Post by Leviticus Cole on Jun 22, 2009 12:23:39 GMT -7
I am writing with a problem: Queen-less-ness....This is my second season and I have 4 hive this year. Three standard and indoor observation hive. The hives in question is this one. (the observation) everything was going fine and then the queen simply died. No chemicals or odors were used in the room (my office) she was one day laying like a champ...next day dead. Due to the nature of the observation hive, i get to see them working. Nothing was a miss then she is dead? I have also had one hive swarm (my bad) and another at another location go queenless. This other one however made sense... there were symptoms. High drone pop. swarm cells etc. but there had been none of that in my observation hive. Not one swarm cell, nor high drone count... The other hive was my friends in Vancouver. He just went queenless. No swarm... all the bees there, just no queen.
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So the question. Should I quit bee keeping (accept failure) before I go broke buying new queens? Or is there something in the N. Portland/ SE portland/ Downtown vancouver area that is killing queens? The reason I am posting this... is that I am having a hard time finding a text that can educate me more on the issue of dying queens.
Thanks.
Levi
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So the question. Should I quit bee keeping (accept failure) before I go broke buying new queens? Or is there something in the N. Portland/ SE portland/ Downtown vancouver area that is killing queens? The reason I am posting this... is that I am having a hard time finding a text that can educate me more on the issue of dying queens.
Thanks.
Levi