The title says it all, really sad. After our 3 week vacation in Greece, we came home to find that 2 of our hives had been completely killed by carpenter ants.
Here is all that was left:
Even though this was a sad sight, we have hope. Our third hive is full, very full, and we actually think that some of the bees evacuated and sought refuge in the remaining hive.
So you are probably asking how will we replace the 2 hives we lost? Not to worry, we are going to split the hive we have now at the end of January/early February and create new hives that will hopefully flourish during the Spring and Summer months.
We learned a lesson and are in the process of creating an ant trap to prevent them from getting to the hives again. I’ll be sure to post that if it is successful.
Beelievable 
Sorry for your loss, but I know, you hard working people you will have 5 new ones sooooon!!!!!!! Well come back.
Oh no 😦 I’ve heard placing any routes up to the hive within oil can help, as ants can walk across water but not oil.
Hi Emily! That is what we are going to try. We are building some legs for our hives now and we are going to place them in cans of oil. Hopefully it will work!
Ah cool, let us know how it goes!