Honey Bees Getting Robbed, How to STOP that, and how to combine weak colonies.

In this video we visit the backyard apiary and notice a landing board that is in trouble. Signs of robbing and how to stop it. After that, a hive investigation to see why the colony was weak in the first place, making it prone to being robbed out. If a colony is weak or queenless, we go through how to combine to small colonies into one more functional super organism. I stop the robbing with a robbing screen that is designed by BeeSmart Designs: For Hive Inspections, I use 1:1 sugar syrup with 2 tsp/pint of honey-b-healthy: (great for those hot dry days)
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