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Inspect and Remove Infested Hives (if necessary)

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Honey Bees: How I prepare My Bees for Winter

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What happens here

During inspection, if a hive is found to be weak or heavily infested with pests such as wax moths (characterized by webbing, cocoons, and damaged comb), it may not be viable for winter. The video demonstrates identifying a hive severely affected by wax moths. In such cases, it's often best to remove the infested supers and clean out the damaged frames to prevent the spread of pests to other healthy colonies. These frames can be frozen to kill pests and then stored for later cleaning or melting for wax.

Goal: If a hive is found to be heavily infested with pests like wax moths or is too weak to survive winter, remove problematic supers and clean them to prevent further spread.

Tools and materials

  • Bee Smoker
  • Hive Tool

What they say

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Ridge farm alright we're gonna crack into our dead hive immediately I smell foul smell and I have these thinking dirty malls what does that tell me I've malls okay pop the lid off here this one really hasn't been touched pop the lid off here and what you have is disgusting gross pipe moth damn damage you can see the nastiness you can see all the way through so what I'll do is clean these up I'll either burn them for reuse them we'll just see how it goes but that's what's happened I don't see any dead bees in the hive which is good I don't see any honey in the hive either so that means they've probably been robbed out and they died or these bees just left this colony but it's not colony collapse disorder it is bees left the colony and the malls took over so this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer

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