{"id":135,"date":"2013-12-27T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikbro.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-12-28T06:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T14:48:01","slug":"hive-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Hive died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12\/22\/2013, I went outside to find that my bees were dead. I hadn&#8217;t seen any hive activity for several days, even though we had been fortunate enough to experience a bit of warm and sunny weather. When I went outside to see what was going on, I found this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131227-224006.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224006.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of my bees were dead in the hive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131227-224026.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224026.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of them still held lifelike positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224043.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131227-224043.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-224043.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unsure what killed the bees. My best guess is that it was the severe cold snap we had a couple weeks ago. I had also seen signs of varroa mites on some bees. I didn&#8217;t have time to clean out the hive, but maybe there will be more clues once I open it up and look inside. I&#8217;ll have to try again in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12\/22\/2013, I went outside to find that my bees were dead. I hadn&#8217;t seen any hive activity for several days, even though we had been fortunate enough to experience a bit of warm and sunny weather. When I went outside to see what was going on, I found this: All of my bees were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,19,15,14,17,16,18],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bees","tag-bees-2","tag-colony-collapse-disorder","tag-death","tag-hive","tag-sadness","tag-tragedy","tag-varroa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikbro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}