Honey Stripes

I put a complete block of fondant on top of Honey Stripe's three brood boxes. I may now have to pick another nice day and remove the queen excluder that is between box two and three as I don't want the bees to move up into the top box and leave the queen behind.

I also put a block of fondant onto Willow(1)09's hive. There was still feed in the bucket on that hive because the mesh in the lid had got blocked with crystalised sugar. I transfered that sugar syrup to Willow(2)09's hive that had an empty bucket on.

Warm enough to fly

The bees were out in force today.

I visited the bees at the Bluebell Road, Allotment 83 and Old Costessy apiaries and all the hives had flying bees.