Please help

[Hivetool2021]

Hi all, I have a small colony in my garden and have noticed after a couple of days a few dead bees outside the nuc box. , I have attached a photo, has any one else had this happen to their bees

 

[IndiBee]

Possibly quite normal. Bees die.

 

[Jimmy]

Hi all, I have a small colony in my garden and have noticed after a couple of days a few dead bees outside the nuc box. , I have attached a photo, has any one else had this happen to their bees

Yes perfectly normal to see dead bees outside the hive. As the old saying goes, where there's livestock there's deadstock.

 

[enrico]

Make sure they have enough room. They will build up really quickly now it has warmed up. Colonies don't stay small! Not the reason for the dead bees tho, that is just natural!

 

[madasafish]

In summer the lifespan of a worker honeybee is 6 weeks. So if you have a hive with (say) 18,000 bees in it, that's over 400 dying a day ,every day.

 

[Newbeeneil]

Make sure they have some stores, I almost lost a nuc due to lack of stores. The nuc had had stores the week previous and I was only alerted to their plight due to some drone larvae being dumped out side

 

[oliver90owner]

Possibly quite normal. Bees die.

Quite right - and some never get to the foraging stage. That one may be a victim of varroa infestation.

 

[Antipodes]

Hi all, I have a small colony in my garden and have noticed after a couple of days a few dead bees outside the nuc box. , I have attached a photo, has any one else had this happen to their bees

Are all the other dead ones wingless too?

 

[Swarm]

Looking at the photos there appears to be stunted wings.

 

[Ian123]

Check the wings as suggested above, all I get is a blurred image but it doesn’t look right. Check stores and investigate varroa load there’s probably a reason there still in a nuc box!!. As others have said dead bees are common at the entrance you’ll need to get used to it. Ian

edit.......now I can open the pic it’s clearly not a drone