Frames have been very closely inspected and unwanted brace comb, however attractive, has been spring cleaned out of the hives...
Talking of spring cleaning, we decided to take some samples of flying bees to test for nosema, jam jars and old honey jars were pressed into service to capture 30 flying bees...
Abdomens were snipped away from bodies...
And ground up into bee gut soup...
A drop from each sample was dripped onto a slide and examined under the microscope for tell tale "rice grain" nosema spores...
And the good news is that all the hives we tested had only the tiniest indication of Nosema.
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