Besides shutting the bees in this morning - I calculated the daily mite drop for the Temple hive. The sheet had been in the hive for a week and I counted 16 mite divided by 7 days of the week equals 2.2 mites a day. This is a much better ratio than the Garden hive and better for this time of year.
After the workmen had finished the fence I took the gaffer tape off the entrances. I decided to put the wet super on the Temple hive since it is feeling a bit light and since I took the crown board off to put on a queen excluder I decided to give this hive one treatment of hive clean just to keep those Varroa levels down.
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