It’s all go…

Sadly not in a good way in this case. My first EFB alert of the season has just arrived together with a request from a seasonal bee inspector to check some of my hives. Fingers crossed that none of them are affected. On the positive side, it’s good that I should have been contacted now rather than after I’d moved the colonies in question elsewhere so I could re-queen them. They are, or have been in previous years, a touch “feisty” so I want to split the flying bees off in order to look for, and squish, the queen. There’s not room at the existing site to do that however.