‘The Good’. Some features of healthy bee brood.
Images labelled * Courtesy The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Crown Copyright.
Queen bee
Queen laying
Drone (top) and worker
Eggs
Young larvae
Healthy brood
Drone brood
Newly emerged worker
Comb building
Nectar processing
Honey making
Undertaker bee
Honey comb
Workers on honey comb
Pollen *
Worker brood
‘The Bad’. Some features of not-so-healthy bee brood.
Bald brood *
Chalk brood *
Chalk brood ‘mummies’ *
Deformed wing virus *
Drone laying workers
Evidence of Nosema
Queen being ‘balled’
Queen laying problem
Sac brood *
Wax moth
Winter losses
Varroa mite *
‘The Ugly’. The notifiable pests and diseases.
American foul brood *
Matchstick test for AFB *
European foul brood *
European foul brood scales *
Small hive beetle *
Small hive beetle larvae *
Tropilaelaps mite *