2024-08-09 No signs of a queen. Merged with Gail so they can be treated with ApiGuard.
2024-08-02 No signs of a queen. Though they appear less fractious. They don’t really need the supers and if I am going to merge them it would be better if the supers were out of the way so I put a clearer board on to clear them both.
2024-07-27 No signs of a queen. The cell that I left last time was broken open at the side. They seemed a bit pissed off to me. There are empty cells. Possibly queenless? If there are no signs of a queen next week I think I should merge them with the better of the swarms.
2024-07-14 Saw grubs and sealed brood but didn’t see eggs or the queen. There were some sealed queen cells in a cluster of one of the frames and a few on the edges. I took down all the queen cells except one on the north side of the centre frame, also marked with a white pin. There were plenty of bees so I left the supers on.
2024-07-07 Saw eggs, grubs and sealed brood. Didn’t see the queen. Not really laying that well, but is is busy so I put on another super.
2024-06-30 Took off a super. Moisture content 15.5 %.
2024-06-19 Saw eggs, grubs and sealed brood. Saw the queen and marked her yellow. She is quite small and has small wings. The top super could be removed soon.
2024-06-14 Saw eggs, grubs and sealed brood. Didn’t see the queen.
2024-06-03 Took off a super. Moisture content 18 %.
2024-06-01 Put on a clearer board to clear one super.
2024-05-11 Culled down to one emergency cell on the furthest north frame marked with a blue pin. I damaged a lot of the queen cells by moving the frames. I should move to 10 frames and a dummy board.
2024-05-04 Created with brood frames from Regina.