MrB
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2009
- Messages
- 1,112
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Oswestry, Shropshire, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Bee's very docile 
hardly any smoke used, occasional mist of water.
i still have not seen HM, but i have seen eggs this time
so, eggs present, plenty of larvae and plenty of sealed brood.
as far as the stores is concerned i am not sure how much to expect?
i appear to have the end frame (from nuc) full of capped stores, both sides, a couple of fames with uncapped stores and the rest have honey stored in the usual pattern around the top and edges, around the brood. (oh and quite a bit of pollen)
the bees are covering 6 frames (from the original nuc)
and have drawn about 1/3 rd of one side of the 7th frame (so not much change from last week as far as the drawing out is concerned)
i have turned this frame around and left just 1 more of foundation and fitted a dummy board, dont think that i have enough bees yet to do more and perhaps need to let nature take its course? or should i be concerned?
hardly any smoke used, occasional mist of water.
i still have not seen HM, but i have seen eggs this time
so, eggs present, plenty of larvae and plenty of sealed brood.
as far as the stores is concerned i am not sure how much to expect?
i appear to have the end frame (from nuc) full of capped stores, both sides, a couple of fames with uncapped stores and the rest have honey stored in the usual pattern around the top and edges, around the brood. (oh and quite a bit of pollen)
the bees are covering 6 frames (from the original nuc)
and have drawn about 1/3 rd of one side of the 7th frame (so not much change from last week as far as the drawing out is concerned)
i have turned this frame around and left just 1 more of foundation and fitted a dummy board, dont think that i have enough bees yet to do more and perhaps need to let nature take its course? or should i be concerned?
