A split from 4 weeks ago made because the BB was overflowing now has eggs. A couple of sister Queens in different colonies stopped laying about 3 weeks ago. Both have started layig again. No Q cells in either over the last 3 weeks, so this seems to be what happened. One colony from which I took an AS a while ago is now a DLQ. The AS seems to be thriving though. Another AS from June now has DLW. I have one colony which looks as though it might give me a crop of balsam honey. In process of doing a trap out which has provided 2 nucs and probably caused a swarm that I collected, so could yield 3 colonies. I moved this swarm into a full sized BB. Need to watch this one tho as the bees seem calm, but have stung me 3 times now. Another 2 colonies have little brood, but now loads and loads of eggs. It looks like one of my collected swarms has a very good Q who is laying like mad in a perfect pattern. Another swarm is laying, but I noted it was spotty. I want to check that it isnt just one of these queens that doesnt lay in cells by the wires. - Didnt think of that at the time, so something for next week.
Mixed as usual, but at least there are some positives. I'm blaming the weather for all the -ve things.
