RogerJ
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2015
- Messages
- 68
- Reaction score
- 5
- Location
- Herefordshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
I've noticed in the last couple of days bees clustering in small groups on the front of the hive - and today, even though whilst the weather is warm it is by no means sunny, the bees are really covering the front.
I inspected last Wednesday and I saw no evidence of queen cells and I had one super on (above a QE) - though they were building comb on the bottom of the QE. I have just checked the super that is on and it is quite heavy (compared with very light last week) so I have put another super on the basis that the clustering on the outside was telling me they needed more storage space (and it was a quick and easy thing to do when the weather is looking like rain soon).
So is this normal behaviour or should I be double checking for queen cells (I was going to do do another inspection on this Wednesday)?
I inspected last Wednesday and I saw no evidence of queen cells and I had one super on (above a QE) - though they were building comb on the bottom of the QE. I have just checked the super that is on and it is quite heavy (compared with very light last week) so I have put another super on the basis that the clustering on the outside was telling me they needed more storage space (and it was a quick and easy thing to do when the weather is looking like rain soon).
So is this normal behaviour or should I be double checking for queen cells (I was going to do do another inspection on this Wednesday)?