Flow super removal?

[KieranPI]

We have expanded our cleaning information here too.

Do I need to clean the Flow Frames?

For mould there is some discussion here too.

Mould in flow frames

Due to the very wet start to winter on the northern rivers NSW I now have a little mould in the near empty flow frames. Should I remove the supper completely and clean it ready for spring or let the bees do it ?

Bees cleaning flow frames after removing super

Varroa you would be able to spot on the frames if there were any, but its more that the bees rub against other bees from different colonies at the time of salvaging there is no way to really know. AFB spores would be on the bees in the same way and transferred over. So the risk isn’t so much to the equipment but to the bees meeting up. Good that it wasn’t in direct sunlight.