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Post by steveinpa on Mar 10, 2018 23:00:53 GMT
I lost 2 this winter. 1 was not a surprise as it was a weak hive going into winter but the other one bummed me out. It was my 1st hive and they looked great in mid January. By the 2nd week of Feb they were dead. It looks like they ate all the sugar above them then couldn't get to it when we had a cold snap. They look frozen in time, but they were actually just frozen.  |
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Post by steveinpa on Mar 10, 2018 23:03:52 GMT
Fortunately, most of my hives look like this and should be strong going into spring. How are your hives doing?  |
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Post by aoconnor on Mar 11, 2018 1:25:13 GMT
I'm not a beekeeper, but I am so sorry for your losses this winter. Hoping you are able to build them up again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 5:00:31 GMT
I'm not a beekeeper, but I am so sorry for your losses this winter. Hoping you are able to build them up again. I’m not a beekeeper either but we all know what it feels like when our hopes were fueled with hard work and maybe money then dashed. Burned maple sap, coyotes in the coop, fire blight the year first fruits were due - I won’t go on but we can all relate. A friend raises honeybees and worries that they are leaving the planet so I tell her she’s doing G*d’s work! Good luck. |
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Post by indypartridge on Mar 19, 2018 11:37:04 GMT
On Feb 25th, all four were alive.
As of yesterday, maybe two (one was iffy -saw a few bees, but it wasn't warm enough for me to dig down to the lowest boxes). I think, as I have seen other springs, that a quick cold snap following a warm spell did them in. They were spread out all through the hive, and didn't get cluster formed when the temps dropped.
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Post by speckledpup on Mar 20, 2018 1:16:40 GMT
Started the winter with 5 hives. Lost 1 to starvation. 1 unclear what happened, all the bees just gone. The other 3 are going strong.
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Post by steveinpa on Mar 24, 2018 23:40:26 GMT
Lost another over this past week or so. It was the one I expected to not make it. These temp fluxuations are wreaking havoc with my bugs. Just like the pics above, this one had plenty of sugar but it looks like it ate what was above the cluster. Then when the cold hit, they couldn't get to the sugar and since they are brooding up they starved out quick.
On the good, or bad, side there was a decent amount of capped brood so if the rest of my bugs make it through just a little longer they should be booming by May.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Mar 28, 2018 3:10:07 GMT
100% loss here....lost them both. Ordered 3 packages...try again
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