I pulled my  supers of honey 11 days ago and got them extracted the same day. I decided to go in the house and rest. I did cover the honey. Well, to make a long story short, I didn’t go back until today to pull the frames out of the extractor. Guess what I found? Yep! You guessed it. Small Hive Beetle larvae. Bunches of them. only some of my frames did not have any larvae.

So I did the next best thing I could think of at the time. Take the boxed frames out to the sun and put them criss-cross to let the sun and wind get to them. I am still trying to save the wax comb. Might be a lost cause.

I will wash them out later to clean the larvae that hasn’t dropped into the water tray that is beneath them. I need to mix some liquid soap in the water to see if that will kill the larvae. I know that bees will not rob the honey that is left in the comb. When the beetle larvae gets a good toehold, it is goodbye bees.

I’ll let you know how it turns out soon.

In the meantime, hydrate yourselves and your bees. They need water for mixing with nectar, cooling the interior of their hive (house), mixing with propolis and maybe drinking some.