Medicine

The other day we did a quick check on the hive and added Apivar strips, a medicine to help combat Verroa Mites, a killer pest. These strips will be there for 42 days, which is two full growing cycles of worker bees, this will help keep them under control. They are hard to see but we have taken many pictures lately and after looking at them close up we haven't seen any. After the strips come out we'll be feeding them for winter and getting ready to cover them up. I also removed the shallow super I put on earlier to see if they would start drawing it out but they didn't. I'll try next spring to see if we can get some early honey.

Lots of them, looks healthy. You can see the two strips.

A cloudy day, they are still in the hive.

Busy drawing comb, covering brood and making honey.

You can see the honey in the cells.

Just walking about.

They are easy to handle, like a cat.