RoseCottage
Field Bee
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2009
- Messages
- 718
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Near Andover, UK
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- From 5 to 2 and hopefully a better year
I visited the girls yesterday and found a lot of them - hurrah. I had expected to find the ssyrup supers and bb light but all were really heavy. The girls had been in them but there were still lots of semicapped frames. Some of the open cells had what looked like crystallised ssyrup. Is that normal?
Also i removed the omf before winter on the advice of the inspector but saw yesteday what looked like black spots of mold on the floor (which is now the top of the wbc stand). Is that normal?
Finally I had scraped the qe clean that I had removed before xmas and put it in place and left the girls to settle. This morning I discovered 20 or so girls all over the remains of the wax I scraped off the qe yesterday, some 200 yds from the hive...Is that normal?
All the best,
Sam
Also i removed the omf before winter on the advice of the inspector but saw yesteday what looked like black spots of mold on the floor (which is now the top of the wbc stand). Is that normal?
Finally I had scraped the qe clean that I had removed before xmas and put it in place and left the girls to settle. This morning I discovered 20 or so girls all over the remains of the wax I scraped off the qe yesterday, some 200 yds from the hive...Is that normal?
All the best,
Sam