The bee keeper diaries

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I realized I didn't answer your question.

I'm sure everyone who does hive removal does it a little differently. In a hive that large, there would be old comb, empty comb, new comb, comb with brood(capped larvae as seen in my post above) and drone comb(capped larger pods with drone-males that are pretty useless).

Have you run into any colony collapse (correct term?) or mass die off of bees in your area?