{"id":110,"date":"2022-03-05T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:22:47","slug":"first-inspection-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"First Inspection 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Went to inspect hives on our first 70-degree day today. Started about 4pm. Hive #2 is dead. Hive #1 has a lot of activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pussy willow tree is blooming as are maples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulled frames from Hive #2 and it appears that they still had plenty of food in there. Noted a number of mites on bees and on comb. Had to do some reading, but I believe the flaky debris in the cells in the comb is Varroa mite fecal matter. There are also cells with what looks like a white, dried, granular sugar slurry. Not sure what this is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mite fecal matter?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dead mites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The bottom box (deep) in Hive #2 also had some weird stuff in it. I think the deep yellow stuff is just leftover pollen, but I’m not sure what this brownish-gray slimy stuff is. There is also some bright white slimy stuff in another sealed brood\/larva cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pollen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Infected brood\/larva?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Infected brood\/larva?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Infected brood\/larva?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The bottom board was just plastered with dead bees. The pile of bees has what looks like pieces of pollen all over too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hive #1 looks like it’s doing really well. Lots of activity at the front door and inside the inner cover bees are crawling all over the frames and look healthy. I didn’t get any pictures of that hive other than the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Went to inspect hives on our first 70-degree day today. Started about 4pm. Hive #2 is dead. Hive #1 has a lot of activity. Pussy willow tree is blooming as are maples. Pulled frames from Hive #2 and it appears that they still had plenty of food in there. Noted a number of mites on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bees.the-thomases.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}