Inspection 19 May 2012

Guard Bees on Duty. 

Clematis

Wow, long time no sun.  I had a flying whiz through the hive last week with Mr T and cleared out some more mummies, Queen Kylie showed herself briefly. We have had a better weather week this week and its a different Hive, lots of new young bees have managed to come through and not as much chalk brood. 

They don't seem to mind the hair comb in the middle, but after all, they are girls.   

Looks like lots of healthy brood in there, hopefully they will be able to recover from the chalkbrood.

 I put the apiguard up on top 3 weeks ago, they seemed to start on it, then ignored it.  I think I will take it out next week. You can see the devastation we caused last year with the green wire holding up the combs.  We have had a lot more success this year.  No major disasters but...............we are moving to Lincolnshire soon and will have the move the hive in toto.  Still not too sure how we are going to do this.

JP thought he saw Queen Kylie on this one. I missed her. 

When I first started beekeeping, I planned on keeping meticulous records, I numbered all my top bars and had them all in order. The best plans......at least I have these pics to compare year by year. 

No parking spaces available on this one. 

Getting near the end.  Nothing major found, no Queen cells, bit of cross combing, but going in every week has made all the difference. 

This comb is about 3 weeks old.  It was the new one I put in on the advice of Mike. 

A few mummies, but nothing compared to what has been in previously.   

And a wee peek through the wind to check all is well. 

Bandit enjoying the sun, long may it last.