This morning we removed the board from the bottom of the bee hive to inspect for varroa mites.

This is how the board looked!

The varroa mites are very small but they have a distinctive shape and little legs which poke out the front.

In total, we counted about 30, which over a week makes for a daily drop of less than 5.

This is okay, however, we will still give them a treatment of “Apiguard” and count the amount of mites that drop then.