We took about 100 lbs of honey from our hive this week.  It is our first hive and it is only four months old.  We put the bees in four months ago and added a super every three weeks.  We now have four supers.  When we brushed the bees off the frames to take the honey, hundreds of (if not a thousand) bees fell on ground and seemed not to fly.  They stayed on the ground until they died a day or so later.  
 
Could they be sick from something?  We saw a little red bug in the hive.  We heard that most hives get some kind of mites.  Does it sound like we have mites?  If so, what do we do to get rid of them.  
 
Charles & Charley
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