What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Parsonage Bees]

That may also be true but I’ve been researching the little blighters all week and as they are insectivorous and very partial to a bee, this time of year they can nip into a hive & take bees from the outside of the cluster at their leisure.
And I run 14 colonies currently as a beekeeper…..

No repeat of the pile of bees under the hive here in Lincolnshire. Maybe the local moggy has culled the culprit.

 

[Moobee]

Replaced the mesh around the home apiary in time for the incoming storm….

 

[Penninetrader]

Had my late breakfast/dinner sat amongst some very happy flying bees,. I had just lifted the roofs and boards covering my feeder trays to check fondant, cleared some dead and remixed the softer with the hard. They have been having a nibble but most still there and the boxes still heavy. They are still out now and seem to be having a good check around their area. Fingers crossed it stays this way, ps filmed a couple of the girls grooming on a landing board.