The UEA Students Permaculture Society allotment has three hives in the corner of the plot. The original hive there at the start of 2008 had a 2007 swarm in it and that swarm queen is still there in a 'kind of' WBC hive. The other two hives have 2008 daughters of the swarm queen. The feeder buckets were empty on two of the hives - the one with the old queen in and the colony in the new single brood box. The other colony is on a double brood system and still has some sugar in it. I removed the two empty buckets and covered the feeder holes with glass. There were live bees at the entrance of the double brood box hive.
http://patricklaslett.blogspot.com/2008/11/student-allotment-apiary-tinas-hive.html
There were empty buckets to remove on Tina's hive (live bees) and Furgles hive.
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