So a typical wet BH ! I hope it's the only rain for May....better weather forecast tomorrow and I need to check on a hive that has gone queenless and had multiple QC in it on my last inspection over a week ago.
I hope to discover that they should be hatched, and that one queen remains - possibly not yet mated - and that no swarming has occurred...but this hive is turning out to be rather troublesome - it had a drone layer in the Autumn, a new queen with nuc was merged with it to solve the problem. It came through the winter strongly, only for me to discover that the marked queen from the nuc had been superceded sometime in the past 5-6 months (end of year I suspect as it was so mild). BUT - no queen now present and I rather think I must have damaged her or lost her on during the inspection - as I wasn't looking for an unmarked queen - rather a queen marked G62 !!
Weather permitting, I need to check tomorrow else the bees that are there will wither and die off, and it would be better to amalgamate with another colony.
Fingers crossed eh ?!
Oh, and no swarms to report in North Wiltshire. It doesn't help that the local swarm mob. was switched off, but he shall remain nameless and he said it would be switched on now !! He must have thought it was pretty quiet on the mobile front, LOL
regards
S
I hope to discover that they should be hatched, and that one queen remains - possibly not yet mated - and that no swarming has occurred...but this hive is turning out to be rather troublesome - it had a drone layer in the Autumn, a new queen with nuc was merged with it to solve the problem. It came through the winter strongly, only for me to discover that the marked queen from the nuc had been superceded sometime in the past 5-6 months (end of year I suspect as it was so mild). BUT - no queen now present and I rather think I must have damaged her or lost her on during the inspection - as I wasn't looking for an unmarked queen - rather a queen marked G62 !!
Weather permitting, I need to check tomorrow else the bees that are there will wither and die off, and it would be better to amalgamate with another colony.
Fingers crossed eh ?!
Oh, and no swarms to report in North Wiltshire. It doesn't help that the local swarm mob. was switched off, but he shall remain nameless and he said it would be switched on now !! He must have thought it was pretty quiet on the mobile front, LOL
regards
S
