Well, I have some sad news. The queen in one of my Russian hives is dead. Or gone shopping. Or went out for a stroll and got eaten. I don't know. All I know is that she isn't there anymore, and that hive is dead. I combined the rest of the bees into the other Russian hive I have. It's not doing great, either, but it's certainly doing better than the dead one. The first picture on the left is
the bees that were still in the dead hive. All. Of. Them. The next picture is the other Russian hive that absorbed them. The white dot on the far right of the frame is the queen. (We had her marked.) The third picture is of my Italian bees. They are doing very well. I wonder if they are trying to spite their Russian neighbors.
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