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Thank You Wally!

Was gone over the last week and my failing hive was LOADED with SHB larva. I removed all of the comb, every last one was infected or had at least an adult beetle on it (6 combs). Late last night I closed up the good hive nd movedthe stand into a more sunny location about 100' from where the old site...

I am not seeing any new eggs or larvae in the failing hive and the number of bees is dramatically low. But I am seeing capped Drone cells low and mostly in the center of the comb on the failing hive. Without being able to find her (I only have maybe 5 frames of comb) and less that 3000 bees I think....

New to bees - took the Guildford bee class this winter, using TBH. Got bees (two packages) last week of March. I have one hive failing - started good. Now no new bees. Looked for Queen, my newbie eyes couldn't find her, so I moved one bar from the thriving hive expecting the bees to make a queen cel...