Allotment swarm

Furgle spotted a swarm on his way out of the allotment site. Thank's Furgle that swarm is now in Postwick.

Tina, Honey Stripes, Willow

Some of my bees are getting very swarmy now the weather is getting hot again and a swarm was seen over the allotments coming from the direction of my plot. I couldn't find it though.

Tina has was once more been taken to Old Costessy. She did really well in the new brood box she was put in and had completely filled it with brood and made a good start on a second. But today there was a queen cell and that wasn't the first that her bees had tried to make so she was removed. The queen cell is in it's own box and in a weeks time I'm sure there will be several (if not many) more emergency queen cells in the brood box she was removed from.

Honey stripes is laying well and as we have had a considerable amount of rain and the blackberry has started into flower. A hot spell now should see more supers start to fill with honey.

Willow is still impossible to find. I spent some considerable time today going through both brood boxes. She is still laying well but her bees are getting ready to swarm. I removed two rather scraggy queen cells on this visit. I would very much like to remove her -- but no luck. I may just split the two brood boxes on Monday if I still can't find her.