Sickly drone brood ejection

[bjosephd]

Morning all...

Significant amount of sickly dead drone brood ejection out front of one of my hives overnight I've observed this morning.

Is this, I'm assuming, classic 'varroa strike' kind of behaviour/symptom?

They are a split/AS using the box that had least brood in of a developing double brood.

BJD

 

[madasafish]

If they have few stores and weather is poor/forage is poor, they will eject drone brood.

My queens appear to be taking a brood break after a week of colder wetter weather. But all hives have lots of stores/forage so nothing seen here.

 

[bjosephd]

Interesting.

I was tempted to feed both sides of the AS since it's my first full year so have so much comb to get drawn.

But one side of course had less brood and all the foragers.

The other side i ended up leaving 2 QCs so hoping that one will kill the other and worried that if I fed that hive it wiuld simulate a good flow too mich so make first queen out confident to cast a swarm.