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Abandoned Beehive

A Look Inside an Abandoned Hive

In this video I take a look inside an abandoned hive, prepare it for removal and transport to a new apiary.

This abandoned beehive hasnt been inspected in over 2 years.

It was left at the house by the previous owners and has lots of wild honey comb inside.

There is no queen excluder so the mated queen has been able to lay eggs all throughout the colony. The colony is spread over 6 boxes in total with 1 brood boxes and 5 supers.

I had to be very careful when prying supers apart as they were so well propolised together.

Abandoned beehives do post a disease risk so care must be taken not to spread disease to other apiaries. I first checked for signs of foulbrood and confirmed there was no foulbrood present in the colony before transporting to a quarantine apairy.

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