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larva in honey

  • June 05, 2024 12:38 PM
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    Donna
    This is my second year of harvesting honey with my FlowHive.  Last year I took out the frames and did it in my kitchen with extracting each  frame. This year I kept he frames in the hive and one frame that I harvested had these larva in them. All other frames(3) had clear honey. Do I throw out the honey from that frame alone or is all the honey contaminated? I guess my other question should be are these small beetle larva? What does anyone suggest.
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  • June 06, 2024 6:39 AM
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    Ignatius

    The actually look like wax moths to me.  I would let the bees have the honey. They will recycle and purify it. 
  • June 06, 2024 6:39 AM
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    Ignatius

    The actually look like wax moths to me.  I would let the bees have the honey. They will recycle and purify it. 
  • June 08, 2024 2:41 PM
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    Mike

    I think that these are also wax moths?  They were moving around in honey cells, but in a brood box. I did cut them out with my hive tool. This hive is a little weak, as it is from a split I did this spring. So similarly just let them be, since they're not in a honey super?

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  • July 30, 2024 10:46 AM
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    Emil

    I agree that these are wax moth larvae.
  • July 31, 2024 12:40 PM
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    Ignatius

    A thought might be to remove the flow frames  from the hive until it strengthens. Even steal a few frans of brood from another hive.  The presence of the wax those larve may also indicate that the queen may have laid eggs in the flow frames.  Check your honey closely for presence of others mater like eggs or bee larvae. 
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