Machonachos
New Bee
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2018
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
So went into a hive yesterday and to my shock found 1000s of dead bees all stuck in the queen excluder.
Inspected the rest of the hive and plenty of food, space etc. No sign of disease and generally other than the dead bees everything looked happy.
Side notes: QE was dripping wet which I am assuming is condensate build up from the huge layer of dead bees. All other hive parts are dry.
I processed supers last week so could this be a factor of too many bees trying to force their way back down thru QE?
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Inspected the rest of the hive and plenty of food, space etc. No sign of disease and generally other than the dead bees everything looked happy.
Side notes: QE was dripping wet which I am assuming is condensate build up from the huge layer of dead bees. All other hive parts are dry.
I processed supers last week so could this be a factor of too many bees trying to force their way back down thru QE?
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