Cycled to the apiary today and spent an hour and 20 mins checking the floors and bees.
I have removed the floors and given them a rough clean but they will need doing more thoroughly.
The count will be for virtual 6 days, It is much higher than I was expecting. However there were three hives which were noticeable lower than the other, one was a weak hive, however the other two are average strength hives so it is worth noting he numbers for future ref, for deciding which Queen to breed from as this is one of the factors we should take in to account. Counts as follows.... would be interest to know what a typical count is after treatment.
Hive - varroa count
12 - 40
18 - 32
17 - 43
14 - 30
20 - 55
2 - 6 good hygiene
8 - 80 - double hive bit more of a guesstimate as did half and double it.
6 - 55
15 - 52
10 - 39
7 - 6 good hygiene
9 - 7 weak hive - but not too bad
5 - 27 this hive was eating the food best and had 1/2 gone so is the only hive I would wonder if they would run out.
13 - 21
1 - 48
4 - 39
3 - 70
As you can see from the two images it is not always that easy to count how many varroa are in the 2nd image?
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