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No idea what they are doing there, heat was my thinking?

No, this not a sand Lizard ( lacerta agilis) This is the Wall Lizard (podarcis muralis) found mostly in Channel Islands and med.

To be honest I haven't seen one for years, I was pleasantly surprised to see this :)

Took picture of this next to some colonies on Monday, normally found in Ventnor on southerly side of the island.

Mine went in 2 days ago, will check this weekend to see how it went!

I had to do artificial swarm on one today! It was late but the Queen showed herself luckily for me, this made it quicker and easier. I also had a Q cell in a drone layer! Lots of new bees but the brood has gone to pot with Drone brood.

Been flowering for while but looking good.

Yes it has worked perfectly. I have checked this afternoon and still lots of bees happily working away and the Queen is laying. This Queen is my Breeder Queen, 3 years old now and only lives in my Nucleus box as I'm wanting to get the most I can out of her!

I have a mix of boxes, from now until autumn I mix wood and poly.. But once I'm setting up for winter I try not to mix boxes. Hence try lol..

I use the same, got loads from it, think I be ok for another year lol

First, did you transfer overwinter Nucs to hives? Yes leaving feeder on right now is OK You need to understand what's happening before you make a decision on what to do! How many frames of Brood and how much stores, is the first thing I would ask you?

Today I found my first QC from a overwinter Nuc. My fault really as I new it was overflowing with bees. I knocked it back a week and half ago but with the rape coming in, it wasn't enough and ran out of room. When I say out of room, it was a six frame nuc with six full frames filled with cap...

I went to look at two new apairy sites today :) there's a gate to be made so I have access to a nice little sheltered spot. This will hopefully support 15 colonies. The second is good access, so just a case of adding bees :)

Checked on Nucs today, they going crazy. Going to move them into hives this weekend. Some with ekes on had built loads of wild comb and filling with nectar!

What a lovely day! Lots of Brood and seen plenty of oilseed rape pollen coming in. Nectar coming in too and my guess is the same as the pollen! I have not moved bees to the rape so I can't be sure but some of the bees are covered totally yellow! New fluffy Drones on the combs too. I have added...

I don't use glue, maybe I should, but do the same as you with fixings.

I see if I can get pics this weekend, the fields are well on there way here... Yellow!

Dandie lions and oilseed in flower

I did some late splits and they have come this far looking very good, all in poly! But I have mixture of wood and poly Nucs and it's not a lot in it really., but it's been very mild down here.

OK I see looked again at photo.. Think you might see a screw missing... Or I need to go spec savers lol