Ok, so now I have wax moth!

Somebody did say when I started that keeping bees isn't straight forward! Well yesterday I thought I would have a quick clean up of my varroa inspection floor and found two caterpillars, wax moths seem to have found my hive!

Lovely little creatures, in flies the moth, lays god knows how many hundred eggs and then the little darling caterpillars set about eating the wax, tunnelling this way and that! And what do the bees do, well absolutely sod all, for an animal that is very protective of their colony they just ignore them and let them destroy the hive.

But it's ok for them to manage to get up my jeans trouser leg yesterday! I have never walked so slowly up the garden and then ever so slowly remove my jeans with the sound of buzzing working it's way higher up my thigh, I can't believe I managed to get the jeans off without being stung!

Anyway back to the wax moth, now I will have to inspect really closely and kill every caterpillar I see, including those burrowing inside the wax honey comb. Next purchase very quickly is some long nosed surgical tweezers to get to those inside the honey comb, pull them out killing them in the process.

I love a challenge, deep joy! :-)