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Wired looking bees
.30WCF:
Lately I?ve been seeing unusual looking bees in my hives. There are a handful of smaller, hairless bees in the hives. They have darker backs and a solid black butt vs the more striped pattern of the standard Italian mutt.
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TheHoneyPump:
https://bee-health.extension.org/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates/
Checkout the picture under CBPV.
Keep a keen eye on it. Check every few days to see if it is getting worse. If necessary isolate the hive for 14 days and get them to maskup if you can.
The15thMember:
The thread going about black bees applies here. This bee is just colored differently from the black one in the pictures on that thread.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=54510.0
.30WCF:
Hmmm. Thanks. These are the hives that went queenless during a formic pro treatment and went an abnormally long time without a queen. They swarmed with the new virgins and I had to add eggs for them to raise a queen again. They should all have a new queen, but new troops won?t emerge for a few weeks.
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.30WCF:
--- Quote from: The15thMember on June 02, 2021, 01:48:07 pm ---The thread going about black bees applies here. This bee is just colored differently from the black one in the pictures on that thread.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=54510.0
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Thanks. I?ve seen no other signs of sickness and mites shouldn?t be an issue. I can do a wash to verify. They have been primarily broodless since the formic pro a a couple months ago.
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