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  • From: Marty Hanks <marty AT justbeenc.com>
  • To: Thomas Grizzle <griz AT mindspring.com>
  • Cc: "<ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Strange Clinical Signs
  • Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 15:09:15 -0500

Interesting

Any chance it's more in the shade than the others?

Population VS the others...same-smaller?
Marty

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> On Dec 8, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Thomas Grizzle <griz AT mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Last weekend (Saturday) my bee buddy and I treated our hives with oxalic
> acid vapors. I have three Langstroths. Today on one of the hives I noticed
> several brown smears on the outside of the otherwise white hive. Some were
> circular, about 3/8" in diameter, others were runs of about 3-4" long, and
> everything in between. I'd say there were about 50 or so marks in total. I
> then noticed there were a lot (maybe 100+) of bees in the grass in front of
> the hive. This prompted me to go inside and investigate further and I found
> nothing out of the ordinary except the population seemed high for December
> (perhaps due to warmer weather). There was very little capped brood, and
> what was there was across 3 frames in the center and was spotty, not nice
> neat packed clusters of brood. So I think the queen got the message to stop
> laying (or reduce laying).
>
> I could make up all sorts of wild ideas what these external marks on the
> hive might be, but I have one theory that might be reasonable, cockroaches.
> I'm wondering if there were roaches in the hive that left after the oxalic
> treatment and died on the outside after spilling their guts? Then the bees
> out front are just normal "extra" bees that are dying because that's just
> what they do this time of year to decrease the population? My other two
> hives looked normal, no marks and no bees out front, but I went into them
> too and they seemed fine inside too.
>
> Any thoughts from the group?
>
> By the way, we were very happy with the particular oxalic acid device we
> settled on. If you would like more information on this please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas B. Grizzle
> 919.967.5199
>
>
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