2023-04-18 Sold.
2023-04-15 Squeezed down on to 11 frames of brood.
2023-04-13 About 7 frames with brood in the top, 5 frames in the bottom. Didn’t see the queen but I saw eggs.
2023-02-18 Candy all gone so I put on a feeder.
2023-01-02 API-Bioxal (oxalic acid treatment) and candy block.
2022-09-18 Took off the Apiguard treatment.
2022-08-28 Added the second Apiguard treatment.
2022-08-14 Merged with 11 frames from Yulinar and added the first Apiguard treatment.
2022-07-23 Saw eggs and brood, didn’t see the queen no signs of swarming. Looking good could probably sell.
2022-07-16 Added two frames of brood from Winnie to build this one up faster.
2022-07-13 Saw eggs and a yellow marked queen so it is definitely Whitney. They are covering about 4 full frames.
2022-07-08 Swarmed into the damson tree, so we collected it and hived it on 11 new frames. So it wasn’t superceding.
2022-07-01 Saw eggs and brood, but didn’t see the queen. There as a queen cell with an egg in it (in the top brood box, on the east side of the third frame from the west) marked with a black pin. Superceding perhaps? There weren’t a great deal of eggs given that it is mid summer. The queen was late mating in August last year so possibly not well mated.
2022-06-29 Added a super because they are looking a bit full.
2022-06-23 Saw eggs and brood, but didn’t see the queen. Pretty busy so I added two more brood frames.
2022-06-17 Saw eggs and brood, but didn’t see the queen. No signs of swarming.
2022-06-10 Saw eggs and brood, but didn’t see the queen. A lot of bees but no signs of swarming they will need more space. Made it into a double brood, with 8 x 8 F.
2022-06-04 Saw eggs, brood and the queen, No signs of swarming. Put on a feeder.
2022-05-28 Sealed queen cells on the bottom of frames which broke when I took out the frames. Some back filling. Split it amd made up Yvette on the original site.
2022-05-21 Saw eggs and grubs but didn’t see the queen, no signs of swarming.
2022-05-14 No signs of swarming. The empty super from was drawn out but the supers aren’t getting full.
2022-05-05 Added a super but didn’t check them because Winnie wasn’t swarming.
2022-04-30 Plenty of bees, no signs of swarming.
2022-04-24 Plenty of bees, put on a super. No signs of swarming, but they are making drones.
2022-03-26 Marked the queen. Probably about one frame of brood and eggs. Some stores but I topped up the feeder.
2022-03-21 The candy block was completely consumed so I put on a rapid feeder as a precaution.
2021-12-20 API-Bioxal (oxalic acid treatment), the bees were quite low down, in the bottom brood box. Put on a block of candy.
2021-09-17 Brood and grubs will assume that the queen is good.
2021-09-06 Took off the MAQS and started feeding again.
2021-08-30 Put the MAQS strips on between the two brood boxes.
2021-08-22 United using newspaper.
2021-08-20 Swarmed (I think) to the old pear tree. I took down the remaining three queen cells and put the swarm in a brood box on top of a Snelgrove board. The plan is to merge them in a few days time.
2021-08-08 No signs of queen cells. I added another frame of eggs from Bethany. The others that I put in last week are just being raised normally.
2021-08-01 No signs of queen cells, maybe the one that was there emerged. I added another frame of eggs from Bethany. The others that I put in last week are just being raised normally.
2021-07-25 Put in in more eggs from Bethany. There was no queen cells on the previous brood frame that we put in 2 days ago (it just looked like the cells had been sealed). There were queen cells in the honey area along with a load of drone brood. I removed two frames from the honey area which had drone brood on them.
2021-07-23 Drone laying in the honey supers. There is a single queen cell on the brood frame marked with a black pin and a number of queen cells in the honey super. Added a frame of eggs and open brood from Bethany.
2021-07-17 No sign of a laying queen, honey in the brood chamber. Added a frame of brood and eggs from Bethany with the intention of raising an emergency queen.
2021-07-14 No sign of a laying queen.
2021-06-12 Went through the brood box and culled the emergency cells. There were about 20. Left a single queen cell on the North side, bottom of frame 4 (counting from the South).
2021-06-05 Made up with 11 frames from Bethany and removed Bethany to the side.