Hi Dawn, itās the third photo down & the frame on the right. It looks a little bit shiny & wet. It isnāt all that clear in the photo. If it is wet, that will be SHB slyme. Itās all a sad sight. I would clean everything up, including the frames, Iād scorch everything & start again.
Shb & wax moth seem to co-exist without any problems in turning a dead & dying beehive into a nice pile of rich organic matter.
no bee import into Kauai. 
bummed.
Removed most all the bad frames condensed it to 8 and one box will then freeze all the other frames and am looking for bees. Will try to find, took me 6 months to find these and only had since August. Have good Holidays. Will check in if I get more bees. I will put out traps the next time. I had no idea. TaTa as some say. So bummed I wont get to use my flow hive.
How about doing a cut out of a feral colony when you have things cleaned up? Apparently you need to freeze your frames 48 hours to kill wax moth.
The photo of the screened bottom board shows something pretty cool. Those little white cigar shaped things are the silk cocoons of a parasitoid wasp that lays itās eggs in the wax moth larvae. The wasp larvae hatch and eat the wax moth larva from the inside, eventually popping out to pupate, leaving behind a dried husk of a wax moth caterpillar. If you look closely, you can see the exit hole in the ends of some of the cocoons where the wasp emerged. Theyāve been looked at for biocontrol, but so far nothingās come of it.
Cheers,
Kristina
Boulder, CO, USA
Frames are freezing and for a small island there are a lot of beekeepers looking for bees. Trying to reach out but I am a newbee with way more experienced folks who have their finger on the pulse. Searching and even a friend mentioned putting a pheromone in my hive as I do have one comb that I hope is still saved have to go look but it has been winter stormy. Thanks and Happy New Year.
Thank you, I thought I saw there was a mixture you could make as a wax moth lure? you place it outside the hive? Here is the thing, this is Hawaii and if we have anything as an Organic farmer the one thing I know is we have bugs. I only had the 7 frame hive for 3 months and actually it was crowded and I did add a box. I think the hive was a week hive as the other hive on the farm is healthy. But wondering besides wax moth, ants and small hive beetle , which I put traps out for, what else can I anticipate to attack hives. I even had a chameleon on the hive and wondered what is that eating? Happy New Year.
Well, lizards are probably eating bees, but not a lot. I donāt know of any wax moth lures, but I would hesitate to put out anything like that to avoid attracting them to the general area. The best defense against waxmoths is a strong hive of bees.
All beekeeping is local. Your best bet is to find a local beekeeping group to help you with beekeeping in your area. Try to find a good beekeeping class too. Here are some places to start:
www.hawaiibeekeepers.org/
www.kauaibeekeepersassociation.com/
hdoa.hawaii.gov/pi/bee-faqs/
Need more? Just do a google search for beekeeping in Hawaii.
Cheers,
Kristina
Boulder, CO
Thanks I actually got my hive from the pres of the Kauai Beekeepers. But that was it. It will be like finding a needle in a haystack and then jumping at it. As I mentioned before Kauai does not import bees even from other islands. Too new to try catch a swarm am doing my best without beeing a pest but I am sadly packing up my flow hive serious financial hit for my little farm. I may put an add on Craigslist. I think I am going to work on our association.