🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

After being house bound due to two days of rain (2.5") the hives blew up. Bees were pouring in and out from 11AM till 3PM up and over the Cedars and dropping on the Goldenrod, hope also it is an indication of winter bee numbers coming on. Doing deep inspection tomorrow and I think I'll be pulling my last medium, fingers crossed.

 

[drstratton]

Unless the bees are really weak wax moths are not a problem. Leaving empty frames of comb in equipment is usually when they become a real problem.

An easy way to find out is to put in a frame with eggs from another hive. If they start to build queen cells in a couple days, then they are queen less. If not, you have a new queen and she's not laying yet. Once the new queen is laying feed them 2:1 sugar syrup. It's almost always the latter. Packages and nucs come with mass produced queens so they aren't always mated or shipped well and are often superseded.

Thank you!
I didn't see any sign of wax moth and I looked at every frame. The hive still looks strong. So they have at least been cleaning house.

I will tell my husband and we can add a frame with eggs when we inspect the other hives on Thursday. I really think we will then combine hives if the queen is gone.

This girl has been laying an amazing pattern all summer. And the honey production has been better than any of the other hives. I'm really sad about it.

 

[drstratton]

After being house bound due to two days of rain (2.5") the hives blew up. Bees were pouring in and out from 11AM till 3PM up and over the Cedars and dropping on the Goldenrod, hope also it is an indication of winter bee numbers coming on. Doing deep inspection tomorrow and I think I'll be pulling my last medium, fingers crossed.

Wow, that's a bunch of rain. We rarely get rain like that.

I hope your hives look good and strong.