Sunday 2 July 2023

1 July 2023 Inspection

Temperature about 16°C overcast/rainy.


National Hive 1 - Queen not spotted. No eggs/open brood. Preciously transplanted queen cells not accepted?

National Hive 2 - Virgin queen observed. No eggs/open brood.

Langstroth Hive 1 - Colony quiet. No eggs/brood. Put in-situ frame with capped queen cell from Horizontal Hive 2.

Langstroth Hive 2 - Colony very prolific. Queen spotted. Lots of drone brood and drones. No queen cells. Supers (deep + shallow) being filled with nectar.

Langstroth Hive 3 - Queen laying well. No queen cells. Queen not spotted. 

Horizontal Hive 1 - Very active colony. Queen spotted. Good nectar storage.

Horizontal Hive 2 - Colony still very slow in progress. Few queen cells. Queen not spotted. Frame with two capped queen cells placed in-situ in Langstroth Hive 1.

No comments: