Ellem
House Bee
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2011
- Messages
- 118
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- West Midlands
- Hive Type
- Other
- Number of Hives
- hopefully 1 :-S
Hi,
We inspected our hive last weekend and didn't see very much brood, so knew we had to look as priority this week. We saw eggs but they were double laid at the bottom of the cells.
Today, the comb we saw eggs on has no sign of them and the only brood we can see is very sparse. We continued through the hive and did see the Queen but she was in the far end out of what had been the brood (in towards the emptied stores).
Pics of comb with brood on & Queen are both in this folder http://www.flickr.com/photos/64428974@N03/?saved=1 (please let me know if there are any issues with accessing & I will try to upload to here)
I think she looks fairly good sized and had been laying well, but I am concerned about her being a drone layer. What are your opinions?
Though the weather hasn't been brill there have been a few good days where there have been plenty of flyers. I have been feeding a 1:1 syrup and there is definitely now a flow on.
What are your thoughts/advice please as things definitely don't look right to me but I'm a newbie? Plus this is my only hive and I don't have access to other brood frames, etc to test.
Thanks in advance for your help.
We inspected our hive last weekend and didn't see very much brood, so knew we had to look as priority this week. We saw eggs but they were double laid at the bottom of the cells.
Today, the comb we saw eggs on has no sign of them and the only brood we can see is very sparse. We continued through the hive and did see the Queen but she was in the far end out of what had been the brood (in towards the emptied stores).
Pics of comb with brood on & Queen are both in this folder http://www.flickr.com/photos/64428974@N03/?saved=1 (please let me know if there are any issues with accessing & I will try to upload to here)
I think she looks fairly good sized and had been laying well, but I am concerned about her being a drone layer. What are your opinions?
Though the weather hasn't been brill there have been a few good days where there have been plenty of flyers. I have been feeding a 1:1 syrup and there is definitely now a flow on.
What are your thoughts/advice please as things definitely don't look right to me but I'm a newbie? Plus this is my only hive and I don't have access to other brood frames, etc to test.
Thanks in advance for your help.