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Last month I post a thread(Assassins from the apiary)that while mowing near my hives,that the bees got really agitated were so viscous they attacked and killed 2 out of 4 of my chickens(and me on the mower)with hundreds of stings to each.So I called the state inspector to come take a look,and resulted in her collecting samples from all 4 hives to have tested for AHB.
She called the following week and said hives 2 and 3 were cleared not being AHB,but were retesting the other 2.Today she finally called(you know how quick the government works:roll
and said hive # 1 results came back negative,however hive #4 was full blown AHB.
So I'm taking tomorrow off,and have finally located some queens,and going to requeen all 5.Not to confuse the numbers,I did a split on hive #1 last month that was full of swarm cells,so now I have 5,and most likely the virgin queen from the split got hooked up with some of the AHB drones in hive #4,another reason to requeen.
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Wish me luck,I'm not looking forward to requeening hive #4 that's for sure.:chased:
She called the following week and said hives 2 and 3 were cleared not being AHB,but were retesting the other 2.Today she finally called(you know how quick the government works:roll
So I'm taking tomorrow off,and have finally located some queens,and going to requeen all 5.Not to confuse the numbers,I did a split on hive #1 last month that was full of swarm cells,so now I have 5,and most likely the virgin queen from the split got hooked up with some of the AHB drones in hive #4,another reason to requeen.
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Wish me luck,I'm not looking forward to requeening hive #4 that's for sure.:chased: