Elaine
House Bee
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2011
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- 299
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- Location
- Pamber Heath Hampshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6
Hi - This is my first season - and I was expecting the number of bees in the colony to be reducing by now - I know my area is late to stop foraging as we have heather and ivy, but the main colony has 2 supers on and is packed full of bees except for a few of the outer frames on the supers. The bees have plenty of stores, but are not capping the honey, in fact they seem to have uncapped some. (Not an issue for me as I've taken about 4 frames off which did get mostly capped - just so I could have a taste this year ) Just over a week ago at inspection there were larvae of different ages, but I didn't see eggs, (does not mean there weren't any - still not an expert at this!) but did see the queen. Inspection this weekend was aborted due to uncharacteristicly very bad tempered bees.
When would you expect to see a reduction in bee numbers?
When would you expect to see a reduction in bee numbers?