I hope someone can reassure me nothing is wrong. I was given a polynuc of bees at the end of August , and because they were very aggressive I was advised that they be put in a larger hive. I bought a WBC at the beginning of October and they appear to be happy, certainly a lot quieter.
They did not have time to build up stores in a super, but filled two new frames with stores in the brood box. I have a feeding EKE and a glass quilt on top of the brood box and can see the bees huddled in the middle frames and on top of them.
I wander around the hives at least once a day and have noticed dead bees on the floor, however yesterday after noon the front porch was covered, (a lot of them had loads of pollen) so I collected them up by hand and placed them in a plastic box and took them up to the potting shed. As soon as they were in the warm about half of them suddenly woke up, and after about half an hour I took them down to the hive where some calmly wandered inside. I have the rest totalling about 30 which are dead. This morning there are some more just laying about, the temperature is 10.5.
Is this normal, the bees in the other hive (National with super on bottom) are going in and out and I cannot find any dead ones.
Many thanks
Dave.
They did not have time to build up stores in a super, but filled two new frames with stores in the brood box. I have a feeding EKE and a glass quilt on top of the brood box and can see the bees huddled in the middle frames and on top of them.
I wander around the hives at least once a day and have noticed dead bees on the floor, however yesterday after noon the front porch was covered, (a lot of them had loads of pollen) so I collected them up by hand and placed them in a plastic box and took them up to the potting shed. As soon as they were in the warm about half of them suddenly woke up, and after about half an hour I took them down to the hive where some calmly wandered inside. I have the rest totalling about 30 which are dead. This morning there are some more just laying about, the temperature is 10.5.
Is this normal, the bees in the other hive (National with super on bottom) are going in and out and I cannot find any dead ones.
Many thanks
Dave.