🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

Checked on the Wyoming Italians today. Other than a couple of robber bees and a few dead bees the hive is empty. They had cleaned up at least 50% of the pollen patty and had been working on the fondant.

I am guessing that the queen had died and the lack of bees is due to no replacement brood. Seemed like there were plenty of bees when I added the pollen patty and fondant.

Closed the hive up and will deal with it in the spring.

The other two hives have plenty of activity.

Has to be disappointing.

 

[R2elk]

Has to be disappointing.

Not totally unexpected.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Not totally unexpected.

Hopefully you can split in the spring.

 

[drstratton]

Checked on the Wyoming Italians today. Other than a couple of robber bees and a few dead bees the hive is empty. They had cleaned up at least 50% of the pollen patty and had been working on the fondant.

I am guessing that the queen had died and the lack of bees is due to no replacement brood. Seemed like there were plenty of bees when I added the pollen patty and fondant.

Closed the hive up and will deal with it in the spring.

The other two hives have plenty of activity.

I'm so sorry that happened, so disappointing.