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Sindirt:
Not having much luck it seems after losing a hive to wax moth, admittedly a weak swarm I had captured. Now I was checking my hives here in Perth and one of my strongest hives has died! Literally dead bees all around the entrance and the inside of the hive is covered in dead bees in the bottom and lots of dead bees half emerged. Any thoughts? :(

Anybrew2:
Poor Bugger maybe some one has been spraying pesticides

azzkell:
Not good. I would suspect pesticide also. How were the honey stores. Was not a starve out?  Did the bees have heads down bums up in the cells?

BeeMaster2:
Bees dead outside and on the bottom is not a starve out. I agree with the hive being sprayed with poison. If it were a normal mosquito spraying, the dead bees would only bee on the outside.
Jim

Sindirt:
No experience of one but sounds like  pesticides related travesty... There were lots of honey stores. Concern now should I destroy all the comb and honey frames?

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