Georges bees are doing well but have just laid their first egg in a queen cup. If we are to get honey out of that hive now they will need a regular weekly inspection to make sure that they don't make queen cells and swarm.
The three hives at Thorpe couldn't be more different this year from last. The swarm that I added to hive number three is OK but could really do with feeding. The bees in number two are very low in numbers have no queen and need a nuc adding. Hive number one that did have a laying queen at the start of the year had an open queen cell but no laying queen. The number of bees is still quite high so they need a frame of eggs or a queen cell added.
I took a frame of eggs out of Laburnum's hive and put it in Misty's old hive as that hive didn't re-queen. There are still quite a few bees there so hopefully that frame will have some good queen cells on in weeks time.
My inspection at Postwick was cut short by thunder and lightening and by the time I got back to the city it was raining hard.
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