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I was listening to Radio 4 this morning and heard this news clip on varroa mites “Despite an abundance of Varroa studies, very little is known about mite gait, but we have now identified that it has a vibratory signature that is highly different to that of the other invertebrates tested in our...

I have five colonies on a sheltered meadow which were supered on the 4th April and following inspection today, have not started on swarm cells. I have one other colony about 1.5miles away from the meadow on a farm at the top of a hill which is far more exposed to the wind/weather. This one has...

Does anyone know what these very small dark items are? They all look identical and about varroa size, but haven't a clue what they are. On board 24 hrs after an oxalic vape.

I had an imperfect supersedure in Aug/Sep. One of Jon Getty's queens that I put in a nuc tried to supersede a couple of times in the first month (july) and I removed the QC. Queen otherwise had a good brood pattern. End august a third time and again only one QC. I decided to leave them to it...