I would put money on it not containing Varroa in South Australia. 
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Thank you Jeff. I’ve saved the image for future reference.
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Bee Happy!!!
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Three little birds?
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I was thinking more of Bobby McFerrin. “Don’t Worry, be happy” 
Not sure if the link will work though because I am totally inept.
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When i do an inspection i swap out the qx with a clean one, this one has been out for a while waiting for me to set up the solar melter meanwhile the bees have been recycling propolis.
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My bees were doing the exact same last week. they spent 5 days on a QX and removed almost all of the propolis. they sure are keen on it. They ignore the wax.
Well done Jack. It’s not happening up here this season. However I have heard of a couple of swarms in the past week.
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the large one pictured at the bottom is one of my own hives that swarmed- it was so large I had to put it straight into a ten frame hive. 10 days later they had built 100% of the foundation, laid eggs across the entire box, and had healthy stores of honey and pollen. It’s amazing to look into a brand new hive- with brand new frames, 100% built out of perfect pure white wax. I am selling that hive but once I inspected it I immediately wanted to keep it. It will need a super in 14 days when those 9 frames of eggs all start emerging.
The other huge one hanging off that branch I caught yesterday. the lady said it was ‘smallish’. I turned up with my Nuc- and headed straight back home for an 8 frame. The lady said to me, ‘It might have come from that hive there’, pointing to a hive 10 feet from the swarm in her yard… I said, ‘yeah, maybe’ 
Turns out her son manages that hive and hasn’t inspected it yet this year… I told them to call me when the next swarm issues from it in 4 days…
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Very nice shot Paul. I like the way she grabs the flower petal.
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