Friday, October 30, 2009

Bonus week, Tina

It's the end of a bonus week for the bees. The weather in the middle of the week was still and warm. Better than we often get on a summer's day. There wasn't much that I needed to do with the bees as they all have feed now. Although a few will soon have empty box feeders that I will remove and replace with a block of fondant. Some do still need mouse guards putting on.

GW's old brood box (now No6) seems to doing well with it's new queen. On watching the bees coming and going bringing in pollen and making the most of the fine weather I saw at least three drones fly into the entrance. Maybe they will keep a few through the winter or they just haven't thrown them out yet because of the warm Autumn weather.

I have moved Tina for the very last time to the end of the allotment.

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