I am having a potential problem with my bees. I have two brood chambers, a queen excluder and one honey super. I have bees that just got over verrora mites about a month ago. I see activity in each of the 3 boxes. There are busy workers, and they seem happy, healthy and docile. I have not been able to carry out a proper hive inspection for a few months. They were real defensive and it was impossible.
Now they are great. I looked at the honey super (shallow one), and they are going there but not drawing comb yet. The top brood chamber is not fully drawn yet on the outside frames but everything that is is honey... no brood. I separated the top and bottom brood chambers to look in the bottom frames, doing the twist move so that frames don't come up with the top brood frames, and found something crazy. There were larvae all on the top of two or three frames. They were fully formed, white, juicy... I dissected one and found zero visible problems. So now I'm worried.
I thought that maybe they just filled in between the frames with comb and brood. Never heard of that though. The workers only got agitated when they were exposed and covered them up. There are no queen cells that I can tell.
Any experienced beekeepers advice would be great.
Trib
Now they are great. I looked at the honey super (shallow one), and they are going there but not drawing comb yet. The top brood chamber is not fully drawn yet on the outside frames but everything that is is honey... no brood. I separated the top and bottom brood chambers to look in the bottom frames, doing the twist move so that frames don't come up with the top brood frames, and found something crazy. There were larvae all on the top of two or three frames. They were fully formed, white, juicy... I dissected one and found zero visible problems. So now I'm worried.
I thought that maybe they just filled in between the frames with comb and brood. Never heard of that though. The workers only got agitated when they were exposed and covered them up. There are no queen cells that I can tell.
Any experienced beekeepers advice would be great.
Trib