Bee chucks out lava.

[kronkie]

I went and sat watching 1 of my hives this morning and a worker bee came out with a dead lava which on inspection looked to be "dried out".
I am only in my second season as a beekeeper and have not seen or even heard of this happening before.
Is this normal or have I a problem.
I did a full inspection on tuesday and nothing looked wrong.

Kronkie.

 

[enrico]

I think you probably mean chalk brood. This is where the larvae die, usually with a sudden temperature drop and then go all chalkie and dry looking. The workers will discard it. Sometimes there can be quite a lot of chalk brood this time of the year so don't panic!!!
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[kronkie]

Sounds good enrico, thanks for the advice, and now you mention this it does ring a bell from the course I did last year, but you know what its like on these courses, if you remember 50% of the info its good going.

 

[enrico]

I'm still learning after XXXyears this is a really good place to put questions though. Wish they had this on my old ZX Spectrum in the 1980's....wish I still had the ZX Spectrum!!!
Yabberring....Cheers