# No brood no honey

**URL:** https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/no-brood-no-honey/12295
**Category:** Beekeeping - Basics
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/no-brood-no-honey/12295 "2017-08-10T13:51:21Z")
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### Author: ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/no-brood-no-honey/12295/7 "2017-08-21T16:02:34Z")

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> [@Bunnyl99](#):
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> I check every two weeks

How do you check for mites? There are only a couple of ways which are accurate. In the US, it is highly unlikely that you have no mites. 😊

Swarm cells look like a row of shell-on peanuts on the bottom of a frame of brood. This is quite a good photo of several of them. They can be hard to see unless you are deliberately looking:

> [@Lost most of my hive while out of town](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/lost-most-of-my-hive-while-out-of-town/12398/3):
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