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<blockquote data-quote="Stephen Horsley" data-source="post: 13263" data-attributes="member: 491"><p>Noticed unusual activity around the hive yesterday afternoon, so thinking it may have been robbers I closed the entrance and reopened it at dusk.</p><p>No bees around the entrance at dusk and thought the worse for my single hive. It's been robbed and or killed off. Inspected the next morning. Usual bee comings and goings. I run a single brood box hive. This was full of bees. The frames are stocked well with pollen but no sign of any capped honey. Pretty sure there was some last time I looked. The queen was in residence but virtually no brood. She is either a supersedure or emergency queen. (No queen at 23 Dec inspection - 30 Dec still no queen and not one cell of brood. - 12 Jan found new queen and larvae and brood evident. 23 Jan - Frames full with brood) 1. - Is this normal for such low levels of brood this time of the year? Knowing that the hive is heading into winter. Checked the super I have left with wet frames and some honey stock from the harvest for winter feed. Lots of bee activity in the super. No capped honey stocks remaining but about 40-50% cells with nectar. 2. - Is the super being robbed as I look at it or is this usual behavior? 3. - Is the hive being robbed at all? or am I just noticing normal autumn activity and let them get on with it.</p><p></p><p>Apivar treatment placed in 5th March - 24 varroa with 300 bee wash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stephen Horsley, post: 13263, member: 491"] Noticed unusual activity around the hive yesterday afternoon, so thinking it may have been robbers I closed the entrance and reopened it at dusk. No bees around the entrance at dusk and thought the worse for my single hive. It's been robbed and or killed off. Inspected the next morning. Usual bee comings and goings. I run a single brood box hive. This was full of bees. The frames are stocked well with pollen but no sign of any capped honey. Pretty sure there was some last time I looked. The queen was in residence but virtually no brood. She is either a supersedure or emergency queen. (No queen at 23 Dec inspection - 30 Dec still no queen and not one cell of brood. - 12 Jan found new queen and larvae and brood evident. 23 Jan - Frames full with brood) 1. - Is this normal for such low levels of brood this time of the year? Knowing that the hive is heading into winter. Checked the super I have left with wet frames and some honey stock from the harvest for winter feed. Lots of bee activity in the super. No capped honey stocks remaining but about 40-50% cells with nectar. 2. - Is the super being robbed as I look at it or is this usual behavior? 3. - Is the hive being robbed at all? or am I just noticing normal autumn activity and let them get on with it. Apivar treatment placed in 5th March - 24 varroa with 300 bee wash. [/QUOTE]
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