Bait hive no bait

SixFooter · Apr 22, 2015

I collected a plywood bait hive that I set up 3 springs ago with some black smelly comb inside on a single frame screwed to the top of the box. When I opened it up, as expected, the wax had gone , but I was not expecting the frame to have gone also. The screw I had used to screw it to the top of the box was still there, but the frame was no more. What would eat the frame and leave the plywood alone?

dn170221 · Apr 22, 2015

Were the nails from the frame there?

oliver90owner · Apr 22, 2015

Steady on Sherlock! You're not suggesting Morriarty has spirited it away? Swarm and all?

jd101k2000 · Apr 23, 2015

If there is no evidence of the frame at all (no nails, no dust and no attack on the plywood at all) then it is either the lesser spotted hive thief OR the memory of the bee keeper

(You DID put a frame in there, not just intend to put a frame in there?)

If there is some evidence then give us clues.