This is the time of year when having done all the hard work in Autumn preparing their bees for winter, beekeepers have to rely on the bees to look after themselves... it can be worrying from time to time but we just remind ourselves that bees have been around for a long time and done just fine without us! It is now the time of year when I usually give them a Varroa treatment. Varroa are nasty little mites that attach themselves to bees and drink their blood as well as spreadi