In my case, I'm not sure if it's in the hive. They tested the bees on the outside.
I lost probably 30% to 40% of the flying bees. That's like shooting the father and leaving the rest of the family at home and there's nobody to bring in anything for them to eat. That's basically what has happened. The bees are going to starve. There are still the nurse bees and the other bees in there. Now we're having to feed the bees to get them going. There were a lot of bees in the hives this year. We're hoping that we can work ourselves out of it.
In the case of Bill, his bees were directly contaminated. It sounds as if the spray went right over and got right into the hives. I'm hoping that didn't happen, but I have no proof.