busybeemum
New Bee
Hi, long story short I lost 3 and a half of my 4 hives including queen from the latter to a careless neighbor who sprayed their lawn about 2 weeks ago
I have ordered a new queen but she has arrived (in the post less than 24 hours later) and the cage has brown goo with white dots in which leaked onto the paperwork she came with. I assume it's just poop or similar but just wanted to check I am not about to endanger my now sole hive which is already weakened. As a precaution I have taken away all of their reserves and have put feeders on. I didn't order a new queen straight away as I didn't know if these girls would die too.Thankfully we have had alot of rain so I hope that has go rid of the "lawn fixer"
Anyway... Trying not to rant ![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
So my question is: what's the brown goop?
![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
![Face with symbols on mouth :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: 🤬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png)
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
So my question is: what's the brown goop?