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Date: | Sun, 11 May 1997 09:26:06 -0700 |
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If somebody has an idea, please let me know..
About 1 month ago I split an hive. The un-queened hive was left without
a queen for about 5 days. I did have some brood in the hive. I then
re-queened the hive.
After about 9 days, early in the morning, I looked into the hive and
found that the queen had not yet been released. I then manually
released her. It did not appear the they were aggressive towards her.
About (3) weeks later, when I open the hive I found that the queen had
stated laying. There was a lot of new brood. Aslo at this time, I
notice several earwigs in the hive. I tried to remove as many as I
could.
Yesterday, about 11days, later When I was in my bee yard with 5 other
hives, I noticed no activity. Upon inspection I found ALL bees gone.
There was still brood in the hive and a few new bees were emeging. I
really do not have any idea what could have made them leave.
Any ideas.
Thanks,
Bruce Hamilton
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