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It's -1 this morning in parts of the high country here in Tasmania. Some workers came here from the UK to help build our incredible hydro electric system in the 1950s etc. They were told before coming that the "weather wasn't too good" here :ROFLMAO: This year saw parts of the high country in...

No, I'm absolutely not! In a case like this where the OP (CaptainCymru) has had this varroa issue and it kills the colony, what happens to the adult bees? You've answered the question well, thank you, but I'm also interested to hear from Madasafish and the OP (or anyone else) about their...

Let's just let him answer?

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When they die like that from varroa, are there any dead bees to be seen? In this case you saw recently with varroa, (with a double brood hive heaving with bees in August, and then dead in September), do you see carpets of dead bees on the floors and at the front?

As I understand what you are saying, every frame in each double brood hive was full of bees when you inspected in September (late September?). So they absconded from that one perhaps? No dead bees in or at the front of either hive?

Good point. More information here. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772753X22001162

And " a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" (Roosevelt).

He was posting again a while ago after seemingly having a break from posting, but I haven't seen anything on here from him for a while again. I assume he's still looking in at times. For example, here is one reference to pastures...

As Finman used to say, much in beekeeping seems to me to be due to the "pastures". On average, apparently only two out of every 10 years is a "good year". I've heard that said here by very experienced beekeepers and I've heard it said with beekeeping in the UK too. It also seems to take a...

Where are they now -as in the combs, not the person?

Here, if you have a brick on a hive, you sometimes get a shock as you lift it ...particularly if you have the frog side down, as it is a perfect spot for the large huntsman spider. They come out with great speed and run up your arm towards the neck region....

Some information on plums in this .... https://beeaware.org.au/pollination/pollinator-reliant-crops/summerfruit/

I haven't managed to get a crop from plums, but the bees like the nectar. They tend to flower early in the season when the colonies are generally smaller. Others may have had a different experience of course.

Hopefully soon. I've moved the strongest to a new site with an impending honey flow and one of the other ones has had brood and bees added to it from another colony, and should go well too. I'll try a similar thing in due course with the third. The colony that got a chunk of its brood/bees...

We are into your May now (next month here is the start of summer - we go with the start of December for summer). Yes, I have split them (that was in the second week of September) and have three newly mated queens out of it (all lovely looking insects) heading three new colonies-all laying...

Some colonies seem to carry drones through. Long after social media reports of drones being evicted. I had a really strong colony here in early September (your March) this season I’m in now, and it had drones flying enthusiastically at that time and when it was just 12 degrees - almost...

I've never even seen one. :)

That's bad:(. Sorry to hear that. Were there inches of dead bees on the floor? What did the frames look like? Were there eggs and other brood? Was it robbed out perhaps?

I filmed this yesterday. Single screen between colonies- in preparation for combination over a single sheet of newspaper. The board is a simple feeder board, with the feeder hole covered with mesh.