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looks like orientation flights to me

about the only publication that holds these buggers to account

sounds painful

so no real reason then

Of course it does - I wouldn't use the majority of modern tabloids as toilet paper, I'm sure that the vile poison most of them contain would also affect the bees why?

that makes no sense

it doesn't

they will eventually beg their way in to the other hive

just shake them out a few yards away from the other hive.

looks like punched galv 'mesh' extensively used instead of glass in pantry windows and meat safes.

don't you bloody start!

wasps aren't going to be an issue at this time of year and weather, well,nwe have weather all year here, just put the brood box on an empty shallow and they'll be fine. But to be honest, with signs of CBPV at this time of year, I'd just leave them to it, they'll either survive the winter or not...

or nosema

there's nothing above it apart from the crownboard so it will do no harm, but it might be a bit clarted up with brace comb and propolis by the spring. if there was a super of stores above the QX then that may have been an issue, especially with your location.

might take him a while to dig himself out of that particular rabbit hole.

Never had the urge to sniff a moth's balls - how do you get their legs that far apart?

Legionella is usually contracted through inhaling water droplets so showers are the danger area, not the kitchen tap - we used to regularly soak all the shower heads on the boats, at least at the end of every patrol (so fortnightly)

exactly what I would have done