I just finished a hive inspection and witnessed the hive box being overrun with robber bees and ants. It's ugly in there! Lots of dead bees, many killed by invaders, I imagine. I watched for a minute while a bee looked as if it was trying to tear the head off a larval bee that had not quite finished its metamorphosis. I guess when it's bee war, there are no prisoners!
Hopefully I can learn from this and next spring I will be better equipped to assist the remaining hive, Dave's Bees, thrive. Only problem is, I'm not quite sure what went wrong.
When I have the time, I will go into the slow death of the Easter Hive in more detail.
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| August 25th: Dave's Bees still thriving! |
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| August 25th: Almost no bees outside the Easter Hive. This may have been there last gasp. |
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