Inspected the bees on Sunday and started the 2ndtreatment of Apigard just two more weeks to go and then that’s this first treatment over for the bees. I have monitored the Varroa drop by removing a tray at the at the bottom of the hive and up to now the…

Sorry for the late update on the bees. I inspected them last Sunday and started the Varroa treatments at the end of the year.   The Varroa mite is the reason bees are in trouble in the country it’s not such a problem in hives like the ones at the…

Inspected the bees today all seemed good HRH spotted and looked as regal as ever.   The bees had built a queen cup again but this is of no great concern yet, queen cups are foundations for queen cells and most hives will have them, the thing with this one…

Inspected the bees last Sunday and all was as expected they had eaten a good bit of stores from the brood frames and one of the supers as the weather had been a bit more unsettled the previous week and not able to fly.   On one brood frame a…

Inspected the bees yesterday all was good the 2ndsuper placed on the hive 10 days ago is about ¾ full and they are starting to cap a number of cells, if the weather continues they should have a good chance of filling and capping the rest of the super.  …