Charles Harper wrote:
> When you have a lot of beetles in a
> hive the beetles eat pupa and bee larva I have seen hole
> frames of drone brood eaten with no beetle larvae in the
> hive.

I'm amazed that you can have so many adult beetles in a hive that they're feeding on the bee larvae, and yet there are no beetle larvae in the hive!

We've had beetles in Eastern Missouri for close to a decade, and I've only seen two cases where they've been a problem; both were in very weak hives, and it was the larvae that were tearing up the place.
Eugene Makovec
St. Peters MO USA

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