Aww Crap Thread Reminded Me

[.30WCF]

I have hives that the covers don?t quite sit flat on the top feeders. I catch lots of yellow jackets.
I never could get all the sugar to dissolve on the last batch of syrup. When I came back from my elk hunting trip I had a bunch of YJs dead in the top feeders. The 3 hives and 2 nucs looked good. I did dump out the dead YJs and dry sugar and put the inner and outer covers back on.








Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[rast]

Wow. What kills them in there?

[.30WCF]

I guess they got stuck or got in the syrup when it was still wet????


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Nyleve]

Yikes.

[.30WCF]

That would have been a bad day to check the syrup and flip the lid off with no veil like I often do l, if they were still alive.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[The15thMember]

Looks to me like you just accidentally made a very efficient yellow jacket trap. 

[Kathyp]

Looks to me like you just accidentally made a very efficient yellow jacket trap

No kidding!  I want the specs on that!   

[Michael Bush]

The problem is it could have easily become a bee trap... I've seen that.  A leak in the cover and the bees get in but bounce off the top and drown in the syrup by the thousands.