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Hi Folks. Just thought I'd share these photos of the debris on a varroa tray 4 days after applying oxalic acid. I presume that the shiny scales are wax scales that the bees have dropped. When looking at the pictures in close-up I realised that there are eggs there too, so the bees are clearly...

Hi Folks. I have been monitoring the varroa drop following oxalic acid treatment, and was surprised to find a pool of water below the cluster. I have tasted it, and it is water - no hint of sweetness. The varroa board is bowed, rather like the camber of a road, so the water hasn't blown in...

One of my colonies had a varroa drop of 5000 as a result of treating with MAQS during August. A month after treatment started the drop was down to 1 per day. Fine, I thought. I put the monitoring board in yesterday, and the drop after 24 hours was 20! The air temperature was between 0 and 6...

One of my colonies has started ejecting drones already. I didn't realise that they chuck out the larvae too. These were on the landing strip yesterday.