2020-07-31 Culled and united with Berenice.
2020-07-23 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen. No signs of swarming.
2020-07-17 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen. No signs of swarming. Uploaded 30 images to https://beescanning.com/ to get a varroa count but got “service unavailable” and “Bad Gateway” errors. It thought it spotted one varroa but I can’t see it. Insufficient varroa to be worth bothering.
2020-07-11 Put on a super because there are a lot of bees. Also moved it and bled the flying bees into Beatrix
2020-07-02 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen. Not a lot of food so I’ll put on a feeder.
2020-06-23 Saw eggs, grubs but not the queen. There are lots of young bees. There were a few queen cups on the face of some frames but they weren’t charged. I guess they could be thinking about a second swarm.
2020-06-17 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen. There were lots of bees and brood on most of the frames so I put on a honey super.
2020-06-13 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen. There is lots of brood waiting to come out and plenty of honey.
2020-06-07 Saw eggs, grubs and the queen.
2020-06-02 Saw eggs and the queen. No signs of swarming.
2020-05-26 Saw eggs and the queen. There were three sealed queen cells, which I broke inspecting the hive. There were a lot of bees so I moved to bleed bees off into Bethany.
2020-05-20 Saw eggs, brood and charged queen cells. Removed to a the North with two frames of brood and the other frames stores.
2020-05-14 Saw eggs and brood. Didn’t see the queen. There were a number of cups but no charged cells.
2020-05-08 Saw eggs and brood. Didn’t see the queen. There were drones and there were only a couple of patches of eggs in the 22 frames. There were a number of cups but no charged cells. No queen cells with grubs. The frames in the honey super are being drawn.
2020-05-02 Saw eggs and brood. Didn’t see the queen. There are sections of drone brood waiting to come out (there isn’t a cull frame). The super isn’t getting occupied.
2020-04-26 Saw the queen, eggs and brood. Lots of bee with most of the frames covered so I put on a honey super.
2020-04-22 Saw the queen, eggs, worker brood and sealed drone cells. No signs of queen rearing.
2020-04-16 Saw the queen and marked her. One of her wings is stuck out so I don’t expect she will be abel to fly. Sas eggs, worker brood and sealed drone cells. Continuing feeding because there are frames to draw out.
2020-04-06 Saw brood and eggs, didn’t see the queen. Put on a contact feeder with 1 to 1 syrup.
2020-03-22 Not seen on candy. They are bringing in pollen.
2020-02-21 Not seen on candy.
2020-02-02 Not seen on candy.
2020-01-17 Tip weight including stand 12.5 kg, not seen on candy.
2019-12-23 Api Bioxal oxalic acid treatment using the trickle method.
2019-09-20 Took off the Apiguard treatment.
2019-08-23 Second Apiguard treatment.
2019-08-11 Started the Apiguard treatment.
2019-08-02 Queen laying nicely. Increased the brood frames to 9 x 9 and put on a clearer board to try and squeeze them down into the brood box. The plan is that they will draw this out and I might be able to treat with Apiguard. There are quite a lot of bees so we’ll have to see if we can get the supers off.
2019-07-29 Found a few cells with eggs in, the bees seem calmer.
2019-07-13 Culled the other queen cells to there is one queen cell on the north side of middle frame, marked with a red pin. Generally they seem pretty pissed off. They look like they need more space so I added a brood frame.
2019-07-06 Unsealed queen cell (from Kate) on north side of middle frame, marked with a red pin.