Wikipedia: Monsanto, in 2012, is currently attempting, by way of incremental legislation processes, to eventually outlaw any and all seed-sharing or gardening or sale of grown foods that are not patented, owned and controlled by Monsanto.
Great video to view before one gets into bee keeping, are there more videos available that show experiences that others can learn from ahead of time like this? Also, what are the links to Organic bee keeping? What's the difference between organic and non-organic bee keeping?
Interesting, I had the exact same thing happen with my bees where they died of starvation. We had some warmer than normal weather in January. The queen started laying and when it turned bitterly cold, the bees refused to leave the brood and go to the honey stores. They starved right on top of the brood.
I know this is old news but that looks like starvation to me as there is still capped brood and the dead adult bees. When they get really hungry they start to chew off the brood cappings as well.
i had 8 hives in last autum n now i have 4 my two hives r strong but the other two r very not in good postion my all hives were strong in last autum i think i had same pro as like ur hives
A wonderful idea but I wouldn't place them near a hive. Doing so will encourage "robbing" where bees from other hives will sneak inside and steal honey. It's pretty common when a shared source like this is close to bee hives. Normally what we do in early spring when the weather is too cold for them to fly is feed them simple syrup 1 part water 1 part sugar in special feeders that sit on top of each hive. This would of prevented the disaster but I didn't need feeders since they were doing ok.
@w7spk Wow. YOU CAN feed them honey. I am obviously late.. (by more than a year at that.. but look up ORGANIC honeybee keeping.. this is so sad.. if you are still keeping, please check it out. They say feeding them the fake sugar water mix weakens them to pests and disease, man.. if that guy was doing it, so can you. Sorry for your loss. If we try to observe the natural rules they live by, it might help up the odds. Hope you have more that fair well.
@w7spk Just to add to that.. I saw your concern re neighbor hives.. but the organic method has a means for doing this, for every hives and he had MANY, so please check out organic.. if you live in such a beautiful place without pesticides.. feed them what they should be eating, if at all possible, it gives them a better chance. More power to you for what you are doing, awesome stuff.. cheers
I seriously doubt it was a pesticide. We live in a mountainous area where there's not much agriculture. I would suspect pesticides if we lived east of the cascades where aerial sprays are common. Also, it wouldn't explain why my other two hives survived.
Why would the queens have failed? The brood patterns they were laying in each hive were thick and tight. Plus the three hives that died were all only a few months old and all had brand new queens. It was defiantly starvation.
Ends up that the bees died of starvation. We had a strange and long period of rain and very cold weather. These hives were new package installs only 2 months old and were focusing more on brood production than food stores. If I'd known they were short on stores I could have fed them simple syrup and prevented this disaster. Threw out almost all the comb. Saved most of the hive components. Will use them again next season. Did catch a swarm later that summer though which is doing fine.
Wikipedia: Monsanto, in 2012, is currently attempting, by way of incremental legislation processes, to eventually outlaw any and all seed-sharing or gardening or sale of grown foods that are not patented, owned and controlled by Monsanto.
totagteam 3 weeks ago
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It's pesticides, IMO. Facts:
Do a search for "The Great Deception: Bee Colony Declines - Honeybees - Mystery?"
Informedru 4 months ago
@Informedru New Video put up today: Search YT for "Honey Bees Dying - Pesticide Clothianidin - Bayer - GMO"
Informedru 4 months ago
Great video to view before one gets into bee keeping, are there more videos available that show experiences that others can learn from ahead of time like this? Also, what are the links to Organic bee keeping? What's the difference between organic and non-organic bee keeping?
KathleenCorkett 8 months ago
Interesting, I had the exact same thing happen with my bees where they died of starvation. We had some warmer than normal weather in January. The queen started laying and when it turned bitterly cold, the bees refused to leave the brood and go to the honey stores. They starved right on top of the brood.
ryanluepke 1 year ago
Maybe suffocation from too many frames.
armanflint 1 year ago
I know this is old news but that looks like starvation to me as there is still capped brood and the dead adult bees. When they get really hungry they start to chew off the brood cappings as well.
Hellcat040369 2 years ago
damn
rimsa80 2 years ago
the frame in the video has brood but no honey at all,
Twixlex 2 years ago
how are they now?
fishcrazy104 2 years ago
i had 8 hives in last autum n now i have 4 my two hives r strong but the other two r very not in good postion my all hives were strong in last autum i think i had same pro as like ur hives
SALEEMCLPK 2 years ago
A wonderful idea but I wouldn't place them near a hive. Doing so will encourage "robbing" where bees from other hives will sneak inside and steal honey. It's pretty common when a shared source like this is close to bee hives. Normally what we do in early spring when the weather is too cold for them to fly is feed them simple syrup 1 part water 1 part sugar in special feeders that sit on top of each hive. This would of prevented the disaster but I didn't need feeders since they were doing ok.
w7spk 3 years ago
@w7spk Wow. YOU CAN feed them honey. I am obviously late.. (by more than a year at that.. but look up ORGANIC honeybee keeping.. this is so sad.. if you are still keeping, please check it out. They say feeding them the fake sugar water mix weakens them to pests and disease, man.. if that guy was doing it, so can you. Sorry for your loss. If we try to observe the natural rules they live by, it might help up the odds. Hope you have more that fair well.
skmetz 1 year ago
@w7spk Just to add to that.. I saw your concern re neighbor hives.. but the organic method has a means for doing this, for every hives and he had MANY, so please check out organic.. if you live in such a beautiful place without pesticides.. feed them what they should be eating, if at all possible, it gives them a better chance. More power to you for what you are doing, awesome stuff.. cheers
skmetz 1 year ago
it looks like a pesticide kill off also your queen was failing too. send a sample to bee lab to make sure of pesticide.
fineshooter 3 years ago
I seriously doubt it was a pesticide. We live in a mountainous area where there's not much agriculture. I would suspect pesticides if we lived east of the cascades where aerial sprays are common. Also, it wouldn't explain why my other two hives survived.
Why would the queens have failed? The brood patterns they were laying in each hive were thick and tight. Plus the three hives that died were all only a few months old and all had brand new queens. It was defiantly starvation.
w7spk 3 years ago
@w7spk Don't rule out New World Order chemtrails, either, though systemic pesticides are, i believe, the MAJOR reason for CCD.
petrusprimus 3 weeks ago
would love to hear of any updates
gotasplinter 3 years ago
Ends up that the bees died of starvation. We had a strange and long period of rain and very cold weather. These hives were new package installs only 2 months old and were focusing more on brood production than food stores. If I'd known they were short on stores I could have fed them simple syrup and prevented this disaster. Threw out almost all the comb. Saved most of the hive components. Will use them again next season. Did catch a swarm later that summer though which is doing fine.
w7spk 3 years ago