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You’ve lost me I’m afraid.

I’m sure it not clear cut. Probably depends on the extent to which your buy in’s are F1’s too.

Perhaps - my point was that the buying in of queens may do as much to promote aggressive local bees as not culling aggressive colonies. It perhaps better explains this than a suggestion the problems is inherent to local bees too.

I’m not sure why you’d accuse me of unconscious bias - if you recall I recently bought in a black mountain queen. I’d also say that given that hybrid vigor from f1 stock is a well recognised biological principle the burden of proof probably lies with those that deny it. How’s your unconscious...

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Although the hybrid vigour transmitted from the all bought in queens’ drones probably adds to feral bee aggression too doesn’t it?

But if the primary produces aren’t/can’t use re-used containers what hope is there for the next owner. For as long as we sell them they will keep producing them and once produced they are here for almost ever. There is only so much reusing that can realistically go on. Let's not kid ourselves if...

He was pretty quick - in and out. There were a couple of cells he looked at closely and did a lateral flow test on. But nice guy.

As can their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. But realistically most of them will end up on an Indonesian river bank.

It was chalk brood 🙂- thanks for the help and opinions.

Gosh JBM wouldn’t have expected that from you, don’t know why. I very much agree.

I think you want to put in a frame with early larvae is much as eggs? Eggs get eaten.

Unless they caught in your hair.

Oh dear that’s sad. I don’t know if it’s worth inverting a laundry basket or something over them to see if they’ve enough left in them to crawl in - I don’t hold out much hope though; someone who knows better than me will advise shortly. It’s pretty spectacular when they arrive one of natures...

They were just camping out whilst they looked for a permanent home. If the rain didn’t wash them away 🙁 they may have moved on leaving behind a few stragglers or latecomers. They are actually quite valuable maybe £100 or so if you’d got someone to catch them.

You’d think though decent robbers with have learnt (evolved) to emulate that behaviour though.

How do they know to let them in and that they are not robbers. I understood drift can happen due to full honey sacs but if they’ve been randomly shaken out?

Ok rung him. For my interest were any of the circled areas the ones causing concern?I suppose though I hope it’s not a foulbrood I’m pretty pleased I new enough tell something seems amiss even if not enough to know what.

I wondered. The numbers online?