The weather's too bad to open up this weekend but I checked the varroa floors.
I scrape these floors clean regularly so that I can check what's new each time.
Sure enough, here's a new beastie we've not found before. I've seen photographs before of wax moth larvae - this one must have slipped through the mesh floor onto my board as the bees were trying to kick it out of the hive. I popped it into a pot to look at more closely at home.
It looks just like the one in the book.
I'm glad my frames have never looked that filthy! Having finished with this larva I put it out on the bird table.
