Thank you for the replies. :-)
Yes I think I posted to the wrong section. They aren't honey bees, they're solitary bees I believe.
If the mites aren't a health issue to the bees then it's fine I suppose, but not being an expert I googled "bee mites" and then read all about varroa and...
My apologies if this is the wrong place for this post.
We have two bee boxes in our garden that we've had there for about 3 years but yesterday i noticed that the bees had large masses of mites on them.
I googled for a bit to try and see what it was and what we could do about it but the...