Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: ty1on on February 01, 2011, 02:10:40 pm
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We had a break in the weather over the week-end and was able to check my hives. One had the traditional marking on the outside that would suggest nosema. I opened the reducer and there were hundreds of dead bees on the bottom board. I cleaned them out and thought that I had a dead out. The upper deep was packed full of capped honey that they did not touch. But when I looked in the brood chamber there was a small cluster that was too weak to even resist my efforts.
Should I try to treat with fumiagilin by sraying the cluster? If so when can the treatment start?
What should i do with the deep that is full of honey? Can it be extracted or put in other hive? How can I kill the spores?
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They can get the runs trapped inside the hive so long during the winter. It will clear up when they start eating and flying again. I would not spray with the cold weather here, only when warm. And you can move frames of honey anywhere you want with no problems.
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There is always yellow snow on a warm day... there are always dead bees on the bottom in the winter. A cluster that is unresponsive is usually starving (even if there is food nearby). Some warm syrup directly over or even on the cluster will sometimes get them work up.