2023-07-22 Sold.
2023-07-19 Squeezed down into one brood box for sale. The frames went to Rebecca.
2023-07-17 Moved to near Rebecca to reduce the flying bees. The flying bees should go to Yvette .
2023-07-13 Cleared and removed the supers and put on a feeder to see if they would be less grumpy.
2023-07-09 Eggs, grubs didn’t see the queen. No signs of swarming. We have spare colonies now so this one is no longer needed. I put on a clearer board to clear the top super to make it easier to prepare for selling this colony.
2023-07-01 Eggs, grubs didn’t see the queen. No signs of swarming. Plenty of space.
2023-06-22 Saw grubs, eggs and the queen so we marked her. No signs of swarming. The laying pattern is erratic and there is more drone than I expected and not that much worker brood. It doesn’t feel right. Maybe I should just leave them to settle down.
2023-06-16 Saw grubs and eggs, didn’t see the queen. No signs of swarming. There is a big patch of drone comb on one of the frames in the top brood box.
2023-06-10 Saw grubs and eggs, didn’t see the queen. There is a lot of brood and they were making queen cups so I configured it as a double brood using a brood box from Yasmin. We did this as a sandwich merge, during the day. Yasmin is to be sold and there were too many bees to fit into one brood box.
2023-06-06 Saw grubs but didn’t see the queen. Took off 3 supers, the last one off was already down to 16% water.
2023-06-04 Put on a clearer board to clear 2 supers, this doesn’t leave much space to I put on another super, so there are 5 in total.
2023-05-07 Culled down to one queen cell on the bottom of the 5th frame from the south. Marked with a green pin. Lots of bees so I added two supers.
2023-04-29 Made up with 11 frames of brood from Yasmin.