On  4 Mar 97 at 0:20, Gerry Visel wrote: Re: Different bees in hive
 
>     I just worked the observation hive at the forest preserve near here,
> and about 20 percent of the bees are now all black!  They were not
> before???  Whazup?  Could bees maybe lose their color?  The rest are a
> mixture of bright orange tiger color and light brown, almost reddish
> (cordovans?)  What a mixture!  I'm inclined to believe that the queen is
> tapping a new source of sperm!
 
I remember when I got back into bees and hive I bought from a friend, the
bees went black and greasy looking. That was Nosema! The hive went
downhill and didn't build, numbers of dead and wounded being carried
out. Young bees were still of the correct color, it was the older bees
that went darker.
         Is it possible this might be the case?
 
 
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