Friday, 12 October 2018

Cleaning up a hive


One of the colonies at Stevington Manor didn't make it through the winter and the hive has became infested with wax moth.


Wax moth is not as dangerous a pest as the varroa mite but it can cause damage to comb and is recognisable by the 'spiders web' forming on the comb.


So before the hive can be used again it has to be cleaned.
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