- Joined
- Aug 3, 2009
- Messages
- 431
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- 53
- Location
- Cheshire
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 120
Hi, I have just checked my hives today and most are doing fine bar one which seems to have suffered over the last week.
Last week when I checked they had enough stores to last them a short while but today they had none. And their was also dead brood everywhere and no queen to be seen.
I would have put it down to the fact that they didn't have any stores at all and starved but I would have expected to fine more dead bees than I did.
Outside the hive their is probably about two handfuls of dead bees but inside their is still a brood box of bees however their numbers have been drastically reduced as last week I had a super full to.
I was wondering if most of the flying bees had been poisoned by some one spraying to kill weeds and the rest suffered as the flying bees did not return with extra pollen and nectar an I they did return they could have poisoned some of the others.
Does anyone have any experience of this ?
Last week when I checked they had enough stores to last them a short while but today they had none. And their was also dead brood everywhere and no queen to be seen.
I would have put it down to the fact that they didn't have any stores at all and starved but I would have expected to fine more dead bees than I did.
Outside the hive their is probably about two handfuls of dead bees but inside their is still a brood box of bees however their numbers have been drastically reduced as last week I had a super full to.
I was wondering if most of the flying bees had been poisoned by some one spraying to kill weeds and the rest suffered as the flying bees did not return with extra pollen and nectar an I they did return they could have poisoned some of the others.
Does anyone have any experience of this ?