First honey of the season. The second established hive will probably give about 10 times as much.
This hive died, the queen didn’t make it and they were not able to rear a new one quickly enough. When I checked it today, it was totally dead, so I harvested the honey in the super and closed up the brood chamber with some apivar.
In the fall I will get this one going again. My other hive is doing amazing.
Mite counts were low on both hives, and I do preventative treatments.
Question: When the hive dies, where does the rest of the colony go?
Hive and colony are synonymous in this case. The queen died and the bees that were left were never able to raise a new queen, so they all died out.