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Thanks, that's helpful. I am attaching ( I hope) a picture, you can see the orange pollen for comparison.I'm not so sure it's pollen, but maybe poppy pollen is different. I hought it was some sort of abnormal waste that may indicate nosema, but I having read up on this, i don't think it's that...

Hi all I have just returend to bee keeping after a break of a couple of years. Have a lovely new queen, laying well. I treated them with apiguard yeaterday,and put the hive floor back in under the mesh floor, to monitor mite drop. When I check today, I noticed quite a lot of small black debris...