Monday 17 April 2023

17 April 2023 - Spring Inspection

Temperature about 14°C, overcast. 


National Hive 1 - Colony active. Tidied up frames to create room for new brood. Queen spotted. Placed QE in-situ. Two supers.

Langstroth Hive 1 - Colony active steadily. Tidied up brood frames to create room for new brood. Queen spotted. No QE required. Supered.

Langstroth Hive 2 - Colony very prolific. Four frames of well laid brood of stages of development. No QE required. Queen observed. Lots of drone brood but no drones yet. No cup/queen cells yet. Supered.

 Langstroth Hive 3 - DEAD

Horizontal Hive 1 - Active Colony. Queen spotted. Tidied up frames.

Horizontal Hive 2 - Colony slow in progress. Queen spotted. Tidied up up frames.

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