there's also a handful of bees hanging around on...
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I thought I'd feed my bees, so cut up some fondant and put it under the roof of the hive.
The only thing it's attracted is ants, it's been there 4 days
And yes there are bees in the hive!
What's going on? (... and yes I'm a newbie).
Encle
Hello, I'm new to this.
I counted seven dead or dying bees this morning by the nuc box entrance, one of them being eaten on the landing board by a wasp! I know bees die off quite regularly I just didn't expect quite such carnage. I think most of the dead and dying looked intact so perhaps...