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Offline barry42001

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Any idea what this is
« on: April 19, 2014, 12:11:09 pm »


Not my hive, trying to figure it out for a fellow beekeeper, bees do apparently have dysentery, ( wonder why ) thinking fermented something. Strong  foul odor present.

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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2014, 12:22:19 pm »
I was going to say granulated nectar but the foul odor throws me off.
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2014, 12:55:37 pm »
It kinda looks like pieces of larvae to me. Could it be larvae that has been chewed up or tampered with?

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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2014, 01:02:15 pm »
Believe she also said smelled sour or fermented, but dysentery would also smell foul

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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2014, 01:55:34 pm »
this looks like sugar syrup to me.  When it starts to crystallise it looks like that.  The odour is not related to this, but most likely to a heavy nosema outbreak.
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2014, 02:22:27 pm »
Maybe american foul brood involved?
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2014, 02:31:07 pm »
Looks like granulation or crystallization of honey or nectar to me.
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2014, 04:40:02 pm »
No foulbrood I kind of thought it looked like something was crystallizing but it just did not look right. whenever I saw honey crystallize, the cells were always tightly packed with it no liquid whatsoever unlike this

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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2014, 08:49:56 pm »
Does not really look like crystallize syrup or nectar. Looks more like something the bees have collected, and then packed in some nectar. The foul smell has me buffaloed, unless they have brought something that has fermented.
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2014, 08:57:37 pm »
Looks like sugar? Or cocaine?
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2014, 08:25:48 pm »
I found some of this, or very similar, in one of my hives this afternoon. Never seen it before. I can't smell any strange odor. There were about a dozen cells with it.
I removed the frame and stored it where the bees can't get to it until we figure this out.
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2014, 12:50:52 pm »
i agree with others, crystallization, with syrup/ nectar packed in giving the wet appearance, or like g said, something they brought in and packed nectar into.  i don't have a photograph of my own to share, so went googling, take a look at this photo:

Crystalized Honey
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Re: Any idea what this is
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2014, 09:53:44 am »
Thanks thought along those lines but all that liquid threw me off a bit.

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