Found three new queens in hives which were without a few weeks ago - one is a lovely, if quite small, very dark queen. Took some filled frames out of a particularly heavy hive as it was getting too heavy to move the supers around.
Sold a queen I had raised in a mating nuc last week and they’ve made a couple of QCs so might just get another Q or two from them this year. Still plenty of drones in my hives.
Debating when to extract. Nearby fields of phacelia and buckwheat in flower have made me pause…..
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