Mike Rossander:>>I had a top-bar hive colony die in place from the heat two years ago.
Mike, looking at your photos I think that hive had serious problems well before the heat hit. In the brood comb photo and closeup I'm seeing serious shot brood, sunken cappings, yellow uncapped curled larvae and slumped larvae. In the closeup of the pupae on the capping scratcher, it looks like varroa sitting on the shoulder of at least one pupa and chalkbrood mummies between the pupa. Some of that might look exaggerated depending on how long the hive had been dead before the photos were taken, but not all of it.
I'm not sure they were well enough to abscond if they wanted to.
Deanna Corbett
Hawke's Bay
New Zealand
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Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Absconding: heat? robbing?
>I do not see the TBH as the issue. I have never seen in my 40+ beekeeping years bees abscond due to heat
I had a top-bar hive colony die in place from the heat two years ago. I saw no evidence that anything would have prevented them from absconding if they had been so inclined.
For those who may be able to learn from my mistakes, http://www.medinabeekeepers.com/index.php?title=User:Mike_Rossander/Adventures_with_a_Top-Bar_Hive#2010
Mike Rossander
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