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    Home » Video » Bee TV

    Dead Bees? Beginning Beekeeping : GardenFork.TV

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 6 Comments

    When you walk up to a hive and see no activity, you immediately think, why are my bees dead. Watch here as we do an early spring beehive inspection to see what's up

    You can watch all of our beekeeping 101 how to raise honeybees videos here.

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    1. Diana L

      April 19, 2011 at 6:28 pm

      Very cool ! Glad there are signs of life... a few tense moments.

    2. Scott

      April 20, 2011 at 5:43 am

      great to see another bee video...looking forward to more

      didn't you say in gardenfork radio that one of your hives had died?

      starting to prepare for our first winter here, bees have stored heaps of food so fingers crossed...

    3. Steve Howard

      April 20, 2011 at 8:53 am

      You mentioned signs of Nosema. Can you describe what those signs are sometime? Dead Bees, aroma, colors, etc? Very interesting series, Eric

    4. Tonia Moxley

      April 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm

      So, do you have to clean out the dead bees? Or do the live ones take care of that?

    5. George Cannon

      June 26, 2011 at 9:11 pm

      I kind of experienced the same thing with my hive here in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. Very strong colony in February - March with good acceptance of the patties. When the nector flow started in April the girls replaced all of the honey they had eten over the winter. Then they just took off! I harvested most of the honey but let one frame in the hive for the few bees that remained and put another one in the hive of a swarm that I had captured. A week later a swarm appearently moved into the empty hive and are filling it up. Go figure? Got any ideas? Please keep the videos coming!

    6. Bill Fetcher

      January 24, 2014 at 3:20 pm

      The large number of dead bees may have been caused by being gassed by the menthol used for tracheal mite treatment. I lost an entire hive through this application. Be sure there's a tracheal mite problem to start with and apply treatment with caution.

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