HighlandWozza
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2010
- Messages
- 20
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- Location
- Highlands of Scotland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hiya - newbeek here with first question of many!
I inspected my new hives today. Still trying to figure out what's what. I opened up some drone brood and found larvae - some with varroa. However, I saw something that worried me. Some of the cells contained a weird white hard substance. I pulled one out and it was like...well... like a small and old bird poo! Smooth, oblong, white, hard and crumbly. There were a number of these in the drone cells but I also found some in the worker brood.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I inspected my new hives today. Still trying to figure out what's what. I opened up some drone brood and found larvae - some with varroa. However, I saw something that worried me. Some of the cells contained a weird white hard substance. I pulled one out and it was like...well... like a small and old bird poo! Smooth, oblong, white, hard and crumbly. There were a number of these in the drone cells but I also found some in the worker brood.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.