Poly Hive
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2008
- Messages
- 14,097
- Reaction score
- 404
- Location
- Scottish Borders
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 12 and 18 Nucs
Never having had a visit from a BDI in Scotland as during my beekeeping up north there were none I was intrigued as to how it would go.
A very polite gentle man arrived early which was a good start, and proceeded to work his way through my stocks. He was meticulously careful about cleaning his hive tool each hive and using a new one from his bath of bleach/disinfectant .
He found two cells he was not happy with and produced the test kit for AFB which was duly negative much to my relief, though not surprise.
He asked some leading questions, and offered some interesting advice.
It seems being close to an airport I am deemed to be "at risk" and so will warrant an annual inspection.
I was pleased to hear my stocks described as calm and quiet, though they were being very well behaved under the conditions which were very much on the cool side.
All in all a positive experience.
PH
A very polite gentle man arrived early which was a good start, and proceeded to work his way through my stocks. He was meticulously careful about cleaning his hive tool each hive and using a new one from his bath of bleach/disinfectant .
He found two cells he was not happy with and produced the test kit for AFB which was duly negative much to my relief, though not surprise.
He asked some leading questions, and offered some interesting advice.
It seems being close to an airport I am deemed to be "at risk" and so will warrant an annual inspection.
I was pleased to hear my stocks described as calm and quiet, though they were being very well behaved under the conditions which were very much on the cool side.
All in all a positive experience.
PH