The allotment bees were flying today. After several cold weeks the weather has suddenly warmed up and the bees took the opportunity to fly. Every hive on the allotment sites had lives bees in them.
I checked
Tina's hive
Furgle's hive
The UEA Permaculture Student's three hives
and nine hives on my plot
They were all showing sign of life and in the case of some of the hives on my plot death as well.
The bees were carrying dead bees out of the entrance. I removed the mouse guards from two hives (that really have small enough entrances anyway) and watched as dead bee after dead bee was carried out to join many more on the ground in front of the hives.
Neither of those hives have open mesh floors and judging by the effort it takes for a live bee to drag a dead bee out of the hive they both have too large an area for landing on I will have to cut them down next year.
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