May 23 Inspection On this inspection the queen was found back in the lower brood boxes and not in the new top brood box. On my previous inspection during rearranging the frames I must have moved the queen below the queen excluder by mistake. This was no grate problem…

  April 29 Inspection I made the decision to move the bees onto new comb with a method called the Bailey Comb Change and is a slow method but more gentle to the bees. Basically what you do is place a new Brood Box over the top Brood Box on…

  Well its been some months since the last bee update and as a new season has well and truly started I thought it was about time I re started the bee diary.   For the ones that don’t know this diary will follow the HCFA hive throughout the year,…

Its been a few weeks since the last update and just so you know the shook swarm went without any problems and the bees are now in the larger brood box and have drawn out all the just wired frames and the frames with wax foundation. Also with the removal…

This is the first entry for the 2011 Bee diary and the bees are back on site and I am happy to report they have come through the winter in excellent shape much better than I was expecting and last years Queen has been spotted and present despite the bees…