Georges Bees, Old Costessy, Bluebell

Georges Bees have died.

It hard to know why some bees don't make through the winter. Georges bees were one of the hives in Suffolk at the start of 2008. They were moved to his garden last autumn and fed in October and were the first to have fondant on in December. On inspection today it was clear that they had eaten half the fondant before they died. I will take George some more bees in April.

The bees in the four hives at Old Costessy were working hard. I gave them all more fondant removing any of the old fondant left (on two hives) .

I gave more fondant to the hive that was knocked over at the UEA Bluebell road apiary in the winter and removed the now empty feed bucket. I also gave the hive next to it fondant ( the original swarm queen).

I checked all the hives on the Bluebell allotment site and gave fondant to any hive without feed and removed several empty feed buckets.