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.

Warm weather again

Today has been unusually warm for this time of year and the bees were out and about and bringing in pollen.

Postwick, Thorpe, Old Costessy

It was a very nice sunny day on Friday when I checked the hives a Postwick adding fondant thymol where required. All the hives there have fondant on now.

I gave each hive at Thorpe a sprinkle of ctystals and ablock of fondant.

Saturday it rained.

Today I made sure all the hives at Old Costessy have fondant on them. The strongest hive there is colony I have been describing as 'facing south' although it is now one of three hives facing south. It has two brood boxes and two supers on and a lot of bees in it.