You know that summer is well underway when the EFB reports start to come in. Tonight I received a notification of EFB within 3 km (they've reduced the circle from 5 km) of my main apiary. Now why did I keep that swarm?!! A positive in the apiary this year would cause a lot of bother given the wide distribution of my bees this summer. Looking forward to seeing Paul or one of the other inspectors before long.

A few reports of EFB are already in for Perthshire and West Lothian: https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/bee...idenceMaps.cfm

It is a good time to do that thorough inspection of brood, shaking off all bees, looking for discoloured, twisted or dead larvae, large and small, and knocking off the cappings of any suspect sealed cells to peek inside.