Friday 8 June 2012

The bees are not doing too well this year.  Up until a couple of weeks ago we were still feeding them.  Judith and Jason picked up a swarm just outside the appiary when the weather turned fine.  Jason saw the marked queen as they were putting the swarm in a hive.  She was the wrong colour to be one of out queens swarming so they must have flown in.  A couple of days later one of our colonies did swarm.  I picked them up and moved them out to Stukeley.

We are back to 5 colonies in the apiary but only the swarm appears to be queenright.  Not very good for training.  We had a training session last Monday, we ended up moving to Stukeley so the students could see breeding bees.  We have another session scheduled for tomorrow but the weather does not look too good, that might have to be called off.  I aim to get a super on the swarm in the morning if the waether is fine enough.

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