At the start of this afternoons Apiary session the heavens opened so everyone got back into their cars. Five minutes later the downpour stopped and the clouds passed over so the session started.
All the hives were filling up with honey/nectar so having done the inspections the two with least space had additional supers fitted, the biggest was fitted with a rhombus clearer board above the new super but below the full supers.
On leaving the Apiary I called at Yorkshire Beehives and chatted with Paul who showed me his mornings honey harvest. Leaving there I telephoned ahead then dropped off the nuc box which my bees had come in. Over a cup of tea we chatted bees as you would expect
Collected horse feed on my journey home and on arriving home was advised there had been high traffic from the hive with bees coming in with full shopping bags until tea time when the sun went in and temperature dropped.
All the hives were filling up with honey/nectar so having done the inspections the two with least space had additional supers fitted, the biggest was fitted with a rhombus clearer board above the new super but below the full supers.
On leaving the Apiary I called at Yorkshire Beehives and chatted with Paul who showed me his mornings honey harvest. Leaving there I telephoned ahead then dropped off the nuc box which my bees had come in. Over a cup of tea we chatted bees as you would expect
Collected horse feed on my journey home and on arriving home was advised there had been high traffic from the hive with bees coming in with full shopping bags until tea time when the sun went in and temperature dropped.
