Thursday, June 14, 2012

Peczuh inspection

Checked on the Peczuh hive this evening.
Not much activity at the entrance at all.
Not a lot of bees in the hive either.
The first 2 bars were empty honey comb.
The next bar was mostly pollen and some capped (and I suspect crystalized) honey.
The next 7 were brood bars with very little honey on top. Very scattered brood pattern. Eggs, larva, capped brood, spread all over. Some of the larva appeared dead (starved?). There doesn't seem to be enough bees in the hive to care for so much brood. On one of the bars I found 2 empty queen cells on the side. Not sure if they were cells in the making or if they were used cells. They might have swarmed recently.
The next bar was solid pollen
The next 2 were mostly capped honey.
I did find the queen.

I'll have to check them again soon. They had a strange buzz to them. Almost a frantic sound. The weren't aggressive, just off somehow.

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