fiddlerjon
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2011
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- Location
- United Kingdom
- Hive Type
- TBH
- Number of Hives
- 4
I have discovered over the past few weeks that my colonies have now all died. Last week I visited my first (in its third year now) only to find that it too has died. There is no evidence of disease, just loads of dead bees. Today I extracted around 7 litres of honey from two supers, so there was no shortage of stores over the winter. Also, I noticed that there was a lot of honey in the making in uncapped cells in the supers, which I discarded. What is bothering me is why?
I rehomed a cast in summer in a broodbox at a friend's house, it was fed, but it too did not make it - nor did my other three hives (all top bars). The two that I have referred to in the previous paragraph were both BN hives.
All the colonies seemed healthy before the winter, varroa was minimal to non-existent.
This has not been a good year for me. Any advice? All the hives were in the Blackpool area.
Jonathan
I rehomed a cast in summer in a broodbox at a friend's house, it was fed, but it too did not make it - nor did my other three hives (all top bars). The two that I have referred to in the previous paragraph were both BN hives.
All the colonies seemed healthy before the winter, varroa was minimal to non-existent.
This has not been a good year for me. Any advice? All the hives were in the Blackpool area.
Jonathan
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