2024-09-22 Sold.
2024-08-09 Covering all the frames.
2024-07-27 Saw eggs, grubs and sealed brood. Saw the queen and marked her. There aren’t so many bees so reduced to 11 frames.
2024-07-09 Went through the colony and took down three queen cells, all of which looked like they were viable. It would have been better to wait 8 days rather than cull the queen cells after 6 days like we did.
2024-07-09 Swarmed into the tree north of the bee hives. Boxed up as Gabrielle.
2024-07-07 Swarmed on to one of the orchard fence posts. Boxed up as Gail.
2024-06-25 Culled the queen cells down to one on the south face of the second frame in from the south. They are drawing the frames in the top brood box so I will carry on feeding. This was a day earlier than planned (so only a 6 day interval) but we thought we got them all.
2024-06-19 Created with brood frames from Yvette. The top brood box is un-drawn frames and the bottom box is new grubs and eggs. Put a feeder on so the house bees can start drawing the frames.