Diagnose hive problem
Inspection today identified what appears as emergent bees dying, many with proboscis extended. No sign of queen, with one frame containing 3 queen cells. Diagnosis? Testing needed to confirm?



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Inspection today identified what appears as emergent bees dying, many with proboscis extended. No sign of queen, with one frame containing 3 queen cells. Diagnosis? Testing needed to confirm?



Enough of a colony to save is the next question. An adjacent hive lost it's queen. If this hive generates a queen, then there is a possibility of combining.