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Here's some more photos, classic photos of starvation. I couldn't see any varroa issues No guanine deposits (constituent of varroa poo), white speaks on the top side of the cell walls? Were they totally out of carbs or was it isolation starvation? They have some pollen on that frame. It...

I guess the next thing is to check it out in an observation hive?

Arrhenotokous parthenogenesis apparently. The same as laying workers and unmated queens.

I read a study for a different reason, but they said that in the lab they had found that immature varroa matured, mated with their son and reproduced daughters...

I thought I had a massive varroa load years ago. One long line about 27 mites if I recall correctly. It turned out it was the first frame of the spring, warm way just inside the entrance. I removed it - IPM.

Dirty feet?

"the closest you'll get to 'white' is if you have freshly drawn frames in the super so that all the wax (comb and cappings) are that year's virgin wax"... that's what I have, but I don't separate the cappings. So, we are saying that it is the drawn comb which pollutes the cappings. Yes, you...

Sorry to see that Curley. I have a light one with fondant that I will be looking at. Maybe I have to do a Finman and put some syrup in some drawn comb!

That's why we get so much Academia going into beekeeping research, a subject matter which they know nothing about and then lecture us on beekeeping! Most annoying.

Sorry about the queen rearing. Absence of mosquitos sounds bliss though.

Sorry, thought that your hypothesis would lead you to the conclusion that it was going to be most varroa in QCs. My mistake.

So, lovely to see Poppy doing a hive inspection - she is a pro already! Must order my observation hive to inspire the next generation.

Understanding_bees - good point on the benefits of slow cooling. Makes sense.

To Swarm and et al, Lovely looking wax. I have no personal experience of cappings wax, but has been led to believe it is white!

Mine have found a neighbour's camelias as they do every spring. Sadly they have cut them back a little, so not so many flowers this year.

They are strong enough to start brood rearing first in the next week or so, so they are collecting pollen.

Regular supply of pollen apparently is the salient point.

If you want to measure disturbance/visitations by nurse bees then location is not so important. Visitations by nurse bees are more frequent for queens, then drones as they eat twice as much as workers and then workers. I have natural comb and there is more varroa in drone brood than worker brood.

They did, but they are most probably trying again with liquid honey!

Not all compounds are quite the same - tweaked differently for drones, workers, queens?